The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1895. 9 of absence from the commanding officer. He received twenty days for breaking rules, | but when his time will be = he will eon- | sider the challenge of hig Mill Francisco Athletic Club, Miller has never engaged in a fistic contest with & profes- sional, but. good judges who have seen | Miller tried out state that heis avery | a bustle of preparation on the part of the members of the Canvasback, Mallard, Teal, Foresters and Triple Alliance duck er of the San | clubs for the approaching shooting season. Hunting lodges are being strongly over- hauled, blinds are being erected, cooks have been engaged and supplies pur- chased. Stewart Upson, who is organizing powerful puncher and is by far more scien- i a new duck club, has iately returned from tific than Sharkey. If Miller is game mi should give a first-class account of himsel in a bout with the man-o’-warsman. ool CRICKET CHIRPS. Anglo-American Respective Cricket | Strength Reviewed. Looking analytically at the pla English and American cricket te: | the vicinity of Galt, where he has engaged 250 acres of buckwheat fields, which will | be placed in the charge of a responsible | man, who will receive instruction to allow no one to shoot over it save members of the mew club. It is expected that they will get the cream of the maliard shooting of the season as buckwheat is the favorite food of the mallard and there are already | thousands of the birds in that vicinity. All the surrounding lakes and ponds have been retained by the various clubs, fact seems indisputable that the latter has made a better showing in the field than their opponents. Also their batting strength seems to nore evenly dis- wributed than that o In regard to bowlers better supplied n no one equal to K 5 for 47. Gener two countries— present visitors nearly e be ne English team is ily, but they have with an average of the standard of the dging from that of the be said to be more a any time heretofore. mong the subscribers to the Probably : Grace testimonial the most unique is that o e ( arch Club of New Zea- S cor f members averaging 63 h a president who is over ied more than forty years ch plaved in Moroceo south {‘zare last month at Casa- ocal team and H. M. 8. earless. The sailors were scoring is reported from India. ntest between the Vozagapa- i districts the fi named their first inning, win- ing—300-ddd. most reached the end in the sh cricket news this s most interesting one in many years. The competition for the county champion- ship ended with the Surrey-Hampshire match, and the positions of the various counties are as follo Matches Drawn. 5 4 5 - [ 6 4 bi 1 Sussex S 4 Leicestershire 3 Notts. ..... 5 4 medas Bohemians at Alamed Pacifics vs. Caliiornians at Golden —_—— YACHTING. Four-Mile Race Between the Small Boats of the Yachts. In yachting circles there is considerable interest taken in the sailing race which will i{ake place to-morow between the small boats of the yachts Lurline, Jessie, Kamona, Azeline, Virgima, Ripple and Rover. The contest will be decided some- where in the vicinity of Sausalito overa | four-mile course which has been mutually agreed upon by the boatkeepers of the re- spective vachts who will handle the small The sailors have each deposited $20 and the total sum, $140,will be handed over to the winner, who, by the way, will give his competitors a Friar Tuck dinner at some prominent restaurant in this City 10-morrow evening. The Pacific Yacht Club will wind up its season’s festivities this evening at Sausa- lito, and a tug will leave Mission-street wharf at 7:30 with the members and the invited guests. The San Francisco Yacht Club will wind up its season by a grand hop and dinner, which will take place this evening at the club’s handsome quarters in Sausalito, A special tug will leave the clubhouse at 11 for this City with the members and ts. As the 5 g, a mest pleasant time can be antici- ated by the devotees of yacbting and Terpsichore. g S E SEA FISHING. Good Rockcod and Sea Trout Fish- ing Near California City. Bay fishing continues to be good near Sausalito, and large catches of rockcod, sea trout and other varieties of fish are daily reported from the leading fishing banks extending from California City to Point Diablo. On Monday last George Thomsen, the well-known angler, with two companions caught about 120 pounds of red and blue rockcod at Lime Point and the Sugarloaf Rock, the largest weighing 5} pounds and seven of them weighing over 3 pounds each. Op Tuesday Fred Barnard and friend caught eighty-six pounds of red rockcod, the largest weighing 414 pounds. On the same day Gus Johnson, a noted angler, with two friends, caught a number of very large rockcod at Lime Pointand Point” Cavallo, some of them weighing from 4 to 5 pounds each. Bea trout are getting more plentiful. Some very large ones have recently been caught in the vicinity of Point Cavallo and Yellow Bluff. Some very large smelt have been caught recently at Target Rock ard near Belve- dere. —e BASS-FISHING. Anglers Who Have Had Great Sport Near Guerneville. As angling for trout in coast streams is almost done for owing to a scarcity of water, and the closing of the Spring Val- ley lakes also taken into consideration, the lovers of fishing are now turning their