The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1895, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1895. THEOLD TIMER OF SAN FRANCISCO MEN AND EVENTS INTHE FiFTIES. BY fiEST CSfock “Let us walk up Stockton street a little ways and look at Pfeiffer's Castle,” said Colonel Reuben D. Strong after he had told of the mannerin which three inquests were held on one corpse in olden times. “There are no ca t this end of the City,” I ventured to say. “I refer,” continued the colonel, “to that brick building on the corner of Stockton and Chestnut streets, adjc ng the one on which I see the sign, ‘Toland Medical Col- lege. “Why, that's the Home for the Care of Inebriates,” I said to him, wishing to en- lighten him. By that time we stood oppo- site the building wh has been a house of re almost unconquerable f drink. “I will not dispute what you say,” con- tinued the colonel, “but my recollection of the old structure is that it is as it when I knew it, except that some ay-windows have been added, also a long flight of stairs, so that the building now bhas s modern appearance. At that time the street was up to the level of the ground floor and it was known as ‘Pleiffer’s Castle.’ Pfeiffer had quite a history. When he was about 18 years of age he started across the plains from the East bound with a party for Oregon. This was in 1842. “After the party had been out some time and had endured the hardshipsot a trip over the almost trackiess territory the membersof it became divided on one point, and that was as to where it should pro- ceed. Some wanted to go to the original point of destination, while others wanted to gotoSanta Fe, and there were others who wanted to go to California, which was then but little known, still talked of. Those who favored California were of the opinion that as it wasa new country it certainly must be-a good one to locate in. The re- sult was a split up, one half of the party | deciding to go to Santa Fe, young Pieiffer electing to go with that crowd. The others | headed for California, but were deterred by a trapper, who told them that they would perish in the snows in the Sierras if they attempted the journey, for winter was ap- | proaching and’ travel was very slowin | those days. They decided to keep right | on for Oregon. | “It was not long before the other half of | the party turned about and headed for | egon. When thiat party arrived there Pfeiffer fell in with some missionaries, 1 believe, and took a great interest in books, | particularly scientific works. His mind seemed to run to inventions, and he was always trying to invent something that would bring him a great fortune. That seemed to be his ambition even when I | knew him in the early fifties. While in his northern home he frequently heard of California, and he was seized, as he told me, with a burning desire to see the coun- | try, so he got an oppertunity to come here on a vessel belonging to the Hadson Bay Company that was coming down' for hides and tallow. “To tell the truth Pfeiffer did not like ssion for strong the people of California and their ways, so | he returned witk the vessel, and remained | in Oregon until the ne f the discovery of gold again filled him with a desire to move a With a party of fortune- seekers he started to cross the Oregon line, and after many a week of hard travel | reached the New Helvetia, as Sacra- mento was called at the time General John A. Sutter built his fort there. One of his first business ventures w; he purchase of a hen and a rooster, paying $30 for the hen and $20 for the roost Chicks were worth their weight in gold in those days. That pair multiplied and in time the chicl somely, eggs being purchased at the rate of $1 apiece in gold dust. He secured an adobe house from General Sutter, and went into the business of supplying miners with such goods as they needed, and ac- cumulated a great deal of gold, so much, | he once told me, that he used to spread it out on the floor and run a magnet through | it to clear it of black sand, and then shovel it up with an ordinary shovel into boxes which he used to hide in holes dug inside the adobe, or place it on top_of the broad | He had put up a ceiling to hide the | walls: rafters that supported the roof, and when he wanted to make a deposit in his bank, as he called it, he would take down a part | of the ceiling, place his wealth on the top of the wall and