The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1895. L O sttt 4 B s SSab GBS i« R e OB e L S T e D T S B R e S e A S A A BT e G s S R R e S R SENT INTO QUARANTINE Arrival of Three Vessels From | Cholera Infected , | Ports. BIG DEATH RATE AT HIOGO. The Authorities in Japan Struggling Hard to Control the Epi- | demic. Three vessels from foreign ports were ordered into quarantine vesterday by the Board of Health—the steamer Gaelic from Hongkong, the bark Mattie Davis from | i and the bark Chehalis from Honolulu Kobe. All the vessels sailed from or touched at infected ports. They all ar-| rived here with clean bills of health. . The Gaelic did not touck at Honolulu, but she put in at and Kobe, an, both on the black list of the local Board of Health. According to the report of the bill of health of the Gaelic there were six cases of choleric diarrhea at Hengkong within | | usual inter-family complications. | on premises for garbage and ashes, and that all refuse animel and vegetable matter must be | Geposited in lighter ;TO BE DOUBLY RELATED. | Arthur Fisk, Son of Asa Fisk, to Be United to Miss Kate Wert- heimer. Arthur Fisk, son of Asa Fisk, the capi- | talist, and Miss Kate Wertheimer will be { married to-morrow evening. Rumor had 1t yesterday that the mar- riage had taken place secretly on Thursday | evening, but both Mr.'Fisk and Miss Wert- | heimer’s brother have empbatically con- tradicted the report. The history of the affair bears more than ordinary interest and embodies some un- Both Isaac Wertheimer and his sister until eight months ago lived with their step- father on Steiner street. Then a family rimonial series was begun when Miss was secretly married to Isaac Wert- heimer. Since their marriage the young couple have made their home at the resi- dence of Asa Fisk on Hayes street. A little over a month ago Kaufman Wertheimer, the stepfather, took unto himself another wife, and soon after it be- came evident to Miss Wertheimer that the regime of double step-parents was not go- ing to be filled with happiness for her. So she moved to the home of her friend, Mrs. Dinkelspeil, on Ellis street, where she stayed until this week, and then began a visit to_her brother at home of her future father-in-law, under whose roof she | is to be quietly married. Arthur Fisk is an attorney-at-law with £ THE STEAMSHIP GAELIC THAT WAS QUARANTINED YESTERDAY. [From a photograph.] two weeks before the steamer sailed. At Hiogo, Japan, 329 cases of cholera and 256 deaths were reported in the two weeks preceding September 3. At Nagasaki, Japan, fifty-four cases of tic cholera and fifty-one deaths were reported in the Two we preceding August 31. At Kobe, Japan, twenty-seven cases and nineteen deaths were reported in the two weeks preceding September 7. Consul-General John McLean reported that the average of cholera cases remained | for sume time about the same. The Jap- | anese Government at the time of sailing | was doing everything in its power to con- | trol the epidemic. | At the quarantine station on Angel Island the three vessels, passengers and cargoes will be thoroughly fumigated before anything is allowed toland. Choleragerms usually develop in five days. As no case broke out on the vessels their officers con- fidently believe that everything 1s in good condition. In shipping cargoes and pas- sengers every precaution‘is taken by the masters to guard against taking on board | anything that may be contagious. | The Board of Health will meet this | morning to look over the situation ard | see that all the quarantine laws are being | proverly carried out. After*Dr. Williamson returned from the | Gaelic he met the other members of the | Board of Health, and it was determined to permit the mails and the cabin passen- | gers to land. The latter were brought | over from Angel Island at 2 o’clock in the | afternoon and were as follows: A. Adels- dorfer, H. E. Curtis, H. Isono and servant, Rev. W. J. Lewis and wife, M. R. Brown, | F. Curtis, Mrs. 8. Isaacs and’ children, Right Rev. F, R. Graves, Lieutenant F. H Le Favor of the United States navy, S. Bchwartz, Bavier Chalfour, Rev. J. M. Francis, 8. 8. Potts, P. McG. Grant, and Mrs. John R. Cockerill, wife of Colonel Cockerill of the New York Herald. Lieutenant Le Favor states that only the ordinary cases of cholera have occurred jn Shanghai and the river ports where his vessel, the Monocacy, was stationed, and that no whites were attacked. The Charles- ton is at Nagasaki tied up until & piston for one of her engines is made here in the | Union Iron Works. The Baltimore, York- | shire, Concord and Petrel are at Chefoo. There was no sickness on board of any of | the United States warships, owing to care, diet and cleanliness. { To-day the ship will be permitted to dock and the steerage passengers landed. Yesterday the bark Chehalis from Kobe, Japan, and Honolulu, arrived in port and were sent into quarantine, Last Wednesday Postmaster McCo sent the following telegram to the office Department at Washington: SaX FRANCISCO, Sept. 18, 1895. pin 08t~ Hon. F. H. Jones, F tant Postmaster- General, Washington, D. The Board of Health has declared Nagasaki, Yokonhame and Honolulu infected ports. 