The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1895, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1895. B O st Sl e v Sl S G SR o e G S S S L o oy L L bl e e et s SN S, G THE FISH CONMISSION COMMISSIONER ~ MORRISON TELLS WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT THE DEPUTIES. | INTERESTING FIGURES. A SUBORDINATE OFFICER WHO GOT TWENTY - FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH. HOW MUCH THE CHINESE PAID. | ILLEGAL INDUSTRY GOES ON | 10uT HINDRANCE FROM i THE AUTHORITIES. The statement published in yesterday’s | CaLy that the Chinese were violating the Jaw in destroying small fish has as yet provoked no reply from the Fish Commis- | oners. i Deputy Commissioner Babcock, who is | the executive officer of the body, said the Commissioners would aiscuss the matter | with him within a day or so and that there would probably be an investigation. It | has been a long time since anybody con- | nected with the Fish Commission inter- | | game and fish from the hunter and fisher- | State. USED FOR BLACKMAIL sun looking for lawbreakers was a job so undesirable that it was hard to find honest men to take it. The result necessarily is that unpaid deputy wardens are tempted to use the State’s badge on their coat lapels as a means of blackmail, and get their pay by protecting the iilegal hunter and fisher- mon from the law instead of protecting the man. These men so well understand their work that they make no effort to conceal their identity. Instead of acting in the capacity of detectives and catching the lawbreakers unawares they cause to be an- nounced beforehand in the papers that certain fishermen in a certain locality are fishing with nets of an illegal mesh and on a certain day they intend to go down and arrest them. Some of them have their business painted on the bow of their boats, and it is not hard to believe that they make as much out of their work as they would if they drew a salary from the “These things are hard facts, hut they are notorious, and there is no use trying to conceal them,” continued Mr. Mor- rison. *“‘There are three votes in the commission, and I have but one, and there is no use of my suggesting a remedy for the evil only to be voted | down. Personally, I have not the slightest doubt but what every word of the article published in this morning’s CALL is true, inasmuch as it relates to the open and flagrant violation of section 636 of the fish | and game laws of the State; that the law is violated with impunity not only by the | Chinese fishermen, but by the Greeks and Portuguese as well, is a fact too well known and apparent to even the most superficial ers being on their guard on his arrival no arrests followed. I never sought the ap- pointment as a member of the Game and Fish Commission, I have never entered any charge against the State for traveling expenses, nor will T unless I can feel the assurance that through my efforts the game and fish are receiving adequate pro- tection. As a unit this .cannot be done, but if the commission will work as an en- tirety and for the objec: for which the members were appointed, 1t will, without doubt, shortly result in an entire suppres- sion of illegal fishing and hunting through- out the length and breadth of the State.” A CaLwu reporter yesterday visited some more of the Chinese fishing villages. Point Pedro was the community investi- gated. Point Pedro is running at full capacity. There are tons of dried little fish waiting there for shipment to China and tons of the tiny things curing in the sun. Even the forbidden sturgeon grappling hooks—a vicious-looking device formed by a lot of barbed hooks arranged to be dragged along tbe bottom of the bay were everywhere seen. Drawn against the huge fish lying on the mud these hooks either hold them or tear them so badly that they die. It is a misdemeanor to use these cruel con- trivances. Along the shores of San Francisco Bay are in constant operation from February till November fully 500 shrimp nets. These great funnel-shaped bags, 40 feet long and about 25 feet across the mouth, are dragged through the shallow water of the flats and nothing living escapes them. The meshes of the net at the large part are of an inch and a half, running down to a mesh of an eighth of an inch. The bag is emptied into the tanklike hold of the junk and the dragging goes on from day to day, netting millions of the tiny fish. Yesterday THE CALL reporters also inves- CHINESE FISHERMEN’S CAMP, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. fered with the illegal traffic around the bay—a traffic that has been so open and | undisguised that whole villages are thr ing on the gains