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4 SUNDAY N ALTRURIA, How the Day Is Spent in the Co-operative Colony. ALL WORK IS SET ASIDE. Members Attend Divine Ser~ vices Held Midst Sylvan Scenes. PLANS OF THE ASSOCIATION. Its Efforts Directed Toward Solving the Problem of Practical So- clallsm. ALTRURIA, Carn, Aug. 11—The day ftself was perfect; one of those inspiriting mornings in our California foothills when life seems well worth the living, and this peaceful, brother-loving world of Altruria the most delightful spot upon earth whereon to spend one’s aays. It may have ‘been the inimitable beauty of these So- noma hills, with their soft summer brilliance at this season, or the delicious quality of the air, that made us feel that ‘here was an ideal spot for existence—that upon all this swinging old globe there was nat to be found elsewhere such unbroken barmony in nature and man. The cottages and unfinished hotel be- jonging to the colony are scattered here }and there in a cuplike glen, whose girdling summits are well nigh too rugged to be called hills. Through this fertile vale Mark West Creek makes a crooked descent to the Santa Rosa plains, its banks a wild- erness of trees and vines. The first object to attract attention is an old gristmill leaning crazily against the wall of the creek, its roof and timbers scarred by half & century’s use, and its great water-wheel wrapped in moss and lichens. A man syith half the soul of an artist would tramp @ hundred miles to come upon such a pic- ture. Some splendid laurels overarch this romantic ruin and a Sabbath stillness per- wvades their shade even at midday. ‘We are told that last winter the old mill once more served a use to man—not to grind him his wheat and corn, as in old days, but to stand to him as shelter—a convenient makeshift until more habitable quarters could be built for the Altrurian pioneers. These enthusiastic co-opera- tionists—some twenty at the time— camped in its cobwebby chambers, their household stuffs crowding the room so long the undisputed possession of rusty machinery. When asked if they did not find this sort of living rather trying in the rainy season, the answer was character- istic of the spirit among them: “It’s a place you wouldn’t care to stay in unless you had a great cause tor doing s0.” In January the rain came in tor- rents and Mark West plunged a thunder- ing flood down through the streaming hills of the canyon. The old mill, nearly surrounded by the boiling water, was shaken to its foundations, but proved so stanch an ark of refuge that its preserva- tion was then assured by the grateful oc- cupants. As soon as the storm cleared they went to work with a will to strengthen its rotten underpinnings, and afterward with one accord dedicated the venerable building to the anniversary gatherings of the colony. We indulged in a morning’s saunter through the grounds,while the majority of the colonists busied themselves with the homely duties necessitated by so large a family and so thrifty a garden. One pretty Altrurian in graceful out-door costume was deftly covering with squares of paper some young cabbage plants set out the day previous. There wasa gracefulapology for this Sunday dereliction in her answer to our greeting: *You see the sun shines just the same as upon week days, and they will die if ex- posed.” . The tract owned by the association em- braces 2000 acres, mostly picturesque hill iands which are tillable or good for pas- ture. Ten acres along the creek is a mar- ket garden in a high state of cultivation. The city of Santa Rosa being but five miles away, and the depot of the San Francisco end North Pacific Railroad but two miles, the supplies of berries and vegetables can be shipped fresh daily. Vineyards and orchards are to be set out in the near future, and the hotel completed to accom- modate members who prefer to board and the many visitors who are more or less curious and sympathetic on the subject of @ co-operative commaunity, As the prospects of the colony brighten other improvements will be made. The site for a more commodious hotel than the ‘one now building was pointed out on the crest of a mound overlooking a basin wherein a coil of the stream drops so toosely that it is almost a lake, and will be one infact if Altrurian brawn and brain £ail not of purpose. The present members of the colony com- prise fourteen adults and four children. Within the past months the financial straits of the association were such that it was thought advisable to form branch colonies. The mother hive, in fact, swarmed, and as the result nineteen mem- bers removed to a farming tract in subur ban Cloverdale, and the others who went out undertook co-operative living in Santa Rosa. Those who remained on the grounds have assumed the debts of the colony. and have made important modifications in the original plan of organization. Members are now expected to turn over to the asso- ciation all &e property belonging to them. The greatest caution will be practiced in taking in new members, as perfect con- geniality is regarded