The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1895, SOLVED 1T, SAYS HE HAS A Salesman’s Device for Ren- dering Dummy and Trol- ley Harmless. ATTACEED TO ANY FENDER. The Invention Consists of a Roller That Acts Like a Sweep. the Supervisors have taken such a i on the matter of guardson ectric cars, quite a number ve come for with all sorts o ms—some good and others ¢ v impracticable. One of the best 1s to this difficult problem yet of- REVOLVING RowER A~ BEARINGS R- GROOVE FOR STRAP OR BiLL. e that looks to be scientifically es from John T. Wenyon, trav- n for Thierbach & Kroeger. 1 thinks that he has theright mit a model to the rail- next week. ion,” said Mr. Wenyon yes- es to a revolving roller, which the front edge of the guard or shown in the cut. The object of n is to minimize the risk at- on the running of streetcars. omplished by the fitting of a g two bearings upon which to acutin the center fora strap or t which connects the roller to the rear By crossing the belt the roller will reed to revolve the reverse way to that e car when it is in motion. The roller s covered with rubber, and each of its is rounded to fit properly to the er, leaving no space for an object to pass between 1t and the fender. “If this is properly adjusted and the car comes in contact with any obstruction on the track or road the revolving roller will | lift the obstruction to the fender, its own | motion keeping it there until the car can be stopped. FENDERS FOR STREETCARS A Baltimore Device Which It Is Claimed Meets the Re- quirements. How the Blackistone Invention Is Operated to Prevent Injury to the Unwary. Baltimore has adopted a fender for its street railroad cars which seems to have proved a success as a life-saver. An ordi- | nance was passed imposing a fine of $5 for every car without a fender, and this stimu- Jated the inventive ingenuity of the com- pany. Seventy fenders were submitted, | last evening: which were divided into four classes, as follows: | Class 1 (Combination fenders) — By this is | meant those that includle in one design a pro- | jecting front fender, together with a wheel | guard, being thus complete in themselves, | Class 2 (Frontscoop or pick-up fenders)—De- | signed to save persons caught either standing or falling in the way of an approaching car, | make no provision for the contingency | ok up the victim. . ‘ront-platform fenders)—Designed | pose and so arranged as to trip the | ick and cause his fall upon the plat- but that, like the fenders of class 2, make | 10 provision for those who &re not successfully plcked up or saved from falling. Class 4 (Wheel-guard fenders)—These, with or without scoops, are intended toprotect from 3 pur; Fig. 2—Front Fender Only Down, being crushed by the wheels any victim whom the front fender has failed to save. The fender adopted is the Blackistone device. It takes its name from the presi- dent of the Central Railway Company of Baltimore. The device, according to the New York Recoder, consists of a projecting scoop fender and a supplementary wheel-guard. In operation the scoop fender runs about six inches above the track at its front edge, which, as well as the netting, it will be noticed, is of rope. The wheel-guard is normally fastened about eight inches across the track and can be dropped 80 that the front edge presses hard against the ground. This wfieel-gmml may be dropped into position to catch a body by any of three segnmte and independent means, viz.: (1) by the motorman’s foot- lever; (2) by the raising of the front edge of the scoop one and a half inches, when a body passes under it, and (3) by such a body “striking the automatic trip shown suspended just back of the scoop. This trip is shown as a board in the illus- tration, but, of course, may be a light metal Fig. 3—Ready for Work. framework, if desired. Either the scoop or inp can be locked, so as not to act on the guard, that is sometimes necessary in case of sudden drifts of snow that will catch the trip. The principal operation is readily seen. If the scoop fails to catch the ){erm\n there yet remains the wheel guard to do so. The special feature of the wheel-guard is that it picksup the object and does not push it along over the stones, as do most of the wheel-gnards in use. In this connection Mr. Blackistone says SWhile I designed the front projecti fender at the same time that 1 di the wheel-gnard, I have only put it in use to meet the requirements of our Fender Commission, that demands both the wheel- guards and’ the projecting fender. My Fig. 4—How a Person Is Caught. own views on the subject are to keep every- thing off the front of the car and have an effective wheel-gnard. “Having in & years service found the | wheel-guard fender alone entirely suffi- | cient, I should not, of my own choice, put on a projecting fender. For those, how- ever, who believe in a projecting fender, I think mine is about as good as any in use. It at least minimizes objections.” REVENER OF REVENERS Dr. Shaw of the New York Excerpt Magazine in San Francisco. He Discusses the Man Who Wrote “If Christ Should Come to Chicago.” Dr. Albert Shaw, editor-in-chief and con- trolling proprietor of the Review of Re- views of New York, is in this city with his wife. Dr. Shaw is a young American newspaper man, who left the Minneapolis Tribune to found the magazine, which is run much on the line of the English