The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1895, Page 24

24 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1895. THE LOTTERY TRAFFIC 1S DECREASING, Bale of Tickets in San Francisco Reduced Fully One-Half. CHIEF CROWLEY’S VIEWS, | { He Says “The Call’s” Exposes Are Responsible for the ! Reduction. MORE OF THE FOX FRAUD. The Honduras Company Repudiates Its Prize-Winning Ticket for Forty Dollars. “Since THE CATL'z crusade against the ;| lottery traffic began the sale of tickets has | fallen off 50 per cent in this City,” smd‘ Chief of Police Crowley yesterday. “TrE CALL has awakened a heretofore slumbering public sentiment against the unlawful business. That is one reason for | its success,” continued the Chief. | “But there is a more potent reason than | that. Self-respect and respect for the laws waited patiently for it since June 8 last and has exhausted every possible manner | of cashing his ticket. He has taken it to the banks. They will not cash it. No one will cash it. Mr. Gradwell will never buy another lot- tery ticket. He says so himself. “I have been playing the lotteries for | twenty-five years,”’ he saia yesterday, “and this the very first thing I ever won—that is, it's the only ticket I ever held that pre- tended to win anything. And yet I pegged away at it all these years. I thought it was at least a square game. I saw the va- rious lotteries advertised in the newspa- pers every month and though I had never won anything, yet 1 kept reading all the time about the big prizes won by other people, and that made me keep on playing. Some day I would strike it rich, I thought, and then I would be more than paid for all the time and money wasted on buying tbe different kinds of lottery tickets. ““When times were good I used to buy all the kinds of tickets in the market. I have spent hundreds of dollars in the lotteries. | And now that I have at last found a ticket | that should win a prize—only $40 at that— and the lottery agents turn me down the first chance. “Well, they'll never get another cent of my money."” A great many people in this City are saving the same thing these days, although not all of them have had the same ex- perience as has Mr. Gradwell. There was a time when there were 48,000 Honduras tickets sold in San Francisco in & month, lished under the name of “C.F. Stiles” and the “Louisiana Lottery Company.” Following this is a long circular sent out by the authoritiés of Kansas City denounc- ing Fox under most of his aliasesas a gooa many kinds of rascal. On the circular are some very pertinent extracts from Eastern pavers., Here is one from the Valparaiso (Ind.) Republic: ATTEMPTED LOTTERY FRAUDS Tickets and Confidential Letters Sent to the Citizens of Indiana. Special to the Republic. VALPARAISO, IND., April 18.—The express companies operating in Northern Indiana cities are receiving numerous consignments of lottery tickets bearing the addresses of prom- inent business men. The tickets are accom- panied by a confidential letter bearing the sig- nature of C. F. Stiles, president of the Lonisiana Lottery of Kansas City, and stating that on account of the prominence of the persons to whom the tickets had been sent they were desired as agents. Inside the letter ad- dressed to the business men was a small en- velope containing lottery ticket No. 49,758. A printed ticket inclosed with the ticket reads: “Confidential—Be sure to sell this ticket to some prominent person who would not object to having his name published should he draw alarge prize.”” The lottery is in Kansas City, Kans., and is seeking to impose itself upon the unsophisticated as the Little Louisiana Lot- tery ofthat city. In each case here, as in other cities, the number to be given the prominent citizen is 49,758, and as the tickets are not subdivided into quarters or halves it {s readily apparent that the concern isa fraud. Every lottery agent has been ordered to be arrested should he continue the sale of lottery tickets. On the back of the E. Fox & Co.’s fake tickets is a statement that ‘“we have on deposit with the Metropolitan National Bank of Kansas City, Mo., an amount of (OMEANY ¥, June & 1395 G \ \ y}g?mq N This is largely erest. THE has le the swinc £ concerns, has uncovered a good many more palpable fraudsand has ex- posed many of its fake agencies and coun terfeiting schemes. THE CALL has shown the people that it cannot be to their inter- ests in any possible manner to continue to y