from it. Thousands of tons of small bay fish— fish so tiny that a dozen of them would not weigh an ounce—have been cured for food | or packed down as fertilizer for shipment to China. Thousands of flounders no larger than a man’s thumbnail, striped | bass, shad and cod from an inch to two | inches in length are destroyed daily. These are all fish that grow to be of respect- | able size, and the scarcity of fish in San | Francisco Bay is ascribed by the experts to | this unlawful fiching. It is only a question of time when the supply will fail utterly if | the law is not enforced. In the old days men convicted of fishing with unlawful appliances, or destroying small fish, were fined $100 each -on convic. tion. One-third of this went 10 the arrest- ing officer. This was an incentive to county peace officers as well as Fish and | Game Commissioners to make arrests, and cases of illegal fishing were frequent in the courts. At this time Chinese and Greek | fishers were paying $15 and $16 a month | for protection on each boat. The money was collected in Chinatown just as the old | police blackmail used to be, and reached the dishonest guardians of the fish and game | interests of California through a white man’s hands. One deputy fish commissioner used to boast that his illicit “draw down” during the fishing season amounted to $2500 a month. County peace officers, for the sake of the reward, occassionally interfered with the vleasant arrangement by arresting China- men who had paid the blackmail. Since that time the law has been changed, so that there is no longerany reward for the ar- resting officer, and the deputy fish commis- sioner is the only representative of thelaw that the Chinese need fear. The China- men sabout the bay have been pursuing their unlawful avocation without inter- ruption for years. They feel so secure that they make not the slightest pretense of obeying the law, and if representatives of the Fish Commission cannot catch them in the very act of using prohibited ap- paratus and destroying young fish, they are the only citizens of this State who labor under the inability. There is one Fish Commssioner who admits the incompetence or worse of the commission. Fish Commissioner Morri- son was interviewed at Sacramento yester- dsy and said that the next Legislature will abolish the State Fish and Game Com- mission and that he will help them do it. In warming up to the subject he declared that the commission had been notoriously ineffectiye and he could see no reason why it should exist any longer. At the same | { time he protested that California afforded a splendid field for effec- | tive work in protecting game in field and stream, and that the proper men could and would do good work. Since the appointment of the pres- ent commission there had been a continual wrangle, and while this was going on fish were being slaughtered out of season by the thousands and pame birds and ani- mals were shot down by hunters who laughed at the Jaw. Game wardens had been appointed to serve without pay, and in many counties no wardens had been appointed at all. The commission had a fund to draw upon for the payment of its employes, yet through lack of foresight it had been thought best to let them consider their position as an honorary one, when any one who knew anything about it knew that nothing could | during a visit which I paid to Rio Vista. | ntter impossibility to prevent illegal fish- | be more undesirable than the work that a game warden was compelled to do. Lying hour after hour in the marshes or tramp- ing over miles of country in the broiling observer to admit of any chance of contra- diction. *‘It came under my personal observation ‘While there I was personally informed by such men as Doc Stewart and James Sulli- | van, the latter being interested in the lumber business, that the Portuguese and Greeks in that vicinity violated the law on all and every occasion, not only in the use of small meshed nets which retained every fingerling that came within their bounds, | but by the taking of salmon and sturgeon | at all times and without regard to lawful season. When threatened with the pen- | alty of the law these men simply laughed and asked, ‘Where are the deputies who will dare to come into this vicinity and at- tempt to arrest us? and even if they do | come all we have to do when we hear the | whistle of the steam launch isto secrete ourselves and nets in the tules until they | | pass. They never stay long and even if | -we do have to lay off for a few days the | proceeds obtained by furnishing fish out | of season, when they cannot be procured in other and protected localities, is so great that we can easily afford to lay by | until the Fish Commissioners’ launch leaves the neighborhood.’ It is simply an | ing by any such ‘means, as well as to ob- tain the arrest and conviction of the vio- | lators of the law. That thereis a remedy | tor this evil and that it can easily be eradication. I ao not hesitate to affirm. Thereis a certain sum appropriated by law for the use of the Game and Fish Commission of the State, and out of this a certain sum should be set aside to be used in paying a liberal salary to responsi- ble, fearless and honest men who can be emnployed by the commission and placed in certain localities, where the grossest violations of the law are perpetrated. Let these men collect proofs and make arrests without an undue flourish of trumpets, compensate them amply for the risk they run, but get men who will act without fear and favor, and when the Chinese and other illegal fishers and hunters find that they may expect no mercy, the fish and game will receive that protection to which the law of the State declares them to be enti- tled. Take, for instance, the example shown by the Sacramento County Game Warden, Helms. That man is abroad in the marshes and on the river at all hours of the night and day, and has become such a terror to the violators of the law in this vicinity that the game is far more numerous than has been known in years, and there has been but lit- tle violation of the law throughout the county, while in the adjoining county of Yolo it is a notorious fact that young ducks have been slaughtered throughout the entire summer. Helms' life has been threatened again and again by the Portuguese residing tbroughout the tule districts, but even this has not deterred him from arresting all lawbreakers. Let the commission obtain the services of like men, transfer them from time to time to various portious of the State, as their identity becomes known to lawbreakers, and Iwill guarantee that a stop is put to these outrages. *This summer I made a personal trip at my own expense into the mountains of Lake County, where I had reason to be- lieve from information received deer were being slaughtered in great quantities and the flesh being jerked as it is termed. Dur- ing the course of my investigation I found enough evidence to assure me that there was truth in what I had heard, and I so informed the commission in San Francisco and requested that a deputy be sent to that locality. The next morning the papers stated that deputy so and so would leave for Lake County in a few days to investigate into the report of illegal killing of deer, and all the hunt- gated the shrimp camps around Hunters Point. Everywhere could be found dry- ing trays and other evidences of illicit fish- ing, but no fish in process of curiug. Among the shrimps spread out on the grounds of all of the three camps were seen great numbers of minnows and fingerlings. The | law says that young fish of any species must be returned alive to the water. No fisherman and particularly no Chinaman ever fails to violate this law. The shrimp- catcher dumps the contents of his net into large boilers and boils the mass. The flesh of the thousands of little fish is cooked to a jelly, which is easily pulver- ized and separated from the shrimps. All have been cured in the sun. This pow- dered flesh goes among the shrimp shells and is collected for shipment to China, where it is used for fertilizing pur- poses. Thus the waste goes on, and young California fish that should be returneda to the water alive are taken away to replenish the worn-out soil of the Canton vegetable gardens. James Conrors, an old man who has lived in his little cabin near the largest camp at Hunters Point, says that the Chinese catch great numbers of little fish during the eight or nine months of the season. In the early part of the year tons of sardines are caught. If the shrimp catch is light they save and dry the fish, but otherwise they either throw them away dead or cook them with the shrimps. EMERIC’S GAME WARDEN. Deputy Fish Commissioner Guarding His Chief’s Duck-Shooting Grounds. Ever since the opening of the duck- shooting season Fish Commissioner Em- eric has been annoyed by hunters who shoot ducks upor his salt marsh preserve. Besides employed keepers Emeric has had Deputy Fish Commissioner Davis stationed at his preserve with instructions to keep trespassers off the mud. Mr. Davis is supposed to be working in the interest of the Stateasa Deputy Fish Commissioner, and therefore it is but nat- ural that local sportsmen opened their eyes in surprise when they heard that he was looking out for Mr. Emeric’s personal interests. A man named Lambert, who is a