the essential feature of admission. ~ A new applicant must sub- mit to be taken on trial for six or more months to determine his fitness to live up tc the fraternal obligations of the com- munity. When certain properties which are owned by the present members are turnea over to the general fund, the’ association will be practically out of éebt, and a ready living will be assured them from the profits o} the garden, hotel and thelr printing ant. ‘ l)The Altrurian is published on the grounds, and ;iaromises to be vastly im- roved under its new management. Mr. gahn Marble, a leading contributor to the Star, has taken the paper in hand, and if Charlotte Perkins Stetson is right—she openly declares Mr. Marble to be the strongest thinker on social problemson the coast—the scope of the Altrurian will be markedly broadened. The Rev. Edward B. Payne will continue his able editorials on the paper, & labor which will in no wise conflict with his larger duties as pastor of the Unitarian Society of Berkeley. Poet, writer and divine of more than twenty years’ experience, Mr. Payne is yet a prac- tical worker in socilistic fields. Indeed, his straightforward, manly way of preach- ing a sermon by deeas, is rather startling to the conservative religionists of the 1 THE SAN ‘FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1895. nineteenth century., As an instance, a prominent Oakland minister, wnen refer- ring to the Altrurian plan, said with some severity: “Brother Payne, you should confine yourself to the preaching of your views, and let your congregation carry them out if they will. Are you not getting pretty deeg in social problems?” : “Yes, I am in way up to my chin already,” was the laughing rejoinder, but said so sweet-spiritedly that it was impos- sible to take offense. % No one who is personally acquainted with Mr. Payne ean doubt that this move on his part is the outcome of much prayer- ful consideration ; nor is it possible to meet the young men who form the majority in Altruria—young men who remind one of Hugo's heroes, so splendid _is the purpose in their eyes—without realizing that his followers have hardly given less thought | to ways and means to solve the problem of how industries can be controlled by the people so that every man who wishes to work can be assured that he shall not come to want. % The sunday of our visit to Altruria h“P' pened to be one included in Mr. Payne's vacation, which he is spending here. A morning service was held out of doors under a_central oak where the deyoted band—all refined people with shining faces—gathered in good time to hear what this reverend gentleman termed “‘a ser- rformance is as yet imperfect. Who is Ft?ere that always does what is right and wise? Who that does not make a some- what wandering journey along the moral way? “Thus, without urxfiindg that objection- able theological wo eprayity, or the still more obnoxious term original sin, it is comely for us, upon_occasion, to confess that we all belong to the ‘multitude of im- potent folk,” and may be justly described, as to spiritual condition, as ‘blind, halt, withered,” and who, if there were an; magic pool whose waters could heal an make sound and whole in every part and particle, might well wait in the porches untii some angel of God stirs the fountain and bestows upon it a curative power. “The word that I have to preach this morning is that such a fountain does indeed exist. This gool of Bethesda may have been a myth; but there is another pool corresponding to it as the reality corresponds to the shadow. The pool of moral healing which God has given to all men to be restored withal, is the thought ool, the great fountain of ideas into which Ea is constantly sending forth his angels that they may stir the waters. When the Apostle Paul appealed to the Romans to be morally transformed, it was, as he says, ‘by the renewal of their minds.’ This is the uniform and only Emcess by which men improve as moral beings. There is no magic about it, except the magic of monette, something easy to write and easy | thought with its power to put a new aspect to listen to.” As there was no organ or | on familiar things and make that all im- choir a meadow lark in the nearly burst its throat with a doxology, after which every soul present was thrilled weeds | portant which hitherto has been indiffer- ent. So it comes to pass thatthe great spiritual Bethesda, whose waters work the by the reading of the prayer written by | miracles of restoration and transformation Robert Louis Stevenson on the Sunday |in the life and conduct of man, is none before his death. The lines, nobly in: :other than the perpetual everspringing . REV, EDWARD B. [Reproduced from a photograph.] PAYNE. tonated, had all the passion and praise of an Hebraic psalm. “We beseech thee, Lord, to behold us with favor, folk of many families and nations, gathered together in the peace of this roof; weak men and women subsisting under the covert of thy patience. patient still; suffer us yet a while longer—with our broken promises of good, witfi our idle endeavors against evil— suffer us a while longer to endure, and (if it may be) help us to do better. Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these must be taken, have us play_the man under affliction. Be with our friends, be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching, and when the day returns to us—our sun and comforter—call us with morning faces, eager to labor, eager to be happy, if hap- iness shall be our portion, ans‘ if the day marked to sorrow, strong to endure if. ‘We thank thee and praise thee, and in the words of him to whom this day is sacred, close our oblation.” The words of the prayer flowed on in solemn music to a responsive silence, when a linnet flitted to the twig back of the preacher’s sun-touched head and took up the voluntary in the sweetest imaginable strain. The opening hymn was then de- corously chattered by six Sunday-dressed blackbirds, perched primly, wing to wing, on the topmost rail of the fence. The text that followed was John v:3-4—how the impotent folk waited for the angel to trouble the pool at Bethesda. One may give the sermon in full, but without the voice, features—indeed, the whole person- fountain of the mind flowing into thoughts, ideas and sentiments. I am, therefore, to point out this morning certain angels of God who are forever troubling the waters of human thought to give them the heal- ing eflicacy. “The first is the Angel of Duty. The function which the idea of duty performs is an angelic function. While it may not be the highest it is certainly one of the very loftiest of moral conceptions. The perception of itis one of the distinctive | marks that separates man from ranges of beings lower than he and unites him to that which is higher. The ox, toiling all day in the furrow, is not moved by sense of duty. He is urged by the goad behind him, drawn by the manger before him. But man is so constitutegthat even when there isnothing to correspond with the goad and nothing to answer to the manger, | that is when he has no fear of evil conse- | quence or hope of advantage, will agsume the yoke and take up the wearying task, simply _because of a subtle,” tenuous, intangible idea—a thing entirely un- {known except to a moral being. It is one of the grand- eurs_of man, therefore, th: i - ceptible to this conce, u:’n; ::mh:f l:u::% true grandeurs that he cannot find a spot between the blue dome above us yonder and the center of the earth where the | thought of responsibilities does not crowd | him; not a spot for the resting of his foot | where e shall not be met by what Car- iyasyle’ calls the ‘eternal yea’ and the ‘eternal 18y, 2 “Now, because of the stern spiritual grandeur of this idea, I count it one of the o J DESERTED CABIN AT ALTRURIA, A HALF CENTURY OLD. [Sketched for the “Call.”] ality of the speaker—but little conception can be had of its tenderness and power. “The spiritualization of this legend,” he began, “is the purpose of the sermon. Let us undertake it together. I will read; you think. Let us begin by acknowledging in the innermost place of thought our hu- man impotence—i. €., our general lack of moral and spiritual power. We all, in this metaphorical sense, are also of the blind, the halt and the withered. “Everybody is at ieast partially blind, even as regards the natural sight. Ido not mean that there is in every case an impairment of the Dh¥'55w1 organ of sight. I mean that the use of it is habitually re- stricted. If a half dozen persons take an hour’s stroll together along a country road they will not all see the same things, and g:r a.gs not one of them will see the most autiful things. But let the real poet come, let the true seer take that selfsame walk, and he will see a thousand things that shall make a Eoem or sing a song. “‘Spiritually the blindness of man is per- haps still more general and radical—the solid realities we behold and give them B]lu in our philosophy—gold, land, food, ouses, raiment, the street, the shop, the rock, the mountain—all substantial things, in short, we have no doubt of. But there are a thousand tokens which suggest that these visible things are but types and mani- festations of more profound realities, and if our spiritual sight was fully developed we should find the open expanse of each day and the solemn stillness of each night peopled with presences which we do not now suspect. “8o, too, we may as well confess that in dur moral going we are halt, lame; that as regards every grace and every virtue our | angels of good which occasionally comes into every human mind to stir the waters in the pool of thought. Whenever this occurs, whenever memory brings to you the sting of remorse for duty unper- formed, whenever present vision presents ommmmity for the noble discharge of obligations, whenever the voice of con- science says ‘thou_must’ or ‘thou oughtst’ 80 to do, lo! this is the troubling of the waters, this now is the moment when im- potence can be transmuted into ability, weakness into strength. Itis for you rise, to hasten down and bathe quickly in the fountain of renewed purpose, that the after days