nail the ceiling again in its place; but this was all done aiter the place was closed and the windows dnrkene£ ““In 1850 he married in Sacramento a Ger- | man girl who had come to the United | States from Wurtemberg, and bhad made | the trip across the plains. In 1853 he sold | out his busipess to come to this City and | locate. ‘’The next night the whole of Sac- | ramento was swept away by fire. On ar- riving here he sought a northern’ location | and found it here. The knowledge he had of | the great fires that had swept over this | City, and the one in the city he left, made bim resolve that e would build a house that would not be destroyed by flames, so | he built this house, which is of such odd | architecture that while he was construct- | ing it, people who watched the work of the | masons, asked if he was building a castle, | and that is how it came to be called ‘Pfeiff- | er’s Castle.” ‘‘His property extended to Francisco street on the north. Through his land | he opened a small street, dedicated it to the | public, and called it Pfeiffer street, and whichIsee by the lamppost sign is still | known by that name. On the northern | end he bunilt a large flourmil!. "A portion | is still standing on Francisco street, but is | now used, I noticed, fordwelling purposes. | The medical college occupies « part of his round, The mill bad a capacity of 200 | arrels 2 day. He did well for a time, but | it was expensive to runa flourraill'in those | days; his coal bill, he told me, was $80a | fia and other expenses proyortionately igh, ““While he lived here he turned his at- tention to a number of inveniions, one of Which was a steamer that was to be moved by-compressed air, but before he had com- geted it misfortune visited him and his. e sent a shipload of flour, vaiued at $50,- 000, to Australia, on which he expected to realize a handsome profit, but the ship went down and his loss was total; then he found it necessary to borrow money at high rates of . interest, and the time came when he was unable to pay $6000 to satisfy a mortgage given on the castle, and in a suit for foreclosure the property went to the mortgagee. Then wfiile the suit was pending in 1859, on Thanksgiving night, three of his children lay dead in his par. lor. He did not have much to be thankful for that year. “After misfortune overtook him his mind became somewhat affected, and while those who knew him pitied him they cailed him ‘Cranky Pfeiffer.” His wife, 48 noble and as good a woman as 1 ever knew, secured a position in the Mint, ‘and:up to the time I leit she was the sole sup] family. She made several attempts to re- cover the property, which by law she had been forced to leave, and several times I afterward learned judgment was given in her favor, but when it came to the court «of final resort she, somehow or other, had judgment rendered against her and she t all. There were times when Pfeiffer CLOLLE Continues HisREMINISCEN CES h for so many years | ant for those of | n ranch he started paid him hand- | port of Pfeiffer and the rest of the | mw& was rational for months, and during one of these intervals he made what is now known as compressed yeast, the first ever made in this State, but the people refused to patronize him, as they were afraid to handle anything that was made by ‘Cranky Pfeiffer” The last I knew of him hewas doing business as a confectioner on Mason street in 1860. I suppose the old man is dead now.” § “Now that you have told of this place I recall the fact that in writing somefihln§ { about the home some _years ago I learne | that the building had been erected by a German who died in 1574.” ; “A day or two since,” continued the colonel, “I went to Black Point, which I discovered is a military post, and called | | | | comment, and that was that the saloon at- tached to the hotel was ‘closed ont of re- spect to the memory of the dead Senator.’ he remains were visited by almost the entire community, and great wes the con- course of neople who followed the body to its last resting-place at Lone Mountain, where the funeral oration was delivered by Colonel E. D. Baker, the hero of Balls Bluff, he'who in '54 delivered the address on the occasion of the dedication of Lone Mountain Cemetery."” I informed the colonel that the cemetery where stands the monument to Broderic! is known as Laurel Hill Cemetery, and he said: ‘It was Lone Mountain when it was dedicated.” “The body of Broderick was the first that lay in state in the old Union Hotel building.” “‘And the last,” I added, “‘was that of Dave Scannell, chief engineer of the Fire Department, who died on the 30th of March, 1893."” “That reminds me,” said the colonél, “'that they were both members of Empire Engine Company 1 of the Volunteer De- partment, and that Dave Broderick was the first foreman of the company.” “‘And last foreman of that company.” 