The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1895. 11 ?, The Great flu[‘,;]{) s, ) & The two castles of Hohenzollern and Sig- | that there isabout Sigmaringen. One has | old glass here threw colored shadows: bound together | the sense of rebuilding and -imitation, in- | the old weaker, but positively tinted. :The maringen are indissolubly by the history of the mighty race who for centuries have held sway and who now from Prussia’s throne hold the balance of power in Europe. the he castle of Sigma- more interesting of the two, sa ames Baker in the Pall Mall Gazette, but as the Stammschloss or cradle of the Zollerns, Hohenzollern is of the earliest interest; and the way to it by rail, as by road, liesalong the charming- ly picturesque ban of the romantic Danube. A good plan on arriving at Sig- i v from it by rail ern Hechingen ng upon the far of Sigmaringen. ed away the ice from the s and looked out over the ape we could see how the d stretched along the tiny ng Danube; and even as we issued en we had a most lovely e, standing proudly upon with its spires and domes dark against the snow-' ringen is reminded oneof the rock e Elbe or the peaked isolated n the Meuse; as we ascended the rocks and hills were on a grander hose bordering this latter river, river itself was smaller. olated towers and d- up by the spires of the frozen ; great hills towered up, precipitous, with here and s-nest castle perched on ting crag. Little towns ith red roofs and churches v p red domes, and at I n the Elbe was again brought t mi by the great high, iso- ! t l-looking fortress, like unto K Orchards and gardens and and woods alternated the view and immer blossom and fruit and rich 2. But Zollern was soon reached, as we_quitted the little station there ar r;:ht]:‘m;zlh up r);lditshphrc. dazzling, v, icy height stood the a V] of Hohenzollern. S own As we ascended up the near cuts beside he teiegraph poles, on past the little n-quelle, we suddenly came out ofa | into a full view of the mighty building | ve us on its precipitous rock: its walls i embattlements, halls and ramparts, and bastions and _chapels, all clearly | standing out above its pedestal of snowy forest; every tree of purest white and | | d]e \‘G\ ," Z frras =0 he Greay | 7 HEeRE stead of the gradual growth and additions and alterations of the centuries. But the halls and rooms are well worth a visit, and the views from the windows and balconies are wide-spreading and very beautiful The most interesting part of the castle from an arch:fiologicnlgaud historical point he Ho . a chronicle of all the eventful dates of the castle’s history are illuminated upon the pillars; and from these we glean how full of history has been this mountain strong- hold since 1061. For a year (1744-45) the French held it. How terribly that holding bas been repaid ! The other rooms of the castle are small, but pretty, and are fitted up as dwelling- rooms, to be used wheu emperors or kings or princes dwell for & while or stay a niggt in this sky-lifted fortress, whence in old days its owners swept down and gath- ered unto themselves oty and power, until the whole flat land of Prussia lay beneath their rule. In 1576 a note occurs that in the armory were 300 suits of mail; now there are 4,000,000 armed men who move at the Hohenzollerns’ bidding. And as we descended from the famous burg and passed some of these four million in pickelhanbe and with the Manlicher rifle under their arms, we halted as we got beneath the castle towers and looked up at the singular beauty of its brown walls and embattlements, glowing in_ the afternoon sun above the g_nre, crystallized, snow-clad trees and standing out proudly against the soft blue sky; and we thought of all the history that this cragged height had in- fluenced by its indwellers, pleasant sense of antiguity about this little chapel was not to be felt in the chapel up- on the other sideof the courtyard, which is dedicated to the Protestant worship. Here all is newness; but there is some very good bronzework after Peter Fischer, and the church is hung with tapestry, while THE CORRIDORS OLEARED. New City Hall Loungers Are Kept Mov- ing by the Police. For the first time in many months the corridors of the new City Hall where the police courts are located were free from HOHENZOLLERN. [Reproduced from an engraving.) of view is the little Catholic chapel; here are remnants of the fourteenth and fif- teenth centuries. Some fine morsels of old glass brought from the monastery of Stetten have been preserved here; there is also an interesting small monstrance or acraments-schrein, and a quaint, though newly painted, fifteenth century statue of BASTION BELOW ST. MICHAEL’S TOWER. [Reproduced from an engraving.] framed in a setting of deepest cloudless | blue. But onward we had to climb. We tramped on until we reached the great gate with drawbridge and closed great por- | tal and outflanking towers. The great | gate opened before us, and before we had | time to notice the relief above it, of a | figure on horseback, a modern Prussian ntinel in a very old brown overcoat and ancient helmet passed us on up the slopes, while we heard issuing from the gatehouse the sound of a zither being played by one of the post off duty. £ The figure over the gateway is thatof Kurfurst Frederick I, and is copied from his own seal, with the dates 1415 to 1440, and beneath th re the mottoes: Zollern, Nurnberg, Brandenburg im Bund Bauen die Burg au{:fiestem Grund. And also: Mich baut Preussen’s starke Hand Adlerthor bin ich genannt. 