The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1895. e —————————————————— e eeeeeseeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee——— e e 5 THE BAY DISTRICT TRACK TO BE ABANDONED, It Will Soon Be Subdi- vided Into Many Resi- dence Lots. THE INCOME TOO SMALL. Estimates Made as to the Grading and Filling In of the Land. THE NEW JOCKEY CLUB COURSE. Work on the Buildings to Be Begun Next Week and Completed by October. The Bay District racetrack will, in all probability, soon be a thing of the past. For some ne past rumors have been afloat to the effect that the land included within its boundaries was to be subdivided and placed on the market for residence property. It was thought by many to be the outcome of a personal difference be- tween Colonel Fred Crocker and Thomas H. Williams, the lessee of the property, and that Williams had a lease that would render any such movement on the part of the owners impossible within the next two or three years. The story had been told so often the horsemen shrugged their shoulders when the last rumor gained cir- cunlation and dismissed it with the remark that it was the same old fight between Colonel Crocker and Mr. Williams. When it was learned, however, thatthe latter’s lease on the track runs only from month to month, and that estimates had been called for bythose in charge of the Crocker and Stanford estates relative to the cost of filling in and grading, the patrons of the track and horsemen began to discuss the matter with all seriousness. It is well known to those in touch with real estate affairs that the property has never paid anything like an income com- mensurate with its valuation. When Messrs. Stanford and Crocker bought the land their intention to ultimately sub- divide it and place it on the market. The track being there at that time was allowed t0 remain and nothing was done toward carrying out their original design. Now, however, the Bay District Im- provement Company, by which corpora- tion name the joint estates are known in s matter, deems it advisable to get the 1 on the market as soon as possible. h that end in view, estimates were made on the expense of grading and fill- ing in the depression on a portion of the land of the Bay District grounds. “‘The contract has not yet been let to my knowledge,” said Colonel Crocker, “though the matter is being seriously con- sidered. The property has never paid an income commensurate with 1its ap- praised valuation, and the only object in putting it on the market at this time or in the immediate future is that of taking ad- vantage of the building interest which seems to be centered in that locality just now. “I do not think the construction of the Joc Ciub’s new track at Ingleside has any bearing on_the proposition to abolish the Bay District track. The estates have long since considered the advisability of doing something with the property to in- crease the revenue derived therefrom. I cannot say whether it will be done in one month or two months. Infact I cannot say definitely when it will be opened to the market, but T have said enough to let you know that the matter has been under con- sideration for some time. “Tt is merely a business proposition. 1f the land will yield a better revenue by subdividing it and selling it out for resi- dential purposes then the estates would be foolish to maintain it as a racetrack. There are no obstacles in the way of doing as proposed. Mr. Williams’ lease runs only from month to month and can be canceled at thirty days’ notice.” rren & Malley have a contract with Huntington to grade down his sand- and adjoining the racetrack, and it is said they are at present figuring with the Bay District Improvement Company in the matter of subdividing the track land and doing the necessary filling in of the depressions. As thereé is an immense quantity of earth to be taken away from the Huntington lots in the process of grading, they can handle the two con- contracts to advantage by utilizing this surplus earth for the fill on the track prop- erty. W H. hill Contractsfor the Stablesand Grand- stand Soon to Be Let. All the heavy work on the grading of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club’s new racetrack at Ingleside is finished, and in a few days the track will practically have been com- pleted. The contracts for the stables, grandstand and fences are to be let next week, and work will begin within the next ten days. The fencing and stable buildings will cost about $35,000, and the grandstand, paddock and clubhouse are expected to cost $50,000 more. If the work is begun within the time specified the track, grounds and buildings will be rendi' for the inaugural meet by the middle of October. The track has been an expensive one to build on account of the deep gully at one end. It covers this 64-foot