may be stronger and truer than the former. ‘‘Another angel who stirs, too, in the deep waters of the human mind is the Angel of Ideals. These ideals, these men- tally pictured standards by which to measure one’s self and one’s attainments, whenever they enter the mind, are as the angels of God, who kindly trouble our thoughts that they may quicken our slug- gish life, inspire us to correct the halting poem of our being. . “Manifold are these angelic ministra- tions, Perhaps some strain of music sings & new purpose into our souls, per- haps the melody of some voice whose actual cadences have long since ceased is heard again through memory, challenging us to do better, to be nobler;” some single word, great with significance, becomes a motto to us; some poem born of the vision of truth and beauty—these forms and & thousand others are assumed by the Angel L SRAIY not apesk in | not to you the third place of that angel whose face is sober, whose mien is sad, whose robe is sable and whose wings cast a shadow_over the flrah%hc of hearth and home? This is the Angel of Sorrow and Suffering. Great troubler is he of life’s deep waters] Is this troubling kindly, too? 1s the pool stirred by him a Bethesda, a fountain of healing? Is there something medicinal and curative in the agitation of its waters? “I suspect that it must be so for the reason that sorrow and suffering were not interpolated into human life as an aiter- thought. They were not_thrust in side by side with Adam’s sin and in consequence of itas theologians seem to think. The conditions for them were laid long before Adam saw the light of the first morning or looked into Eve’s lustrous eyes in the gar- den. They were incorporated into the original plan of the world. Divine wis- dom, divine love, divine pity do not re- move them from the life of men. There- fore, while we may not suppose that God sends this trial to you and that to me,with an exact particularity of adjustment, we cannot escape the conclusion that these dark things enter on a large scale into the gen general plan of eternal Providence. bo can trace throughout what Bushnell called the ‘moral woes of dark things? If & man were not made subject to suffering he would not know whether he walked on solid earth or on burning coals, and so would run the risk of serious injury. A gardener understands that if he would have a tree grow luxuriantly upon any one side he must cut the branches off there. Then all its forces go_to repairing the injury, and twenty buds shoot out where otherwise there” would have been but one. When we reach the garden above we shall find that out of those very wounds over which we sighed and groaned on earth have sprung verdant branches bear- ing precious fruit ‘a thousand fold.” We may trust that this is so, and that the loss you know not how to 'bear, the burden you can only with utmost difficulty carry, the sorrow that makes your heart sore to the center—that these all may be at last transmuted into spiritual wealth. 4 “Meanwhile when the Angel of Sorrow and Suffering troubles the pool of your life it is not best to lie supine in the shaded porch, but rise, go forth, plunge in among tasks and duties, for thus you may fin healing and restoration. ““There is one other angel whom I must mention. His wings flash in the sunlight; his countenance is radiant; his mantle is white like snow. This is the Angel of Joy. “When he excites the waters of life they are restorative, indeed. They strengthen the whole nature of man into the tone of health. We ought to hold toward God the deepest gratitude for that his providence sends this angel so often down into the pool. He can do for us what the angel, his sad companion, cannot do. If sorvow and suffering were perpetual they would spoil any soufin the end—robbing it of all pos- sible sweetness at last. Joy is needed by us. ‘We are so eonstituted that we must have it or morally die. So God has arranged that it shall come down to us now and then and thrill the heart-chords. And these occasional joys which we experience are just like those touches of the musicians on the strings of the instrument to ‘)ut them in tune preparatory to the melody and harmony that is to come; so they are tune- ful prophecies of what is by and by to be— the unbroken music of the perfected days.” From overhead there was the subdued murmur of bird-notes in the benediction, and shortly after the unsabbatical clamor of the dinner-gong. The entire famil assembled in the dining-room of the hotel, which, though uncompleted, was yet con- venient and homelike. The meal was well cooked and served, and every one seemed thoroughly happy and hungry. The ladies were, without exception, pleasing to the eye and interesting. They appear to be work- ing out for themselves and others, in a perfectly feminine way, a mission quite as important to their sex, as is at- tempted by their more aggressive sisters in the various women'’s conventions of this age. The showing is not as yet so bril- liant, but the signs are even more hopeful of ultimate fruition. Women at Altruria are given