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SAN BANCISCQ GHKOXIGLr SATTIRDAYy OCTOBER nr 1893 IIMWOIMRT Obliged to Launder It Themselves long and Vain Tramp for Work The Postoffiee Site Boarding Place Will Be Much Improved by the Salvation Army The spectacle on the Postoffiee site where hundreds of unemployed men are jtheredis iar from cheerful trat the StlTtion Army has begun improvements at this refuge for penniless laborers and oon there wfll be fewer evidences of misery and more signs of comfort oa the die sandlot The Salvation Army took charge of affairs there on Thursday and yesterday Captain McFe who Is in command for the army began the erection of a large bnck furnace in which to bake bread and do whatever roasting is required A brick steamer at Tacoma with a wturn coupon he had bought from a traveler who had gone north with the excursion of merchants from Ean FrancfsKv Gleeson was given a cabin which he occupied the niphtof Anpust4th The next day the purser jL 0 Cullman discovered thai Gleeson aa traveling on anotherxaas ticket The excursion tickets are not Iranfera able In consequence Gleeson wts ordered to par another fares This he refused to do He offered to travel the rest of the Voyage in the steerage This proposition the purser refused to deception the grounds that as Gleeson had enjoyed the luxuries of cabinfare for a day ne should pay for it all through Rather than do this Gleeson said hed starve Every time the table was set in the cabin Gleeson was informed But he did not want to pay for cabin sernce He wanted to join jn tht meals in the ateeraee This was refused him although he had 240 on deposit with the purser Between his own and the pursers obstinancy Gleeson stayed on the forward iart of the main deck aud went hungry At night he would not pay for a cabin The purser would not let him go into the steerage In consequence he slept on deck This he claims greatly humiliated him He had a cabin ticket and he was put out of th cabin He had 210 from which he offered to pay a steerage passage This was refused him Because he was refused lodging sleep and necessary pro Tisions ne claims that his feelings and person have been damaged to the extent of I500 which he demands from the owners of the Willamette Valley Vaughn general agent for the steamship company says that even after TIE SOCIAL FORLD Society bJow Taking a Rest WHEBE THE UNEMPLOYED WITHOUT A DOLLAR ARE KEPT oven had been put up by the former managers but it sufficed only to cook meats A large quantity of flour had been contributed by local mills to appease the hunger of the unemployed but it seems that none of it was converted into bread atthesandlot as facilities were lacking luevertheless most of the flour has disappeared Men who hare been living on the lot say that it was given away The bread used was obtained from bakers Captain McFee who has mnch executive talent said yesterday that provisions which had been gathered for the Post office site boarders were stored In the houso at 633 Jessio street which has been the sandlot employment Agency and which has been occupied by the1 families of several men connected with the previous management A suspicion exists that the best part of the contributions was conveyed to this house for the delectation of the people residing therein Captain Mo Fee ystrdsy informed Collector of the Port Wise that possession of the ssndlot had been delegated to the army nd that as the house is wanted at once for an employment agency he hoped that the present occupants would be notified to leave The house belongs to the Government and for it and the lot 10 a month has been paid The army will continue paying that rent It it supposed tbtt as the management is now on a reliable basis cash as well as provisions and other necessaries will be contributed by the public Captain McFee said that members of the Builders Exchange had promised to fur rush lumber and put up whatever sheds may be needed A committee from the exchange is to visit the place and estimate the number of feet required The er change will supply thejnaterial and work without charge Buildings however rude will fill a keenly felt want at this free hostelry Plenty of men to put them up are on tne tot wnen was proposed to erect me inrnace yesteroay capaoie workmen were zotwithout anv difficulty A young fellow told the men around him yesterday morning that he had heard that work could he had on the railroad which was being built to the park The report spread and as it was said that a large number of hands were in demand a hundred and twenty men set out on foot for the scene of employment They did not wait for breakfast thmkinir the would be too late for a job if they did not set tneir legs in motion at once rneir destination was Twenty fifth and Mission streets They found that the railroad had been bmlt on for a long distance from that point and they tramped out along the line of the rails nearly to the ocean beach They learned at last that they were on a wita goose cnase some persons in authority informed them that no more help was needed and that the railway was to be finished in about a day One well dressed voune man said when the failure of thin expedition