1854. “Prussia’s and the Hohenzollern hand It had to thank England for what strength it then possessed, that had commenced at Leipsic and Waterloo. Annscription inside the gate tells of how Frederick William V laid the stone for the rebuilding of this castle in 1850, and in 1858 it was finished. A curious and cleverly built windmfi roadway and tunnel leads™ up to the m?( o] the rock, and the capstone of this work is engraved with the name of Carl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 1852, he who gave up his power to Prussia. Ar- rived at the top of this twisting gangway, a terrace is reached, and, standing up on the balustrade, are two fine stone figures of men with lances, in fifteenth-century armor; and a glorious prospect it is they ever have before their eyes, of the spurs and darg wild mountains of the Rugged (Rauen) Alps to the left and the softer landscape of forest and woodland and village-dotted meadows to the right. Far down below, some 2000 feet, like lit- tle specks in the distance, were the vil- lages of Hechingen and Stetten and Pohl, and away, on this side of the castle, to the righ .la{v the dark, wild, jagged, treeless spurs of the rugged Alps; their black rocks swept clean here and there of the snow that clothed other parts of them in pure soft beauty. We crossed the courtyard under the pic- turesque central tree (beneath which, in 1851, as in the middle ages, Frederick Wil- liam IV received the homage of the Hohenzollern folk), and entered the halls of the rebuilt castle. m There is not the charm about this castle St. George; and on the right-hand side of the altar is a stone monument, supposed to be the dedication monument of the first tenth-century building on this height. The sun was shining strongly through the win- dows of this little chapel; and one pet the candelabra are remarkably fine ex- amples of metal work. In the castle itself this sense of newness was also all pervading. One first enters the Stammbaum, or genealogical-tree hall. Here the walls are decorated with the usual tree, having circles on its branches, with the names of the Hohenzollern and Hohenstaufen aucestors. This is illumin- ated with, on the left-hand side of the | door, the figure of an angel, who bestows a blessing on all who enter these walls to look out over the glorious Schwabenland— i.e.,Swabia. Anillustration isalso given of the relations of the Brandenburgers with the Zollerns, and some verses relate how in 1454 the old castle (destroyed in 1423) was rebuilt, the first stone being laid with silver tools by the Grand Duke of Austria, Markgraf of Brandenburg, and Carl of Baden, and with the consent of the Em- peror. In fact, a careful study of this picturesque hall would give a yery good lesson in European history from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. From out of this hall we passed into the Grafensaal, built in the old Gothic style, with floor of most highly polished marble. The timber roof is supported by very lovely marbie pillars, with historic and symbolic statues in soft tints; and from the windows one looks out over the far-stretching landscape, the little town of Hechingen lying beneath. But we passed oninto the Kaiser Hall at the side, with its portraits of various Hohenzollern Kaisers, and into the Bishops’ Hall, with but two Bishops' statues, from which a window opens out on to the tower, whence a still wider view of all the country round can be had. . The following lonF room is called the library, and its walls are painted with some interesting pictures of marvelous legends of the castle. One is of the white maid bearing provisions through the enemy to the castle. Another depicts Frederick of Ottingen forcing his way through the besiegers in 1423. Another in crude colors illustrates the miraculous founding of the church of Mariazell, that lies just below the castle. Angels are bearing the ready-built church down from the skies to the valley. One picture that the villagers like to talk of shows who an impious archer shot three arrows at the crucifix at Stetten and fell back dead at the third shot; and yet another points out how far back the Zollerns have been con- nected with Portugal, for an 1illustration is Fven of the Emperor Frederick III and Cleanora of Portugal visiting Zollern in 1466. This and the remembrance that the present Prince Leopold of Sigmaringen is married to the Infanta of Portugal may help some to understand one reason why archzological dictum, that genuine old | the Hohenzollerns wished to place him on colored glass throws no color on pavement | the throne of Spain in 1870. Verses illus- or wall, was disproved, for both new and | trating how traditions assist history and THE ADLERTHOR. [Reproduced from am engraving.