1t being necessary to fumigate the mails at quarantine station, An- gel Island, before their entrance into this City, T recommend that either the Quarantine Offi- cer or the United States surgeon in charge of the station be authorized to open-and close pouches for this purpose. I wish to avoid risk of bringing the clerks in this office into contact with what may be infected matter, FRANK McCoPPIN, Postmaster. Yesterday he received the following re- ply. which’ will govern all handling of mails from infected ports: WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19, 1895. Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.: Make best possible arrangements for fumigating mails and advise expense that will be incurred, so roper allowance can’ be made. 1f work is per- lormed by persons outside of service adminis- ter oath in each case. Report fully. F. H. JoNEs, First Assistant Postinaster-General. The presence of cholera in the Orientand at the Sandwich Islands has induced the policeauthorities to exercise great care, so ar as possible, in preventing the disease from getting a hold in this City. Chief Crowley yesterday issued the following order to several of the captains of police: The Chief of Police directs the officers of your respective districts to muke a house-to-house inspection, and report all nmsances existing and coming under their observance, on blanks which will be furnished by this office. Also to enforce section 7 of Order 1587, rela- tive to the use of nignt carts or uncovered swilleerts, etc. Also sections 3 and 4 of Order 2300, requiring separate receptacles to be kept the bark Mattie Davis, from | Morris Estee, and is the legal representa- tive for the Wertheimer heirs, in whose behalf he filed suit two weeks ago to re- cover from their stepfather certain real property devised to them by their iather. The property is in the name of the F. Uri Company, of which Kaufman Wertheimer, the stepfather, is the president. HELPED BY A DEAD DOG Queer Discovery Made in the Condemned Richmond School. The Board of Education Overhaul- ing the Schools That Are in a Bad Sanitary Condition, It now turns out that a dead dog was the cause of the condemnation of the Rich- mond School by the Board of Health. It was a big dog, hence the extent of the trouble. The malodorous condition of the school rooms and yard was laid to the lack of proper sewer connections and the Board of Health ordered the school closed till the sewer was fixed. The pupils were dis- missed last Wednesday and the Board of Education sent out several experts to ex- amine the place and report on the repairs necessary. Then the dead dog developed. He was found under the planks of the yard and his condition spoke eloquently of the lack of attention given him. The sewerage was in a very bad condition, but the dog was worse. A report on the dog and the sewerage was made to the Board of Eduetation last night. irector McElroy offered the following resolution to get the school again in proper sanitary condition: Resolved, That the Committee on Buildings and Grounds be and they are hereby instructed to advertise for proposals for raising the Rich- mond School building to tae proper grade, and make sewer connections with it to Point Lobos avenue. Also bids for moving the offices on Rich- mond lot to the rear of #aid lot, and connect them by sewer with Point Lobos avenue by way of Michigan avenue. Also bids for suitable offices to accommodate the pupils of said school, and the Committee on Buildings and Grounds be and is hereby authorized to have the vaults on the school premises cleared and put the buiidings and | grounds in good condition, pending the work | necessary for permanent improvements. The pupils of the school will be able to return to their classrooms next Monday. By that time the work of cleansing the yards will be so far advanced that there | will not be the slightest danger against health. The Irving Primary School on Broadway will next occupy the attention of the Board of Health and the Board of Ed- ucation. It is said to be even in a worse condition than the Richiond School. It has no sewer outlet, and for some reason the owners of property on a back street have been allowed to side-sewer to the big cavity under the school. The condition of the place is'said to be frightful, and one of the biggest menaces to public health in the City. There are ‘a number of other schools which have no sewer connection. Health Officer Lovelace and School Director Mc- Eiroy are examining all of them. They will report to the Board of Health this morning, and sharp measures will be taken to see that the sanitary laws are properiy carried out. ————— Took Rough on Rats. Rose Chase, who ltves at 1021 Mission