in search of work was being recounted that last week a report was passed from mouth to mouth at the sandlot that men were wanted at the park About a score of the Postoffiee site lodsrers lett there at davhehtand went on foot to the park When they got there they were disappointed Other false alarms of the same nature were men tioned by tne men There are undoubtedly some bums in the throng of the unemployed bnt the greater part of the crowd seems anxious to get something to do by which to earn a living A noticeable feature of the idle gathering is the youth of hundreds They are sirens and healthy youne men Some of them are apparently not yet of Voting age ine nanus are an indication ouabor and from their appearance many of the menhaVenotbad any hard work to do for sometime ConMderable clothing was washed by the owners and hnng out to dry yeterday afternoon Men with only one shirt bnt wnea tneir coats over their chests and cleansed that garment to aterwas heatd in big oil cans stovesbemg improvised wrtbbneks Otherapnarei was also put in the wash Captain McFee expects soon to have some sort of laundry provided for the men Jn which to wash their clothes and handkerchiefs He desires also to have a bath house One of the first thngs to be done is to mate connection with a sewer The sleeping places xn the lot are not inviting in looks and hardly any order is followed in bunking in them Men with or withoutblankets lay down and snooze wherever convenient The captain will make a change in this particular and a regular dormitory devoid of luxury but good enough will be fixed tip Mere spectators are to be excluded from the lot lor the reason that the men may 50V like to be cased at as cariottes Speeches on the lot will be prohibited and if any one of the men gathers a group around himself and talks anarchy or lawlessness he wU be stopped STARTED PCJ5STT Gleeson VTants Damage Had ealpe4 Ticket When the steamship Willamette Valley came into port on August 6th she bore a mad sad hungry passenger who left her towing vengeance That passenger was Patrick Qj Gleeson He had boarded the he landed Gleeson had expressed willingness to pay a steerage passage Gleeson had tola him his feelings werehurted by the purser rudeness Mr Vaughn apologized and gave back the entire 240 In a day or two Gleeson returned iorhis baggage He then appeared satisfied otning was heard of him afterward till he filed his libel for 5000 damages against the ship Both Gleeson and Culllnan claim that they are not obstinate bnt only firm 1 A POETIC SCUEMEK He Combines Terse With Prosy Tacts and Tljtures Taylor is a resident of Grass Vat ley who has a scheme for impounding Sierra water at some convenient point in the mountains and thence conveying it by means of canals pipe lines etc to San Francisco whereby he holds that the city can be supplied with a most abundant supply at rates which beside thopo now being pud would do ridiculously low Some time siheo he made a proposition to the Supervisors on the subject but as it struck the board as somewhat visionary nothing was done about it Yesterday another communication labeled Pronosltlon No 2 was received from Mr Taylor This time the writer had not confined himself to dull prose and figures but had brightened and beautified his communication with the following bit of verse like ihlpt that prondlr ride upon the hay lth water freighted I have come to atar I have come a knotting a knocking at your door With water cold aud pure From fields of now the Sierras high I have come to you with this luppfy My reserroirs shelves upon the mountain side As permanent as the ebb and flow of tide There is a time a tide a flood to day Are you going to let this Opportunity pass away Statesmen will pause investigate and think Is the question too small pure water for to aruiET I know 01 thy people wants and needs Tls why I plant my little seed Which In time will surely come As rozeo iee melted iy the tan I will submit to the high the low To the week the strong To the old the young But in his prose Mr Taylor is very much to the point He states that his source of water supply will be sufficiently ampie 10 nu xne Day an a single season besides furnishing the city with all that is needed If the city will provide its own pipe line canal and reservoir Mr Taylor oners to furnish the water at the rate of cent per 1000 gallons He makes the further statement that the difference between th preeht cost of water for the city innaouants ana wnat ne proposes to charge would in four years pay for the entire new system and the water right as well The present system he describes as consisting of a multiplication of defects and he enlarges upon its lacks as follows If you will look carefully over the present companys lasfreport yon will see for yourselves that the company has been on the run and jump ever since they laid their sluice boxes at Lobos creek hunting and seeking supply sources Their Suc cess can be measured oy tne excessive capacity of thcu storage reservoirs There is but one purpose and that is to carry water over from a wet season to a dry season It may be a lit tie stale but is better than a famine This isyourpres ent supply If the season of 1894 