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SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1905

MISS MARIE R. VOORHIES AWITCHING ARMY BRIDE.

IN ft BEAUTIFUL BOWER ft Fftlß SOCIETY HftlD"BECOMES WIFE OF CftPTftlN HftLDIMftNDP. YOUfIG

BY SALLY SHARP.

When in the long stretch of yester-year was there daintier, winsomerbride than Miss Marie Voorhies??thelasjt..of the lovely Voorhies maids, ofwhom there were four ere Cupid pickedthem off with his little barbed arrows.

Promptly at four the bride enteredthe music-room on the arm of herfather, Dr. Alfred Hunter Voorhies, herattendant. Miss Florence Ives, leadingthe way to the bridal bower. Here theywere joined by Captain Young, lookingvery brave in his full dress uniform,attended by his brother from NewYork. Richard B. Young.

Bishop Nichols performed the cere-mony, which waa the fourth Voorhiesnuptials celebrated by the Episcopaldivine; arid behind this lies a prettystory. Away back in the dark days ofthe war a Tennessee regiment, whilepa'sfiing through Georgia, found itschaplain very ill?so ill that to go onwould .be death. So he was carried tothe home of Colonel Bailey, Mrs. Voor-hies' father, where he was tenderlynursed back to health. Now this chap-lain was none other than the famousBishop Quintaxd of Tennessee, whoseniece wedded Bishop Nichols. And thusthe friendship of to-day was sown inthe long ago, in the soil of Christian'charity.

?A fair picture was the bride in herChantilly lace robe, the bodice of whichwas- cut square, with an alluring laceyoke. . Her veil of tulle was caught inpiquant fashion with a spray of orangeblossoms, and on her arm she bore ahuge bouquet of lilies of the valley andmaidenhair.: A handsome chap is the groom, ofready wit and of soldierly bearing? "a. famously well-matched pair," said theywh.i passed in review.? Miss Ives was a fetching maid in hercream net gown; so, too, was Mrs. J.

.'Malcolm Henry, whose robe of net overwhite satin was stunning; in her hair. she. wore a violet orchid. Mrs. Voor-hies wore a beautiful black Chantillygown over white satin, wearing somesuperb diamonds.

The. Voorhies home is admirablyadapted to large functions, the music-

?room: dining-room, drawing-room andlibrary sweeping into one apartment.Green and white?fit colors for nuptials.

?standing as they do for constancy andfaith?were the tones used in the music,room, red in the dining-room, whereruby lights and Christmas berries lenttheir cheer. Pink roses?loads of them.?lent their beauty and sweet breathto ihe drawing-room?a pretty picturein truth.

Mrs. Voorhies and Mrs. Young wereassisted in receiving their guests byMrs. Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Francis J.Sullivan, Mrs. H. E. Huntington. Mrs.Edward Pond, Mrs. Reginald KnightSmith, Mrs. Emory Winship, Mrs. A. S.Baldwin, Mrs. Julian Sonntag, Mrs. 11.

?W. Gray". Mrs. Ryland Wallace, Mrs.Mark Geratle, Mrs. William Beede.

..Mrs. Frederick Palmer. Mrs. George?Batchelder, Mrs. Alexander Garceau,Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Mrs. LyleFletcher. Mrs. W'akefield, Mrs. Hol-eombe. Mrs. Ira Pierce. Miss Phelan,

? Miss Irwin, Miss Katherirte Herrin.Miss Helen de Young, Miss JennieBlair, Miss Ida Gibbons and Miss AliceOwens.

During the reception, from 4 till 6,a smart crush passed through therooms, among whom were the stun-Jiingest women seen abroad in manymoons.. Likewise were there some mightysmart men there?bless them!

'A wedding needs a goodly sprinklingof men to look smart.'Captain and Mrs. Young depart this'morning for the East, whither they willJourney leisurely.

? The home of the bride at SchuylkillArsenal, just outside of Philadelphia,Is said to be a cozy little nest, but it isaltogether too far away from SanFrancisco to he quite to the liking ofthe regretful friends of the chic littlebride.

But such are the tyrannies of love!? ? ?

