The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1896, Page 26

TRAIKING CRUISER CREWS _The Naval Station to Be Estab- " to grab the bit of bay-girt land that orna- -aced those precious acres; but Uncle Sam | * pair large white blankets; . for action,” mans his guns ana ‘26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1896. lished cn Yerba Buena i Island. CONDiTIONS OF ADMISSION. : | Drills'That Go On Always—How Uncle Sam Teaches and Toughens His Sailors. A training station on Yerba Buena Isl and, one of the paval probabilities of the near future, will be an aoxiliary to the cruiser-building of the Pacific Coast. While Mare Island and the Union Iron Works make the ships Yerba Buena will make the sailors to man them. Goat Island, the “fair Capri”’ of San Fran- cisco Bay, has been jealously guarded by its owner, the Federal Goverment, from pio- neerdays. Various plans have been floated ments the eastern part of the harbor. Even the great Southern Pacific has men? | has declined any more donations 1 that quarter, and Yerba Buenais still a portion of the United States. ; The island was for a long time occupied _by a troop of the National forces, but sev- -eral years ago the post was removed. The | barracks and other buildings were located | on & small, aimost level piece of plain on the narrow neck between the eastern and western” headlands. Now a few shade trees, planted long ago by the soldiers, grow on the hillsides, and the grass springs thick and -green over the old parade- ground. J | This little plateau lies between the light- | bouse supply depot and the torpedo sta- tion, a couple of hundred yards from each, and a betfer place could hardly be found for the proposed training school. While sheltered from the winds by highlands on | the west, it affords an unobstructed view | of the northern and southern portions of | the harbor. The Alameda shore, stretch- ing far along the east, and the peerless | Golden Gate to the west, opens broad to | the spectator. Fronting the Oakland pier is a pretty cove of a quarter-circle sweep, | with a sandy, sloping beach. In thisbasin may lie moored the training squadron of the station, and on its still waters the young :sailors may handle their oars in | poat drill. When_ the Congressional appropriation makes the Yerba Buena training school ready for the work building crews for the Pacific cruise: t will be a naval post | with barrack for the sailor apprentices | and marine guard, dwelling houses for the of “All hands abandon ship.” He does not rush frantically for a boat, but goes quietly to his station with food, water, arms or whatever article he has been told off to provide, and awaits the order to leave the ship. Nothing is ever done at haphazard on board of a man-of-war. ‘When the apprentice has acquired the necessary proficiency he is rated second- class, with pay at §15, or first-class at $21 per month. e may be appointed an act- ing petty officer’ with the increased mgnthly pay of that rating, which may reach as high as $50. The naval apprentice is eligible to the osition of warrant officer, such as oatswain, gunner, sailmaker or carpen- ter, though the latter are generally ap- pointed from the ranks of those who have served their time in ship-carpentry. These officers receive from $1200 to $1800 per year. The higher petty officers, such as writers at $35, chief gunners and boatswains’ mates at $50, yeomen at $60 and master-at-arms at $65 per month, are given 1w ex-upprentice boys in preference 10 other enlisted men when possible. The Burean of Navigation pubiishes the following notice to parents and guardians of candidates for enlistment in the navy: Any of the following conditions will be suffi- cient to cause the rejection of an applicant: Greatly retarded development; feeble con- stitution, inberited or acquired; permanently impaired general health; decided cachexis, diathesis or predisposition; chronic disease or results of injuries sufficient to permanently impair efficiency, such £s weak or disordered intellect, epilepsy or other convulsions within five years; impaired vision or chronic disease of the organs of vision; great duliness of hear- ing or chronic disease of the ears; chronic na- sal catarrh; ozaena polypi or greatenlarge. ment of the tonsils; marked impediment of the speech; decided indications of liability to pulmonary disease; chronic cardiac affection; hernia or