Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

81 C-r-l- OAKTAND. CALIFOBNIA; nATUBDAY. APfJL 16 1S7. I v----- jT 1 1 IMPROVEMENTS. not worked steadily during the past MUSICAL the Reorganized Church ot Latter Day Saints on Harrison street, near Fifth, The cost was $3700.

There are also several churches that have been Drotnised and will be cotn- MASK AND BAUBLE. OA FISH STORY. fni I menced during this year. East Oak- bam. "I bad 'em bad this time." I "What did they gilve you to eat and drink thereto inquired.

'Beef teal sir; beef tea for three days before I wa allowed to touch a mouthful of solid food. 1 tell you that budds up a poor drunkard's stomach quicker ifn in else. And that is all I Odds and Ends Swept frcra Peep Water Decks. Border Lights Above the Sites on the Foothills "Winter Residences. Arrival of the National Opera Company.

selves fairly well, and the accompaniments were charmingly rendered by Miss Helene Coe. The programme was abbreviated, and the Lucia sextet, and La Carita," by Rossini, were omitted. I esfisoba's farewell. It will perhaps go without saying that Mr. Espinosa a most thorough artist of the refined, classical type.

During a ten or eleven years' iresidence- in San Francisco he has by 1 his gentlemanly deportment, as well as by his ability, won for himself a host of warm friends. It is small wonder i'nen that Irving The Strange Adventure of a Dago and a Sturgeon. Local Boards. these. The First Baptist Church of East Oakland has decided that its present rmarterg are too small.

The old church. claim to season or two. i The Prince of Wales makes an excellent substitute for the cowhide as an avenue to dramatic fame. He is just as good at laying a stepping stone as at laying a corner stone. As a dramatic promoter he is far superior to Lord Lonsdale.

Tony Eart says he isn't going to 'Frisco after all. The managers of a theater there wanted him to, but he declined, preferring to rest nntu the fall. Next season he is to have a new play by Con T. Murphy, called The Blarney Stone, in which he will play a pual role. i i 1 'one just now.

Another verv thirst XeW I which formerly faced on East Four in the drink swell wed Witu a gratem CSft.j Activity in Church Bnildinsr-Bonses in All Parts A Mexican War Ship Fresh Foo in Bine Water Desertion on the Wish Seas. Vu nnvtmn? lor I a Chance of a Xew TheaterChance of Malnaffement Farce and Most Complete Tronpe the Country Concert During1 the Week. Eatt2 Live Fisli Lean Beauties Arsenic Eatin? DrW J'd have handful the first red pepper during of the City. days I was in tnav at do drink when home. Melodrama Notes.

teenth street, has teen moved around so that it now faces on Eighth avenue, and the trustees of the church have advertised for bids for the erection of a new building to cost $11,000. The new church will be erected on the part of the lot where the old building stood. i The new parish of St. Francis de Sales has grown very rapidly. school has been completed and the Everything, sir.

Drinklnsr A Hot Dose. I'm 'on a ut drinking, ana you aon i You talk a The builders' trade has been some it means. Wait till you know what A rnfthacer with interests extending That swindle perpetrated on M.exii by the bogus sale of Patti seats tarns what impeded during the last week by hva drank horse liniment and hair re the rain, but with that exception there beyond the Facific coast said a short while agojthatif there should be erected a first class theater in Oakland he tl au was or6 than filled on the occasion Of. his farewell concert last night by a large and enthusiastic audience, among which we observed many of our leading musical Cognoscenti, who took this opportunity of -pay-ing their respects to the departing pianist. Mr.

Espinosa played witb all the rare facility, finish, and expression for which he is so remarkable, and in the'Tantasie and Fugue" bv Raff showed himself to be an artist could soar over all difficulties of execution and conception. At the close of the concert a pleasing diversion-occurred. On behalf of the San Fran is little change in the condition of the market. Very few new buildings are being started at present, though there ia parish is already discussing the design and appearance of the new church to be erected. The rhurch will face on ttTwt and will occupy the entire out a pointer to managers uim may be money for things theatrical in the sister republic.

Leavitt has just arranged what promises to be a paying circuit and now Jay- Rial has gone to the land of mescal to see what he can do in the way of picking up the nimble storatives tq brace on, and yon may pos-sibl learn si miething about the business. Do 1 look ai if 1 had gone through the mill Well I've tried everything from bay rum to lamp oil. It is awful hard for an old drinker to brace up when the liquor is all suddenly shut off, andihe ran't iron for fove ormoney. He plenty of work being done on those commenced. The architects say that corner between the school and pastoral residence.

Grove -and Hobart streets. The completed- buildings have cost $22,000. The new! buildings will cost -dos reales. i large numbers of new houses and build mnNivs that he will surely thinks for S' ings are. contemplated.

The architects suppose that is the nest die. But are kept busy in supplying figures and desires true reform, Ine TO-WcfrOW, the National Opera Company, i composed of 305 persons, will arrive. They are brought hither from New York by a special train, coin-posed of seven Pullman sleepers, three day coaches, and ten baggage cars. The magnitude of this enterprise somewhat appals us. Just think of "it.

$24,000 for transportation alone, equal to an expenditure of over $1200 for this one item at each of the twenty performances which they advertise across the bay. The salaries of many of them are extremely large, notably that of Theodore Thomas, who is understood to receive for conducting performances alone $1500 per week, he other work, such as chorus and easemble rehearsals, which usually falls to the lot of the conductor, being done by Gustav Hin-richs, who is Thomas's assistant. On estimate the expenses of The plan if sooner the rough sketches to inquiring builders. vestige of stimulans is A clam digger paused in his slimy work of overhauling the thick rand of the creek the other day to explain the present status of the propeller General Zaragoxa, laid up on the mud now as she has been any time these two years. According to this estimable differ of the steamable clam, the rusty ol.t steamer is a Mexican man-of-war still in commission.

Further, he says that there is attached to her a full corps of officers from admiral down to all drawing sea pay and all doing sea duty in the social fesiivities of the city of Mexico. When they go out of commission they will do the same kind of duty in the same place, but it will then be entered on the books of the Mexican Admiralty as shore duty, if there be-such an institution in the southern republic as an Admiralty and it condescends to keep books. Meanwhile the General Jiaragoaa is under the charge of a care taker on a high salary whit be does not get. Wbeu pay the clam digger says the shipkeeper disposes of a boat load of junk and balances his account. -This may be quite apocrypbal.but the If one half of those who are making in his system the better, through a season of suffer eliminated He must 1 was chatting with an Italian fisherman the other day, and admiring a gigantic sturgeon which he had landed from his boat.

And the "Dago" told me a fish story, none of your mean, everyday "speckled beauty" yarns, but a good up and down, eighteen carat story. Translating the tale from the mixture of Italian and English la which -I received it: One evening while fishing near Saucelito, and alone, tny "Dago" saw a targe sturgeon testing In a shallow basin by the rocks. 'He determined to approach it as gently as possible, and when near enough to leap npon the sleeping fish, push his hands through Its gills, and tons secure I his Eame. Bnt when lhe leap was made, and his grip secure, the sturgeon took it as a signal for ready, and darted out into deep water. Down, down tlhey went until the "Dago" had almost friven out.

The fish came to the pur-and save his eseiny a chance to quiries in regard to houses ever build. ing nr arimier or later. I tell you it Oakland will see one oi the best years for building that it has seen for many is awful, i You can have no idea ofj it unless you have passed through jit. Sleep I woi Id have given a million dollars for one nan during those awful first years. Contractors and architects are cisco Harmonic hociety, ot waicn mt.