equal voice in all affairs of the colony, and are a recognized force in gen- eral councils, home, garden and printing office. The afternoon was spent in the soothin, shade of porch or tree, but later we walke in the sunset radiance on the hills. On the highest ridge we stood between the sun and moon, the lighted landscape ap- pealing to us from a multitude of gardened peaks—from canyons swinging their tree- tops at our feet, with glint of waterat their roots; far down a mile or two of dazzling stream, and to the west an opulent sweep of valley beyond a silvered gap, and slopes of mountains lost in the gloom of redwood chains. Following a nibbled trail we made the descent of the east slant into a mountain bowl, the bottom feathered with rank fox- tail and wild oats, the sides pictures of decorative foliage, and the circled rim fringed with white oaks trailing pensively their veils of moss. The place has an ideal remoteness and beauty, its only hint of man the oid flume hidden in the grasses, a strip of rail fence artistically draped with wild berry and grape vines and a bit of redwood shanty falling into ruins. Here at one time lived the man whose work it was to shut off the water in the flume so as to regulate the flow down at the old mill. An artist would dream a summer away in this sequestered spot, his morning reveille the nightingale’s song and his evening’s hymn the plaintive note of the wood dove. When we had climbed our way out of so.much deserted loveliness the moon was riding high in the heavens and the world of mountains about wore the aspect of en- chantment. The voice of the unseen stream sounded up from the black gorge on our left and once we heard the tardy love-call of a marsh frog. Niverra Banzs, Two O1d Flowers Again in Favor. Two quaintly named annuals that once were commonly known in old-fashioned gardens have recently made the appear- ance, crowned with new beauties. Some florists catalogue these as new plants, but they simply have new markings and fairer forms, the result of cultivetion and hy- bridizing. In reality they are the same old beauties found in the dear old gardens. They are now known under the botanical names of Nemophila and Nigella. In the old gardens the Nemophila was called Love in the Grove; it is also known by the name of Babx Eyes—and this name more than ln‘ny other gives an idea of its daiuty love- iness. : This plant is one of the best hardy an- nuals introduced from California. It is especially fine when grown as a border lant, and its delicate blue flowers remain resh and attractive for a long time after opening. Its botanical name, Nemophelia, means exactly the same as the old-fash- ioned name, Love in the Grove, as it is derived from nemos, a grove, and phileo, to love; and in order to be successful in their culture it will be necessary to give the plants the same situation as found in their oririnll homes—the groves. Thehot sun will soon injure them, but they will bloom beautifully all through July, and even later in the summer, if they are given a moist, shady location. The plants grown from seed sown in the early spring are just beginning to send up their dainty blos- soms now, and if other seed are started in the early fall they will produce fine winter- blooming plants. The Nigella is another “love-breathing plant,”’ as its common name is Love-in- the-Mist. Like the Nemobhila, this also has another name by which it was com- monly known when grown in old-fash- ioned gardens. But this is the harsh- mn_ndini name of Devil-in-the-Bush. Its delicate beauty gives no_suggestion as to why this name should ever have been given toit. Its curious flowers are very showy and beautiful, and its finely cut foliage also makes the plant especially at- tractive. This plant is a native of Euroin, and although it has been in cultivation for a long time in this country :gecld care on the part of the florists has added fresh at- tractions and several varieties unknown in its native country, and the flowers that have been bursting into bloom during the ant week have attracted widespread at- ntion.—Philadelphia Times. has been subscribed for the provosed n trip of the Swedish en- ineer, Andre, to tfie North Pole. The loon will be made in Paris at a cost of The mor MAX AND CHRIS AND NED. Local Democrats May Choose to Follow Any of Three Banners. THE FEDERAL BRIGADE AT SEA. Unemployed Politiclans ArelBeing Rounded Up Early for the Next Primaries. The local Democracy has more heads than a hydra. It hasa trinity in bossism which is very entertaining to the public, but is discouraging to the rank and file of the faithful, who look forward to the next municipal campaien to supply them with food and shelter for two years. Max Popper, ex-chairman of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee, represents the ultra good. He believes that the suc- cess of his organization will tend to elimi- nate boodle from municipal politics. He is, under the auspicesof the Troguois Club, organizing Assembly District clubs, Be- fore undertaking this work it is understood he devoted many months