maga- zine of the same name established by W. T. Stead, who wrote, “If Christ Should Come to Chicago.” Dr. Shaw is the author of an able work lately published on “Municipal Government in Great Britain,” which has gone to its second edition, and will shortly publish another book on the municipal governments of Continental cities. The American Review of Reviews was started by Dr. Shaw at the suggestion of Mr. Stead, whom he had known for some time and had met while;in England for American papers. Stead asked him to go over there and discuss the matter, and that he did. The English editor has a small interest in the American magazine, and the two exchange proofs. Dr. Shaw, in speaking of the work of get- ting out the monthly, said last night: “We get the advance proofs from nearly all the magazines, and so are able to re- view the numbers as they appear.” About sixteen pages of the magazine are mostly written up by Dr. Shaw himself, and con- sists of editorial comment on what is going on all over the world. Speaking of Mr. Stead the doctor said ir I have known him for a long time and have seen a good deal of him. Stead is a good many kinds of men rolled up in one. He is full of enthusiasm and very earnest about his hobbies of re- for rm. “While he is unquestionably one of the most efficient of newspaper;men he regards that profession as merely his weapon. He once said to me: ‘I am a Tevivalist preacher rather than a journalist. I use ournalism merely as my instrument.’ {e thinks only of the reform measures he may be in, and when in the thick of the | fight only looks upon his paper or maga- zine as & soldier would his_weapon. Still, any one who thinks Stead isa poor journa- list is badly mistaken. He is the fastest writer who turns out good copy I have ever known. He has a wonderful com- mand of figures of speech and his pictures are always vivid. Heis a_man of versa- tile tastes, broad in his views and inter- ested in everything that is going on in the world.” CAPTAIN WALLER FINED. Result of His Battery Upon Armorer H. G. Owens. Captain-elect Waller of the First Troop of Cavalry appeared in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday for sentence. On Tuesday he was convicted on the evidence of Cor- poral G. A. Helmore, H. Thompson and Frank Burress of battery upon H. G. Owens, armorer, at the armory on April 15, The Judge, in passing sentence, said: “I have given this case considerable care ana study, and after reviewing the testi- mony of the prosecution find that a bat- tery has been clearly proven against the defendant, but believing no great harm bad been personally done the plaintiff T will not impose a very severe sentence. No one had any right to use force,and were he a captain in the regular service he woula lay himself liable to criminal prosecution py laying violent Ifands on his men. Ca) tain Waller could easily have enforced dis- cipline by other means without resorting to violence. The defendant evidently, from his conduct in court, was of a ve excitable disposition. I think justice will be served by imposing a fine of $10 or ten days in the County Jail.” wens will now institute a civil suit against Captain Waller for §300 damages. ————————— A big-gold vein has been discovered in the Nipissing district, near Washington. sl e ! mml&‘{\\&\\\&'\vx iy J2417) L A CONFTEDERATE GEOGRAPHY. Some Amusing Statements in a Queer Little Volume. One of the most amusing instances known of “counting chickens before they are hatched” was the publication of a geography by an enthusiastic Confederate during the civil war. The geography was written by a Southern preacher for the education of the young sons and daughters of the Confederacy, and the inculcation of a belief in the Confederacy’s grandenr. The reverend gentleman’s effort might have been as he desired, but the tide went the other way, and the author’s hopes col- lapsed, leaving the statements in the vol- | ume false prophecy, instead of facts, as it was hoped they would be. A copy of the geography is in the posses- sion of W. A. Ingham of thiscity. Itisa little 16-mo. volume of 223 pages, bound in cloth. It isthe first of a proposed series called the ‘‘Palmetto Series,” and is en- titled “‘Geography for Beginners,” by Rev. K. J. Stewart. The other parts of the series were never published, says the Cleveland News and Herald. The edition purports to have been pub- lished by J. W. Randolph, Richmond, Va., but the printing and binding were done in England. The book was to be sold at $2 a copy. A cargo of these Southern school- books was intercepted by a Union cruiser, and the books were sold in New York at anction. Mr. Ingham bought ten copies, and gave them to friends. His last copy was stolen from his library ten years ago, but recently he obtained acopy, which was sold with a library. With the geographies on the ship were a number of bibles and separate gospels, which were being donated to the Confederate soldiers by friends in the Engfish Bible Society. Mr. Ingham obtained a number of them also. The geography is remarkable for the facility with which it ignores the United States of America. The Confederate States and Government are prominent. Where- ever the United States is spoken of it is as “The Northern Government.” An extract which illustrates the style of the volume as well as the painful dis- crepancies between its statements