The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1595. J 1 The Movement for a Smoother Thoroughfare Being Agitated. BITUMINOUS ROCK WANTED. Gas, Water, Sewer and Condult Systems Will Have to Be | Perfected First. { ow that the Board of Supervisors has wisely determined to appropriate a sum of money sufficient for the paving of 1 Fo treet with bituminous rock the | reet-improvement organizations and wheelmen are directing their attention to the permanent improvement of Market | , MARKET-STREET - PAVING. rge number of people advise that the | re street from the ferries depot to the intersection of Valencia street be repaved with bitumen, which, they say, will with- | stand the heaviest draying. The more conservative element state that basalt blocks would form a satisfactory | pavement laid upon a good foundation. Nearly a1l agree that the present pave- ment is in a disgraceful condition. While the agitation of improvement has been ex- R tended to other streets, such as Mission ) and Howard, still the greatest interest is . centered on Market street. An examination of Market street was made yesterday with the view of ascertain- ing what its condition is. There is little { fault to be found with the sidewalks, ficial stone and asphalt. The pavement isalarge piece of wretched | which, with but few exceptions, are of ar- Between the cable-car tracks 1t blocks are well laid in cement ¥ atchwork. he b e dings are frequently two feet e the street. At the crossings of Cali- , Pine, Bush, Sutter and other streets | e west side are’ patches of cobble- | es and many irregularities in the sur- face of the street. In fact the space be- tween the car track and the sidewalks on | the west side from East street to Ninth is | bad, being full of dangerous ruts and | On the east side the pavement is in fairly good condition. At Second street the crossings are rough, but this seemsto be the trouble where all of the streets meet Market. From Second street to Valencia the east side is in comparatively good order. A noticeable feature is the way the basalt blocks have been cut along the outside | rails of the car tracks. If the streetcar | companies running horsecars had complied | with the law or taken any care of the pave- | ment between their rails, which are out- side of the cable-car rails, Market street | would be much better than it is. Between | the horsecar rails, however, is nothing but the worst kind of patchwork. | Beyond Tenth street the rough basalt avements are in order, as there is ut little heavy teaming done at that end, and no horsecar tracks with cobbles be- tween. The paving of Market street with a fine | quality of bitamen ufion a firm concrete | foundation was a hobby with ex-Mayor | E. B. Pond when he was'in office. At one | time he nearly accomplished his desires, | and there was a fair prospect of having a | beautiful street from ‘the ferries to Ninth | street. The project failed because the | written agreement lacked a few signatures | of property-owners. “1 have always favored changing the | pavement of Market street from basalt to | bitumen,” said Mr. Pond ¥esmrday. oIt is the main thoroughiare of the City, and | the grade is s0 easy that there will be no | trouble in hauling over bitumen any kind | of a load even in wet weather. Bitumen, properly laid, will stand the wear and tear of very heavy draying. ‘“‘Before any improvement is attempted | on the surface the sewer and_ conduit sys- tems should be perfected. I do not believe that this preliminary work will cost so much as many suppose it will.” As might be expected the Merchants’ | Association is deeply interested in the | matter of good streets and better pave- ments, and at their big meeting next Wednesday several papers will be devoted | to this subject. One is being prepared by | A. 8. Baldwin, who is very anxious to see | certain streets putin order atonce. Speak- | ing of Market street Mr. Baldwin said that he believes it is one of the best-paved thoroughfares in the City, but it should be better. He said: “I am not op‘\bsed to basalt blocks upon streets where there is heavy trucking, and the basalt blocks on Market street should it in better condition. Inanumber of | down toward the City front the | s t is not on the official grade, but | whether this is due to the sinking of the made ground 1don’t know. The peogle in | booming street improvements are liable to act hastily, and if they do not be careful they will make an expensive mistake in regard to Market street. “‘Before the surface is permanently re- paired, either with basalt blocks or bitu- men, a perfect sewer system should be put in that will last for 100 years. ‘“‘Another thing should not be forgotten, and that is to place under the streeta large and Sn(-r(ccl conduit system that will serve for all telephone and electric light fran- chises that may be granted for many years. | Otherwise the streets will elways be torn | up and out of shape because of sewers, water-pipes and conduits. I hope the peo- ple will go slow when it comes to operat- ing upon Market street. “‘While itis true that thisisthe main artery of the City and should present a v attractive appearance to those who visit this City, there are other streets in more urgent need ot