of hard labor, assisted by friends, in a room at the Bald- win, going over the great register of voters classifying the Democrats in every precinet. He and his friends are better equipped for this work of organization than any set of politicians who have ever appeared in San Francisco. The clubs organized by this wing of the Democracy up to date are from the Twenty-eighth to the Fortieth Assembly districts, inclusive. Mr. Popper has received the worst end of it from the Federal brigade. Few of his friends have been taken care of, although he managed the campaign that carried the State for Cleveland. “Between John Dag- gett of the Mint and Mr. Popper_there is the most intense hatred and all Daggett’s men can be relied upon to fight the Popper organization. John H. Wise is personally friendly to Popper, but the most substantial assistance he generally renders is taffy. The states- man of the Custom-house is not regarded as a potential factor in local politics. The few places he had to distribute were given, not so much to vigorous, aggressive men, who could carry their districts, as to men who were sufficiently prudent to express great admiration for the contour of the poli- tical intellect of statesman John H. Wise and his bopem] son Harry. ‘Welburn's office is regarded by all poli- ticians as the most formidable. He dis- tributed his patronage to the workers, and it hasa greater fighting value than all the rest of tfie Federal contingsnt combined. A number of his deputies can carry their respective districts as against any combi- nation. At least they have always done so in the past. Welburn is personally friendly with Popper, but Edward Lanigan, one of his aeputies, is leader and manager of the or- ganization which is the principal oppo- nent of the Popper faction. It is generally understood that Welburn will, in the main, keep his bands off in local politics. Some of his principal depu- ties are shouting for Popper, while others are whooping it up for Lanigan. The Lanigan forces up to the present time, aithough very numerous, active and enthusiastic, have been general in theiror- ganization. That 1s, they have not been districted. Within a week, however, he has organized two Assembly districts—the Forty-first, his own, in which he hasestab- lished a strong club, and the Forty-fourth, where the Sequoia organization was formed. Lanigan is between two fires. Thereisa feud between him and Popper and there has recently sprung up an intense an- tagonism between himself and Buckley, the blind boss, and Bam Rainey, the boss of the Fire Department. Lanigan never liked Buckley, even in the past when he did politics with him, but when it was announced some months ago that he had set up in business for him- self and would refuse to act any longer with Rainey, the politicians were very skeptical and said that it was a blind arid a bluff. Rainey himself seemed to regard it as an amusing freak of attempted inde- pendence. But Lanigan has recently smashed the plans and ambitions of the zodfather of the Fire Department in a way that has made him sick in his gizzard, and he swears that he will break Lanigan if it is the last act of his life. This new boss has been yery active in procuring Elaoes for his friends and bhas gathered about him the class known as ‘“de push,” as well as a large number of substantial and conservative Democrats, The opinion of the shrewdest Democrats is that the fight at the primaries will be ‘between the Lanigan and Popper forces. Buckley’s and Rainey’s Occidental Club is not bem% treated with much concern or respect. It meets in Buckley’s house on Stockton street, and the three attempts at organization have been ghastly failures. The assemblages were mostly made up of political *‘revolvers.” A *‘revolver’ is a political utensil that was used extensively in the past by Buck- ley. “Resolution’’ Spotts is credited with originating it. The idea was to take a dozen or more political rounders into a district, call them by some particular name, announce that they had organized the district, and get off a set of resolutions, The next night the same men could meet in another district, declare themselves or- ganized, and get off another list of resoln- tions. This would be kept up night after night until the whole City had been eovered. The head of Buckley’s club is ex-Super- visor Dundon. Its secretary is Grana Jury McCarthy. Already organized labor is down on it because of Dundon’s efforts when Supervisor to reduce wages of all the laborers in the City’s employ. Every effort known to bossism has been used to sweH the roll. “Feet’’ Maloney, since Tre Carn's expose compelled Recorder Glynn to dispense with his services as mortgage clerk, has given the club hig un- diyided attention. Dick Creighton stands nightly on the corner of Stockton and Ellis streets beg- girag the political unemployed to go.up and enroll, while the way ‘‘Chippie” Gal- lagher has worked the opium fiends of the tenderloin has caused the impression tbat he was compiling a directory of ‘“dovers.”” Jake Lindo, although he hasn’t the