The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1895, Page 16

P i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1895 Tommy Looks Ahead. Jomx KexDEICK BANGS In St. Nicholas. HiikBHeEs REALM was just one man, and she wouldn’t let him speak to her for five years, because he hadn’t been introduced. Weli, that’s the very kind of ladies that get real mad if you say they’ll have to be 1dentified. One of them came in our bank Saturday while I was learning to do the work of the cashier, A nice little dog was leading the lady by a ribbon, and there was a maid to take care of the dog. The lady with the sleeves gave me a | check, and I looked at it and said just| awful kind, “Madam, you will have to get somebody to identify you.” | She got mad right off. She looked at me and said: ‘“Young | i man, you’ll know less when you are older, | | but I'it never, never, never do any more business at this bank as long as I live.” And then the dog took her away. 1 made one slip that Uncle Dick saysis | likely to cause me and him to lose our places 1n the bank. The editor intimated | that I needn’t bother about writing it, as his artist had made a_picture that | would explain the whole tiing. But how pa, the thing that puzzies me and just what I ink conducting On a horsecar was the ing. v cannot keep the money that ve to some one else each nickel t In that work Is more than ihe fun one gets in plaring with the And then I thought policeman’s work was just the Jing for me. A clubs and leaning ? one's caugnt asleep he has to Though how a man csn live without bis sleep 1do not kno; And ss I'm very fond of rest I'll never join the orce. A sailor [ could never be, because, you see, of course ¥'d bave to be away from home so much upon the ‘e a chance to meet my family. 1 couldn’t quite get used to that, for really half the fan A man gets out of is got from playing with his At night when supper 's over—so my father’s often ndman comes around and sends me Before _tne oft to d. However, with this subject I'll no longer vex my mind, Until I gel through boying; and, perhaps, I then 3 Somebody who will pay me well to do just what v live a life of ease. please, 8o that my little boy and I'm 'MERICAN BOY TURNS BANKER. With His Sister Phyllis He Visits His Uncle Dick. Phyllis says she is going to be a banker. She says it's lots of fun, and that it's no 1 can identify Mr. Huntington,” said the Mayor. “But who will you get to identify you?’’ asked the amateur banker. it 10 do but take up fares and pull the | was I to know Mr. Huntington and Mayor Sutro were good for all the money in that | bank if they wanted it without waiting to | be identitied as I had been told was neces- sary ? Policemen stay around banks a good deal. I asked a man why. He said that long, long ago, when San Francisco was first dis- covered, there was once a forger. | The police people got in the habit of looking for the forger then, and they have | never been able to stqp. g Of course, when you get a great bigthing | like the Police Department started up it 18 | & very hard thing to get it stopped again. |~ About the easiest jobaround a bank is to | | be president. All you have to do is to | keep your silk hat shiny and to sign your name, and go on signing it and signing it. | You ouly have to keep awake about two | hours of the day, and you sit at a desk | with nothing much on it but a bouquet of | roses, and you have somebody else do | | everything for you, but the signing your | | name. | Isuppose you could even get somebody | to do that for you if you wanted to; but of course_you would never be able to find | anybody who would look after your silk | hat as you'd look after it yourself. About the hardest job of all is the cash- ier's. Just think of the figures that man | | has to keep in his head ! | He bas to know just what kind of bank | account everybody keeps—whether they | | overdraw or are careful; whether they pay drafts promptly, and all abouteverybody’s | money matters generally. g | Most likely people just act out their na- | | tures in money matters, too, and I'll just | bet those cashiers know a whole lot about | people as well as about figures. | When a man comes into a bank to bor- | row money the cashier has got to know | more about the man’s business than the | man does himself. | Then he’sgot to advise that man just fair for the men to have all the good times while their mothers, sisters and wives stay at home all alone and darn old stockings. Uncie Dick hasa nice bank downtown, 4nd Saturday Phyllis and I went along down to help him tend to it. ‘When I was a little shaver I used to think they just dumped the gold and sil- ver into the bank’s vaults and shoveled it around like we do coal. I thought you could just wade through the stacks of $20 gold pieces, or lie down and roll in them if you wanted to. They don’t do business that way at all. The money is all tied up tight in musty old canvas bags, and not even the presi- dent of the bank can go in there and pour it out to play with. That's the joke of it, you see. Not the president nor any of the rest of the hundred or so people that workin a bank can even borrow enough of all that money to buy a loaf of bread with, unless he goes around in front of the counter, and stands in lino with the rest of the folks, and passes uf\ a check just like he was a stranger. Only 1 guess maybe the president wouldn’t have to be identified. Fverybody else has to be identified, and Tl tell you what that means. If you are playing marbles out in the vard, and somebody comes up behind you on tipsy-toes and claps her bands over our eyes and waits for you to guess who itis, and if you say “Phylhs!"” and it is Phyllis—why, that's identific & ut they don’t do it just like thatin a bank. When a man brings i a check 'Ghesl"a.