cut on culverts. A. M. Allen of Chicago, who is in charge of the work, says the track will be one of the finest and fastest in the country. It has a 60-foot foundation of sand covered by a foot or two of black loam and can stand a week’srain without being impaired in its speed qualities. The sand founda- tion, says Mr. Allen, serves the same pur- Jose as drain tiles at every thirty feet, and i am confident there will not be a better track in the country. f Mr. Allen has had extensive experience as a builder of trotting courses, and is qualified to express such an opinion. He has superintended the construction of sev- eral tracks in the East, notably the Roby (Indiana) track arnd courses in Chicago and St. Lounis. He was brought out here by the Jockey Club to superintend the work. He thinks the track will be ready for the initial race by the 1st of October, and if not, by the middle of the mon¢h. A meeting of the committee, composed of President Spreckels and Vice-President Crocker, was held in parlor G of the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon, at which time a number of bids for' the construction of the stables and fences were considered. The bids were satisfactory so far as they went, but it was decided ‘to defer the let- ting of contracts thereon until bids on the grand stand, clubhouse and other build- ings had beenreceived. “We expect to bezin work on the various - buildings within the next ten days,” re- marked Mr. Spreckels, “and the track will surely be ready for a meeting by the lst or middle of October. Nu\'em?mrl was de- cided on as the time for opening, but such favorable progress has been made on the grading of the track that we wiil be able to gain a month over the onginal calcula- tion.” Vice-President H. J. Crocker said: “There is no question of rivalry between the new Jockey Club track and the Bay District. I think a second track will be a benefit to the first track, so to speak. It will bean added inducement to horsemen. $hey will bring their trotters and runners | sions in t here and enter them for the races at both tracks. They will patronize our stock farms and take back our colts and fillies with them to the East. This is providing that the Bay District track continues in existence. I do not know that any of those interested in the new scheme have other than the most friendly feelings for Mr. Williams, and there need be no ri- valr, ‘We expect to make our track one of the best in the country, and by so doing the leading racing and blood-horse men of the East will be attracted to the coast. Good purses will be offered, and there is no exaggeration in the prediction that we will bave many great meetings. We have everything in our favor in the way of loca- tion, and there is no reason why the track should not become one of the most popu- lar resorts of the City and State. Before the work is through it will represent many thousands of dollars, and I think its com- pletion will mark a new e; horse indust: TWO PRESIDIO CONTRACTS. An Iron and Wooden Wharf and Pump- ing Machinery Are to Be Erected. Two contracts were awarded yesterday by Deputy Quartermaster-General Amos Kimball of the army for the construction of a wharf with wrought-iron standard piles at the sea terminus of the new mili- tary road at the Presidio, and for pumping machine: The price of the wharf was $19,432. A brick and stone boathouse will be built upon the wharf. At the shore end of the structure a concrote bulkhead will be constructed. . The other contract calls for the construe- tion of a pumping-machinery plant, to be used for the new water-works at the Pre- sidio, and to be in all details a_duplicate of the plant already erected and in operation. NEW ELECTION BOARD, Commissioners Must nounce the Hope of Other Office. Re- A Long Term Takes a Statesman Out of the Fleld for Five Years. Mayor Sutro has not yet announced pub- licly the names of the four men who are to | be appointed Election Commissioners un- | der the law passed at the last scssion of | the Legislature, but it is regarded as a cer- | tainty that Colonel Albert E. Castle and | s | James Denman will be named. | The politicians who meet nightly at the | Baldwin Hotel cannot understand why any prominent men of means should want | the place, since ¢he salary isonly $750 a year. Still they calculate that the patron- age of the commission is immense, involv- ing as it does the expenditure of $200,000 every two years for election expenses, be- | sides the appointment of a large clerical force to register and count the vote. Certainly James D. Phelan can be ap- pointed if he desires the appointment, and the Mayor may succeed in persuading him that the public is entitled to his services. | Acceptance of the office would disqualify Mr. Phelan for a term of yearsfrom serving |as Governor