The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1895. ' 5 NOW A BOARD OF HEALTH Governor Budd Is to Meet All the Candidates in Person. v NOT TO CONTROL PATRONAGE. A Graduate of the State Unliversity Is Chosen for Code Com- missioner. is laboring with the problem. Everything ne matters, is being put es a decision as to who asylums, hospitals and tem of San Francisco. tments will be made in the - ten days,” said the Governor. ime intervening I shall be at Hotel when I am not at the the Harbor Comm 1 intend to give every one ring that time. Of one thing ssured, I will appoint no man business. can re om I do > qualifications I have not investi- i “It is that I may meet the candidates that I have come to San Francisco. Were it-not for s well have staid in appoint- vanted to be able to who s ex-officio till harbored the ; one Republican e had not made v man, though Morse and said that that ge n had been recommended to him in all quarters, but he had not decided to appoint hi The mi or offices,” echoed the Gov- nor offices? Well. you of Heaith appoints the e pl der it.” this he would say nothing of He had not decided upon ndations, he said. Many of them young men of , had been spoken of. The )i the Board of Health would be ablest and most independent nof the C Their appoint- ever they might be, he said, e was sure be sa ctory to the and to himself. will the Board of Health appoint ingston as Health Officer?”” was the answer. “The 161 im be: ng worth his i 1 he ha ; and then, a nate of the U a. posing of the affairs of alth Mr. B the lines sion of the State iy been de in all the bay countie oast Range Moun the B of th as Monterey and pe: “Then there is to “That is what is bothering me. Iam sitating whether to put Stockton with a part of the south. h s my work in that 11 be completed.’ After the divi £ ies on the boards of direct s insane asylums. Then he will e up his inspection of State institutions w a vi of bringing about those c which he pledged himself toin his ugural address. Many of the Democrats opposed to Dr. gston seem to think that he cannot 1 appointment from the Governor. suggest that there is a way out of Budd is bound to Leving- will produce the desired result ulting in Lev ton’s getting ce. vernor. it is suggested, could ap- e ee Levingston Democrats and a R lican opposed to Levingston. Rather tk e Levingston appointed this mem- berof the board wouid refuse to vote for the removal of the incumbent, and as it takes the vot of all four of the fo remove the head of a depart- n who “do” politics for a living. The odium of the alfair would be shifted upon the shoulders of a Republican and many would be satisfied because Levin ston was not appointed. The Governor’s asse ed to leave the patronage pertaining to the Board of Healtn entirely with the physi- cians composing that body is lentiy re- ceived with s by “‘the fuithful.” They meet Mr. Budd at every turn. While he was meeting with the Harbor Commissioners they gathered in on the neighboring corners, sat in d threes on the stairs and gaped in crowds in the hallways and waiting- room. Many of those in attendance were As- ; others had been in the Legis- wanted jobs for themselves or ir friends and relatives and were loaded withletters, not to the Board of Health, but to the Governor personally, in which notable persons sang the praises of the favored applicant. LOYAL LEGION CONTEST. The Gallant Record of the California Volunteers Properly Reviewed. The Candidates. on that he intend- In the contest for the honor of com- mux{’lin: the Loyal Legion, the military merits as well as the hostelry accomplish- ments of Major Hooper and Colonel War- field must be considered. The records of the war will not justify the impression that a soldier saw little or no service because he belonged to the Cali- fornia Volunteers. The Second California Volunteers bore an honorable part in the great struegle, and Major Hooper is fairly entitled to a share of the regimental re- nown. It was quite an honor to feed troops who fought as well as the Second California Volunteers—an honor, indeed, as great as that of building lodges for any corps of the Army of the Potomac. Even the horses of the Second California should be remembered in recounting the triumphs and hardships of the campaign. for in the absence of pontoon bridges these horses swam Bear River, bearing their riders, and ::tn r{elntrnerl to the other shore and swam antry across the s i of’ln_zctmm ie stream to the field he published record of the servi