and the facts is given below: *In 1862 the Government of the Confed- erate States was duly established at Rich- mond, Va., under a constitution which had been adopted by the several States, with the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as its first President for a term of six years, and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice-President. Every effort that human ingenuity could contrive or immense resources of money and vast armaments on sea and land could accomplish was made by the Northern Government to capture the capital and other important“places, and break up the political organization of the Confederacy. “But by the constant, evident and ac- knowledged aid of the God of battles and King of nations these efforts have all failed : and, at vast expense of sufiering and blood, the people of the Southern States have fought their own way to golitical inde- pendence and the respect and amity of the great nations of the world. May that God who has graciously blessed their efforts keep them in his most holy faith and fear, and long secure to them the blessings of peace and prosperity.” At the foot of the gage isa list of ques- tions for review. The answers which were supposed to be given wereevident from the wording.and the contents of the page just quoted. Here are specimens: “When was the Government of the Con- federate States established under its pres- ent constitution? Did the North try to break it up? Who aided the South? Who is King of nations? Can a nation fall without His word? What will happen if we forgethim ?” There is little doubt that the publication is the only textbook in existence which gives such an account of the results of the great American struggle over thirty years ago. REVOLUTIONARY ORDNANCE. Captured British Cannon at the Water- vliet Arsenal. Arranged in a semi-circle around the | flagstaff at the Watervliet Arsenal are | seventy-six pieces of ordnance, captured at different times from the British during the Revolutionary War. Strange as it may seem no record has been kept by the Gov- | ernment. Many of these trophies are of | peculiar construction and would compare very favorably with the field guns made in the arsenal gunshops at the present time. Through exposure to the elements many of the guns have become bright green in color, says the Troy Press. Fight of them are known to have been captured at Saratoga in 1777. Thereis a 24-pounder howitzer, with these marks in the chase: “Surrendered by the conven- tion of Sarato, October 17, 1777. A. Schatch Fecit, 1748.”" This gun is embel- lished with two crowns and the monogram | “G. R.” There is a 12-pounder with marks On the breech are the words: “Honi soit qui mal y pense.” “Dieu et mon droit.” It with crown, rampant lion and arms of Great Britain. z The third cannon is a 12-pounder, made in 1760. Thereis a 12-poundér with the in- scription, “The Right Honorable Lord George Sackville, Lieutenant-General, and the rest of the principal officers of her Majesty’s ordnance. Surrendered by the | convention of Saratoga, October 17, 1777.” Its date of manufacture is 1753. Another 12-pounder was made in 1760. An 8-inch howitzer bears the date of 1758, An 8-inch e — Heat of the Arctic. To_hear of suffering from heat in_ the Arctic regions sounds incredible to those who have never been there. Lieutenant Gilder relates the experience of his party from this cause while one summer ianin;: Williams Land, and declares that probably nowhere on earth is the traveler more an- noyed by acute sunbrn than in the frigid zone, The heat of ordinary exercise com- | pels him to throw back the hook of his fur coat, and by thus exposingthe head not only his entire face becomes_ blistered, but especially—if he is fashionable enough to wear his hair thin on the top of his head— his entire scalp is affected about as severely as if a bucket of scalding water had been poured upon him. . At a later period Lieutenant Schwatka’s entire arcY, while upon a sledge journey from Marble Island to Camp Daly, were so severcly burned that not only their faces but their entire heads were swollen to nearly twice their size. And a fine looking party they were. Some had faces so swollen that their eyes were completely closed on awakening from sleep. When one was fortunate enough to be able to see the others he could not refrain from laugh- ing. All dignity was lost. Even the august commander of the party was a laughing stock, and, though he knew why they laughed at each other, he could not understand why he should excite such mirth. Pretty soon he saw his face in a mirror and found that when he tried to smile his lips were so thoroughly swollen that the effect was anything but happy. The contortion expressed sentiment, but hnrdlg that of pleasure. He could readily have been taken for a grimacing idiot or a malicious lunatic, according to the prefer- ence of the beholder.