repairs. For exam- vle, in the retail district there is Post street, from Montgomery to Stockton. Its old cobblestones, ruts and chuckholes are positively offensive to the eye and danger- ous to life and limb. The same may be said of Geary, from Kearny to Powell, and of Stockton to Bush. “‘Down in the wholesale district it is not s0baa, as nearly all the streets are paved with basalt blocks, which are suitable for the heavy teaming that is done in that section. North of Clay and east of Kearny the streets arc rather rough, being nearly all paved with round cobbles, but the streets in that section do not demand any immediate extensive repairs. In the manufacturing district south of Market and east of Third considerable work should bedone. Take Mission street. Part is on the grade and a large portion is below the official grade. The car tracks are raised above the streetand so are many of the sidewalks. Mission street is indeed a thoroughfare of guiches, ditches, eleva- tions and irregularities. But even before p:rmnnentlmpro\-emems are made there the water, gas, sewer and conduif should be perfected.’” ey ettt | | was allowed to INSURANCE CHANGES, Prominent Underwriters Recelve Ap- pointments in the Reorganization of Different Local Offices. Consequent upon the upheaval in insar- ance circles caused by the rate war changes in offices in San Francisco are now a matter of daily occurrence. From day to day the news of some timid or conservative concern refusing to coutinue the reckless competi- tion spreads along the street, but there happened to be nothing of that sort yes- terday. E J. D. Maxwell received the appointment yesterday as San Francisco manager of the| > New York Underwriters’ agency. This is & million dollar company, and its local & business will be written by Mr. Maxwell. L. L. Eromwell was appointed general manager of the Milwankee Mechanics’ Company for the Pacific Coast with head- quarters in 8an Franeisco. The Mechanics was recently taken from Warren & Lank- tree. Tts new manager will be a’ salaried officer of the company. Edward A. Schmidt, formerly of the Pal- atine Company, and ~us Messinger, who was a member of Easton, Incell & Messin- ger, formed a co-partnership yesterday and will take the management of the city department of the Lancashire Company, which is managed here by Mann & Wilson. E. W. Carpenter, late manager of the Royal and Norwich Union companies, who was succeeded by Rolla V. Watt in office, is selling his residence on “Nob Hill” and making arrangements to return to Mon- tana, whence he came to this City. el STRIKERS DISCHARGED. The Cases Against Them Are Being Nolle Prosequied by the District Attorney. United States District Attorney Foote is following out his avowed intention of dis- missing the indictments against strikers whenever any of the latter can show that the charge hanging over their heads is keeping them from getting work. In this way quite a number of the men have been allowed to go, and in the case of Knox, the leader of the Sacramento A. R. U. men, his bail was exonerated and he io on his own recognizance, Many of the' A, R. U. men under indict- ment are availing themselves of the Dis- trict Attorney's clemency and are asking to_have the charges against them dis- missed. Joseph Hill of Sacramento and Richard Lane of Oakland produced proof yesterday that they could get steady work "if Judge Foote would only molle prosequi the charges against them, This the District Attorney did at once as soon as satisfied that the men’s state- ments were correct, and District Judge Hawley ordered the men discharged. ‘STANFORD'S OPEN DOORS, A EBrilliant ‘Reception to the Graduating Class of ’95. The House on the HIll Is Once More Thronged by Many Guests. Once more, after years of drawn cur- tains, semi-darkness and loneliness, the palatial halls and brilliant apartments -of the Stanford mansion have resounded | with light laughter and the hum of con- versation, and the corridors have been thronged with welcome guests. The class of ’95, pioneers in the intellectnal fields of the Palo Alto University, were received by Mrs. Stanford at her home yesterday after- noon, and they were allowed to wander here and tnere among the treasures gath- ered together by Senator Stanford during his lifetime, and now kept by his widow for the memories which they bring. The students viewea the pictures, the statues, the bronzes and carvings, the tap- estried walls and the mosaic floors. They ate at the tables where under the blaze of crystal lamps princely feasts have been held and guests of world-wide fame have dined. They lingered in the drawing-room among the satin divans and richly up- holstered chairs; they thronged the music hall and the library, ana some availed themselves of the invitation and visited the rooms upstairs. The house was open to them, and they were made to feel them- selves at home. Mrs, Stanford received the guests in the main_drawing-room, and then, as all were friends and needed no introduction, the; separated into groups and roamed aronng wherever fancy Suggested. The faculty of the college and the the ladies of the fac- ultg, besides the trustees and their families, had been invited. At hali-past 2 o’clock the guests began to arrive, and soon