street, took & dose of Rough on Rats early yesterday morninfi. She was removed to the Receiving Hospital, where an antldote was given that saved her life. About a year ago she made a similar attempt to end her life. For some tim })lst she has had a suicidal mania, so her riends say, and they have watched her to try 10 prevent her from killing herself. S e e _In the sixteenth century cattle were wor- ried by dogs before killing, to make their flesh tender. A TEACHER OF TEACHERS, Exhaustive Paper on San Fran- cisco by Professor G. Davidson. WAS REWARDED BY CHEERS. Great Fund of Information In Historical and Sclentific Research. It was a great intellectual treat—a feast of erudition—which was enjoyed by the 900 teachers assembled yesterday after- noon at the regular monthly meeting of the City and County Institute at Golden *Gate Hall. The speaker of the occasion name has become associated on this coast with all that is synonymous for painstak- ing historical and scientific research. To give an idea of the fund of valuable information the professor communicated to his audience, his paper may be epi- tomized thus: Historical—The early explorations and an- cient charts of the North Pacific coast; the planting of the missions by the Franciscan adres; the political development of the Cali- ornia region and San Francisco; this City’s industrial and commercial growth from the transitional period and the days of gold ; origin of bay nomenclature; the early charts and plans of the Presidio and Ban Francisco; a reference to the old Spanish land grants and the unique features of the jurisprudence of the period of transition. Scientific—San Francisco’s topograpical feat- ures; local geology; hydrography and meteor- ology; geograph al work. Philosophical — Sociological development; growth of education: the advantages and sug- gestiveness of San Francisco's geographical position. All this the professor told the gathered educational talent of the City in less than two hours. He was a teacher of the teach- ers in the best sense of the term, and when ‘| he got through, his attentive pupils, at the suggestion of their chairman, Superintend- token of their keen appreciation. Professor Davidson commenced with an allusion to the fact that Superintendent Moulder and himself came to this City on the same steamer in 1850, and began a friendship then which ‘“‘had never been even frayed at the edges since.” “I am simply & student and a worker,” he ob- served, modestly. He recalled that some vears ago he undertook a detailed exami- nation of the early Spanish and English narratives of exploration, in order to utilize the experience of nearly half a century on this coast—a work upon which he is still engaged. Then he plunged at once into the lesson of the day, viz., San Francisco, for this City was his theme, and when he con- ciuded it was with this c'oquent prophecy: This magic City, in its mmpannched £eo- graphical position on the parallel of the center ot gravity of a present population of 70,000,000 people, on the parallel of that city whence the parallel of Rome and Athens, with a gate- way open to the commerce of the world, will sail its richly laden fleets to every port where | the sea resches; will send its scholars, i's men of action, the children of its brain, to challenge the supremacy of every state on God’s foot- stool. In his logical manner the professor be- gan with the first explorations under Cortez and Mendoza and those of Ulloa in 1539, Sir Francis Drake in 1579 and Sebastian Viscaino in 1602. Cortez ot only as far as Cape San Lucas; Jlloa fifty or sixty miles north of Cenos | Island; but Cabrillo and Fenelo, com- manding respectively Mendoza's two ves- sels, were the first to see the Farallones and the hills upon which a great commer- cial city was yet to be built. It was on November 16, 1542, that this sight re- warded them. Owingto the adverse winds they narrowly missed the Golden Gate, and Sir Francis Drake also failed to see it. Drake, however, was the first white man to set foot on San Francisco soil. He landed on the Southeast Farallon July 24, 1579. Professor Davidson’s title for Drake ptain-General of Freebooters.” o caino the professor gave the credit of making the first representation on paper of the geography of the Farallones in_a crude chart. Oneof Viscaino’s two ships, the Capitana, became separated from the other in a gale and anchored in Drake’s Bay January 7, 1603, and Viscaino called this “El Puerto de San Francisco,” Drake had called all this region ‘‘Nova Albion,” from the color of the cliffs on the coast, and took possession of the region in the name of Queen Elizabeth. Viscaino’s plans were rescued after a hiding of 200 years. After the spirit of Spanish exploration had lain dormant for 166 years, said the speaker, the Government was finally aroused through a fear of Russian and British encroachments and the instruc- tions of the Visitador-General, Galvez, were: To establish