The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1895, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1895. OAPTAIN TOMMY TAKES COMMAND. A glorious old captain who has sailed the steamer Oakland back and forth across our bay almost every day for twenty years, and has never aliowed anything to happen, was awiully good to Phyllis and me. He said if we would come down and take command of the ferry-boat for a day he would do anything he could to help us about it. We went, of course, and though I don’t want to cast any reflection on the other captain, I must say that I think we kept our part of the contract a little better than the other captain did. I've noticed the same thing plenty of | | | | | 1 | Phyllis and I tried our best to get the | other captain to go downstairs and get | some tea and then lie down where he | | could be comfortable. | all the time after it was so foggy he said | one thing all day, and he wonldn’t do that. It was for his own good, too. You see the captain—the other captain, the grown-up captain—had a very bad cold.” So when the fog began to roll’ in in the evening Phyllis said he must go down in the nice warm cabin and lie down for | awhile with a shawl over him. i He kept coughing and sneezing and the fog got so thick you couldn’t see a thing, s0 what was the use of his staying up there in that little cold high-up room any- way ? Phyllisand I could tend to everything | and we didn’t mind the fog a bit, while it seemed to worry the other captain all the time. We thought it was fun. There was a long time on the last trip that you | couldn’t see a single light anywhere. | Not one in all those four cities, not one | in all that sky, that ought to have shown about a hundred million little electric | lichts. Not even one on Goat Island for a | little while. Our engineer blew his whis- tle about once a minute and kept it blow- ing half the time. Phyllis said it was calling, “Oh deee-ar, where are we, anyway ?”’ The big foghorn on Goat Island would blow back an answer every time, but it didn’t sound very cheerful somehow. i A big bell at the Oakland mole kept tolling,, tolling, tolling, and everything | did seem so lonesome and so wretched that | Hedidn’tgo. And | he was too busy to talk, and then never did a thing that I could see. Before dark we learned a few things | about ferry-boats and about the bay and some people. In the first place there has never been a storm here since the Oakland was built that was wild enough to keep her from | making one of her regular trips. | There never was a sea rough enough to | hurt that good ship either. Once there | was such a wind that the waves rolled | around the Oakland ferry-house till it | shook on its foundations. The steamer | was 80 firm and stanch that she didn't | even have to be calked after that storm. Sailing a ferry-boat 1s just as easy as run- ning a locomotive on a railroad—oh, yes. Only every time you make the trip you have to build the road as you go along— | that’s all. Just as we were pulling away from the | slip on the other side one trip a very important looking gentleman—I think he | must have been a colleze Ixmlessor, because | he looked so wise and talked so foolish— | He walked up to the friend, stretching | spied a friend. stand our business and tend to it. When there is a foz on the bay and the passen- gers watch it blow over the City and talk about the ‘lovely effects’”’ and the ‘“soft rays,”’ that 1s the time when we captains eel like saying bad words. 4 And when the people go inside where it's warm and bright, and while they talk and laugh and read and listen to the music, why that’s the time when we folks up aloft just shut our teeth and feel as if we were ‘carrying all those people across the bay on our shoulders. Bless you, the people don’t know any- thing avbout it. Idon’t suppose one pas- senger out of a hundred ever stops to think whether a ferry-boat has to have a captain at all or not. Most likely most of them think that some Puliman porters or somebody like that filled her small soul with enthusiasm. “Dorothy,” somebody said, pointing to agreat big flag on its pole, “Dorothy, what's that?” 0 ‘‘Oh,” said the little girl with tremendous energy, and remembering what she hn’d been taught about celebrations, “Oh, um’s tannons!” Magy C. JOHNSON. THE DONALD SERIES FOR TINY BOYS. it Donald’s mamma had a dream, and oh! it was such a funny dream. It was about biue-eyed, golden-haired Donald, his little dog Rags, black-eyed, three-year-old Georgie, and a “‘piggy.”” Now, Georgie’s mamma wishes her little tends to the ferry-boat, and that a ‘‘genu- ine old salt” would think a job like that | wasonly fit for women. It isn’t that way at all. : | We captains who bave had experience | know that ferrying across the bay in all | sorts of weather is more