The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1895, Page 8

“could play beautifully, and I could see the What People Are Doing in the Mountains and by the Seaside. SOCIAL EVENTS IN OAKLAND.| Interesting Personai Gossip—The | Mantz-Remmel Wedding in Alameda. Mi luncheon Norman Oakland in honor of Mrs. nee McKee. The guests Amy McKee, Miss Alice Miss Emma Farrier, Miss Cole- B s Janet Watt, Mrs. Lang and several of the young matrons. in ewell dinner complimentary to v after for their new home in Oregon. McNear house was charmingly dec- the dinner was all that a dinner Among the guests were: Mr. Mr. Miller, Mrs. Tucker, nd Mrs. Harrison Cla T ning Mr. Charles Webb akland gavea dinner in honor n B. Anthony and Miss Anna The table was decorated s and blue and white bach- The guests were: Mrs. How- and Mrs. John Howard, Mis: Anthony, Charles Edwin Mark- » Rev. Eliza Tupper tt Mr. M e Nicholson gave a luncheon which there were five borate trousseau gowns. . Dr. Nichol Mrs. Lee, nee v, nee Juliette ¥, nee Mamie oman. nd his mother f wai last his wed: nee Cora istine Mott; M ; Mnr to Miss Ma Baldwin, one of the iters down there, will take place on the e af Robert W. Mantz and ace Saturday at the s street, a wed- e banquet decorated f Oakland w: Mr. and Fred | THE MIDSUMMER GAYETY. | e Chabot gave a pretty scarlet | On Friday | Mr. and Mrs. George McNear Jr. | Mrs. Norman Lang, who left | Breckinridge, Mr. | Smedberg, Milton S. Latham, George de : T | H. Powers will be the guests of Mr. and | W. Stow, Major J. MeClung, San_Francisco; H. I lo Park; W. T. Pevton, W. Mrls. Marcus Gerstle over the Fourth of | (;{olu’s‘e"c“‘ bt e R Mre. }{.vi‘{u July. Tobek: W. W les and family, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Churchill returned | jagony ’srs.J. J. Jacoby, Oakland: Air. and | on Thursday from their trip to the Yosem- | Mrs, J." Brownlie, Vallejo; Alrs. T. Blouth, Sac- | ite Valley, and will spend the remainder of | ramento: Mr. and Mrs. H. Kraft, E. P, Kraft, the sumnier at Del Monte. Eoa Bl . Henry T. Scott and family were at the | At Santa Maria del Mar and Twin Lakes Hotel Rafael on Friday last. Park, Santa Cruz, there are many visitors, Miss Jennie Blair is the guest of Mrs. | attracted by annual conventions of the Newhall at San Rafael. .o | Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society and Baptist Miss Maggie Cusack, Miss Minnie Spil- | State convention. Manv of the sojourners man and Miss Frances Quinn will spend | will remain many weeks longer. several days at Monterey. | Mrs. James Phelan, Miss Mollie Phelan Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Hemenway and son | and Mrs. Frank J. Sullivan will be have gone to San Rafael for July. | Phelan Park, Santa Cruz, this week. Mrs. J. P. McLean and her son, of Ala-| Among the late arrivalsat Etna Springs were: Mrs, W. J. Kennedy and child, Mr, M. Teer, M: e Lalande, Drl.“nrn:inglrgrlg: C. Pague, Mrs. E. J. Ryan, Belle Ryan, Carolan B. Barlow, Mrs. C. Short, Miss Vilrana Ken- meda, returned on the City of Sydney ; after an absence of five months. Dr. and Mrs. Clyde S. Payne are_spend- ing the summer at Mackinac Islands, Northern Michig: y : cith | nedy, Mrs.'D. J. Shaw, Miss A. L. Shaw, Mr.and “C,glonel _nn@ Mrf ‘I]'C 0'Connor, \c‘: o g, ogeweil, San Francisco; Mr. and heir families, and Miss . B. Schmalz, Haywards; Miss Lizzie | left for Ukiah Saturday to be gone severa: weeks. g | Among the guests at the Hotel Rafael | last week were: | Baron and Baroness von Schroeder, Colonel and Mrs. J. V. D. Middl Mr. and Mrs. | Gerritt L. Lansing and_fr and Mrs. S. | v tock, Mr. and Mrs. I r. and George C. Boardman, Y ¥ rrier, Miss Dwyer, Mr. Fries, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. M. Branden, Loew Vecchi vans, Napa. Among the arrivals at Laurel Dell in Lake County last week were : Gertrude Le G. 1 B. V Mr. and Mrs. H. her, Etta Schammel, Annie B. i’nh lagher, Bella Beaudry, Mrs. A.'Kratz and three childrén, Commodore Jones, Eq §. §; Marn, Mrs, A, E. Strau M8, § 5 red Lewis, George Jones, M: ddlefon, Miss Middlecon, Mr.and Mrs. L. B Van Dacen.’ Mg Z. L. Whithey, Miss Grace Whitney, Miss Dora | Helms, Miss ‘Alvina Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hosmer and two children, Annie Merrill, Miss . Mr. and Mrs. Lioyd Te Mr. and Mrs. ~ 3 . > T s | C. 1. Sage, Mrs. L. A. Kitgore, 1. M | ¢ s Haswell, A.B. McCrea: 3 gore, J. Minstrell, Mrs. { Chacles Haswall, A. B. McCrea | . H. Mallett Jr., Mrs. D. 'R Rae, Mrs. D, H. Harte ™t ““and " e 3. Gregnebanm, | Mathews, Mrs. G, 1. Hodolpn, Misk G. Strong, I e haries Hatch, Mr. and | Miss L. Strong, Miss 'C. Hoflian, Miss M. B, N A ero oS Throekiorton, Mr. | Reynoids, Mist M. E. Hopps, G. I, Strong, O, T. L arles Petersen, Mr. | Rodolp, Dora Ellerhorst, M Etta Elierhorst, Miss R. Meyerstein, Miss Meyerstein, Miss E. John- son, Miss 8. C. well, Miss Madge Wheelan, D. Merk, G. H. Merk, Mrs. J. B. Orrombide, 0. M. Orrombide, Miss Florence G. Rourke. Among those registered at Paso Robles are: Dr. and afrs. Kenyon and sons, Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Hecht, Mr. and Mrs. Cornélius_0'Connor and daughters, J Hy Hall, W. King, F. | Newton, H. H. K | Alexander Neil, sle McBean, Mr. and Robert F. 