the Catholic religion among & numerous heatben people submerged in the obscure darkness of pagenism and to extend the dominion of the King, our Lord, and to protect this peninsula from the ambitious views of foreign nations. A considerable portion of the paper fol- lowing was devoted to the discovery of the bay of San Francisco by the sea and land expeditions of the Marquis de la Croix, in 1769; the establishment of the presidio at Monterey and the planting of the first missions. Don Miguel Castanoso, a fa- mous army captain and engineer, who ac- companied the land party, constructed the first chart of the coast and bay, and he also made a detailed report of the expedition. This important document has been ob- tained by Adolph Sutro from the city of Mexico and is one of the most valuable papers in the Mayor's collection. The Geographical Sociéty, said Professor David:on, will publish the Spanish erigi- nal, with an English translation. The professor, himself, has copies of un- ublished letiers of Father Juan Crespi, a E‘nnciscnn friar, who made an itinerary of Le La Croix’s expedition. 1t was this ex- gedition which first saw the bay of San rancisco and secured a comparatively ac- curate idea of the geogrnnhy of Point Reyes. The date of the bay’s discovery was November 1, 1769. It appeared to them a preat inland sea, or rather a lake. Portola’s efforts to discover if there was any entrance to the inlana sea were next dwelt upon. In December, 1774, Father Palou, witha military escort, reached the northern end of the San Francisco penin- sula and confirmed the previous reports of Crespi and Portola as to the existence of an entrance. Professor Davidson’s descrip- tion of the first vessel to actually enter the Golden Gate was as follows: On the 16th of March, 1775, the mailboat San Carlos, under command of Don Manuel Manrique, léft San Blas (in company with the Santisgo and Sonora) with orders for the re- connaissance of the new port of San Francisco that hud been seen by Portola. In June, un- der command of. Don Juan de Ayala, who had superseded Manrique, she left Monterey, and on the 11th of August entered the great inland sea through the Goiden Gate, and is the first vessel that did so. Continuing his review the professor said the first settlement of San Francisco was made in 1776 by Don Jose Moraga’s soldiers and “‘fundadores,” and the two. friars, Francisco Palouand Benito Cambon. They left Monterey June 17, 1776, reached the Mission site on 27th and_the Presidio site on the 28th. The Presidio buildings were at once started, and on Sesumber 17 were ready for occupation, and the occasion was marked by a public ceremong. Father Palou bestowing his blessing. The found- ing of the Mission Dolores was on October 9 of that year. Its full name was “La Mission de ‘los Dolores de Nuestro Padre 8an Francisco de Assi: The City of San Francisco thus gets its name from the founder of the order of Franciscans. As- zisi is an old city on the railroad from Rome to Florence, and hss a population of Ilbout 3300. Alcalde Bartlett on January was Professor George Davidson, whose ! 4 can-American Alcalde, Jose de Jesus Noe, ent Moulder, gave cheer after cheer in |laid by men ‘of experience, conyiction and pa- t Columbus seiled to wonderful discoveries, on | 30, 1847, changed the name of the villaze, Yerba Buena,’ to San_ Francisco, despite the opposition of the old California Star. Vancouver’s narrative furnishea Pro- fessor Davidson with reason for comment, varticularly the navigator’s opinion of the region and inhabitants of San Franciseo during his visit of 1792. The speaker thought Vancouver did not take a great many things into consideration that he ought to have, A general suryey was then given of the history of California and San Francisco, leading up to American supremacy, with touches upon the promised secularization of the missions and the establishment of the pueblos. Jose Joaquin Esiudillo was chosen Alcalde of the pueblo (Dolores) November 27,1835, and was the first ex- ecutive officer chosen by the settlers them- selves. The first title issued for land under the pueblo system was for the Rancho Laguna de la_Merced to Jose Antonio Galindo, and the date was 1835. In 1840 the forcign population of Yerba Buena was: Americans 4, Englishmen 4, other Europeans 6. Colamodore Sleat, commanding the frigate Savannah, took possession of the Presidio July 2, 1846, and hoisted the American flag and issued a _proclamation claiming California for the United States. On July 4 Captain Montgomery read the Declaration of Independence and four days later raised the fl%g on the pole of the oN Mexican adobe custom-house at Ports- mouth plaza. Captain Montgomery at once appointea Washington A.Bartlett Al- calde of Yerba Buena to succeed the Mexi- and Mr. Bartlett, said the speaker, “un- dertook to execute Mexican law from the American point of view.” The Mormon leader, Samuel Brannan, issued the first number of the Yerba