Espinosa Js an honorary member, he was presented with a laurel wreath, while flower were grained upon the stage from all parts of the hall. Mr. Espinosa departs soon for his home in Central America, and carries with him the best wishes of hia friends. BrH ECS IN8TRCSCSSTAL CLUB. A charming programme has been arranged and is in active rehearsal for the grand testimonial concert to be tendered Edward S.

Taylor the all sanguine as to the prosperity of the $15,000. The church on the corner of Thir-, teenth and flav streets, belonging to the Seventh Da'y Adventists. has been Fold to the German Lutheran Society. Adventists Will probably erect a i'new building, the particulars of which hve not been decided upon. The First Presbyterian congregation of East Oakland has decided that it is too large for its present quarters and the church has purchased a lot on the corner of East Fifteenth street and Twelfth avenue.

The lot is 150x140 and as soon as the finances of church permit the building will be commenced. The new church will cost about $.300. The old building will be moved to Twenty-third avenue and will be used in tli si! irrnwini? suburb, i would play in it the very best attractions on the road if, and here comes the sting of it all, if on due consideration he found in this city a sufficiently large and intelligent class of theater goers to make the project financially judicious. This thing is not visionary rumor but the carefully expressfed opinion of a shrewd business man. The proposed theater is within the reach of the citizens of Oakland and they can obtain it, not by the efforts of a few capitalists seeking for theiij money better interest than the 4 pet cent of Government securities but by the efforts of every lover of good plays who will come forward whein good attractions do come here under the present circumstances and attend in such numbers a to send them awav with money in their pockets.

It may be well to review the present aspect of the local stage and see whether or no we Of Oakland make good enough audiences to attract good plavers and whether we deserve a well equipped new theater. There are now three theaters in the citv, none of which are np to modern stage requirements. Fnrilipr. iktanlev's is out of the calcu coming year. nights in lhe home.

have gone through it fall jim-jams, snakes, jde-lerium tremens, everything. No mre. During the first quarter of this year This is what thev think, or at least what they say, of Caddie Swain out Sydnev side An actress who can give an audience sobs or smiles at pleasure, who combines the abandon of Jennie Lee with the vivacity of Judic, the quaintness of Nelly Farren, with the acrobatic prowess of Zazel, is the kind of fish which is, only caught in the net of the colonial managers once in a century." I Patti Rosa, who has been starring i this country so lone that she is old enough to take Lottas place, is heading due East from that critical region where thev call her "the Western Ixjtta." She has two of Lotta's plays, at any rate, and she will give New York a chance to compare her with her elder associate. She is an English girl, and is the daughter of Mine. Cerito, once a transformation dancer.

Abbev's profits from his amusement ventures this year, which include tho Bernhardt and Patti engagements, will be upward of The Bernhardt building in Oakland has been general. Orpheus Instrumental Club, on Tuesdav evenintr. May 3d. This event will Different classes of buildings are ereit--ing in different parts of the city. The FmaUer houses are confined to the precincts of West Oakland and East Oakland, particularly the former, where large numbers of cheap residences are National Opera Company for the three weeks cannot fall much short of so that each of the twenty performances advertised must drawm be one of unusual interest.

The club is R-nninrif. no rutins to uresent a uro- projectors ot nramniA worthy of th occasion. In excess ui this frieantic enterprise will realize a catch bis breath, but time was scarcely given before he went under a second and down towards Yellow bluff. thank vou. I feel pretty good new.

This ke me going for a few hours i "He won be long out of the home," said the bai keeper as the bum slunk awav, "and I guess there is a slabi at the Morguelw ailing for him. I tell you dram drinking is a dangerous experiment. Where there is one man ablejto drink, there are hundreds who cannot without becoming damkards. But itj is still more daiigerous with women. Whatever chancel a man: has, I think they rever reforrti.

you; I send Out many smal bottle of. cocktails (or women in the morning, i They hive trt the delicrhtful orchestral array ot profit. Rather an imposing mirna Of the -cominz numbers, the following soloists have season, how- sea contributed their services for the occa ever, this one thing can be truthfully sior. i Mrs. Norton, soprano.

Walter A new Congregational society has been organized iu East Oakland and a new church will oe built at a ature date. II'. The First Unitarian Society has bought a lot oni Bush street, near Twelfth, and a new house of worship will be built there probably during this year. -i The new synagogue that was finished last Senteniber cost $12,000. C.

Campbell, basso, J. H. Rosewald. violin; I. C.

Knell, horn. Huso Mm clam digger seems to mint it true. There is a certain peculiarity about seasickness that is somewhat remarkable. There are of course many dis-apreeabie peculiarities about it. but there is this one in particular.

Every soul who has been to sea and has escaped its ravages believes there is no remedy for it, and every man, woman, or child ho has suffered tv it has a remedy to ofier radically ditferent from every other. The most popular preventive is inebriation. The man wh- keeps ctrunk the whole voyai--e wid never be seasick, bitf unless he makes fehlt 1 niano. The numbers embrace lation, since it has a stock company of its own which little by little is adding fn its Ptreaieth and bids fair to be a asserted, that tor maguuu-ein ui cu-semble and misc. en sane, with the extra attraction of a large and first class ballet, nothing to approach it has ever been seen upon the coast.

Thomas brings his own symphony orchestra, augmented to eighty. The chorus numbers 100, selected from over 2000 applicants in New York, while thousands and thousands of dollars have been expended upon magnificent cos bmluing. in casi iraniauu muny of the houses is better than in the western end, though there are not sa many begun. The East Oakland water front is a very popular place for manufactories, and several are locating there. In that part of East Oakland between the lake and Thirteenth avenue, few.

new houses are going up. The building in this section is confined to the region north of East Eighteenth street. In the neighborhood of Twenty-third avenue there are several neat residences being built, while even along Fruit Yale avenue there are some very handsome new bouses. The larger residences, which are few r.nd far between, are being built along Telegraph avenue and along the western i-hore of the lake. their children waiting till tne saioon opens to gei them.

Whisky is a bad thing, but if people want it, why, we selections from the following com posers: Verdi, Mozart, Haydn, Titl, Wheeler, Schubert, Liszt Soderman. Puerncr, Beissig, Mjore, Marzials, Marchetti, and Meybecr. 1 MCSICAL NOTES. engagement alone win net Aooev uu Maurice Grau $100,000. I Abbey has been able to pav all his old debts which resulted from the failure of his opera season at the Metropolitan, and he will start in next year' with a handsome bank account.

I Edward Hanlon has accomplished what has probably never ibef ore been known in the theatrical profession. After plaving Le Voyage en Suixsc in France and England, he took the same company through Spain, Portugal, Prussia, and Austria, and instructed the company in the language of each of the countries visited, so that they were acceptable to A Ereat deal of admiration has bien I11UM SC1J It eluded the barkeeper, swallowing! stiff bracer 1 iniself by way of empha-sizing his as sertion. I witnesse a painful, and at the same time a ludic -ous spectacle, at one of expressed for the rendition of The tumes. The company carry meir scenic artists, eostutners, and stage me Egsteri Morning, cantata by the Chevalier Neukomm. on last Sunday A review of the church work done in the last twelve months shows that four churches have been completed, one is very nearly finished, and one school built during the year.

St. Francis dc Sales is used as a tchurch. The cost of these was $53,0004 There are three churches that have definitely been decided upon which Will cost $37,000, and three more that jwill undoubtedly be built, but which have not been positively designed asjyet. Kl'lLDlio NOTES. Cameron McDonald are the con hv th choir of the First Pres hvtprinn I'hiirrh.

and a reauest is mak his trip on one of the "Atlantic greyhounds" is extremely liable to come-into port a fit candidate for the borne for inebriates. An old remedy and a Tough one is practiced on hoys makim? their first voyage and it is msver known to fail. When the lad is in his wort agony two seamen seize him unexpectedly by the ankle and effect suddenly a complete inversion of his position. Whether it be the shock or tha tome new arrangement of innards" is effected, the seasickness He then darted in shore, ran his head between two rocks, and clasped the fills by their sides, so the poor Dago ands were securely fastened, and then 10,000 thoughts of escape began to present themselves, but none of them proved fruitful. The fish would have withdrawn from the vise like halter, bat he went into it with such force that escape -was impossible.

