The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1895. e s s m o e e e A B O TRINITY SCHOOL CLOSES, Literary Exercises for Alumni Gold Medal — Five Graduates. FAREWELL PARTY TO-NIGHT. To Attend the Unlversity of Call- fornla—Victor In the Rhetorical Contest. The closing exercises of Trinity School were held yesterday. The rhetorical prize exhibition for the alumni gold medal took placein the morning before a large audience of friends of the school. The contestants were: Carroll M. Thrasher, who recited ‘“The Curse of Regulus”; Sid- ney Foster, “Pompeii’’; Louis M. Starr, ““The Sentinel’s Alarm” ; Wilson B. Evans, “The Court of the King”; Ernest W. | Arnold, ‘A Violin Fantasy’’; McCullough Graydon, “The Battle of Ivry"; Frank L. Southack, “Death of Benedict Arnold”’; Henry L. Taylor, “Herve Riel”; Clarence E. Schmitt, “The Lesson of Waterloo”; Henry Clinton Melone, *“Whisperin’ Bill”, The committee on award of medals was trakhan cap and Russian overcoat with the picturesque touch, “He looks like a man afraid to go to sleep.” Then comes the in- evitable chat, and the great herd of the British public is stirred with the news that Sher Afzul does not think much of Umra Khan. “Ido not want,” he said, *‘ever to see him again.”—Pall Mall Gazette. - WITH FIRE CHISELS. Thirty Pounds of Stone Broken Up by One Pound of Wood. At Bangalore, in Southern India, the quarrying of granite slabs by means of wood fire has been brought to such perfec- tion thatan accountof the method is in- teresting. The rock forms solid masses un- interrupted by cracks for severai hundreds of feet, and when quarried over an area is treated as follows: A narrow line of wood fire, perhaps seven feet long, is gradually elongated, and at the same time moved forward over the tolerably even surface of solid rock. The line of the general split- ting of the rock is indicated by piles of light wood, which have been left burning in their position until strokes with a ham- mer irdicate that the rock in front of the | fire has become detached from the main mass underneath. The burning wood is then pushed forward a few inches and left until the hammer again indicates that the slit has extended. Thus the fire is moved on, and at the same time the length of the line of fire is increased and made to be convex on the | side of the fresh rock, the maximum length of the arc amounting to about twenty-five feet. Itisonly on this advancing line of fire that any heating takes place, the por- tion which has been traversed being left to itself. This latter portion is covered with 0. R. BALDWIN. H., G. EDWARDS. composed of Frank C. Mathien, class of '81; Alfred P. Redington, class of '83; and Pe Mills, class of '94. Mr. Mathieu presented the medal at the graduating g to the victor, Henry one. ening the graduation exercises ace at the school hall. An address . by Rev. William 1. Kipp, presi- Diplomas were by Rev. William Ford ols and an address followed by Rev. Mynard of St. John’s Church, Oak- d. The five graduates deliversd orations. e salutatory by Herbert G. Edwards was on “The Increase of Our Army and Navy.’ Orville R. Baldwin, the valedictorian, dwelt upon “The Destruction of Animal Life for Amusement.”’ Sylvanus C. Farn- Rev. Dr. E, B. Spalding. ham’s theme was ‘‘Necessity for the Stud of Ancient Languages,” Carroll M Thrasher’s, “Brain and Brawn,” and Er- nest W. Arnold’s, ‘“Washington and Lincoln.” It is understood that all of the éoung men will enter the University of alifornia. The school, which has just closed its eighteenth year, is on the accredited list of the University of California_and the Le- land Stanford University. It has senta number of students to Yale and Harvard. Dr. E. B. Spaulding, who is at the head of the school, is rector of Saint John’s. The eighty-three boys who have been in attendance at_Trinity school the past year enjoved a spelling match as a relaxation rior to the closing exercises, Herbert G. dwards and Sidney Foster being the joint winners. This evening the students give a party at the schoo! SCHUETZEN VEREIN FEST. A Merry Evening Spent by the San Fran- cisco Club Over Distribution of Prizes. The San Francisco Schuetzen Club and its many friends gathered last evening in | California Hall on Bush streev and en- | joyed a merry time over the conclusion of | the May shooting festival. = & A large number of handsome prizes, in- cluding furniture, household ornaments, vases, cups, etc., were_ distributed in the | lower hall early in the evening among winners at the contest. e All present entered into the_spirit of the occasion and were immensely pleased with the fun_accompanying the selection of articles, D. B. Fakfor presided, and with K. Wertheimer secretary. Henry Koster treasurer, and a large committee, managed affairs so well that dancing was commenced quite early. 2 C. H. Weise, the Schuetzen king, was carried to the stage and decorated with a handsome medal in honor of his_victory, after which ceremony the party indulged in dancing. ———o Even Sher Afzul Interviewed. 