Buena California_Star on January 9, 1847 Through Brannan’s enterprise the first private school was opened April 15 of that year, J. D. Marston—said to bave beena Mormon, although his name was not on the list of the Brooklyn’s passengers— being the teacher. It was also through Brannan’s efforts that the first public school was established. That was next ear, on April 3, and Thomas Douglas, a Vale graduate, was the teacher. The first free public school was opened in April, 1850, with John C. Pelton as teach Professor Davidson continued his histor- ical resume so asto cover the argonaut period, the admission into the Unionof | the State of Califorpia and subsequent events, and at last conciuded that feature with the words: The foundations of a great State, the founda- tions of a city that is vet in its infancy, were | riotism. Their memories will be higher and fresher with the coming generations. | The topographical feature of Professor Davidson’s paper was very instructive. The existence of the sand-dunes he ascribed, as an effect, to the action of the ocean currents and the winds. Said he: The main drift of the ocean waters of this coast is from the northwestward, being in part the flow of the great Japanese warm stream, after striking the coast in the region of Queen Charlotte Island. Immediately under the shores of our coast there is & continuous, although generally slight, current moving northward, and known as the Davidson inshore eddy current. This latter current carries from the south- ward all movable material. The sand washed from the cliffs north of Point San Pedro is ceaselessly moving toward the Golden Gate. These sands in part endeavor to cross the en- trance to the bay, but by the larger effect of the ebb currents 'they are carried off shore until the current effect is nullified by the waves, and they trend in the form of a great horseshoe, s a sub-surface ridge, which forms the bar of San Francisco. Another part of these sands is thrown upon the beach south of the Cliff House, and in the time intervals between the low and high waters they become dry and are driven by the ‘west winds inward beyond the reach of the next high water and then continue to be rolled across the peninsula. (RICH INDICATIONS OF OIL, The Earth, Only Four Miles From Oakland, Saturated With It. WONDERS ARE NOW EXPECTED. The Contra Costa Paraffine Oll Com- pany Expects to Strike a “Gusher” in a Few Days. In that portion of Contra Costa County lying nearest Oakland there has appeared the nucleus of anew city. It has been christened Oliopolis. Surrounding it on every side are thrifty orchards and rich | fields of grain, while beneath itlie, accord- ing to the investigations of leading chem- | ists and oil experts, vast stores of petro- leum. The fact that abundant oil is 1o be found there needs only the testimony of the senses. The earth is saturated with it. Oil leaks outfrom every inch of ground, forming in viscid drops on the rocks, and covering over the surface of the creek that runs by the new city with an irridescent film. Last spring a fuel committee, delegated by the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation, prospected the old Alden ranch, running from this pool is thickly filmed with the volatile petroleum and the vicin- ity is odorous “’ltE gas. As soon as a flow of oil is obtained the company contemplates running a pipe- line down to Oakland, a distance of four miles. The undertaking will cost $6000. There is a fall of 450 feet between the two places, consequently rapid, copious and cheap transportation is possible. The K}amlsdireclly on the line of the C.and V. R. R., and a tankcar! could be used to convey the oil to the seaboard. If the well pans out, as there seems an almost absolute surety of its doing, the company wilf sink an unlimited number of wells as rapidly as possible. . A few days will decide whether this sec- tion of the country is to lead in one of the most important industries of the Union, and whether California may add to her title among her sister States of superiority in gold that of equality in oil. WORK AMONG THE TRADES. Reports Good and Bad at the Labor Council’s Meeting. \ At the meeting of the Labor Council last evening a communication was read from the Cripple Creek (Colo.) Labor Council, making inquiries as to the overalls manu- factured in San Francisco and for sale there—as to whether they were the work of Chinese or white labor. The secretary was instructed to notify the correspondent that not only the overalls but the shoes and other goods manufactured here for ship- ment elsewhere were chiefly of Chinese manufacture. The delegate from the Molders’ Union reported business as ‘‘picking up”; the horseshoers the same; electrical workers, business good, and all members employed; furniture-workers, fairly good; the print- ers, dull, and that within another month which lies three-quarters of a mile from at least 100 more typesetters would be e Yy THE FIRST