list T service ren- dered‘ ¥ California troops is not cox:b]eete but the volume from the Adjutant.Gen: eral’s office entitled “Record of California Men in the War of the Rebellion gives a ioners on | not know personally, and | complete history of the Second California Cavalry. The regiment was organized under Pres- ident Lincoln’s second call, dated Wash- ington, August 14, 1861, and on October 30, 1851, was mustered into the service. The companies were first assembled at Camp Alert, San Francisco, which was located on the ground now inclosed by Mission, Folsom, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth streets. Four companies of the regiment— H, I, and M—the column in which or W.B. Hooper served, was ordered to Salt Lake, Utah. In the battle ot Bear River with the Snake and Shoshone Indi- ans, January 29, 1863, these four companies ned aloss of twelve killed and forty- ded, a loss in action greater than that sustained by the whole Fiftieth New York Engineers in the battles of the Wil derness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. & So much heroism did the troops in the battie of Bear River display that Colonel Connor, commanding the expedition, con- gratulated them in orders, and spoke of the rapid march of foar nights in intense | cold weather through deep snow. “At daylight on the 20th of Janua 5 encountered the enemy, greatly 3 ior in numbers, and had a desperate pe battle. “Continuing with unflinching courage for over four hours, vou completely cut captured his property and ed hisstronghold and burned Phe long list of killed and the most fitting eulogy of e * The ieth New York Engineers was unquestionably a gallant regiment, but in deeds of heroism it did not surpass the Colonel Wartfield has re his regimer Hooper is tic when b victorious Second Calif Cav | " Companions of the Loyal Lej ) value the honors ga by both candi- dates, and failing to distinguish the better soldier of the two may be influenced un- consciously by hotel-keeping accomplish- ments. e HEAR FROM THE INFANTS, Another Argument in the Fair Will Case on Technical Points. Motlons to Strike Out Certaln Por- tlons of Two Oppositions to Probate. nment of Fair's re was another al will attorneys in Judge Slack’s court Among those present were »vd for Theresa Oelrichs and Charles Heggerty for L. Fair, John C. Percy for Mar- John Crothers and Andrew and 3 Van R. Paterson for minor reirs, J. D. Sullivan for Marc Levingston, Garret McEnerney for W.J. Goodfellow, d Pierson & Mitchell for the special i ators. The special matter in hand was a motion trike out certain portions of two ions filed to the probate of the two w offered. In the first case the curious position is found of Mrs. Theresa A. Oelrichs appar- | ently opposing her little boy, Herman ichs Jr. Butthis is probably what the lawyers term a ‘‘legal fiction.” In any e Charles L. ir, Virginia Fair and resa A. Oelrichs had objected to por- s of the opposition purporting to have n filed by ‘‘Herman Oelrichs Jr., M. Fair, Sarah Fair and others, infants, through Van R. Paterson, guardian ad litem.”’ This “infant opposition™ consisted in a denial that the will dated September 24, 1894, was the last will. Herman Oelrichs Jr. believes in the will of September 21, under which he gets about one-quarter of a million of trust property alone. For these reasons he and the other infants had asked that the petition of his mother and others to have the will of September 24 admitted to probate be denied. To this his mother and the other sup- porters of the “pencil’” will replied that much of the infants’ petition was “redund- ant and irrelevant” and otherwise un- worthy of consideration. They said Van R. Paterson had no authority to institute this contest. The second opposition had been on the part of Margaret J. C G. Fair, who, under the will of 21, had been bequeathed $2: large share ot the residuary property; An- drew Fair, who would get $50,000 and more under the same will, and others. They naturally objected to the will. They call it the “‘allezed” will of September 24, 1894, and ask that it be thrown out. To their request Charles L. Fair, Virginia Fair and Mrs. Oelrichs rejoined yesterday that such a thing was absurd. They characterized this particular opposition as also “‘redund- ant and irrelevant,” adding that it ‘‘tend- ered no issue.” The attorneys presented their argument for and against these allegations from a purely legal pointof view, and Judge Slack took the matter under advisement. —————— ERTATE OF