8till does the world progress, and East and West draw closer together. America invented the interviewer, the Pall Mall Gazette, a gentle Frankenstein, established him in London, and to-day our Times tells us that he has found his way into the fastnesses of the lonely mountains round Chitral. ‘‘Sher Afzul was interviewed on his arrival”; somehow the words have an incongruous sound as one pictures the old Parthan chieftan, freebooter and slayer of men, who has se recently felt the iron hand of the infidel, sitting like the spirit of deso- lation among his native hills.” But the in- terviewer cares for none of these things. He merely ‘“‘wires” home details of As- | the ashes left by the wood, and with thin | splinters which have been burst off. These | splinters are only about one-eighth of an inch in thickness and a few inches across. They are quite independent of the general splifting of the rock, which is all the time coing on at a depth of about five inches | from the surface. The burning lasts eight hours, and the line of fire advances at the average rate of nearly six feet an hour. The area actually passed over by the line of fire is 460 square feet, but as the crack extends about three feet on either side beyond the fire, the area of the entire slab | which is set free measures about 740 square | feet. All this is done with, may be, about |15 cwt. of wood. Taking the average | thickness of the stone at five inches, and its specific gravity at 2.62, the result is | thirty pounds of stone quarried with one pound of wood.—Nature. | SR HOODOOED HOUSE. It Was Once Occupied by Assassin Guiteau. Going through West Twenty-sixth street pointed to a certain house and said: “That house is a house with a history. Some folks might say it was hoodoed.” It seems that during the month of June, | 1881, there were boarding at that hous | four men, who have since figured in tragic events, in which two lost theirlives and two came very near doing so, says the New York World. The first of these men was the assassin | of President Garfield, Charles Guiteau, | who, living in a little, dark hall room on the top floor, represented himself as an in- surance man. He had come from Chicago, and intimated that he was going to Wash- | ington to manipulate a large insurance | deal, from which he expected large re- turns. Tt was remarked at the time that he could not be persuaded to talk politics, while on all other subjects he was a bright, | interesting and willing talker. Guitean | left about the middle of June to go to ‘Washington, and soon after he assassin- ated Garfield. Another inmate of the same house was Dr. Kimball, whole suicide under tragic circumstances is still well remembered. At the time he wasa young dentist, who was ac(lnirin;: an_extensive practice. The doctor had as assistant a Mr. Wallace, who later went to practice at Ithica, N. Y. went into a barber-shop to ‘get shaved. The barber, as he stropping his razor, said, “I think T will cut your throat.” ‘Wallace jumped out of the chair and at a glance saw that the man was insane. Wal- lace started on a run for the door, with the madman after him, flourishing his razor and uttering unearthly vells and slashing | wildly about him. Wallacs was overtaken | and then began a fierce struggle which | ended only when help arrived and rescued Wallace from a position which was mo- mentarily becoming more perilons. The fourth man was M. B. Curtis, the actor, who was arrested and tried for the shooting of a policeman in San Fran- cisco. On circumstantial evidence he was sentenced to be hanged. Butafter a stay | of proceedings new evidence was secured, | and on a second trial Curtis was acquitted. ——————— Four Generations®Marry in One Room. Miss Bessie C. Sampson and William Homer Lane were married at Bedford at noon to-day, says the Boston Transcript of May 15. Miss Sampson is the first native of thetown of her sex to receive a colle- giate education, graduating in the class of ’90 at Mount Holyoke. Mr. Lane is of the class of ’92, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now established in New York City as an_electrician. The bride of to-day is of the fifth generation of the fam- ily who have been marricd or began wed- ded life at this homestead, and she is the fourth generation to take upon herself the | marriage vows beneath this roof tree. This succession has been entirely on the maternal side; her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother having preceded her, the ceremony always being performed in the one room. The ceremony to-day was simple and impressive, being a coni- bination of the Furitan and Church of England order, one Igeculim- to the officiat- infi clergyman, the Rev. Dr. Hill of Salem. Following the ceremony came the wedding breakfast. After ashort journey the young couple will reside in Newark, N. J. —————— Comfortable Traveling. The most comfortable route to the East sum- mer or winter is