Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 4

JULY 31, 1908. 1 OAKLAKD TEEBTJNE. FfTO AT EVENING. NAVAL OFFICERS WiWM WILL GIVE A DANCE lOiiiis SCORED BY an rwt III I I I Ill IS REFUSED HiPI mm side of the lake. and Mrs.

Edward Schmieden and Mr. and Mrs. E. Dup-lessis Beyiard have been established there since the first of July, having rented cottages for the season. 4 of His Speech of Acceptance 11E0 COURT SAN FRANCISCO, July at.

Mr. and Mrs. Howell have returned from Tahoe, "where they have been enjoying a few weeks' outing. i MUs-Maud Payne will be the guest of honor-at; a hancheon Miss Jaret Coleman' will "give next; Tuesday, at her home, en California' street Dr. WilHnm Hopkins and Mrs.

Hopkins are traveling Europe in their- new Charron limousine, and when last heajjd from they -were In "Geneva, planning to continue slowly- through Switzerland. Mrs. Drury Mtlone and hier daughter, Miss who. have been abroad for the past year are enjoying the season at Vevey. Miss Florence Hopkins has been in town for.

a day or two, as the guests of Miss Mary Keener. i -A Assistant Paymaster E- H. Douglass, U. Buffalo, returned today to Mare Island, i. after making a brief stay in town.

Mrs. "Samuel Knight went down to Del Monte last Tuesday for a few days' visit. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer' Buckbee ara home again after a most enjoyable month spent at Lake Tahoe.

i and Mrs. Charles Baldwin, who spent last week at Lake Tahoe, have returned to their home at Colorado Springs. Mrs. Baldwin has improved very much In 'aealth and was affectionately greeted by her friends at Tahoe, many of whom had not, seen her for several years. A merry party of young people In Roes returned the early part of the week from Bolinas.

where they spent a few days, chaperoned by Mrs. Edward Grlf. fith. Among those who enjoyed the outing were Miss Louisiana Foster, Miss Eleanor Cushing, Miss Helen Baker. Miss Sarah Coffin, Millen Griffith, James Jen.

kins and Evan Evans. Captain Vincent G. Collman of the U. S. S.

California and the officers will gtye a matinee dance tomorrow afternoon on board ship. San Francisco will be well represented by the young people who went up to attend the ball to be given this evening in the sail lct by the Junior officers of the U. S. S. South Dakota.

Mrs. Edward Griffith, Mrs. John G. Kittle, Dr." Harry Sherman and Mrs. Sherman will leave in a few days for Glenbrook, which seems to be a popular TO; ON BUSINESS OF i THE CITY Several ordinances carrying appropriations for various amounts were recommended last night by the audit ing and finance committee of the City Council, as follows: Appropriating $499 for the construe tlon of an additional auxiliary salt water pumping plant at the foot of Perkins street for street sprinkling purposes.

MORE ELECTROLIERS. Providing for the erection of electroliers instead of gas lamps on San Pablo avenue between Twentieth and Thirtieth streets. Appropriating $499 for the purchase of benches to be placed In the city parks. -f i Appointing J. H.

Dockweiler a con suiting engineer, who Is to prepare and make reports to the Council of all matters and facts concerning the Oakland division pf the People's Water Com pany and fixing his salary at $250 per month. CLAREMONT IMPROVEMENT. Appropriating $4000 to pay a portion of the cost of improving Claremoat avenue. Appropriating $250 for labor in extending lines and installing fire alarm boxes in North Oakland. Appropriating $499 for rubbish Ttni for the street department.

Appropriating $260 for printing the Police Bulletin. FIRE ALARM BOXES. Appropriating $499 for fire alarm boxes in East Oakland, where recon struction and line extension work is to be done. Appropriating $30 per month for rental of temporary Quarters for truck company No. 4 at Broadway and Twen- HEY p.

committee, accompanied by Messrs. Bryan and Kern, and headed by a platoon of police, and the Nebraska State band, escorted In carriages to the Capitol grounds. 2 p. formal notification, Capitol grounds. 4 p.

informal reception by Mr. Bryan in the State, Capitol building. BRYAN'S LAWN PARTY. 6:30 p. dinner by Mr.

Bryan to the notification committee at Fairylew on the lawn. Mr. Bryan was up very early this morning continuing the preparation of his speech of acceptance, and it is his intention to have Uncompleted early next week. A visitor asked him today what he thought of the proposition to adopt the tiger as a Democratic emblem Instead of the donkey. "I want first to see the mule that is coming to me from Minnesota," said Mr.