My Italian friend wss not rescued until two days afterward, audrhe was then in an almost famished condition. He had eaten a bote into the sturgeon's back as big as a man's hat, and had thus eked iout existence until bis partner discovered 1dm. I was standing outside a Market steeet drug store this week with a well known and clever physician when a voung lady brushed by us. She was toautiful and plump, had a fresh, rosy complexion, and looked the very picture of health. 1, "What a remarkably pretty girl.l I said as the doctor lifted his bat to the passing beauty." i I "Yes, that she is, replied the doctor.

She is as prettv as any in this town of pretty women. Her parents are among -the wealthiest; all her wishes are ful-ifillcd; she wants for nothing, and still she is as miserable and unhappy as the -poorest woman in the city." "I can hardlv believe it. Possibly, then, she is in love, and the man of jher rknim aimlM noon some other fair one. permanency and even if there were no stock conip'anv this house is too small on ewh side the footlights to play a large first rate company with profit. At the jther two houses during the last threeiweeks there have been four combination companies, two of which are of a very high order of merit, and well deserving of the success which they met wih across the bay.

Ixok now at what we in Oakland have, done for them, iand what inducements we have offered others to follow their example. Carleton pla ved five times, and did modejatelv well, that is he cleared expenses Without adding much to his account of profits. Miss Maddem gave three performances, and did not get audiences! which would pay gas bills, although ifJnprice is one of the crispest and most idelicate of plays now on the boards, jloland Reed give3 a farrago nf nnnpii: for two niehts and does ing to hav it repeated on soine other week evemne. for the benefit of the al Business Mocks and Dimaings oi tnai hat ire are being erected along the line the cable road, there being little chance for anything of this kind in any nthorTu.rtiimof the citv. teration fund of the chu.ch.

It is un derstond that to-morrow nicht se-. lections from the cantata will be ren the new manuiaciuring im-trcsw the city are confined to the East Oakland and West Oakland water chanics, and altogether it is perhaps the most oompjete operatic organization in the known world. Mrs. Thur-ber and those who are co-stOckholders with her have sunk a great deal of monev in perfecting the great National Opera" Company, and it has just begun to pay expenses. Of the principal artists' but few have been heard here, among them the creat Boston basso.

Mj ron W. Whitnev, whose last visit here in 1878 at the unfortunate May Festival cannot have been forgotten. Since that time Whitney has had years of operatic experience and shpuUl now be a finished actor. Mr. Hambleton.

another of- the 'bassi, is a graduate of the old Kellogg Company, and has been lately heard of here as "The Mikado" of the Duff Company. Probably the greatest of the bass or baritone artists is William Ludwig, the leading bari yields at once to this treatment and the victim returns to duty. THE FOOTHILLS. It is noticeable that the handsome theaters a lew nights ago. in a seat immediately behind me sat a very good looking wofian escorted by a very good looking young man.

both apparently from the cointry. When the curtain fell at the elbse of the first act, the man espied a frietid of his in a neighboring row the friend gave him a signal, and they dropped out together to take a clqve. The (curtain rose On the second net. but thek-oung man did not make his appearajrice. Hot did he turn jup until souie tin minutes before the of the plav As soon asihe took his 'seat I heinl a smothered exclamation frOm his companion: tO, Charley, what kept you so loaz, ami what huve vou been doing? And how yourbri-ath smells! Why, Charley, you've beenldrinking." i "That's ail right.

May, all right. Bill the audience. The party will come to this country next AugusU Several Brooklyn theaters have inaugurated a bovebtt of The Jungle, owing to the latter withdrawing its hitherto customary notices of the theaters. The drvgoods houses complained of the partiality shown the theaters, and hence the change of base. The new dramatic editor of The Etufe, Skinner, is more independent and impartial in his criticism than is in accordance with the job office puffery style previously in vogue, and this also "gives dissatisfaction.

When Rose Coghlan starts on the tractors for the two new houses th-t are being erected on the corner of Adeline and Fourteenth streets for Galen M. Fisher. One house faces on Adeline street and the; other on Foui teenth street, and as soon as these are completed another house vrill be commenced between the twoJ to face on Adeline houses of large dimensions are gradu ally creeping out toward the Piedmont better than bitter players in better it is morallv certain that dcrtdi and 'as Dr. Sprecher will be heard in Oakland for the last time, the church will undoubtedly be crowded A complimentary benefit has been tendered the violinist, Eugene O'Connell, in the Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, on Wednesday, April 27th. Mr.

O'Connell leaves for Europe socjn after to pursue his studies. As the young gentlemanhas unhesitatingly laven his services when called upon in a like cause, it is to be hoped that his effort will meet with liberal support and that he will be sent on his way not only with the recollection of having left many personal friends, but with a. hills. These foothills lorm a most magnificent site for residences, and this is beginning to be discovered Dy tne nen Eastern capitalists who arc searching for a location for winter residences in street. Cameron McDonald are building three cottages on West street, near Fifteenth.

Each one contains six rooms and a basement, and will cost $2200. The cottages are for the builders, and and near this city, ine loouniis naye an easy incline for some distance back tone, and we expect to ie immensely kAmI with "him. Candidas, the froni Mendocino, and a lot 01 frotu Mend of I'iedmont, and as a situation tor res-irinrrs are unsurpasEed. Several L.OIS 01 lun, waj la it there the trouoie lies "Hot a bit of it," said the doctor 4U Mutrnrv if vnii read I J'on 1 the bovsyoii know. (Mil's I how's "the piny?" I What MaSrs repl rePlv more substantial evidence oi tueir houses have been built, and others have Salt horse four days a week, salt pork the other three, burgoo and coffee are no doubt sufficient to support life at for have not the Admiralty ami the Secretary of the Navy so ordained in their dietary scale? But even the- deUcacies upon the palate in the course of a throe months' voyaee.

Then is when all hands appreciate the luxury of fresh food, whjch it is not easy to cot at sea. Sometimes in the steady trades between the tropics rlyinj fish com aboard. At night it is possible to catch them bv the cask full by hnnpinc a piece of 'an old sail over the side with a lantern in it and scoopinc up that are attracted by the light. A ccoked fhing fish is by no means a poor meal. like all deep water tif-h.

it is very dry but when fried is as good almost as" mackerel. With plenty of onions and potatoes it makes a good chowder ar.d it is in this tdiape it most romn only finds itself tn the nies kids of the forecastle. was I did not society eolumn of lastTuesday you will mm that she is engaged to be married. will fatch, but before her angry whispers been projected on tne little eminences back of Oakland, whence views are had of the bay with its shipping. A view road again, next week, Ali G.

Dipman is to rejoin her company, and there is a certainity that Osmond Tearle will be her new leading man. Tearle has been to England on a starring" trip since he left allack's, his wife supporting him. He did not make much money on the venture, however, and then he came back and went to 'Frisco for a new production which was not any more successful. Of late he has been playing for David Bid well in New Orleans. His wife (Minnie Conway) also joins Miss Coghlan.

i Much interest has been taken by the theatrical profession and those interested in such matters in the career in London of Miss Grace Scarcely known in this country, even had ceased heard a snort, just at the back of my iieck, that startled me. I looked aroi ud. Charley was wrapped in a drunke 1 slumber. May punched him, the au lience got np, but Charley lay like a 1 g. and snored like a steam engine.