The Sequoia Club enters the new.year in excellent quarters?though tem-porary?at the Palace, where a largefirst floor suite has been engaged. Onspecial nights-or days-the parlors

\u25a0 will be at the club's disposal, all ofwhich is very pleasant pending thefinding of a suitable permanent homeJust at the present moment negotia-tions are pending,whereby the club willhave an ideal fireside all its own?acardroom, tearoom, luchroom, receptionand lounging rooms and the inexplic-able accessories that go to make a cluba thing of attraction.

While at the Palace, the rooms willhe open daily, and the ladies will besure to drop in for a chat?or the menfor a smoke. en

"Tuesday night at home" will he heldat the Palace rooms, where a froodlv?.family gathering will set up th« house-hojd gods temporarily.? » ?. The Amouret Club gave one of itsregular dinners last evening at the StFrancis. In view of the dying year theevent was rather more elaborate thanÜBual. The red room on the mezzaninefloor, the scene of the banquet, wasmade, glad by a large and radiant?'?nr.stmas tree. Toasts were drunk in.bubbling bumpers to the departing

"rptr' and a royal welcome to the new.The king Is dead?long live the king."

? * ?Mrs. J". B. Schroeder and her daughter.

Miss Eugenic Hawes. will be "at home"

' to-day In their apartments at the? Plea san ton.e'e . . c

'Mr. and Mrs. P. Tillman, who are inJiremen. hav\e been entertaining theirgranddaughter, Miss Nohriesner of. this city for some time. Mr. Tillmann isthe senior member of the firm of Till-mann & Bendel.?;e \u25a0 c

Frederick Hohwiesner announces the*npagement of his daughter, NannyFcbmelzkopf, to Captain M. Engle-brecht of the Thirty-ninth Regiment,Cusseldorf, Germany.

? \u25a0» ?The marriage of Miss EHce A. Thall8 .^lnry F - Risbrough will take place

next Thursday. The bride-to-be Is thedaughter of the late Mark Thall.? ? ?

Miss Hallle Erminie Rives left SanFrancisco last evening for New York.

CHARMING DAUGHTER OF DR. ALFRED H. VOORHIES. AND ONE OF THEMOST POPULAR MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL SMART SET. WHO YESTER-DAY BECAME A BRIDE. THE CEREMONY BEING PERFORMED BY BISHOP

NICHOLS.

ENTRE NOUSWELCOMES 190S

WITH A DANCEThe Entre Nous Cotillon Club closed

11)04 with appropriate rites, and lastevening there was a gay assembly inthe new ballroom of the Palace Hotel.Palms and flowers were in plenthulevidence in the dancing and reception

rooms, and brilliance characterized thescene. The cotillon, in which were sixpretty and effective figures, was led by

Sanford G. Lewald and Miss Edna E.Young. The maple room was trans-formed into a banquet hal} after thecotillon, and many merry,toasts wereoffered to the new year. The following

programme gave rise to much enjoy-ment: Address

fof welcome, Walter H.

Robinson; solo, Fred J. Riccomi; toast,"Our Club," Miss Pauline E. Ryder;solo, James C. Hayburn; solo, LucileM. Stebbing; recitation. Miss Jessie B.Lyon; toast, "Our Belles and Buds,"Arthur H. Meuasdorffer: solo, MissEthel Graham; toast, "Our BachelorMembers," Anna P. Cowperthwaite;solo. Dave W. Wise.

The following participated ln theleading sets: Miss Vera Allen, Mrs.Eva Avery, Miss Eileen Allen, Mis?Flora Barto, Miss Selma Brink. MissHazel Bennet, Mac-Barry, Aimee Bar-ry, Mathyld E. Browne, Lulu Becker,Mabel Byington, Anna Cowperthwaite,May Cowperthwaite, Irene E. Carroll,Selina Cohn, Alma Diel, Iretta Delano,Emily C. Efgar, Marie Frey, Mac Jew-ell Fraser, Mabel Fraser, JulietteGrass, Ethel Graham, Terisita E. Gar-cia, Belle ? Herzer, Gertrude L. Hurt-zig, Doris Heuer, Dorothea Joost, Jes-sie B. Lyon, Susie B. Logan, EttaLangrehr, Winifred J. Leary, May Lay-don, Merle Lawson, Cecelia L. Moore,Barbara McClure, Frieda Munster,Edna L. Mohr, Ruby A. Moore, EdithL. Mooie, Irene Meussdorffer, MargaretO'Donnell, Lucy H. Priber, Lvoille M.Stebbing, Grace E. Connor, Georgia.R. Tozer, Lulu A. Wegener, EleanorF Wegener, M-iude A. Wilson. MattieWolpman, Barbara Wolpman. Mar-garet C. Williamson, Ruby Wilson.Pauline E. Ryder, Marion Whitehead,Edna E. Young, Virginia Ryder, Mr.and Mrs. H. William Westerfeld, Dr.and Mrs. Charles Clark, Mr. and Mrs.I. Zellerbach. Mr. and Mrs. HermanH. Herzer, Mr. and Mrs. Merritt D.Robison.