5 “The exciting incidents in connection with the Terry-Broderick affair recall the difference in the newspapers of thirty-six years ago and those of to-day. News— that is, what is now considered news all over the United Btates—was treated in “ } et e e e e ettt {81 H A PICTURE OF THE HOME ¥OR 1HE CARE OF INEBRIATES, WHICH, WHEN ORIGINALLY OCCUPIED, WAS THE PFEIFFER CASTLE. Point San Jose. Iknew itas Black Point and so did all the old Californians. I went to see if the house in which Senator Brod- erick passed away from earth was still there. It is still there, but it has been al- tered by having had additions put on and changes made to the exterior. The last time I saw it before last week—that is to have a good look at it—was in the latter part of 1859, at the time that Dave erry’s victim was in there hovering be- tween life and death. It was then the residence of Leonidas Haskell, who was a member of the firm of Moore, Folger & Haskell, owners of a tallow factory on Lombard street, near where Franklin street would cross it. Upon inquiry I learned that after the Government took possession of the point the Haskell residence was taken by thecommandant for his quarters, altered to suit the times and additions built to it. of the post surgeon. “I do not propose to go back and tell you all about the duel in which Broderick was mortally wounded and the causes that led to it. The duel, as you may recollect, wes fought on the Laguna Jde la Merced Rancho, about a mile to the south of the Lake House. a little wayside resort near the out- let of Lake Merced. Colonel Tom Hayes and Calboun C. Benham were Terry's sec- onds, and they were accompanied by Dr. Avlette of the Stockton Asylum for the Insane, and Samuel H. Brooks, who had but a short time before been elected State Controller. Broderick’s seconds were J. | C. McKibbin and General Dave Colton, who had been Sheriff nf Siskiyon, and as principal friend be had Leonidas Haskell. After the wound had been inflicted it was deemed inadvisable toremove the wounded Senator in a carriage, so a messenger was sent to the City for an express-wagon and a mattress. In such a conveyance, instead 1t is now used as the residence | rather an indifferent manner by the pro- | prietors, who were generally the mana- gers—managing editors and Sunday editors and news editors not being partof the then newspaper staff. “I remember that the day before the duel did take place Terry, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Brod- erick, a State Senator, both high officials, were arrested near Laguna Merced on a warrant charging them with preparing to fight a duel. They had _their hearing be- fore Henry P. Coon, Police Magistrate, and the next morning the papers came out with a ten-line notice with a side head stating that the parties named had had a preliminary hearing, and that the charge against them had been dismissed because the statute which declared it a felony to fight a duel had been repealed, and that the then existing law apghed only to indi- viduals after the duel had been fought. And then when the duel was actually fought the whole affair was dismissed in an account of less than half a column in length. What would the managing editor or the city editor of THE CALL ofgto-dn say to a reporter who would bring in suc an account of so important an event?” ‘‘No pictures? no interviews?'’ I asked. And the colonel replied, “Not a pic- ture; not an interview. ‘“I'he reporters in those days were a jolly set of fellows, and they did not break their necks trying to get what you newspaner men of to-day call ‘scoops.” There was among them Billy Wells, Ned Knight, Ned Pepper and others whose names I cannot now recall. They had in the rear of Ellen Moon's ‘Ivy Green’ on Merchant street, near the old City Hall,a room in which they met every day, and which was known as the ‘Hall of the Reporters’ Union.” The reporters for the morning papers would mest there at | HOUSE OF LEONIDAS HASKELL AT BLACK POINT, IN 'HIBK SENATOR BRODERICK DIED. [From a pencil sketch by Colonel Strong.] of an ambulance, Broderick was jolted over a rough road for many miles and finally taken to Haskell’s home and placed in a room having windows on the north and tha east sides. “The best physicians of the day were summrned, and what they had to say about the condition of their patient was sought for eagerly by the people, who were in a state of great excitement. Hundreds like myself went to the Haskell home to learn of the wounded Senator’s condition and what hope there was for his recovery. Every few hours bulletins announcing his cond:tion were sent to the City and posted on the bulletin-boards. Then came the anncuncement of his death on the morn- ing of che 16th of Beptember,’59. The re- mains of the dead Senator were coffined by Massey & Yung, rlmd in a hearse drawn by a pair of cofi-b ack horses and conveyed to the Union Hotel, corner of Merchant and Kearny streets, that building which is now beirg torn down with the old City Hall and the El Dorado building. There the remains lay in state in rooms on the second story of the building. “In connection with this event there was one thing that wasa subject of general a stated hour in the afternoon and each man would be assigned to a particular dis- trict of the City. Each was expected to attend to everything in his particular dis- trict, and at a given hour report at the ‘hall.’ There they wonld all exchange the news of the day, and the result was that every morning paper had exactly the same news items, only dressed in the individual language of the writer. This was a good thing for the reporters, hut the ¥m);rletora got-up an indignation meeting, for if they ‘were not very pro ive, they did not ap- prove of that methed of gathering news, and a result of this was that each reporter was called before the ;ropriewr of the pa- per he worked for and given to understand that the exchanee of City news would no longer be tolerated, and that if he wanted to draw down a regular salary in the future he would have to sever bis connec- tion with the Reporters’ Union. Each man took the hint, and tbat was the end of the first press club of San Francisco. After that tgo individual reporters made an item of everything in ht, and the pride of each was not the excellence of the matter he turned into the office but the number of items.” Dave Scannell,” I said, “was the| THe Conv ERSION OF JOHN [PURDY. BY TOM GREGORY, John Purdy sat on his chest and searched the Scriptures. The ebb and flow of the tide in the affairs of sailor men around him never seemed to disturb John in his earnest secking after life through the pages of Holy Writ. ‘When Saxie Fisher and Quartergunner Johnson stood under the break of the { to’gallant forecastle and alternated in the most incredible yarns during the whole watch, talking, talking until the bolts started from the deck beams and the iron stanchions around them began to wilt, Purdy read on and on. ‘When Tom Walker, agriculturist, U. 8. N., and George Romer, who was always leaving the navy to ship on a ranch, sat on their diddy-boxes down the maintopmen’s gangway and lifted their deep sea-bass pipes in angry discussion, notwithstand- ing they always agreed in every particular, upon the respective merits of pigs and ducks as a farm-livestock output, John was lamenting with sad-voiced Jeremiah over the daughters of Jerusalem led into captivity. When David Clark, ship-jurist, fleet- barrister and all-round sea-lawyer, was interpreting unwritten and unheard of decrees in a large, weightful tone and using words not calculated to inspire re- spect for his court, Purdy had left the sea and was gleaning with sweet Ruth among the bearded barley in far-off Palestine, When Paddy White was tramping up and down his plank in the .deck, growling loudly and profanely at every stray speck of dust that got on it with him, Purdy was sitting down in the ash-heaps alongslde of sore Job, holding converse with his three ‘‘comforters” on the pleas- | ures of plagues. ‘When the soft winds were purring over the sun-tinted wave and the ship swugé stately to the heave of a long, round swell, John was walking under the river- washed willows of Babylon, where the exiled harps of Israel hung joyless and mute. When the vell of the gale through the gear and the boiling noises of storm- scourged