The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1895, Page 5

- "TO-MORROW AFTERN A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1895. orders for carload shipments of wire, | barbed wire, wire rope and wire cloth to | 1 | their branch houses at Portland, Or., and | attle, Wash. They are also. delivering large cables to local street-cable | railway imdl m’rficing shipments to Ne- vada and Utah. hey report a gratifying Large Power Plants Made Here ‘ increase in trade with thg islands and the 5 Orient. and Shipped to | “The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- Mexico. | sociation has received a communication | from an Eastern firm making inquiries as | to a site su: le for a bicycle factory here, | |l~k;ng hmt lsldufiemems would be | them to establish a $50,000 plant in FACTORY. | this City. In the meantime A. Lobe & Co, have already entered into the business of | manufacturing bicycles at 1404 Polk streef, and during the past week turned out their st completed wheel. This sample was placed with a wholesale house, where it was carefully tested, after which an order for forty wheels of the same make was | pl ith the manufacturer. _ The Selby Smelting Company has made | it possible for owners of mines in Shasta Countv to ship $40 ore at a prot The company offers to work all ore assaying $50 per ton or less for $14 50 and pay freight | charges. Heretofore freight charges and | cost of working consumed all the profit on | ore of that value. _ The steamer Columbia, improved and re- fitted at an -expense of over $200,000, has left her dock at the Union Iron Works and will soon resume her transit on the north- ern route. During the past week the Perkins Pump and Engine Comupany finished and shipped an engine and hoisting plant for a mining | company at Angels Camp, and also shipped two of their irrigation pumping plants to interior points. | W. S. Townsend, the manufacturer of | > od. Pel | glace fruits, is working up quite a trade in ired. Pelton | the products of his factory with Mexico hed to the |and Central America, where California tely uniform | glace fruits are in high favor. The de- losd. Tais | mand for them in the East is also rapidly | on a large | INCTasing. ! n a1arge | 51y was the banner month of the year | with the Krogh Manufacturing Company, | and the factory is workin, 1 force on | orders on hand for delivery this month. The_ directors of the Pacific Iron and | | Wire Works bave decided to rebuild their | | plant at Oakland. The wire worksdepart- | ment will open at once, which alone will | give employment to quite a number of mechanics. A NEW BICYCLE Cheapening the Cost of Ore Reduc- | tlon—More Mechanics at Work. The Pelton Water-wheel Company of this City recently sent a power-plantto | Mexico which ha terest. The plant emt three-nozzle Pelton wheels, pacity of 700 horse-power a head of 100 feet. The s te factory located at B: Orizaba, i the port of S: These wheels are ¢ tric generatort on operates & rio-Nuvo, State riles inland from nected to four elec- | r transmitted | 1t connections, | ons of its | the econo- rmed. | some 30 per plant of this ing and belts nec ¥ in vantage of such a ere electricity is the 10st apparent. | 1p Works have just » one of their com- | pumping engines, together | i castiron pipe, the whole | water works system. | finished a large wine | hydraulic pressure ., a_ 500,000 gallon Healdsburg and two | pumps for Grass Valley, Cal. a paper the cap- tulas may be tries of the his unique shipment T 50,000 tarantulas to e tourist traveler, in the last five f a million spiders have NEW HEALTH EMPLOYES. The Board Met and Swung the Ax Once | More—The Heads That | Fell. 1‘ A special session of the Board of Heslth | | was held yesterday so that some of the remaining positions in the service of the‘ Health Department might be apportioned | out to the workers. The appointments | made were as follows: i At the City and County Hospital—T. B. | Sutcliffe, gardener; Stamper, watch- | man; P.Van atton, second waiter; T. | J. Mullen, day gatekeeper; J. Wilhelm, night catekeeper; A. Walsh, porter; G. Robinson, steward. At the Twenty-sixth Street Hospital— | E. McMullen, day watchman; P. Pattee, night watchman; George Ruddick, nurse. At the Almshouse—W. Carson, engineer; | BT on, night chm B. Post- | nan, night police officer; W. H. Wall, i a capaci s coupled direct to a made by the of thi: a head of one of tailor. As Market Inspectors—Benjamin D: chief inspector; B. Turner, J. Rivers and W. H. Jorda sistants. Captain of the quarantine boat Governor | Perkins—W. H. Milestone. The board then adjourned to meet next | Wednesday. which is tc feet. n Works e | recentl 1 vdious four- Trafic Association. story basement 16 kre-| mne executive committee of the Traffic Asso- m The improve in busi- = ciation will hola officers a velog . Dunham ness & sed them to add con to their force of mechanics, tory is now worked to ‘BUILDING THE BOULEVARD. | track. Little more than a mile remains to | | open irom Golden Gate Park along