or member of Congress. Should he draw a short term of two years he could not be a candidate for three years from the time of his appointment. Assum- ing that the long term should be his lot he could not accept a nomination until the expiration of five years. Meanwhile, Dem- ocrats anxious for a_leader might besiege his city office and invade his country home. Obviously this would be a most embarrassing position for a man of Demo- cratic sentiments to occupy. The thought of the office seeking the man and the man restrained by law from cbeying the will of the people would certainly vex and annoy the most level-headed politician. The hint is thrown out that Mr. Phelan would like to see his brother-in-law, Frank J. Sullivan, appointed Election Commis- sioner. It is not a sure thing that Mr. Suallivan wants it, for he, in company with many other followers of his own party faith, has sought high office. Asa candi- date for Congress against Charles N. Fel- ton some years ago he displayed style and speed in running. He believes till this day that the people called him, but knows that the House of Representatives did not seat him. Mr. Sullivan may consider the awkward predicament a man might be placed in who could not become & candi- date for Congress for five years. To re- nounce one’s right to run for office when the office is beckoning to a man isa greater sacrifice than a young gentleman of Mr. | Sullivan’s mental attainments and physi- cal contour could be expected to make. The esteemed Democrat, Mr. James Den- man, has had many party rewards, al- though the people of the Fifth District did not bestow Congressional honors upon him. Light service and $750 a year, with a good deal to say in the distribution of patronage, might constitute justsuch a job as would suit the inclination of a high- minded citizen of advanced years. Even with the allurements of ease, the renuncia- tion of future political honors might come hard to a warhorse of the Denman strain. In Registrar Hinton’s office the opinion is well established that the law providing for the appointment of the commission by the Mayor is not in harmony with the con- stitution of California. The law legislates the Registrar out of office, and it can hardly be expected that as good a Democrat as Mr. Hinton would relinquish as good a place as Registrar of Voters without a pro- test. So it is a sure thing that the consti- tutionality of the new law will be tested. Senator Fay of San Francisco, who advo- cated the enactment of the law creating the new Election Commission, remarked last evening that the bill came from the Citizens’ Defense Association. The argu- ment was advanced that men who were candidates for office themselves should not manage the election machinery. The Assembly Judiciary Committee, which was composed of fairly good lawyers, among them Judge Spencer and Mr. Bulla, regarded the measure as constitutional. —————— The Royal Baking Powder is recom- mended by the best authorities on cuisine. Its sale is larger than that of all the other crean of tartar baking powders combined, and it has more friends among housekeep- ers than any other similar article. . THEY SHOULD NOT EXPLODE ‘What the Supreme Court Thinks of Pow- der Works In General—Judson’s Judgment Affirmed. The Supreme Court has affirmed the de- cision of the lower court in the suit of Charles C. Judson against the Giant Pow- der Company, in which Judson was awarded a judgment of $41,164 75 for dam- age done his works by an explosion of the defendant’s nitro-glycerine works in 1891. In the original suit Judson claimed that the explosion was due to the negligence of the defendants. The counter claim was that the accident was caused by the hand of Providence, and that in any case explo- sions are always to be expected in a pow- der factory, and the plaintiff knew such to be the case when the works were allowed to remain there without objection from him. In rendering its opinion the Supreme Court holds that when the powder works were located near other establishments the neighbors had a right to expect that the manufacture of its product would be car- ried on carefully. In the natural courseof events the pected, and therefore when explosion does oceur, and the same is unexplained, the logical supposition is that it was due to negligence of some kind. The court, therefore, sustains the judgment allowing damages. TIES FOR THE NEW LINE. The First Cargo Arrives in the Harbor and Will Be Moved to Stockton Immediately. The first cargo of ties for the Valley road arrived yesterday in the harbor on a schooner from Mendocino. Preparations having been all completed for transporta- tion of the ties and lumber from San Fran- cisco to Stockton, it was thought more than likely yesterday that these ties will be transferred from the schooner to barges, and