well- known professional hunter, was arrested a few days ago on Emeric’s preserve and he paid a fine of $5 for trespass. Last Sunday a young man named Jones, who 1s a member of the Sportsmen’s Pro- tective Ascociation of this City, was inter- cepted by Deputy Davis while tramping over the Emeric duck-shooting reserve, and ordered to leave immediately. Jones said to the deputy that he was not in- fringing upon the law, which gave him the right to shoot on salt marsh lands, and that he would not leave until he was ready. Davis argued with the trespasser for a while and then left for San Pablo, where he procured a warrant from the Justice, and, armed with this, Davis returned to the marsh and placed Jones under arrest. A friend of the latter deposited $50 bail as a guarantee that Jones would appear when the case came up for trial. The trespasser notified Secretary Fitzsimmons of the Sportsmen’s Protective Association of the occurrence, and a meeting of the officers of the association was held on Tuesday last, with the result that the as- sociation, as a body, will fight in defense of its representative. ‘Attorney Wentworth, who has been em- ployed to defend Jones, has asked for a postponement of the trial, which was booked for to-morrow, in order to look into the law of trespass on salt marsh pre- serves, and especially that part of the law lvlvjl‘zich refers to razorback clams and the e. This is the first time since its organiza- tion that the Sportmen’s Protective Asso- ciation of this City has been called upon todefend any of its members, and as a matter of fact great interest is attached to the present case, not only by the mem- bers of the association, but by hundreds of sportsmen who are yearly being shut out of their favorite hunting grounds by the inauguration of a system of game preservation. THE FESTIVAL CHORUS. More Contributors to the Childrens’ Hospital Benefit. There is every prospect that the great fes- tival concert being arranged in aid of the Childrens’ Hospital will be a great success. Yesterday the following additional con- tributors to the chorus were secured : Professor W. H. Holt, hearty support, charge of music at Grace Episcopal; Professor R. W Lucy, choral society, charge of music, St. Stephen’s Eviscopal: Baroness von Meyerinck, Ladies’ Glee Club; Professor E. E. Werner, choral society and pupils; Professor J. Wesley Wilkins, hearty support and pupils; Mrs. E. B. Blanchard, hearty support and pupils; Francis Stuart, hearty support and pupils; Willis E. Bateheller, hearty support and pupils; Professor Green of “Vallejo, brings chorus; Professor Lippitt of Petaluma, brings chorus. Captain Harry Morse has sent greeting to the management of the Childrens’ Hos- pital Festival, through J. J. Callundan, and has offered gratuitously all gatekeep- ers and watchmen that may be required on the nights of the concerts. ROBBED OF THEIR HALOS, THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETES WILL FIGHT FOR THE GLORY THEY HAVE WoN. A SAcrReED Campus Law VIOLATED IN THE WEARING OF THE YELLOW ARROW. The big, brawny fellows over at the State University, who usually win honors at the inter-collegiate athletic contests, are ina disturbed and unhappy frame of mind. They are fearful that the decorations of honor that have been so ostentatiously thrust upon them, as a reward for their feats, may not in the future be soconspicu- ously displayed upon their ample chests. The trouble is all over the right the ordi- nary flaccid, insignificant, enervated student hasto publicly wear the insignia that has always been confined to the trophy-taking athletes. The athletic suits worn by the various students are marked with the letters “U. C.” Those who have outdistanced and out- classed their opponents in the athletic tournaments and thereby won honors for the University are distinguished by the slanting hgure of a golden arrow piercing the two letters. Garbed in their suits, the students are in the habit of wearing them indiscriminately, both in the gymnasium and on the campus. Conscious of their physical superiority those who have successfully vanquished their opponents are inclined to swagger about the grounds, submitting to the ad- miring gaze of the commonalty with dig- nified toleration. The envious and un- shapely weaklings have termed their pur- poseless saunterings “the parade.”’ Some fifty of the students at the institu- tion have already, by the aid of their sym- metrical sinews, either at golf, archery, polo, the turf, regatta, solitaire, aquatics or some other of the various games, won a point for the institution and are therefore enitled to wear the arrow. The law whereby the arrow is confined to the vic- tors alone is an unwritten one of many years’ standing. But the present condition of affairs has been rudely interrupted by the irreverent and iconoclastic freshmen. During the past week many of them have appeared upon the campus clad in the regulation practice uniform, with the sacred arrow oldly emblazoned across their chest. When those who claim the exclusive right to wear the emblem first saw the open de- fiance given them they were astounded. That this brazen infringement upon their privileges should be allowed was out of the question. For what purpose had they gone into rigid training and eschewed all forms of pleasure to be thus deprived of their reward? To them the flaming arrow was an apparition that foretold that their tenure of admiration was at an end. A meeting of the fifty immortals has been called and steps will be taken to nullify .the act of the freshmen. The action that they propose to take has not yet been divulged. The discomfited ath- letes do not propose to lose their individu- ality by any means. Whether they will choose some other design by which™ they can knight themselves or not is unknown. IS e SILVER CONFERENCE. Senator Jones Reported as Favoring the Proposed Chicago Gathering of Bimetallists. Secretary George P. Keeney of the San Francisco branch of the American Bi- metallic League spent several hours in an interview with Senator John P. Jones, at the Palace yesterday afternoon, in relation to the proposed Chicago conference of sil- ver men in December. As a result of this interview, Mr. Keeney stated that Senator Jones favored the idea of a conference. If the conference is held, it 18 its purpose to form a distinctively new party on the financial issue. It has been claimed all along,”’ observed Mr. Keeney in discussing the silver ques- tion, ‘“‘at least the go!d men have so con- tended, that the free and unlimited coin- age of silver would flood the country with the white metal. The fact is, that the price of silver is now going up and the ex- ports from this country are greater than ever. England cannot get along even to- day without importing our silver. During 1894 Europe produced $19,000,000 worth of silver, an ngland required $46,000,000 worth for India, China and the Straits Settlements. Now, where did the differ- ence come from, if not from America?"” — - TRANSFER MEN AT WAR. They Almost Come to Blows on Broad- way Wharf Yesterday Morning. ‘When the steamer Walla Walla arrived yesterday from Puget Sound ports, the runners for the Pacific Transfer Company were in possession of Broadway wharf, but the men employed by Morton’s ex- press were determined to have a finger in the pie. The fight between the express companies had been before the Harbor Commissioners and in the courts, but yes- terday it came to a climax. Morton’s men were ejected bodily from the wharf and now the enraged proprietor of the special delivery is going to bring a suit in equity in the Federal courts. 'Xhen the Walla Walln‘wu dock_:l;z her stern swung up against the opposite pier. The Pacific Tntfsfer Company’s ranners bad been expecting this and they - seized the opportunity to jump aboard. They at once began canvassing the passengers and had secured the bulk of the luggage for de- livery by the time the steamer was fast at the wharf. Morton’s men were not idle, however, and when they were refused ad- ruission by the gate they hired a whitehall and climbed onto the-wharf astern of the steam yacht Eleanor. It was some Jittle time before Captain Bennett of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company became aware of the fact that the runners were on the wharf. He promptly ejected the men. ———— THE leading banks use and indorse Bank Stock paper. It wasinvented b{ a banker, and our eves will be preserved by itsuse. The ysell-Rollins Company, 22 Clay st., keep it. * VIEWED BY A BRITISHER, CAPTAIN MAY OF H. B. M. CRUISER HYACINTH BOARDS THE OREGON. QUESTIONED THE WORKMEN. WiLL His Visit ESTABLISH A PRECEDENT IN INTERNATIONAL ComMITY? Down in the Union Iron Works an odd and amusing thing occurred recently and the employes of the yard have been laugh- ing over it ever since. When the British cruiser Hyacinth was here Captain May concluded to interview the Oregon. The big battle-ship, as yet unarmed and un- completed, was not ready for company, but the hold Briton stood not on ceremony. It was hardiy in good form to inspect the war preparations of even a peaceful neigh- bor, but Captain May got into his royal navy togs, called away his gig, and the British tars at tne oars pulled merrily over to the Union Iron Works. A few years ago a United States naval officer asiced permission