I tied the unfortunate girl, and sympathetically jabbed a pin into thitrh. The drunken rustic next week the house will be crowded to see a man who calls himself vthe human corkscrew," and performs the feat of walking backwards with; his head and his trunk faced to the rear. Apparently it may be assumed that here in the town which is often called the Pacific Athens the theater audiences are in the inverse ratio of the dramatic excellency of the attraction. i Soberly! looked at, there does not seem to "be a good field for such plays as possess good dramatic qualities and demand good actors. The remedy lies in the power of not in that of wielders of Urge sums of money.

Patronizel good shows and more will come her4 patronize only poor shows and poori shows will be the only ones that will think it worth while to play here. 1 I THE WEEK'S DRAMA. The injst notable feature in local dramatic circles is the arrangement by which. Be-t acquires control of the Oakland Theater in addition toDietz Opera House. Mr.

Rossbach will go on the road in the early part of next month leading tenor, is a relation by marriage of the Steinwavs, and we are told that he is to them indebted for his musical education and present position. Mr. Bassett, the other tenor, is an American and promises great things. Fessenden, another of the principal tenori, was also bere at the May Festival. Most of the ladiea are strangers, but are all excellent artists, and the contralto, Jessie Bartlett Davis, is, in addition, a most beautiful woman.

Special pains bave been taken in the matter of the ballet, which embraces some of the world's best premieres. Altogether, as we remarked, the tout ensemble in ON BROADWAY. DetaltorrReiuarHi by ttie men Loungers. ThcCommittee on Streets and Builds ings yesterday inspected the city wharf; and an observant lounger states that "thev have been shivering their, timbers and walking with a rolling ir.iit. pvir since.

None of them, -ho w- and I can assure you that 'each, is sincerely attached to the other." 'ill "Certainly she does not look like a pining- maiden. What, then, i3 jthe troubjet" "The trouble, Mr. Ignoto, is that the lady ia a slave to fashion, and that it is not fashionable these days to be fat, or even plump. To be fashionable one junst be lank and lean, and you have 1 observed that the young girl in question mTOite the contrary. A great number of the fair sex in this city who arel as finely proportioned as she, and who wear the flush of health upon their cheeks, consider themselves out of the fashion.

Those approaching a reason- ti iinvTMi ff nvnirdtiDois or the pos emitted a roiu- like a bull, but that was 1L He dionned to sleep strain, and will be iold after completion. Mr. Cornwall is finishing a five room cottaee onsTwenty-fourth avenue, near East "Nineteenth street, costing $1200. On Poplar street, near Eighth, Mrs. L.

Hardie is erecting a five room cottage. W. T. is contractor. Cost, $2000.

i A new house is being built for P. M. Chaffee on Twenty-third avenue near East Fourteenth street. It will cost $1000. i M.

W.rKain has contracted to build a house on Peralta street near Sixteenth for II. B. Fritzschen. It will contain six rooms and bath and will cost $2XK). George Atkinson has built a four room dwelling on East Fourteenth street, between Twenty-first and Twenty-third avenues, I Cost $1000.

A. W. Pattiani A Co. have contacted with M. P.

Brown i to build for him a residence on the jorncr; of Thirteenth and West The cost will be 'i I J. Jorgenscn is building for his own 'occupancy a five roon basement cottage cn the corner of East Sixteenth street and Twentv-fourth: avenue, at a cost of ai.vin. i i when I left, May, with the assistance of the flaneur continued," '-have mastered the mysteries of splicing the the ttshers. was enaeavonng to raase t'harley understand that it was high main brace. i time to co home.

igsotQi a rare one, and merits the entire sup-i port of our public. On the opening night, Mondav next, Gounod's ehff d'onvre, will be performed for the first time on the coast in its entirety. Thai was a curious decision before Iamond dust. Council commUtees on Thursday night regarding the'paymcnt of licenses un taking a1 (specialty company over the der the proposed ordinance, home thouehtless individual remarked that northern circuit, i It is his present in the word "silver" in the sentence, "li tention toiplay them a six weeks' tour in the interior of this state and then re 11 lw Daid in eold or silver such as count oe ootaineu jroui so located would be one that William K. Vanderbilt would give thousands of dollars to possess from his palace on Fifth avenue.

New York. This region is easy of access on good roads and it will not be many years before it will be possible to live at Piedmont and do business in the city without the least trouble. Sireet roads are gradually running out in the direction of the "hills. Joanuin Miller the poet, has already noticed the possibilities that Oakland possesses in this regard and has invested in property hack of Fruit Vale. Several penilemen express the opinion that it will not be many years before there will be long lines of electric lights running parallel from Berkeley through Oakland to Brooklyn.

It costs very little more to operate two 'lamps than it.does to operate one. and the expense, after the cost of construction has been paid, would be very small indeed. Such a sight from either the hiiis or the bay would be imnosing in the extreme. The possibilities of our foothills arc-verv great from the point of view of a gentleman of leisure looking for sites tor handsome dwellings, and with a few more street roads in that direction or a cable road running along the base of the hills it is probable that there will be a mi inter of large residences erected there. THE GARFIELD SCHOOL.

J. and T. D. Newsom, the architects of tl.e Garrield school, have reported to the Board of Education that the school building has not been finished accord coin or the United States," should by name. Miss itawtnorne went over to London less than a year ago, and has alreadv become a prominent figure in the theatrical world there.

She is the lessee of one theater and. having taken the Princess's over Wilson Barrett's head, she will in a few mouths more control two inniortant London houses. It will, therefore, ba a matter of interest to many to learn that for a week past John P. Smith, a well known manager, has been trving to obtain for the month it April a "New York theater in which Miss Hawthorne may appear in anew plav. Mr.

Smith is acting as the actress's' agent iu response to cable instructions, and the matter has been kept a profound secret from all save those direct! interested. It may. however, be safe! said that arrangements will be made with the Union Square Theater, and that the fact of Miss Hawthorne's appearance will soon be announced. Jew York Tribune. The debate ran hisrh.

it The poi poise is often caught and irives Fome goed sport in the catching. Tnere is excitement in standing within a few feet of the unfathomed sea discing tight to the martingale with one hand and with the other poising the grains ready to dart it into the glossy hi.le of the (iraceiul sea pigs when the rii-'ht moment conies in their tumbling play leforc" the smother of spray thrown back from the sharp cutwater. It takes a keen eye, quick wit, and a Ftmngarm to dart the grains aright, and it need careful nimrnrenient to get the teavy prize inboard. The brains and liver go to the cabin for tricers' use and the rest of the is welcomed forward. The liver is like pig's liver in texture and flavor; lestof the fli-sh is dose grained ami ugh, as befits an animal so muscular.

Sailors have a theory that lecaus porpoise keeps so close to the ship that it must get some of the copper in its Fystim, and for tht reason hang it for several dava upon the stays. Tou-ti as was tending toward acrimony, there wns fiiineer of a serious schism, natil Attdy Pleeey Canamenees Sinlt sralBt 'William ncl.aagblln. The last ai final game, between the Renos and tl ie Tribunes will take place at the Oaklind grounds to-morrowjat 11:30 a. J. The game will be fori a purse of $10 The batteries will be Livnt and CIj rk.

and Snow and Bush-ong. The Clevel inds wiplay the Wiener "Stars" at the Oakland grounds lat 2 o'clock to-u lorrow for a purse of $10. batterie; will be -Vow and Parker, and Flannigi and Frainher. 4 The OreenJ lood and Morans will play tiie Haverlys at the Haight street eronnds to-'norrow. A very exciting 11.