then taken to the terminus of the rail- way at Stockton, where supplies will pres- ently begin to pile up from various quarters. One of the‘enzineerlngluarties that had been sngveymg toward Visalia moved its camp Wednesday to the northern limits of that town, and has since been working in Visaiia. It has surveyed a line about fxmv miles long from two miles below Fresno GOAT ISLAND HAS A FIRE, Supposed to Be Caused by Live Cinders Blown From This City. THE HILL IS SWEPFT CLEAN. All the Telegraph Lines and Gov- ernment Property Saved From Destruction. Yesterday Goat Island had its yearly | fire, which, following so soon on the con- | | flagration of Thursday evening, was not | | considered in the light of much of a burn. | | Hewever, the flames spread themselves | i among the dry grass and shrabbery, and, | full ugeed to Sausalito, thereby saving at least five minutes. There will be a series of holiday excur- sions for the Fourth of July, good for eleven days, from June 28 to July 8. at half rates, over the North Pacific Coast Railway. Five carloads of green fruit will leave Sacramento July 2 for London as an ex- periment, for which great things are ex- pected. WORK FOR IDLE MEN, A Broom Factory and Knitting-Mill to Be Started by the Labor Ex- change. The managers of the Labor Exchange states that the membership has increased | in a month from 60 to 175. Recently an exchange was organized in Petaluma with eighteen members, com- posed principally of farmers who will ex- change their products at the commissary headquarters of the exchange on Valencia street. The exchange has just issued a certifi- cate of membership in which the person signing it agrees, in consideration of the benefits and privileges conferred upon A\ W1 S (RS = A4 AN 4‘ < J ‘;\‘ ‘)” \ \ \\;\ (Sketched by a “Call” artist.] i N —T S S e A [l S NN o< N~ ~ VIEW OF THE GOAT ISLAND FIRE FROM THE TUG ANNIE. at a junction on the Yreliminury line to Hanford. This Visalia party was in- structed yesterday to carry its survey southward toward Bakersfieid. Chief Engineer Storey said he expected that the two parties of surveyors will meet at a point_about midway between Bakersfield and Hanford. The Hanford party will continue to survey the route southward, while the other one will return to Fresno and make a second preliminary survey. The chief engineer went to Stockton last night to look over the ground with Division Engineer J. 8. Wilbur and hold a consulta- tion with the city engineer with regard to street grades over which the railway will be laid. The first shovelfal of earth will be turned on the road at Stockton July 4. —_—————— investigations of baking Royal to be stronger an other. gowders show the purer than any ————— A MAN'S LAUGH NEVER CHANGES. How the Fact Was Illustrated by an Incident at the Federal Building. If the Bertillon system of identification had a phonographic record of the laughs of criminals it would probably be as near perfect as an identification system can be. The fact that man comes into the world wailing has been regarded as a sort of prophecy of the truth that, as a rnle, the sorrows of life outnumber the joys when all the returns are in, but an optimist might see an opposite significance in the fact that a man’s laugh remains the same through all the changing years. When the cares of manhood succeed to the happy-go- lucky days of boyhood this laugh of his msf’ be called into use, as it were, ver; little, but when it is put into operation it is the same old laugh, and every boyhood friend would know it instantly, says the Chicago Times-Herald. An old soldier who fought through the war with Fred Hartwick, who drives a mail collector’s wagon on the north side, hap- pened to be 1n Chicago for a week not long since. He heard that Mr. Hartwick was on Postmaster Hesing’s staff and went to the Federal building to find him. He took his station at a point past which all the carriers filed to report for duty and as Hartwick came along some one pointed him out. ‘Without disclosing his own identity the veteran approached and began asking Hartwick 1f he remembered various inci- dents in the history of their regiment dur- ing the war. Of course he did and they soon fell into conversation, organizing a kind of campfire meeting between them- selves. One member of the regiment was in business in New Orleans, another was in a bank down in the State, several were farming, one was the local manager for one of the big commercial agencies in one of the large cities and so on. Several times Hartwick asked his old companion-at-arms his name, but the lat- ter only smiled and went on with the con- versation. Finally, when it became neces- sur{ for them to separate, as Hartwick was obliged to go out on his run, the man laughed outright as he said: “Well, Fred, I never thought you’d for- get me