-k him if he knows anybody in the ank. If the man can’t look you in the eye, and turns awful red and stammers, “No, nobody knows me,” you know he isall right, and you pay him the money his check calls for. But if the man don’t act that way you Just tell him he will have to be identified. You say it sort of tenderly, so it won't hurt him. You do_that because there are lots of men around and especially women that haven’t got any sense. Once I read a story about a lady that was cast away on a desert island where there ', what he had better do—or else it is really just what the bank wants the man to do. And whether he lends that man money ornot he’s got to make him think the bank is just dead anxious to take care of him at any cost. If the bank isn't going to lend him the money the cashier's got to send the man away, saving he’s ever and ever so much obliged for the advice. And if he gets the money, why, of course, he’s just awfully much obliged for being | allowed to pay the interest on it. They teach cashiers to say a little piece that is something like this: “Banking is the art of borrowing money without interest, lending it with interest, and making both borrower and lender feel under obligations to the bank.” The man who pays out money is called a teller—but Le isn’t. Nobody in a bank 13 ever allowed to tell anything. That is not a part of the bank- ing business. It isn’t any trouble at ail to be a teller— that is it looks as if it wasn’t till you try. Somebody else fixes a tray of money, | and when those fellows pay it out or take any other money in it just slips through their fingers as easy as water, and looks as if it just counted itself. It didn’t slip through my fingers quite 50 slick when I was trying to be a banker I tell you, and Uncle Dick says he thinks I could make enough mistakes in a day to ruin the Bank of England—if there were men enough to carry off the money I didn’t figure out right. . I was going to tell you about the money in the vaults. Most always those dusty sacks hold $20,- 000 in some kind of coin—specie they call it, ‘Then there are lots of little sacks that have never been opened since they came from the United States mint. They hold exactly $5000 each, and they are sealed with the Government seal. The {coin inside is always brand clean and bright. I wondered if a fellow couldn’t carry off one of those nice little sacks of twenties without anybody ever missing it. }messeugernml then skip to president I try it—just to see what she’d say, you know. 5 At first she just laughed and shook her ead. Then I kept talking about it and told her we could buy icecream soda and choco- late creams every day for twenty years with that money. A Then Phyllis said if I didn’t stop talking so awiul she would cry, and if I even talked of doing such a thing she would never speak to me again. - She didn’t give in a bit and she didn’t even say she’d tell anybody. That’s why I think my sister has got lots of sense—for a girl, One man takes care of the money. He keeps a little book and he’s got to be able to leYl you every single minute of the time just how much money there is in the vaults. If a bank in the country sends a telegram for §100,000 they have to hand it right straight over, just as quick as if it was only $10. Sometimes—not very often—checks call for millions. They get paid just the same, but not quite in a minute, It takes a few hours for the clerks and tolks to count up some millions. I remember once, when I was a little chap, I saw a dray standing by a bank | with some old bags in it. Two men with old, ragged clothes on were standing there, and some more poor men were carrying out some more sacks. I asked Uncle Dick about it, and he said somebody must have been getting a check cashed. And once I saw a check for 2 cents. It was drawn by the comptroller of a big railroad company and signed by tio high officials. 