at- tention to the excellent black-bass fishing that is being enjoyed in Russian River. The best catches are made near Guerne- ville, on the line of the San Francisco and North Pacific Coast Railroad. The bass near Duncan’s Mills are not of good flavor because of the many redwood logs that are lodged in the river near the mills. The fish hide under the logs, and their flesh is consequently of a woody flavor. Further up the river in the vicinity of Guerneville the bass that have been caught were of ex- cellent flavor, hence the run of anglers to Guerneville. e Coursing In the Parks. The result of the “drawing” of, dogs that will run on Sunday at Ocean View is: P. Riley’s Wee Nell vs. W eely’ chmond Bay, P, Biley's Yimmy Bev 1o O sion’ Boy, C. Hoar's Tandy J. Boyle Georgle Dixon, T. 8. Cronin's Ja e v 3. MoLaughtin's Richmond Lase ). pemrey.v8 lerton vs. W. Daiton’s Ilene, J. H. Perigo’s Wee Lassie ve. J. O’Connell’s Hollingswood, P. Riley’s Harkaway vs. J. Grace's Roll Along, T. Brennan’s White Chief vs. J. McCormick's Rapid. The following is the drawing for to-mor- row’s coursing at Kerrigan's Park: G. 0'Brien’s Little Bob vs. J. King's Sweet Alice, Lagomarsino’s Blackthorn T Allen's Salvator, P. McKane's Flambo vs, M, O’Hara’s Midget, J. O’Shes A L. Fiynn’s Empire, Villa kennel’s M S. Riordan’s Chicopee, F. Brown's Ki vs.J. O'Shea’s Dan, Reidy's Vietory, W. C V. Leonard’s Moonlight, Villa kenmnel’s Tem; vs. P. Reidy's Buffalo,J.Quane’s Cl}l(lhl Moj vs. J. Tierney's Gentle Mary, Villa_keunel's Electrie vs, J. Kerrigan’s Dashaway, F. C. Ran- dolph’s Yreka vs. W. Kelter's Freestone, W. Murphy’s Stamboul Qneen vs. T. Lagoma no’s See Weed,F. Brown’s K{lmon vs. J.0’Sh Fearless, Villa kennel's Examiner vs, C. An derson’s Ni ger, Villa kennel’s Twilight vs. Villa entiels Bonnié Lass. The prifes. are 20, $10, $5 and $5. e e SACRAMENTO SPORTING. What the Duck-Shooters, Boxers, Wheelmen, Etc., Are Dolng. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Oct. 4.—There is R e old country men. | eason, | jand are being baited with wild rice and | buckwheat, and the indications are that | this season will be one of the most | successful. Nicholaus, Gerke and Upson, who have been chosen to represent the Sacramento | Bluerock Club at the State Inanimate target meet at the bay, have been smash- | ing the disks, and hope to make a good | showing among the State shots. The big feast of the Pelican Club will come off | next week. | . Messrs. Newbert, Graham and Barrett | have returned from their outing in the | Sierras. They report deer as scarce, | mountain quail plentiful, and that fishing i is almost exhausted. | _Russell Flint, William Leman and Clarence Waterhouse, three crack stream- whippers, left for the McCloud River this | morning, where tbey will spend a couple | of weeks with the trout. They have re- ceived advices from that quarter that the | fish are taking the fly eagerly. | The Capital City and Sacramento Ath- | letic Club Wheelmen will muke a joint { run to Woodland and return next Sunday. | _Great interest is being displayed in-ten- nis circles, and the coarts are occupied at | all times. Durst of Wheatland is a fre- quent visitor, and is rapidly becoming a crack. The grand fall tournament of the Sacra- mento Bluerock Club will take place on | October 13 at the Kimball and Upson | shooting ground in this city. The boxing contest at the Sacramento | Athletic Club, which occurs on October 8, is creating lively interest in club circles, and much speculation is being indulged in as to the ouicome, the entries for which appeared in Friday’s CaLL. RUTHERFORD. HOSPITAL FUND FINANCES Councilman Bassett Gives Some Interesting Facts Re- garding Them. A Statement That They Helped to Construct the Market-Street Cable Railway. From the statements of those best in- | formed of the methods and affairs of the Southern Pacific Company, the ex-em- ployes of that corporation will find ita | difficult matter to lay hands on any of the money of the railroad hospital fund or the | profits that have accrued to the financial manipulators who haye made use of this fund. | Of the several men who were interviewed | on the subject—and all these men had held responsible positions with the company | and were in a position to know what was transpiring—not one but confirmed the allegations of the American Railway Union men who propose to begin suit for an accounting of this fund. They said it was a matter of common knowledge among the men in the railroad building at the corner of Fourth and Townsend streets that the hospital fund was a sort of emer- | gency fund in the eyes of the Southern Pacific financiers, and was used not only to project the cable railway lines in this City, but for construction and betterment work and even to pay interest on money borrowed by the Southern Pacific Com- | pany to carry on its various enterprises. J. M. Bassett, now 2 member of the Oak- land City Council, was employed in the private office of Leland Stanford for four- teen years and was in consequence so situ- ated as to learn many of the inner methods and occurrences. He expressed himself as greatly surprised at the pro- | posed action of the American Railway | Union, as it haa never before occurred to | him to look upon the hosvital fund as a | trust fund, such as it wasdescribed to be