there | were over 200 people in the reception- rooms. As many as possible were then called into the library, where Mrs. Stan- ford addressed them in words of simple and sincere welcome. Mrs, Stanford said: Itis with a far deeper feeling than one of mere pleasure thatl meet the class of '95 in my home to-day. As I see youall here and as I 1alk to you, thére is uppermost in my mind the 1ast time we met together. It wasin the spring of 1892, when a large number of you came one evening to call at our home at Palo Alto. I 'was not alone then. By my side was my dear husband, and I well rgcall the pleasure your visit gave him, and I dare say you recall some of his friendly words of welcome. All the students at the university have a place in my esteem, but I never can forget that the men and women of this class of '95 were my husband’s friends, and for that reason, if for no other, they have seemed personally nearer to me. My husband oiten talked over your future with me and ever looked forward to being present at your graduation and to meeting you, &s we meet to-day, on the eve of your leaving the university to go out into the world. I feel that his influence has been with you and the university in the past, and that it will continue with you in the future. It was always his” desire to have impressed upon you the necessity for the observance of the golden rule and the fact of the existence of a beneficent Creator. His address to you at the opening of the university ended with Solo- mon’s words: “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.” I would like you to remember this as the wish of the founder of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. T take this opportunity to thank you for your loyalty to the university and to mzsel.f during the trials of the it two years. have seen and felt it,and know that it issdeep-rooted among you. It is from this knowledge and from my faith in you and the president and faculty that I have derived the strength and determination that have enabled me to carry on the work which my husbana left me to do. Your_ enthusiasm and the devotion of the resident and faculty were infectious, and I Bwe endeavored to do my part in the univers- ity work as zealously as youhave done yours. Iwill not deny that” we have passed through troublous times, and more than one crisis dur- ing the past two years, but with God’s help we have sed throngh them successfully, and that fact gives me hope and faith in the future. If I take you somewhat into my confidence at this time it is because 1 do not feel that your connection with the university is to cease when you leave it; on the contrary, as alumni, you are more closely connected with it than ever, and become co-workers with the faculty and with me. \ The " cloud that hangs over us now is the pending Government suit. Should it be de- cided against the estate I can at present see no alternative but the closing of the university, and should it be long in litigation the univer- sity resources will be much crippled. I have done all that lies in m{ power to keep its doors open and have willing] x made many sacrifices. ere is nothing to be done now but await the decision of the courts. But I haye a firm hope of the ultimate mnmrh of truth and justice, with an abiding faith in the all wise and mer- ciful God, who rules all and who does all things well. 1thank you for your presence here to-day, and, believe me, whatever betide I shall never forget the Pioneer Class of '95. James Langford, president of the class, responded briefly, and Judge Spencer, president of the board of trustees, and Dr. Jordan, president of the faculty, also spoke. '‘That was all in the nature of cere- mony. At half-past 5 the last guest had de- parted, the air of loneliness again took possession of the drawing-room and the curtains were once more drawn in the windows. But the pleasant greetings of yesterday will leave one more cherished mem:gg among the many that lurk in the halls, dese: —— ‘Woman’s Night at the Unitarian Club, After 8 week of excitement and intensity, Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw will take a“night 01!?'. on Monday, as the guests of the Unitarian its ual Woman’s Nightat the Palace g‘;lte “Dr. H: u.ndl)r.enbbfiu willstand up 107 their sex ag best they can. After the dinner he followi) roj me will beoffered: “The *lightl and Priv s of Woman,” Rev. A. O\ Hirst, D. D.3 *The Rights and Priviliges of Man,” Miss Shsan B. Annnon{ “The Womanly Woman,” Rek. Horatlo steb ir\lxshb.b. i an,’”r Dr. Anna Howar “haw. T :‘u‘-‘:?non' o draficd militia af the discre: tion of the THE TALE OF TWO LIVES, A Strange Narrative That Grew Out of a Nugget of Antimony. TOLD BY THE WHARFINGER. The First Electrotyper and the First Occupant of San Francisco’s City Hall Site. { Oakland’s chief wharfinger and the sec- retary of the Alameda County Miners’ As- sociation sat in one and the same chair be- fore the dust-covered desk of Charles B. Rutherford in the dingy liitle, frame | building on the city wharf at the foot of | Franklin street when Idropped in to ask | him for water-front items and shipping | news. | He had neither to give, but he had some- thing better—a moving tale of real life that began many years ago in Londen