'Morrison, Allister, Baron faclean, F. A. Green- | 4 Pacaes 5. | M mily, Mr. and Mr: g D. B. Dayidson, Miss | :1la Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCoppin, | Hort, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Crooks, | ss Bertha Low, an, Miss McBean, 1. Kellogg, and M . Sigmund Feucht- + . Moore, Ayres, ) . L’Ockf, Miss M. McHarry, Miss o i oy 5 ro, George Thom fon, A. Reardon, D. G, Waldon, C. J. Lane, . James B. »n has moved to Ross | Sy . X Steinberger, Mr. and Mrs. A. Gi & Valley for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. | b otion SR Cotton. o s Robert Oxnara, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey | e d Boas and daughter,’S. M. Pryor, R. Winslow and Harry D etson are his A n, Mrs. F. Dunn and son, M. guests, rs. Gashwiler and_daughter, George Miss Ethel Tompkins has in her house | Rice, Birdie Rice, Mrs. Ewing, Miss Miss Mary Bell Gwin, Miss Cora | EWing, Mr. and Mrs. Kerby, Miss Kerby, G. L. part North. Leah Bendit, accompanied by her hter, Miss Bendit, have left for & six ks’ visit to relatives in Calistoga. _Miss Lillie Herme is the guest of Mrs. J, H. Kessing of this City at Pioneer Camp, La | Honda. | Mrs. DavidJ. Leahy and family are visiting | springs in Lake County. The Misses Lizzie R. Bush and Minnie Me- ong, Samuel G. Buckbee and several others. M Hobart is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Boyd. The Misses Hooper of T e Misses The Misses anna Alice N ms. e Ames are guests of the Misses | | Lean and Mrs. Joseph Bush are visiting Los ngeles and Sen Diego this season. n Lawson has gone East for his vaca- | A | . B. Katschinski and her family are occu- nk L. Owen will spend the Fourth of | BYInE thilr summer cottage at 2601 San Jose J 1 Belvedere, the guest of Mrs.J. C. | " w. R, Henry and his family leave to-day for Tucker and her two daughters. | a two-months’ stay at Bartlett Springs. Among those in Monterey and those | Dr.and Mrs. M. Guggenneim have_left for who are expected to arrive in the next few | Europe. They wiil be gone fouz months. iays are | Dr.J. H. Morris has gone to Amador County | fora eeks’ stay. He will be the guest of | Editor Newcum of the Amador Ledger in Jack- Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. W. S rs. son. | Mrs. E. Renrsing has returned to the City L | after & tw omonths’ 2 | County. ;| " tissLou Classen is at Bartlett Springs. The Twelve o’'Clock Club of Lorin will Thomas F. Morrison, Mr. and Coleman, Mrs. stay at Biggs, Butte iss Helen Bo ar .\m Austin D. ) give an entertainment and dance on Sat- I Moore, e, and Mrs. Charics Moors, Miss | Lnday evening hext, 2 n Moore, ) cancfs Moors, Mrs. | phd mupils of Hi ’s Bra ./ Charles H. Simpkin ,\lr.nm‘.\l George 4 “,‘“}.]"‘“.]5. % }‘{‘"""}'5 B"m,clh,A,c“d Pope, Mr. and Mrs. D, T. Murphy, Mre. A, J. | emy will give their regular monthly pai at the hall, corner of Howard and Twenty and Mrs. Horace Hill, Mr. and Mrs. | & 1 first streets, this evening. ylor, Miss Carrie Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Laton, Mr. and Mrs. Cutler Paige, s Small, Mrs, James Phelan, Mrs. L. Den. | that will bave a speed of sixty miles an Cliff, Mr. ai Seybest, Mr. and Mrs. E. Bruguiere, Miss Hobart. Among the late arrivals at the Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Cruz, are: Mrs. L. hour. The boat will be 550 feet long and 50 feet wide, with a flat bottom and wedge- shaped bow and stern; of 10,000 tons dis- placement, and with eight paddle-wheels | on each side, each making seventeen revo- Bachman, Mrs. W. ! lutions a minute. Irs. A. Bruguiere, - [ 1; Tuesday, WEEKLY FRATERWAL IK Visiting List of Grand/ Chan- cellor George Samuels for July. PROGRESS OF THE 4, 0. U. W. Cremation Declared by a Grand Master Mason Not to Be a Christian Burlal. Official Assessment Table. a NaME -+ quousEa8 SV JOoqUIN N 2 ‘ 8 2 1 g | 20/July 8 1 June 1|July 3 15, July 1| July 438 39 40|June 1516 17| July 417 418 July 245 June Ju July Knights of Honor. A.0.U. W. 246 343 44”45/ 98 99| June 166|June 10|July [Official assessment notices of any legitimate fraternal soclety will be published jree Of 00st in above table. Send them, with any other matters of importance, by Friday, addressed Fraternal Society Editor MorNiNG CALL, San Francisco.) XNational Union. Knights of Pythias. Grand Chancellor George Samuels announces the following official visits to San Francisco | lodges: Monday, July 1, California Lodge No. July 2, Damon Lodge No. 2; Fri- day, July 5, Golden Gate Lodg: . 3; Monday, July 8, Laurel Lodge No.4; Wednesday, July | 10, Bay City Lodge Ni y 12, Eureka Lodge No.9 fetro- politan Lodge No. 24; Tues v 16, South | San Francisco Lodge No. 45, day, July | 17, Ivanhoe Lodge No.5; Thursday, July 18, | Garfield Lodge No.72; Tuesday, July 23, Roma | Lodge No. 147; Wednesday, July 24, Harmonie | Lodge No. 15; ‘Thursday, July 25, Unity Lodge No.61; Friday, July 26, Fairmount Lodge No. 108; Wednesday, July 1, Syracuse Lodge No- 5 Selby Lodge No. 192 of Brockett gave agrand masquerade ball on Satnrday evening last. A Iarge number was present and the costumes were many and elegant. G.K.of R.and 8., H. Schaffner, gave a five-minute addr Los Gatos Lodge No.175 of Los Gatos con- ferred the knight rank in long form on three esquires on Friday evening iast. A large dele- gation from San Jose was present and also G. | K. of R, and S., H. Schaffner. The