Robert Anderson, Horace Appleton,Dr. A. Woodley Baker, Dr. E. J. Creil-ing, Louis N. Baudoin, William A.Conneau, Harlow Culver, ClarenceCondon, Ralph G. Cople. Charles LChubbuck, Leonard G. Coop, ArthurB. Can ill. Beach Dean, Dr. William A.Ellis. Philip G. Edgar, William N. El-fendehl, Alfred A. Ey, George D. Fra-ser, Louis Ferrari, L. L. Fallon, Ed-ward w. Gordon, George S. Gould,Curtiss N. Gilley, William F. Hooke,Reuben Haas, Clarence Hohfeld, J.Clyde Harris, James C. Hayburn, Mar-tin Joost, Dr. Edmond D. Keeffe, Ed-ward J. Lynch, Walter S. Lyon, Ar-thur H. Muessdorffer, J. Allen Magin-is, Rollin E. Noble. Dr. Charles J.Nicolai, John T. Nourse, Dr. D. A. Os-trom Jr., Eugene T. O'Neill, Joseph J.Phillipps, Frank J. Ruth, John L.Reed, Fred J. Riccomi, George L.Riccomi, Walter H. Robinson, ScottL. Reid, Edmond Russ, J. Fred Scan-lan, Otto A. Schoning, David SelbyDavid B. Torres, James A. William-son, Roger Wilson, Roy 8. White G.Hazelton Wilsori, Dave W. Wise, Wil-

Ham J. Watson, Acton Haven, Ar-thur Prill.

The next assembly and german ofthe Entre Nous will take place Fridayevening, February 17, 1905, in theballroom of the Palace Hotel.

SUPERVISORBRANDENSTEIN TO

WED ON MONDAYSupervisor H. U. Brandenstein yes-

terday procured a license to marryMis.s May Colman. The wedding willtake place at the home of the bride,2268 Franklin street, to-morrow atnoon and will be a strictly private oneand only the members of the familiesof the contracting parties are amongthe invited guests. The cevemony willbe performed by Dr. Voorsanger.

Mr. Brandenstein and Miss Cblmanare old friends, having known eachother for years. The bride-to-be is thedaughter of Charles Colman, the well-known merchant, and has a host offriends among the younger social set.After the wedding the couple willmake their home in this city.

PERSONAL.

Captain Everett, U. S. N., is at theSt. Francis.

J. G. Roberts, a banker of Madera, isat the Palace.

Simon Green, a shoe manufacturer ofSanta Rosa, is at the Occidental.

N. Thompson, a prominent resident ofSalt Lake City, is at the St. Francis.

Bank Commissioner Guy B. Barhamof Los Angeles is at the St. Francis.

E. E. Galbreth, a well-known LosAngeles attorney, is at the Occidental.

Hervey Lindley, the president of theKlamath River Railroad Company, Isat the Palace.

B. Peterson, who is connected withthe electric railway company of Sacra-mento, is a guest at the Grand.

A. C. Rulofson, formerly with Baker& Hamilton, has returned from theEast. He will soon resume business inthis city.

J. A. Murray, a millionaire mining:man of Montana, who has a winterresidence at Monterey, is registered atthe St. Francis.

Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago,who is making an annual tour of thewestern section of the country, is ex-pected here in a few days.

David Young of Newark, N. J., whois in charge of the physical conditionsof the electric street railways controlledby the Baltimore syndicate, arrivedfrom the East yesterday and is at thePalace. He has come to San Franciscoto visit his son, who is a superintend-ent of one of the systems of the UnitedRailroads.

Californians in Washington.WASHINGTON. Dec. 31.? N. C. Ray

and wife of San Francisco are at theNew Willard and Mrs. Francis Web-ster Fish and Miss Fish of Martinez,Cal., are at the Riggs House.