to visit Chatham dockyard, where a new armored cruiser was being made into fighting trim. He Wwas soon sorry he mentioned the subject, for the answer, though couched in elegant English with Oxford binding, was so strongly in the negative that he never smiled again. And not long ago a Petaluma man tour- ing in Hongkong — the Petaluma man should not have been so far from home alone—and thinking a nice sketch of China tea-box scenery hand-painted on the spot would be the best evidence of his having been there set up his easel on the hill above the city and went to work. He acci- dentally brushed about six inches of a counterscarp of the English fortifica- tions into his picture and two red-coated Tommy Atkinses szatched him off to the guardhouse. His unlucky sketch was sent to the Tower for trial, charged with treason, and the sketcher was told to go back to Petaluma and paint nothing more warlike than prize poultry. The captain pulled alongside the Ore- gon, climbed up on deck and found no one on board except the yard workmen, who went on at their duties, paying no atten- tion to the unknown and to them unusual visitor. For all purposes the ship was his. Not an official of the yard, not a United States naval officer, of which there were several stationed there, noticed the British sailor having his own way on the Yankee vessel. Such a thing had never happened since the boarding officer of the British frigate Shannon took possession of the defeated Chesapeake years ago. The visitor went through the battle-ship alone, asked questions of the genial and intelligent workmen and during his long | visit picked up a deal of information re- garding modern shipbuilding in the United States. Nobody questioned him in return, and so much liberty did he have in his research that he thought seriously of signaling for his steam launch and having the big bat- tle-ship towed up to Esquimalt for com- pletion and change of flag. Then he went back to her Britannic Majesty’s cruiser Hyacinth, and the yard workmen are telling the story of how the British captain captured the Oregon right under the guns of the modern forts and the powers peacefully slumbering in re- serve at Mare Island DROWNED IN THE YUKON. e . Frederick Bell of San Francisco Lost in the Ice. Frank Bonner, once a bricklayer of this City, returned from Alaska last Friday. He brought with him two ounces of gold dust worth §35, and a tale of terrible hard- ships and poverty on the Yukon diggings as the result of seven months’ hard labor and privation. He also brought the news of the drowning of Frederick Bell. Bell furnished the coin for Bonner and an old man named John Barnes to accom- pany him to the Alaskan mines. They went to Juneau by steamer. From there they took their traps, among which was a canvas boat, by sledges. Bell was caught in a drift of broken ice while attempting to carry some of their baggage up tne 1iver to the diggings and disappeared. Since Bonner’s return a letter has been received announcing the finding of the body on September 15. It was identifled by means of the clothing and a letter writ- ten by Bell and addressed to Harry Drach- bar, care of John McKnight of this City. A NEW CHURCH. Newsom’s Plans for the Howard Place of Worship Accepted and Work to Begin Soon. J. Cather Newsom’s plans for the new Howard Presbyterian Church have been conditionally accepted. Contractors’ bids are being considered by the trustees this week, and if a decision between the rival claimants can be reached within a few days, work on the new church will be be'é\m next week. he edifice, which is to be a handsome one, will be erected at a chosen site on Oak and Baker streets, and if the work pro- gresses according to the expectations of the most sanguine among the friends of the church, the building will be ready for use early in the new year. - A Grangers’ Colony Suit. The Grangers’ Colony has begun suit against A. 8. Barney, C. E. Wilson, W. 8. Bridge, W. W. Roughton and Robert Husband, former di- rectors, to recover $6589 99. It is alleged that these directors formed a conspiracy to appoint the Arthur R. Briggs Company treasurer to the colony, that no security was required of the treasurer, and that the amount of money named in the complaint has not been ac- counted for. - Appraisers’ Convention. The Secretary of the Treasury has called a meeting of the Appraisers of the large cities of the country to convene at New York on the first Tuesday in January. Appraiser Tucker will rerresent San Francisco. The following cities will be represented: Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, New Orleans, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Buffalo, Cleve- land, Portland, Or., and