} the throng of loungers and smooth swin- dlers who have for so long made it their resort. Since the exposure of their swin- dling work in THE CaLn they have not been so conspicuously in evidence, but yesterday the police authorities took vig- orous steps to preserve the unsophisticated visitor to the hall from their clutches. Acting under instructions from Chief Crowley, Captain Douglass detailed two officers to watch the corridors and see that all suspicious characters kept ‘‘moving on.”” They performed their work well, and there were no loungers allowed to con- gregate in their favorite corners. * *‘It should be kefl: this way every day,” said Police Judge Low as he glanced down the hallway after adjourning court, ‘‘and T ;n_lynhope that the police will see to it that is. “It will be kept that way,” remarked Chief Crowley when sfioken to about the matter. ‘“We know who these workers are, and hereafter if any of them hang around here they will be arrested for vagrancy.” ANOTHER SMUGGLING RING Silks, Satins and Curios Are Sent to Mexican Towns in Transit. They Are Then Smuggled Back, and Thus Fifty Per Cent Duty Is Avoided. Never a steamer arrives in San Francisco from the Orient without at least six or eight consignments of Chinese goods in transit for Mexico. This merchandise is supposed to be for merchants in the Cen- tral American republic, and the Mexican men and women are supposed to be the people for whom the silks, satins and curios, of which the consignments are in- variably made up, are intended, The goods are never sold in Mexico, however, but arg shipped back into the United States by the ‘‘underground rail- road,” and Uncle Sam is a loser to the tune of 50 per cent duty on each consign- ment. When the goods reach San Fran- cisco they are sent under seal to either Laredo, El Paso or Eagle Pass, over the Southern Pacific Railroad. After being examined at these points by a United States custom - house officer they are shipped across the border. The cases do not go very far and a few days see them back in the United States and in a few more they are on the market in New York, New Orleans or San Francisco. Among the big dealers in Chinese and Japanese silks, satins and curios are W. G. Waltz & Co. of El Paso, Tex. They have an agent in this City who attends to the transhipping of all their wares. Nine or ten of their cases were sent to the Ap- praisers’ store by mistake a short time ago, and when opened some of the most ex- ensive kind of bric-a-brac was found. ollector Wise is not at all satisfied with the existing state of affairs, and he is go- ing to tr&' and_have the “free zone’ ex- tended. Goods in transit have to go a cer- tain distance into Mexico before Uncle Sam relinquishes his claim for duty, but once past a certain point they are free. Paso del Norte is the principal distributing point, and a close watch is now being kept on it. It is estimated that goods, which would swell the revenue to the extent of $2000 every time & steamer arrives from China are shipped to Mexico in transit, and then smuggled back into the United States. ——————— ASSOOIATED OHARITIES. More Than a Hundred Casos Investl- gated During the Past Week. The Associated Charities held its regular weekly meeting yesterday afternoon. The registrar reported a total of 135 cases for the week. Thirty-one were new cases and fifty-two reéurrent. Forty-six cases were investigated for the several sub-socie- ties and one death reported. During the week the society has rendered aid to five sufferers from the recent fire. Bo far as the Associated Charities has been able to ascertain there were seventy- nine families left hemeless by the fire and $1500 has been expended for their aid by these charity associations. ——e—t———— No Father or Mother ‘Will deny that a daily dip in the pure océan water of the Lurline Baths ind Bealth and happiness. Freeati0z.m. = NEWS OF THE POTRERD. The High Bank Along Ken- tucky Street Is to Be Partly Cut Away. GRAVITY WILL BE UTILIZED. Process of Taking Away the Earth and Filling In the Adjacent Lands. Before long a considerable portion of the hill on the Potrero, which, a solid bank of earth and rock sixty feet high, stands just on the west side of Kentucky street and brings Napa street to an abrupt ending by its almost perpendicular side, will be re- moved and made to serve the purpose of filling in some property now very much below grade. This hill is owned by Samuel Davis and the Reis estate, and an arrangement has just been entered into with the Potrero Land Improvemept Company by which about 75,000 cubic yards of earth will be transferred from the hill to the large block of low land bounded by Napa (Twentieth), Sierra, Minnesota and Indiana streets. The expense of doing this, about $15,000, is to be equally borne. The grading down of this hill and open- ing up the streets which are to run through 1t will prove a boon to the Potrero and re- sult in nlncin§ in a marketable condition a large tract of land in the most valuable portion of the Potrero. The work of grading and blasting on this hill is to be commenced on the west side, on Tennessee and Minnesota streets, thence working eastward toward Kentucky street and down Tennessee street to the old cut. This is in order to avoid any dan- ger from blasting and to prevent throwing rocks toward Kentucky street, which is the main artery for all the travel there. Work of laying the tracks and getting ready for filling is now in progress, and in- side of a week the actual grading opera- tions will