ocean sounded around the ship Jobn Purdy was breathing the incense from the valley lilies, robed in beauty far uu‘rfiyassin Solomon in all his glory. hen Gustavus Adolphus Petersen, an instramental musical prodigy from some Norwegian fjord which shall be nameless here forevermore because it can’t be pro- nounced, began to pump “The Ship That Never Returned” out of a big gurgling accordion, and the cat fled in terror to the soundless deeps of the forehoid, John Purdy beard in fancy the triumphant song of Miriam on the farther shore of the Red Sea. When old Alexander McGrath, the | sailmuker’s mate, whose voice had been tuned to the shrill note of an English -Chaunel gale, began to evolve a vocal melody not unlike a circular-saw | going through a hard pine knot, John Purdgy heard the grand chorus of the newly ! engineer and doctor received a scorching, and even the chaplain caught a whiff of brimstone as the master-at-urms and the sergeant of marines conveyed him away from the mast. Down in the briz Purdy sat and pon- dered for several days. Occasionally he varied his occupation by reconsigning the executive officer to perdition, but this be- ing an unsatisfactory way of passing the time he concluded to let that person re- main where he was. In the corner of his cell he found several stray leaves from a small Bible containing portions of the Book of Job. Having nothing else to do he read the pages and became interested in Satan’s scorching ministrations of the man from Uz. He_ did not quite understand why Job had been so grievously smitten, but the man bore up under his afilictions nobly and flung his defiance straight at the gates of hell, and hell prevailed not against kin:. That was true grit, about the only thing on earth that John ever admired. Job had rubbed asheson his head and liniment on his bruises and talked like a philoso- pher, while John Purdy, who had been put in the brig for disobeying an order, had howled like a honey-hunting bear in a wasp’s nest. In one chapterof the book he read the answer to the ‘‘comforters,” and in another the sublime questioning of the Almighty: “Who shut, up the sea with doors when it brake forth * * * andsaid, Hitherto shalt thoucome, but no farther; and here shalt thy proud waves be stayed ? ‘““Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion ? ‘“‘Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” ’ Many such queries came to John out of the darkness of his prison, and he girded up his loins like 2 man and answered them. by turning to and taking charge of the gal- ley. He didn’t tender any apologies to the executive for the eloquent abuse he had piled on_that officer’s head, for that wasn’t John Purdy’s way. He might be sorry for things he had said or done, but he never wept over them. The first lieutenant didn’t ask for any penitential acknowledgments nor ‘‘baby- act” pleadings, for that wasn’t his way. He was pleased to bend the mgged spirit of the man down to discipline, hut not to break the spring 1n him. The regenerated sailor started the fires | under the coppers and accepted the situa- tion and the despised ‘buzzard” quite Job-like, Then he hunted up the re- mainder of the little Bible for more yarns about old fellows with “lots of grit.” He didn’t put on any outward armor of faith or clothe himself in the regimentals of holiness, nor make any public avowal touching a change of heart, or erecta shin- ing fabric of good intentions for the future. He was never seen to pray, nor ever heard to give his religions experience. His life as known about the decks was replete with the small woes that round out the ex- istence of a ship’s cook. The serving out of hot water for coffee, soup, and the JOHN FURDY SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES, created spheres sounding through the | urple of the primal dawn down the fleet- | ing ages. John Purdy apparently was above the trifling things of earth and the whirl and discord of life’s current around him never reached the deep central calm in which he siood. He was the ship’s cook—the greasy genius of grub, as the wits of the first-class petty officers’ mess called him. His entrance into ship’s cookery took place back in some little gunboat, now moored and forgotten at ‘‘Lethe’s wharf.” He was not_born to the rate, neither did he achieve it, but it was thrust upon him with a force that was irresistible. The former cook