in | the opinion given the American Railway | Union legal committee by their attorney, | George W. Monteith. In'the course of the interview he said: *When this assessment of 50 cents a | month was first imposed on every railroad | employe the Eurpose was a good one, but | the amount this raised soon far exceeded the needs. But the deduction from each man’s pay went on without interruption, until at one time there must have been | $2,000,000 in the treasury of the hosptal | fund.” But it was not allowed to lie idle | long. The railroad company which im- | posed, collected and disbursed this tax | was responsible to no one, though the tax was imposed and collected to be used for the benefit only of those who contributed to it. | “Iam afraid that these men who pro- pose bringing the suit for an accounting will have their trouble for nothing. For many years there was never allowed to be a dollar remaining in the treasury of the hospital fund, though I have little doubt that the books will be made to show that the money not actually paid out for the purposes for which the fund was created remained untouched. “I know from having heard the matter spoken of in my presence by the prime schemers that the money of this fund was utilized to project the cable roads in San Francisco, for construction work on the various railroad lines of the company, and I also heard rumors about the railroad building that this fund was used to pay interest on loans secured by the company. *In regard to the building of the cable roads, there are facts that are of the | greatest importance, not onlg to the men who claim an interest in the hospital fund | but to every resident who uses a cable-car in San Francisco. “When they got the franchise to operate the Market-street Cable Railway they took the money to use in its construction from this fund, and when it was built from the ioot of Market street to the Palace Hotel they issued $3,000,000 worth of stock, and al<0 $3,000,000 worth_of bonds, thus capit- alizing the road virtually for $6,000,000. They sold $2,000,000 worth ‘of the bonds to Janies Flood for 90 cents on the dollar, or $1,800,000. ““The other $1,000,000 worth of bonds they put in their pockets, and with the roceeds of the ‘sale to Flood they ex- endea the road to Valencia street. They claimed at the time that they returned the money taken from the hospital fund, but that remains to be seen. : “The former employes will never be able to get any satisfaction out of this suit. They may dig, but they will never strike pay dirt.” Even if they succeed in forcing a submission and inspection of the books it will not avail them, I am afraid, for the expert accountants of the Southern Pa- cific keep them in such a way that they are sim Fv unintelligible to any one but themselves. ! “It is also a question whether an ex- employe has any legal standing in this matter, and it would certainiy be more ad- visable to have some one in the employ of the company at present bring the suit.” Another gentleman, who had also iu years past been prominent in the affairs and councils of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, states that the suit for an accounting Wou{& stand a better chance of success if brought by one or more actual employes of the company. He acknowledged that there was much to account for on the part of the company. He added that there were always men who were on the anxious- seat, and who knew they were doomed to decapitation, and these, he suggested, ought to be induced to bring the suit. THE BAY DISTRICT RACES, Libertine Ran Big Circles Around His Field in the Handicap. BILLY MCLOSKEY IN FRONT. Agltato Let the Crowd Down Hard in the Last Race, Running Un- placed. e The popular young horseman Johnny Weber arrived at the track from Los Angeles yester- day with his good selling plater, Little Cripple. His brother Charley is in the southern country gathering in purses at the fairs with his geld- ing Hello. Macklin, who rides for the stable of J. G. Brown & Co., seems to be the possessor of an unlimited supply of nerve. After nearly going over the fence with Treachery, through trying 10 get through on the inside, he got his mount straightened out and by some clever navigat- ing again squeezed through next the rail thirty yerds from the wireand took the place from Tsabella. Jasper Madison, who rode Gold Bug in the third race, must have fallen asieep at the Dpost and in his dreams again imagined himself astride the back of the mighty Morrello. He took his horse so far out of the race at the out- set that the chunky chestnut must have thought something had hold of his tail and was yanking him backward. His run through the stretch was a nicely drawn exhibition of “eat 'em up, Cookie.” Theodore Winters will dispose of his Rancho del Sierra yearlings and of his entire string of horses now in training at the Bay District track Wednesday, November 6, at Killip & Co.’s salesyard, Van Ness avenue and Markel street. Among the youngsters are some brothers and sisters to many notable turf performers. The star of the lot is probably Don Vallejo, a full brother to Don Jose and Ed Corrigan, and there will undoubtediy be some brisk bidding for the full sister to Dolly McCone. The get of the unbeaten El Rio Rey are also well represented in the catalogue. Of the horses in