be commenced. The earth will be moved from the big hill lying just north of where the filling is to be done. To move such a tremendous amount of earth it is necessary that the latest and most improved methods of §mding be em- ployed, in order to make the expense as small as possible. A double track will be laid on Minnesota street, beginning at the base of the big hill, down toward Sierra street until it strikes the block that is to be filled. A large drum will be located at the mouth of the cut where grading begins, on which will be wound a wire cable. At~ tached to either end of this cable will be a train of cars, ten or twelve in number, each having a capacity of about a cubic yard. As soon as a train is loaded in the cut it will be pulled by a horse to the mouth of the cut, then attached to the cable and started on its journey. The grade on the street from this drum to where the filling is to be done is such that the weight of the loaded cars going down is sufficient to haul the empty train back to the mouth of the pit, where it will be hauled by the horse up to the bank that is being moved, and thus the natural principle of gravity can be utilized to advantage. ‘When the loaded train reaches the fill, it will run out over a trestle, which will be built about t{wenty feet high,and when the prover point is reached, the brakes will be applied, then the cars, balanced on a pivot, will be loosened and the contents dumped to the ground below. When the dump reaches a sufficient height, the trestle will be moved a few feet and dump- ini operations will commence again. [he trestle itself isto be an ingenious contrivance. It will consist of a series of strong cribs, made of timbers eight inches square and about six feet long laid cross- wise until they reach the required height, and bolted to the ground to insure safety. These cribs will be’ built about forty feet apart, and the same distance from the edge of the bank where filling is com- menced. From one crib to another will be placed huge timbers, forty feet long, and strong enough to bear the weight of the loaded trains. Then crosswise irom the bauk to these cribs will be laid two timbers of the same size, and to these latter the track will be spiked. ‘When it becomes necessary to move the trestle a few feet, instead of having to tear down and rebuild the whole framework, all that will be necessary will be to take a crowbar and pinch or push the two top timbers the distance that will be required. Every time the dump reaches the level of the track this operation will be repeated until the whole width of 40 feet has been filled the entire length of the block. Then the framework will be unbolted and moved out another 40 feet. By dumping from a trestle in this manner it is claimed that it will not be necessary to have a force of men on the dump to keep it leveled, as the trestle, being always above the top of the dump, as much or as little earth as is re- quired can be dumped into the fill. A great deal of blasting wiil be required |. to move this bank of almost solid rock 60 feet in height. Butby commencingon tke side of the hill farthest from the tide of travel, and working in a cut, it is thought there will be absolutely no danger from flyin f; rocks. A force of probably thirty or forty men will be employed, and it will require sev- eral months to complete the filling of the block, which is about 20 feet below grade. ‘When it is finished there will be added to the available business and residence por- tion of the Potrero quite a respectable piece of land. Quite a lot of grading has been done around the Potrero recently, particularly in the vicinity of the new Potrero Gram- mar School, where the dirt was taken from the banks on the north side of the school and dumped into the low land on the south side, along Sierra street. Then when _the gropeny, thus filled in, was placed on the market, eight lots were sold within a week. There seems to be a pretty fair demand for Potrero property lately, and THE CALL is given much credit by residents there for attracting attention toits advantages and the prosperous manufacturing concerns there. One of the best buys in real estate just made is that of Dr. Emmet L. Wem- ple. He has purchased the corner lot on the northeast corner of Kentucky and Napa streets for $5000, and intends put- ting up a $10,000 brick building. It is expected that when Dr. Wemple's building 1s completed the police station will be moved into a portion of it. There is some talk in police circles of making the Potrero and South San Francisco a police section or district of themselves and mak- ing another district of the remainder of the territory now covered by Lientenant Bennett. As the district now is it extends all the way to the county line. A contract to pave with basalt blocks So- lano street, from Kentucky to Texas streets, has been let to Warren & Malley. Two blocks on the same street, from Texas to Connecticut streets, are to be macadamized and Missouri street is to be macadamized from Solanoto Butte streets. Sierra sireet, from Kentucky to Minnesota streets, will, in all probability be improved next. The Mexican man-o:i-war, the Zara, 8 will go on the ways at the Union Iron ‘Works 1 a day or two for painting and a 5enenl cleaning. She