the | club could | western line of the boulevard. The Southside Club Has Un- dertaken to Finish the Beach Drive. TO BE OPEN FOR THE RACES. | Then the Rallroad Track WIIl Be Moved in One Block for the Electric Road. The Southside Improvement Association, which is interested in the outside lands, immediately south of Golden Gate Park, has undertaken to grade and macadamize the ocean boulevard to the Ocean House, round where it reaches the beach. Con- siderable progress has been made in the preliminary work, with the result that the active members of the club expect to have all arrangements completed within a week for grading the highway. The intention is to follow with practical work at once, so that the boulevard may be open for all clacses of vehicles in time | for the opening day of the Ingleside race- be macadamized and finished for driving, so0 with promptaction the driveway can be beach to the Ocean House road, affording a continuous avenue for driving to the new racetrack by the park, beach and Mis- sion or Corbett roads. When the boulevard is graded and cov- ered with broken rock and a final coating of small stones there will be no further | need for the Southern Pacific tracks which | were laid temporarily upon the boulevard | and have so far been maintained in de- | tiance of contracts and the law. | The executive committee of the South- | side Club consists of Fred McNally, Charles W. Pope, Sol Getz, Jacob Heyman, Henry | Jones of Jones & Allen and Mrs. Hendry. | They have taken up the matter with great | enthusiasm and gone over the ground in a | comprehensive manner, obtaining esti- | mates of cost of construction and attending | to the main question of raising funds. The results have been so satisfactory that the | committee has felt justified in commencing the task without further delay. | Civil Engineer Jackson, who has been engaged for years by the Park Commis- sioners, went over the ground yesterday with a member of the committee and made careful calculations of how much money it | would take to grade and macadamize the boulevard. “I have determined that the work can be | well done for about $14,000,” said he after returning from the ocean veach. ‘Three years ago the Southside Club collected $6000 and graded the boulevard. The drifting sand was leveled out for a width of 100 feet and part of it was covered with bunch grass to hold it down. Mayor Sutro gave $1000 to the fund. But as the | not get sufficient money to complete the criveway it had to be satis- fied with grading and could not afford to | put clay or rock upon the light sand. | “Then the Southern Pacific laid a track | along the center, just sixty feet from the The wind has since cut up the western sixty feet | into ruts and dunes, but east of the tracks has been fairly well preserved by the ties, rails and ballasting holding down a front line against the wind. The estimate of cost is on forty feet wide, which can be | done without any grading to speak of, and | tinuous line to the Ocean-house road, | past and _gone now; it belongs to the once that is finished it will be an easy matter to keep the boulevard open and to extend it toward the ocean.” Charles W. Pope was quite interested in the subject yesterday. “We have gone far with preliminary ar- rangements so that I can say to you now everything will be in readiness for grading and macadamizing in a week’s time. The property-owners south of the park are all enthusiastic over the improvement, and have given every encouragement to su port us in the work. We are reasonab}; certain of assistance from the Ingleside race track, as the boulevard will give a grand orcning for a drive through the park and on the ocean beach to the track. “The Ocean House, Mayor Sutro, the bicyele clubs and the Park Commissioners will also join with usin the opening of a driveway that will complete the circle around the peninsula. We expect to have the boalevard oven for the races at the new track. 5 “As soon as that is accomplished the Southern Pacitic Company will remove its track from the boulevard and carry it one block inland where it will be laid for an electric line. That has been decided upon You know the Metropolitan Electric Rail- way had a franchise on Forty-eighth avenue, the next street to the boulevard, from J street to S. Practically the fran- chise is one block east of the boulevard from H street to W, where it meets the Ocean-house road. The planis to move | the tracks back upon it, convert the H- street steam line south of the park into an | electric road, and join it at its western end with the new line on Forty-eighth avenue down the beach. This will make a con- where the electric-cars will continue back toward the City past the Ingleside. On the map the line to the beach past the new ' track is marked ‘San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railroad Company.’ That’s Southern Pacific Company. “We will_cover the boulevard with fine | broken rock, and plant the sides with | bunch grass, and in time the Park Coro- | missioners can follow out their plan of beautifying it with trees and shrubs. But | we hope to have our work donein a month | or two at the utmost.” The Congregation Beth Israel Making Elaborate Preparations to Wel- come Him Home. Rev. Dr. M. 8. Levy, the minister of the | Congregation Beth Israel, is now traveling in Europe. It is expected that he will re- turn to this City on or about the 22d inst. During his absence great changes have | been made in the interior of the syna- | gogue, which has been entirely renovated | and embellished Rev. J. Rabinowitz, the talented cantor of the congregation, bas been and is still busy preparing the service for the ensni holidays. The choir has been strengt ened and now consi i Flynn and Miss R Miss Miriam Coney ler, contraltos; A. Duncan, basso; organist. A new feature will be the companiment by a violin and ’cello with the organ. The rabbi, on his return, will he received by the president and trustees, and in his honor the temple will be beautifully deco- rated the first Sabbath he officiat, ular services will begin Friday, A S R, Warring Doctors. Dr. D. P. McCord, who was charged with bat- tery by Mrs. E. J. Buckley, 463 ie street, on July 31, had his case dism: by Judge Con- 1an yesterday. It was shown that the fight had been between F.C.Beck and A. R. Brandon, and after Beck had worsted Brandon he at’ tempted to do the same with McCord, but had the tabies turned on him. During the fight McCord’s elbow accidentally came in contact with Mrs. Buckley’s ribs. D. F. Hazel, a grip- man, refereed the fights. . SOpranos; and Mrs. Olive Batche- GUATEMALAN ARCHAOLOGY A Field Rich in Buried His- tory Being Explored by Scientists. ANCIENT ‘MONOLITHS OF COPAN. The Government Sclentist Speaks of Old Rulns and the Nica- ragua Canal. John R. Chandler, who has been in Guatemala for the past two years as the Government archeologist and mineralo- gist, arrived here with his wife on the Colon. Mr. Chandler was in that country first as Vice-Consul General, and arranged the exhibit for the World’s Falir in Chi- cago. He has some interesting things to say of the state of the present Government of Guatemala. “T have seen it stated in the papers,” he said yesterday at the Occidental, “that there was a probability of a revolution ir Guatemala. That is not true. There is no likelihood of any trouble at all. In the first place the people at large are not a fighting peovle. Four-fifths of the whole population are native Indians, who are the most peaceable natives on the face of the earth. Again, the Government is very strong owing to its always having ona war-footing from 8000 to 10,000 soldiers equipped with the latest arms, such as Remington and Manser rifles and Krupp and Armstrong cannon and Gatling-guns. “The accouterments, too, are modern and are thioughout on the Prussian system. Then the Government has plenty of cash on hand for anv warlike event. At pres- ent Guatemala is at peace with all its neighbors and imernAfly and the country is unusually prosperous. The coffee crop | has doubled within the past five years and the prices have increased greatly. “There isa strong feeling in all those | countries in favor of Cuban independence and they all look to the United States to do all it can honestly to help the Cubans. The feeling of the peovle of all those coun- tries toward the United States is more friendly than to any foreign power, espe- cially since England’s action in the Corinto affair. “For this reason there is a great desire that this Government shall take hold of the Nicaragua canal and finish it. They would feel that if the United States should send troops tc defend the canal at any time that it was for their own good, and not fear it as a menace, as they would any such movement by a foreign power. Noth- ing eise would give this country so much prestige and influence there as doing this work. If it is undertaken by a foreign power the loss in influence and trade by this country would be immense. The Monroe doctrine is believed in down there.” When asked about the archmology of Guatemala, Mr. Chandler said: “Few | countries, with the exception of Peru, con- tain such immense archwological remains and treasures as Guatemala. The prin- cipal districts are Yaculen, Quirigua, Santa Lucia_and Copan, on the borders of Honduras. Three of these have once been immense cities—probably capitals of some of the fifteen nations into which atorigines were divided. At Yaculen is a pala immense stones beautifully dressed, and on the inner side stuccoed from top to the | entirely built of | bottom, colors, especially the greens, blues and reds, still being almost as vivid as they were the day they were put on. The inner court is paved with a very fine hard cement. There is a sacrificial altar made of volcanic rock, on the sides-of which are sculptures ‘in high relief, depicting, in most cases, warriors in fantastic costumes. “A great deal of work has been done at Copan by the Peabody Museum of Har- vard under Dr. Putnam. They have un- covered 1mmense monoliths and