training Malo Diablo, who recently downed Captain Reese in fast time, will command the greatest share of attention. The crack Western sprinter, Libertine, made Lis debut before the San Francieco race-going public in a six-furlong handicap yesterday, and the manner in which he carved his way through the fog and spread- eagled his field left a lasting and favorable impression on their minds. In with top- weight, 124 pounds, he was opposed by Mainstay, Thelma, Duchess of Towers and Rico. The bookies took liberties with the Westerner, laying 4 to 5 and even money against him, relying upon the brown mare Thelma to give him a rub. She couldn’t do it, for the son of Falsetto was good enough to run over the top of the moon yesterday. Getting awsy from the post third, next the rail, Macklin saw that Mainstay and Duchess of Towers, who were away in front, would have him pocketed if he were not careful. Squeezing his horse through the narrow space he took the lead the first furlong and led them a merry chase thereafter, passing the winning post eased up, two lengths before Thelma, in the announced time of 1:1314, although some outside watches made it faster. Had he been extended, he certainly could bave | come dangerously near lowering the Cali- fornia record of 1:13. The talent took their usual ride overa road that was full of bumps and jolts. Eleven bookmakers had their shingles up in the betting ring, and as two scantily backed outsiders, two favorites and a sec- ond choice gathered in purses, it is prob- lematical that they had shghtly the best of the day’s racing. The opening race for maiden two-year- olds, five furlongs, gave Billy McCloskey, who had disappointed his stable folks on a couple of previous essays, an opportu- nity to distinguish. himself. Isabelle and Rejected led in the race until well into the stretch, where Macklin, on the 3 to 5 favor- ite, Treachery, tried to come through next the rai!, and came very near being crowded over the fence. Meantime Chevalier, who had been sawing wood on Billy McClos- key, made his run and passed the judges a handy winner. Macklin manageé to get the favorite in her stride again, and ina drive beat Isabelle out for the place. The next event, a six-furlong run, was captured by the 11 to 10 choice, Portugal, well handled by Willie Flynn, who won handily by & length from Vernuon, the sec- ond choice, in 1:143,. Addie M, a12to1l chance, was the show horse. The third race was a big upset. Rose Clark was plunged on, her odds being gradually cut from 11to5t0o9 to 5. Con- siderable wise money also went in on Three Forks, who_ was backed from 12 to 7to1. Gold Bug, Ike L and Hanford were also slightly backed. Away second when the flag fell, Miss Brummel shook Three Forks off the first furlong and was never headed, winning by two lengths. Three Forks lasted long enough to beat Gold Bug out half a length for second place. The winner’s post price was 8 to 1. The wind-up of the day'sracing was another hard knock for the talent. They backed Agitato heavily at 7 to 10, but he could never head Remus, the second choice, who led all the way and finally won in a drive from Charmer by a head in 1:413, The favorite failed to even show, Arno finishing in that position. SUMMARIES. Friday, October Twelfth day, fine: track fast. 56 FIRST RACE—Five {furlongs: maldens; + two-year-olds; purse $250. Time, 1:0284. Ind. Horse, weight, iockl?'. St. 15 Str. Fin. 107 (Che 4.~Weather achers 1351 Isabelle, 107 (Shaw) 26 Decision, 104 (Donneliy). 3 26 Von Dunk.101 (Anderson).8 26 Valiente, 109 (Hennessey).8 1340 Lady Gray, 104 (Burns)....4 26 Rejected, 104 (W. Flynn)..2 Good start. Won driving. Joe Hooker-Jessie R. Betting: Billy McCloskey 9 to 1, Treachery 8 to 5, Isabelle 10, Rejected 10, Decision 16, Valiente 15, Von bunk 100, Lady Gray 30. '7 SECOND RACE — Six furlongs: selling; O | . three-year-olds snd upward; purse $250. Time, 1:1485. Ind. Horse, welght. jockey. (21) Portugal, 107 (W. Flynn). 27 Vernon, 99 (Chevalier) Winner, ch. c., by S‘t. 2’/’ “l’:’ IFI"L 3 B;/' Y Zl% 41 Addie M, 99 (Riley) 8 1h 4n 32 41 Tamalpais, 104(And 8 84 3n 4 (13586) Sinbad, 107 (Donahue 4 3h 1 5:2 8 1351 Red Idle, 102 (Hinrlchs).. 1 42 6146} 1267 Leonatus. 107 (Peoples).. 1010 10 7[& 17 Snowblossom,102(C.Taral) 7 7?5 8 8 39 Fin Slanghter,104 (Burns) 9 9 9 919 1317 Caderu, 99 (Burlingame). 5 514 615 10 Good start. Won driving. Winner, b. g., by Troubador-Sunbeam. Betting: Portugal 111610, Vernon 18 to 5, Addle M 19, Red Idle 20, Tamalpals 20, Cadeau 25, Fin Sinughter 30, Sinbad 8, Leonauts 50, Snowblossom 100. £, THIRD RACE—Abont six turlangs: mell- . ing; light welter-welghts; purse $300. Time, 1:138, Ind. Horse, weight, jockey. St 34 Str. Fin, 42 Imp. Miss Brommel, 98 (Sloan) . 2% 12 13 52 Three For) a1 2 48 Gold Bug, 126 (Madison)...7 78 71 31 (28)Hanford, 116 (Chevaller) 8 53 3h 4 46 Crawford, 120 (Macklin)...8 3714 ah bh (8)Rose Clark, 123 (Hinrichs)§ 4 63 62 15 Elste, 92 (Donnelly) 9 82 8 78 28 1ke L, 118 (L. Lloyd 89 9 80 42 Phyllis, 98 (Peoples 6 61 9 Good start. Won easily. Winner, ch. ., by Beau Brummel imp. Mirage. Betting: Imp. Miss Brummel 8, Three Forks 7, Gold Bug 8, Hanford 9. Rose Clark 9 to 5, Ike L 12, Crawtord B, Phyllis 50, Elsie 30. 59 FOURTH RACE—SIx furlongs, handicap; = ls‘/;hrehyelroldl and up; purse $350. Time, Ind. Horse, welght, jockey. Bt. Str. Fin, 1875 Libertine, 124 (Macklin)....4 13 13 1142 Thelma, 108 (Chevailer). 