after what we went through to- gether.” “The minute he laughed,” said Mr. Hartwick, in relating the incident, “I knew just who he was and all about him, but T hadn’t seen him for thirty years and he Lad changed so I couldn’t have told him from Adam. Hislaugh had grown Supreme Court believes explo- | older, too, of course, but it was the same & powder-mill are not to be ex- ! old laugh.” \ The reports of the official Government | fanned by the strong wind, ran. over the island, fiercely lapping wp everything in their path. It is supposed that the fire started from the cinders of the fire in the City the night before, as charred pieces of wood and paper still burning were carried by the strong breeze over the bay. The flames were first seen on the north side of the island, moving toward the south and east. At4o’clock L. W. Storror, superintendent of the Pacific Postal Tele- graph Company, hurried down to Clay- street wharf, ar\p. gathering a gang of fire- fighters from around the docks, boarded the tug Annie and rapidly steamed toward the island. They were distributed along | the line of telegraph-poles, where, with | shovels and pickaxes they dng the dry | grass away from the poles, preventing | their destruction. At the lighthouse and | Government supply station a force of men | worked industriously, and by back-firing | burned a space around the buildings and prevented loss. It was feared at one time that the flames would reach the oil which is stowed on the island for the use of the Twelfth Dis- trict lighthouses, but the fire was forced back to the top of the hill. As the grass gets two or three feet high and quite rank, there is always danger of fire when the %rowth gets dry. It is under- stood that the lighthouse officials will take effective means to prevent any destruction to their valuable stores in case of the fires that occur yearly on the island. TO PROTECT CREDITS. ‘The New Association Organizes and De- cides Not tq Incorporate at Present. A Committee on Dues. A meeting of the new Association for the Protection of Credits took place yesterday at the headquarters of the Associated Grocers, 123 California street. The asso- ciation organized with the following offi- cers: Morris Feintuch of the Wertheimer Company, president; H. L. Loveland of the Wellman-Peck Company, vice-presi- dent, and R. H. Bennett Jr., secretary. It was decided not to file articies of incorporation at present, but to conduct the necessary business as a private asso- ciation. There is a membership of nearly 180 wholesale firms, jobbers and commis- sion men, The association numbers the wholesale cigar and liquor men complete. The work is an extension of that started by the wholesale grocers. Before adjourning the following com- mittee on fees, dues and assessments was apnointed: Henry Payot of Payot, U‘gham & Co. and T. J. Parsons of the Del Monte Milling Company and the president. o s b RAILROAD EXTENSION. Track Between San Rafael and Sausalito to Save Time. The North Pacific Coast Railroad has been making an improvement in its tracks at the Mill Valley junetion, which will re- move impediments from the running of trains on schedule time. The track is doubled from Sausalito to the junction, at which point one iineof rails will be ex- tended for 600 feet northward. Hitherto trains from San Kafael have been delayed fully five or six minutes at that point, where they had; to wait for north-bound trains to pass. - {Vflh the new double-track extension beyo: the ion one train unnnhm.’mifm et to et ) ) \ him as a member, to contribute $1 monthly to the maintenance of the commissary de- Eurtment. where goods are sold to mem- ers at wholesale prices. They expect to shortly starta co-opera- tive broom factory and Knitting-mill where idle men may co-operate for their mutual benefit. Negotiations for the purchase of the machines are now in progress. \ TYPENATERS CLAM, Aftermath of the Late Legis- lative Election Con- tests. The Lady Who Made the Transcripts Thinks She Was Not Paid Enough. Louisa . Bock, a young woman, was plaintiff in a suit tried in Justice of the Peace Groezinger's court yesterday, in which Howard Vernon, official reporter for Judge Campbell’s court,was defendant. Miss Bock was the typewriter who tran- scribed the proceedings in the Tracy- Wilkinson and the Smith-Devine election contests, heard some months ago in the Justices’ court. Vernon had been appoint- ed reporter for the bearings, with the ex- press understanding that he would employ Miss Bock and ¢reat her liberally. ‘When the trial came on Vernon was unable to act, but sent the assistant re- porter, F. Kaiser. Kaiser dictated to Miss Bock 650 folios of the proceedings. Her agreement was that she was to get as much above the regular rate for her work (1€ cents a folio) as he received above the regular