WELL OF 1H: OCONTRA (OSTA OIL COMPANY. [From a photograph.] %, In his allusion to local meteorology he said the foggy conditions prevailing dur- ing the summer and autumn were due to the uniformity of temperature of the wateralong the coast and the incidental evaporation from the sea. He gave the heights of various topo- graphical objects within the City’s bound- aries, as follows: Telegraph Hill 294 feet, highest point of Pre- sidio Reservation 400, Point Lobos head 350, Strawberry Hill 426, Sutro Heights 200, Prayer Book Cross 316, Lone Mountain Cross 4562, Davidson Observatory, Lafayetta place, 379, Twin Peaks 925, Blue Mountain 920, Bernal Heights 480, Potrero Nuevo 826, Hunters Point Ridge 260, highest point in the City and County 938, lighthouse Southeast Farallon 860, North Farallones 157. The following objects, he said, can be seen from the City: Western summit, San Bruno Mountain, 1315 feet; Loma Prieta, 3790; Mount Hamilton and Lick Observatory, 4209; Rocky Mound (Berk- eley Hills), 1690; Mount Diablo, from which the Farallones are visible, 3849; Sonoma Mountain, 2192; Mount Helena, 4337 : western summit of Mount Tamalpais, 2590; Point Reyes head, 597 ; Point Bonita lighthouse, 124: Fort Point lighthouse, 83; Avgel Island, 771; Aleatraz Island lighthouse, 166; Yerba Buena Island, 344. Just as he was finishing Professor David- son observed: It has been a labor of love to follow the nar- ratives of the old discoverers and pioneers of civilization in their trials and in their success. They builded better than they knew. It is worth having lived among the later argonauts and shared some of their intensity of purpose and euthusiasm, and to have won the confidence and shared the hospitality of the old grandees of Spain, whose hearts were large and generous. This Pacific seaboard, overlooking the broad- est ocean, has a future that will discount our wildest predictions; this coast of California confines a State that will ever be a safe bul- wark to the empire behind it; this magic City, with its unparalleled gateway and mag- nificent harbor, may sway & scepter over the commerce of the future, before which the achievements of the past will pale into veriest insignificance O0’'BRIEN’S WEALTH GONE, The Land Speculator Tells Judge Sand- erson About His Financial Standing. Michael O'Brien, a land speculator, who was wealthy a few years ago and owned an entire township in Kern County, was brought before Judge Sanderson yesterday to show why he should not be punished for neglect to pay $25 a month alimony to his divorced wife. He was asked whether he had any money, and he replied that he had $1 50 in the Hibernia Bank. He de- clared that he had no other assets, his sis- ter owning property that was supposed to be his. As to moneys received he testified that the last time he collected rents for his sister he kept $1. ““Have you that dollar with you?” asked Judge Sanderson. The witness had used the dollar. The lar)(;i in Kern County he gave away he said. O’Brien had bought a hat several weeks ago, **What did the hat cost?” asked Attor- ney Costello. “A dollar and a half.” ‘Where did you get that money?” “I found it." “Where?” “In my pocket."” “How did it get in your pocket?’ “I don’t know.” The case was continued to give the at- torney a chance to show that O’'Brien had fraudulently disposed of property that he might evade the order of tie court. THE CUTTING DIVOROE. Judge Sanderson Grants a Decree to the General’s Wife. The divorce suit of Mrs. Christine Cut- ting against General John T. Cut- ting was decided yesterday by Judge Sanderson, who granted a decree to the wife on the ground of desertion. The case was defaulted by General Cutting. b S A Word With the Wise. Beautiful Decorated Breakfast Set, 24 pjeces.$: Decorated Tea Set, 18 pieces. Cuspidore, Majolica Decorated, each. Gold 1lluminated Lunch Set, 18 pleces You can’t duplicate for double the money. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S . BRANCH STORES EVREY WHERE. 1 85 100 Headquariers 62-68 Market street, San Francisco. De Laveaga station and four miles in an air line southeast of Oakland, as a possible oul field. The evidences of oil and gas found by these gentlemen were so apparent that in their report they strongly recom- mended business men interested in the subject to invest there and add one more source of fuel supply to our State and its industries. Colonel George W. Cummings, interested in this report, went to the spot himself and was struck by the similarity of the rock formation to that of the rich oil fields of Pennsylvania. Heimmediately became enthusiastic. ¥ Soon a number of enterprising citizens of the bay cities were interested, and on June 12 of this year a lease of 612 acres was pro- cured from J. O. Miner, the owner of the property. August 8 a company was incor- orated called ““The Contra Costa Paraffine il Company,” with the following officers: Colonel Georgs W. Cummings, presidenc; A. B. Bacon, secretary; J. J. Scoville, treasurer, and