43 3¢ 23 #8 Rico, 102 (McIotyre). 5 b 88 49 Duchess of Towers, (Donahue). . 2 42 49 Mainstay, 109 (Hinrichs). . 5 Good start. Won A lnpe: . b, Lo P enslly. Winner, b. b, by Betting:_ Libertine 4 to 5, Theima 5, Rico 20, Mains ay 534, Duchess of Towers 514, 60, FIETH RACEOne mile; selling; three- . year-olds and up; purse $300. Time, 1:413%. Ind. Horse, weight, jockey, St Str. Fin. 38 Remus, 108 (Sloan).........2 115 12 12 40 Charmer, 100 (Chevalier).s 3/ 31 214 34 Arno, 80 (Donnelly).......[5 4134 43 31 (@3)agiato 101 (W. Fiynn) 21705 U8 43 39 Mary S, 98 (Riley). 5 5 won driving, Winner, br. h., by imp. Brutus-Leds. Betting: Remus 8%. Charmer 10, Arno 25, Agitato 16 to 20, Mary 5 7. Following are to-day’s en tries: First race, five-elghths of a mile, selling— FiFi 98, Triumph 97, Coleman 92, Reene P 100, Umma 101, Red Rose 104, Dick’ 0'Malley 104, Dr. Gardner 92. Second race, eleven-sixteenths of a mile, sell- ing—Tim Murphy 111, Brown Dick 112, Card- well 92, Virgie A 83, Model 101. Third race, about three-quarters of a mile, handicap—Loug Lady 116, Grady 113, Benham 95, Fireman 00. Fourth race, oue and an eighth miles, handi- cap—Del Norte 108, Claudius 108, Fanny Louise 97. Fifth race, one and A half miles, hurdle handicap—Bellringer 145, Wyandotte 140, Guadaloupe 134, Arctic 132, Haymarket 130, Gold Dust 129, Autenil 128, Esperance 128, Dick O'Malley 122. 2 i, SIS 600D-BY, TROLLEY ROADS, New York Will Soon Adopt the Underground Electric System. CABLE LINES MUST ALSO GO. The New Traveling Contact Device WIIl Revolutionize City Trans-~ portation. The unsightly overhead wires have got to go, says the New York Herald. Within five years every mile of the 133 miles of street railway track owned and controlled by the Metropolitan Traction Company, and as many more miles as it shall have The New Underground Trolley for New York’s Surface Lines. acquired in the meanwhile; will be operated. by electricity conveyed through an under- ground conduit. Nor will this improvement in surface transit be confined to the lines of the Metropolitan Traction Company. What is economical and practicable for one cor- poration will be readily adopted by its rivals, and the total surface mileage of the city, which is 305 miles, and which will in five years reach 400 miles, will be operated by electricity, but how much more cheaply than now it is difficult to state. John D. Crimmins, who does all the con- struction for the Metropolitan Company, says that after less than three months’ operation of an underground conduit branch of the system, from One Hundred and Eighth street and Columbusavenue to One Hundred and Forty-sixth street and Lenox avenue, the company’s engineers have determined that the saving in operat- ing expenses is 4 cents per car-mile as com- pared with cable traction and 8 cents per car-mile as compared with horse service. The aggregate car-mile seryice of the Metrovolitan system is 18,000,000 miles, and the general adoption of the under- ground trolley means a saving of $2,000,- 000 annually. ~ It takes 40,000,000 people at b cents each to put $2,000,000 into a street- car comipany’s coffers. The construction of the underground contact system, upon a plan of which the Siemens-Holske system, for several years in successful orerntion at Budapest, is the base, but which has been adopted and im- proved by the engineers of the General Electric Company, is simplicity itself. The cars in motion appear to move as if drawn by a cable. They are, however, immeas- urably smoother in action, and start and stop without any jar. They can be stopped when at high speed within a very short space. The plow suspended from the crossbar of the car-truck passes through the slot in the conduit originally laid for a cable, and presses against the flat surface of two iron conductors running the entire length of the conduit. 2 The conduit is built along the grade of the street, but with sufficient pitch to pre- vent any water flowing into the conduit to find its way into the manholes, which are located at every thirty feet, and thence into the sewers. Each conductor forms one side of the working circuit, and the cu{rent is then insulated through the cir- cuit. : The plow or traveling contact arrange- ment is quite novel. The contact pieces are of cast iron, and are supported on spring levers, which cause them to press outwardly against the two conductorsata tension of not over six pounds. The con- ductors, which are of sheet copser, taped, are brought up to the car and are pro- tected on each side as they pass through the slot by sheet metal. anganese steel is also used, and its adontion will become eneral. A heavy sheet of fiber is Jocated etween the contact shoes to prevent arcing The Broadway cable road will be the last section of the system to be converted. By that time, January 1,1900, the company will have erected a mammoth power-house on the banks of the Harlem River, from which all the lines will be operated. ———— IMPROVEMENT IN DENTAL FURNACES.