the Santa Fe route. The sleep- ing-cars are superior and the meals en route are unequale . There is less dust and no more heat than on any other line. A popular misbelief is that extreme heat pre- vails on this line in summer, while the fact is that the elevation of the whole line insures as comfortable a temperature as can be found on even the most northerly line. The northern part of Arizona is the summer resort of the people of that section, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado is visited in the summer months exclusively. . The Santa Fe route is grst class all the wa through to Chicago. The ticket oftice is 65 Market street, Chronicle building. The Pull- man sleepers run without change “Francisco to Chicago via Kansas C! © 5 B with a World reporter the other day a man | MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION, The Directors Give an Account of Their First Year’s Work. THEIR FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. Resolutions Passed That the City Carry on Thelr Street- Sweeping System. About a year ago a number of merchants and business men organized the Merchants’ Association for the purpose of giving em- ployment to the destitute, improving the condition of the streets and exercising a general unoflicial supervision over all mu- nicipal matters. How well they have per- formed their mission may be more fully judged by the reports submitted last even- ing at the first annual meeting of the or- ganization. It was held in Beethovan Hall in the Hotel Savoy. President F. W. Dolhrmann presided. In the course of his address he sai When, about a year ago, I had the privilege, for the first time, to address you as presiding officer, I asked for this association the good will of all, and expressed the hope that it would soon have the confidence of this community. We have had not only the good will, but the full sympathy of our leading citizens. When we came to the people for money we found co- ration for our work and confidence in our ability to expend their subscriptions satisfac- torily to them and for the good of all he co-operation of older and more influentlal organizations in carrying outa general plan for municipal improvement was solicited early last vear,and while onr advances were cor- dially met, assistance did not crystalize into organized action. However, many new clubs and organizations have sprung into existence and are working hand in hand with this asso- tion. In our local efforts for greater fmprovements, I particularly welcome the members of the Bicycle Leagueand the bicyclists in general mostly young men and women of energy and life. They are much inconvenienced by poor streetsand are directly interested in the im- provement of them. This association was organized to healthify and beautify San Francisco. Let us now add, to unify all its latent and active forces ina broad spirit of civic pride, for the purpose of | general municipal reform ‘and improvement. We have been singularly fortunate in the se- lection of our employes for the regular work of the association. as well as those who have had supervision of the street-cleaning depart- ment. The report of the retiring board of direc- tors was very interesting. It stated that: The first regular meeting and election of oflicers was held on June 21, 1894, witha membership of 130 members, since which time there bhave been elected 104 new members; making a total of 234; withdrawn during the vear 20; leaving & membership on May 1 of 214 members. The following named directors have resigned as members of the board during the year: M. Fredericks, P. F. Nolan, J. J. O'Brien, A. W. Wilson. In their places were elected: A. S. Baldwin, William Doxey, Frank Swain, Van- derlynn Stow. The finances during the year have been as follows: Dues collected to May 1, $1706 5 outstanding dues, $428; total, $2134 50. Ex- m-n:a;fxsw 76, leaving a balance available of | e tirst practical work done by this associa- tion was street cleaning by hand labor, paid tor by the merchants before whose stores the experimental work was done. After more than $3000 had been paid by voluntary contribu- tions for hand-sweeping, the excellent results of this system_became S0 apparent that there was a general demand that the association should take au experimental contract for the entire work from the City. To do this it was necessary to obtain more money than had been appropriated by the City or than could be drawn from the public treas- ury for the current year. 1 the old sys- tem only a little more than $6000 per month was available, & sum far too smell for the re- sult desired. To carry into effect the hand-sweeping sys- tem an appeal to the business community was made, and resulted in obtaining subscriptions amounting to $29,036 65, which sum, less ex- ense of collection, cost of canvassing and de- FEuit of pledges, left sufcient money to just the association in contracting for an ex; mental term of eight months, ending June 1895. Street