Hermann F. Hiller and Frederick Hiller directors. On August 11 the plant to bore for oil was being prepared on the spot for busi- ness. Colonel Cummings was formerly sulperinlendent of the Great Western Con- solidated Oil Company of Pennsylvania, and remembers when the crude petroleum was found in that State as it is now on the oid Alden Tract, and was used for lubri- cating wagons and as a panacea for pains and aches. The most valuable feature of the oil it- self is the fact that it has a paraffine base. This has been proved beyond dispute by A. A. Cunningham of this City, an expert in oil analysis. The oil of Los Angeles has a bituminous base, and hence is valuable only for fuel purposes. But the promoters of this enterprise are assured that the oil found in the section will prove highly re- finable. The Los Angeles oil brings in the mar- ket 40 cents per barrel; it is expected this will bring from 80 cents to $2 per barrel. The company has' had (since its incor- poration) three experts to examine the field: . M. Hoagland, of large experi- ence in Pennsylvania; Wiliiam Rapp, one of the oldest oil experts in the State, and Joseph Ruix Rojas, an officer in the Aus- trian hussars, familiar with all the Euro- pean petroleum fields and an extensive stockholder in the famous Rothschild oil tields of Hungary. Ruix Rojas is greatly interested. He spends much of his time in_the vicinity with his pick and hammerand continually finds some new surprise as to the richness of the indications. “The Lord did not scatter over the earth,” said he, “a little oil here and a little there, but with a geologic formation such as this a little oil on the surface means an inexhaustible supply down un- der the earth.” The first well is being sunk on a slight rise of land skirted at the base by a creek. the bed and banks of which are formed of shale, richly impregnated with oil and smelling strongly of gus. A piece of this stone taken from the surface and broken reveals globules and small patches of brown petroleum. The Beal prospecting core drill, the only instrument of the kind on the coast, is at work penetrating the sandstone and shale. Already, with but_ten days’ actual work, it has reached a depth of 250 feet. The deeper the well is sunk the more favorable become the indications of oil. The com- pany expects to strike oil in two or three days at a depth of about 400 feet—not only to strike oil, but to penetrate a vast sub- terranean reservoir, from which the petro- leum will gush up at the rate of from 100 to 1000, varrels daily, ' Already a flow of gas rises up through the tube sv strong that two men find_diffi- culty in holdini the vent hose. The driller cuts a five-inch hole down through the | solid rock from three to ten feet in an bour and brings up long columns of the hard gray stone smoothly polished. The drill proggr is a long hollow iron cylinder, to which a rotary motion is given. Tine steel chilled shot are poured around the open bottom of the cylinder. They indent the iron and grind into the stone. A constant stream of water keeps | the drill cool and washes away the pul- verized rock. The well is located a few hundred yards from a pool where large bubbles, caused by gas working up to the surface of the water, form and burst from one year’s end | to another. Aniron tank with a burner fixed to the bottom, placed inverted in. the water, rapidly fills with the gas, which burns with a white flame for sev- eral minutes, The small stream of water * thrown out of work because of the intro- duction of machinesin the Examiner and Chronicle offices; the sailors, very bad, underpaid, underfed and badly treated. The delegate from the furniture-workers reported that the contract for the interior fittings of the bar wt the Cliff House, an $8000 piece of work, was being sent East. He thought some action should be taken to keep the work here. TRANSFERS FOR KEARNY. The Merchants’ Associatlon Acting on Behalf of That Thoroughfare. Street Railway People Complain of Unfalr Advantages Taken by Passengers. The Merchants’ Association has asked the Market-street Railway Company for a map showing the lines in operation and the system of transfers. Oneof the objects of the request is to aid the association in considering the demand made by Kearny- street merchants for the extension of the transfer system between the Market-street and the Kearny-street lines. There are other branches of information which the Merchants’ Association desires to avail itself of, one of which is an accurate knowl- edge of the existing franchises which ma not be in operation and the tracks whic! may not be in use for the purposes for which they were laid down. 4 Speaking on this subject last night President Dohrmann of the Merchants’ As- sociation said that the railway company had readily assented to the request for the map and information and that the asso- ciation would soon be in a position to study several important matters of public interest. ‘Wil the existence of unused franchises be one of the matters the association will investigate ?”” was asked. .