Portland, Me. Forger and Thief. Arthur St. Clair Damon, the sailor who was arrested on Tuesdsy evening for passing a forged check for $25 on Al White, a water- front saloon-keeper, had a charge of grand lar- ceny booked against him yeste l{f The com- plaining witness was Mrs. Fernbach of the Ex- change saloon at the new racetrack. Damon ‘was working around the saloon Saturday aft- ernoon and, it is said, stole $90. The White Divorce. In the account of the conditions that have obtained in Round Valiey publisited on Mon- day last, reference was made to Walter H. Linforth as the attorney for Mrs. White. As & matter of fact Attorneys Henry E. Highton and W. T. Baggett are associated with Mr. Lin- forth in that case, which is one of the most {m!nmed and important divorce cases ever ried here. ————— i Dr. Nieto a Father. The happy announcement was made yester- day that Mrs. Nieto, wife of Rabbi Jacob Nieto of the Congregation Sherith Israel, presented him with a boy baby. The mother and infant are doing well. ————— A Painter’s Fatal Fall. A painter named H. H. Norton, while work- ing on the roof of the building occupied by Battery F, United States Artillery, at the Pre- sidio, fell off vesterday afternoon and was killed. He lived atthe Hughes House on Third strect. He was 27 years of age aud lelt & widow. PAWNED HIS WATCH. How Senator Calvin S. Brice Wound Up His Honey- moon, A story of Calvin Brice, United States Senator from Chio anda multi-millionaire, which has never before appeared in print, was told to a CALL correspon’ent by a | resident of Seattle, who knew thu Senator in his youngerdays. It showshow sudden | has been the rise in wealth of this man, | who now possesses over $20,000,000, and | whose children each have $10,000 a year as | pocket-money. ‘“When Brice got married he wasa young and struggling lawyer, and didn’t have much ready cash,” said the Senator’s old- | time friend. ‘“However, he took what he | had and with his bride went to New York v on a wedding tour. They took in the sights of Gotham, but by the time Brice was ready to come home he found he had | not enouih money to buy railway tickets. Brice had to get home, so he went to a | pawn-broker and ‘soaked’ his watch. When | they were on the cars his wife noticed that | his watch was gone, and said: * ‘Why, Calvin, where is your watch?' ditions that made the skillful handling of | the rifle highly necessary the instant after the camera was snapped. Another en- thusiast has devoted himself to photo- graphing the animals of the forest in their nightly wanderings. He would set a wire in the path of the animal he wished to photograph and adjust the camera so that as the animal came along and made contact with the wire magnesium powder was ignited, and in the flash the picture was taken. In this way some beautiful specimens of deer in all sorts of attitudes, of mountain lion, badgers, opossums, etc., have been se- cured and many new features have been developed of great interest to the natural- ist. }\l Bontan, the European naturalist, who studies the wild life of the Mediter- ranean, in the garb of a diver, has suc- ceeded in taking some photographs of the sea bottom. He uses a flashlight obtained from a spirit Jamp and magnesium pow- der, which is covered by a water-tight jar. The lamp stands on a barrel containing oxygen gas, which he employs to work the lamp and the pneumatic shutter of the camera. He breathes through the supply pipe of the diving dress. The camera is watertight and stands on a tripod near the | barrel, so that the shutterand the flash- light can be worked together. L e e BAGGAGEM BrovcLe TrousLEs—Rail- way men have come to the conclusion that 80 great is the number of wheels consigned to railways by passengers that special cars will have to be provided, separate and dis- tinct from baggage-cars, for the transporta- tion of the machines. An idea of the number of wheels that are now carried is convered in the report of the baggage de- partment of the Rio Grande Railw. ‘“‘Holy smoke,’ said he, ‘I took that | watch in to a jeweler to get it fixed, and | forgot all about it.’ | “‘His wife wanted him to telegraph to | the jeweler, but he said it would be all | right. Some years afterward, when Cal | had fiot pretty well on to his feet, his wife | and he held a tin wedding, and some of | the boys who had got hold of the story had a monster tin watch made, and hung it up over the place where he and his wife were to stand and receive their guests. Cal did | not notice it hanging there for some time, | but when he did, he said: [ ‘“‘Boys, you’ve got the langh on me, and I might as well tell everybody about it.’ | “Then his wife learned for "the first time | how he had to pawn his watch to get her | home.”’ i PHOTOGRAPHING THE BoTroM OF THE SEA.—Naturalists have been doing some clever things by the aid of photography. | A Western sportsman has been for years making a collection of photographs of all | kinds of wild animals in their native | haunts, and many of these pictures, espe- | cially of animals about to spring at their | intended prey, have been taken under con- | ay, which shows that in the month of Jufyy 1664 wheels were checked by the company over its line, an average of over fifty-three daily for the month. In many baggage- cars racks have already Leen fitted up for the reception of wheels, but the accornmo- dation is daily becoming more inadequate. This rush of wheels has given a great deal of anxiety to the haggaeemen, who often find themselves without the proper means of providing for their custody. The conse- quence is that a compromise is effected, and if the baggageman keeps a careful eye on a wheel a fee is in order. Some com- panies are considering the question of charging a small rate on all wheels carried on their trains on the ground that they cannot be packed together like trunks or ordinary baggage, but there is no doubt that such a charge would be grudgingly paid. —_————— Liliuokalani, the deposed Queen of Hawaii, had a good many curious charac- teristics, one of the most pronounced of which was a perfect passion for the collec- tion of rope knots made by =ailors of dif- ferent nationalities who visited her domain, The result is what is said to be the largest andldfincs{ collection of the kind in the Wworl NEW TO-DAY—DKY GOODS, There's Just On Why this b eReason ig, busy store is just right for your economical purchas- ing--that is because we have made it so. The pric es we quote strengthen this statement and the goods them- selves clinch it. ILKS--This stock should be | seen to be appreciated, and | Just a you should see it. hint of what to expect : CHANGEABLE TAFFETA, fancy stripe, our regular 2 grade, swell color combinations, 21 incnes wide SPECIAL.... ..Yar FANCY SILKS, special line of $1 Ei: fancy silks, limited quantity, inches wide. SPECIAL Dress Goods. The busiest department in San Fran- cisco’s busiest street. Why? Because every fashionable fabric, every new color and combination is shown at win- ning prices. A couple of Specials worth a thought: FANCY WOOL CHEVIOT, in checks and broken plaids, worth 40c, 36 inches wide. . SPE 20° ALL-WOOL FRENCH SERGE, spec- ial line, all staple colors, including black, 85 inches wide. SPECIAL. Hints From the Domestic COTTON CHEVIOTS, navy blue Checks and stripes, used for skirtings and aprons, value 8/ SPECIAL. Yard BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, all linen, heavy quality, 58 inches e al 40° 250 doz. HUCK TOWELS, bleached rde h, 8 good absorb- sion Dozen $1.25 125 doz. HUCK TOWELS, 19x42 inches, bleached, all linen, heavy quality, the kind that never get w. value $2 50 dozen 2 | WHITE AND ECRU, 3 ASH BUYING and DIRECT IMPORTING gives you Lace Curtains at surprise prices. Curtains from 49c a pair up to the finest manufacture. Notinghem Las Corains FULL TAPED-- -=NEW DESIGNS. 200 pairs in ECRU ONLY, $ yards by 49° 36 inches Pair WHITE AN ECRU, 3 yards by 46 mro inche -...Pair [§5) \\‘):ill‘m;\sn E(Rli yards b,\i_"fi‘glloo inches.,. SATIN AND GROS light colors for fancy . 6 No.7 8Y/sc yard., ¢ yard. HOOKS AND EYES, blac size, 2 dozen on a car STOCKING DARNEE: good, strong and serv medinm ..Card < enamel, Each DRESSING COMBS, in horn, bone or ‘colored celluloid, n inches long, strongly made, hercules backs.. Each PIN CUSHIONS, in fancy metal and plush. an ornament to any one's bureau, assorted colors. . ..Each 1:20 BLACK SILK GAUNTLET MITS, what you need for bicycie rides, st ] 5O sorted sizes.... Each 9 LADIES' FURNISHINGS. LADIES' COMBINATION & ural gray and corn color, quality, Jersey ribbed, hi long sieeves, ankle length. JITS, nat- SPECIAL. INCORPORATED 937; 039 and 941 Market Street, San Francisco. FURNITURE! CARPETS! AND ALL KINDS OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS! AT PRICES 'T0 SUIT THE TIMES. FOR EXAMPLE: : g:mkom BEDKOOM SEIS. . %flgggg SEIS, BlsBantdrea- - - 20 SOFA BEDS {000« < s s~ 100 RANGES from. . ...$10.00 &-ROOM QUTFIT from. ... §86.00 It Pags You to Give Us a Call Belore Purchasing Elsewhere. CASH OR INSTALLMENTS, KRAGEN FURNITURE CO. 1043 MARKET STREET, Between Sixth and Seventh. ¥ OPEN EVENINGS. DON'T FORGET This Season The Best jStyles in CAPES and JACKETS. CHEAPEST PRICES —ARE AT— ARMAND CAILLEAD, 46-48 Geary Street. Special Attention given 1o Country Orders.