1t was countersigned, too. That’s the way we men who understand business principles attend to trifte Those trays that I spoke of are quite in- teresting. They always have twenty pieces , five staeks in a row, Tf they happen to be | twenties you can see—but I guess I will justlet you have that for a little example in arithmetic to improve your minds. If I conld just begin by being a bank’s might likeit. But I don't believe 1 shall ever know the multiplication table quite well enough to do the rest of the things. And ifa fellow has got to figure all the time just like a schoolboy, what's the use of owning & bank, any Mary © SOMETHING INTERESTING. A Letter to the Ohildren Who Read the “0all,” KINS JOHNSON. Children, do you like poetry? If you will all listen, I will tell you about a little | girl who loved poetry and wrote beautiful little verses herself. When she was only 4 years old she wrote some pretty verses to THE KITTEN AND THE BIRD, A kitten went to the birdie's house, ‘And found him sitting upon a mouse, ‘And then he sprang right on the mouse, And made him holler “nix cum rouse.” When she was a year older she wrote some verses to THE DAISIES. Dalsles with eyes so bonny blue, Up to the mountains quick they flew, And scattered all about the ground, And in & little hole they found, A smaller daisy in the ground. (70 PuRPOSE S0 | IDENTIFCATIORT 4 I hoge you will all like these verses, be- cause they were made up by a little girl no bigger than yourselves, and her mamma wrote them for me. Just a little later she made some verses to THE TWILIGHT. Open the window at candlelight And let the stars shine in so bright. And the moon 50 yellow andround Shines down on earth upon the grouud. A horse goes scamp'ring down the str WIth iron shoes upon s feet. o et Then this little poet wrote some more verses. One sunny summer day Wld roses were at play, “But none of this,” the daisies sald, “We think we now will go o bed." Hark! Hark! Down the park! Where the band is playing, Listen, listen to the lark— Hear what he is saying; Hear him any K'chick, k'chick,” Scamp'ring down the trees (o pick. When she was six years old her papa \;gnt away, and she wrote a little poem to m : We all were lonely when you went, My papa sweet and dear, X wish a letter you had sent To tell us you were near, A pretiy spoonbill bring with him, A pretty spoon for me, When he comes home 10 little Jim. How happy I will be. My darling sister she will be, So glad her dear papa (o see; She'll smack bim in her loving way, And then to him she'll try 10 88y, Tiove vou, papa, every day, My dollies are not broken ‘yet, My kitty s a little pet, My mamma is quize well to-day, Aud that is all T have (0 say. In the next month she wrote a fairy story in verse: It was the faith of fairy land, ‘When children were at play, The birds were sitting on the boughs, A-sinzing every day; And little roses peeped their heads, And looked about and smiled, ‘While all the pretty daisies looked] As they were growing wild; Cunning mosses blooming up, Red berries drooping 10w, ‘We'll put them in & little cup, And there we'll let them grow. Was she not a bright little girl to write such pretty verses? But I am sure that many of my little readers can write verses t00, and I wish they would all try to write some and send tliem to me. Those whe cannot write any verses at all may write little letters, telling me all about them- selves, and the editor of THE CALL, Who is a very kind man, says that he will print the prettiest verses and their best letters in the children’s page. Of course you must not copy little Irene’s verses, but send me some that you have written your- selves, and tell me how old you were when you wrote each poem. Please tell me, too, why you like to write verses, and whether ou hope to be a great poet some day. ell me all about it, for I shall be inter- ested in every word you say. I hope you will all write to me, and that as many as can write verses will send me some. Address letters to your lovmé friend, Motner GoosE, I whispered to Phyllis that I thought I'd Care Daily CaLy, San Francisco. GEOLOGICAL REMINISCENCES. LoDES PLAYED A few evenings since a group of well- known mining men were seated in the barroom of the Palace Hotel when one of them remarked that he would wager the drinks for the crowd that no one present could tell of the first mining swindle per- petrated on the Comstock. Senator Jones would never allow a bet- ting bluff of any kind to float past him, and said immediately that he would ac- cept the offer, and told the following: “The first instance of a square-toed swin- dle in connection with mining on the Com- stock was where Jim O'Riley let a contract to three miners to sink a shaft 100 feet in depth.” After he had paid 20 per cent of the contract money to bind the bargain he brought a 100-foot tapeline to the miners, and stipulated that when the tape- line fell from the windlass and hung clear in the bottom of the shaft without touch- ing he would pay the balance of the money, amounting te several thousand dollars. Shaft-sinfiin;; was pretty expen- sive in those days. Well, in course of time the miners called upon him for the balance of the money, and took him to the shaft where they pointed to the 100-foot tape- line hanging from the windlass to the bot- tom, with an inch or two of free space under the end of it. O’Riley, after com- plimenting them upon their work, gave them the balance of their money, and in a faw hours they had disappeared. “The next d. when O’Riley took a more careful inventory of the work, he | discovered that the miners had cut twenty feet outof the tapeline, thereby making the shaft twenty4eet less in depth than they had contracted