EUGENE KELLY. Inventory and Appraisement of the Cali- fornia Property of the Banker. J. J. O'Farrell, R. E. Doyle and G. Whit- field Lane, appraisers of the estate of gene Kelly, with Eugene Kelly Jr., executor of the estate, have filed an inven- tory and afitf)raisement of the estate of which the following are extracts: Money which has come inte the hands of the executor, $3249 15; real estate—land, on Sacramento and Montgomery streets, $33,000, improvements $12,000; land, Com- mercial and Sansome streets, $45,000, im- provements $10,000; land, Sacramento and Sansome streets, $30,000, improvements $10,000; land, Howard and Spear streets, $17.500; land, Howard and Spear streets, $12,000; land, Beale and Bryant streets, $25,000; land, Bryant and Beale streets, $20,000; land bounded by Turk, Eddy, Webster and Fillmore streets, $90,000; land, Webster and Eddy streets, $15,000, building $500. Total, $358,249 15. e e i MAIL-BAG LOCKS. Telltale Mechanism Which Makes Suc- cessful Thefts Almost Impossible. The locks on our mail-pouches are so constructed that it is impossible to open one without its betraying the secret. There is a little dial on the lock, and every time the leck is opened the figures on the dial move up one. Suppose, for instance, that the register shows 1147 at the point of departure, and that when the pouch is de- livered at the point of destination the lock is opened, the register will then show 1148, This increase of one is made for each trip of the pouch, and eventually the number reached is 9999, which,in an average bag, requires thirty-three yearsto macg. The lock is then taken apart and the numbers are reset. These locks were first introduced in 1881, and a mail clerk made a bold attempt to rob a bag in transit soon after their intro- duction. He took a small turning lathe in the mailcar with him to aid in the scheme. After unlocking the bag he rifled the con- tents and connected up the lathe to the Jock. His idea was to twist the numbers around until they were the same as before the lock was touched. He set the lathe hnmming, and soon reeled off the numbers up to 9999, when to his consternation the register remained at that figure, and re- fused to move any more. The lock must be taken apart before it will start No. 1 again, but he did not know this. The trick was, of course, diccovered, and the uilty clerk punished. Since then the ocks have never been tampered with.— New York World. Spectacles were first used in the latter part of the thirteenth century. POLITICS AND REVENGE. Believed to Be the Cause of the Ferry Foundation’ Scandal. SOME ANGRY GRAND JURORS. They Think an Attempt Has Been Made to Use Them to Gratify Spite. The members of the Grand Jury are get- ting somewhat disgusted at the evidence being brought before that body in the matter of the ferry ioundation scandal. The jurors began the investigation under the impression that evidence would be produced to show that there had been con siderable crookedness in regard to the carrying out of the contracts, but some of the members now have an idea that some graceless persons are trying to use the Grand Jury to further a scandal which is not based on facts. Spite and politics seem to be the cause of most of the talk against the solidity of the structure,’as far as the testimony pro- duced before the Grand Jury goes to show. In fact, the jury virtually decided yester- day to drop the investigation, but after a further discussion it was agreed to secure every bit of testimony possible, with a view to ascertaining what started the scandal. Governor Budd will be asked to appear before the jur{ next Wednesday, and Thomas Price will also be summoned to explain fully the results of his expert analysis. The only evidence tending to show that the sgecifications of the contract in regard to the concrete foundations were not Sroperly carried out has been secured from ischarged employves of Gray Brothers, from persons who failed to secure work from those contractors and from men in the employ of Charles J. Stilwell, whose actions are looked upon with suspicion. George F. Gray of Gray Brothers, Archi- tect A. Page Brown and Howard C. Holmes, chief engineer of the Board of Harbor Commissioners, were the only wit- nesses before the Grand Jury yesterday in regard to the ferry foundation matter. Harry N. Gray was in attendance, but was not called into the jury-room. A. Page Brown said that he as an archi- tect drew up the plans and had given in- formation as to how some of the work should be done. He said that he fully ap- Em\'cd of the way in which the work had een done, and that he believed the foun- dation fully secure. 