“I cannot sng g"“ what we may inves- tigate,” replied Mr. Dohrmann, “though the chief object of our request for the in- formation sought is to look into the re- quest made by the Kearny-street mer- chants for an exchange of transfers be- tween the Market-street and Kearny-street cars. I think the company will be willing to grant the request of the Kearny-street merchants. We do not ask the streetcar people to discriminate against any partic- ular street, but without information to convince us to_the contrary I am of the opinion that Kearny, being a considerable retail street, ought to get more of the ben- efits of the transfer system. “The street railway people, acceding to our request for information, stated that they also had a grievance which they thought the Merchants’ Association should aid in remedying. The grievance re- ferred to was the traffic in transfers. Iam disposed to aid the company in preventing that infringement on their rights if there is any way to accomplish it. It is unfair, as they say, for Efissengers to engage in this traffic with the newsboys. *No, I have not given the matter any particular study, personally, nor has the association, but the injustice is recognized and it will be taken up with other matters when we come to consider such things as may arise in the study of the information we shall get from the map and its accom- panying statistics. There may be several things that we maIy think our province to investigate, but I cannot say now what they are.” ————— Injured by a Fall. Charles Warner of 506 Folsom street met with an accident yesterday that may result fatally. While working on the deck of the ship Burnal, Warper fell into the hold, a distance of twenty feet. He fractured several of his ribs and cut his face and head badly. The sur- geons at the Receiving Hospital state that he also sustained internal injuries of a serious nature. e Employed Harry Knox. At aregular meeting of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union No. 23 of America last night there were thirty-two new members initiated THE QUEEN IS PARDONED, An Officer of the Rio Janeiro Says Liliuokalani'ls Free. CLEMENCY SHOWN AT LAST. Decrees of Banishment Agalnst Nine Royalist Exiles Were Also Revoked. An officer of the Pacific Mail steamship Rio de Janeiro, which ‘arrived from the Orient by way of Honolulu, states that two days before the steamer sailed, which would be on the 8th inst., the ex-Queen had been pardoned and released from con- finement in her residence. There was much rejoicing among the native popula- tien, which still regards her as the true sovereign. 2 The following nine royalists were also pardoned with the Queen: Harry von Werthern, Arthur McDowell, Arthur White, Fred Harrison, Peter M. Rooney, Fred H. Redward, Fred W. Wunderberg, Michael C. Bailey, A. Carrianne. Bailey is in Australia, Redward is in Seattle and the rest are in this State. Major William M. Seward, who was pri- vate secretary to Hon.John Cummings, once Minister of Foreign Affairs, was offered a pardon, but he refused it. SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. Poison Ends the KExistence of Miss Bertha Haake, a Milliner. Miss Bertha Haake, a young milliner aged 22 years, committed suicide at her mother’s home, 11 Chattanooga street, yesterdpy morning. She had been de- spondent for some time past, and took Rough on Rats. Dr. J. B. McLey was called in, and did everything possible for the suicide, When all hope was past she told him she had taken poison becanse she had no further desire to live. Dr. E. W. Thomas was then called, and the two physicians endeavored hard to save her life. Deputy Coroner Hallett made a thor- ough search of the house, but could find no trace of the poison, nor was there any letter or writing which might give a clew to her reason for self-destruction. Her mother, Mrs. Christina F. Haake, denies positively that her daughter had any love affair. e —— Tried to Commit Suicide. Early yesterday morning Miss Josephine Gorman, who lives with her sister at 415§ Natoma street, was sent to the Receiving Hospital to be treated for carbolic acid poison- ing. Her sister stated that about 5 o’clock she was awakened by Josephine’s groans and it was not long before the sufferer told what was the matter. She had swallowed about half a teaspoonful of the poison. She was relieved by Dr. Fitzgibbons. who, with the woman’s friends, say she was out of her mind. She will be examined before the Insanity Commissioners. HEALTH LAWS. and resolutions were passed extending thanks to Mayor Sutro for giving employment to Harry Knox, whom the Southern Pacific Railroad Cwmmy have blacklisted for the last eighteen Toni B DAILY. Don’t eat so rapidly. e * Sit on a chair and be quiet after eating. 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