Children at the White House.WASHINGTON, Dec. 81.?The Pres-

ident and Mrs. Roosevelt rounded outthe old year by entertaining at a chil-dren's party, the east room being used.Later in the evening a cold luncheonwas served.

TUMULT GREETSTHE NEW YEAR

Carnival Crowd Makes Merryon the Streets as 1905Opens Up for Business

EMULATES VAN WINKLE

Inebriate Falls Asleep inDecember and Is RudelyAwakened on January 1

Amid a blare of horns, a jangling ofbells and a screeching of steamwhistles, the year 1904 made its exitand IUOS entered with its hopes, prom-ises and resolutions. San' Franciscoreceived the new-comer gleefully.

From 6 o'clock until midnight every-body who could crowd into Marketstreet mingled in the jostling streamof humanity that moved along thecity's great thoroughfare. The crowdwas bo<stercus? but ihere was littlerowdyism. The European carnivalspirit reigned all through the merri-ment. It was give and take with theJesting and buffoonery.

The street and sidewalks were soonhidden under confetti. The tiny flakesshowered through the air, caught inthe whiskers of the venerable, droppeddown the backs of the ticklish, settledin the tresses of the beautiful and un-settled the dignity of the supercilious.So thickly did confetti cover the side-walks that enterprising small boysscooped it up and resold it, keeping thestuff in circulation.

Everything that could make a noisewas mustered into service. Horns, cow-bells, corncrakes, firecrackers and ev-ery known offender against the peacejoined in the din. Masks, false beardsand outlandish costumes lent the car-nival aspect to the crowd that filledMarket street, for New Year's eve isSan Francisco's Mardi Gras.

The affair was decidedly cosmopoli-tan. When a newsboy brushed the faceof Miss Pacific Avenue with a not-over clean feather duster the damselretorted with a shower of confetti.Street sweepers rubbed shoulders withmen of millions. All social barrierswere leveled along Market street.

An evidence of the pood work donein the year past and a hint as to whatwill be done toward the making of abigger and more beautiful San Fran-cisco was the opening of the new Floodbuilding. The massive structure waslighted from cellar to the topmoststory, and crowds surged through itand admired.

Policemen stationed at short inter-vals along the streets in the crowdeddistricts kept the stream of humanitymoving. Only on rare occasions werethey necde<kJ«; Jhe wuppression ofhoodrnmism.

Among the throng were those whowere forming the annual resolutionsto abstain for un entire year. As usual,the greater part of these kept biddingfarewell to their favorite mixtures un-til long after the whistles tooted in theyear l'M)5. Then they realized that itwas too late; they had got the betterof the new year and they resolved towait until 1905. Inebriates were notunusually plentiful. Policeman Mui-phy located one with his head reclin-ing on a curbstone just before the firstdawn of 1905 crept over the hills.

"Wake up," ordered the policeman'It's 1P05."

"G'wan; you're kidding," repliedthq stricken one. "Can't work any oldRip Van (hie) Winkle gag on me."

"That's on the level," said Murphy.The inebriated one began to sob.

"Grtat Scott! Haven't been home forwhole year. What 11 wife and fam-ilysay? 'he mourned. "May be ain'tgot wife and family any more. Slep'whole year. May be home fallen inruins and my dog howling at gardengate. Say, I'm Rip Van Winkle, kid-no wife, no family; home all gone."

"There is always a home for the VanWinkle kids these days." said Police-man Murphy consolingly, as he steeredthe inebriated man to a patrol box.There were two wagons on duty atthe Central police station, and theywere kopt busy around midnight.

As the hands of the clocks stoletoward 12 all the noise creators joinedin a pandemonium. The minute handstarried an instant at the hour; thenthey moved slightly?l9o4 was withthe past and 100." was mustered in; thetumult died and the carnival was over.

GRAIN BROKERS LIVELY.

Heroes of Wheat Pit Break All Rec-ords iv Celebrating

The exit of the old year and thecoming of the new was marked by agreat demonstration at the Merchants-Exchange grain board yesterday. Th&new quarters are nearly ready for theboard at California and Leidesdorftstreets and the chance for a "lark" inthe old quarters was the last to be af-forded as a herald to the new year.Perhaps this added zest to the demon-stration that the brokers contrived andcarried out to make the occasionmemorable and to break all records.