and | ended only a few vears since in San Luis | Obispo. County. I did not ask him fora | story, nor did he offer to tell one. "It grew | first and also the largest electrotyping and stereotyping establishment in New York City. At one time he had contracts for some of the largest publishing-houses there. He was a very rich man for those days, and when he went back to England ["on a visit he was wined and dined at Sta- tioners’ Hall and by the merchants and the Lord Mayor, and was made much of in that way. He traveled through Eng- land, Scotland and Ireland, and spent some time on the Continent before he re- turned to New York. “When he came back the Civil War broke out. That raised the price of anti- mony.” Mr. Rutherford tossed the little nugget about in his palm. “ “That raised the price of antimony to 40 cents a pound and it ruined my friend Fil- mer. ere he was tied up with those contracts. No one had reckoned on the war and no one had foreseen that a war could have raised the price of that metal or intgrfered with thel bl:sll‘:leSS of t(kl:etyxich an rosperous electrotyper an pe- loundgr. e had added a type foundry to his factory. At the present rate of anti- mony he could not continue with the con- tracts. He could do nothing but what he did, and that was to become insolyent. He was penniless when the proceedings wers over. Then he turned his eyes toward “California. He came out here and went to work in San Francisco for Painter, the electrotyper. Yes, he isin Ban Franeisco still, T believe. He has & business of his own and is Fmspc_rous again. And one thing he has done since he came out here shows the mettle of the man,Ithink. He has paid back every dollar, every cent that lie owed when he left New York bankrupt. It isn’t every man who does that, you know. “And Murray, his career was just be- SR WILLIAM FILMER, from a very small beginning—from a little : nugget of pure antimony that he held in | his hand. = I asked him where it came from. , | “‘Some Mexicans sent it to me from Mon- terey,’”’ he answered. “Found a mine of it there?’ I asked, more to be sociable than from curiosity. “Yes and no,’ he said. ‘‘About two years ago, when they were prospecting in | the mountaing there, they came across this | and some similar nuggeis. They thought | it was only lead and went on, cursing their | Inck becanse they could not find gold. But | they saved a nugget or two, and when they | came up to San Francisco they brought me | this one. When I told them what it was and its value they went back to search for the lead, but could never find it.” “Is antimony worth much?’ I asked, still bent on. being agreeable. *‘Thev use it in type metal?”’ ‘‘Yes, and in some other things,” he | said. Then he leaned back in his chair and regarded the shining nugget contem- | platively for a moment. “It's worth X cents a pound now. Sometimes it is worth more than that. I've seen the time when it went up as high as 40 cents a pound. That was when—"" He stopped suddenly, then changed the thread of his story. The lead to his tale had been struck—as unex- pectedly as many a weary prospector has come upon a lead whose beginnings reach back into geological time no more an- ciently, in comparison, than the begin- ning of this romance of contemporaneous historv. | “When I was a lad in Boston,” began the chief wharfinger, still regarding the nugget that lay in the palm of his hand, ‘‘there were a dozen or more apprentice- boys in London who looked with longin, eyes toward America. They fancied al things were Foasihle in this land and were impatient till they should be men and could come here. They had a little social club among themselves, where they used to meet and talk of their favorite theme— America. It struck them one day to puta box on the table in . their clubroom and to resolve to put into this box all their spare coin. Aftera time it should be broken open, and the money in it should be used to send one of their num- | ber to the United States. He, of course, would make his fortune in a month or two, and then would send for the others. The boys denied themselves man:; small luxuries in order to swell the fund’. ‘When the box was opened its contents were found to be sufficient to send two of the lads across the big pond. They drew lots. The luckky ones were Walter Murra; and William Filmer, one a lawyer’s cler] and the other a printer’s devil. They came to Boston, to the same neighborhood where Ilived. Since then I have lost sight of either of them. I'm not good on dates. I can’t tell you the year they crossed, but it was still in the days of sailing vessels. “Filmer, the printer’s apprentice, soon jound work in a printing office at good wages, but it went hard with Murray. We laughied at a lawyer’s apprentice coming to America for work. Filmer made friends with his employer, and by end by he told Murray he could give him a job. Do you know what Murray’s job was? Pulling the leverage on a bxfi ashington hand- ress! Ha, ha, ha! Mr. Rutherford aughed heartily et the remembrance of the lawyer’'s clerk working at the hand- press, ‘“Iused w';oin to see him—ha, ha— all ink and sweat! Ha, ha, ha! “But, don” dou know, Murray was a plucky boy. He used to come down early in the morning and stay in at noon to