the lotter! “And the peopie have commenced to stop playing. They bave made a good be- ginning, too, for at least one-half of them have had sense enough to quit. They are beginning to find out that the lottery traffic is not only unlawful, but that it is essentially and thoroughly a one-side cinch swindle. “Now, if the other daily papers would | ouly follow Tee Cari's example in this | Not more than 10,000 Honduras tickets are | sold here now. Of course, that is still an | infamously large number and signifies tHat | there are 10,000 law-breakers in San Fran- | cisco. It signifies more than that, though. | It tells that there are 10,000 fools in San Francisco who throw away at least a dollar a month. About three months before the raitroad | strike, the lottery traflic reached its height | in this City. The sales of tickets at that | time were: . $48,000 | . 105,000 5,000 Juares...... 5,000 San Domingo. 35,000 Spenisb-American 5,000 Total... ......8203,000 | Following the railroad strike there were | ! hard times and money was scarce. ‘I8 it | accompanying fac simile reproduction, de- | | clares that E.Fox & Co. have less than | @ w mocKeR enest “CAPiTAL 4 [ Kansas bowift¥may’ concern: To £, Fox credit time and again this Bank on t we understand to_do. on our books. Very tr i} . matter,” said the Chief, *‘or at least refrain | from advertising these illegal fake lot- teries,we could soon get the business under our heel in this City. “I suppose it will be impossible to stamp | out the traffic entirely, any more than it is possible to make men stop stealing, Whenever a scamp can find a greenhorn with a little money there is going to bea | transfer of that greenhorn’s money into the clutches of the scamp, whether through the sale of lottery tickets or any other con- fidence game. We can hardly hope to put a stop to that sort of thing, but if Tee CALn will only keep up its fight a little longer I am in great hopes that every intelligent man and woman in the City will soon become aware of the fact that the best lottery ticket ever sold in this City is a very questionable. coupon, to say the very least, and that nine-tenths of all the other tickets are palpable, transparent frauds.” Following these words of the Chief it peems timely to draw public attention to ticket 69012 of the Honduras National Lottery Company. According to list of advertised prizes, as published in all the newspapers of S8an Francisco except THE CALL the morning aiter the drawing, June 9, that ticket was the winner of & $40 prize. A. Gradwell of this City paid $1 for that ticket. He was a very happy man when he read in the newspapers that he had won a prize 0f $40. He waited & few days until the offi- ¢ial list came along and verified the figures published in the newspapers. Then Mr. Gradwell took his ticket down {o Metzger & Franklin’s big office in the ‘Wells-Fargo building on New Montgomery street and opened his pocket-book for the forty big, round dollars to fall into it. He just handed the ticket to the cashier and pointed to the corresponding number on the official list, Then he stood calculating what he would do with the money. And he might be standing there yet, if he had concluded not to leave till he got his $40. He never got it. He never will. Metzger & Franklin repudiated the ticket and refused to pay the $40. Then he took his ticket up to Grant avenue, to one Walter P. Oakes, another accredited agent of the Honduras Lottery Company. Oakes also repudiated the ticket. And this identical ticket passed through the hands of Oakes before it reached Mr. Gradwell. It was Walter P. Qakes that put the ticket on the market. Now he repudiates it, and_all the world &nows that even the Honduras Lottery is & swindle. Mr, Gradwell wants his $40. He has NoTaa8a % Co. bave test than $130 to their We have toc discontinue he back of thei- ttckets, which they bave fa:l~d and_refused SA Q. BTREAN, Catmon © | WILL L. BAINES, ADLT. CAne) $750.000.00 City. Mo Apr11¢7.21894" We desire to eay that requested them reference to uly, yours, FPresident any wonder that money grew scarce in a community which threw away nearly a quarter of a million dollars every month in lottery swindles? Some may doubt thelcorrectness of these figures, but no one who is posted on the | lottery business will fail to find them cor- ! rect. They are given by men of experi- | ence. They are not estimates or guesses. | Tie figuresrepresentin every case theactual | sale of tickets for the month of April. 