for. He buckled on his six-shooter, and started out in quest of arebate on the job; but_when the story ot around the ledge it raised such a augh at his expense that he dropped the subject and relet the contract to other parties. He said that the splice where the twenty feet was cut out was made so neatly that 1t took him nearly an hour to locate it. A few days afterward he got a vackage from Sacramento containing that portion of the tapeline that was missing, hey wrote to him saving that they had taken it away through an oversight, and they returned it that he might put it back where it belonged, in order to complete the sinking of the shaft with mathemat- ical accuracy. The twenty feet of tape- line was exhibited for many years in the Delta saloon.” ‘When Jones had finished the story Billy Foote, who had oifered to bet, ordered a round of irrigation goods for the entire party, and Jones, after moistening his throat, remarked: “If anybody wants to make another wager for the same amount I can tell the second operation there of the same nature.” Noone interrupting him he continued: ‘“‘Some of the boy: had a claim up on the side of Mount Davidson when the stock excitement was pretuy lively. Their claim did not prove to be of much account, and they accordingly introduced the saltin process for the first time. Quite a ric strike was made in the Ophir on rock that ran into the thousands.” One night they extracted several sacks of ore from the Ophir shaft, and dumped it into their own | prospect hole. They spread the report that they had just got into a rich forma- tisn, and quite a number of péople were on the ground when the first bucket came up next morning. Of course, they pounced on the specimens and in a few minutes the rich chunks of ore were finding their way into the nearest assay offices. The result was that a forl ight hour excitement ensued and a wild scramble for the stock, during which time the owners cleared up $15,000 or $20,000.”" “Speaking of salting mines,” said Lon Hamilton, “I never shall forget the time when some stock operators sent some mining experts to spy out the prospects in the Gould & Curry. "A diamond drill was being run, and they wanted to know what it struck. The experts reached the Com- stock looking like ordinary miners, and very readily secured a job inthe mine. They considered themselves very fortu- nate when they were put on a level within easy reach of the diamond drill. The joke of the thing was that the 1insiders who were working the mine got the tip from below. They were all prepared for their visitors. They systematically salted the drill, and left the key where the other fellows coula find it. The natural result was thatin a few days certain brokers from California were loading up with Gould & Curry in the expectation that when the drift reached the ore body they wouid reap a fortune. But no driit ever followed that drill-hole, as it was barren rock, and in a few months the California- street sharpers who had engineered the job found themselves very beautifully dumped, and the biters proved to be the bitten.” “Do you mind the time when Captain John Kelley of the Lady Bryan had the Holy Bible salted on him ?’ There seemed to be a zeneral desire to hear the anecdote, and Ben Fitch, after emptying a tumbler of red fluid, proceeded: ‘‘You see, John Kelley was working the Lady Bryan mine, down'in Six-mile Canyon, and sent the drill ahead to prospect for an ore body. Meanwhile, the miners, who had a large quantity of the stock at low figures, salted the drill-hole, and as a result one morning Captain Kelley was in a very excited state of mind. He believed thai he was about to make the strike of his life, and that Lady Bryan would prove to be a second Consolidated Virginia. In his enthusiasm over the prospect he gave a number of his friends the tip, after which the miners had no trouble in disposing of their stock at handsome valuations. The drift was pushed to the end of the drill;hole with all possible dispatch, but no ore was found. “During the next week the air was blue with the glnsphem that circulated around the head of John Kelley, and he feared for his life. In order to demonstrate his inno- cence of the charge of swindling his iriends he held a sort of inguest on the defunct ore body. He made all the miners come into a room and submit to an exami- nation. He had put a large Bible, weigh- ing about twelve pounds, on the table in the dining-room of the company’s cook- house. Each miner when questioned was required to advance to the fable and kiss the book. The scene was a very solemn one—the victims of the deal being at one end of the room and the miners at the other. Kelley meanwhile was seated at the head of the table acting as a sortofa judge. Each miner swore by the book that he bad no hand whatever in the salt- ing of the drill-holes and did not know any one else who had. o “‘After the entire force of the mine had made their solemn declarations to this effect and kissed the book, it began to look pretty black for John Kelley. He had ex- pected confessions from the miners under the circumstances, and after they