retention of testes in in- guinal cavity; cirsocele, hydrocele, stricture, fistula or hemorrhoids; large varicose veins of lower limbs, scrotum or cord; chronic ulcers, cutaneous and communicable diseases; unnatural curvature of the spine, torticellis or other deformit; rmanent disability of cither of the extremities or articulations from any cause; defective teeth, the loss or exten- PN One of the hardest things to contend with in a game of whist is playing with a beginner who has got far enough advanced | to know the ‘*‘call for trumps.” When | they have this much knowledge, which, | unfortunately, they often get a year or two before they acquire a knowledge of the leads, and how to make it, they sel- i dom, if ever, let an opportunity slip with- out *calling” with or without reason, and instantly the hand is played they invari- ably ask, “Did you see my call?” or “Why didn’t you answer my call?”’ The interest in the whole deal to them was the fact they ‘“called for trumps,” regardless of the number they held or tricks they won or lost. I have known this class of | players to call for trumps without one in their hand, and offer as an excuse, they ‘“‘thought it would be a good idea to ‘call,’ and have partner get out two for one.”’ The above is almost a daily occurrence among a certain class of whist players. Our advice would be to beginners—seldom | if ever call for trumps. A great many ad- vanced in the knowledge of the game make the same mistake. We will give a few situations when a player would be justified in asking for trumps. When the original leader picks up his hand and finds he has one strong, plain suit, and is also strong in trumps, if an honor is turned to his right, and he can rrevent that honor from making a trick, he is justified in “calling” on his original lead, as previously explained in these The Cove Where the Young Sailors Will Practice Boat Drill. [From a photograph taken for “The Call.’’] for several years in her whist lessons, and has kindly given us permission to pub- lish ix: ‘ONIQTON anAw, pU] 6 JourINg 01 £81d—DIT PIv) MOT D“:S’Rc: oFETEeE F ErE3Rgs gE758e | - BN | LoER | g3g i Lt “[1v) $ Jounng 01 puaT | a1 saus ANSWER TO QUERIES. You can get full particulars of the ar- rangements for those wishing to attend the Brooklyn Whist Congress by applying to the whist editor of THE CALL. The “paragon trays” are without doubt the best and cheapest in the market, they have been in use since the starting of the Trist Duplicate Whist Club. It is impos- sible for the cards to get out when once put in. The penalty for a revoke is the transfer of two tricks from the revoking side to their adversaries. No. There is no such thing as “points” in duplicate whist. You should say the game was won by a gain of seven tricks. The whist committee in the Trist Dupli- cate think that colored score cards are the best. North and south all one color, east and west another, “Chips’’ are not used for counters any more. When a cardis played out of turn it should be taken back into the hand and | not left on the table, it is not “‘a card lia- ble to be called.” “Humbug whist” is a two-handed game, | the ‘alternate hands being discarded. French bumbug is an improvement on the former game, each player having the op- tion of exchanging one of the alternate hands for his own, which cannot after- ward be looked at, | No. An exclusively ladies’ whist club | cannot join the American Whist League. They must have at least twenty male members. “Should you lead from a tenace?”’ George L. Bunn, captain of the St. Paul Whist Team and one of the few great vlayers living, says: No player ought to be considered in the first rank who refuses VIEW- OF YERBA BUENA ISLAND. officers, and the necessary equipment of vessels and boats. Warrant’ and pettg officers from the | navy will ‘instruct the younesters in sea- | manship both on shcre and aboard of the | practice vessels. They will also be drilled | aloft among the sails. Notwithstanding | the new man-of-war is a steamer and not | a sailer Uncle Sam makes his young tars | get out on the yards and wrestle with the | canvas the same as when Old Ironsides | * spread her white pinions on tbe sea. On ‘'shore they will be instructed in ‘“book learning” ‘by schoolmasters, who are chief | petty officers in the regular service. The boy must be enlisted between the | agesof 14 and 17 by his parents or guardian to serve titl