—Cassell's Magazine. —————— A fight between a bull and a lion was recently witnessed in Madrid, by 15,000 ersons. The bull repeatedly tossed the ion, and so tore him that“the king of beasts” turned tail, and died the next gsy 3 on the chase similar to the gun described. | bas dragon handles, and is embellished | CLUB FOR THE JILTED. Little By Little It Has Grown in Mem- bership. T accepted an invitation the other day to dine with a friend at a club that be as- sured me was unlike, in some respects, any other club in the world, says a New York correspondent of the Cincinnati En- | quirer. We went to Twenty-ninth street and entered a building that was not | materially different in appearance from a thousand other ‘houses in town that are used as residences by the well-to-do. The menu cards and the servants’ buttons were marked by a neat monogram of the letters *“J. C.” My companion settled himself in an easy chair and proceeded to exnplain, *‘Fhis club,”” he said, “owes existence to the whim of a very rich man who has hardlv turned thirty years. ' He was en- gaged. The lady was wealthy, weli con- | nected and moved in the same social cir- cles that he did. He was rich enough to | satisfy any reasonable whim. Moreover, his character was beyond reproach. Per- haps he was a little cold in his wooing. Idon’t know. He did not know what defeat meant. Perhaps he unconsciously took it for granted that any woman must find him all sufficient, and that it would be unnecessary, even unbecoming, to ply the ordinary lover’s arts that are generally believed to be so fetching with the fair sex. At all events, the young lady one day gave him to plainly understand that he wouldn’t do. She returned his presents—I don’t suppose he had ever written her a love letter, so she couldn’t return any burning literature—and told him to apply elsewhere for a wife. Con- mortar is among the trophies, it having | siderably stunned, he could only exclaim: been made in 1758. A 24-poun Cochorn | “Jilted! fijilted !” He bought thi mortar is another of the collection. house at first simply with the idea of | living in it, but one day he chanced across a friend who had had similar experi- ence with the fair sex, and, after com- paring notes, they decided to live together, to pursue the same line of cam- paign in society; that is, to make them- selves as interesting as possible to women, but never on any Erovocntlon to marry. Before long they heard of another ac- quaintance whose engagement had been been broken by the lady, and they took him in. 8o, little by little, the affair has Town to its present proportions, a small, ut select an}i contented club.” “And the initials J. C. mean the—" «Jilted Club, exactly. Every member must have been jilted, and every member is supposed to enter society freely and play for hearts—to take them, but never to surrender his own. In the event of his getting entangied and entering upon a new engagement his membership lapses at once,” ONE STREETCAR INCIDENT. Why a Young Woman-Was Heartily Ashamed of Herself. Broadway was a mush of slush and a young woman who wished to cross stood shivering on the curbstone fearing to step into the slough. A rough-coated Irishman caught hold of her and carried her across. She, taking in the courtesy of the deed, said: “I thank you, sir. I could not have got across but for your courtesy.” “Be- dad, I saw all that in your eyes, miss, be- fore ye spake,” said the Irish gentleman, in whose veins ran the courtesy of genera- tions of noble Celts. The young lady was not a sister to the woman of whom Our Young Folk tells this story: % One day a beautiful young girl rustled into a cable-car and sat down with her companion. Her dress was fresh from the dressmaker’'s. Her gloved hands held a white parasol tied with a knot of yellow ribbons. The car was crowded and among the passengers were some Italian laborers, such as now largely do the rough work of | our great cities. Picturesque creatures some of them are | if one sees them at a distance, with their shaggy heads and great, melancholy eyes, but maladorous and to be shunned if one has to sit next them for a half hour and that was what this bright-eyed girl had | to do. “I think it’s dreadful,’”’ she whispered to her companion. “Why don’t the company refuse to let such creatures on the cars? He will ruin my dressif I touch him, I know. Just see how he stares at me!”’ Boon the man arose, and, leaning for- ‘l:'ard to catch. the strap, fairly bent over er. “I am sure he is very impertinent,”” she said. “I bave half amind to call the con- | ductor.” When the conductor came around she motioned him. “Won't you make that man move?” she said. ‘Move up!”’ | The words were said in a sharp tone. “Yees,” the Italian answered, “but see | ze oil! Ze bootiful lady, see?” | The lady looked up. She saw-the oil | lamp had sprung a leak and would have dripped oyer her had not the man, stretch- ing out his arm over her, formed an um- brella which bad protected her dress and | bonnet. | A blush came into her face as she bowed | her thanks to him and murmured to her | friend: | “It makes me ashamed to think while I | was scorning him and he knew it he should have taken such pains for me. It's a les- son I will not forget, that at least some of those poor laborers have bigger souls than Ihave. I'll never be scornful to oneagain, I'm sure.”’