rate for his work. She was paid $51 for the entire work, while she claimed she should have been paid at the rate of 25 cents a folio. She sued for $116 due. The hearing called into court all the at- taches of the Police Courts, especially the reporting contingent, and was made gen- erallv interesting by the crossfire of the lawyers, George Colwell for the plaintiff and J. A. Vaughn for the defendant. Vaughn had taken the expense bills for the contest down to Sacramento to have them approved and ordered paid by the Legislature. He gave a_vivid description of that ex- perience, and decla: he would not go through it again for §1000. “Why, you know,”” he said, “I was hauled this way and that by the legislators, touched by this one and that, until when I got through I con- ratulated myself on getting away from §he city alive.” Judge Groezinger remarked that he knew something of that himself. He had been to Sacramento on a somewhat similar mis- sion. 3 Vernon testified that $384 had been al- lowed him for the_first éontest and $550 on the second, but his own share had been but $75 and $90, respectively. He had had to divide up so with Kaiser and all the others. The court took the matter under advise- ment. The Royal Baking Powder was intro- duced to ‘the public a third of a century ago, and from tEn time the era of good bread, biscuit, cake and pastry com - menced, FINANCES OF THE YEAR. Auditor Broderick Says There MONEY TO MEET THE DEMANDS | A Suggestion of the Treasurer That, Acted Upon, Clears Away ! the Last Anxlety. In answer to their request for a state- ment of his estimate of the probable deficit at the close of the fiscal year Auditor Broderick yesterday sent a communication toghe Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors, conveying the astonishing and very cheering information that he didn’t believe therr would be any deficit. And this after all the anxiety and dis- cussion that sounded for many weeks very like a panic. Here is the letter: Finance CommBice, Board of Supervisors — DEAR SiRS: In answer to yours of the 26th, re- questing me ““to furnish a statement in writing of the estimated deficiency for the present fis- cal year,” I beg leave to say that with the de- mands for salaries for May ?n suspension I can find no basis for a statement of deficiency if | the data obtained from diligent inquiry of the Supervisors’ department up to date be correctly stated to me. If any claims be in existence outside of those reported to me in answer to earnest and careful inquiry, & deficiency may | develop that youalone can ascertain at this date. Respeciiully yours, WILLIAM BRODERICK, Auditor. Perhn(ws it is in place to say that the auditing of the May salaries was the twelith salary audit of the fiscal year. It may be in place also to state thatin this “snapper” at the end of it is the nub of the Auditor’s letter. The Auditor is forbidden by law to audit more than twelve salary warrants in a year. There was a holdover salary from last year that fell into this to be audited. So that when the Auditor had audited the May warrants this year it was the twelfth. The June | warrants cannot lawfully be paid in this | fiscal vear, and therefore, although there | are two holdoyers this time, only one counts in the finaneial reckoning of this vear. The other must be counted as be- Jonging to next year, the Auditor argues, and be specially provided for as such in the tax levy. As for the May warrants, which do be- long to this year, the Auditor believes there will be enough when the balances are all struck to meet them. He believes there will be something like $60,000 sur- plus from various funds now in the treas- ury which can be turned into the general fund, and that there will be revenues yet turned into the treasury from various sources, such as de]inanent taxes, that will reach up to the desired mark. The Kinance Committee met yesterday afledrnoon and this communication was read. Chief Deputy Widber and Deputy Jacobs of the Treasurer’s office was before the com- mittee at the latter’s request, and in & long discussion practically corroborated the Auditor's showing. They explained that | the Assessor was daily turning in large | sufns of money to the treasury from his collections of the personal property tax under the new law,and that that money was lying idle in the vaults, and would be for a long time. Why not utilizeit? Why | not pay the outstanding_warrants with it? | When the board made its apportionment: of the funds for the next year, credit could | Chairman Taylor suggested that the State had an interest in these moneys. Chief Deputy Widber explained that the next settlement with the State did not occur until December, by which money sufficient to meet its demands would have come in many times over. Accordingly the committee directed that a