and 1595 or 1896 and 1897 be such another dry season as was 1877 with your populationincreasine your Consumption compounding and the company finds practically no water in its reservoirs Whence would ifmake good the deficiency with all the available sources nse COUKT SOTTSS JBWrmanhassuedthecttr and county to recover 1500 alleged to he due the Pacific Coast Dally Advertiser lor printing and advertising election tickets In Judge Wallaces court yesterday Edward Ryan aged 18 lately convicted ot robbery was ordered sent to the Whittle Reform School and to remain there until he reaches the age of SI James Cadworth has sned the estate of Catherine McLaughlin et al to foreclose a mortgage ior 4384 on properly siiuiiea on the south line of filbert street 137j leet west ot Buchanan Judge Morrow engaged in hearing the suit tor salvage brought the tug Urant against the brig John epreckels The brig while sugar laden was saved by the togirom shipwreck Just outside the Heads Rosarlo Dorso was acquitted yesterday on a charge of passing two counterfeit dollars oa saloon men near Santa Rosa The money was partot irgelot that was found later near the town and foe handling which several men have already been sent to jail JUdgeOerberdecidediafaror of the plaintiff yesterday in the suit brought by LeeL ot compelling the latter to deliver up to the piatnttOMne rooms now occupied oy oua a dental college at 1 Fifth street Hayet has sued BKooetocaiicef a promissory jaote for 2300 executed JF GlrrinCo Uarmexs that the only consideration for the note was a promise that he would be admitted as a member of the firm of GirviaCn He has not been so admitted and now atleges that at the time the note was given the firm was Insolrent Fashions Leaders Are Still Touring Weddings Parties and Other Entertainments Daring the Past Week Onr Physical Geography used to tell us that at each full and ebb tide there are some six minutes or so in which there is no motion to the water This phenomenon seems to fit the present status of society which is now at its lowest ebb and is taking a period of rest bnt preparatory to its flow to a flood tide of social gayeties dur ing the winter months Besides the invariable quietness experienced at this time cf the year a further and equally potent reason is that great many of our prom inent dinner and party givers are out of the Slate Chicago being responsible for the greater part of the exodus of our entertainers who are taking advantage ot the only opportunity they may ever have of witnessing such wonders as are to be seen at the Columbian Exposition Bat a few weeks hence the influx will commence and shortly thereafter we may confidently look for the commencement of an especially lively and brilliant series of entertainments which will continue until Lent appears with its quieting In fluence Mrs William Collier has left Villa Kabana her home on Clear lace for a months visit to her son in this city Misses Emelie and Alice Hager left on Sunday evening last for a months stay at the Worlds Fair in Chicago Miss Ethel Cohen of Fernside Alameda county Is a guest at Villa Kabana on Clear Lake Mrs Hall McAllister has returned to Miramonte in Boss valley after a 1 months sojourn in this city uano voiemaa nas returned rrom New Orleans and purposes again making his home in San Francisco John Spreckels and family left on the car Iolanthe on Monday for a two months stay in the East Mrs Dickinson wife of Colonel Dickinson is visitingrelitlves in the East Mr and Mrs George Perkins left last evening for an extended tour through the East They will visit th Worlds Fair at Chicago during the month of October Mr Perkins who is the eldest son of Senator George Perkins will visit his I father at Washington They expect to be aDsent three months Mr and Mrs Charles Wollprt Miss frnaand Miss Mollie lis left Thursday evening October 5th for the Worlds Fair after which they will visit New York and other Eastern cities Triends of Mrs Gregory will be alned to learn that she Is confined to her otne at Sausalito seriously ilL Mrs Max Salomon who has been traveling In Europe and the East for six months is expected home In few days Mrs CG Uruns nee Klatt will re ceivo her friends at her new home 731 Oak street every second and fourth Thursday John Farren Jr accompanied by Miss Mamie Farren has Arrived In Wash ington after visiting the Columbian Ex position Dr and Mrsv Lewltt bare returned from an extended visit to Chicago and the East Dr William Sullivan who has been north as surgeon of the United States steamer Corwin has returned to tbe city Mr Ware left on Thursdays train for Chicago Niagara falls and to visit her old home in Quincy II alter an absence of forty years Mr and Mrs A Foster of San Rafsel have gone East for a short trip Pomeroy left San Rafael last Monday for a brief visit to New York The wedding of Miss Marguerite daughter of Mrs Marion Kirk to Henry Hoeschof this city will take place at the residence of the brides mother in East Berkeley on the morning of tbe 21th cf taw montn The home of Mrs A Donaldson Twelfth st Oakland was the scene happy event last Thursday noon the oc casion being the weddine of Miss Clara Bobst and Lee Harpham The