difficult, requires | more training, more care and more nerve ten times over than sailing just plain ordi- nary seas anywhere on earth. Way Down in Maine. Ned and Dorothy are good little Ameri- cans, just like THE CALL's children, thongh they de live “way down in Maine.” A few miles away from them is the farm where grandpa and grandma live, and | where there is *‘a sugar-bush” which pro- vides highly appreciated sweets for Doro- thy and Ned. Now, you children may not understand | what a sugar-bush is any better than Ned CAPTAIN OF THE OAKLAND BOAT. times—ever since I was a little chap, in fact. People are always coming around each other and saying, “‘If there is any- thing I can do for you at any time, com- mand me!” They sa know, without letting their voices go very deep down. They always smile when they say it, too, and when were making such a serious offer. Now, for instance, one day I heard a man say that to my father, who has just oodles of money. He has beautiful houses, £0 many of them he just has to rent them. He bas stores, and vacant lots, and I guess he owns railroads and steamships and courthouses, When 1 heara this rich man tell my father to ‘“‘command” tickled to death. 1 wanted to holler, and I just had to go out in the other room and turn a couple of somersaults. When the man was gone I asked my father if he wasn’t glad, and what he was going to ask for first. My father langhed at me. to me that the rich man didn’t mean a thing—that he just said that for a jolly, and wouldn’t give a bone to a dog. Well, that was just the way it was with the captain. We only asked him to do him I was just | He explained | | it sort of with their lips you | the City or to the bottom of the bay. Twas a littie chap I used to |across that bay every day for almost wonder how they could smile when they | twenty | in a fog. There is nothing to worry about out his hand, and said: “Why,where in the world are you going—to the City 2’ | 1 should think that even a professor | might know that when the steamer leaves | the Oakland mole she is going eithe!Btui - sides we captains know that although there are four ferry steamers that have been making about thirty trips apiece {lears, and although there are a few others that make regular trips from San Francisco to other points than Osakland and Alameda, none of them have ever yet gone down, like McGinty, to the bottom of the sea. Really, though, it’s awfully dangerous in a storm. They only make us captains laugh, those sort of sunset storms they have out here. Kogs are quite a different matter, and considering what a lot of fog drifts in here and what thousands of people are being carried back and forth across that bay all the day and half the night; considering how the steamers meet and pass and fol- low and cross each other—isn’t it justa miracle that we haven’t had a collision? No, sir; I will tell you right here that there isn't the least bit of a miracle about it. It’'s just because we captains under- jand Dorothy did—so that must be ex- plained first. A sugar-bush is a forest, big or little, of maple trees. Though maple sugar is not nearly so common nowadays as it was in the days when some of our now distin- guished statesmen used to stop at the sugar barrel that stood on the landing on the road to bea and fish out lumvs of sugar while they tramped their feet to malke mothers below think they were going straight along upstairs (wasn't that a naughty trick, children?). Maple sugar, 1 say, is not so commeon as that now. ut there are sugar-bushes on some rough New England farms still, and grandpa has one, though Ned ana Dorothy had never seen it. One day grandpa and grandma drove over, bringing the usual treat of sweets and a little choice shrubbery for mamma’s garden. Ned rushed upstairs to find his sister, with hands and mouth full of sugar. “Dorothy ! Dorothy!” he shouted, *“grand- paand grandma have come, and they’ve brought the sugar-bush in the back of the busgy." @ orothy is only 3, and when she went down to see the Fourth of July celebration she couldn’t remember ever seeing such a thing before. The waving flags and bands of music A. CONSTANCE SMEDLEY, M. C. S.—A GROUP OF FIGURES IN OUTLINE. (Prize draw:ng of children’s salon in the London Gentlewoman.