sprinkling can only become effective and general when it is done by the munici- pality, and it is only just that all taxpayers should contribute t0 ihis necessary expense, and as this is done in nearly all other !arge cities vour board of directors has petitioned the Board of Supervisors to inaugurate this much needed improvement during the coming fiscal year. During the first year of the ex Merchants’ Association the following work has been done: The streets of San Francisco been kept clean since November 1, 1594, V has therchy been given to an average of men, their families kept from want and del: ered of the necessity of secking chari The actual cost of effective street-sweeping has been ascertaiuned, and the fact that this work can be done by hand labor practically estaplished, with every indication that the system will be permanently adopted by the ence of the City. Kearny street, from Sutter to California, has been paved with bituminous rock. The Bush- street franchise, held by the Sutter-street Railroad Company, hes been brought before the courts to determine it a charter can still be held where no actual service, as contem- plated by it is performed.” The location of re-alarm boxes throughout the City has been made familiar and easily found by bainting the lamp-post nearest them and lettering them 50 as to indicate where the key may be found. At the request of members of the association, who considered it of benefit to the children, enabling them to take advantage of a more ad. vanced season for vacation, and an advantage to the business man, your association suc- ceeded in_getting the'Board of Eduncation to postpone thie summer school vacation to the rst week in June. Measures have been taken to abate the nuisance caused by hackstands and other vehicles crowding the principal thoroughfares. Littering the streefs with cir- culars and the Stringing of banners hs been discontinued. A great number of minor nui- sances, brought to the attention of the associa. tion by its members and others, have been abated” through the action of this organiza~ tion. At the request of the Richmond I - ment Club efforts are being made to Teliess First avenue, which connects the fort and the gu.rk. of all railroad franchises and to make & ouleyard ot that avenue, which will no doubt be!llllccless[ul.‘ A All classes of residents are being grad educated up to the necessity and adyaneme of abstaining from the practices which render our thoroughfares dirty and objectionable. and are taking a deeper inierest in observing the zrdinnnces!orl o general cleanliness of the ity. In concluding the report the directors mentioned the nature of the work they have in hand and what they haye laid out for the benefit of the City, all of which have been published in these'columns. The following board of . directors was electea for the ensuing year: A.S. Bald- win, Milton G. Doane, William Doxey, A, G.J. Fusenot, M. S. Koblberg, b 1 s born, Vanderlynn Stow, John W. Car- many, F. W. Dohrmann, J. R. Freud Hugo'D. Keil, Kenneth Melrose, Joseph Simonson, Frank Swain and. Joseph T. Terry. % g The following resolutions were the association: WHEREAS, The cost of street-sprinkling in San Francisco has always been borne by the mer. chants, which is manifestly an injustice in both principle and practice; and whereas, the eost of sprinkling the streets in other large cities is almost universally paid by the mun%cipnl gov- ernment thereof; therefore be it Resolved, That the Board of Supervisors be re- quested 10 in-ugunfls a munlc‘iipll system of street sprinkling in this City and appropriate sufficient money to pay for doing this work in & sutisfactory manner. WHEREAS, ~ As the experimental contract for sweeping tlre streets of San Francisco will ex- pire soon, therefore be it Resolved, That the Board of Supervisors are passed by pretense whatsoever, tearing up any publie street; and this ordinance should provide that application must be_made to the ofiice of the Superintendent of Public Streets in writing, and a diagram furnished showing the exact space that it was desired should be opened, and giving the number of square feet of such opening; and that the applicant should be obliged to pay to the City at the time the application was filea the amount of cost for opening and closing the space desired. That is, the City should have its own employes open and repave the space, and then we would be certain that all streets once in good condi- tion would be so maintained. Now the next grave question is the pave- ment. There should be in use in this City but two kinds of pavemen: First—The bitumen pavement, which should be laid on all streets where the grade would permit; and, second, the basalt pavement, which should be used on all steep grades, and possibly on the downtown business streets, wWhere heavy trucking is es- sential. In laying all pavements, a concrete foundation should be used; and where basalt blocks are used the crevices should not be