parlors had been handsomely decorated with bamboos potted palms and cosmos and at 12 oclock the bridal party entered and took their places under a floral canopy where Key Mr Hobart pronounced the marriage ceremony The bride wore a lovely robe ot rich light silk and carried a bouquet of natural orange blossoms Only the relatives and a few intimate friends were assembled to witness the ceremony after which they adjourned to the dinine roora where a delicious lunch was served The happy couple departed amid a shower of rice and best wishes After a trip to Chicago and other points of interest tbev will return to their new home in BanFrancisccv One of tbe prettiest home weddings that has taken place for some time was that ot Miss Louise Hartman and William Brottof this city which was solemnized Wednesday evening last at the residence of the brides parents 1207 Turk street The wedding was private only the most intimate friends being present The guests commenced to arrive at 8 a and at 830 oclock the bridal party entered to to strains of Mendelssohn wedding march led bv8J Samelson of Fresno who acted as best man and Miss Mabel Hart the bridesmaid Then followed the bride and groom who took their places in the bay window tinder a rWral true lovers knot The beautiful ceremony of the Methodist Episcopal Church was then reaa Dy jtev Mr Brown wnicn unitea the happy couple The bride wore a white brocade silk gown en traine with white lace trimmings and carried a large bouquet of sweet peas The bridesmaid wore a delicate shade of pink silk with white lace and pearl trimmings and earned pink sweet pea The wedding tour will be spent in Fresno where they will be the guests of Mr Samelson The Alameda Friday Night Club will eive a series of balls during the winter The first will take place on the 13th of this month The Encmal Yacht Club of Alameda will entertain their friends this evening in their boathouse in Alameda A farewell surprise party was given to Leo Mann by his numerous friends prior to his departure for San Joe last Sunday evemug at Azalia Half Rube Cohen delivered tne farewell address which was responded to by the guest ot honor The evening was spent In dancing singing and recitations and at midnight the guests repared to the dining hall where a sumptuous rej ast awaited them Young Ladies Institute No 4 held one of their sdcial gatherings at Union square Hall on Thursday evening September Krh An artistic musical Drozramme was rendered which was fallowed by dancing mmm TOE BEtTER SANITATION Woolen Councils Discuss the Needs of i the City Tk Am PATiimittoo An sanitation of the Womans Council and San Francisco meeting last evening at 102 OFarrell street The purpose of the gathering was to promalgaifr the ideas of the committee regarding better sanitary conditions for the city The twa organizations have iwnlnned on this nrotiosltion and earnest and rigorous eBortjwill be directed toward tin 011 6lH of 1 farthering the objects for which the committee has been organized Mrs Morse of the Council of Women briefly outlined tbe purposes of the associations They proposed to agitata reforms in municipal government and more particularly the enforcement of present sanitary laws and the ad opt on of such other measures for good health as should seem bestaatheoccaslon demands Mrs Anna Ferry Smith president of the committee addressed the meeting at some length upon the various phases of the subject ot sanitation as applicable to conditions now existing in this city The speaker forcibly presented the need ot a sewerage syste which should be constructed on scientific principles The city should te thoroughly cleaned and rid of noxious disease breeding filth especially now when the Midwinter Fair means the influx ot thousands and thousands of guests The lady outlined a number of reforms contemplated by the women workers of the councils and Invited the co operation of the entire community in the work She advocated the appointment ot a number ot women health inspectors the erection of a garbage crematory street cleaning of the proper character briefly a revolution of existing sanitary conditions Other speakers to the same point were Dr Agnes WlmelL Mrs Helen Moore Marian Thrasher and Maria Gray president ot the Council of Women Announcements of future meetings will be made soon THE MATHENY TRIAL T0EDTS STRONG EVIDENCE IN BEBUTTAL The Saloon Hat Shown to Sit the Prisoners Head Exactly TheMatheny murder trial in Oakland praetilly closed yesterday All tbe evidence save that of the experts has been introduced and that will be put in on Tuesday next till which time the case has been continued5 The subject upon which the experts are td testify is mud Tbe experts for the defense will attempt to show that tbe mud found on the clothes of Matheny is that peculiar to the shore of the bay at Sausalito Those for the State will try to make it appear that the mud soiled Mathenys clothes while he was running away and hiding from the police ori the morning after the murder The defendant Matheny occupied the stand nearly the whole day the greater part of which he was subjected to a very severe cross examination by Assistant District Attorney Church The general