had tes- tified and filed out of the room, Kelly sat at the table in a dazed condition. He then said that he was ready to swear on the same Bible that he had not salted the drill and that he had induced the boys to go in the deal in perfect good faith. As he pulled the boog toward him, however, the cover came off and revealed to the aston- ished crowd not a Bible, but a big pile of leaves from a patent office report. The miners had taken the Bible out of the covers and substituted the Government literature unknown to Kelley. It became apparent to the crowd at once that men who would salt the word of God with such matter were capable of almost any atrocity in the salting line, and Kelley wasabsolved from further blame in the matter. “In spite of that,” said Billy Sharon, “Kelley was a pretty smooth operator, an %&(’m could always copper anything be did. henever he was losing money hand over fist in the stock market and bleeding in- wardly he would put a big diamond-pin on his shirt front, drink nothing but champagne and wear a perpetual grin upon his face, bnt whenever he made a hundred or two thousand on a turn he would walk up and down the street look- ing ke a man who had been driven to | desperation by bad luck, wearing an old SENATOR JONES TELLS How THE WOLVES OF THE MINING ROUGH GAMES. Woolen shirt and pretending to his friends that he was searching for employment. He soon got the name of the Ursa Major, and every time a pump-rod broke, a shaft caved in or a fire occurred in the mines it was a good day for Kelley’s stock ac- counts, but beyond this he was a very shrewd miner, as was pretty well demon- strated at the time Jim Fair invited the experts to inspect a drift in one of his mines. The face of the drift seemed to be all in good ore, but Kelley figured out if 1t was such a good thing Fair woulan’t be inviting in the outsiders. He went to the surface mlstin%on the future prospects of the mine, but he was the only one who had sense enou§h to short the stock, and as he wore an old shirt and didn’t indulge in a shave for several weeks afterward I figured that he must have cleared up about 200,000. The stock went down with a rush when the drift struck porphyry and the boys alwavs said Kelley smelled it. Hl;a certainly had a great nose for por- phyry. ““There were no flies on Warren Sheridan as a mining operator,” said Billy Wood. ‘‘At the time when the Comsfock was booming and they had a man for breakfast every morning Sherry was regarded as one of the smartest and smoothest qnick-turn operators on the ledge. In order to be sure of inside information he accepted a situation as & miner in the Savage mine. It used to be the custom in those days to keep news of the big ore sirikes from the public, and when one was made, the mining superin- tendent used to sena down provisions and mattresses and keep the minersimprisoned for twenty-four hours so that they could not get to the surface and give their friends the tip. When the boys dropped on this proposition they used to give orders for stock 2s soon as they saw the mattresses and the grub going down the shait, but after a few of them had got badly bitten a time or two they made up their mind that this system of playing with stocks lacked the essential features of reliability, as the superintendents would occasionally send down the grub and mattresses when they struck porphyry; but Warren Sheridan, who always kept his eye peeled for the main chance, was ‘laying’ for something that was positive. “He carried a little bottle of emetic in his pocket, and one night he saw a blast disclose some ore that was fairly fat with wealth. He knew that inside of five minutes, the order for mattresses would go to the surface. He accordingly took his emetic, and in a few minutes was writhing in pain and showing all the symptoms of a severe case of nausea. He begged to be taken to the surface that he might die in the bosom of his family. They sent him upon the ‘quick hoist,” and the man’s groans of pain would have melted the stoutest heart. He was putin an express wagon and when he got home and was carried into the house and put to bed, his wife, who was dead onto the scheme, filled the place with lamenta- tions, and said it was another one of his heart attacks, and begged of them to geta doctor as soon as possible. She cleared the house in short order, sending each man for a different doctor. As soon as the door was shut Sherry hustled on his store clothes and struck out for his broker by way of the back window, where he lined up the situ- ation in short order. By the time the doctors got around Sherry was back in bed and calling for a lawyer to come and make his will. The order to buy reached San Francisco early in the morn- ing and Sherry caught a few thousand shares at bedrock rates in the morning board. Sherry and his broker cleaned up about $160,000 on the deal, and when the Savage manipulators found out the big order that got in ahead of them, they rec- ognized the fine Spencerian hand of Sheri- dan. They laid for him to get even, and after he went back to work they jobbed some information on him and broke both him and his broker. “One morning when he came down to his mine with his dinner bucket they ad- vised him to go on the stage and work his death scene E:r the benefit of the public. Sherry smole a faint smile and walked off. He was never allowed toswing a pick again in the Savage. He got so that he never could speak of the most common occurrence without using mimmng lingo, and once when he was at a coroner’s in- quest he described seeing a man fall down the Con. Virginia shaft, wind- ing up his testimony with the remark ‘Assoon as I saw him fall through the opening I knew he was a good short.” He is now down at Yuma City, Arizona, ex- perting some new mines for Jim Brazil and H. M. Levy, and thinks he has struck another Comstock.”’ . “Speaking of slick work in stock,” said General Roberts, addressing Senator Jones, ‘‘do you remember the time I charged yon $2000 for your Senatorial ban- 3uet ’in the Arlington House, Carson ity ?* +T think I do,” replied the Senator, with a slight smile. *Did you think it was an overcharge?” continued Roberts, with a broad grin. “I never dispute bills of that kind,” said the Senator, “fiut my local agent informed me that he thought you got about $1500 the best of me.” “Maybe I did, temporarily,” said Rob- erts, *‘but I plunked the whole wad into one of your Crown Point deals, and inside of thirty days I lost every cent of it.” “Guess the champagne is on you,” said Lon Hamilton, and after the great silver advocate had divided a couple of quart bottles among the crowd somebody said that it was half-past 1 and they dispersed. SCHOOL NEEDING REPAIRS, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS DISAPPOINTED WITH THE BOARD. DIRECTOR CLINTON’S PROMISE TO EDITOR GRIFFITHS STILL UNFULFILLED, There is considerable disappointment in South San Francisco over the failure of the Board of Education to have the South S8an Francisco schoolhouse repaired. Dr. David B. Todd and others labored hard for months to have some attention paid to its condition, and Editor H. E. Griffiths of the Mail was particularly urgent with Director Clinton. Between 500 and 600 children attend tbis school, which is a barn-like frame building on Fourteenth avenue. When the rainy season comes they will have to wade through mud ankle deep up Fourteenth avenue to get to the school. Dr. Todd tried, as tie agent for the Masonic Hall Association, and a resident, to have a sidewalk of some kind put in so the children could reach the school with dry feet, but to no avail. Nothing, he says, can be done until the grade of that block is established it seems, and when the grade will be established nobody is able to teil. No prospect is yet held outto the resi- dents of the Potrero and South San Fran- cisco of the running of the Solano-street electric line in the near future. The street has been vaved with basalt blocks for the seven blocks from Kentucky street west- ward, and it has been accepted. The Bix- teenth-street sewer now stands in the way, however, and, until it is completed, itis not expected that the line will be running. The boilers are now being placed in the new Bryaut-street wer-house, and the first set of engines has been put in by the Union 1ron Works. ——————— Descrted His Family. Mrs. Minnie Abrahams of 2914 Cook street yesterday requested the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children to help her find her husband, Bernard, who left her and her three little children on the 14th inst. She says she is destitute, has nothing in the house for the children to'eat, and the house rent is unpaid She says that her husband is & laborer; and ocs casionally drinks heavily. FESTIVAL OF NATIONS. To Be Given in Aid of the Bush-Street Temple. The festival of nations in aid of the Bush-street Temple at the Union-square Hall ovens on Monday evening, the 28th inst., and will continue all the week with the exception of Friday night. In addition to the participants hereto- fore announced the following ladies and gentlemen will take part: Doll booth—Mrs. A. Galland, assisted by Mrs. .J. Lackman, Mrs. A. Isenberg and Misses Gertie Pauson, Mabel Aronson, Sarah Sonnen- berg, Birdie Livingston, Henrietta Gradwall, 1da Lippman, Selma Galland and Helen Jacobs. \\'heero( fortune booth—Mrs. A. Schlesinger, assisted by Mrs. Nathan, M W. C. Hilde- brandt, Mrs. M. Posner, Mrs. Summerfield, Mrs, Bert Schlesinger and Misses Gussie Schlesinger, Rose Davis, H. Rosenzweig and Miss Frank. Candy booth—Miss Lottie Saalburg. Registration booth—Miss Rose Meyers and Miss Julia Joseph. Voting booth—Miss Tessie Franklin. Flower booth—Miss M. Jacobson. Newsboys—Max Relss, Sidney Altschul, Vie- tor Reichenberg, Lucien Reiss, Maurice Ner- son, Lambert Coblentz and Joe Hirsch. There will be a varied programme of ex- ercises each evening during the week, and Leo Allenberg, the chairman of the enter- tainment committee, has secured some o the talent of the City. 5 Distinctive and appropriate costumes will be worn by the ladies of each booth, and a brilliant scene will present itself to | the eye of the visitor when ths doors are opened to the general public. NEW TO-DAY. $5 A MONTH, It