3 George F. Gray said that the work of preparing the ferry foundation was under the direction and control of Chief Engi- neer Holmes and the Harbor Commission- ers. Had there been any part of the work done improperly the Commissioners could have smpped it at any time. The mate- rials, rock, cement and sand had been‘ap- proved by the Commissioners. Chief Engineer Holmes stated that if anyvthing was wrong about the ferry foun- dation he would be the one to blame, as the work of building the piers had been done under his supervision. He would have ordered any changes if Gray Bros, had done poor work; but that everything had been done properly; thatit had been done in the most approved way, and the best results had been obtained. When questioned about the lot from which the rock used in the foundation had been taken by Gray Bros., Mr. Holmes said it was well known, especially by the Harbor Commissioners, that he owned the lot be- fore the contract was let to Gray Bros. He said that all of the rock used in the foun- dation was identical with the samples left with the Harbor Commissioners; that all came from the same guarry. Mr. Holmes said the work Gray Brothers was a good job and defied any expert to prove the contrary. The rock, the cement and the sand had been approved by him as well as the manner of mixing. After Mr. Holmes finished his testimony some of the grand jurors favored the prop- osition to drop the investigation as no evidence of any account had been obtained to show that the work done by Gi Brothers did not come up to the ‘speci cations. Others desired to probe to the bottom of the scandal to ascertain the cause of starting the sensational stories. It was decided to continue the investiga- tion until next Wednesday, when Govern- or Budd will be invited to give his opinion concerning the results of the tests made by him and his experts, and also his opinion of the work performed by the men who investigated the matter while in his employ. One of the aims of the Grand Jury will now be to ascertain whether the real cause of the scandal was not brought about by certain politicians to secure more patron- age on the water front. Five members of the local Board of Trade appeared before the Grand Jury yesterday to call the attention of thai body to the questionable action of retail dealers in obtaining goods from wholesalers under false pretenses. The five men were repre- sentatives of Jones & Co., Haas Bros Harter, Hayes & Co., the Dairymen’s Union and Hills Bros., all of whom are creditors of the Hayes brothers, Market- street grocers, who recently failed. The matter will be further investigated. LONGSHORE DREDGERS. The Strange and Miscellaneous Articles They Rescue From the Mud of the Bay. erformed by Those who do down to the sea in ships and behold the wonders of the deep are given to depreciate the humbler toilers on the waters. The mariner who navigates and works a water-front dredger has his share of gales and salt spray, and although he may not have to go aloft to reefa top- sail in a howling breeze he has enoagh of dangerous hawser-work on deck to re- quire a sure foot and a steady nerve. Thereare two dredgersalong the wharves, each of which carries a crew of seven men. They are moved from pier to pier and keep industriously scooping out the slickens that comes from the river which the tide deposits between the wharves. The cap- tain of a dredger does not wear gold lace on hiscap orpace the deck with a spy- glass under his arm, keeping a lookout for strange signals. He takes a hand with the first mate and the ordinary seamen, and he gets as muddy as the apprentice. The crew donot tipthe hatto himas they pass by, or man the starboard gangway when he comes aboard, but his d%!cipline is maintained justasif he was the com- mander of acruiser of the White Squad- ron. The principal danger about dredging is the handling of the tow lines. The margin of deck on each side of the barges where the mud is dumped is perilously slushy, and the tide runs so swift at these points that a tumble overboard, unless to a stron and cool swimmer, is apt to be fatal. All sorts of odds and ends are brought to the surface in those big scoops, which lift about three tons of mud at every dip. The dredger-men make a fair divvy on all that comes their way. Coal and wood are the most frequently occurring harvest of the mud. The waste of the former is remark- able. Tons of coal are rescued from the bottom of the bay every week. Occasion- ally, but not often, the body of some un- fortunate is inclosed in the iron scoop, and this meansa ten-dollar fee. Coin and jewels have been found, garments of all kinds, a vast assortment of ts, iron-ware, ol stoves, blocks, small anchors, bottles, but never a can of opium, which would appear probable in the stuff lifted from the wharves where the Oriental steamers land. These small articles, however, easily escape the notice of the dredger-man, and he has no time to grope in the slush unless for a sure thing. 