has left a great eal of money with Potrero merchants, as it takes considerable in the way of land delicacies to_sustain her complement of 200 men. Recently the steward came ashore with a sack of §2000 in Mexican money. which he exchanged for provisions and other necessaries. Entertainment at Niles. A musical and literary entertainment will be given in the Niles Guild Hall to-night, com- mencing at 8 o’clock. The object of the enter- tainment is to pay a portion of the debt that hangs over the Catholic Chureh, of which the Rev. T. Caraher is rector. A goodl; lent is engaged and taé audienc oan Teckon upon the rendering of a programme of rare ex- cellence. Sheriff R. I. Whelan and & number of his friends, who are eamping in the Niles Canyon, will take part in the exercises. Parties leaving the Oakland wharf by the 5 or 6 P. M. boat will arrive in Niles in time for the enter- tainment. RATES ON MACADAM, The Southern Pacific Issues Its Tariff for Carrying Rock From Folsom Quarries. The Southern Pacific Company has finally decided on its special tariff on crushed rock for macadamizing roads, and it will take effect on August 1. The rates are made from Folsom Prison quarries to various points along the rail- ways in California in accordance with a request from the State Bureau of High- ways, and were recently adopted by that body. There are three main rules to be observed. Cars must be loaded to the marked capacity, and in no case will the charge be less than $5 a carload. Side and end boards for cars must be furnished by shippers, and will be returned free at the owner’s risk and the company’s con- venience. No mileage shall be asked on private equipment engaged in handling crushed rock, so the State’s special macadam cars will pass free over Southern Pacific Iines in California, between Folsom and places where roads are being aither constructed or improved. Rates are given in cents for each ton of 2000 pounds, and to some of the principal points are as follows: Sacramento 25 cents, Auburn 45, Colfax 60, Dutch Flat 70, Marysville 55, Oroville 75, Willows 85, Dixon 35, Vacaville 45. Winters 50, Suisun 45, Vallejo 60, St. Helena 75, Calistoga 85, Santa Rosa 85, Benicia 60, West Berkeley 75, Oakland and vicinity 80, San Francisco 85, Stogkton 45, Modesto 65 cents. JOURNEYMEN - BUTCHERS, They Will Celebrate Their Ninth Anniversary at Shell Mound. Horse~Racing, Athletic Games and a Barbecue Some of the Features. % The journevmen butchers of San Fran- cisco, Oakland, San Rafael ana Sausalito will celebrate their ninth anniversary at Shell Mound Park to-morrow. They will be joined by the Metzger Verein and the sheep butchers of South San Francisco, and the parade of the united societies, every man wearing a white apronm, is expected to be an imposing affair. The butchers will assemble in front of Pythian Hall on Market street at 8:30 A, M. The grand marshal of the parade will be Armand Decourtieux Jr. Owing to the successful manner in which he handled the men on the occasion of butchers’ day at the Midwinter Fair, the association unanimously decided upon him as a leader to-morrow. Marshal Decourtienx will have his men in line at 9 A. M., and a start will then be made for the ferries. No wagons will be permitted in the line of march, and none but journeymen butchers may participate. From Pythian Hall the men will march to Kearny street, then along Kearny to California, down California to Mont- gomery, aiong Montgomery to Market and thence to the ferries. At Shell Mound Park there will be all kinds of games to amuse the crowds who are sure to be in attendance. Firstand foremost iwo well-grown suckingxizs will be greased and set at liberty. Any one succeeding in capturini them can kept them for his pains. The greasy pole will keep others amused, and the man who climbs it will have to be an expert. A spring lamb will be his reward. On the racetrack the men from Butcher- town and the owners of fast horses will hold sway. There will be exhibitions of bareback riding and feats of skill by cow- boys riding wild broncos. Trotting, pac- in%and running races will fill up the time and a barbecue will be the grand finale. In the park proper there will be all kinds of athletic games, concluding with a tug- of-war between married and single men. There will be rifle shooting for prizes, and the members of the various committees who have the affair in hand say it will not be their fault if visitors do not enjoy them- selves. e The managers of the picnic are as fol- lows: Grand marshal of parade, Armand Decour- tieux Jr.; floor managers—E. J. Haskins, W. J. Blackie; assistant floor managers—M. Marks, J. A. Stutts; chairman reception committee, M. P. Van der Vier; chairman finance committee, H. | W. Miller; chairman entertainment commit- tee, H. D. Pratt; chairman press committee, G. T.Toher; chairman printing committee, Wil- liam Weis; chairman music committee, Gus A. Roemer; chairman police commitiee, J. Ellis commitfee on games, George Schade; general committee — John T. Broderick (chairman), Benjamin Davis (secretary), W. Rettig (assist- ant secretary), George Miller (treasurer). ettt g The clocks of this country are estimated to number 14,000,000.. NEW TO-DAY. MOTHER®! 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