filled with crushed rock, as isthe custom at present, but gravel should be used, and then tar poured on the gravel until it shows at the suriace. Thisis the method adoptedin New York (Ji?. Iwould also call your attention to the fact thatcontracts for paving the streets of New York City carry with them a guarantee for & certain number of Years, and not more than 75 per cent of the amount of t i to the contractors; the bal 3 city, and at stated periods percentage payments are made, provided, of course, the work done has met with all the requirements of the speci- fications and contract; and that system should certainly be adopted here. The contractor should be obliged to keep the pavement in good condition for threeor five years, A paper was read gy the association’s consulting engineer, Ernest McCullough, upon *‘The causes and remedies for poor street work.” 2 M. 8. Kohlberg informed the meeting of the City’s financial condition. A. 8."Baldwin, in response to the inquiry as to the streets in most urgent need of repair and the cost of the work, suggested about a dozen thoroughfares in the retail district and the accepted blocks on Van Ness avenue. The cost of the work he estimates would 2mount to about $362,800. He introduced the following resolution : §VResolved, That it is the sense of this meellns that the interests of the City at large an especially the owners of real estate will be subecrved and benafited by a iiberal appro- priation for street improvements during the coming year; and, be it further Resolvéd, That the Board of Supervisors are requested to levy a_sufficient tax to assist in the removal of cobblestones and basalt blocks from the retail business streets and all resi- dence streets, and that & fair proportion of the cost of the bituminizing accepted blocks of Van Ness avenue be paved by the City. This brought out a general discussion of streets and street paving, and several ex- pressed as their opinions that Market street from East to Van Ness avenue should have a modern bituminous pave- ment. Mr. Kobhlberg offered an amendment that the Supervisors be requested in the next tax levy to increase the rate of taxa- tion 5 cents on_the $100, this amount to be used for street improvement and repairs. This was opgoscd‘h G. K. Fitch and others. Mr. dwin’s resolution was withdrawn in favor of one presented by Richard Freud, which was accepted. It was in substance that thes directors of the Merchants’ Association ascertain what is the best pavement and the best sewer system and exert their powers to have the same introduced into the leading streets of San Francisco. (WAL WD COMMERCE, The Loyal Legion of California Addressed by Major : Pearce. e is held by the What Is Needed to Maintain the Commerce of the United States. The Loyal Legion of California held one of the greatest meetings of its history at the Occidental Hotel last night. Events of National importance-were discussed by Major C. E. Pearce, Congressman Charles F. Joy and Colonel Nelson Cole of St. Louis. Major Pearce was the star speaker of the evening. He is now returning from a trip around the world. At the meeting last night C. Mason Kinne, commander, presided. There were present: The St. Louis guests mentioned, General James W. Forsyth, U. 8. A.: Colonel 8. B. M. Young, U. S. A.; Major Charles Christensen. Major W. O. Gould, Colonel W. R. Smedberg, Colonel W. H.Bell, Colorado commandery, Major, John ~Lynch, Colonel M. Schiau- decker, j C. B. Hutchings, Major Colonel W. R.] Parnell, Colonel L. Bridges, Major C. E. Strong, Major W. B. Hooper, Colonel Nat Messer, Major E. A. Denieke, Colonel E. P. Cressey, Captains George H. Stevens, E. R. Merriman, Charles A. Sumner, John Lafferty, John Tuttle, M. Murphy, J. C. Innis, H. H. Todd, H. 8. Thompson, J. C. Currier, L. D. Olen, R. Z. Johnson, L. E. Jonea, Pay- master E. K. Cooley, Lieutenants F. R. Morton, J. W. Miller, W. H. Pratt, S. E. ‘Woodworth, J. B. Whiitemore; Messrs G. K. Hooper, Harry Gould, 1 h, J. ‘W. Miller Jr. and Colonel Basi In the beginning of his speech Major Pearce said he_had not seen the American flag from the time he left New York on his trip around the world until he saw it float- ing over the United States consulate at Calcutta. He spoke of the power and dignity fo Colonel S. B. Young, Loyal Legion. England and the respect which ail nations of the world paid to that power. Turning aside to address Congressman Joy, he declared that §100,000,000 should be nrpwpriated by Congress to build a navy. With reference to the Nicaragua canal, he said the people of the South should be in- formed that the markets of Japan would be opened to the cotton of the South if the Nicaragua canal was constructed. With the United States in possession of Hawaii and the canal open and controlled by Americans, the trade of the Orient could never be wres from our country. He spoke of Japan asa country that was developing beyond any conception of our people and it was sure to be the dominant commercial