5 When the smelt are running in the bay the dredgers frequently catch hundreds of them and now and then a shark, a dogfish, but rarely a salmon, showing the activity of the latter fish, as well as his partiality for clear water. One day a dredgerman observed a small iron chest fall into the barge almost as the first scoop was taken from the neighbor- hood of Oriental wharf. This was exciting and looked very much like treasure, so the chest was promptly hauled out of the mud and transferred to the dredger. It took a long time, with chisel and hammer, to open it, and the men awaited a big find. But when the lid was started the contents were nothing more novel or valuable than a complete faro layout, a roulette-box and several hundred chips. There was noth- ing to indicate the owner or how long it had rested in the bay. But there was nothing to divide but the chips, and the blessings showered upon the man who had consigned them to the deep would not have done him any good. JACOB ROSENTHAL'S WILL He Left an Estate Valued at About Fifty Thousand Dollars. Restraints Imposed Upon the Be- quests Made to One of the Four Sons. Although the numerous friends and ac- quaintances of the late Jacob Rosenthal, the father of Toby E. Rosenthal, the famous painter, and of Marcus Rosenthal, the well-known attorney of this City, were aware that he was in easy circumstances, few knew that he was worth in the neigh- borhood of $50,000. In his will, which is dated December 7, 1892, his son Marcus is made sole executor, without bonds. The document will be filed in a day or two for probate. To the eldest son of Toby E. Rosenthal is bequeathed the gold watch and jewelry of the deceased; and to Marcus is left his father’s gold-headed cane. The will then provides that to the son, Louis, of the testator, be paid $1000 out of one-quarter of the estate, and the remain- der of this portion is left in trust to Marcus to be invested. The latter is instructed to | pay the net income of such investmentas | follows: One-half to Louis during his life | and the other half to the wife of Louis, so long as she shall continue so. Itis further provided that: From and after the death of my said son Louis, or if before thatevent the said Brunette shall have ceased to be his wife, then after the time of such severance, her share of said income and in case of Louis’ death the whole of said income shall b applied toward the support and education of the children of Louis and Brunette until the children shall respectively | attain the age o ears. The trust prop hall be equally divided between said children upon their attaining the age of 25 vears, provided, however, that they the lifetime of my son Louis. It is hereby declared my intention that, as years, the portion of the income payable to said Brunette shall cease pro tanto to be so causes under the provisions of this will have theretofore ceased to be psid. Sl i" to the remaining sons, Marcus, Toby E. and Louis, in equal shares. ceived on the beneficiary certificate of the deceased from the District Grand Lodge of the estate although made payable to Marcus. If the will is attacked the con- benefits made under the will. Louis and Brunette Rosenthal have Toby E. Rosenthal lives at Munich, Ger- many, and Marcus and Joseph in this City. The Guileless Tourist Taken In by the Mikado’s shall not receive their respective shares during each of said children reaches the age of 25 paid, even if such payments shall not for other The other three-fourths of the estate It is further provided that the $2000 re- the B'nai B’rith is to be considered part of testant is to be deprived of all bequests and three children and reside at Biloxi, Miss. sore gt e DUPING CURID-HUNTERS, Subjects. “Anclent” Armor and Relics From Battle-Fields Made to Order. Two gentlemen and a lady, evidently Fastern people, issued from a Japanese curio-store on Kearny street