—A new preparatory muflie has been designed for the use of dentists, where continuous gum porcelain inlays, block, crown and bridge work bave to be baked. The muffle is placed in the elbow of the furnace-pipe and so arr-nfed as to utilize the escaping heat of the furnace as it passes upward. The muffle holds five cases and when the lower muffle has attained the necessa baking heat it may be removed and place in the asbestos-lined annealing oven. This prevents the body and enamel of the denufl work being drawn and as the muffles are constantly closed, with the exception of the brief time required to insert a case (say ten mcondl). the over- heafing of the laboratory is entirely avoided. The largest barometer is one made for recording observations in New York City. 1ts tube is thirty-one feet long. . WISHED TIME FOR MEAL Waliters at the New Creamerie Strike at Lunch Hour. HAD NUMEROUS GRIEVANCES. The Proprietor Says They Wanted Porterhouse Steak and Chicken. There was trouble at the New Creamerie restaurant at 725 Market street yesterday at noon. The orchestra, in its elevated verch, had just commenced a selection, when it was observed that the waiters had vanisbed. Impatient customers com- menced to rap vigorously on the sides of their plates, and the strains of the musicians were almost drowned in the murnuis of discontent. The head waiter rushed to the kitchen to see what was the matter. He returned with a look of dismay on his countenance, for the entire force of twenty-seven waiters had struck. It was just five minutes after 12, the very busiest time of the day, and there was but one thing to do. The stste of affairs was an- nounced to the unserved guests, who filed out disconsolately. J. W. Young, one of the proprietors, placed a sign on the door, ‘‘Closed. Will reopen at 5 o'clock,” and the waiters real- ized a teniporary triumph. ““This trouble has been coming on for a long time,” said one of the waiters, while a knot of half a dozen more stood by to rrompt him if he made a mistatement or ailed to draw it strong enough. “The waiters had trouble with this man Young about two years ago, when he was running another restaurant. He then said we should bave dessert only once a day. We struck and won the day. Again about two months ago we made & demand for higher wages. He agreed to give us what we asked, $11a month and board, but he has heen sore about it ever since. Asa result of this feeling the pro- prietors have been playing us little tricks for some time. First, he pasted up a notice that we could have roast beef only twice a week. Then they cut usdown to roast beef once a week, and now they won’t let us have it at all.” ‘*And green corn," suggested one of the other strikers. ‘‘Yes, and green corn,’” continued the speaker. “They refused to let us have that, although it costs only $1 25 a sack. Dessert they would let us have only once a day, at least such was the rule, though many of us ordered it whenever we felt like ‘it. This. I undestand; is the reason two or three men have been let out lately, although no cause was given for it. “Not satisfied with cutting off all thes things from our bill of fare, a notice was posted in the kitchen a few days ago to the effect that when ordering for oursclves we must acquaint the cook with these facts. ‘When we did that, instead of getting what we wanted we got whatever the cook pleased to give us, If we ordered roast beef we got spring lamb; if we ordered veal cutlet we got beef a la mode. **All these things were merely incidental. The main cause of our goipg out was a sign placed in the kitcnen three or four days aro declaring that we must eat break- fast before the time designated for going to work. This time varies—6 o’clock with some and 7 o'clock with others. As we have to wark long hours we considered this an injustice, and it_is contrary to the usage in restaurants. There were no ring- leaders in our movement. It was just like pouring water on yeast. We all com- menced to rise up against the injustice at once, and by common consent we all quit at 12:05 to-day.” After discussing the situation for some time, a few of the more radical determined to form a union. T W. Youn% in the matter h feels that all tke injustice as been perpetrated by his ex-employes. *‘Thatshows just what kind of people” waiters are,’”” he said. ‘I have been out of town for a day or two and my partner., 0. T. Wiseman, is at present away. The waiters have made no demands on me. They did not notify me they had any grievance or that they had any inten- tion of quitting. I came in to-day shortly after 12 o'clock and found the place de- serted. ‘Where are the waiters?’ I asked the head waiter. ‘I do not know,” he an- swered ; ‘they went downstairs and left.’ “] have been paying the best wagesin town. We do a large business here, and so, of course, work our men rather hard. For this reason we try to favor them as much as possible. Of course we have strict rules. That is necessary for the suc- cess of the restaurant business, but we de- mand only what is reasonable to expect. “I understand the cause of the present trouble 1s the rule demanding them to eat breakfast before working hours. Thisis only fair and what is required in every other business. When they all ate after 7 o'clock they left the dining-room in con- fusion. It is true, of course, that we limit their bill of fare. We cannot afford to have employes eating porterhouse steaks, broiled chicken and such viands. We do not, however, forbid them eating desserts as often as they wish. The food