Knights ot Oakland propose a grand cel- ebration in that city onJuly 4, and to that end have invited their brethren from this side of the bay. The First Regiment of the Uniform Rank will participate in the parade, and both brigadier-generals, with their staffs, promise to participate. All visitors will be properly en- tertained. The journal of proceedings of the recent Grand Lodge session are in the hands of the | printerjand will shortly be issued. Fairmount Lodge No. 108 added three new members on Friday evening last, June 28. Roma Lodge No.147 will report 240 mem- bers for this term. Four more applicants will be aamitted during July. Knights and Ladies of Honor. Grend Protector F. Kemp Van Ee and wife, | Grand Deputy George J. Vincent and wife and Grand Vice-Protector Miss Parker visited Oro Fino Lodge, Oakland, last Monday evening. Several of the grend oflicers were present at the meeting of Pacific Lodge on Tuesday even- ing lastand a most interesting evening was spent. I‘(imnd Protector F. Kemp Van Ee and Mrs. | Kemp Van Ee, Grand Secretary S. 8. Carleton | and wife will go toSan Jose this evening on | fraternal business in reference to the lodges in that town. Grand Vice Protector Miss Parker, accom- fdone in an exceptional manner. ed by other members of the ordsr{ visited rkeley Lodge on Wednesday even nf last, nd pronounced the business, for a new lodge, A number of the grand officers and ‘members of the order visited Martha Lodge on Friday evening and presented to Mrs. Emma Pease the commission making her a grand deputy-at- large of California. Several new lodges arc in_process of organ- ization—one of them in San Francisco. Order of Chosen Friends. At a meeting of the United Progressive Councils, held in the hall of American Council No. 7, Tuesday evening, June 25, the tempo- orary officers were made permanent. It was decided to give the first entertainment under the auspices of American Council Tuesday evening, July 16. Nineteen councils were represented. e bon-bon_party given by Soeial Couneil No. 46 Weanesday evening, June 26, was a de- cided success. Bunset Council No. 26 had a large attendance at its second social, Tuesday evening, June 25, more than 300 tickets having been sold. The officers ot America Council No. 7 will be installed Tuesday evening, July 2, by D. D. | Grand Councilor E. M. Morgan, ' Teutonia Council No. 66 will hold a public installation in its hall, Alcazar building, Tues- | day evening, July 2. Evans Council ‘No. 52 will hold a public in- stallation on July 25, to which all the supreme nnddm'nnd officers on this coast will in- vited. Supreme Councilor Morse has, during the past year, given mnch time and thought to the | problem of reducing the number of assess- ments to one a month, and equalizing the benefits received with the payments made by the members. His report will deal with this important subject. A,0.T. W The Oakland degree team will visit and confer the degrees of the order on several candidates on Saturday evening, July 6. The members of all City lodges are invited. Social hall in the Aleazar building has been engaged for (hetoocnsion. G. M. W., D. J. Toohy will be resent. According to the report of the supreme re- corder of the order the total membership at the close of 1894 was 341,371, an_increase for the year of 10,545, and $').116,807 99 has been paid to beneficiaries during the vear, while the total amount thus paid since 1869 is $58,166,932 26. During the year there was a net gain of 97 lodges, the total number on the 1st of January, 1895, being 4973. . American Legion of Honor. The statement for July shows 104 death claims paid, amounting to $228,000, of which California has four, amounting to $9000. The printed proceedings of the late session of the Grand Council has been distributed to the various lodges. Very few changes of the laws of the order were brought up. Such as were were referred to the representative of the Su- preme Council. The report of the grand secretary for the two Tenrk Dicrlonis ShURSKTRRL BAGE.000 5 nae been received from members in the State dur- ing that time, while there has been paid in benefits the sum of $305,500. The total amount paid to members’ bene- ficiaries in the State since the organization of the order here in 1881 has been $1,823,000. The grand commander has appointed the fol- lowing district deputies for this City: George W. Dixon of 261, W. H. J. Bishop of 640, J. W. Disbrow of 261, J. H. Baker of 695; also Minor S. Martin of 168 for Oakland. Also the following standing committees: Laws—H. 8. Wim of 480, James L. Fields of 187, I. W. Disbrow of 261. State of the order—Ira G. Hoitt of 187, Frank E. 8mith of 118, L. Ehrlich of 548. . Appeals and grievances—John A. Hyer of 234, J. 0. Jephson of 640, P. Pystte of 582. Danghters of St George. Pritannia Lodge No. 7, Daughters of St. George, passed an enjoyable time Wednesday 317 Mason street. J, G. Davis and F. s. M. H. Wiliiams, were cach the recipient of a very handsome gold badge, in appreeiation of services rendered. Good Templars. At its session €aturday in Boston the Supreme | Lodge of Good Templars elected the foliowing | ofticers: Right worthy grand templar, Dr. D. H. Mann of New York; right worthy counselor, land; right worthry grand secretary of juvenile templars, Miss J%fl