} | to get ‘intelligence undertakes to guide 1t Was All in a Dream. boy had pretty curls; so every night, when Georgie is ready for his tiny bed, she takes long strips of soft flannel, around which she winds his pretty brown bair. Then in the morning, when™ she unrolls the flan- nels, Georgie’s hair is all in little soft rings, but some mornings she does not have a chance to take down his curls, because he is in such a hurry out to play with Donald. And when he comes, my, don't he look funny! with his shiny black eyes and _the long strings of flannei hanging like little tails from his head, “Rags” is a little black ‘“dogeie,”” who has to live away in the back yard. The piggy, with its curly tail, was just a dream piggy. Well, Donald’s mamma dreamed that the little dog named *‘Rags” jumped up and took hold of one of the strings of flan- nel hanging from Georgie’s head, and that the little black-eyed boy had hold of the piggy’s tail; that the piggy was trying to catch little “Rags’’’ tail, and that they were rauning round the yard as fast as their little fat legs could carry them— squealing and barking, too. Donald, in the dream, was standing watching and laughing so hard that it woke his mamma right up. In the morning when mamma told Don- ald about her funny dream he did really Jaugh so hard and 5o long that she thought the dream might make some other little boy laugh, too. THE CUNNING LITLLE THING. ‘When baby wakes of mornings, ‘Then [t's awake, ye people ali! For another Of song and play Has come &t our darling’s call! And, till she gets her dinner, She makes the welkin ring, And she won't keep still till she's had her fill— The cunnin’ little thing. The trees bend dow iss her, And the birds in raptore sing, And there she staods and waves her hands— The cunnin’ little thing. When baby goes a-rocking In her bed at close of day, At hide and seek On her dainty cheek The dreams and dimples play; Then it’s sleep in the tender kisses The guardian angels bring From the far above to my sweetest 10ve— The cunnin’ little thi EDUCATED NUEBES_NEUEBSABY. Lady Somerset recently said: ‘“‘Instead of some half-educated, well-meaning but ignorant nurse, I believe the day will come when no woman will be considered tco highly educated or too refined to mold the early impressions of the youngest child, and that mothers will see that in order to secure the services of such refined and cultured ladies they must make a revolu- tion in the accepted ideas of the position of nurse in the bouses of the rich. There ought to be no situation so honorabie, no friend so trusted as the one who from the earliest moment of the child’s awakening the thought and form the characterat a time when such formative influence is vital to future well-being.” IN MR. IRWIN’S PULPIT. Semi-Annual Meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Oalifornia Episcopal Diocese. Bishop Nichols and Dr. E. B. Spalding have returned from Minneapolis, where they attended the council as delegates. Rev. E. L. Burnett of Ukiah will conduct the services at St. John’s Presbyterian Church to-day. The Woman’s Auxiliary of the California diocese will hold its semi-annual meeting at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church to-mor- TOW. The officers elected for the ensuing year by Congregation Emanu-El are: Presi- dent, A. Anspacher; vice-president, R. Peixotto; treasurer, L. Sachs; secretary, H. Wangenheim clerk, E. Levy; collector, 8. Rosner; board of trustees—J. Green- baum, J. Jacobg, J. Naphtaly, 8. W. Rosen- stock, 8. Silverberg and J. Frauenfeld. Rev. 8. A. Cheadle, formerly of Spokane, ‘Wash., has accepted a call to the San Juan Congregational Church. Rev. H. F. McLane, pastor of the Chris- van Church of South Riverside, has re- signed, and will leave shortly to engage in evangelistic work in Ohio. The Artesia Christian Church has called Rev. J. W. Utter as pastor and he has sig- nified his acceptance. Rev. J. C. Keith has begun his labors as astor of the Fast Los ingelea Christian hurch, ‘Rev. Cal. Ogburn has been called to the pastorate of tfie Christian Church of Phee- nix, Ariz. . Rev. B. H. Foster has accepted a call to gxe pastorate of the Ohristian Church at apay. ev. Adam Bland, who has been styled a pioneer of Pacific Coast Methodism, died at his home at San Fernando Sunday. The union services of the Mathodist churches of ths City will be held at Trin‘i&y Church on Thanksgiving Day. Dr. Good- M. E. Church win of the California-street will deliver the sermon. Dr. John Cogle, presiding elder of the Methodist district of San Francisco, has taken up his residence at Los Gatos. Lieutenant Fletcher will give an address at the First Unitarian Church on Saturday evening. His subject will be “How Stories Are Made.” GREAT sale of real estate atauction Thursday, November 7, 12 m., at McAfee Bros.’, 108 Montgomery street. ’ Park Music. The programme of the park music to-day with A. Spadina as director, will be as follows: March, “Fortuna” Overture, “Semiramide’ “Ballet de Coppe! Euponium solo, “Grand Polka de - .