which they are furnished is precisely the same as is given the guests, and it is all whole- some. “If I bad desired to put in girls I could have had all the vacancies filled two hours after the men went out. Idid not care to do this, but by 5 o’clock I will have a full working force of men. The loss of the lunch will amount to about $125. We will ay the men all that is coming to them, ut naturally Idid not care to do it to- g fiir. Young’s propbecy proved correct. Before the aflernoon was half over he had engaged nearly as many men as had lett him, and at 5 o’clock he ogened up with a complete but rather awkward working complement of waiters. He says he engaged them on the same conditions as those under which the strik- ers were working. WAITERS BEFORE THE OOUNOCIL. The Oreamery Walk-Out to Be Considered by the Labor Union, Two delegates of the Waiters’ Union notified the Council of Labor at its regular meeting, at 1159 Mission street, last night of the waiters’ walk-out at the Creamery yesterday noon. The visitors did not enter the hall, but made known their desires to the financial secretary, who received them in the entry. * The object of the visit was to present their grievance to the council at some ap- pointed time. They were told to attend a special meeun‘% to-night at 8 o’clock in Labor Hall, 1159 Mission street, when the strike would be considered and measures taken accordingly. A StrAW-BarniNG Press,—An improved press has been constructed for baling straw as it comesdirect from threshing-machines. The frame of tbe press is longer and heavier than usual, the plunger has longer travel and the feed opening is much larger and so constructed as to increase the ease and rapidity of feeding. The bale- tying chamber is also six inches longer than'in the regullr press. The machine is made with either one or two fly-wheels, as desired. The machine can be run at a high rate of speed with safety. The gear- ing is covered with guards to prevent the falling of straw and to form a protection against accidents. When very rapid work is required an extra feeder can be placed on a supplementary platform. The driving pulley makes from 500 to 600 revolutions per minute. 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At 85 Cents. 80 dozen LADIES’ LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in white and colored bosoms, regular price 75¢, will be offered at 25¢ each. At 5O Cents. 70 dozen LADIES’ LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in fancy stripes and checks of blue, pink and plaids, regular price $1, wil! be offered at.50c each. At 75 Cents. 65 dozen LADIES’ LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in lawn and percale, extra full sleeves, regular price $1 25, will be offered at 75c each. At BO Cents. 110 dozen LADIES’ LAUNDERED SHIRT WATSTS, in cheviots, percale and lined lawn, extra full sleeves, regular price $1 25 and $1 50, will be offered at 90c each, ¢ OF ALUMINUM ErecrroLysis—One of the first uses to which the current generated at the large Niagara Falls electric plant has been put is the manufacture of aluminum from bauxite by electrolysis. What the value of such a source of electric current may be to factories in the neighborhood of Niagara, to say nothing of those ata dis- tance, is suggested by the fact that al- though the present aluminum works are constructed to produce 5000 pounds of pure aluminum a day, the complete suc- cess of the electrolytic process has con- vinced the management that the doabling of the resources of the factory by its means is a comparatively simple maiter. More pots are to be put in as rapidly as possible, until 10,000 pounds of the pure metal, worth in small quantities 50 cents a pound, is being turned out daily. The process is described as follows: Pots containing oxide of aluminum, or alumina, which is to be changed into pure aluminum, are arranged in long rows in a large reduction- room. Each pot is lined with carbon, the lining forming the negative electrode in the process of reduction. The positive pole consists of a row of copper rods, terminating in a huge carbon anode, which extend into the pot. The oxide, in a pulverized state, looking very much like flour, is placed in the pot, the carbon anodes extending through the mass and_the current, carried by great copper rods through the entire length of the rows of pots, is turned on. The elec- tricity is allowed to do its work for twenty- four hours, after which the pure aluminum is drawn out and cast into ingots. By the new process the aluminum, which is sepa- rater{) from the ore by the action of the electricity, and the fluxes used to facilitate melting “accumulate about the negative electrode, which in this case is the carbon- lined bottom of the pot. The ingenuity of this arrangement is evident. The tre- mendous current heats the carbon of both fhe lining and the anodes to the point of whiteness, and the melting of the ore by this heat is an important factor in the manufacture of the metal. As it is ladled from the pots it looks like ordinary lead heated to a red heat, but when poured into the molds it glistens with almost snow-like whiteness and the roughly cast ingots thus produced have the luster of polished silver. SENpING Mars By TELEGRAPH—It has long been seen that the long-distance tele- phone service