power in China. In 1890 Japan had only a few cotton spindles. Now it has more than a million. requested to continue the system inaugurat by the Merchants’ Association and lpprgoprl.et% suflicient money to pay for the same. f An interesting paper was read by David Rich of the Halzmillion Club ony“Wl‘:‘lnt Can Be Done to Improve Our Streets and Thoroughfares.” He said: from Ban | under a severe pensalty any gas, electric light, Every taxpayer, every merchant, every citi- 2en of ihis City, should take an Inferens e ia subject of clean streets and good payements, Presuming that the pavements are in good In reference to the demonetization of silver in India he said the statesmen of England may have been E:_:idedb wis- dom, but they forgot one thing, and that is the important living truth that a rupee of silver buys as 1atuch lanr in India as-it did when it was worth twice as much as it is now. 2 3 He spoke of meeting President Dole in Hawail and paid a tribute to the wisdom condition, there should be an ordinanoe prssed by the Board of Supervisors forbidding l 'Water, OT 8By PEIson OF corporation, under any and strength of the Hawaiian President. Xr. Dole had icxg;essl.vvdd::med that merican sovereignty wou recognized gladly by the island people, & CORINTHIANS WILL RACE A Great Regatta to Be Sailed in the Channel Course To-Day. NEW CRAFT TO TURN OUT. The Thelma, Harpoon and Speedwell in the Same Class—The Truant in Good Trim. The Corinthian Yacht Club will hold its annual regatta to-day, and the race will be one for blood. The event has been looked forward to for some time with interest and suffering, although the pangs of hunger are lost in an overpowering languor and sickness. The hefio becomes giddy; the El}osts of well-remembered dinners pass in ideous procession through the mind. The seventh day comes, bringing in- creasing lassitude and further prostration of strength. The arms hang listlessly, the legs drag heavily. The desire for food is stillleft toa degree, but it must be brought, not sought. The miserable remnant of life which still hangs to the sufferer isa bur- den almost too grievous to be borne: yet his inherent love of existence induces a desire still to preserve it if it can be saved without a tax on bodily exertion. The mind wanders. At one moment he thinks his weary limbs cannot sustain him a mile; the next he is endowed with unnatural strength, and if there be a cer- tainty of relief before him, dashes bravely and strongly forward, wondering whence proceeds his new and sudden impulse. B THE HUMAN PUZZLE. Willing to Sacrifice an Arm in the Interest of Science. The Human Puzzle 'struck town last night, and he has come with the intention pe THE TRUANT, THE FLAGSHIP OF THE CORINTHIAN YACHT OLUB . [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] pleasure by local yachtsmen, and the day promises to produce some splendid sport. In the first place the channel course is the best on the bay for good lively racing, and besides this there will be several new craft in the fleet. The course is down along the seawall to and around the Presidio buoy, then around Blossom Rock buoy, thence around a stakeboat, anchored to the northeast of Angel Island, thence down to the Presidio % buoy and home again across the line off the foot of Taylor street. In the first class there will be the Har- oon, Thelma, Dawn, Neriad, Edna and Speedwell. The first two and the last named are new craft, and great things are expected from them in a good breeze and a rough sea. The Dawn and Edna will make the new craft hustle, though, and | of creating excitement in medical cir- ! cles. His name is Nixbeno, or Harry | Beno, of Port of Spain, Trinidad, and | he is en route to New York, where, he | declares, he has been offered $25,000 | and a ticket back to Cuba for letting the | doctors amputate his left arm in the in- terest of science. and his great specialty mutilation. He sticks pins and needles into any part of him he can reach, and he is decorated all over with scars inflicted by obliging individuals who at his request have experimented on him. £ he Puzzle says he has no physical sensibilities and no blood in his body. This last is very thoroughly disproved by a strong, healthy pulse at the wrist, but the former one might believe from the fact that he sticks darning mneedles through his tongue and hat pins through THE CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB REGATTA COURSE TO-DAY. [Black lines, 1j 1-8 miles, classes 1 and 2, Dotted lines, 10 1-2 miles, classes $ and 4.] the race in this class ought to be one of the prettiest ever witnessed on the bay. 3 In fact the races in every class promise to be interesting sights. In the second class the Freda will by no means have as easy a time as she had last year in walking away with the honors unless the Truant meets with another mishap. The Truant has been sailing in splendid shape this year and no doubt Commodore Pew will do his utmost to bring his trim littie