-composed and performed by W. H. Potpourri, “Musical Tour Through Euroj 3 adi Overture, “Rienzi ‘Wagner “Serenade,” solo for horn with fiute obligato. .. Titl Horn, E. Schiott. rlute, A. Lombardo, @electlon, b1 Lombardi”. erdi altz, “Jol March, “Le HOW IT WILL PROGRESS, Merchants’ Association’s gramme for the Next Twelve Months. Pro- IT COVERS A LARGE FIELD. Clean Streets, Pure Government and the Proposed New Charter Discussed. As the present year draws to an end the Merchants’ Association begins to lay out its work for 1896. A special committee has recently been considering what is called a programme for progress for next year. At yesterday’'s meeting of the board of directors the programme was submitted, discussed and adopted. It sets forth completely what the association aims to accomplish during the next twelve months. It was decided to print 8500 copies of the plan for distribution with the copies of the synopsis of the pro- posed charter. The programme is as fol- lows: Aims and objects,.—Encouragement of such legitimate enterprises as will add to the pros- perity of our City and attract henlth, pleasure and home seekers to our State. Co-operation with City officials in enforcing the laws and ordinances to advance and protect health and the comfort of our inhabitants, and take an active interest in the care of our public insti- tutions. Just treatment of City creditors and employees, economy in municipal administra- tion, liberality in “appropriations for needed improvements and strict honesty in spendin; the amounts so appropriated. Enactment an, enforcement of ordinances that will give us clean and wholesome streets. Better protection of the City against fire by providing more hydrante and larger mains, <0 that the danger of fire will be reduced and the rates of insuc- ance lowered. Suppression of nuisances.—To sccure greater care in hand ing garbage, sawdust, sand and all other kinds of debris, while such substances are being hauled through thestreets. To cause those who remove garbage from the business distriets to do so between the hours of 9 p. . and 9 A. M. of each day. To compel contrac- tors and others making improvements, erect- ing buildings, or making repairs to provide tight boxes for holding all materials that can be scattered about the streets by the wind, or left thereon, such as mortar, sand, lime, or similar material, and prepare the same for nse in such receptacies. To enforce the ordinance against depositing or leaving obstructions, material or debris of any kind, in the streets except when parmitted for special purposes. To see that the ordinance is enforced which requires vacant lots to be fenced in to avoid accumulation of sand and dirt on sidewalks and paved or macadamized streets. To pro- hibit and cause the removal of all excessive and prrticularly all objectionable advertising on fences and other places, when such adver- tising disfigures the surroundings. Care and repair of streets.—To maintain the system of street cleaning inauguratea by the Merchants’ Association. To see thata contract is duly let for street sprinkling according to the specifications submitted by this association to and accepted by the Board of Supervisors, so that the merchants who have heretofore paid for sprinkling will hereafter be relieved trom this unequal tax. To revise specifications for vari- ous kinds of street work so that all good paving material can be made available tosecure the best possible results. To secure the enactment of a law by which all contractors shall be held responsible forall work undertaken by them for & period of at least five years. To carefully supervise the work of contractors so that all contracts shall be complied with in good faith. To compel contractors and holders of fran- chises to complete their contracts premptly on agreed time, and to refuse all applications tor extension of time, except upon satisfactory To0f that such extension is needed for reasons geyond the control of the contractor and not for the purpose of speculation on such con- tracts or franchises. To secure the passage of ordinances by which the City snall open and close the suriace of streets that may be exca- vated by corporations or others at the ex- ense of the parties interested. To ascertain y experiments and otherwise what are the best pavements for heavy waflic and to secure them where required. To prevent the traffic on certain streets by heavy feams, and to Tegu- late by ordinance the width of tiresof vehi cles. Proposed improvements requiring present action.