yesterday loaded with the treasures of the Orient. The lady’s arms were se full of knick- knacks that she dropped a card receiver, which was picked up and banded to her by a passing stranger. He glanced for a moment at the precious thing before re- turning it to its owner. A minute after- ward he told of the deep and dark decep- tion of the people across the water. He was a Birmingham man and was but re- cently from the most industrions and in- genious of cities, where everything under the sun is skillfully imitated, and where the reproductions are even. more fascinating than the originals. “Itis hardly to be credited,” he said, “but that lacquer-ware is of Birmingha manufacture. Overthere they imitate all those Oriental goods, and by the aid of machinery can manufacture them much cheaper even than the Japanese, cheap as labor is in that country. They are ex- perts in imitating anclent armor and weapons, Japanese swords they turn out by the ton, and only the most expert can distinguisfz them from the original. Some years ago the collectors were wild on East India amulets and other curios. Incredible sums were paid for clumsy-looking idols, vases, charms and thingsof that character. The London shopkeepers were at their wits’ end to keep pace with the ever-in- creasing demand. But Birmingham was equal to the emergency. Agents were dispatched to the most remote parts of India. They brought back specimens of all that the ruling fad craved. In a few weeks the curio hunters were astonished by the plethora é;( rare and quaint an- tiques that flooded the market. Buddhas 3000 years old by the card were piled up in every dealer’s cellar and amulets worn by the old kings were cheap for cash. “Then lngim-muun){ souvenirs were in demand, and sturdy Birmingham got to work and turned out relics enough to make souvenirs of a dozen mutinies. The stock of fragments found on the field of Water- loo is never allowed to run out. During the present Napoleonic craze over five thousarfd goblets used by the great exile at Longwood have been issued from Birm- ingham. It would be impossible to enum- erate the buttons, chessmen and even nightcaps of the Little Corporal which the. tourists purchase in all parts of Europe, but which have their paternity in Birm- ingham. The American has been dccused of inventing shoepeg o0ats and wooden hams, but he must get up very early in the morning to keep ahead of the most colossal sham manufacturing city in the world.” e ————— David a Great Strategist. M. Dieulafoy, the explorer of Persia, has carefully examined the v.lleflof Rephaim, south of Jerusalem, where David crushe the Philistines. He finds that the Bible account of the battle is accurate, and that David’s tactics show the highest militas capacity, and were like those of Frederic the Great at Mollwitz and Rossbach, and of Napoleon at Austerlitz.—New York Sun. el S S Penny postage for Londen and its sub- urbs dates from the year 161, FOR A SOUTH BOULEVARD, Folsom Street Property Owners Make an Encouraging Canvass. SUPERVISORS WILL ASSIST. Superintendent Vining Tells Them Why the New Line Has Been Delayed. The property-owners of the Mission dis- trict interested in the movement to have Folsom street converted into a fine drive- way all the way from Third to Twenty- sixth received encouraging assurance from two sources yesterday that did much to change apprehensiveness into sanguine hope. Last Wednesday evening a meeting was held at Mangel’s Hall, corner of Folsom and Twenty-fourth streets, at which Elijan 8. Gilmore was made president, and H. F. Wynne secretary of the Folsom- street Property-owners’ Association, and committees were chosen to confer with the Board of Supervisors, the Market-street Railway Company and the paving con- cerns. The personnel of the committees was made up of such men as A. B- Maguire, H. C. Summers, W. F. Tillman, Thomas Gillespie, C. T. Spader, George and Henry Mangel, George Bagala, P. Curtiss, John Center, and others largely interested. It was then estimated by Mr. Maguire that to make Folsom street the south bou- levard of the City would cost about $23,500, as it involves the changing of the pave- ment from basalt blocks to bitumen, This street is already paved with bitumen from Nineteenth to Twenty-sixth streets, so it was thought the repaving of the re- mainder was a feasible proposition. The committees did some active work yesterday. Mr. Maguire called upon Su- perintendent Vining of the Market-street gystem, and Mr. Gillespie consulted several