When the board was assembled yes»terday forenoon those who were inthe secret of the fun and who weredetermined that no man should escapeuntil all the joy was over locked thedoors and all the inmates saw thesport which in circus handbills wouldbe described as ' fast and furious"from start to finish. Brokers Berg,Buehr, Waterman, Rosenthal, Cutter,Moseley and Bresse were chief insti-gators of the proceedings, but theywerekbacked up by all the others, whohad #ne of the times of their life.

Bald heads and other heads andclothing were showered with bags offlour of California make. Firecrackersand bombs were exploded in all direc-.tions and at everybody and the dinwas something quite unparalleled out-side of a Chinese New Year fusillade inthe palmiest days of Chinatown. Menof all ages and all degrees of custom-ary decorum and gravity threw up theirhats and yelled until they were hoarse.Hundreds of men, attracted Ijy thenoise, crowded to the exhange vi-cinity to learn whether the bombard-ment of Port Arthur had not beentransmitted to San Francisco. Whenit was all over the "boys" went outlaughing, some of them still whitewith flour, but none the worse fortheir bit of nonsense.

WELCOME NEW YEAR.Streets of New York Thronged With

Noisy Crowds.NEW YORK, Dec. 31.?New York ren-

dered Its customary pantomimic greet-

ing to the new year to-night with morevariety than ever before. This was dueto an almost balmy evening, that in-vited additional thousands to join themultitude who streamed up and downBroadway for at least two hours beforemidnight. Toward Old Trinity, ever thecentral point of the New Year's evefestivities, the mob of downtown revel-ers moved. Here horns tooted the oldyear out, while the chimes, which foryears have rung the half-hour beforethe dying year's last night, sang theirhappy omen of the incoming season.

The subway and the elevated andsurface roads were crowded to theirutmost capacity to-night with partiesbound to get as near to Trinity as theycould. The Brooklyn bridge and all thedowntown ferries added their quotas,until by 11 o'clock Broadway was com-pletely jammed from the City Halldown to the Battery. The streets run-ning to the ferries were lined all daywith venders, who did a great trade inhorns, rattles, whistles and other ear-splittmg devices.

At 11:45 the solemn chimes of Trinitypealed forth their parting to the oldyear, followed by the bells of nearlyevery church in the city. Almost in-stantly the tumult of horns and whis-tles commenced, growing every minutein volume until, as the midnight hourstruck, the whistles of a thousandsteameis, tugs and ferry-boats swelledwith their hoarse blasts the mighty di-apason of welcome to the new year.For nearly an hour the din continuedas usual, to the complete extinction ofthe Trinity chimes, and then the multi-tude began to gradually float away un-til at 1 o'clock the lower part of thecity was almost deserted.

At the hour the chimes began the Imultitude became so great and so 1threatening that the captain in charge jof the police on duty gave orders thatno more sightseers be allowed to walk Ibelow Cedar-street, and a police line ;was formed in the fiddle of Broadwayto turn the enormous crowds of horn-blowing humanity down the sidestreets. ,

Four hundred policemen, half a dozencaptains and a number of sergeants,roundsmen and numerous detectiveswere on hand, and as the crowdsmarched dGßroadway, expecting tohalt in front of Old Trinity, they wereturned aside and forced to go downWall street.

The crowds in upper Broadway werealso unprecedented and 600 policemenwere specially detailed In the tender-loin to keep the great pushing, crowd-ing throng moving along,

MAYOR MAKESAPPOINTMENT

Confirms Call's Predictionby Naming Dr. Jules SimonMember of Health Board

MAY PROMOTE ALTMANN

Rumor That School DirectorWill Go on Works Board.Oliver May Succeed Him

Mayor Schmitz yesterday announcedthe appointment of Dr. Jules ArthurSimon as a member of the Board of

Health. The appointment was exclu-sively foretold in The Call more thanthree weeks ago. Dr. Simon takes theplace made vacant by the resignationof Dr. J. C. Stinson.

Dr. Simon qualified immediately byfilinghis oath of office and will issumehis new duties at c-nce. A special meet-ing of the Health Board will be calledby President Ward to induct the newmember into office.