Bryan laughingly, "before I discuss any trade." SCHOOL MAY BE ORDER Education to fxamine foundatins tions under them. Of course the of Education is not composed of structural engineers and could only accept the word of the architects and builders that the structure came up to the specifications." Myers has also informed the grand Jury that the steel beams and girders which have been placed in the Lincoln School are entirely too light for the foot-tonnage of the building, though it has been ascertained that the contractors have followed the specifications in this regard. The iron work is supplied by t'ae Clinton Bridge and Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa. who will be asked to forward a copy of the requisition upon which the material was furnished. The charges recently made that street car rails had been used instead of structural steel are without foundation; but it seems probable that plans for the steel work will be subpect to a great deal of criticism.

A rumor was circulated last night that the grand Jury migiit eventually recommend the complete demolition of the building, in which' case a heavy suit for damages will undoubtedly, be filed against the party or parties who are at fault In the matter. The Lincoln school repre sents an expenditure of approximately $200,000, and in case of its being raxed to; I Ida May Stffii fiust Stand Second Examination As To Her Sanity Is Re-Arrested. Ida May Stirling, the young Berkeley woman was yesterday permitted to leave the custody of attendants of the Receivlat, on ths condition that she would accompany Mrs. L. C.

Atkins to a private sanitarium at Belmont, was this morning re manded back to the insane ward of the hospital Jy Superior Judge Waste and will be re-examined tomorrow morning by Drs. J. Kelsey and J. J. Benton.

Yesterday afternoon, nly a few hour a after the release of the young woman. Judge Waste was surprised by her sudden appearance at the door of his chambers in the court house. Mis Stirling had in her arms copies of all the papers containing descriptions of her accident In a runaway a few days ago and her subsequent troubles, ending with her discharge that morning. She was accompanied by her friend, Mrs. Atkins, who stated to the Jurist that Mis3 Stirling had made up her mind that she would not go to Belmont unless she was given a private nurse and 140 with which to pay her ex penses to the institution.

MESSAGE FROM LOVER. The young woman declared that she was momentarily expecting word from tier lover, iieorge otter, who was in Los Angeles, and that she would not go to the, sanitarium until the message had been received. However, Judge Waste assured her that Potter could reach her as quickly at Belmont as he could at Berkeley, and finally secured her- consent to leave for the latter point. Late In the evening Mrs. Atkins com municated with Judge Waste stating that Miss Stirling had again refused to etart on her Journey and was acting so badly that she had been compelled to call a physician to calm her.

She then requested the Jurist to telephone to Mrs. Anna S. Breed, mother of the unfortunate young woman, and ask her if she would not send the money necessary to employ a nurse. MOTHER REFUSES. Mrs.

Breed, however, refused to have anything more to do with her daughter's fate, and declared that she would neither send any money or even defray felt like expending at this time, upon receipt of this information Judge Waste decided that the matter was one which would not admit of further delay, and this morning remanded the young woman to the care of Sheriff Barnet. Count Boni Given Children by Court PARIS, July 31. Count Boni De Castellane was successful today in a supplementary move In his suit for possession of his three children, who are now in the custody of the Princess De Sagan. their mother. Claim Set torth Thai Republics National Chairman Is la favor of Renominating Incumbent NEW YORK.

July 81. Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman of the Republican National Committee, today met the New York State leaders and discussed with them the situation as it' relates to the national campaign. During the early part of the -day ha met Herbert 'Parsons, chairman of the New York County Com rhittee, and Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the State Committee.

These State leaders sought the conference in order to present to Hitchcock their personal views of the co-operation they expect between national officials and the State managers. While HitchcocV declined to define hie wishes concerning the question of ''renominating Governor Hughes, his visitors gamed the Impression that he expects the State convention to name the present Governor as candidate for another term. When Hitchcock was in the West he found a distinct sentiment for Governor Hughes and that his nomination would strengthen the present ticket In ether sections of the country. Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, who has been retained to assist in the prosecution of the Standard Oil Company case, called on Kellogg la en route to St.

Paul after a conference with At torney General Bonaparte at Lenox, Mass. ty-flfth street, pending' the construe-tlon of a new engine' hoUsa. Authorizing, the appointment of an electrical Inspector for the city and fixing the salary at $150 per TP g'V of YV sz 1 a- WW am ghmpi fiwi mm cuss Saturday and Monday last days of out Sweeping Clearance. Sale every thing must be sold SATURDAY-AND MONDAY MARK THE CLOSING DAYS OF OUR IMMENSE CLEARANCE SALE Or? TRIMMED HATS, RIBBONS. SHAPES, FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE.

JUST COME IN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT OUR REDUCTIONS MEAN. IT WILL PAY YOU TO BUY NOW AT THESE MOST UNHEARD OF PRICES. the ground very little of the material the expenses of Mrs. Atkins to accom-could be used to advantage. pany Miss Stirling to Belmont.