flag- ship in first. Joe Tracy expects to be somewhere near the front in the rage in the third class with the Secret. This was a new boat last year, and the then commodore did not get an opportunity to show her racing qualities, for an accident kept him out of last year’s regatta. In the race for the small boats there will be lots.of craft. and the little fellows will have a merry time of it. A tug will follow the race from the foot of Taylor street. > Mrs. McManus’ Faith. Mrs. Nora Agnes McManus, wife of Frank McManus, has filed a petition for leave to be- come a sole trader on the ground that her hus. band is & “spendthrjft and gambler” and will not support her. The reason that she does not sue for a divorce is that she believesin his ulti- mate reform. SENSATIONS OF STARVING. Observations Made by & Man Who Had Gone a Week Without Food. For the first two days through which a strong and healthy man is doomed to exist upon nothing his sufferings are perhaps more acute than in the remaining stages, He feels an inordinate, unspeakable crav- ing at the stomach night and day. The mind runs upon beef, bread and other sub- stances, but still, in a great measure, the body retains its strength. On the third and fourth days, but espe- cially on the fourth, this incessant cravin gives place toa sinking and weakness o the stomach, accompanied by nausea. The unfortunate sufferer still desires food, but with a'loss of strength he loses that eager craving which he feit in the earlier stages. Should he chance to obtain a morsel or two of food he swallows it with a wolfish avidity, but five minutes afterward his suf- ferings are more intense than ever. He feels as if he had swallowed a living lob- ster, which is clawing and feeding upon the very foundation of his existence, says the Chicago Times-Herald. On the fifth day his cheeks suddenly ap- ar hollowand sunken, hisbodyattenuated, is color is ash; Ylle and his eyes wild, glassy and cannibalistic. The different parts of the system now war with each other. The stomach calls upon the legs to go with it in quest of food; the legs, from weak- ness, refuse. The sixth day bripg with it inm both sides of his jaws, while heinvites any one who is interested and skeptical to'run a long bonnet pin through his biceps or his leg, or any other part of his body they chose. He has a hypodermic svringe needle that he has fixed up for a cigarette-holder, and this he thrusts through his windpipe and smokes a cigaretie with his mouth shut. He de- clares that he does not mind being burned, and shows a number of scars which he says are from recent electrical experi- ments. The Puzzle isshy a third finger on his left hand. He says it was amputated in New Orleans just to show that he would not bleed, and the proposed amputation which he says is to take place at Bellevue Hospi- tal, in New York, will be the consumma- tion of a long and interesting public career. After that the Puzzle says he will walk back to New Orleans on stilts for a wager, and sail for Cuba to enjoy in an affluent old age the fruits of his youthful travel and adventure.—Washington Post. e ————— England consumes 600,000 pounds, or about 4,000,000 gallons, of tea every day, which is as mucg as is used by the rest of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Australia combined. The green tea of former days hasalmost ceased po be known, while the Twankay, Hyson and Gunpowder teas are seldom heard from. China only supplies one-twelfth of the guantity, the rest coming from India and Ceylon.” The Indian tea goes half as far again as the Chinese as regards color and flavor. ——————— Perhaps the largest camellia in existence is at Pilnitz Castle, near Dresden, Germany. The tree is about twenty-four feet high and annually produces about 50,000 blos- | The human Puzzle is a | shaort, stocky-looking knight of the road, | l s self-torture and | CHEAP LABOR N INDIA, What Nelson Cole of St. Louls Saw in Calcutta Jute- Mills. WAGES ONE DOLLAR A WEEK. Watchmaking Plant In Japan—Trol= ley-Cars at Kioto Kill People. Colonel Nelson Cole, president of a large wood-working establishment at St. Louis, who arrived in San Francisco from Asiaa few days ago, has traveled around the world to some purpose. In company with Major Charles E. Pearce, one of the lead- ing manufacturers of jutein the United States, he visited the great manufacturing firms near Calcutta and made a study of the machinery used and the wages paid to workmen. Colonel Cole is so full of facts and figures derived from personal observa- tion that he should be engaged atonce to advocate the cause of protection to industry in the United States. It isalmost incredible that men and women work as they do in India and receive for their toil only the small weekly pittance allowed. It is plain to Colonel Cole that if political conditions in this country ever force the workers of the United States to compete with the labor of India distress and degradation will surely come to the homes