was becoming a formidable competitor with the telegraph for some of the most profitable business. It is now stated authoritatively that the telephone is used at least ten times as often as the telegraph, and while the latter service does not increase appreciably the telephone habit is gaining ground in a most remark- able manner. The telephone average in the United States is already ten messages per vear per head of the entire population, as agamst an annual average of about one telegram per nead. The disparity in the use of the two services is =een in the official estimate that the ordinary subscriber uses his telephone ten times a day. A further proof of the growing domination of the telephone was given last week, when the long-distance instrument was used whole- sule for convention news purposes, thus superseding the press telegraphic news systems, 5 B. Delany, a pioneer tele- graphist and inventor, says, in the face of all these facts, that far from becoming a back number, the telegraph has not yet been made to yield its full measure of nuse- fulness. Some months ago Mr. Delany ublished a proposal that the mailsshould Ee sent by telegraph instead of by train and star route. Hisideas in detail bave | tiont o now been . made public. He predicts that two good copper wires fed with mail matter on his plan will be made to carry 28,000 messages of fifty words each per aay between New York and Chicago, with a remarkable margin of profit and with an immense acceleration in the transaction of business. The present number of letters carried daily between the two cities is put at 40,000, so that Mr. De]sngv counts on securing alarge propor- that correspondence. His method of transmission is based radically on the use of a system of double dots combined with the familiar single dots in place of the dash. He maintains that a single cop~ per wire of only 300 pounds to the mile, thus machine-worked, between New York and Philadelphia, will carry 3000 words per minute, whereas by the present hand system thirty-eight wires must be worked quadruplex, or 152 circuits, at about twenty words per minute. The scheme embraces transerintion of the tape at each end b the typewriter and the delivery by mail. Itis suggested that if the system is car- ried so far it would be only a natural de- velopment of it to make a further economy of time and cost and telephone the letters to everybody who had an intrument in Lis house or office. Mr. Delany’s proposal is timely and it is certain to bring out some new and interesting points on the relative merits of telegraphy and telephony for general and special message transmission. BINGULAR PHENOMENON ON LowG-Dis- TANCE TransmissioN LinNes.—There are a great many phenomena in ordinary elec- trical work that electricians find it hard to explain; but an entirely novel class of electrical demonstrations have been ob- served in the new practice of transmitting currents over long distances at high volt- ages. On the circuits of the San Antonio Canyon transmission, Southern California, where current is sent about fifteen miles to Pomona and about thirty miles to San Bernardino, the line has been found, dur- ing hot, dry and cloudless weather, to be heavily charged by the mere wind, and the rate in which the line was electrified in this way was actually governed by the speed at which the wind was blowing. It was also noted that the substances blown against the wires at such times, dust, etc., gave up their charges to it also. When the high tension current | reaches the distributing stations at Pomo- na and San Bernardino, its 10,000 volts | are passed through a transformer, and re- duced to such & pressure as can be safely passed along the town circuits for lighting and power purposes. In affecting this change, the transformers give forth a continnous hum, which depends for its intensitv on the number of alternations of the current. This forms an excel- lent indicator for the attendant, whose attention is instantly called to any change in the running con- ditions of the plant by the resulting change of tone. This variation in the sound from the transformers not only marks changes that are takinf place and that can be detected on the voltmeter, but also gives notice of coming changes before there is any other indication of them. One afternoon a painful shock was obtained on_touching the line at the canyon end, drifting clouds. and a strong wind being noticed in the valley. Again, while the engineer was using the tele- phone he heard in it a report which was 80 sharp as to cause momentary deaf- ness. Later, after a moderate wind had been blowing for some time, loud re- ports were noticed on the telephone at long intervals. As the wind rose the reports came oftener. It was evident that there was a discharge from the lines through the telephone (which was ona metallic circuit), and that it depended on the rate the wind blew. —————— Keep Your Weather Eye Open. Fraud loves & shining mark. Occasionally spu- rious imitations spring up of Hostetter's Stomeach Bitters, the gréat American family remedy for chills and fever, dyspepsia, constipation, bilious- ness, nervousness, neuralgia, fheumatism and kid- ney disorder. ' These imitations are usually fiery local bitters full of high wines. 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