dog- wagon he had in Buckley’s palmy days, yet almost daily lassos something to take up on the hill. The Mint has been well represented at the Occidental. Among the well-known ‘* Cuckoos” who unjustly occupy chairs are “Bull” Collins of the thirty-sixth, E;rize-fl hter Alex Greggains of the thir- ieth, Charlie McCourtney of the twenty- ninth, George Ryan of the forty-fourth, and a number of other Daggett men less known to fame. On account of the discouragement that has met the efforts of the Occidentals with the rank and file, they think of chan, ing their name to that of the Business Men's Association, the m}zhuny of which pleases the mnpcni ear of Christopher Buckley. They think that the changing of its name would make it a veritable Chamber of [nfant Health ! SENT FREE It is a matter of vast importance to mothers, Th : Dol D bR AL BOREN issuea entitled “INFANT HEALTH, " f§ Which be gw home, NEW YORK CONDEN: Street, New York, MILK CO., 71 Commerce, with such prominent mer- chants as “‘Feet” Maloney and the “Banjo- eyed Kid.” Ii the name is changed ‘‘Split- 1ip” Collins will read a financial article on banking. ¥ Altogether, there is no indication of in local Democratic circles. want of acti OOLORED BASEBALL TEAMS. The Assemblys of This City Defeat the O K’s of Sacramento. Two colored teams, the Assemblys of San Francisco and O K’s of Sacramento, played an exciting game of baseball at Central Park yesterday afternoon. Among the spectators were a Inr%a representation of the colored residents of the City. The game was closely contested, and was won by the Assemblys by the score of 9 to 8. The O K’s were the last to bat, and the score stood at 9 to 8, with three men— Baker, Reid and White—to bat. Baker Reid were retired without adding to the score, and all the hopes of the 0 K's were centered in White, but he also failed to score, and the Assemblys and their friends went wild with excitement. Hats and coats were thrown in the air and some of the enthusiasts danced with joy. Professor Singleton was to have given an exhibition of taming a refractory horse, but he was unable to attend through sick- ness. His place was taken by some one else, but the exhibition was tame, SUNDAY- AT SAUSALITD Boating, Fishing, Hunting and Other Recreation in the Sunshine. The Street Improvements in Pro- gress and in Near Contem- plation. Bausalito was the playground yesterday for hundreds of San Francisco people. The smooth waters of the bay were dotted with yachts and other smaller sailing craft and launches, and the decks were covered with fishermen and their families. A number of gunners came down from the hills to catch the evening boats. They were more heavily laden with weariness than with game. Others enjoyed rides over the hills in carriages and a few bikes were wheeled to San Rafael. The citizens have been talking of “A Night in_Venice”; not the one witnessed in Belvedere lately, but one of their own, to be given this fall, while the weather is in its most delightful mood. The pictur- esqueness of location and the entire free- dom from heavy fogs and rough water in the Sausalito side of thatarm of the bay make the plan a feasible one. The scheme is backed by J. B. Stetson, president of the North Pacific Coast Railway Company. Mr. Stetson’s proposition to be made to the Town Trustees to build up that por- | tion of Water street which extends from | El Monte lane to the county road will be | acted upon at a special meeting of the Town Trustees early this week. Ernest McCullongh, Town Engineer, speaking of the street improvements said: The proposition of Mr. Stetson’s does not at present sppear to be able to secure a suf cient number of property-owners to sign_his protest against the continuance of the work by the town. Another feature of Mr. Stetson’s | lan that has caused some discussion,if not issension, is that he proposes that the side- walk shall be on the hillside of the road, while some prefer it to beon the side next the fence. That portion of the street presents in the rainy season an impassable roadway. 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Losses adjusted and unpald, losses in process of adjustment or in sus- ense, and losses resisted includ- ng expenses 5 Gross premiums on fire risks run- ning one year or less, $7,711,255 reinsurance 50 per cent. Gross premiums on fire E: ning more than one year, 36,70 187 86, reinsurance pro rata...... Amount deposited by the insured on $787,655 00 8,855,627 50 8,504,376 44 erpetual fire insurance poicies... 212,267 56 Liabfity under lite deparment 26,141,724 79 Cash dividends remaining unpal 26,009 62 All other demands against the com- . o PADY ... Total liabilities. ........ INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire X premiums. & ..$10,160,025 00 Received for interest and dividends on bonds, stocks, loans and from all other soarces - Received for transier fecs Shareholders’ proportion its for five years... reeeenes.-$83,612,841 03 571,750 00 275 00 626,170 00 Total income. ... EXPENDITURES. 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