Forsythe of M{suchu— setts; Tight worthy grand sécretary, Colonel B. ¥. Parker; lf%)l'-worl grand.treasurer '‘George B. Katzenstein of c;]{’}ormm Zurich, Switzer- land, was selected'as the place of holding the next meeting. - - Enights of Honor. The Knights of Honmor will celebrate their twenty-second - gnuiversary this evening at 0dd Fellows' .Hall. There will be an address by the grand director and other promi- nent members of the order, a musical and literary entertainment and a_ball. Miscellaneous. Cremation services have been officially de- clared by the Masonic authority not to be Christian burial:. The question that brought about this décision arose over the making of funeral arrangements for the late Charles H. | Reisser, a high Mason. It had always been Mr. Reisser’s wish to becremated. The grand mas- ter of Pennsylvania, Judge Arnold, returned a decision ® that the services of the cremation tere not Christian burial under the Masonic law, and the family decided to abandon their | original intention to cremate. The mecca of Tempiarism for this year is| Boston, Mass, The grand encampment will be | Reld in that city, beginning at 12 o’clock, Tues- day, August 27, The eyes of the Templar world are turned to the East,and the swords are be: ing burnished and the helmets brightened for the grandest displey that the world ever | saw. e AN IMPROVED GAS ENGINE. It Is Reversible and Solves a Problem of Very Long Standing. A Very Successful Test of the Ma- chine Was Made at Harbor View Yesterday. A problem that inventors and mechani- cal engineers have been trying to solve for years has at last been overcome. Time, money and labor have been expended in an endeavor to make a reversible gas engine that could be used in launches, whaleboats and vessels in the coasting trade. The problem was solved by R.J. Rolsson several weeks ago and yesterday he had a test of the engine made at the Venith Gas Engine and Power Company, Harbor B LEAGUE OF THE Members Feel Much Hurt O ‘, the Treatment of Their Pastor, DR. BROWN 0UT OF TOWN. it 1s Sald He Thinks There Is an Organized Effort to Remgye Him, The Rev. C. 0. Brown of the First Con. gregational Church is in Monterey with his family and therefore cannot defend himself against the charges made by the members of the League of the Temple. The league is hot. Its members say that Dr. Brown has acted in a manner incon- s:stent with his calling, and others go so far as to say that he has not shown the spirit of the true Christian. The object of the league being to promote 2 true Chris- tian sympathy among the male members of the church and to encourage<tha younger members to a more active interest in the church work, it is argued that the pastor _should have offered every assist- ance, instead of holding aloof from the meetings of the league, and finally having the doors of the meeting-room locked in their faces. : Some in_seeking for an explanation of the pastor’s conduct in the premises say he took it as a retlection on himself that the league should have thought it neces- sary to supplement his work. It may be also that he took umbrage at the clause i the ‘‘avowed objects” of the orgumz”anon. that its members would “pray for’” and «Jabor with him.” However, many of those seen yesterday were unable to ac- count for the difference between Dr. Brown | and the League of the Temple on any other ground tl;amf :‘I;mt‘ of zlrlpe ve- ess on the part of the former. i 2 T. H. Hatch, J. H. Barnard, A.J. Dew- ing, C. G. Dexter and others of the leagne are greatly interested in the work of the organization and in ‘proportion to that in- | terest are they aggrieved at the discourtesy | shown by their pastor. Nome of the seven View. It wasa complete success and the inventor received the hearty congratula- tions of everybody present. Quite a num- ber of mechanical engineers were present and they were delighted with the sim- plicity and strength of the new engine. The machinery was built to the order of R. Herman of Harbor View and he will ut it into a new launch he had built at Sausalito. The latter has been christened | the Albert R.and her owner expects to easily outstrip anything of her size in the bay. fn talking about the matter yesterday Mr. Herman said: This reversible gas engine 1s the first one ot its kind ever built in the world. It reverses better and quicker than a stean engine, a feat never before accomplished. The heavy revers- ing-gear in steamers is done away with, and the power is transmitted directly to the pro- eller-shaft, i. e., the crankshaft of the engine s connected directly with the propeller-shaft. In this engine all you have to do.is to reverse the lever and then, without eny friction what- ever, the engines begin to take the vessel astern. It is the simplest and most perfect engine I have ever seen, and it will revolu- tionize the building of gas launches in San Francisco. 2 This was the first time the engine was run, but it met all the expectations of its inventor and myself. A few minor changes and im- provements will be made, and then by next Joseph Malins of England; right worthy grand templar, Mrs. Margaret McKinnon of Scot- Sunday we will probably be ready for the trial trip of the Albert R. ladies and gentlemen 0 Were seen yes- terday afternoon bad” anything to sayin extenuation or explanation of Dr. Brown’s action in having the door of his study locked and forcing the league to hold its meetings in the office of Deacon Barnard | in the Columbian building. |~ Mrs. Blake, a prominent member of the | church, said she could not understand the matter, and that being the case she had no | opinion to offer. 