1894, | as taken from the books of the San Fran- cisco agencies. This was long before THE | CALs passed into the hands of its present proprietor and long before any person or paper in any public manner had exposed | the frandulent character of these illegal | concerns. There was a great public igno- | rance on the matter of lotteries in this City. | is meant for a falsehood. money sufficient to guarantee the payment of any prizes that may be drawn by this ticket.”’ And this is no lie. It is solemn truth. But it is meant to be a lie. truthful is the statement, “An amount sufficient to guarantée * # #* any prize that may be drawn by this ticket,”” for of course that ticket, and every other ticket issued by this man Fox (alias Trost, alias Floyd, alias Stiles, etc.), is as likely to draw a prize as the moon is likely to rain silver dollars. But this quoted paragraph It is meant to signify that E. Fox & Co. have on deposit at the bank mentioned a sum of money equal to the amount of the advertised cap- | ital prize. And the bank in question, over the sig- nature of its president, as shown by the $130 to their credit at the Metropolitan National Bank. The same state of affairs is true concern- ; ing the Missouri National Bank of Kansas | “METROPOLITAN NATIONAL BANK. | City, as shown by!the communication, reproduced here, from the cashier of that bank. From the St. Paul Daily News of March 10 the following extract concerning the Fox swindle is reprinted in this official circular: FRAUD ALLEGED. Piquant and Unique Experience of Mr. Dieckhoff With E. Fox & Co.’s Lot- tery. Wholesome Food for Reflection for Others About to Invest in the Wheel. He Bought a Winning Ticket, hut Failed to Secure the $15,000 Prize. Mr. J. Dieckhoff, bookkeeper of the Schlitz Brewing Company, S8t. Paul, appears to have had a rather singular, if not a decidedly new and unique, experience with the manage- ment of E. Fox & Co.s lottéry of Kansas City, Mo. It is seldom a man is fortunate enough to win a lottery prize of $15,000. It is more sel- dom still that, after purchasing the lucky ticket, after picking a winner from so many thousand starters, he should have the ticket thrown back at him as worthless, repudiated, in fact its validity denied. And yet such appears to be the prima facie evidence in the case of Mr. Dieckhoff’s connec- tion with E. Fox & Co.slottery. Mr. Dieck- hoff claims to have held the whole of a ticket winning in a drawing of the lottery on Febru- S NEWLYORA L © ¥ RIEGER. Pun HENRY T wUMPF, 3 ® 0 COVINGTON. * 8 WOOD ams c. & Co. are using vhe reference. we beg vame, \D this manuer, Only the well-posted man about town or the professional gambler declined to play the lotteries. During June not quite $100,000 worth of lottery tickets were sold on the entire Pacific Coast, including all the lotteries and all the counterfeit tickets in circulation. This is still a shamefully enormous figure and shows that there are still about 200,000 greenhorns and dupes, or “farmers,” as Chimmie Fadden would call them, in this part of the world. Evidently these “farmers’”” need some more information about the lottery swindles. There is al- ways an abundance of evidence at hand. Consider again the E. Fox & Co. swindle, with headquarters in this City in the Co- lumbian building. Fox has many aliases. He is well known in the East by the police. Tue CALL recently published a fac simile lal his swindling circulars and tickets pub- Kansas City. L“’; whom?y tTmayZconcern;. AN The AMissourt National Bank of Ransas €iny, IFE’ BUILDING L APT I, 268718047 P searning that E."Fox ocame of this Bank as to state quested them to discontibue that we have re- the use of’our Yours itraly b 7hts - 5 Cashier ary 7 the sum. of $15,000. Upon learning the result of the venture Mr. Dieckhoff, as he al- leges, presented the ticket for payment to E. Fox & Co. This payment was positively re- fused. The cash was not forthcoming on pre- sentation of the literal’L 0. U. of E. Fox & Co. Mr. Dieckhoft, according to his story, became importunate and urged immediate liquidation or an acknowledgment of insolvency. This was the status of the case, as alleged, on March 7. On thatdate, says Mr. Dieckhoff, he was offered by the representative of E. Fox & Co. 8500 to say nothing publicly about the de- fault or to further urge his claims for the bal- ance due him, $14,500. To this propositién Mr. Dieckhoff says he refused to accede and, as