had been transferred, and all of the unrated men aboard, Purdy excepted, wanted the biilet. For this reason he was chosen—a victim of the irony of fate. The first licutenant, looking over the heads of the volunteers, saw Purdy drying a pair of newly washed socks at the galley fire. = The officer was an impressionist of a lofty order, and the scene, common and insignificant usually, came to him in the | light of an inspiration. In his mind he | rated Purdy then and there, and sent the messenger-boy forward with. an order for thedlnundrymm to get the men’s dinner | ready. Purdy plunged aft with the wet sock in his hand and protested against being made a petty officer in that high-handed man- ner. e had never worn ‘‘abuzzard,” as the eagle worn as a rating-badee on_the sleeve is cailed, and didn’t want a billet. He had never cooked in his life; didn’t know the least thing about cooking; didn’t want to know. The lieutenant gravely ififormed him that as 1n this instance the ship’s cook was going to be built from the ground up, orin other words, made to order, raw material was ?nite as acceptable for the cook asit was for a cook to cook. John dropped into the grim humor of the officer, also into awful profanity, and swore by the vessel’s sacred figurehead that he was too raw for that job, and he'd be dashed if he'd cook anyway. The first luff, more and more impressed with the wisdom of his choice and with the sturdy qualities of the man he was driving Wdesgera‘tion and unbecoming dic- tion, called the master-at-arms and the wouldn’t-be ship’s cook was ordered down into the “sweatbox,’” as the torrid interior of the brig is sometimes known, until some of that ‘“rawness” was evaporated out of him. The language of John just before he was led away from the mast was shocking to hear. He began at the captain, who was ashore and had no in choosing a cook, then the first lieutenant, who was the cause of ‘his undoing, and then struck the nlv_ninor, who was below working among the charts. John next cursed all the deck officers and went down the line from high to a lower rank with methodical precision until he got to the paymaster. On board a man-of-war the paymaster is a sacred personage, for his Midas touch can change the darkest period of dead- |- brokeness to the golden day of prosperity, and no officer is quite so great as he. But John never spared him, and he went away into condemnation with the others. The odorous chunks of salt horse upon which the men of the sea are to be brave and patriotic; the usual quarreling with mess- cooks who buzz around the ship’s cook like bees about a bear; the childish wrangle and contention that eddied around him, were unnoticed in that deep reaching dawn of the mind into the nobler springs of the human assions. Purdy was not intellectual. e could not reason out an abstract the- ory into concrete actuality. Neither was he theological. The peculiar-method and special direction of man’s movement into spiritual perfection or the hair-splitting ideas of argumentative religionists never weighed heavily on his soul. He made idols out of the strong, godly men of the Hebrew hierarchy, and uncon- sciously he trod in the footsteps they left deeply indented on the shores of time. John Purdy’s testimony before a board of eminent theologians would not have stamped him as a man of profound piety, nor would his interpretations of the sacred word have been accepted assamples of faultless orthodoxy; yet, aboard the ship to disagree with “the chaplain’s mate,” as he was rated by the crew, were rank he: aith found favor with Protestant, Catholic, Jew or Moslem alike, not because there was so little of it, but because it was so simple. A little child couldn’t err therein, and they all understood that first precept of all religions—the golden rule— which John Purdy taught by example. Saxie Fisher stil! told improbable stories, but if in Purdy’'s presence they were made as mild as &e dissipations of a Sunday-school vicnic. Dave Clark decided technical points of sea law, but quoted largely from Moses, Daniel and St. Paul when in Pardy’s presence. Tom Walker's agricultural experiences were very moder- ate when narrated around the galley, and George Romer was a little more satisfied with the navy when moored on the chest alongside of the ship’s cook. Only Paddy White was unmoved, or at least he never appeared sensible of the odor of sanctity that was supposed to be apparent around John Purdy. So the regenerated chief of the galley lived and died and passed beyond the horizon of time, and the chronicles of his piety are written in the traditions of the service to be recounted in the long mid- watches of after years. New Incorporations. The Rebeka Mining Company has been in- corporated with a capital stock of $500,000, subscribed as follows: John A. Faull, Moses Adler and Aaron A. Adler, $125,000 each; i-nngara Bachs and Samuel L. Sachs, $62,500 each. 