She The commission to be appointed by said she had paid Dr. Frank Simpson the Board of Education will immediately the sum of $2.40, which was all she All Trimmed $3.95 Hats Now Go For All Trimmed $5, $6.50, $7.50 Corday Hato proceed with investigation of the Washington, Franklin, Prescott and Longfellow school buildings, and will pass upon their safety and reliability before school children will be admitted for the autumn terra. Carl Jones, the supervising engineer of the board, has been in office only a short time and is claimed to have had no knowledge of the faults in the specifications. Sultan to Abrogate His Title, Is Report BERLIN. July 31.

The Berliner-Zel-tung today published a dispatch from Constantinople that the Sultan of Turkey is preparing to declare himself emperor of the Moslems, abrogating the $tle of Sultan. Nebraskan Continues Preparation FAIRVIEW. LINCOLN, July 31. The ceremonies attending the notification of William J. Bryan of his nomination for the presidency, will ba strictly non-partisan.

This decision was arrived at after a conference between Mayor Brown, National Committeeman Hale, Governor Sheldon and a committee of cltirens of Lincoln. It has been concluded that there will be no parade of marching clubs. Invitations will be at once extended to all State and city officers of Nebraska and adjoining States, and to citizens generally to attend the notification. THE PROGRAM. The program as accepted is as follows: Sunrise, salute of 48 guns by Colonel Malon's battery.

10 a. band concerts' in Capitol grounds and government square. 13 noon, luncheon to the notification committee, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern, at the Lincoln Hotel.

DEMOLITION Of BUILDING Grand Jury Instructs Board of As a result of the startling, testimony of Architect H. H. Myers, given before the Alameda county grad jvtry yesterday afternoon, the Board of Education has been directed td emptoy: aN commission of disinterested architects, contractors and citizens to investigate the construction of all of the- Oakland school buildings and report upon their, fitness for occupancy before the commencement of the autumn term of school. Myers testimony related almost entire ly to the exposure of faulty construction in the new Lincoln school building, but he I also gave some facts relative to other school buildings which decided the grand Jury to have every one Investigated. Tlie appointment of an architect to examine the construction of the Lincoln school building came as a result of a popular demand, when the foundations at the northeast corner of the structure gave way and exposed the fact that It was entirely too weak to carry the weight of the building.

DEFECTIVE FOUNDATION. Investigation by the board disclosed several more serious cracks in the foundation, and Myers was called in to determine who was at fault. Sutton Weeks, t'ae architects who drew and plans and specifications for the structure, were also called before the grand Jury, as was H. W. Breite, their chief engineer.

"The faults." said Superintendent of Schools McClymonds, "seems to lie in the fact that the foundations were orig inallv built to- carrv a class struc- ture. When this was changed to a class A reinforced concrete building the foundations were not strengthened, except by steel plate riveted on top of them wherever vertical steel beams were to be placed. "According to tje opinions of engineers with whom I have these piers, or bases for beams should have been cut from the rest of the foundation and doubly reinforced. Then they would have been able to sink a fraction of an inch as the weight increased, without materially affecting the strength of the building itself. PRESSURE TOO GREAT.

"As it was the pressure on the point beneath the beams was too great or the light foundations, which Anally gave way in most places directly under the steel plates on waich the beams rested. We found that many of the beams had thus caused cracks to appear in the founda- DEV. TANNER TO RETAIN PULPIT Pastor Will Not Resign From the Baptist Church at Melrose. Editor TRIBUNE: My Dear Sir: You will find enclosed the notice of the Melrose Baptist church to be placed with those of the other Oakland Baptist churches. Besides, I enclose a statement which, if you have a desire to give your readers a truthful -e- statement of the relations of the Melrose church and pastor, you will publish verbatim as it is sent you.

Until the above named article appeared THE TRIBUNE had always told the truth regarding myself and public utterances. I belong and am allied to no political wing, but as a minis- ter of the gospel reserve the -e- right to condemn political cor- ruption by whoever committed, and shall mo continue to do. Your disposal of this matter will determine your honesty and fairness. Yours, -WALTER E- TANNER. Editor TRIBUNE: Your statement in THE TRD3UNE of the 28th.

that I am going to resign the pastorate of the Mel- rose Baptist Church and that I was recalled by the church with the distinct understanding -e-that I would resign, that there is dissension in the church and that 1 am looking for another pulpit, is all without founda-tlon. The minority who first voted against the renewal of the call, were the ones who, of their, own free will, made the motion to reconcile formation with the distinct understanding --that the pastor would remain. The call was absolutely una-C -e- ntmous and the church is in harmony and have officially given to the press the state- -rnent that they expect to back up the pastor In the work of civic righteousness. Any other kind of statement is a re-, flection 1 upon th sincerity of the minority, who reconsidered former action. Yours, WALTER.