he says, still refuses to accept it in liquidation of his claim. Altogether the affair possesses the aroma of 8 pure, unadulterated fraud by E. Fox & Co. on the public, and may possibly shed the raysof a strong Drummond light on the secret workings of the E. Fox & Co. Leottery. This should h'l What makes it | NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. Telephone South 665 and Goods Will be Sent You C. 0. D. where. for economical reapers. the ‘‘low price’’ store of San Francisco. balance of Summer stocks quickly we now greatly re=- duce prices that were already lower than those else= Bring about $7.50 with you now if you want $10 worth—and come in the morning to avoid the great shopping throngs that crowd this store after 11 A. M. To clear out A New Crop of Bargains Ready We maintain our bargain supremacy. This is always (INCORPORATED) 987, 939, 941 HARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. ale’s Clearance Sale BEGINS TO-MORROW MORNING AT 8 O’CLOCK. Country Orders for Sale Goods Will be Filled If Received in Time. Wash Fabric Crop. A fine big bargain crop in this de- artment of the most desirable [ash Goods that came to Californin this year. It is right in the height of the season and the most desir- able patches will be mowed down quickly. We advise the ‘‘econ- | omical reapers” to get here be- times. Here are some pointers: 8, PERCALES, Simpson & Sons’ cholce make, In all the desirable 5 1895 paiterns and colorings, re- duced from 7¢ to.. Yard TOILE DE LAINE, an up-to-date material resembling challies, light 810 and dark grounds, in handsome O3 patterns, sale price will be........ ~ Yard another VIGOUREAUX RICHE, | member of the challie family and | one of the most desirable cotton | | dress stuffs of the season, reduced 83° from 1234c to. Yard FANCY ‘DUCK SUITINGS, the . pretiy soft-finished kind tha falls ] QC n gracefal folds and washés to 100k like new, from 25ca yard to Yard FANCY GINGHAMS, 32 inches wide, the kind for shirt waists, | (20 light, dark or medium colors, 103 [ pretty plaids, dainty caecks, etc.. Yard BRIGHTON GINGHAMS, the kind | for aprons and children’s play 410 | dresses, blue, brown or green 2 i checks, sale price. Yard TWILLED FLANNELETTE, wear- ing qualities, warmth and pretti- ness combined, light grounds, checks, dots, stripes, etc., floral eftects, instead of i0c or 1234 7C Yard FLANNELS, about 75 per Tic for out- 3 wid centwool, an ideal ing-dresses, shirts, etc., new pat- terns, subdued color effects, re- duced to... .- Linen Crop. Qur bargain cultivator has suc- ceeded in producing a wonderful crop of bargains at this counter. Prudent housekeepers will reap the benefit of such cuts as these. ALL LINEN HUCK TOWELS, two 20° Yard sizes, 16336 and 16x33, fringed Q10 with ‘colored border, now only $1 3 dozen. Each ALLLINEN HUCK TOWELS, these are 20x40 inches und hemmed, & ] 320 fiyt-rate quality sud all linen, 103 ac) only. CHECKED CRASH TOWELING, extra wide (22 inches) and ali ure linen, pure white, with red or lue checks, worth 18c a yard, 12:¢ DOW .evvannninn Yard TURKEY RED TABLE CLOTHS, 3 yards long. bemmed ready for f7HC use and oll boilea colors, reduced £o) UNBLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, 82 inches wide, all pure flax- made linen, unusually good pat- 50° terns and full 76c vaive, reducedto Yard TURKEY RED DAMASK, 8inches 950 wide, fast ofl boiled colors and ) new and attractive patterss....... Yard House-furnishing Crop. Not two or three items greatly re- duced just to attract customers, but a gencral reduction all along the line. Look at these: WHITE BEDSPREADS, crochet spreads, in nice Marseilles pat- 700 terns, cheap at 81, and cheaper yet ai sale price Each NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, 7750 ecru_color, mice patterns, full taped, 3 yardslong, and nowonly. Pair NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, white, Bt vards and 46 inches in @ . 00 size, and would be about right at - #1 50 a pair, sale price............ Pair 6-4 OH LLE COVERS, the usual $ kind. for large tables, o 1.00 brilliantly colored patterns, re-@) L' — duced to: 5 Fach 1F very v quality, with fringe and wide dadoes,” tan. peacock blue oid rose and dark green, $4 5 value, now. In the Muslin Field. Muslins are staple goods. No bad colors or patterns here, and 8o prices are always pared down to the lowest profit-producing point. Still our bar- gain cultivator is a wonder, and he has succeeded in producing these: 42-INCH BLEACHED MUSLIN, gc heavy yet not coarse, and no dress- ing in it, reduced to. . Yard $320 Pair 9-4 UNBLEACHED SHEETING. | po0 One of the best 18c sheetings * made, now for. Yard UNBLEACHED CANTON FLAN- NEL 8 licavy, substantial founda- Q10 tion for a warm fuzzy suriace. 