Is the Only Charge Made by the Copeland Medical Institute, Medicines and All Eise Are Fur- nished at This Charge of $5, and This Is the Most Favorable Season for Curing Diseases of Any Nature. Read the Evidence Below. The system of practicing medicine as inau- gurated by the Copeland Medicel Institute was not intended to be & money-making scheme, but for the purpose of enabling people of small means to obtain the same treatment that rich people pay large sums of money for. These physicians know that they can cure diseases that strike at nine-tenths of our people, and they know that by advertising this fact and treating patients on a grand scale they can afford to charge & low fee to cover cost of serv- ices and medicines—$5 a month—to all. In these hard times such & fee commends itself to every one needing medical treatment, and when the ability of the physicians is vouched for every week by citizens of high standing and unimpeachable veracity, who desire others should know what can be done tor them, it would seem that the man or woman who seeks medical attention is wasting time and money in not going to the Copeland Medical Institute at once. READ THIS. If Theso Symptoms Fit Your Case, Then You Have Catarrh. Are your eyes weak and watery? Do you see floating spots before them at times? Do you have a pain Over your eyes or a sense of fullness across the front of the head? Is your hearing dull and defective? Do you have a roaring, ringing or buzzing sound in your ears at times? Does your nose stop upat times, one side or the other? Does it discharge a thin, watery substance almost constantly? When you go to bed at night have you diffi- culty in going to sleep ? After you are asleep do you have unpleasant dreams? On awaken- ing do you feel reireshed? In the morning do you have difficulty in clearing your throat? "Does your throat feel dry and parched? Do you have a sense of full- ness in your throat? Do you have a dry, hacking cough? Do you have'a cough that prevents your going to sieep atnight? Do yon have a cough that causes you to wake up at night and thus disturb your Tepose? Do you have a feeling at times as though you were about to faint,and feel as_though you must grasp something for support? Does your vision become disturbed and everything grow dark before your eyes at such times? Do you have night sweats or hemorrhages, or hot and cold flashes over your body, or chills or creepy feelings running up your back ? Do you have a weakness as though you had been working very hard and wanted to rest and cannot get rested? Do vou have a depressed feeling after eating, ora bloated-up feeling in the stomach? Do jou belch up 4 sour taste in your mouth, or ave & very sick feeling at the stomach, or a heartburn? Do you feel as though what you have eaten was lying like lead in your stomach? Do you have a feeling of oppression around the heart? Do you have a shortness of breath on going upsiairs quickly? Do you have smothering attacks? Do you have at times feelings as though your heart was encompassed by something and it could not move, and then suddenly find it palpitating furiously? Ii so, then you have catarrh in one of its many forms. “These are but a few of the many symptoms that denote to the skillful physician that you are suffering from catarrh. If they are your symptoms do not delay longer, but place yourself under the care of a physician and be cured beford it has taken such & hold on you that it will be too late to secure relief. THE NEW TREATMENT. A cordial invitation is extended by Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn to all their friends and patients, old as well as new, to call and test the new treatment. It has passed thestage of experiment and has been demonstrated a complete success, particularly in those cases which have withstood the other and older methods of treatment. They have added to their already complete offices the new appli- ances, and are ready to treat all those more stubborn cases which in the past have been thought incurable. It is to their financial in- terest, as well as_their medical fame, to cure, for one cured patient is worth many dollars of advertising. They have the best treatment and the new and direct means of using it. THEIR CREDENTIALS. Dr. W. H. Copeland is a graduate of Bellevue Hospizal Medical College of New York City, was president of his class in that famous institution, and, after thorough hospital training and ex- erience, devoted his time and attention o special lines of practice. Dr. Neal and Dr. Winn passed through a similar course, and have for years been asso- ciated with Dr. Copeland. Dr. J. G. Neal won first honors in_col- lege, and was appointed resident physi- cian'of the City Hospital. He filled the position with lonor and received the lusnl] diploma. He also holds several gold medals for special excellence in various brauches of medicine, and_after graduation was elected an adjunct professor of his college. Dr. A. C. Winnisa graduate of Bellovue Hospital Medical College, and of the medical department of the University of Missouri. They have devoted them- selves entirely tothe treatment of their specialties. Years of experience in these special lines, preceded by extensive hospital work, have fitted them in a notable degree for the practice of their profession. TREATMENT BY MAIL. For those desiring the treatment by mail the first step is to drop a line to Drs. Copéland, Neal and Winn for a question list or symptom blank. Return same with answers filled out and treat- ment ml!x be commenced at once. Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the mail treatment, $5 A MONTH. No fee larger than month asked for an: disease. Our motto 1s: “A Low Fee. Quicl Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” The Copeland Medical Tnsttats PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 916 Market St, Next to Baldwin Hotal, Over Beamish's. W. H. COPELAND, M.D. J. G. NEAL, M.D. A. C. WINN, M.D. SPECIALTIES—Catarrh and all diseases of the Eye, Ear; Throat and Lungs. Nervous Dis- eases, Skin Diseases, Chronic Diseases. Office” hou A M. to 1P M, 2t05P M, 7 t08:30 P. M. Sunday—10 A. M. 102 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail. Send 4 centsin stamps for queetion circulars, NEW TO-DA Mi ) Cigars Were sold in the U. S. in the past | 25 years—counting each cigar at 4 l €S f inches. - Just think: 135 Times Around the Earth! Query: How many more would have been sold if all had been as good at the price as LA ESTRELLA Finest All-Havana Key West New Crop—Bright, rich colors. Fine New shapes and sizes. 2for 25¢, 10¢, 3 for 25¢. WHOLESALE AGENTS ESBERG, BACHMAN & CO., S. F. IN CONJUNCTION WITH WM. J. DINGEE, AUCTIONEER, 480 Eighth St., Oakland, 2. WILL SELL.... AT AUCTION SATURDAY, SATURDAY........ NOVEMBER ~ AL .ANMEIDA, At 2 o'clock P. ., At the Park-street Broad-gauge Station. 1895, Best Business Corner in Alameda. SE. cor. Park st. and_Lincoln ave.. and immedi- ately opposite the broad-gange Park-st. depot; this corner js cert 1 business . bituminized; electric a cars; asa whole or in subdivisions Handsome Resldence—C: S. side (No. 1804) Central avi Union st.; one of the choicest resid hi brick foundation: French range; table, etc.: fot 50%150 feet. Beautiful Home—Broadway. W. line (No. 1727) Broadway, 826 S.of Eagle ave.: 9 roomsand bath: modern improvements; stable; handsome garden: lot 50x121 fee St. Business Propert fine each; Park st. i3 cond block from Oentral-Ave. Residence. A beautiful home of 8 rooms and bath on N. line 0 feet E. of Pearl st., with lot : also vacant lot adjoining west, 50x ohn Barton’s mansion is on the ad- i street work complete; terms, 1-5 cash. Grand Home. E. line of Grand st., 150 N. of San Antonta ave.; afine home of 5 rooms in the center of Alameda, surrounded by fine improvements; well and pump on premises; street work alldone; lot 50x188 feet; terms, 1-5 cash. Everett Street—Beautiful Homa. W. line of Everett st., 150 feet N. of Eagle ave,; fine 2-story dweiling of 6 rooms: sireet sewered, graded and macadamized; lov 50x140 feet; terms one-fifth cash. Residence and Four Lots. NE, cor. Santa Clara ave. and Broadway; hand- some English cottage of 9 rooms and brick foundations: cottage, with 1ot 66x145:9 fect; also lot_adjoining east, with well and windmill, 50x 45:9 fect; also 2 lots adjoining east, 50x145:9 Pretty Cottage. W. cor. (No. 1535) McPherson st. and Haight cottage of § rooms and bath; street macad- street and avenue sidewalked; lot 65x feet; terms one-third cash. Handsome Kesidence Lot. This handsome residence lot {s on the SE. corner of Lincoln ave. and Pearl st.; handsome surround- ings; both streets sewered: large corner lot, 70x 140 feet; terms one-third cash. Fruitvale Cottage. S. side of Blossom st., 125 feet W. of Fruitvale ave.; cottage of b rooms: choice surroundings: center of Frultvale: electric road; iot 35x114:6 feet; terms one-fifch cash. All of the above property will be sold on SATURDAY, November 2, 1895, at the Park-street Broad-gauge Statiom, Alameda. WILLIAM J. DINGEE, Auctioneer, 460 Eighth Street, Oakland, Firas EASTON, ELDRIDGE & CO., Auctioneers, 638 Market Street, S. r_! WHL E. FISHER & €0, GENERAL MERCHANDISE AUCTIONEERS, 16 Post street, bet. Kearny and Mont- gomery. Resular sales days—TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, TUESDAY, ..October 29, 1895, At10 a3, ‘We will gell at our salesroom, i€ POoSsST STREET, A FINE LINE OF SPORTING GOODS, INCLUDING: Guns, Fishing Tackle, Ammunition Cases, Hunters’ Suits, Revolvers, a lot of New Bicycles, strictly first grade, and other merchandise. ——ALSO. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES. WILL E. FISHER & CO., Auctioneers, 16 Post st. TUESDAY.., MERCHANDISE AUCTION SALES. Commencing Tuesday, October29, 1895 WE WILL HOLD REGULAR AUCTION SALES OF MERCHANDISE At 16 Post Street, In the premises lately occupled by the Bullders’ Exch-n{e. MR. JULIUS ROBINSON, late with the firm ot Newhall Sons & Co., has been engaged by us and he is authorized by us to solicit consignments. It Is our intention 10 Lold regular trade sales of mer. chAInKl\::fr.v\:;d‘:%;\O‘“hld l’l’!palfi”\luy soliclt the iib- era e merchants tarers of this clty. e WILL E. FISHER & CO., Auctioneers, 16 Post st