—Youth’s Compsm’.ou. ————— The Press of Shanghal. Shanghai is China’s chief port and con- tains about 600,000 inhabitants, who are under native rule, and the Eng,'lish, Amer- ican and French ‘‘settlements,”” with 250,000 Chinese and 5000 foreigners, all of whom | are under foreign rule. | In that city tremendous congregations ather in the mission churches, says the | incinnati Enquirer, and there are to be found the largest Sunday-schools in China. In Shanghai is also the largest mission press in the world. More than 1000 Chi- nese converts are connected with the dif- ferent missions. In the missions press electrotyping and stereotypifig are done, and over 35,000 pages are issued annually. The total number of books-and tracts issued last year was 995,496. The Shun-Pao is the best paying and most widely circulated of the three native newspaper dailies of Shanghai. It isan eight-page sheet, printed on the thinnest of rice paper. It is so light that it does not weigh more than a man’s handkerchief and so thin that the paper can be printed on one side only. X The paper goes to press in big sheets, which are so folded that the blank side is turned inward when taken in hand by the subscriber, and so that there is neither cutting nor pasting. Owing to the thinness of the paper it has a greasy yellow appearance, and it is printed so closely with Chinese type that not an inch seems to be wasted. The headlines or title of the paper con- sist of two Chinese characters, taking up a space not wider than one of the columns of our newsgapers, and not more than an inch in length. ~ Its price is 10 cash, which, allowing for the diiference in currency, makes it equivalent to half a cent in our money. e To ascertain the time at night the Apache Indians employ a gourd upon which the stars of the heavens are marked. As the constellations rise in the sky the Indian refers to his Eourd and finds out the hour. By turning the gourd around he can tell the order in which the constellations may be expected to appear. The hill people of Assam reckon time and distance by the number of quids of betelnuts chewed. EAT MUTTON INSTEAD OF BEEE. An Arbitrary Order From Chicago the Cause of the Trouble. This upward movement in the price of beef may have a good effect after all, though it is a mighty bad symptom. There’s something wrong when a few men can fix the price offood; and they must be foolish to think they can make an intelli- gent nation believe beef has gone up be- cause the corn crop has failed. Beef isn’t developed in one season. It takes about four years to raise marketable cattle. Su Eose the corn crop to fail. Its effect would e to throw cattle on the market, not to cause their disappearance. Beef would be | cheaper that year and the next and dearer later on. The explanation is too thin. The arbitrary edict from Chicago is at the bottom of the trouble. Talk about the concerns there being competitors! Letone of their agencies at the East undersell the others and see how quick all four will know itand the combine call down the offender, The *‘rivals’’ out there are about Es ar;bagonistic as rval fingers on the same and. But this cruel lifting of the price of beef ought to turn attention to the raising and eating of mutton. Mutton is a_very fine article of food. Good mutton is just as eatable as good beef. At its best it has no superior in meat. Mutton is capable of being cooked in innumerable ways and from broth to roast it is nour- ishing and palatable. If people would turn from beef to mutton they would escape the clutches of Chicago. A mutton syndicate couldn’t work. You can raise mutton in a year and lamb in compara- tively less time, and, while veal is worth far less than beef, lamb is worth more than mutton, so that an early return for the in- vestment is possible for the farmer, though, if he waits and doesn’t sell lamb he later on has both mutton and wool. Some such stimulus as this Chicago combination is all that is needed to cover the New Eng- land bush lots and hill pastures with flocks of sheep which will give agriculture a new impetus here and give people a reasonabl, cheap and thoroughly good meat food, which they can eat without paying tribute to any combine.—Hartford Courant, - — Catholic Winter School. Prominent Roman Catholic citizens of New Orleans have decided to open a win- ter school in their Southern city on the plan_of the summer schools of New York and Wisconsin. A meeting was held re- cently under the presidency of Archbishop Jansenns, and the details of the scheme were discussed and a programme agreed upon. The first session will be held next year, immediately after the annual car- nival, which draws so many visitors to New Orleans, says the New York Tribune. 1t will continue three weeks. During that time the most eminent lecturersin the country will speak on the usual sub- jects—religious, literary and scientific— and four lectures a_day will be provided. The novelty of the location and the time chosen are’ certain to appeal to the multi- tude of tourists and invalids who seek the South in winter, and the city will reap considerable advantage from the new idea. This is the third of the Roman Catholic schools established within the last four years for the benefit of those who cannot get a university training, and a fourth is talked of for the Pacific Coast. The offi- cers of the Champlain Summer School, whose headquarters are in this city, are pleased at the New Orleans plan, Which has been helped on materially by one of their own body at present in the South. —_———————— From 1493 to 1520 an ounce of §old was equal in value to 13.3 ounces of silver. From 1521 to 1544 silver held its highest value since the discovery of America, Between the years last named 11.2 ounces of silver bought one ounce of gold. Now it requires 19.50 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of gold.