3 The 1214 kind Yard Silk Worm’s Product. A Silk sale that will win against any offers hitherto made in this city. BARGAIN REAPERS MUST COME EARLY if they expect to get any of this crop of Silks. 10,000 YARDS JAPANESE SILK, 9z0 20" inches wide, and full assort- 1) ment of colors snd black.. Yard 200 PIECES SHAUTUNG PONGE] 375 26 Inches. 5000 heavy anallvy and DO- > no powder, 15 yardsto piece...... = Plece 750 YARDS SWIVEL SILK, 28 Inches wide, dainty designs and @ () colorings. A perfect wash fabric. Reduced t0.......... Yard 825 YARDS COLORED SATINS, 18 inches wide, il staple colors 950 except cream, a good heavy qual- 4O ity, for . Yara 250 YARDS COLORED PLUSH, 15 nches wide. Color assoriment 90 broken. 1f we bave color you need, only.. 2h Yana 675 YARDS COLORED SILK VELVET, ull 18 inches. Color ()0 assortment broken, and 50 & good #1 quality for. . Yara 1620 YARDS COLORED FATLLE SILK extraheavy, Fronch make, (00 21 inches wide. Regular at $1 25. Clearance price. ShfEa b 540 YARDS CHANGEABLE BEN- GALINE SILK, 20 inches wide, reduced from $1 25 to. 3 69° Yard Dress Goods Specials. Here are a few examples of our Clearance Sale Frices. Don’t you think there will bea speedy removal of this crop of bargains? ALL-WOOL SCOTCH CHEVIOTS, in small fancy checks and mix- tures, just the thing for outing 20° suits, 38 inches wide, sale price... Yard FANCY STLK AND WOOL MIXED CHEVIOT SUITINGS, 36 250 Inches, grays, biues, brown, tan, garnet, etc., only.. Yard FRENCH = MOHAIR _FA CHECK SUITINGS, 38 Inches QR wide, browns, tans, grays, blues D) and green, also reduced to.-...... Yard TWO AND THREE TONED SUIT- INGS, all wool. This ot includes four broken color lines, worth 60 yard, on sale to close ot at.. 25° ALL-WOOL STORM SERGE, 38 inches wide, navy blue and black, with fancy tan stripe, marked to 25° close.. Yard REMNANTS DRESS GOODS, 1 in black and colors, marked to 2 close at about. Price Cashmere Scarfs. FANCY SILK EMBROIDERED CASHMERE SCARFS, 2 yards long, prettily fringed with wool or silk. The colors are cream, black, cardinal, light blue, pink, tan and mode. oo Ladies’ Underwear. These are extraordinary values, and typify the reductions throughout the department. LADIES' COTTON VEST, Jerse; ]SC ribbed, ecru color, H. N. L. S,, medlum weight, well made, only. Each LADIES' SILK VEST, 1. N.N.8, g Swiss ribbed, cream color, regular B 75¢ quality, sale price............. ~ Each Ladies’ Muslin Under=. wear. Made well with liberal quantities of trimming and material—made to fit—to wear well—and to sell forabout double such prices as these: LADIES" CAMBRIC DRAWERS, fine quality, tucked and insertion 290 trimmed, ‘also hems:itched, were 50c, sale price... Patr LADIES' MUSLIN DRAWERS, tucked, tnsertion and deep em- 7750 broidery trimming, regular prices #1, $125 and $1 50, sale price... Palr LADIES' MUSLIN GOWNS, good beavy maslin, V-shaped neck, 75(‘ tucked and embroidered yoke, re- duced from $1 to . Each IEERRERRERERE ] Various Bargains. To give In detail even three or four items from cach department is im- possible in our space. Here’s an ab- breviated list of pointers for econom- ical bargain-reapers. If you don’t want to save money don’t read these; LADIES' CALICO WAISTS, 100 25c dozen at.. ... Each LADIES' GINGHAM APRONS, 36 1214c inches squars ... Each INFANTS' COTT HOSE, were 10c 25c..: H S sao BLACK COTTON 15c¢ sizes 6109.. : Pair FAST BLACK COTTON 19c FAST BLACK LI 250 RS Pair ENGL BED GRAY 250 cheap at 50¢. Pate 10c Pair 23¢ ...... s Palr MEN'S AND T0VS' EGYPTIAN COTTON SHIF OR DRAW- 25¢ RS, light weight . Each ALL-SILK T ~1214¢ Each MEN'S CHEVIOT OVERSHIRTS, 35c cheap at 50c, now . Escn ODD LOTS OF CASH) WOOL_AND L 10c 25¢ to 5 Pair BLACK KID DERBY GLOV , 4-button length, sizes 5%, 5% and 6 only, to bé 35c closed out at.’... .. 5 Pair ALL SILK, SATIN "AND GHOS GRAIN RIBBON, assorted colors, No. 9, T4c: N 12c vo. 12, 10¢c; No. 16, METAL DRESS BUTONS, largesize........ BONE DRESS BUTTONS, size... v warning to people who invest in such things as a lottery. Surely, everybody in California ought to know that the Fox & Co., the Stiles or the Trost lottery tickets are meanand petty swindles, and, indeed, not many of them are sold in this City at present. Only the man who could be swindled by the gold- brick game or the shell and pea fraud would buy a Fox ticket, or a San Domingo, either. Butthere was a time when the Ban Domingo’s were selling like hot cakes in this City. This was immediately after the daily newspapers published the long and glow- ing accounts of the great winning made by Saloon-keeper Rademaker. It was sol- emnly set forth, in words that cost §la line in the morning newspapers, that Rademaker had won $32,000 in the San Do- mingo Lottery Company. How the people did flock to that man’s bar for a few weeks. Of course, Rademalker never won a cent from the San Domingo lottery, because the San Domingo is a fraud. There is really no such lottery. It never had a drawing and it never awarded a prize. What it did do was to pay Rademaker for the useof his name, But the swindle was too big a one for Rademaker. He couldn’t keep it to him- self. Hetold a few friends on the quiet. They told other friends on the quiet, and every man about town who knows all he ought to know, knows that the newspaper advertisements about Rademaker’s big prize winning was a fake, and a fraud and alie. Rademaker never won a cent. But how the San Domingo tickets did sell for a few weeks! No one buys them now to speak of. The big business at present is in counterfeit tickets. The Upson gang, with John R. Fritz and Paul Miller for agents, are get- ting rich out of their operations. * Of course, their operations will not con- tinue very long, for the police are deter- mined to drive them out of the business. Yesterday Detective H. J. Wright made a sudden descent on Upson’s headquarters at 127 Fourth street with a search warrant, but, of course, the search proved futile. Bearches almost always do. The business has reached that point now when no lot- tery tickets are kept on the premises. A man who selis lottery tickets hires a box atthe bank. This is safe from police sur- veillance and not inconvenient for the dealers. A Family Jar. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.S Stores are selling MASON FRUIT JARS At greatly reduced prices. 1 dozen jars, pints, In box ... B¢ 1 dozen jars, quarts, in box... 1 dozen jars, half gallons, in box. Inspect our Improved Jelly Glass Ice Cream and Berry Sets of 7 pieces, 25¢, 85¢c and 50c per set. Our prices for Teas and Coffees the . B m directly from us saves middle. m"l lor’s mila. lowest. men's THE RAILROAD IN' LINE, It Will Help in Making the Pavement Exhibition a Success. Agents Notifed That Exhibits of Paving Materials Shall Be Carried Free. The Southern Pacific Company has de- | cided to lend its aid in making the exhibi- tion of paving materials at the Mechanics’ Fair in this City a success, and with that end in view resolved to carry exhibits of paving material to and from this City free of charge. Recently the Merchants' Association ad- dressed a communication to the railway company, asking that it would assist and take an interest in the show of materials for pavements. The letter impressed the merits of the case upon the railroad men, who thereupon determined to encourage the merchants and others in their struggle for better streets. Agents at all stations on the Pacific sys- tem were notified yesterday by C. F. Smurr, general freight agent of the com- pany, as to_how they should act with re- gard to exhibits of paving material for the fair. The circular to agents was to the ef- fect that such exhibits shall be transported free to the fair and back again, although {here are restrictions, which appear as fol- lows: Shipments of paving material for exhibition at the Mechanics’ Fair, under the auspices of the Merchants’ Association, should be for- warded to S8an Francisco at regular rates, con- signed to the exhibitor and charges collected on delivery. Consignees or exhibitors must surrender to this company’s agent, when returning ship- ment, the expense bill showing charges to the fair, accompanied with the certificate of the secretary of the Merchants’ Association, coun- tersigned by the secretary of the Mechanics’ Fair, setting forth that property has been on exhibition and not changed hands, when con- signment will be forwarded to original ship- ping point free of charge. Agent must make Teference to original forwarding, also “inward expense bill and secretary’s certificate taken Agent, San Francisco, will refund all charges for transportation to the fair by