-E. TANNER. $1.00 Those beautifully trimmed Hats embrace a multitude of pretty shapes, ve one made in our workrooms of Now $2.50 quality rlb- Every one the 7 iudgc HclYin Tells Mrs. Winni-f red Herbert That She Is PerjurerBat Is Exempt from Law. The strange case of the guardianship ef Buth Gareewich, which ha been attracting much attention throughout the county for some weeks past, was brought licfore Superior.

Judges Melvin and Waste thia morning, Mrs. Winifred Herbert, who now to he the legitimate mother of the child, was roundly scored by Judge Melvin, who granted letters of adoption Ave years ago to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vincent, on the assumption that Ruth was the child of a deceased sister of Mrs. Herbert.

"This woman," said Judge- Melvin. "while admittedly guilty of perjury, is safe from prosecution owing to the statute of limitation, which outlaws perjury In three years. Five years ago she took the and deliberately-stated that the child belonged to a dead sister, whose husband had left for the diamond fields of South Africa. Now, desiring to take the child back she comes Into court and swears that Ruth is her own child. WANTS TO PROTECT.

"These people (meaning Mr. and Mrs. Vincent) who have for five years loved and protected "the child, have been grossly imposed upon, and both Judge Waste and myself Insist upon having ample legal authority before we will revoke the adoption; not because we do not want to relieve Mr. and Mrs. Vincent of their charge, but because we want to protect them from any claim being made by the woman or her child I against their estates." Counsel for Mrs.

Herbert, formerly Mrs. Garcewich, then stated thathe had been unable to find a similar case of the revocation of adoption in any of the court records, and stated that be would have to have time to find his quotations and authorities. He urged that the matter be concluded as soon as possible, however, as the child was now in the hands of the Vincents and the mother desired that' she obtain possession at once. Judge Melvin then rebuked the lawyer and the mother by stating that the child waa in the hands of eminently respect-ablo and good people and would not tome to any'Tmrm by remaining with them for two weeks. "Mr.

and Mrs. Vincent will have to put up with her "misbehavior until we can satisfy ourselves that they will be protected against any contest by Mrs. Her bert or her' child over their estates." The case was finally set for August 14. utter utter Sutter SUNNY SLOPE Very finest Creamery, 2 -lb. squares 48c square EggsEggs Eggs Finest Selected 30c dozen PACKAGE STORES 12th and Harrison Sts.

WE CAN MAKE IT AS GOOD AS A NEW ONE. A.E;Hall&CO. THE, STOVE STORE 591 MhSL Ctt.Ctay and Jefferson Oakland NAME OF STOVE Vt NUMBER OF 8TOVE 0DATE of make MAKER'S NAME Let A PART ROKEN Us RM'SS'NG Repair Your Broken rV Stove vV now-and follasre. own the best bons. era TC.b cK one dlvlduallty illty will that you when the price rapid sale lmportea latest season style Imported finest with an ln- of style surprise a ff ta riD bon and imported bunches you anow to make a Is $1.00.

flowers ana iouage eluded in tnjs BiupenuuuB Clearance Sale a $2.50 Shapes now All 75c Flowers Now 15c mm 25c and flats, coarse flop bats. HOT PLATES 93c beautiful bunches of geraniums, daisies, lilacs, wisteria, cornflowers, hydrangea, marguerites and for get-me-nots. Including black Neapolitan shapes braids, chips, sailors" and children's I Taffeta Ribbons In all colors; reg. 25c 35o. 15c yd.

Saturday Special Odds and Ends in LACE Mi 4 rtL om CURTAINS ROYAL AGATE Pegular COc Value. 35c Dollar Spent on Every Dollars to Adds Two Fane Nts Pins Is straw snd metal reg, 25 5c Your Home Its alue spa this. Musical Program from 8 to 10 p. m. By PROF.

SINAI, the Celebrated Russian Violinist, Assisted by C. R. COURTER, Soloist and Pianie. Program subject to change. Saturday, August 1.

Overture Piano Piano solo "Dance of the Sparrows' (characteristic) Mr. C. R. Courter VioUn solo "Legende" Weinowsky Fantasie "Lohengrin" Piano solo "Air" Violin and piano Mr. C.

R. Courter and Mr. Norbert Sini Incidental (selection by Mr. Courter Serenade '(Francois Drdla) --Mr. Sinai Aragonaise From the ballet I-Ciel" (piano solo) fir.

Cputer Intermtaxo "Cavalena Rusticana (piano and. Violin Duo) Song Selected i Mr. Courter A gallon of this a brush, applied The Great Im'lde" March two-step. Violin solo rati mere (Shumton) "Lustspkl- Song Solo From the Opera Piano solo Serenade (Shubert) and popular songs. 1 "iMh uring your moments will prove Sinai Overture Mr.

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