Dr. Simon is a physician of highstanding and a specialist on nervousand mental diseases. He graduatedfrom the medical department of theUniversity of California in 1875. Short-ly afterward he went to Paris, andafter serving as interne in the Hospi-tal de Rothschild from 1880 to 1882 hebecame a member of the Faculty ofMedicine in 1883. Returning to thiscountry, he was clinical instructor onnervous diseases from 1884 to 1890 andwas a member of the State Board ofMedical Examiners from 1887 to 1889.He holds memberships in a number ofmedical associations.

The political wiseacres are figuringon a shift to be made on the commis-sions to which appointments will bemade by Mayor Schmltz on January 9.It is said that the Mayor contemplatesthe transfer of a. member of the Boardof Education, probably Director A. Alt-mann, to the Board of Public Works,leaving a vacancy for David J. OliverJr., who has been assured that he willreceive some appointment. In that casethe hopes of Thomas F. Egan will bedisappointed. Dr. Joseph Poheimlooms up as a strong candidate for Po-lice Commissioner, though Dr. George

Diucker and Arthur Dudley Cross arementioned for that post. Commission-ers Wreden, Voorsanger and Rogersare sure of reappointment and WilliamH. Metscn is hopeful of being madePark Commissioner,

RESTAURANT MAN IS IIELBVP ON HIS OWN DOORSTEP

William Berger was held up onThursday night as he was leaving theWalton grill, 452 Ellis street, and nowlies in his room in a very badly bat-tered condition. He says the attackupon him was a clear case of hold-upby William Smith, a man who hadbeen In his employ for about twoweeks. During this period every nightwhen Berger was counting the cashSmith was by and always took an in-terest in the proceeding.

Smith left Berger's employment ofhis own accord about ten days ago.Since then he has been loiteringaround and several of the neighborshave noticed him peeking over thefence and watching what was goingon in Berger's place, the Walton grill,425 Ellis street. On the night of theattack Berger counted the money andafter putting it in his pocket startedfor home. As he was going down theback steps he was confronted bySmith, who drew a pistol on him. Inhis endeavor to avoid a shot from thepistol Berger made a misstep and felldown the stairs. His back was sprain-ed, his legs were hurt, his left armwas broken near the elbow and hereceived deep cuts over the nose andright eye.

Berger's cries for help brought anumber of the cooks in the grill tothe rescue. After a hot chase Smithwas caught and locked up at the CityPrison. He is charged with assaultwith a deadly weapon.

HIS FUN COSTSMONTH'S WAGES

Edward M. Boland, a ClerkEmployed by ElectricityBoard, Waylaid and Bobbed

THIEVES USE SANDBAG

Man Is Found Unconsciousby Detective Cornelius,With Coin and Watch Gone

A New Tear's over-indulgence Inliquor, which was taken advantage ofby footpads, cost Edward M. Bolandhis month's wages last night and land-ed him in the hospital.

Boland is a clerk employed by theBoard of Electricity. He was held up

and robbed some time before 7 o'clockand was found unconscious on Locustavenue, near Polk street, by DetectiveCornelius of the City Hall station.

Cornelius had the man conveyed tothe Central Emergency Hospital, wherehe soon recovered consciousness. Hehad been drinking, as his condition at-tested. His watch and $80 were gone

and a broken end of the watch chainwas hanging to the vest.

Dr. Glover, who attended the Injuredman, gave his opinion that Boland wasfelled with some blunt instrument, pre-sumably a sandbag. A deep lacerationof the scalp and a possible fracturecomprised the injuries,. Unless compli-cations set in the patient will recover.

Boland's condition was such that hecould only tell a disconnected story,saying that he had quit work yester-day noon and was paid his month'swages, $90. He visited several saloons,after which he wandered into Locustavenue, and aside from being cognisantof the fact that something hit him heremembers nothing.

Detectives were detailed on the case,but up to a late hour had found noclew to Boland's assailants. Bolandlives at 451 Tenth street with his par-

SCOITISH THISTLE CLUBWELCOMES NEW YEAR

Hogmanay supper and Ball DelightsRelatives and Friends of

the Members."A quid New Year to am and a' "

was the sentiment universal at thetwenty-third annual hogmanay sup-per and ball of the Scottish ThistleClub held last night at Lyric Hall.