learn 1o set type. In six weeks he could set as well as many of the older apprentices and the boss put him to work at the case. After that it was easy sailing for both the lads. They were earning good wages and saving a little. They stopped at a board- ing-house where the landladi had an awfully pretty girl. And both of them, sure enough, fell in love with that ‘g;rl. Well, they couldn’t both have her, so they a; t0 let her settle it. She chose Filmer, and in a year or so they were mar- ried. 1t broke Murray all up, this did, and_he left his job and went off to New York. He worked a while there setting type, and then the Mexican war broke out and there was a call for volunteers. He was one of the first to go. He joinea Stevenson’s regiment and came around the Horn and was in the battle of Cape ‘| San Lucas. % “Tilmer, he] stayed right on at the case and after a while be had a printing office of his own. Ob, be prospered. It was he who invented electrotyping. Then he in- vented & new printing press, He had the ginning when he landed at Cape San ucas, After the battle he came up to San Francisco. Some printers had brought up the old Alta from Monterey. In those days they had only the Spanish type and they had to use two v's to make aw. Well, it was established in San Francisco when | Stevenson’s regiment landed there. When the boys were paid off Murray and an- other, who was also a printer, went to work on the Alta setting type. Itwasa queer-looking sheet; I remember it well. Presently Murray and his companions began to look about for some g invest- ment. They finally settled on a 160-acre tract that now centers at the new City Hall square. It wasa very fertile valley in those days and they filed on it as Government land. They built a shanty on the very site of the present courthouse and they hired Chinamen to plant and work a vegetable patch therewhile they were at work setting type. They made a pretty good thing out of it for a while, because fresh vegetables l‘)lrought. fancy prices in the market In those ays. “But presently Captain Folsom came along and took a notion to that bit of land. He sent for Murray and told him he must vacate the premises, because he held a prior claim on it. Murray demurred. He | declared it was Government land and that he and his companions were the first set- tlers, and would not get off. The argu- ment was carried along in this way for a few weeks and then one morning when Murray got home from work he found his shanty demolished and 2 lot of bluecoats in possession. “The gold excitement had broken out about this time and Murray and some of the other printers decided to go to the mines. They got a cart with those big solid wheels, into which they put their traps and kits, and then they started for Tuolumne County. They crossed Sulli- van’s Creek just a few days behind another party that had taken off all the surface #old on the banks and in the bed of the creek. They panned out a litile of the metal, but they gave it up for a played-out lead and went on into the Mormon Creek and Table Mountain country. Some time later several big fortunes were taken out of Sullivan Creek. They took up good claims at Mormon Creek and were do- ing finely when the provisions began to run short. Murray volunteered to replenish them. He took enough dust with him to bring what was needed and hid the rest under a rock in the creek. When he got down to San Francisco and began to lay in his stores he started by buying a barrel of ‘whisky for about everipolmd of other pro- visions. He went back with grub enough for the whole camp, but he had ten time: as much whisky as anything else, and he sold every drop of it for ten times the price it cost him. VEhen he went td look for the can of dust he had hidden he found the bed of the creek several feet higher and the rock under which he placed the can was washed away. But a week or so later, much further down the stream, he found his can with all_the dust he had burdened it with. By and by, after some more suc- cessful mining, he went down to San Fran- cisco again for more flmyxsionund whisky, and this time he took his gold with him. “On his way back to the mines he was overtaken by the rains, The roads became impassable and he had about determined to abandon his stores when he fell in with another party of miners, who bought him out at a handsome price. Then Murray went down to Stockton a rich man. He studied law and knocked around a littie, and finally bought outa small newspaper plant that printed a sheet about 8x10 inches square. It was called the Sonora Herald. !