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For other information call at 108 Drumm street, San Francisco, or write to W. L. MITCHELL, Manager, Lidell P. 0., Napa Co., Cal. THE STRICTLY TEMPERANCE RESORT, NOWW OPIEN. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. HE GEM OF ALL RESORTS, CAZADERO Hotel and_cottages, in the heart of the Sonoma redwoods. Terminus N. P. C. R. R., via Sausalito ferry. Terms rensonable. 'For particulars address C. E. WARD, Manager, Cazadero, Cs MADRONE MINERAL SPRINGS, Santa Clara County. TAGE CONNECTS MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and Saturday. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. T. DYER, Manager. DUNCAN’S SPRINGS Hopland, Mendocino County. EW HOTEL AND COTTAGES, PICTUR- uely situated in the moantains, 2 miles from Hopland; 1000 feet above sea level, and 250 feet above the valley: effervescent mineral baths, botor cold; magnesia, seltzer, sods, fron, borax and sulphur springs: sure cure for’ Kidney and liver troubies and liquor or morphine habit; plano, billiands, tennis, oroquet, baseball; free bus from Hopland ' Rtation, 8. F. & N. P. R.R.; $10 to $12 per week: take 7:40 A. M. train. All severe cases of sickness attended by the resi- dent physician, Dr. J. Herbert Reave, 0. HOWELL, Proprietor. (HARNING capiToLA. NEW HOTEL. Furnished cotts fine camp-grounds; suri-bathing and hot baths: salmon and = trout Elilhlfizlzildfl the Pa- resorts. Broad-gauge railroad. ress K5 HIHN, Manager. CAPITOLA, OAY. 'S31¥d 039N03d Board $8 to $10 Per Week. $8—ROUND TRIP TICKET—$8 ANDERSON SPRINGS. J. ANDERSON, PROPRIETOR, Lake County. BALDWIN'S TALLAC HOUSE, LAXKE TAXEOR=R. THE SUMMER RESORT OF CALIFORNIA; 20 hours from San Francisco: more than 6000 feot above sea level; accommodations first class and attracti d. attractions unsUrRIsY X wRENCE & CO., Lessces and Managers, Tallac, MARK WEST SPRINGS, KAR SANTA ROSA—THE MOST BEAUTI- ful spot in Sonoma county: fine fishing and hunting: round trip, 3 75; table first class. Ad- dress FRESE & JURGENSEN. HOWARD SPRINGS, LAKE COUNTY, CAL. OT AND COLD MINERAL -SPRINGS OF great healing power. Will cure constipation, ald digestion and purify the blood, Terms 88 per week. Water doctor on the premises, Write for circular and further informatton. LAURSL DELL HOTEL, N LAUREL DELL LAKE (FORMERLY Lower Blua Lake). A new hotel—the most artistic in the county. The rush Is over. Rooms can now be had and you will be treated well. Boat- ing, bathing, fishing, etc., are among the many amusements. Rates, $8to $12 Ix‘wr week. Address H. WAMBCLD, Beriha P. 0., Lake County. JOHN DAY’S RESORT, " N THE BANKS OF EEL RIVER, THE finest trout stream in the State, 5 miles from Potter Valley, Mendocino Co.; round trip $9 75 from S. F.; terms $6 to $7 per week; plenty milk, geur}] !;:u:r] “"'g. egg: !heF hun:luhln this locality the best In the State. For further particul: address JOHN DAY, Potter Valley. . © oo IVY LODGE, 117 Soquel Avenuo, Santa Cruz, Oal. SBLEOT PRIVATE BOARDING, o Large grounds, frulis and flowers; central; first- class accommodations. LAKESIDE HOUSE, LAKE TAHOE. Bspt il soa ey pleasant walks and drives. }'o:‘(:r‘m:ntddxm i E. B. SMITH, Bijou, Cal. THE PlXLEY,‘.‘,‘;:'.‘;:J",’,_'"""‘,,,,,‘,,"".,,‘.