Supervisors. Both reported encouraging results of their canvassing ata committee meeting in Mr. Center’s office during the afternoon. Mr. Maguire said that Mr. Vining had assured him that he was per- sonally in favor of the project and, while he could give no positive assurance that the street railway company would be will- ing to fill \in between the car tracks with bitumen, he thought a meeting of the board of directors would so decide, and Mr. Gillespie stated that thc Supervisors he had seen had promised their support of ameasure tomake the necessary appro- priation. A mass-meeting will, therefore, be held in Mangel’s Hall to-night, at which the re- ports of the committees will be received. A letter from Mr. Vining will also be read, in which Mr. Vining throws the blame for the tardiness of the Folsom-street line upon the Board of Supervisors. Mr. Vining’s letter in substance says that the delay is occasioned by the necessity of raising the grade between Fourth and Fifteénth streets and reconstructing the sewer between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. Until these things are attended to by the City the railway cannot go ahead. “We think,” sald Secretary Wynne last night, “that this improvement is due the Mission district. The south side has been taxed for all general improvements of the ity, including the Golden Gate Park, and we have not asked anything until now. “Folsom street is a thoroughfare, about eighty feet wide, and with a much shorter curve than Howard, Mission and Valencia streets, and, connecting with Army street, makes a short cut into either Mission street or the San Bruno road. If a man leaves Kearny street and foes out Third to Fol; som, thencealong Folsom street, he can reach Twenty-sixth quicker than by any other route. I do not believe there will be t:nyd objection to making it a fine boule- vard. “The basalt blocks, if taken up and re- laced with bitumen, will not be iost; in act since the resolution of the Supervisors requiring beds of concrete to be laid under any and all circumstances a repaving with bitumen will be actually cheaper than putting the blocks back.” A petition has been circulated among property-owners along the San Bruno road which is soon to be presented to the Beard of Supervisors. It will ask for an appropriation for the paving of a portion oplhc road. Some of the road near Ocean being View Bay is now covered with crushed rock. Twenty-fourth street, to Hoffman avenue, is wider. The new electric-cars for the Folsom- street line are being delivered at the car- house on Twenty-ninth and Mission streets. Their color is a bright yellow. WILD ANIMALS AT SEA. A Lively Squall Starts a Big Commotion Among Them. The Hamburg-American line steamer Prussia, which arrived here last Friday from Hamburg, brought one of the largest consignments of wild animals that has been brought to this city on one vessel for many years. They were shipped to Wil- liam Bartels, and were taken from the Prussia and conveyed to Mr. Bartels’ es- tablishment, at No. 100 Greenwich street, says the New York Herald. The collection consisted of two drome- daries, two hyenas, three leopards, four seals, two immense pythons, thirty-two monkeys, two small lions and a big Bengal tiger. Mr. Bartels is a_dealer in animals of all kinds. His place in Greenwich street was yesterday the scene of much ex- citement, and the noise made by the ani- mals as they were being transferred to the store attracted a large crowd. The Prussia sailed from Hamburg on Aypril 7. She also had aboard thirty-one cabin and 152 steerage passengers. During the first few days out mild weather pre- vailed and the animals, which were con- fined in a compartment in the hold, be- haved themselves well. But on the fourth day a stiff squall struck the vessel, kicking up a lively sea, which caused the ship to roll and pitch considerably. The animals were tossed'about in their cages and raised such a commotion that many of the steer- age passengers feared they had broken Joose and were seeking a more substantial diet than had been provided them by their keepers. One of the monkeys caught a_severe cold during the voyage, and notwithstanding all that the ship's doctor could do for it, died of hasty consumption last Thursday. The major part of the monkeys are termed “pig tales,” because of their peculiarly short tails. Some of them came from Africa and some from Arabia. The two pythons have very small heads and im- mense bodies, measuring twelve feet or more in length. There