\u-rafiwns a clever writer and a good printer. He enlarged the ga er at once and threw all his energy an lent into it, and soon had a splendid news- paper property for those days. When Gov- ernor Weller was tlying to get the renom- ination he offered Murray 0st any price for his support, but Murray refused of- fers, his political sympathies being the other side of the fence. Dr. Gwinon, at that time United States Senator, who also wished to_succeed himself, united with Governor Weller in trying to secure the support of Murray's paper, but Murray could not be bought. “Finally Weller and Gwin made l‘nms a handsome offer for the entire plant an $10,000 as an inducement to sell. Murray took the offer and sold out, his intention being to Hgo down to Mexico and settle there. & had, meantime, married a very beautiful and well-to-do Chilean Itd{, who could not speak a word of English, In this way Murray became interested in the Spanish tongue. He could speak and write it almost like a native. . He learned French and Italian as well, and became generally interested in the Latin tongues and litera- tures, and it was his intention to go south, perhaps as far as Chile, and spend a few Years in stndying Spanish literature. “What Murray and his. wife did was to go to San Francisco for a time. One night ashe sat in the foyer of one of the hotels there he overheard a conversation between some miners and a rancher from San Luis Obispo. The miners were trying to induce him to go to the mines with them and the rancher declared loudly that if he could sell his 160-acre tract at gnn Luis Obispo he would go with them at once. “‘How much do you want for your ranch ?’ asked Murr: “‘Bight hundred the rancher. “ ‘Well, I'11 down and look it over, and if I like it I will pay you what it is worth,” said Murray. And that 1s how Murray came to go to San Luis Obispo. He bought the ranch and settled there. He opened a law office in the city, and besides practicing in the courts he trans- lated Spanish lawbooks into English and English ones into Spanish. “ie collected a splendid library of Spanish literature and was the author of several lawbooks. By and by he was ap- pointed District Judge for San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, and when he died a few years ago he was still on the bench. He was one of the best known and wealthiest men in that country.” ¥ “Did he ever meet Filmer in San Fran- cisco?”’ I asked, as Mr. Rutherford leaned back in his chair and fingered over the little nugget of antimony again. “I don't know about that,’ said the chief wharfinger. ‘“You see, this isa true story, and I can’t end it in a dramatic way even to please a newspaper man.” * e ox x x ® ® % But there was more of the dramatic ele- ment in this tale than ever. Mr. Ruther- ford knows Murray and Filmer did meet}in San Francisco, It was after Murray had settled at San Luis Obispo. Besides prac- ticing law there he started the first English newspaper in that town. Hecame to gfln Francisco to buy the type and plant, and here he met Filmer. Themeeting was accidental, though Filmer had known of his old chum’s doings here. He had— But Jet Mr, Filmer tell the rest of the tale. He is a hale and hearty old man _to-day, and, though nearly 70 years old, is more active than many men of 50 and most men of 60. The Boston girl that heand Mnrray both loved has been gathered to the great mejority long since, and Mr. Filmer was married a second time before he came to California. ‘T came out in 1866,” he said, when I found him in his stereotyping foundry— the largest establishment on the coast—on Bansome street, ‘‘and Murray was already a very prominent man here. He was chair- man of the Republican State Central Com- mittee and one of the best known lawyers in the State—a very wealthy and a very learned man, and g large property-owner. “Of course, we rénewed our old friend- ship in San Francisco after our chance meeting, and he intrusted to me the task of buying the outfit for the Sau Luis Obispo Tribune that was to be. And do you know—by the wni. I wonder how Rutherford could have known it—do know that I never knew that he was in fove with that young lady? He never told me a thing about it until our meeting in San Francisco. Then I understood why he went away so suddenly. Yes, Mdrray was a fine fellow in every way. There are three grown daughters’of his down in San Luis Ogbispo now. Beautiful girls they are, too, and intellectual like their father.” Yes, what Rutherford has told you js about true. Only he’s mistaken when he says I invented stereotyping. I was closely con- nected with the man who did invent the process, and I had a chance to make some 1mprovements on it. “Rutherford was a Rrinter's ngl‘)(rentioe in Boston, and he and Murray and I all be- longed to the Mechanics’ Apprentices’ Library Association, That's how we be- came acquainted. It was in 1843 that I came to Boston—quite a few L}"exfl"s ago, that; isn’t it? And Murray and I didn’t come together. That's a mistake. We tossed up for who should %oto America first, and when the chance fell to Murray and I, it was thought best that I should go first and send for Murray as soon as I could find a place for him. I got to work in Dickinson’s }n‘inting office, and it wasn’t long before 1 could send for Murray. It was one of my fellow-apprentices, Warren Richardson, with whom I first went into business. We started a firm called Filmer & Richardson. Do you know that Rich- ardson is in the same business there still? *‘And it wasn’t alone the price of anti- mony that caused my failure in New York, though of course that played a large partin it. But the publishers that I did business for suffered so much during the war that it crippled me. I did all the work for Frank Leslie and the New York Ledger and such people. When the war broke out the New York Ledger’s circula- tion fell from 550,000 copies to 100,000. Frank Leslie's publications