3 i pMiss Hatch was much surprised that such a misunderstanding should have oc- curred between the pastor and the mem- bers of the church league, all of whom | were supposed to have the interests of the church at heart. She could not under- | stand it. | The other ladies did not care to be quoted. | There were none spoken to, however, who had any explanation to offer for Dr. | Brown’sactions. Since they declined to be | quoted, it would not be fair to the absent pastor to give any of the animadversions indulged in on the head of his attitude to- ward the League of the Temple. The only and most obvious conclusion deducible is that the Rev. C. O. Brown considers the work of the league an organ- ized effort to secure his removal from the pastorate. This the members of theleague | deny. When Dr. Brown returns from Monterey he will be entitied to a hearing on the subject. SOME DRUMMER STORIES THAT WILL BE NEW TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, NUTS are brand new ; some, | some of them of course, they are mers’ yarns no one or there is— —a proverb to the whatever a commercial traveler And, at all events, you are not | to believe them. They are not like the patent nostrums or the doctor’s pre- scriptions, which are of no avail unless | % s | will cure the blues in spite of the | most bigoted unbelief. They are war- ranted to tetch a smile or money refunded. | For the rest, they are mostly told hyi San Francisco drummers, or, at least, by | from home. drummers who do business here. more need be said in their favor? sample. What | Trya | 04aa Sheep in the Widow’s Flock. A. J. Gustin, who travels for Elbel & Co. of C: n, Ohio, tells a tale that is not as nteresting. “She was | A the north of England and was 4 35 years old, but looked 50, begins | Mr. Gastin, in the printed edition of his -Herald. ' she said, as I gave her and the way she said e her closely. Her freckled fac led with nervous vare, and her stock of red hair twisted up info a great | knot on the top of her head, gave her the appearance of ‘a sport out of luck.’” She had eight children, ranging from 2 to 12, chubby, manly looking in whom you could see the mother ctations. Two of the ared of exact size, yet the stamp was missing on one of them. They had just been placed on the North- western train at the Union Pacific transer | in Council Biu woebegone with hun- | gry looks, and yet with it alla happy, | wide-open-eyed wonder at the moving pai Siaime. Ehat seemed 1 glide back Of them as the train moved north out of the Bluffs. “Falling into conversation~ with the woman 1 learned that she was a miner’s widow, with seven children of her own de- pendent on her care. Her husband had Jately been killed in one of the Colorado mines by a premature blast. The mining camp_ had given her ‘man,’ she said, ‘a beautiful buryin’,’ and’ bought them rail- road tickets back into Pennsylvania, where she had relatives as poor as herself, but where she hoped to find work. She said she thought the boy was so likely that she hoped to get him a place ina store. *“I'ne family features on all but one were distinctly marked. Ispoke of the want of | resemblance in the one odd sheep of the flock, and she explained that the girl was not her own child—that she adopted her— but that she loved her just the same as the rest. The girl had lost her parentsand the widow had taken her under her wing, as a hen would a motherless chicken. “The woman had a small box which she was guarding with much solicitude, and upon my noting it she opened the box and liited out 2 fine gold-plated clarionet, which she explained had been the pride of her husband, and on which she said he | lines about her mouth twitch, as though memory of that departed harmony pained her very soul. She had a few specimens of ore which she offered to give me when I admired them, and it struck me what a bundle of maternity and generosity was there. She had but a few dollars, but as- | sured me that the conductors and brake- men had been very generous in feeding them on the way from Denver. When the train got into Boone, lowa, that evening the lunch counter found the whole lot of humanity stuffed as a Korea mother does her babe, and they passed on East over the reat river of travel, to be carried God finows where. “But how many of us would be brave enough to stand up under the care of seven, | tributed. | would show_to the most polished | the land. What traveling man > may not be questioned by a | BOL? 1 with a large amount of pure faith. | s and yet take up another? I learned that | phased, he declares he trembled when he generosity, like wealth, unevenly dis- | grasped his hat and cane and quietly arose At first 1 inclined to laugh | for his tiptoe exit from the church. grotesque appearance, yet when The preacher was in the midst of an elo- e train at Boone I lifted my hat | quent appeal just at this point. He was to her with all the genuine respect one | calling out to the worldly to repent while lady in | there was yet chance. would | Stop, sinner!”’ he shouted. i return—" e 1 = TERERA | Of course Jack took it as a personal ap- B | peal to_nimself. He halted e Jack Farquher, who is almost as well | around in the aisle. The preacher stood known on the coast as at his home in Des | with hand uplifted waiting for the congre- Moines, Iowa, told a good story on him- | gation to take in the full significance of f the last time he was out here. It is | bis period before going on to the next. and Market |40y “Excuse me, please,” said Jack, very streets. He was at Bakersfield when this | Lo e et occurred. He makes it a point to go to church on Sundays whenever he is away He went twice this Sunday and had to leave town on the 9:15 train “Pause and still current on Sansome to make that 9:15 train.” And Jack made the train, but when he visited Bakersfield this last time the folks | told him there wasn’t much eloguence {left in the preacher that night aiter he had gone. | Why Mac Resigned. And then there’s the story that Syd B. | Ellis says that George Brown told him. | Coming second hand that way of course it s gospel truth. Ellis is the shoe man and | Both are Eastern men, but neither is un- known on this coast. Eliis told the story the Jast time Le was out_here and then re- told it to_the Chicago Times-Herald man, who put it into cold type about as it is told in the succeeding words. But down on Sansome street they say the story is still fresh in this City. Kllis’ words are: =3 ty of four drummers were en route to Rockford, Ill., and in the course of the ‘game’ got to telling anecdotes and stories about each other. George Brown, who is on the road for a large rubber-house, bad this one to tell of his iriend Mac Symonds, | who is in the sugar business. It seems Mac had once aspired to be a brakeman and sought employment upon the Clicago, Burlington and Quincy ilroad and be- tween Aurora and Turner—but let George tell it in his own way: ‘Mac Symonds’ first day on "a local freight as a brakeman was a corker. Talk about vour ‘greenies’ They had hardly zot out of sight of Aurora before the engineer had Mac on top with a pail of water and a broom putting out the sparks as they lit on the top of the cars. But the climax was reached when they got a car off the track at East Batavia. Two frogs were needed to put it on and the conductor told Mac to go backto the way- car and get them. It now hat ened the vaycar stood near a small creek, and when Mag did not show up in a few minutes the conductor went back to see what he was doing. When he got back he saw Mac | running up and down the bank of the creek with a long stick in his_hand, every now and then giving it a jab into the water. When the conductor got near enough be called out: ““What are you doing?’ “‘Well,’ said Mae, ‘you told me to get you a couple of frogs, and that was what I was trying to do.” “Explanations followed, and when Mac got back to Aurora he resigned.” . Hée Was a Sinner and Enew It. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] that evening. By 8:30 o’clock the preacher had only got as far as thirdly and was just warming up to his subject. It was a small church, and Jack had been unthinking enough to take a seat well up front, ex- Imctmg the sermon to be over by 8:45at cast. As the quarter-hour approached Jack repeatedly pulled out his watch and then glanced “apprehensively at the preacher, hoping he wonld take the hint and cut it short.” But the divine was alto- | gether too much in earnest, and was bent on giving his congregation a good, old- fasuioned stitring up.” Jack debated with himself whether it would be better to miss the train or leave the church whilethe preacher was still at work. Then he decid- ed that he simply must make the train, at all bazards, and for five minutes he suf- fered agonies trying to picture to himself the scene he would make in sneaking out of the church as it were, during the ser- mon. He became nervous over it, and, though ordinarily a2 man not easily He’s Traveling for Hades. There were a lot of them in Son Bros. & Co.’s store on Sansome street, near Market, the other day—a lot of drummers—and after they had all had a hand at yarn- spinning, a stranger of rather the flashy type told a story that was heavier in length than in pith, and it moved Jake Spitz to vawn a little and remark that “it reminds me of one of Munchausen's yarns.” i “Munchausen—who is he?”’ asked the flashy man. “Why, don’t you know about him?” said Jake. “He is the most colossal ex- ample of mendacity that civilization has yroduced. hy, he's worse than my riend Grossmayer here.” And Abe Gross- mayer nodded assent solemnly. Then there was a brief and rather painful silence, It was broken by the flashy stranger, who asked in a tone that was almost timid : “Excuse me, gentlemen, if I seem t00 in- Brown is on the road for a rubber-house. | | quisitive, but would you mind telling me { for what house this friend of yours, Mr. | Munchausen, travels?” 