several large buildings, which evidently werc palaces. Most of the. idols, as well as the monoliths, are covered with hieroglyphies, apparently closely related .to the } scriptionsof Yucatan. “The people had evidently reached a high degree of civilization, most of the buildings showing that they had a good knowledge of architectur> and were well skilled in most of the arts. “At Quirigua, some monoliths stand twenty-seven to thirty feet high, six or seven feet in diameter, and must have been brought long distances over moun- tains and valleys. forty or fifty tons. It isa mystery how they could have moved them. “The hieroglyphics have not been de- ciphered yet, although a number of scien- tists in the United States and Europe are | at work on them. The day is not far dis- tant when the history of these nations will be unlecked.”’ WILL NOT APPEAL. Such, at Least, Is the Opinion of Daniel Meyer in the Irrigation Bond Decision. Itis now practically certain that the de- cision of Judge Ross relative to the valid- ity of the irrigation bonds will not be appealed from. Several informal meet- ings of a minority of the bondholders have been held at the office of Daniel Meyer, but nothing has so far been ac- tions condemnatory of the decision and addressing a strong letter to the holders at large asking their financial co-operation in carrying the case to a higher court. “I can say with almost absolute safety that no appeal will be taken from the de- | cision of Judge Ross in the irrigation bond | matter,”” said Daniel Meyer yesterday. “Of course, the bondholders will be the | sufferers, and for that reason I am at a loss | to understand their quiet acceptance of a | decision the reversal of which means so | much to them. We have received favor- able replies to holders representing $1,300,- 000 of bonds, but, unless we can secure the | affected by the decision, nothing will be done toward taking an appeal. «It would be perfect folly to go intosuch a fight handicapped financially, as would be the case, because the minority bond- holders would be unwilling to bear the en- tire expenses of such an action, necessa- rily enormous, the result of which, if fa- vorable, would be shared in by all. A few of the outside bondnolders have expressed a willingness to share the expenses of such u suit, but a majority have n8t paid the least attention to the several letters ad- dressed them. Unless they agree to share their portion of the expenses within a day or two I'shall have no more to do with the subject.” A e R The Zante Currant. The suit of the United States against 8. L. Jones & Co. to recover the duty on a shipment of what is known as Zante currants will come up in the United States Cireuit Court soon. In order to ascertain all that can be learned of this article of food, a letter of inquiry was ad- | dressed to B. M. Lelong, secretary of the State Board of Horticulture. The principal question was whether the Zante r\urnm-pm:u WAS & grapevine, or sallied to any varieties of the | grape, or if it was a shrub similar to that | which produced the commor currant. In re- ply Mr. Lelong yesterday replied that the Zante currant was made from the grape black corinth. ya in- | Many of them weigh | complished further, than passing resolu- | co-operation of a majority of the $8,000,000 | MHISS HARRINGTON'S WILL A Document Written by the | Young Woman Who Was Murdered. HER SISTER IS THE LEGATEE. Mrs. W. S. Ferguson Has Found the Paper Disposing of a $4000 Estate. | Nellie Harrington, the young woman | who was murdered at her home, 1017 Ellis street, last June, left a will, and the docu- | ment has just been discovered. It was tiled for probate yesterday by Mrs. W. S. Ferguson. The document is as follows: SAN FRrANCISCO, August 12, 1893. Be it known to all: If anything happens to me, Nell Harrington—or, Ellen is my real baptismal name—on this’ trip to Chicago; if thing, accident or sick, should take me 1 should like my sist A. Jackson, to have all that is left after my bills are paid. AlsoI would like to have, or 1want toap- point, Mr. W. 8. Ferguson, to settle up my affairs for my sister. All my papers are in Mrs. W. S. Ferguson’s care. She will turn them over to her husband to settle for me, or rather | for my sister. This is in my own handwriting, | but written in a hurry, day before starting for | the World’s Fair. Please attend to for me without any tronble. | NELLIE HARRINGTON, | - I am known as Nell, or Ellen. but Ellen I | was baptized. I hope this will answer as & | will if anything happens to me. Miss Harrington went to_the World's | Fair ana she wrote out the will on the day " before her departure. The paper was | folded, and it has the appearance of hav- | ing long been carried in a pocketbook. Mrs, - Ferguson . found the will on | Wednesday while looking over the papers | that belonged to Miss Harrington. | After the young woman’s death a careful | search for a will was made, but none was found. Then her sister, Johanna A. Jackson and Mary Kent Rae of Sacramento applied for letters