suffered in the same way. “But Rutherford didn’t tell you about my apprenticeship in London, did he? That was the real reason I wanted to come to America. When I was 14 years old my {father apprenticed me to a Tondon prin- ter for seven years. He paid that printer £50 cash for taking me, and I was not to receive a cent in salary till the indenture had expired—till I was 21 years old. Seven years—think of that! Well, the time was just half up when 1 took French leave. *“When 1 came to San Francisco it was on contract to work for Towne & Bacon. A year after I got here the firm went out of business. Then I went to Painter & Co.’s and stayed with them till the death of J. B. Painter, when I again started in business for myself.” * % % x x % * ‘William Filmer is a natiye of Chatham, England, and was born in 1826. A recent number of the Pacific Union Printer says of him: Mr. Filmer commenced to experiment in the use of the electrotype in 18493 as applied to printing purposes, and has been intimately connected with the art ever since. It will thus be seen that William Filmer is mnot only closely connected with the art of electrotyping but may justly be termed one of the pionéers of this branch of industry that has been so useful to the human race. Mr. Filmer's work has not been limited to the mere mechanical detail in the arts of print- ing and electrotyping, but hesadvanced to a higher plane. He contributeda series of arti- cles on ‘*Electro-Metallurgy” to the Printer (of New York) in 1858-59. He also wrote a valu- able and interesting erticle entitled *“An American Art—The Electrotype—Its Applica- tion to Printing Purposes,” for the Overland Monthly in 1872, in addition to which he has contributed articles relating to printing and elelc\:ro-ma(nllurgy to various technical jour- nals. It is a very ancient and overlooked proverb that about truth being stranger than fiction, yet in_such tales as these— with which the world is filled to those who will give ear to them—the everlasting verity of the proverb impresses its force anew. Truly, t’f:’ene is more in real life than inthe story-books, and what manner of person must it be who finds more food in fairy tales than in the true stories of real lifet - Luke NorrH. ay. < d{)llnrs spot cash,’ said ARMED FOR DARING DEEDS. A-San Jose Youth Captured in This City. R. W. Sinclair, alias W. H. Smith, is only 15 years of age, but he has shown him- self to be possessed of the desire to bea bold, bad man. He belong to San Jose, and :D;ew dlngs ago stole a bicycie there and rode to this city. 3 Sheriff Lyndoutynofifled police_head- quarters and Detectives Bee ana Harper were put on the case. They recovered the bicycle and arrested Sinclair yesterday on Third street. He was taken to the Cit Prison, and when searched a cartridge-belt was found strapped around his waist and attached to it were revolver and a ten-inch irkknife, each in a leather sheath. The belt was filled with cartridges. He said he intended to go on the road with his bicycle and be a bold highwayman. 3 Last evening ie was sent to San Jose in charge of a deputy sheriff. Luther had a most exalted opinion of mothers and motherhood, and repeatedly eulogizes both in his writings. > 1 14! T0 TRAIN YOUNG HANES, The New Courses Established in the Commercial High School. GIRLS LEARNING TO CARVE. Two Lines of Practlcal Study Laid Out for Next Year’s Gram- mar Graduates. The apparatus for the new course in manual training, which has been added to the Commercial High School, is now all in place, and the incoming pupils from the grammar school will find waiting for them next July as complete a course of its kind as can be found anywhere in the West. Beginning with July, the manual train- ing course will be made a department to itself. In future there will be two courses in the school—the commercial, a course of two years, and the manual training, a course of three years’ duration. In the girls’ course in manual train- ing, classes in freehand drawing, clay modeling, wood-carving, sewing and cook- ing are included. Also a course 1n the sciences, including biology the first year, physics the second year, and chemistry the third year. For the boys, the course includes constructive drawing, carpenter work, blacksmithing and machine work, besides the course in science. For the study of biology there has been fitted up an excellent equipment, includ- ing sixteen of the best microscopes and all the necessary apparatus for making slides for specimens. For the physical laboratory the usual apparatus has been procured. The chemical laboratory is fully equipped, and is capable of accom- modating thirty-six pupils at a time. The courses in manual training are under the direction of Professor Frank A. Gardener, a recent graduate of the Wor- cester Institute of Technology, who has been for three years in the shops of the TUnion Iron Works. He looks after the boys himself. In the girls’ course, however, there are teachers in each department. Miss Maria Van Black has charge of the clay-modeling and the wood-carving de- partments, and she has a great deal of very pretty work to show as the handi- work of those who have been in her charge since last March. Ia the free-hand draw- ing department Mrs. E. P. Bradley