1t was at this point that the congrega- tion disversed. How They Greeted Simpson, Take the one that Abe Simpson, the well-known clothing traveler, tells about | himself and Abraham Grossmayer. who travels for Sachs PBros. & Co. | Grossmayer was at Baker City, Abe | City. “I'll send him a telegram addressed | to ‘Abraham Marquis Queensberry Gross- How They Greeted Simpson. [Sketched by a * Call™ artist.) mayer,’” was the brilliant inspiration that | came to him. Then he thought real hard for another second, and still a brighter flash of humor came. “I'll send the mes- sage collect and make him pay for it, That’ll make him laugh sure.”” Then he worded the dispatch, “Tell the merchants of Baker City I will be there on the 28th."” He went back to his Hoker—er—thlt is, his business, and felt that he was a real humorist, and on the 28th, sure enough, he was in Baker Giry. At the station all the leading merchants were gathered when the train drew in, and at the head of the crowd was Grossmayer. The town brass band was there, too, and a wagon covered with posters, announcing in big letters that “Simpson will be here on the 28th.” “I'm likely to do some business here, it seems,” thought Simpson, and when the delegation greeted him he asked to be es- corted to the leading barroom. There he treated all hands twice around and asked the bartender what the cost was. “Thirty-five dollars,” was the bland re- ply. And then it had to be explained to him that the brass band, the bifl printing and posting, the pay of the man who h-g gone about town marking all the saloon win- dows with soap letters announcing the ar- | Simpson was in Portland and wanted to | | bave some fun with his friend in Baker | BY THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. BUT ARE CONS all: included in the bill. The town had been billed like a circus and with the ex- ception of the few that Grossmayer had taken into his confidence, all the town people thought that Simpson was a show- man of some kind and had a menagerie with him. Finally Simpson saw the point of the joke and paid the bill, but he cut Gross- mayer dead for six months afterward. Were Too Green to Burn. The office-boy at Castle Bros.’ tells a story the verity of which can be vouched for by half a dozen San Francisco drummers who met Bob Montgomery on the Modoc wagon trip not long ago. It is a trip through that region of this State and Oregon which is still virgin of all railroads, and as its ex- pense is considerable and the harvest to be reaped but modest a number of commer- cial men always make it on the common- wealth plan, at least as far as expenses go. On this Modoc trip, at Lake View, in Southern Oregon, after all possible busi- ness had been done in the town, the drummers made up their mind to have as good a time as the resources of the town would permit. They fell in with a Simon- pure hayseed, as they called him. He was a farmer not only in the Chimmie Fadden vocabulary but by vocation as well, and the smart city commereial travelers had lots of fun with him. They were generous to him and paid for all the ‘“‘red licker” he cared to consume, and then took him to the notel for dinner. All the time they were cracking jokes at his expense and hugely enjoying his bucolic verdancy. After dinner there were some more arinks, and then the drummers resolved that Mr. Hayseed must either sing a song or dance a jig for their amusement. The usual request is to sing a song, dance a jig or spin a yarn. But the commercial men left off the latter part because, as the; thought, it would be absurd to expect suc{ a man to spin a yarn. Butthe unexpected happened. The man they were having fun with suddenly Jaid aside some of his fresh- ness and solemnly asserted that he could neither sing nor dance, but that he would try to tell them a story. And after much demurring the entertainers were compelled, in lieu of anything more lively, to let the farmer go ahead with his yarn. “Once there was a drummer who dreamed that he was dead,”’ began the farmer. ‘‘He went to heaven, but the recording angel conldn’t find his name on the big book and told him to go down to hades for a berth. The drummer obeyed this injunc- tion, and upon making the acquaintance of Mr. Beelzebub was shown around the premises. The drummer saw many queer sights in the various departments of sheol. Tgey came to a pit that was hotter than all other pits, but there was no one in it burning. Instead there were a number of bodies hung up over the pit. “This is where you belong,’ said Beelze- bub. “This is the drummers’ pit.’ “ ‘But why is it there are no souls burn- ing in it like in all the other pits?’ asked the drummer in astonishment. *¢ ‘Oh, we can’t burn the drummers, not forathousand years yet. We have to hang them up here to dry out first.’ "’ Jim Taylor’s Hypnotic Powers. Here's another one just as true.. James 1. Taylor, who now represents M. Brown & Sons, successors to the S. P. Taylor Paper Company, tells it on himself and voushes for its truthfulness. X “Nineteen years ago,” he says—by which you must not take this for an old story, for it has never seen itself in type before— “while traveling through the Northwest for 8. P. Taylor & Co., being a stranger in the territory I was compelled to resort to IDERED CHEST- -.-/“"‘.