resolution be prepared empowering the Treasurer to transfer the sum of $300,000 of the unappropriated monev in his hands to the general fund accruing from the collec- tion of personal property tax for the year 1895-96, to the general fund, in order to pay the salary demands of May and June. With this approved by the board the | anxiety of the army of clerks and depu- ties in the City Hall is at an end—to say | nothing of the contractors. The Finance Committee, on the recom- mendation of the Chief Engineer of the Fire | Department, favored the purchase of two | Clapp & Jones engines—a second and third-class engine—for $8300. A Soldier's Answer. Emperor Napoleon, after one of hisgreat battles, gathered the remnant of his forces around him and proceeded to compliment them in his characteristic manner, so_en- dearing to the hearts of his soldiers. Finally Company D of the Guards, who had been in the thick of the fight, were ordered to present themselves, and to the | astonishment of the Emperor a single soldier appeared. He was bound up in | bandages, and could barely walk. ““Where is the rest of your company?” asked the Emperor, A tear welled in the old soldier’s eye as | he answered: ‘“Your Majesty, they lie on | the field dead,” and then sorrowfully | added, ‘“‘they fought better than I.”’—Har- per’s Round Table. | Quite a sensation was produced at Ratis- bon by the appearance in the streets of a horse wenrin%two pairs of trousers. The anxious owner had got a set of brown hose made especially for his favorite steed as a | Pprotection against the cold. | NG- PERCENTAGE PHARMACY, 953 MARKET ST, SOUTH SIDE, Bet. Fiith and Sixth, Five doors above Hale Bros. One of our Customers. ONE-HALF SAVED ON PRESCRIPTIONS, As we pay no percentage to physicians. | Joy’s, Hood’s or Ayer's Sarsaparilla..... Paine’s Compound and Hall's Catarrh Cu: Fountain Syringes—2-quart 70c, 3-quart 75c, ..4-quart iream. Ayer's, Beecham’s or Carter's Pills. Beer, Iron and Wine and Sierra Kidney Cure. Veronica Water and Cutlcura Salve. Citrate, Magnesla and Russia Salve. Roger and Gallet’s Peau d’Espagn, Pona’s Extract and Pink Pills, Electric Belts. . "Trusses, others ask $510 $15: our p Galvanic and Faradic Batterfes. Uterine Supporters. WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE Yost=Falcon Bicycles. SWIFT, STRONG, BEAUTIFUL. | 1ace sty be made for the disposition of the money. | time | NEW TO-DAY. TELLTALE FIGURES Will Be no Deficit | That will remove all doubt from any suspicious mind and figures that prove conclusively that we After All. make no idle boast when we state tnat our prices are 0 low that we invite competition YOU MIGHT FIND | ATan Kid Boot just as pretty or stylish as this else- where, but at the price you cannot find an equal to the fine, soft tan chrome Kid boos in buttons or e, with either clothor Kid tops, that we are selling at the low price of TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS. Made on the new razor-toed last (an extreme pointed toe shape), or the Bouton (the prettiest square toe shape made) with stylish tips to mateh, YOU MUST SEE Our perfect fitting Tan Kid_Southern Ties that we place on sale this day as a _leader. They, t0o, only add to make our statement of low prices doubly strong, for we are to sell them at TWO DOLLARS. FRENCH HEEL OXFORDS AND SOUTHERN TIES, in either fine tan, chrome or black kid, are In big demand. Our assortment embraces every style and shape that is new, and we place them within your easy_grasp at the lowest price a genmine French Loul XV Heel has ever been offered as yet— Country Orders Filled Carefully and promptly sent by return mail or express. Our new Illustrated Catalogue, with prices that are low, sent free, postpaid, to any address for the asking. SULLIVAN'S SHOE-HOUSE, 18, 20, 22 Fourth Street, Just Below Market. Do You Want Manhood? 0 YOU WISH TO RECOVER THAT WHICH you have lost by sins of the past? Early ex- | cesses, exposure and bad habits have wasted the vital powers of millions. No: more than one man in fitty is what Nature intended him to be. The sWift pace of this generation is weakening our man- hood. Do your part and recoup your lost powers. /S ’ Give your future 7 generations a strong, vigorous Zconstitution, andbody. Aweak parent begets a weaker child. 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Provents quick. s to Spermatorrheea and ‘The reason sufferers are not cured by Doctors is becnuse ninety per cent are troubled with u Prosta 1y known remedy to cure without &n o] e o I8 D Y ey roturned 1 8¢ boxes docs n ls. A written rantee gives 2 box, six for $5.00, by mall, Send for FREE circular and testimon! ration. 5000 testimoni- fect & permanent cure, ~ Address DAVOL MEDICINE CO., P, O, Box 2076, San Francisco, Cal. For Sale by BROOKS' PHARMACY, 119 Powell stroet. i i j 1