From the time the doors werethrown open sorts and daughters ofthe highlands and lowlands throngedto the hall, gathered about the festalboard and enjoyed the dancing thatlasted till early morning. During thesupper toasts to "The President,""The King," "The Land We Live In,""The Land o' Cak/s," and like senti-ments were responded to by M. S.Morrison, Mrs. Brindle, Fred Everett,Mrs. J. H. McGregor and C. H. Biggs.

The committee in charge of thedancing comprised James Firth, R.Rintoul, James Robertson, JamesMerriman, W. McGregor. F. Fitzger-ald, W. Campbell and Edward Ross.

Nationals Have a Jinks,

Batteries B and C of the First Bat-talion of Artillery (the Nationals), N.G. C, had a double celebration in theEllis-street armory last evening. Thefirst and the most important of theseto the members of the two batterieswas the burning of the mortgage

which was on the property since thebuilding was erected and which wasrecently canceled. The second was3eeing the old year out and welcom-ing the new one.

There was a jinks, which wasopened shortly after the burning ofthe mortgage with due ceremony. Theprogramme for the entertainment ofthe members', those of Batteries D andE and the signal corps of the SecondBrigade, was made up of songs, musicand stories and several boxing bouts.The contributors were the artilleryband, Professor Mansfield's mandolinclub, Fred Giannini, Comedian New-man, J. H. Ed Healy and L..Sachs. Among the boxers were Bat-tling Nelson and Eddie Stone.

When the clock announced the hourof 12 the merrymakers gave 1905 arousing welcome.

The affair was under the directionof H. I. Orth, W. H. Mallett, FredHooper, August Wambold and EdMartin.

AUTOMOBILE TANK EXPLODESAND THEATER IS THREATENED

Blaze Is Qulokly Extinguished and NoOne Is Hurt?Panic Narrowly

Avoided.A gasoline tank in an automobile

t-tanding in the Central Park Automo-bile and Garage Company's establish-ment on Market street, near Eighth,exploded last night and for a momentthe blazing gasoline threatened, tospread to the huge building whichadjoins the Central Theater.

The blaze was promptly extin-guished, but not before an alarm wasrung in. Much excitement was causedin the theater when it was letrnedthere was a fire next door. The ex-citement was quelled before any harmwas done. No one was hurt by theexplosion.

Ladies' Auxiliary Entertains.The Ladies' Auxiliary to California

Commandery, Knights Templar, had amost delightful party in the assembly

hall of the Pioneer building last night,given by the ladies to the husbandswho, during the year, are not permit-ted to attend the monthly sessions ofthe auxiliary. It was a full dressfunction that was enjoyed by a verylarge number of persons and duringthe evening there was dancing in themain hall and progressive whist in the.ladies' parlor. The games were underthe direction of William Fletcher andMrs. Logan, while the dancing wasdirected by Messrs. W. P. Humphriesand S. Clarke. The whole was underthe immediate supervision of VicePresident Mrs. Crowley and all theofficers of the auxiliary.

During intermission a delicate col-lation was served to all and six prizes,three for ladles and a like number forgentlemen, were distributed to win-

WOULD UPSETCOURT DECREE

Legality of Proceedings inthe Dunsmuir Will Caseto Be Contested Here

FORMAL NOTICE GIVEN

Advisers of Edna WallaceHopper Question Juris-diction of Probate Court

Edna Wallace Hopper, through herattorneys, Campbell, Metson & Camp-bell, has taken the first step towardhaving the contest over the will of thelate Alexander Dunsmuir transferredfrom the British Columbia courts tothe Superior Court of this State. Yes-terday her lawyers served formal no-tice on N. P. Luxton, Andrew Thomeand Messrs. Wilson & Wilson, attor*neys and agents of James Dunsmuir,executor of the estate of AlexanderDunsmuir, that on Friday next thecontestants will appear before the Su-perior Court and move that the de-cree of May 9, 1900, admitting thewill of the late Alexander Duns-muir to probate on letters of ad-ministration of James Dunsmuir bedeclared void on the grounds that thecourt was without jurisdiction to grantthat decree.

The contestants in the notice filedyesterday claim that at the time ofmaking the decree the court did notobtain Jurisdiction of any of the per-sons interested in the estate nor Juris-diction to enter any orders bindingupon the estate or upon them. Inproof of this claim thewill submit the documentary evid.on file and copies of tie laws ofState bearing on probate proceedings.It is asserted by prominent lawyers towhom the legal points upon whichthe contestants base their contentionhave been submitted that the laws ofthe State were violated and that theyoung actress has a splendid chanceof upsetting the entire proceeding orthe Victoria court and of eventuallywinning her case.