—To improve the lighting of our main thoroughfares and to have provisions made for lighunfi the park as soon as funds will be available for that purpose. Enactment and en- forcement of laws and ordinances to regulate the tracks and roadbeds of all streetcar com- anies, and to compel the removal of all car- Tacks not in actual use. Where cobbled ac- cepted streets require extensive repairs, and where grades permit, the City should pay the entire Cost of repaving the same with noiseless pavements. When basalt and cobblestone pavements, otherwise in good repair, ure to be replaced by noiseless pavements, the cost should be borne equally by the City and the property-owners, until a system of general im- rovement at the City's expense has been Jormuiatea and adopted. To maintain and preserve suitable streets as boulevards through the City and good roads connecting the City with suburban and more distant points. Improvements requiring future action— Adoption of the new charter for San Francisco. The question of the advisability of adopting & new charter for the City and County of San Francisco was submitted by the association to & number of merchants and taxpayers of this City. Ninety-seven per cent of those who an- swered this question were decidedly in favor of making all reasonable efforts to have the new charter adopted. This assoclation has had & careful synopsis made of the provisions of the new charter and will publish the same for ublic distribution. After due consideration t is clearly apparent that after the new char- ter goes Into efect the groper mepns and nec- essary machinery will be afforded to carry out successfully many important reforms. Among the most beneficent results are the following: Inauguration of civil service and Dbusiness methods in every municipal depart- ment. Its safeguards will insure economy in municipal administration and in all expendit- ures of public money. As soon as the new char- ter goes into effect we favor the bonding of the City, under conditions preseribed by law, for a sufficient amount to enable the City to carry out the following necessary and permanent public improvements: An improved system of sewers, with underground conduits for gas, telephone, telegraph and other electric wires. After the completion of the new sewer system and underground conduits the systematic re- construction. where required by the City, of the best noiseless, sanitary pavements on all accepted streets of ordinary traflic. In conclusion the association asks for the co-operation and support of the public in carrying out the plan and principles of- fered. The attention of the president was called to the fact that the new contractor had begun the work of street cleaning under the specifications of the association from November 1. He had informed the prasi- dent that he would employ Messrs, Car- penter and Stephenson, who had shown efficient service under the administration of the Merchants’ Association in connec- tion with the cleaning of the streets. The contractor also wished to haye the co- operation of the association in inaugurat- ing his work. A resolution was adopted by the board authorizing the president to instruct the employesof the association, and, if necessary, engage more to assist the parties who hold the new contract to make a good beginning. he president stated that many of the old hands who worked for the association had been engaged for the hand work. It will take at [east a week to clear away the debris and rubbish that the Superin- tendent of Streets did not remove, and within ten days the public may expect to find the public streets kept in order again. The request of Mayor Sutro for the presi- dent of the association to name the dele- faus to the Trans-Mississippi Congress rom this City was read by the secretary. As there will be ten delegates appointed, it was decided to divide them as follows: Two delegates each from the Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Manufacturers’ Association, Produce Exchange and from the Merchants’ Association. The presi- dent will select the aelegates and inform the Mayor as soon as they have been se- lected. — Loncrrooy LigutiNg.—It would hardly occur to one innocent of the solemn rites of secret societies that there was any par- ticular art in lighting a lodgeroom, but an expert on the subject says it is a wunique branch of the lighting business. To begin with there should of course be plenty of light, but a matter of still greater impor- tance is the manner in which it is dis- tributed, and the flexibility with which its various combinations can be handled, At times brilliant effects are desired; at other times total darkness is called for, and all the graduations between darkness and bright light must be easily available. A typical lodgeroom has a large central chandelier with vossibly twenty lights. At the platform at each end are two standard uprights of say three lights each, or a chandelier hanging from the ceiling. At each side platform are ordinary port- able desklights, and extra dark-lantern reading hmfis are distributed along the sides of the hall for the use of the officials who may be reading at the different desks. All around the room are Ehc@d plugs, which can be used for porta- le lights for scenic effects or connected to fan motors or heating apparatus. By thi means the roo: o Sy according to the season. lodgercom swiiches for tu rent on or off are invarial less “knife’’ pattern is thu lodgeroom wireman: work silently, and on that account should be use; for after the most mighty puissant royal chief has roasted a candidate for three-quarters of an hour and finally arises to pronounce sentence it breaks in on the solemnity of the occasion to hear the ‘whang’ of a snap switch.’ — SHOOTING THE CHUTES, A New Form of Amusement Opened for San Francisco’s Patronage. The fact that rning the cur- bly of the noise- s explained by a “Knife switches Thousands Present on the Opening Day—The Rage in London at Present. A novel and exhilarating form of amuse- ment was opened to the residents of San Francisco yesterday near the Haight-street entrance to the park. It ook the form of a water toboggan-slide, erected under the management of Captain Paul Boyton. From early morning until well into the night thousands of people of all ages en- joyed themselves at 10 cents a time by *‘shooting the chutes,” as the new amuse- ment is termed. The ‘“chute” itself is a small boat- shaped arrangement, capable of seating a dozen persons. This is drawn up to the top of an incline and let down. It de- scends, gathering velocity every mo- ment till it strikes the water. It then re- bounds twice or thrice, producing a most delightful sensation in the nerves of those seated in the boat. Each boat is under the charge of an ex- the rebound to dry land. The manage- ment assures everybody that the pastime that the unfortunates seated at the aft end of the boat are liable 10 emerge in a somewhat sprayed condition. This is, hewever, compensated for by the delight- ful feeling that passes through one while making the descent. “‘Shooting the chutes” has become the rage of the hour in London, Antwerp, New York and Chicago. It bids fair to be- come quite as much of a success in this City. ——— Reports from the lake regions of Minne- sota and the Dakotas announce that the lakes in that section are not only greatly diminished in guantity, but some are dis- appearing entirely. This state of affairs is largely attributable to the deficiency in rainfall for the past ten years. NEW TO-DAY. m can be kept warm or cool, | verienced guide, who helps to tow it after | is perfectly safe, though it is whispered | WILL MILLER SIGN [T Consultation of Legal Lights as to the Gist of the Agree- ment. DOUBTS AS TO HIS INTENT. |Tho Lux Heirs Await the Completion of the Arrangement With Hope and Anxiety. | The question as to whether Henry Miller | will finally sign an agreement to divide the Miiler & Lux property is still an open one. On the stand at Redwood City, in the | suit brought by the Lux heirs for the ree moval of Jesse Potter as special udminise trator, Mr. Miller signified his willingness to sign such an agreement. The agree- | ment was presented to him while on the stand the next day, and be asked for time that the agreement might be passed upon | by bis attorneys. In accordance with that ;request and pursuant to subsequent are | Tangements, Mr. Herrin held two consulta- tions with Mr. Delmas at the latter’s office in this City yesterday and on the day previous. | As a result of these conferences the | matter of arranging the details of the | agreement was referred to Eugene R. | Garber, James H. Campbell and Charles | S. Wheeler. These gentlemen were in | consultation over the matter of the agree | ment yesterday at the office of Garber, Boalt "& Bishop, but evidently there is much to nsider and many questions to | decide in taking even so simple a step as | signing an agreement to divide the vast | property represented by the Miller & Lux | estate. | Meanwhile the Lux heirs are sustained y the hope created by Mr. Miller when he expressed a desire to have the vast property divided. To them it eave promise of a realization | of a hope which has been deferred; “a re=~ duction of 8 present legal right to an actual investment,” as the lawyers would sa; _*‘The question isof a man’s willingness to | divide and give over the management of a_ practical kingdom, yielding an income of from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 per year, | which he evidenced by something more than words, d one of the interested | parties yesterday. |~ “‘I'will sign an agreement to divide the ' The heirs might truly say, on, I think, ‘That hath a pleasing l; a music most entrancing, but too | tran sient.” | “The estate is so | comes as a propos | would have come to | proposition to aivide | VIII or the Stewarts | “The labor of a lifetime—an active, ag- gressive, busy life—is this vast property to Henry Miller, and it is little to be won- dered at that he should cling to it so | tenaciously. *‘While awaiting his pleasure the heirs can but hope that in tkte interests of juse tice and fairness he will find it in "his | heart to sign the agreement and avoid the iong and harrassing