of administration, and they are now in charge of the $4000 estate. SCHOOL OF DESIGN OPENS. A Good Attendance the First Many New Students Enrolled. Fifty-two students were enrolled at the California School of Designin the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art yesterday. The term has opened under the most favorable auspices. The students: began work immediately after enrollment, and the first lessons of the year were attended by interest and satisiaction on the part of students and instructors. Fifteen of the names enrolled yesterday were those of beginners in the art of the | palette and brush. | The students will give an exhibition { this fall. The collection will consist largely of the independent work of the students done during the vacation just ended. Day. el SRR For Home Industry. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion wrote & letter yesterday to Mayor W. T. Ellis of Marysville, stating that information had been received that a new sewerage pump- ing plant was to be erected in Marysviile. The letter stated that there were several manufac- turers in California who could furnish the ma- terials and erect the plant as well as Eastern mekers. Mayor Ellis was requested to prepare his specifications, so_that California_makers | might compete for the contract, or, in other | words, give home industries & chance. OON! THE BIG CIRCUS WILL COMMENCE AT CENTRAL PARK-—SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, FOR A CIRCUS SEASON OF NINE DAYS. GREAT SYNDICATE SHOWS AND PARLY HIPPODROME! «THE BIGGEST, RICHEST, FAIREST AND SQUAREST SHOW UNDER THE SUN!= INICGEIT VICTORIA! The Only Trained Equestrian BENGAL TIGER in the World. an educated, wild, savage Bengal Tiger The great JAMES McELROY was engaged Certainly the most marvelous exhibition of ever entering into the imagination of man. 1 5L : for months in preparing this tremendous sensation. A most ambitious project com- pletely-executed: ~Animal performances without a parallel on earth. Better in execu- $ion, grander in display, and exceeding in magnificent results all the great combined etmpts of former years. Now presented in absolute confidence as being the GREAT- ACHIEVEM ever known, and which is exhibited as the acme of intelligent inig, ‘assisted by every modern.contrivance that art or ingenuity could suggest, or man’s fertile brain invent. VICTORIA, the Only Bengal Tiger Barshack Rider on Earth! Earning the title of “Champion” Bareback Rider in sgecisl lines- of original ana matchless equestrian feats. Jumping throu%h hoops of fire, mounting and descending inclined planes; wrestling, turning somersaults, dancing, firing guns, and doing every trick, feat or act conceived, with the greatest ease and in a perfect manner. In a mon- pecially constructed IRON-BARRED AREN A, the size of a regular Circus Ring, where, inclosed within strong bars, the marvelous performance takes place in connec- tion with the regular performances, every afternoon and night. ON A SCALE OF MACGNITUDE NEVER DREAMED THREE HUGE CIRCUS RINGS! Cutest Shetland Ponies. Most Amazing Performers. ageries. A Full Score of Clowns. Trainers. Only Champion Riders. Jockeys. Twenty Novel Races. The Greatest Aerialists. Rarest Kinds of Quadrupeds. Striking Aerial Artists. A Regiment of Actors. A BIG RACING TRACK. Largest Number of Acts. Two Whole Men- The Bravest The Greatest Elevated Stages. Izon-Barred Arena, the Size of a Regular Circus Ring, Where the Marvelous Tiger Performance Takes Place. Mammoth Artificial Lake. High Divers from the Dome of the Canvas, Actually Diving from a Height of Eighty Feet Inte But Six Feet of Water. PARADE FRIDAY THE ONLY BABY Ever Born ini Captivity. /A G & (IR 5 F BEFORE ! EVENING. AUGUST 16. : AN IMPOSING DROVE OF GREAT AFRICAN OSTRICHES! ‘Whoke rare and fashionable plumage represents a fortune. Priceless Titans of their desert kind. No zoological garden in the world can boast their equals, A most costly. and attractive feature, intrinsically worth more than all the aviaries of all other shows. THESE COLOSSAL MONARGHS Of the distant wilds present imposing and instructive object lessons that none should miss the opportunity to inspect. They are veritable antipodean wonders that amaze and interest every one. The proudest arrav of lordly plumed biras ever witnessed in any exhibition. Captive paragons exclusively exhibited by us, and 2 THE SINGLE SPECIMENS ARE ALONE A SHon WAGES ARE LOW ; PRODUCTS OF FARM, FACTORY AND MINE ARE CHEAPER THAN EVER BEFORE, an amusements should be lowered prop(;rtionately. The first big show to recognize the times and to reduce the price of admission. The only small thing about the Syndicate Shows is the price of admission. The show is twice as large and admission one-half as much as any show that ever came to the Coast; 50 CENTS has as much purchasing power for commodities and the past 20 years. Why should it not have as much purchasing power for amusements as for labor or necessaries? The Syndicate Shows declare it shall. labor as $1.00 has had during