‘:Ll MRS. E. B. PIXLEY, Prop. Hotallng Building, SANTA CRUZ, CAL. HOTEL DE REDWOOD, RIGHT IN THE JEART OF THE GREAT Accommotatioos. Dokl 58 SobS10 peresks Bend for clreular. Addvess g N . COX, Laurel, Cal. HOTEL DEL MAR. cific GILROY HOT SPRINGS A Place Where the Tnvalid Can Surely Regaln Health—Where the Toarist May Regale Himself Upon Magnificent and Picturesque Scenery, ‘Where the Summer Pilgrim May Find Rest, Refreshment and Relaxation. A HMecca for the Anmual Secker After Repose and Recnperation. A Rural Retreat, Where the Adjacent Hills are Clothed in Garments of Matchless Glory. ‘Where the Ogre Malaria Never Lifts Hig Ghastly Head and Where the Waters of Healing Pour Freely From Nature's Own Fountain. ARE 2:20 P. M. TRAIN FROM FOURTH and Townsend streets, arriving ac Springs at 6:30 . M. Fare §7 15 for round trip. &~ Stage conneets with train from Third and Townsend streets. ROOP & SON, Proprietors. FISHERMEN!! HE HEADQUARTERS FOR ANGLERS AND thelr families i3 at the BOCA HOTEL, BOCA, CAL. ‘The best part of the Truckee River close at hand. An excellent tablé and newly fitted rooms. A daily stage leaves the hotel for LAKE INDEPENDENCE, The queen of mountain lakes. Now is the time ta fly-fish this grand lake. Average catch, 200 trout per day. For information and rates address JAS. McDONALD, Boca, Cal. MOUNTAIN HOME The Recognized Family Summer Resort in Santa Cruz Mountains. EAUTIFUL SCENERY, DRIVES AND walks: unsurpassed as s health resort; large swimming-tank; table excellent: send for sou- venir. Stagesconnect Wednesdays and Saturdays at Madrone with 8:15 A. M. train from Third and Townsend streets. VIC PONCELET, Proprietor, Lingas, Cal. OARD ON A RANCH; GOOD ACCOMMODA- tions; 1 mile from station; 200 feet elevations terms 86 per week. Address Redwood Grove, Oc- cldental, Sonoma County, Cal. STATEMENT —~—— OF THE —— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —— OF THE —— ROYAL INSURANCE CO. F LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND, ON THE 31ST day of December, A. D. 1894, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the [nsurance Com- niissioner of the State of California, pursnant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Po- | liticai Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount of Capltal Stock, paid up In cash .. $1,878,510 00 $4,738,176 73 7,516,411 69 25,032,690 87 Cash market value of all bonds owned by company. Amount_of loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks and other market- able securities as collateral 6,100,419 73 Cash in company’s office /809 75 Cash in banks........ 1,919,155 00 Interest due and accrued on all stocks and loans. ... 813,700 94 Interesc due and accried on bonds and mortgages. Premiums in due course of collection 73,548 68 1,158,028 12 Total 88SetS.........cccvureesre... 847,757,036 49 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid, losses in process of adjustment or in sus- nse, and losses resisted includ- Ing expenses. Gross premiums on fire - ning one year or less, $7,711,255, reinsurance 50 per cent. .. o Gross premiums on fire risks run- ning more than one year, 6,702, 187 88. reinsarance pro rata.. Amount deposited by the insured erpetual fire tusurance policles. Liability under life department. Cash dividends remaining unpaid. All other demands against the com- DAY= b $787,555 00 8,865,627 50 8,504,376 44 212,267 56 25,141,724 79 26,009 63 134,780 12 Net cash actually received for fire PrOMINMS. . euietvenrnrnneinnann. $10,150,025 00 Recelved for Interest and dividends on bonds, stocks, loans and from all other sources. Recelved for transfe Bhareholders’ proportion of its for five years...... 571,750 00 275 00 628,170 00 revverenieenns:. 811,348,320 00 EXPENDITURES. Net amount pald for fire losse: Totalincome. ... $5,989,205 00 Dividends to stocknolders. 1,085,787 50 All other peyments and tures. . 8,832,270 60 Total expenditures........... Losses Incurred during the year, fire 5, R1SKS AND PREMIUMS. i 0 | Fire Risks. Premiums. Ne:k:mflnnn!d of it tten dur- T the year. ... $2,507,008,152 $10,005,229 03 x| l;;:!:ex;alr....u 2,5607,008,152| 10,005,229 03 Net amount in . force ber| 31, 1894.. 2,789,585.731| 14,413,442 88 CHARLES ALCOCK, Manager. J. BEAVAN, Sub-Manager. Subscribed_and sworn to before me this 9th day of April, 1895. 2 HENRY GLYNN PIERCE, Notary Public. ROLLA V. WATT, Manager Pacific Department, 502 and 504 Montgomery Street, §, P 23~ Agencies In all the princ, A Asgid principal cities and towns ON THE SEASHORE, TWENTY MINUTES T. D. MAXW‘M, rTide from Banta Cruz; climate perfect: table unexcelled: 3 fishing: Duses moet 211 mm'."{ 7«':33,' 50 5o O'G % CITY AGENT, 168 ik famlieg P pae R AN AGER HOTEL | 421 CALA. ST., SA DEL AT, atita “Cram, Cal. oF 29, Maze - ST., SAN FRANCISCO. UMMIT HOTEL-THE MOST BEAUTIFUL spot in the Santa Cruz Mountains, opens for its ATENTS I) fourth season under its present management June SETE LI e e O & DEWEY & C0., m our o A. N. NICHOLDS, Prop,, P. O. Wrights, Cal. 220 MaRKET S7., 8. F., CAlu_ i