he is 21 years old. € must pass a medical examination so rigid that only a small percentage of the applicants ever “‘weather the doctor.” Then he is given the following outfit: One mattress and two mattress covers; one | two pairs cloth trousers; two blue flannel overshirts; two blue flannel undershirts and drawers; two pairs .shoes; one blue cap; two knit wateh caps and two whife canvas hats; one cap-1ibbon with name of ship or station: | one overcoat; three working suils; one pair rubber boots; one rubber blankes vo pair ‘woolen sqcks; one knife lanyard; two silk neckerchiefs; one pair leggins. Of small stores he is given two bars of soap, one scrubbing and one blacking brush,-one box of blacking, one whisk- broom, one pair of scissors, one thimble and needles and thread. The boy-is then rated a third-class naval apprentice and receives $9 per month and & ration. . His uniform is the same as that of any enlisted man, except that he wears a figure-of-eight knot in white cord sewed on the front of his shirt. His outfit is presented to him, but should he leave the service before the expiration of his term of enlistment its value, $45, will be de- ducted from his pay. He is required to keep his person, bedding and clothing per- fectly clean, and punishment swiftiy fol- lows any neglect of this very wholesome duty. e Is under strict military discip- line and unquestioning obedience to every order from a superior is a law that must not be broken. Then come the drills, and they goon ‘and on until his twenty-first virthday cuts them short. Besides the lessons in bis textbooks he ts mstructed in practice with great guns, the manunalof arms, sword and pistol drill, gvmnastics, calisthenics and swimming. The boys are encouraged to form themselves into baseball and foot- ball teams, and many hardly contested games have been won by Uncle Sam’s naval aporentices of the training stations. Itis not the desire of the Government to coddle its future sailors, but to make them strong and athletic and fit for the hardy life before them. If a boy develops a physical weakness during his t¢erm of ser- vice he is surveyed by a medical board and discharged. If injured in the line of duty he is given & pension. Abonrd the practice ship he is taught to bend sail, loose, furl and reef and send up and down masts and yards, He must learn to strip and rig his ship, knot and splice, steer, handle a boat under*sail and oars and hundreds of other tasks pertain- ing to the life of a sailor. He ‘‘clears ship goes through the pretense of a battle. slumbers by the violent ringing of the bell and takes his station at “‘fire quarters.” Occasionally he will hear the loud call View Taken From the Platean rejection of the candidate. than 4 feet 9 inches in height, weigh not 80 pounds and have 27 inches of 16 years he must be 5 feet 1inch hi, weigh 90 pounds and measure %incfi around the chest. Lannes’ Dying Rebuke to Napoleon. On the 23d Emperor all that he felt. The army, said, was weary of bloodshed, the n: less ambition of one man. tion, and turned his fa tle chance for boog ing and constant fighting, the the poor were diuienmned. 'he fortunes won by the officers were of use while joyment; save him that he loved lmr{ indulgence. Such.voices of Napoleon in May Century. Madisonville. county Mrs. Munn preached 60 sermons with 119 conversions. ALCATRAZ IS SEEN TO THE RIGHT AND IN [From a photograph taken for * The Call.”] sive caries of four molar teeth, will cause the A 14-year-old candidate must be not less less than 70 pounds and have not less than 26 inches chest measurement; at 15 he must be 4 feet 11 inches hifih, weigh chest; at h, es Napoléon again visited Lannes, who was now fully conscious and aware that he was doomed. He was as fearless as ever, and with the stern candor of anold Republican poured out to the he i« ion of its sense of exhaustion; for both were alike aware that they suffered and bled no longer for a principie, but for the bound- The veteran marshal refused all svmrthy or consola- ce to the wall. Both Marbot and Pelet declare that this story of Cadet de Gassicourt is an inven- tion; if so, itis a clever one, for we know from other sources that as far as the army was concerned, the statement attributed to Lannes was correct. As there was lit- in such rapid march- outh and reat ittle eace was denied for their en- he millions of Massena did not the exposures and hard- ships of the battle-field, and he confessed and immoral self- had created an undercurrent of discontent.