McCracken haj agreed to build a bouse for I. Friedman on Han Pablo avenue fer S3S50. i Charles Alau is the fhnirmnll sncrcested that it woul: be a good idea to allow the Congress of the United States rather than the City Council of Oakland the privilege of regulating the legal tender of the coun try. Vou could have cut the subse session of rosy cheeks are regarded as vulgar, and hardlv entitled to the honor and distinction of moving in society. Bttt- to return to the young lady who baa just left the drug store.

You must havenoticed the package she carried in her hand. Well, that was nothing more nor less than a vile compound Jigs put up for the purposei of xerlrejrrg a person's weight, at the same time undermining the health of the brainless idiots foolish enough to take That lady called at my omce last week and blandly asked me to advise her what course she should what means she should employ to reduce her weight, and leaxoya xhe color of roses from hereheekil I bad a serious conversation with her, -vainly endeavoring to dissuade her from the foolish course she was about to pursue. But it was of no avail. She left my office highly indignant, and said she would never consult nie'again. I then called upon the young lady's father, who tried to talk seriously to his daughter, but I have since ascertained that she visited other physicians quent apathv on this subje -t a blunt rcid chisel.

"it was so cheeselike the ballet in the fourth act. and the church scene complete, with the cathedral interior. While in the cast no one, of course, compares to The Diva, and the tenor possibly cannot rival Guille, yet the whole csst. with the magnificent setting and phenomenal orchestral accompaniment which the opera will receive, cannot fail to compensate for the absence of one great artist. It has got to be one of two things nowadays either Patti or Nillson, with an indifferent support, or an even representation'; with first class artists all round and magnificent inise en scene and ensemble, and.

to our way of thinking, the latter makes the more enjoyable entertainment. Tuesday, Aida; Wednesday, Lakme, bv Deiibes, for the firtt time here: Thursday, Gluck's Orpheus ami Eurijdice, also for the first time, and on Friday, Lohengrin. Truly a remarkable repertoire, and all in our own tonpie something to be commended in this English speaking country. We trust Mr. Lockfc's enterprise in bringing such an ensemble.

to the coast may meet with the success it deserves. ORGAN RECITAL. The second of the series of organ recitals by H. J. Stewart took place on Tuesdav evening last at the First Pres and thick.

J. E. McEJrath was complaining of UNCERTAIN BEQUESTS. lack ofj improvcment.in the vicinity of Temescal. Can' the Old Ladle' Home Receive a Lcjacy 'I see no reason why the country be tween I Oakland and Temescal, espe cially a Ion? the avenues, should not be an hit.ct.

4 i P. Nelson has! contracted to build a residence fo- Mrs. A. Downey on Fifth sireetnearGrove. i The cost will be $11(17.

Chr.rleilau is the architeefc- G. W. Lyle has finished a modern cottage of i six rooms, porches, bay windows, r.mj modern improvements on the corner ot East Seventeenth street and I Twenty-fourth avenue, at a cost of $2000. i Elijah Hook, the furniture dealer, has purchased the remains of the old synagopue that was burned two years ago, The framewiork has been found to he very good yetj, and. Mr.

Hook will probably convert it into a storehouse for furniture. The remains will be conveyed to his lot oni the corner of Fourteenth and Harrison streets. The old wooueA building on the northwest comer of Wood and Seventh streets, known as I Stanford Hall, has been purchased by a San Francisco gtntleman who will tear the old building down and erect a new brick structure in its plifSfe. 1 The California Sash and Door Factory will be commenced very shortly. The occt pants of the ground to be used by the lactory have been notified to leave.

turning bring them to this city lor a short engagement before going north. Theatergoing is like card playing. Primarily leach is for ainusemeiit.batas some card plavers prefer whist so some people prefer" the legitimate drama; vet apain iothers, i just as ithey choose maid" as their pasteboard amusement, believe in llnmlmg because ino thinking is demanded. In fact the exercise of thought wojild spoil it all. The play is a tissue of absurdities with no consistency in anyrarti with indeed nothing jto comriiend it except that its! improbabilities are so farcical Ithat one must laugh.

Roland Reed goes through his part as the trickster in a cast iron way, with thiee changes of costume and four changes of face. Everything is done in such a set fashion that it ia easy to predicate what his expression and gesture will be from the data; of the situation being known. From time to time the orchestra plavs the air of a topical and Mr. Reed accompanies the imusic with a squeaky recitative ending up with a spasm at the end of each verse. His end is accomplished, hiowever.

for the. audience laugh and the dollars come in to his treasurer's i In the company is a semi-anonymous iiiss Patrice, for whom it is hard to find anything favorable to say. She 'acts not at: all and sings no better, but goes through the play a remarkable incongruity in blue satin, with no back hair and'aihugej frizz over her eyes, i Miss Hastings and Mr. Plum, in their rest ective parts as the female humbug and the German bootmaker, do really built up with residences and handsome business blocks. There is.

of course, contest is expected. The Alamela grounds will be formally opened to-morrow by a between the Oaklands and the San Franciscos. I The nines wiH be Oaklands -4 George Fisher captain, Henley catcher, Lutenburg pitcher. RebiiiMJii firt base, L. Kedmin second base, H.

Smith third base. Fisher shoirt stop, TaVlor left-field, Burke center field. A. Bed non right field. San Frar ciscos J.

J. Smith captain, rgan catcher, Crosby 1 J. Smith first base. Herein secor il'base, De Vault third base, Murdot short stop. Frank left field, Fitzgers id center field, Shoemaker right field.

i i I For the firs time in the history Of baseball in Ca lifornia a baseball player's at Dresent one drawback to the mi nrovement of this section, and that is a ing to contract, and they recommend that the remaining payment be held until the school -is completed. It was decided to do this at the last meeting of the Board of EAncatinn. the board expressing the opinion that both architect and contractor could have been more careful. Mr. Goodwin, the contractor, savs that some of the demands made he will comply with, and others he will lack of sewerage.

The Main Lake sewer. is of no practical benefit to toe nao-nlp liuinjr north of the bie conduit Til Tl Of the lots beine at least eight, byterian Church- The audience, al A peculiar suit was to-day instituted in the Superior Court of this county. It was brought for the court to decide the construction of a will. The suit is entitled James R. Capell as executor of the last will of Frederick D.

Peck, deceased, against Mr3. L. Dam, R. W. Kirham, Mrs.

J. C. Ainsworth, Miss J. Campbell. Mrs.

S. E. Herishaw, Miss A. E. Miner, Mrs.

S. G. Chamberlain, and the Ladies' Relief Society of Oakland, a corporation, as trustees and managers of the Old Ladies' Home, and Elizabeth Ernst, Samuel Ferris I'eck, Frederick F. Peck, Roderick T. Peck, and Anna Peck Doubleday.

The plaintiff alleges that the Old Ladies' Home and Elizabeth Ernst are legatees under the will, and Jthe Defendants Peck are the sole; heirs. Capell says and some of them eleven feet below the sewer, i Andjvet these property Own not. the meat is. yet it is in stew or sta pie gladly accepted as a relief from the nitric salt of mess beef and pork. An edd case of desertion from a sbip is just reported in maritime miscellany.

A sailor often deserts at the end of the outward- trip, frequently deserts hi- fhip before the voyage commences if he can make a chance, but it rare that hips' logs chronicle a desertion on the high Recently a trader bound around the Ca to the colonies fell to leewari of Fernando and Las Kocas after cro'lns the line, and picked up the Bra.Ti':ait coast about Parahyba do Norte, law-ing off shore with" the trades blowiutr isteadvS. E. 4 she fell in with the -r-pambuco fishing fleet of some fifteen leagues to sea. These catamarans are no more than a raft of five or Fix cocoannt logs brought together bv side, and with a chisel edge on thir forward ends. A lateen sail and a big steering oar are their only gear, and a heap of calabashes is stowed amidr-hips.

covered by a net stopped down to the deck. In these wet craftthe fishern-en put out a hundred miles or so to sea, and always make very good weather of One of these catamarans luffed immediately under the counter of the Australian liner, evidently to graUfy the curiosity of its crew of three men THE BLAKE AND MOFFTT BLOCK. The new -Blake and Moffitt building. who gave her the necessary prescription. 1 know of some ladies in this city, married and single, who don't stop at anything.