form 13,at- taching thereto original expense bill, secre- tary’s certificate and receipt of consignee or exhibitor on form 77, and forward all to freight auditor with dnliy report in the usual manner. Consignees or exhibitors who have paid charges to the fair on articles that at its close are found to be worthless by reason of their be- ing unfit for return transportation or com- mercial uses, on surrender oi- expense bill, ac- companied by certificate of the secretary of the Merchants’ Association, countersigned by the secretary of the Mechan: air, setting forth that property has heen on exhibition and not changed hands, and is unfit for return trans- portation—will receive from this company’s agent the amount paid for transpertation of the property to the fair. Agent, San for transportation to the fair, in the manner as noted above, for shipments returning. ——————— Concerning *“ Dupp! When I first came to Jamaica, the sur- roundings of that lovely tropical island seemed to my unsophisticated eyes to for- bid the conventional ghost. ~The tiny wooden boxes, bright with creepers an% gay with green and white paint, that for the most part did duty for houses, offered surely neither space nor attraction to a properly constituted apparition, says a writer in the National Review. It was a surprise, therefore, to find that in the daily life of the negro population “Duppies’’ occupied a very considerable and, indeed, dignified position, and were not only recognized as a serious_fact, but were to be spoken of—if, indeed, it was advisable to speak of them at all to strangers—with fitting reverence. Even the more educated were not above a lurk- ing belief in their existence, while for the orginm'y negro, that there were Duppies around him was as undoubted a truth as the clear sunlight in which he lived. Now, it is the general idea of English people, even of those who have lived all their lives in the West Indies, that a “Duppy”’ is simply the negro equivalent for our ‘‘ghost;” but after many and pa- tient inquiries from the negroes themselves this I found to be a mistake. To be exact, a true *‘Duppy,” although an nps)]arition, is not the spirit or soul, but only the shadow of the departed, the soul being perfectly distinct from its Duppy and gom§ to_heaven or hell, as_the case may be, leaving its shadow or Duppy to linger behind on_earth, where, unless exercised by certain ceremonies, it may work mischief, or, at best, cause annoy- ance to the living. For instance, the soul of a notorious evil-doer, a noted Obeah man, for example, is supposed by them, naturally ezou%}:, to go straight to hell for his crimes, but his Duppy will remain be- hind him; only, beini the shadow of a bad man, it will partake of his yicious ualities, and probably become trans- formed into a “Rolling Calf,” that bugbear of all negroes. A “Rolling Cali” is a very terrible creature, that haunts the hillsides and lonely places, 1o the terror of travel- ers. It has fiery eyes, and is accompanied by the sound as of clanking chains. Apart from this, it is shaped much like an ordi- nary cow, and to becaught by one is death, with the additional horror of being forced afterward. to become a “Rolling Calf” one’s self. One chance of escape, however, remains to the unfortunate victim. The “Rolling Calf” cannot run up hill, and therefore if a slope can be reached, so that one isabove instead of on a level with or below this terrible pursuer, safety is in- sured. Possibly some dim remembrance of the African buffalo and its habits lies at the root of this strange tradition, for I be- lieve a buffalo cannot charge uphill. —————— ‘Wyoming’s wool clip is estimated this year at from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds, and the opinion is also expressefihul it will be of a better and cleaner quality than in former years. ——————— Poultney Bigelow is the first American to be el a member of the Royal Society Francisco, will refund all charges | of Literature. Each and every pair of Royal Worcester have the full name stamped Inside on the lini tape at the wals If the full name not ther they are not geunine Royal Worcesters. The place to buy them s at the Niting rooms, 10 Geary st, up stairs, corner ot Kearny, where they are ftted free. We can fi any form at any price and war rant every pair. If you have not worn them yoa should try & pair. CHESTER F. WRIGHT, 10 Geary st., cor. Kearny. 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