-g‘ attract attention, until the thought oc- curred to me to exercise what hypnotic power I had in my business. “I happened to overhear a stranger in the hotel mention that he was going to purchase a suit of clothes and it occurred to me I mightuse him asa subject. I made a friend of him and got him to introduce me arcund the town. We visited several establishments where wet goods are sold, and in one of them, after a certain num- ber of samples had been examined and the conversation became general, I offered to wager the drinks for the crowd that I conld hypnotize any stranger I might select into treating. The wager was readily accepted and I atepred outside to select my victim. It was my luck to meet an individual with athirst and I reaaily hypnotized him b; E\Xtting a dollar in his hand unobserved. he trick worked like a charm, but the Hypnotic Taylor. [Sketched by a “Call” artist] crowd suspected me until I had_repeated «tihe gflmlsepeuuvenl times on different in- ividuals. ; “Well, we madea jolly nightof it and my reputation soon spread all over the town, My assistants were so exbausted with the festivities of the night that the; were unable, had :‘)’J: be%n st; ed;sfpt:zen d, to peach on me, I good cal t. The next morning I started out to do busi- ness in_good earnest. My friend at the hotel who wanted to buy a suit of clothes was let into the secret and proisised to help me. Af the largest general merchan- dise store, after a brief conversation, I vol- unteered to hypnotize_the first man that came along into buying a suit of clothes. Of course, it was my iriend of the hotel rather unusual means to attract attention rival of Simpson on the 28th, as well as the expenses of the boy that had been &:m‘?&h the streets ringing a bell an: g mpson is coming on the m,"::’n- % | about the time that hypnot to the nnusual merit of my wares. It wi asa science was first being discussed here. I wasata loss for some new wrinkle ‘wherewith to who came along first, as agreed between us, after a few passes of the hand I readily hypnotized him into buying a very suit of clothes at a very price. greatly ted iko fame of my magnetic influence, and even the ladie were willing to be hypnotized before 1 lef town. “Now this is the first time I have ever made public my methods of hypnotism, but many of my San Francisco friends have seen me utilize it with agreeable and beneficial results. I hope my contempo- raries will not abuse the information, for it is the sole property of the only Jim Tay- lor. Buck Beer and Shakespeare. Take this yarn of Jacob Spitz, who is the traveling member of the firm of Son Bros. & Co., 13 and 15 Sansome street: *‘I was in El Paso once,” begins Jacob—and it may be added that he was there more than once. However, it was the ‘once’” that this incident occurred. “I met there a rather retiring and mod- est young lady who, through stress of cir- cumstances, had been comvelled to enter the book-selling business for a livelihood ¢~ She was traveling for a house that wa’ handling a subscription edition of Shake- speare. She didn’t do very well at El Paso, and after she had canvassed all the stores and houses they told her she would have to go to the saloons to find the men Jf the town. She hesitated a long time s¢ first, and finally I told her I would go with her to the first place and see that go affront was offered her. She had lotsof pluck in reserve, and at last made up Jer mind to accept my offer. We went to_the leading saloon in'town, where mosfof the promi- nent citizens were gathered at that time. El Paso was not as lively a town then as it is now. “Well, we went in apd were accosted by the big Gerraan who gwns the place. . ¢ T want to sell you a good edition of Shakespeare '— she’ began, by pulling out her specimep book. The German lbooked nnlnoyed, but evidently wanted to e very polite. “ ‘A’chp, nein,’ he said. ‘We wants no more peess. ~We hafe now already der Budweiser, der Milvaukee and der Phila- delphia peers. We can sell no more kinds ings. X “‘??’-;’;‘;’e.',';dmge, you do not understand, I'm afraid, said the young woman. ‘It is b t.’.o.‘{!(aif“]s?l:&my, aind it; but we don’d vant no bock peer now; we gets plenty bock in July, aind it?’ " He Grew Too Careless. The commercial travelers havea monthl magazine of their own that is vrinted in New York. Recently this journal pub- Tished s £00d (etary, ahoubs & | Weater) drummer who is famous for his reminis-y cences. Of course, the name was sup- ressed, but the commercial men who read it will have no difficulty in identifying its hero. It happened in a Nevada town, where the drummer had formed the ac- uaintance of a young lady and the neigh- bors had commenced to talk about ‘‘Sadie Dash’s beau.” “One day a_telegram was brought to the drummer while he was at the house of his lady-love. He was tarrying in the tow; awaiting orders from ‘‘the house.” TRe girl answered the ring of the messeng and re-entered the parlor holding aloft t] dun-colored missive. “Do you really want it?"’ she queried, half playfully. “‘Perbaps it contains dread- ful news. “Guess not, my dear. It's just a line from the boss. Open it and tell’ me which way he wants me to go,” yawned the drummer, as he leisurely folded his news-, paper. i The girl tore the envelope, drew forth and unfolded the message. As she ran her eye over the written words the expression of her face brought the drummer to his feet. Before he could speak she had uttered a stifled squeal and fled from the room, the cr dpled paper falling upon the dMl'.‘ ogn rummer rescued the scraps, and here is what he read: B ‘We baye a ten-pound LANKVILLE, March 19, boy. Come hom‘l'. e ¥ i | ? g