period of the law’s de- ays.”” ast that to Miller it n to divide France Louis XIV, or a England to Henry — Queen Victoria, it is said, is a very deters mined opponent of the use of electricity. NEW TO-DAY, Dress Goods. | The prices we quote have every legitimate right In retalling to be higher. First, we are bldding for trade and sell very close. Second, the raw materlals have advanced and we can’t replace them at selling prices. Third,the unusual demand for and the scarclty of Crepons, | Niggerheads and Plalds have ad- vanced them 25 per cent. Niggerheads, 50c, 75c, $1. New goods, late deliveries have come to hand during the past week in choice color- ings and newest designs. You know what | can be purchased around town at these prices, so you'll find these great bargains. Novelty Plaids, $1. ‘We were fortunate to secure a shipment of fine French novelty plaids, and in view of the demand and scarcity these at the price are very low. Crepons, $1.25. Black or fancy; an exceptionally elegant quality; worth 200 cents of any one’s money. We want to sell Dress Goods badly, and we sell them for less, quality considered, than our neighbors. Give us an opportunity to serve you. Fancy Silks, 50c, 65c, 75c, $1. Novelty silks have gone a-begging in the New York market. solid color, with a great tendency to black. We secured these different lines very ad- vantageously and are placed before you likewise. Millinery. Trimmed Felt Walking Hats, §1, $1 50, $175. Our very stylishly trimmed Hats and Bonnets from $5 up are worth seeing. Nothing succeeds like success, and this department’s should bring it a wealth of visitors. Trilbyism. Trilby’s heart reproduced in silver in various designs of lockets, pins, watch- guards, mirror designs, side combs,(etc., all at dry-goods store prices. A visit to our silver' lingerie would be instructive and profitable. Handkerchiefs, 12 1-2c and 25c. These are special values in Handker- chiefs. Manufacturers’ sample lines of a dozen each in Irish point and embroidered edge designs. Hosiery, 25c. Our Ladies’ Fast-black Hosiery at this price is incomparable with anything pur- chasable. We would like you to exam- ine it. S 54-inch Ladies’ Cloths, 37 1-2c. All colors and blacks. This is an un- usual offer, as the quality bas retailed at 76c, but we have too many on hand and make the cut in the hope of speedily re- ducing them. 7 Send for our lllustrated Oatalogue, mailed free. Everything now is | Our necessitles your good fortune, | We want to sell badly. We must at best carry over a very large stock of Fall and Winter goods, because we bought more than we can pos- sibly sell. We enlarged all our de- partments, and stocked up heavily, and the Increased trade expected has not come. If you have a Cloak, Wrap or Sultto buy, look in at “Tha Maze.” If It’s Dress Goods or Do- mestics, Underwear or Shoes, or any article In the Dry Goods line, you’ll save money by trying us be= fore you purchase. German Fancy Flannels, 25c. 100 pieces imported from Germany are rived ndui: Elegant designs on exhibie tion in our big front window. Sale of Linens and Towels. To brine money in the till, and to dee plete stocks. Kid Gloves, $1.00. Guaranteed Real Kid, not lambskin, all colors; latest stitchings. Every pair fitted to the hand. Le Grand’s Perfumery, 15c. | Guaranteed genuine. This perfumes | makes the finest and costliest goods in the world. Retail at $2 50 an ounce bottle. These are trial sizes only. Boucle Tailor-made Suits, $10. Box-coat style, ripple back, melon sleeves, lined throughout, unmatchable in fit, style or price. | Ladies’ Underwear, 25c, 50c, Sk | We can give you more value for the money than any house here. Some lines we could not buy again for the selling price, noticeably the s0c line. Our Los Angeles house has soid theirs, and would pay us 50c for every garment we have if we'd give them ours. Toys. | . We are ready for old Santa Claus with & larger and better stock than we ever had, and more room to show it. We'll knock spots out of the prices, too. So, if inter- ested, we'll store your purchases free of charge until Christmas. Ladies’ Neckwear. The latest novelties in Parisian and New York Neckwear just received, and selling very rapidly. Novelties in Jet, Feather and Fur Trimmings, all new. Do you use “Anita’ Cream for the complexion? You should. You cam purchase it only at * The Maze.” Stamped Goods and Embroidery mae terials. We make a specialty of this department, and_ carry everything requisite for fancy work. Have you seen our 817.50 Fancy Tan Jacket? It lays over anything in the City for $10 more. Ladies’ Tailoring. ‘We make suits to order. Will make up your own materials. Our styles are original, our fit .perfect and prices lower than any first-class tailor in the City. We satisfy our patrons—that’s our recommense dation