has charge. The pupils have decorated the room according to their own designs. The cooking and sewing departments are ready for the Jul% Pupfls. Hand and machine sewing in all forms and plain and fancy cooking will be taught in these branches. The boys’ course in manual training be- ins with mechanical and constructive rawing. Then tha boys are put to work in the carpenter-shops, and the course ends in the forgeroom and the machine-shops. It is in the apparatus for the boys’ course that the most money has been spent, for the equipment includes every- thing in the way of milling, blacksmith- ing and machine work. In the carpenter- shop there are scroll, band and circular saws, machine planes, turning-lathes and shapers, with bench room for a large class. The girls’ wood-carving class is in the same room, and one of the dutiesof the boys will be to put together the work of the girls. In the blacksmithing depart- ment there are twelve forges. In the ma- chine-shops there are five. lathes of differ- ent sizes, a drill press, a plane, a_screw- cutter, a metal saw, besides nambers of smaller machines. In the way of tools the students will be well provided for. Each boy in the carpen- ter-shop will receive all the common car- pentering tools and will beloaned the special tools as his work requires them. In the mechanical drawing department forty setsof instruments have been pro- vided for the use of the pupils. Each girl will be given afull set of wood-carving tools, and the girls in the art department will be given a great deal of the equipment néeded. ST Will Go Back to Tulare. A young man named Zoro R. Meredith, who Delongs in Tulare County, was arrested by De- tectives Bee and Harper Friday, and to-day will be taken to the southern County, where he is wanted to answer to a charge of burglary. Meredith, who also travels unider the alias of Golden, it is alleged, robbed the dry-goods store of L. Goldman in Tulere on the 16th inst. Some of the stolen goods was found on him when he was arrested 1n his room on Sacra- mento street, near Kearny, e The cost of becoming a naturalized Eng- lishman is about $30. ——— NEW TO-DAY. SO o s et S S IR Shoestore? ! Shoe Factory or both? Both. Humming wheels and busy work- men above; busy salesmen and busy buy- ers below—the retail department. Not an ordinary retail department either; extraordinary assortment; extraordinary goodness of stuffs, styles and workman- ship; above all—. / EXTRAORDINARY PRICES—Factory prices—the same that the ordinary shoe- dealer pays. ! e ROSENTHAL, FEDER & (0, WHOLESALE MAKERS OF SHOES, 581-583 MARKET ST. NEAR SECOND. HENRY BEEMAR. A Popular Rancher of Salem, Or., Has Just Recovered From a Peculiar Skin Afffietion, HIS ENTIRE BODY ON FIRE. Portland Physicians Gave Up the Case as Hopeless—Many Different Remedles Were Tried but Only One Was Successful, THE STORY IS VOUCHED FOR. It is not so very long ago when the good people of America listened to the horribla mouth pictures of fire and brimstone, and maybe some were the better forit. Few peopla realize what this fire meant. There lives a man in Salem town who tellsa tale of skin fire, which isindeed terrible. He said: “About six months ago my stomach went back on me and I could eat ne solid food without terrible suffering afterward. I tried soda and differ ent things, and while I got some relief a new disease arose. Iused to notice at night thaf my skia would be dry and harsh, and it had » feeling as if so many pins were pricking me at the same time. After these prickings, which lasted two or three hours, I would get into a sweat and the agony would be over. By and by Igrew worse, and then it seemed as if my entire body was on fire. I scratched and scratched and scratched. I dug my nails into my flesh until I wad completely covered with sores. I grew desper= ate. My appetite failed. I was rapidly bes coming a wreck. Icould dono work. I gonld not sleep. Life had become a burden to me, I stopped using soda and all the other stuff that my good friends told me to take. [ went to Portland and stopped with relatives. They had a half-bottle of a remedy called Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla., One of my relatives had been taking it for constipation, and she recommended it highly, I1had little faith in the medicine and did not want to tryit. Aftera whole lot of talk and argument I beganusing Jey’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. The rTesult on my bowels was marvelous. I began to feel better in three days. Still the awful fire of my skin continued. I used three bottles of Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla and the skin trouble entirely disappeared. I believe I am & well man. I write this in the hope that some one who is a sufferer may read it and try Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. It worked wonders for me.” Mr. Beeman has lived in Oregon the better part ot his life, and it is said he is well and favorably known in Salem. It is certainly & remarkable cure, but is only one of the many peculiar cures that have been effected by the home remedsy, Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. FITSCURED (From U. S. Journal of Medicine.) 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