According to the claims of MissHopper's local attorneys, who are act-ing in harmony with Sir Charles Hib-bert Tupper, legal advisor of Mrs. JoanDunsmuir, mother of the late Alex-ander Dunsmuir and his brother,James Dunsmuir, against whom th«attack on the will is made, and JudgeEdward P. Coyne. Miss Hopper's per-sonal representative, the entire pro-bate proceedings in the Superior Courthere were invalid, in that the laws ofCalifornia were not fully compliedwith. It will be shown that the lawsof California provide methods forsettling foreign and domestic wills andthat Alexander Dunsmuir, having beenresident of California, his brother pro-ceeded here under the law coveringdomestic wills and then took the mat-ter to the Victoria courts, where heignored a requirement of the Cali-fornia laws in failing to have witnessessworn,relative to the execution of thewill of his brother. It will be shownthat the witnesses were never swornin this State. In Victoria the will wasproved under what is known as th'»"common form" of procedure, whichonly requires an affidavit as to th*genuineness of the testator's signatureand a signed statement as to hisdeath.

As appears in the papers filed, thecontention is that the will of Alex*ander Dunsmuir has never been prop-erly proved and that the local courthad, therefore, no authority to grantletters of administration on the show-ing made by the petitioner.

Labor Unions Elect.The following' additional labor union

officers have been elected:Journeymen Marble Cutters ?Presi-

dent, James Sullivan; vice president,William Miskel; recording secretary,K. T. Kinucan; financial secretary, J.A. Rutherford; treasurer, George M.Miller; sergeant at arms, JohnWhalen; board of trustees?JohnPierce, Fred Cheeseman, Joseph Cav-anagh, John Mickel and John S. Arn-old.

Cloak Makers' Union No. 8?President, S. Urbansky; vice president,M. Goodman; recording and corre-sponding secretary, L Jacoby; finan-cial secretary, M. Goldstein; treasurer,B. Birenhack; trustees ?F. Adolph, L.Klein and H. Gross; executive board?S. Crackner, M. Reis, S. Urbansky, I.Weinstein and L. Greenberg; delegatesto Labor Council ?I. Jacoby and M.Goldman; delegate to State Federa-tion of Labor convention in Sacra-mento, L Jacoby; sergeant at arms, B.Fink.

Iron Molders* Union No. 164?Prei-dent, A. T. Wynn; vice president, Wil-liam Burton; recording and corre-sponding sercetary, William McCabe;

financial secretary and business agent,

I A. Sullivan; treasurer. James deSucca; inductor, M. O'Reilly; door-keeper, George Schwalbe; executiveboard?William P. McCabe, I. A. Sul-livan, John Field, Herman Hextrum,J. Kuslck, William Burton and JohnO. Walsh; trustees ?George Schwalbe,

Thomas Hurd, H. G. Bayly, ArthurBaker and John Filer; auditing com-mittee ?Lewis Peters, John Fox andFrank McCutchen; physician. Dr.George Purlenky; delegates to LaborCouncil ?E. Toomey, William P. Mc-Cabe, P. P. Slater, P. Laimee .andJohn O. Walsh; delegates to IronTrades Council?William P. McCabe,P. P. Slater and E. Toomey.

GAME LAW VIOLATORSARE LX DIFFICULTY

Sportsmen and Market Hunters WhoDisregard Restrictive Statutes

Contribute to Revenue.Deputy Fish Commissioners Cross

and Welch have seized two set netsused for taking steelhead in RussianRiver during the last week. The il-legal fishing parapher lalia was placedin such a position as to prevent thepassage of fish of any considerablesize. The property will be confiscatedand the owners of it will be arrestedif they can be found.

Judge Frits fined Mario Fenoglio$25 yesterday for shipping small bass.

Justice of the Peace Hough of Wal-nut Creek has fined G. Continent! $25for peddling small bass.

Justice of the Peace Deighan of RioDell has fined James Blake $25 forkilling deer during the close season.

Justice of the Peace Johnson ofFresno Flats has imposed a fine of$25 upon G. Sivils for killing deer outof season.