Eating arsenic is an old failing among the fair sex, but it has lately been revived at a fearful rate, for to gain their end it is necessary not only to be thin but pale. How long such a craze generally lasts there is no telling. It may continue for a season or two, and then the wrecks resulting therefrom will endeavor to build themselves up again, but nine tenths of them will be hopelessly lost, and will be good candidates for the grave. I tell you it ia wonderful to contemplate the Buffering some women are willing to undergo for the sake of being fashionable, i I know that you are inclined to doubt jny assertions, but some day, when you have lime, take a walk around drug wT'r and VOU will find that I have situated on the corner of Eighth street and Broadway, is one of the handsomest buildings that this city can boast of. contract is tolbe tested in the This is a hiost important step, as it will decide whethtr or not a player can go back on a contract he has signed.

Anly J. Fiercy, nianageT of the Alameaa baseball grrtunds. vesterday commenced shit ii San Francisco agairtst William M. plcLaughlin. catcher for the Alta baseball club.

Piercy in his romphunt alleges i that he engaged McLaughlin play with the Pacific Coast Baseball League, and that the latter siened a contract to that efTetS. When it is compared with the little tow of dirty, dingy, one story shops that fcrmeriy occupied the sit? of this block one does not neniaie to say that the center of Oakland is improving. This block is very nearly completed, and nothing is wanting now ers had to pay their proportion of taxes for its construction. That does not: look like justice, does it? What we need is a law that the peo- pie to pay for improvements which a're of general benefit. Sewerage is of general benefit, because if a section of a community is too poor to pay for effect-, ive sewerage facilities the health of the 1 entire community may be affected.

The macadamizing of streets is of general benefit, for the stieets are used by the general public. 1 can see no justice to general taxation for improvements of this character and. under present circumstances, it is the in which the country between Oakland end Teuiescal can be" improved." He was one of those semi-aonscien-tious nien about town who do not likr to see the evidences of a lax morality flaunted brazenly from every "I tell yon," hf said, wiih some UV ditmation, "the-trail of the serpent is' told you the truth without the least bit of exaggeration." except the nmsning toucnes. xue eon-tractors for the glass for the windows failed to furnish the glass at the time act and act welt, but it excites one's curiosity to discover why they should think it necessary. To turn from farce-corned to another branch of histrionics, the melodrama is.

like the poor, always with us at least it has been for five weeks and the prospects are good for its steadv residence at Stanlev's. There is to all though much larger thau at the initial concert, was not nearly so large as the merit of the performer and programme deserved. Mr. Kinross had' to apologize for the absence of Miss E. Beres-ford Joy, the advertised soloist for the recital.

Miss Joy failed to notify either Mr. Stewart or Mr. Kinross' of the absence, which she declares unavoidable in a communication, so that at the last moment these gentlemen were somewhat in a quandary. Fortunately, however. Miss Mary Fox.

the contralto of the First Congregational Church. was present, and this voung lady, without further ado, sent home for her music and obligingly filled Miss Joy's place, and it goes without the saying that those present got a little the best of it by the change. Mr. programmes are so well chosen and so charmingly rendered that it is needless to waste space in commendation. The next recital will take place on Monday, April 20th, when the following artists will assist: Mrs.

Fleissure Lewis, soprano; Miss Grace Patterson, contralto; Alfred J. Share, tenor, and W. H. Kinross, bass. This quartet would be very hard to duplicate upon the coast, and a rare evening's enjoyment may be expected.

FABIAN CONCERT. xisonch I eannot sav that this Is a Notwithstanitng this agreement Piercy alleges that the defendant still plays with the Altai Club aad has refused to fulfill his contract. Piercy asks the court that McLaughlin be enjoined from playing with the Sacramento Club until Navember 9, 18S7. and that, agreed uon, and on tnis account tne buildingis delayed and the owners are deprived of renis that belong to them. he is in doubt as to the construction ot the will, and especially of the following clauses: Thirdly, I direct that Elisabeth Ernst, now my cook and housekeeper, shall be paid out Of the proceeds of my estate the sam of 500, and 1 hereby bequeath that amount to her, provided she remains with me' faithfully until my death and burial, or should she not survive ine the said amount of $500 shall be added to the amount of the bequest I hereafter make to the trustees and managers ot the Old Ladies' Home.

Fourthly: I direct that after all the above instructions shall have been complied with the remainder of the money arising from the proceeds of; my estate shall be given to the Old Ladies' Home, and I hereby bequeath said residue of As soon as tnis glass is omanieu tut-lower floor will be finished ready for occupancy. Three of the storos have already ibeen engaged one by the pending the trial, a preliminary mjunc- CREEK AND CRAFT. fflovenaeut ml VeMeis la Oakland HKrbar. Bark James Cheston at Long wharf is disc harging "50,000 feet of lumber, for the railroad company, from Port Gamble. i The overhauling of the steamer Piedmont is almost finished and she will resume her ferry trips arly in the week.

She has been painted throughout, additional buckets put in her wheels, her main deck renewed wherever necessary, a new and fine carpet has been laid in her saloon, and the engine thoroughly repaired. Minor arrivals at jLong wharf for the week have beeu: Schooner Garcia, posts and ties; steamer-Greenwood, ties and fence posts -r steamer Whitesboro. ties schooner William 'Sparks. 7000 ties; schooner Georgie Woods, coal schooner Felicity, Cottonwood fence posts. DreJger No.

3 is tat work deepening the slips at the end of Long wharf. Thetailroad company is repairing the timbers of Long; wharf. The week's arrivals at the city wtiarf tion issue restraining defendant from breaking his agreement with citypf drunkards, I am free to assert that we have a population of dram drinkexs. I am an early and often saunter into saloon between 6 and 7 o'cloclc for a glass of Merced water (no cocktail), and a glance at those morning papers I do not- receive at my house. While glancing at my paper a few mornings ago I saw the barkeeper compounding a curious look ing drink for a yonng man who bore every eTidence of having been f'onl a Home insurancetompany.onc by the New York Bakery, and one by James Ballard for a billiard parlor.

On May 1st the upper floors will be completed and will be put on the mar CHOSEN. OAKLAND i with a sifht of the passengers crowding lhe poop. As it passed under the stern, and while the laughing neerroes were pointing in the direction whence they came and shouting "l'emambuc' Per-nambuc'!" one of the ordinary seamen who was cleaning brass work about the binnacle aprung lightly over tbetaffraii, landed on the catamaran, to the great astonishment of the crew, and in a io-ment was half a mile away. It was hopeless to attempt to reclaim him. so the entry was logged again-1 his name, "Deserted on the high seas." Abtbcb IIowars.

ket, these noors consist enurcij ui offices, a' large number of which are seeming a respectably large class people here who crave the excitement of the melodrama, and they go in large numbers nightly to the Fourteenth street house. that they may have their soul cases cheerfully scarified by i the sight of afflicted inhocence 1 during six acts and nine scenes, and be gratified by the triumph of self rewarded virtue in the tenth and last scene. The particular agony during thi week has been The Lights o' Lfmdon. Miss Esther Williams, who! has apparently become! a fixture as the leading lady of this growing stock company, does some strong work as "Hettv Preene," particularly in the latter part of the play. In her double part as the runkeri woman in the slips she is, to say the least, realistic and is much applauded.