impression is that Mathenys own testimony and cros ex aminatlon have strengthened the strong chain of circumstantial evidence which had been forged by the prosecution The defendant seemed to realize this from the moment of his appearance In the court yesterday morning There was an un usual paleness in his face His manner lacked the studied indifference which on other days characterised him Ills eyes had a far away look and at times he seemed to be laboring under tVfit ot abstraction Mathenys first admission in the morn ing was a damaging one He showed that he had engaged with Touhlll in the manufacture ot loaded dicey of which he sold about fifty or sixty sets to gamblsrs and others tor Illicit purposes it the rate of 10 a set Each set cost the manufacturers about 50 cents This admission showed conclusively tbe intlmaoy which existed between the defendant and the dead burg lar Then came the story ot the collar Matheny said that be got wet in 8susa II to He denied that either his collar or his tie got wet then The detenu then firoduced scarf which even then showed he effects of dampness and a collar which was still crumpled as if it had net yet dried The defendant ldentlfedhoth tie and collar as belonging to him and when asked how they had become wet with an esse which was most remarkable answered that they had fallen off the washstand in Colemans room into tne slop bucket Regarding the shaving of his mustache the prosecution attempted to get Matheny to admit that he had done so by means of shaving tools which be had borrowed especially for the occasion through Coleman but in this the State was unsuccessful The tools the defendant said were found in the room Matheny denied that Coleman had gone to Sacramento to get money from the defendants friends withwhich to get him outof trouble He denied also that Cole inan and he had planned using one of the vessels in the bay for the purposeof enablingenabling Matheny to make his escape This closed tbecross examlnation proper and the redirect examination Matheny Stated that the trousers belonging to him got wet by his walking into the bay at Sausalito and that he did not go to Sausalito with his trousers in the condition in which they appeared when found Then came the Te cross examinatfon Mr Church took tip the subject of Mathenys arrest in Los Angeles The defendant said he had gone to Los Aneeles to get work but was arrested and after being in Jail for some weeks was discharged When Matheny was asked why if his name was Mathny he had given the name of Brandon the defendant replied that he did not want to hare the disgrace attached to him of being arrested He then admitted that he had on several occasions been taken into custody in San rancisco ana mat mere ne naa given tne name of Matheny Matheny then detailed the rescue of a boat at SausaUto which seemed to be without moorings He spoke about taking off his shoes walking into the water a short distance and pulling tbe boat back after him The prosecution asked him if this rescue took place at 3 the hour which he specified was it not low tide and was not the water of the bay a quarter ot a mile from shore Matheny was surprised lor a moment but said he did not knosy anything about tides Then came the question 1 How did yoa get your shoes muddy If you had taken your shoes off Matheny answered I fell off a bank a little distance into the water before I took them ofL One of the singular features Of this adventure is that the defendant could not tell where the drifting boat lay what was her name how she was painted and scarcely what was the time of the occur rence Matheny wis asked how his trousers had become muddy if he had sunk only to his ankles in the mud He replied that the mud had got on there while he was taking his right shoe off He stood up and brought his right leg across his left a short distance above the knee and said that he had taken his shoe off in that manner and thus put moa on nis trousers The prosecution put Hsckman Toedt on tbe stand to rebut tbe testimony of Thompson Toedt swore that Matheny was the roan he had driven to the scene of the murder The closing feature 0 the day was the establishing of the ownershiD of the derby hat found in the saloon where the shooting had taken place The hit was proved to exactly fit Matheny The Bidlemaa Case Judge Wallace did not render a decision yesterday on the application of Bidleman convicted some time since of embeszlement for a new trial He In formed the attorneys and others interested that he desired further time to examine the authorities submitted tohlraand be would therefore put the matter over for a week 1 1 1 1 TtziMxxt xooxs or suits with private fcetks attached cut be bad at the Hotel Pleataatoa corner auiwraaa ones streets 3IISCELLANEOCS KTllh III 11 Y7 My Roses Red The man in the picture is thinking of the pretty flower girl he leard sing the above line while he is going down in his pocketr for money to buy a jug full of rare red Azaleas the old Japanese in the nigbtcap has for sale This illustrates only one of the annoying features of Travel in Foreign Countries It brings out the question DOES TFPAY TO GO ABROAD 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