of this land. One of the first factories visited by Col- onel Cole was the Hoogly Jute Works Calcutta. There the weavers that w 230 yards of burlap sacking or hessian per day earn four rupees a week, a sum equiv- alent to $1 04 of American money. rupee is worth 26 cents, and there are six- teen annas to the ru A bag-cutter re- ceives two rupees per week, and the carrier from the bag-cutter gets one and three- fourths rupees per week. Men who sew bags on machines at the rate of 1400 per day each receive two rupees a week. A first-class machine-hand in the repair-shop performing lathe-work earns from twelve to fourteen annas per day, or about nineteen cents in United States money. Children ranging from 6 to 8 years of age are employed to take the spools off the machines. They get less than one rupee a week each. lo verify these figures Colonel Cole paid a visit to Barry & Co.’s jute works where 3500 men are employed. Men who work on sewing machines there receive 234 ru- pees per week each. Every workman is supposed to turn out 1500 bags a day. Some parts of the bag are hemmed b hand, and women do this work. A gooi workwoman can earn 39 cents a week. A weaver makes irom three and a half to four rupees a week, and a time-keeper gets the same wages. An expert bookkeeper, the highest paid employe in the establishment, receives from 40 to 50 rupees a month, a sum equal to $10 or $12 of our money. At another large manufacturing institu- tion, known as the Lower Hoogly Mills, machinists get from 15 to 30 rupees & month. Only workmen of the highest skill command 30 rupees per month. Tt is estimated that the labor Tepresents | only 20 per cent or one-fifth of the cost of the product. *“These figures,”” said Colonel Cole, “I obtained from the balance sheets of the firm and know that they represent the actual cost of labor.” The cotton-mills at Delhi were visited by the St. Louis travelers and figures pertain- ing to wages were obtained there. Weavers and spinners get from six to eight annas a day and work daily fourteen hours. Here it should be kept in mind that a rupee amounts to only 26 cents of United States’ money and it takes 16 annas to make a rupee. Itis estimated that the cost of labor in turning out 8400 jute bags is only 52 cents. On the East Indian railroad a switch- man gets from five to eight rupees a month. Fora house servunt eight rupees amonth is regarded as high wages. The ‘‘globe-trotters’” pay as high as twelve rupees a month and are blamed for ad- vancin§ the wages. .The highest price paid a farm laborer is two annas a day. Painting on ivory is taught in theart- schools of India, and many of the artists produce_ creditable work. For eight rupees Mr. Cole purchased one dozen ortraits painted on ivory. The drawin, 1s very fine in detail and carefully finished. The round piece of ivory on which each icture is painted is not larger than a sime. It is difficult to estimate what such work would cost in the United States, but the price would hardly be less than $10 for each miniature. Messrs. Cole and Pearce hired a trust- worthy- Indian servant while traveling through that country, and paid him the extravagant wage of a rupee a day and his railroad fare. The first-class railroad fare from Bom- bay to Calcutta, a distance of 1264 miles, is now $22, the second class $11 and third class $5 50. Travelers take their own bed- ding. Fora room, bath and board in a tirst-class hotel the price is from 5 to 7 Tupees a d.’E‘. “What England is going to do with India nobody knows,” remarked Mr. Cole. “The population is now 300,000,000 and the increase is 2,000,000 annually.” Japan was hardly less interesting to the St. Louis tourists. ~ In everything that per- tains to modern civilization the Japanese exhibit admirable progress. At Kioto there was an electric road on the trolley principle and the manager of the line wanted to know how the roads were run in the United States so as not to kill peo- gle who_got on the track. For once the esired information could not be given by the American visitors. £ The Japanese are going largely into the business of making watches. ~ Mr. Cole bought one of the first watches made in Osaka, paying for it 23 yen, or $11 50. The case was imported from Switzerland, but the works were madein Japan. The move- ment is known as full jeweled, with the jewels set in gold. The watch factory has just been com- pleted and is expected to give employment to 1000 men. The Japanese purchased a watch plant which was origimsly brought to this coast and managed with indifferent success by San Francisco capitalists. In- stead of importing Swiss cases, the Japan- ese propose to make the cases at home, They are now_turning out good calendar clocks and selling them at $1 75 apiece. They are also manufacturing carved han- dled toothbrushes which retail in the United States at 50 cents apiece and deliv- ering them in New York, dputy fpnid, at $30 er gross. 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