Mr. Holden, as the knavish "Seth Preene." does over them all. The slime of immorality is apparent in our lodging houses, our and more especially about some of our so called 'respectable' saloons. In the lodging houses no questions are or if they are asked the most palpable lie will serve as an excuse. The restaurants have Tiriyate rooms with locks on the doors.

already engaged, inese are reacoeu bv a broad, easy staircase, and also by a'hydraulic elevator. An artesian well, run by a gas engine, supplies the premises with water, and BELCW SEYIXTH STRUT. and the waiters have strictest orders to Ftir Directors an Recent Tasienj i ron tlUs City. Four members of the Boardof Directors of; the) Industrial Home of Mechanical Traces for the Adult Blind appointed yesterday by Governor Barjt-lett are all residents of Alameda county. iWarren Olney is an attorney at law practicing in the San Francisco courts but residing oa Vernon heights; in politics he'ia a Republican.

Colonel John P. Irish lis a Democrat and editor of the Alta California. J. C. Aiasworth is a capitalist, living near Claremoitt and a Democrat.

Frank M. Emittv lives in East Oakland and is the great controller of the borax industry of the State, his politics are American. There numerous ouier very desirable building. Further description will be deferred, as Messrs. J.

C. and Walter Mathews, the archi approach them when oeeupiea only on the call of the bell, and to enter only after discreetly announcing their presence bv knocking. There are other ad-innrts nf these cos retreats that per A large and well disposed audience, among whom were almost all the musical dilettanti, greeted the reappearance of the pianist Samuel Fabian, who has just returned from Germany, where he has been studying for the past six years. Those who knew him before he left predicted a successful result, which opinion, together with the flattering reports of him received occasionally during his absence, raised the general expectation to quite a pitch, and albeit his execution is somewhat stiff and heavy, especially in the stronger passa- iKa lcitifrl nrml.iKS -with which tects, are very mourp. mywentire estate to tne saia uia toadies' Home, for the sole use and benefit of the institution.

I Capell savs he cannot proceed with safetv without the direction of the court for the following reasons: First, by the third paragraph, of the will, the sum of $500 is beoueathed to Elizabeth Ernst, rrovided she remained with the testator faithfully until his death and burial. He avers that she did not remain faithfully with testator at all, but she is now still alive and the plaintiff is in doubt whether the testator intended that in case Eiizabeth Ernst did not remain faithfully with him until his death and burial, but did survive him, that in case she survived him that then the $500 should be added to the bequest to the' trustt es and managers the Old Ladies' home; second, that by the fourth paragraph of the will the tet-uitor bequeathed aH moneys A 'CARRIAGE FACTORY. James Galvin's new carriage factory haps vou had better nay nothing about, but everybody who has visited th5 tn Fourteenth street, near Washington, is to be three stories high. The size of ai artmeuts will readily know wait i mpun. But.

as I said in the first place. have been: Schooner r.mma, 31.UJ0 bricks; schooner 30,000 fee; lumber: schooner Emma, 13th, 27 000 bricks; schooner Tartar, coal; lighter SSt schooner, -Etna, 14th. coal and hubs; schooner Cornelius, wood schooner S. E. Ferry, oil and potatoes.

AttheSeatiieConl Company's wharf the schooner Colonel Baker is discharging" coal and the Annie E. Mine wheat. The steamer Wihniwgton has been put in commission on the coast in place cf the Al-Ki. whichj has no passenger the private entrance to the rear of the high toned saloon the ladies' entrance in ihtt most chiTimr commentary on bat" the previous night, nen tne swelled head had tipped it off and departed. I entered into conversation with theaolacer.

I "That drink I gave him that was-! a tracer and a good one. It is composed of half an orange, half a lemon, whisky, and a dash of Santa Crux rum. That will pot -the young fellow Btraight before he appears in the presence of his hoes, and he won't make more than a dozen errors in his accounts this fore-soon, for be ia bookkeeper to a wholesale liquor merchant on Front street." "When do von have the greatest call Jct these medicines" I Monday morning, sir. That is the the boys pile in for their bromide of potassium cocktails. We have all kinds Jiere then, merchants, lawyers, clerks, salesmen, and sometimes even clerv-en' Bromide is good for clerks and Steadies their nerves, von see.

They dare not brace up on whisky, because their employers would notice them, and then the bromide steadies their nerves so they can use the pea without blotting ail over the paper. But this won't do for the genu vne, otit and out, old topers. Even 7lain 'hisky alone will not su them. 700 mild for them. Don't bite as it goes down.

No, siree, what they drink is capsicum and Jamaica ginger, cliluted with brandy. I have seen old I Asinora tnm dnwn a draucrht of it SO hot the ground plan is 50x80 feet, the building, which rests upon a brick foundation, will be built of brick in a most substantial manner. Remulard A Co. have the contract for the brick work. much better than in the QaUey Slave.

Among the smaller parts Thayer and Essie Tittel do much toward making the play as popular as the nightly full houses show it to be. Next week at this house,) Th While Slavi. CHATTER FROM THE COt'LISSE. j. Minnie Maddernl is to return to New York a boot Jne l6th.

In the summer, with her aunt, she will go to Harry Edwards ia credited with a dignified, well balanced piece of acting bis tfforts were greeted, to say nothing cf the floral offerings he received, proved that this expectation was fulfilled. He the immorality of the town. The sign tj.r. von in the face at every turn. yet remains I a fifth Director be chosen.

I Albert Miller, appointed yesterday by the Governor to as a Regent of the State University or the rest of tb unexpired term ot I Joseph W. W'inans, deceased, is a capitalist resid Real II a Nat Affected Valaea. There is a rumor on the treet that the Southern Pacific Company have it in mind to transler its l.jcal trains to First street, and npon Seventh street to build a cable road. The reason for this step is said to be that the railroad pany feel that their free horse is being ridden almost to death, and that so ue change must be made. A very moderate estimate puts the number of those who make ose of the provision of the company's franchise 'inhibiting cbsTgine of fares within the, city limits1 at KtO daily, which mean a daily ks to the railroad of $400 at ordinary street car rates.

Inquiry among the real otate agents prominently carrying lines' ui properfy south of Seventh street failed to disclose any- increase of values in this region, wb'kh Would be immediately affected by anv change such as is ru and that it is a profitable advertisement to the establishments where it is dis arising as i proceeds ot his estate, alter complying with the prior lnstrus- ing on tne corner oi ourteentn ana Union streets! Though a Republican he played mav be proved any mgnt you will take the trouble, or have an inclination to sit a few moments in the voted for Barilett.whose lifelone friend public cardrooius adjoining the private wnn for Indies of the saloons. The he is. The tiaie for which he is chosen will expire inl 1890. private room for ladies at the rear of our saloons is the vestibule of the di HE MINT. vorce court." I THE ALAMEDA POLICE.

I 1 The ship Palestine has gone oa to the mud above the Alice street bridge. At the fame place are the whalers Arnolds. Dawn, ard Thomas Pope, and the dif mant'ed Eiuhia Augusta. Dr. Merrill's schooner yacht Cawo has bten planed and scraped throughout, and the talkers' gang is at work upon her.