arc in Mr. Bartels’ place 700 gold fish, which were brought here recently on the steamer Oldenburg from Bremen; also a collection of 2,500 canaries and 500 small parrots. Of the animals that came on the from Castro_street {)eing made six feet "EAGLE Brand; .CONDENSED MILK.. Has No Equal a, the r isto go to Cincinnati, l where it will take the place in the zoologi- cal garden there of one that died lately. The rest are to be shipped to various parts of the country. P DD G— ORCHESTRA VIRTUOSL Importance of the Modern Orchestra Leader's Work. The modern orchestra has been converted into a great composite musical instrument on which the conductor actually plays, and the specific skill he has developed of playing on this ideal instrumentis an ex- act counterpart of what we call virtuosity in the individual performer. A generation of ‘“‘virtuosi of the orchestra” has sprung up, exercising the same fascination over the great crowd of music-lovers that other virtuosi have, time out of mind. The or- chestral conductor is fast becoming the cynosure in the musical firmament, with the polestar of safety or shipwreck beam- ing at its baton’s tip. Lightly warbling soprani, tenors storming the Jericho of the people’s heart with ‘‘miraculous sound’’ and sonorous basses of Bashan will have to look to their laurels; some fine day they may find them encircling the conductor’s Olympian brow. In a word, the modern conductor is essentially a performer, and whether he be a popular favorite by reason of his virtu- osity or of the scope modern musical per- formances gives to the artistic initiative of all performers, his virtuosity per se is un- questionably the element by which he most gains his ascendency over the public. This aspect of the phenomenon is by no means without its dubious side, All vir- tuosity is but a means to an end; and the artisticend to compass which this means is employed is what is fundamentally im- portant in the whole business. ltisby the artistic ideal he tries to incarnate, and by his fealty to that ideal that the con- ductor, like other virtuosi, must show whether he is really the man for his place or not; whether he is worthy to step into the cons]plcuous and responsible position the whole past of the art of music has pre- pared for him, or is only fit to join the glittering and ignoble army of mere clap- trap virtuosi—singers, fiddlers or piano- forte torturers.—From “Orchestral Con- ducting and_Comductors,” by W. M. Ap- thorp in Scribner’s. Prussia, the ti%[e The Cochineal Insect. . The cochineal insect is a fat, dark, spher- ical little creature, looking like a Elack currant, and with neither head, legs nor tail, to the casual observer. In fact, he is so inanimate that any one may squash him between finger and thumb without any qualms of conscience. He is nothing but a black currant, sure enouch, though the bright carmine or lake exusion from his body, which serves him for blood and us for dye, is a better color than the juice of the currant, says Pearson’s Weekly. It was the cultivation of these pleasant little individuals which, more than a score of years ago, put no less than 40 per cent per annum upon investments into the pockets of the cultivators. Such prosperity was too good to last. The insect was not introduced into Tene- riffe until 1825, and for a time it could not be encouraged to propagate successfully. A priest had the honor of being the dis- coverer of the right method of nurture, and to him it is due that from 1845 to 1865 an annual crop of from 2,000,000 to 6,000,000 vounds of cochineal was produced. A cochineal plantation has a singular aspect. The larve, being very delicate and rather thick-witted, haye to be tied upon the cactus plant, which is to be their nursery and their nourishment at the same time. Thus one sees hundreds of the shoots of the prickly pear—the cactus in question—all bandaged with white linen. In this way the insects are kept warm and dry during the winter, and induced to adhere to the plant itself. 'When they are full grown they are ruthlessly swept from their pricklj' quarters, shaken or baked to death and dried in the sun. The shriveled corpses are then packed in bags and sold. e The Flying Squirrel Does Not Fly. Of course the flying squirrel has no wingsand he does not really rise and fly, but good Mother Nature has” kindly given him a wide fringe of skin, running nearly | all the way around his body, which forms avery perfect parachute. 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