When she has been painted and had some of the rake taken out xt br masts, she will go into commission. The coast survey steamer McArthur has gone to Vallejo to refit preparatory to a short hydrographic cruise off tha Oregon coast. 1 The revenue cutter Corwin ia lying below the Alice street bridge awaiting the refittinsof the Bear, which steamer Prtbablt Cbant eaaai theSamet as the van uerveer in The Dominie' Daughter Allan Dare, Admiral Porter's play, first produced in San Francisco, wdl likely be done nt the Fourteenth Street Theater, Kew Tprk, next season, i The Oakland Theatre will be closed antil Monday week when the Halien and Hart specialty Company will open a two nights, engagement, coming directly from the Bush iu San Fracisco. Despite the large increase in fares to San Francisco, j'AI Havman is determined to take out the full quota of people that he has engaged for his summer season, despite reports to the contrary. i Sol Smith Russell is going to settle in Minneapolis with his father-in-law, William T.j Adams.

The latter, bast ttie Probable Appointees. Ralph mtalfafartn at tale City aw Duty. The following changes have been made at the IMint in San Francisco. Ralph Balmforth of Oakland appointed doorkeeper, iice VR. Fj Gregory removed; Clinton H.

Terry appointed There is but little doubt that the new displays great power, and was1 quite brilliant at times, although he was most successful in the smaller and less pretentious compositions notably a song by Henselt, "If I Were a Bird." Mr. Fabian was ably supported by an orchestra under the direction of J. H. Rosewald, who also contributed a violin solo. Madam Rosewald and Mrs.

Eunice Westwater were the vocalists, and sung in a most satisfactory manner, rendering the concert altogether a success. 8T. FRANCIS DE BALES CONCERT. Dietz Opera House wag crowded on Konday night, on the occasion of the benefit for the building fund of the parish of StFxancisdeSales. Quite an imposing array of talent appeared, and certainly the programme was calculated to suit a variety of tastes, comprising everything from the simple Irish ballad to some of the most celebrated operatic selections.

The opening quartet was well rendered, but the voices did not blend, and consequently many of the finer effects were lost. Mr. Seiberlich is abassocantante, and should never by any chance be ca. joled into imagining himself a tenor He would have been much more suc Hoard of Trustees of Alameda wil make a change in the police force next The factory will be finished on Oregon pine. or which L.

J. Happ of East Oakland has the contract. The first floor will be used for show and storage rooms and for the office. The second floor will be for the wocd work department, and the third floor will be for the rair.t shop and storeroom. The building will not be compieled until July The cost will be $15,000.

Gcodrich fc Newlon are the architects. i CHVKCHEB. Oakland has always been termed the "city of churches," and from all appearances the terra is likely to be made erill more applicable; Within the last year several new church edifices have been erected, and nearly as many are projected. The Church cf the Advent, on the eorner of East Sixteenth street and Twelfth avenue, has been complete at a cost of $8000. A Swedish Methodist Church was completed toward the end of last year on Tenth street, near Center.

The coat was $3500. i Another SWedisb Church, of the Baptist denomination, is very nearly fin-ifhed. It stands on Magnolia street, near Tenthj and the contractor is Charles Bolin. The atructure, which is in the Gothic style of architecture, will be finished in a week or two. The cost WiU tc ticco.

A new ehapel has been completed of Mnndav evening. In anticipation of Kum engineer, Tice tieorge n. tl arris dismissed; James Clark, silver ingot melter, dismissed. Mr. Terry is the tions of his will to the Old Laaies-Lt ir.e.

Capell says that he is informed and believes that DV and under the previsions of section 1313 of the Civil Code the fourth prrapraph of the will is void, except as to o.io third of the proper.y bequeathed to the Old Ladies 'JAome, for the reason that the i deceased left legal heirs who are made defendants. Capell ia informed and believes that the heirs claim that the Old Ladies' Home is not such a society or coopora-tion as can take or hold property under end pursuant to the laws of this State or can properly give to plaintiff a receipt for the property. He further says that the Old Ladies' Home is a part of the Ladies' Relief Society and that the latter is not mentioned in the will and therefore it is not entitled to any part of the propertv. The plaintiff asks the court to adjudicate the matter. i Frederick D.

Peck died in this city on July 28, 1884, leaving an estate valued at $10,700. Teachers' Examlaatlea. The examination of applicants for city teachers' eerCficatea will begin at the Board' of Education rooms on Wednesday rooming. There have bron but six aonlicants for the examiav this, officers Foster; and Doubelbeis bave signified their intention to resign. Officer Meyer will probably De a is mored.

liiow in ui urw he could judge the report waa generally disbelieved, and that there was no advance in the rates at which property was held. W. J. Dingee had heard the question talked about, but felt sure tnat t. railroad would not leave Seven street.

In his opinion property down near the creek ia good propertv to bold, since in time it wi be in demand for factories and the Like, but so far as its present value was concerned be knew of no enhancement at all. In fact a recent aale showed a Lt'-e depreciation. When, a short whlie ao, the property on the southwest comer Fourth and Broadway was put up ti section, the inside limit was t-i $12,000. but he bad beard that t. of it was effected yesterJsy at Ji4.B Ci.

12 i kaj. missed, unless he takes the same course. Officers Conrad and Lawrence are ia a fair way of retaining their positions. It is generally understood that Denny Welsh. Dave Chisholm.

and Thomas that it would burn an ordinary mortal with a nornal stomach like fire. Tinc-' ure of cinchona is often resorted to by have sworn off whisky and want a mild tonic." Iter the conversation was temporarily interrupted by the entrance of an oil toper, whose nose ehone like the tort fight of a steamer. He felt uneasily ia his pockets for the necessary me, ut it was pot forthcoming. 'j "ii he rfd piteonsly and appeal-i at the barkeeper, but that unc-t Hilary wore a hardeneil and relentless Let the gentleman have a drink with Vne," I said. The toper's face beamed jt-yously, He seised the bottie, poured i1ss fnU.

and emptied it with 'h of pleasure. I hen did yoa come out of tn "ie, Fete?" aaid the barkeeper. 'In ffiiia Aisa." fejiiei Ui the will accompany on the northern cruise. Beginning with the early part of next month, the Coos Bay Coal Company will run their steamer Areata three trips monthly with coal for this- citv. This will increase the revenues of the city wharf about $200 per month.

At the wharf of -toe Puget Sound Lumber Company the schooner Ida McKay has discharged 250,000 feet of Humboldt redwood and cleared oat, the tern W. L. Bee be is discharging 400,000 feet of Puget Sound pine, and the schooner Liuiietaou ivCi. Humboldt redwood. will he Knnointed to fill the son of ex-Jud je Terry of Stockton, and was at one tiuie chief engineer of the tng Governor I Irwin, under the Harbor Commissioners, and was also superintending engineer of the State Prison at Pan Cuentin and more resently filled the position- of chief engineer of the San Joaquin Improvement Company.

Mr. whose place he takes, is a Grand Army man, and his removal has eaused much indignation aaiong bis comrades. i Balmforth is the fortunate person Who refused lo aign a statement sent Superintendent Lawton by a number of disappointed seekers for position io i It in the current report on the known as "Oliver. Optic," is now nearly 65 years old' and has begun to lose health. Of the comedian" in Rnddy- J'orr in Boston, the Clipper says: "Char-ey Reed made a auccess out of his 'Oakapple role, ihis natural humorosi-ties, fostered in minstrelsy, standing him in excellent shape." Sara Jewett.

leading lady at the Union Square in palmy days, has just been engaged to play the chief roles at the Alcazar, San Francisco, according street that Doubelbeis is aspiring to do appointed Constable in the place of Marshal elect Rogers, and that in case he nnveds he will appoint Foster hia cessful in "Rocked in the Cradle of tne Deep." Mis Patterson 'a selection was not a happy one; she can do much better. Miss Sullivan was happier in her hnl lad selections than in "Batti. Batti." deputy. This wtnld cause a lively eon- test between ths pocs lore ua iu constabulary. ttentvdft.f.

i to a dispatch to the Viippw, baa iiilii i i.