—Sloanels Life e ey Hopkins County, Ky., is experiencing a h € In the | notable religious revival under the preach- night he is suddenly aroused from his |ing of a8 woman_evangelist, Mrs. Munn, of In a five weeks’ tour of the Where the Old Barracks Stood. [From a photograph taken for “The “Call.”) columns, When he is not the original leader, it 1s seldom if ever good whist to call or start a “call” on a card led proclaim- ing five cards in suit. If you stop to think a minute, the suit the leader opens can never be brought in as long as thereis trump strength against him. If you are strong enough to say, ‘I don’t care how strong you are in the suit you open, if I can get a trump lead from my partner, I will take the responsibility of this hand and promise him a good score'’—then “call” fearlessiy. If you have six or seven trumps you must be weak in some other suit, then you can, after a little, trump in, and lead a’trump, but don’t “call.’”’ If we have any students of the game among our whist readers we ask them to try our sug- gestions; it will be trick-winning to them if we can induce them to do so. ‘When a ‘‘call” is made or a trump is led the pa: of the catler should as quickl; as possible tell how many trumps he holds or did hold originally. " You can readily see the imvortance of this, and you should never lose sight of it. We will give you a few simple methods of telling or giving this information: A *‘call” 1s made, you are the partner; before you can get in you are obliged to trump, and hold four small, trump 1n with third best and lead smallest. f you hold the ace and three small, trump in with third best, lead the ace, then smallest. Your rtner should read you for oneamore at least. If yon held four small and was obliged to trump a trick before your rnn- ner “called,” trump with the smallest. When tt:;"zl:::l‘;' inhmlde, in this mg wl;en ou get the , the proper card ay zr lé‘:d is the smallest remaining; when anotuer trump falls from your hana higher than the one led—you are marked with still one more at least. This is one of the ‘plays not generally known or ever heard of among many whisters. We giye below a concise table showing what card to lead to partner’ 1 and what card to play to partner’s lead, hold- ing three or four. Our little whist queen, Miss Kate Wheelock, has used this table THE DISTANCE THE GOLDEN GATE. to lead from ace, queen and others when 1t is the only good suit he has. . We have quite a number of good players in 8an Francisco. No doubt Herbert P, Tyson heads the list. Q.—If nine is led originally and part- ner holds king, jack and one small, what card should he Elay'r The proper or cor- rect play would be the small one. On the next round he should gluy the king, His partner marks him with jack alone. WHISTLETS. In the Ladies’ Trophy Tournament in Philadelphia Mrs, Hastings’ team, after seven straight victories, dropped the eighth to Mrs, Stroud’s team. Both teams were vupils of Miss Wheelock. he Linda Vista Club is a little slow about coming forward to play for the Rideout trophy. Don’t be afraid, boys. The St. Paul Club will have the honor of surrendering the American Whist League Tro;h.y to the Brooklyn Congress. They held it against all comers. Play ended Thursaay last. The first round for the ladies’ trophy, presented by President George E. Bates, was played Saturday afternoon, April 25, in the rooms of the San Francisco Whist Club. Thescore of the three leading teams is as follows. Question arises, who is the winner? The team composed of Mrs. J. Curtis, Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Bell and Miss Jenkins are the winnners under the rules of the Howell system. The score should be recorded as follows: . Mrs. Harenum’s team— Mteh, Tr. +1 +1 —4 2 6 3 Mrs. Curtis, i s 4 —1 +1 41 0+2 6 13 Mrs. Hawes' teamis T+ 1O 40+ 2434041404043 4+0 6 9 (0) Zero entitles the team to half a match, but not half a trick. A team from the New York Whist Club g new club just formed) are going to the rooklyn Congress to capture the Hamil- ton trophy. They have a new scheme, or new system, which they intend to “‘wofk,’” called the “Long and Short Tenace Ruf- fing High-card Strategic Game,”’ with a lot of new-fangled ideas on the side. The Minneapolis Whist Congress had just such an experierice—they lasted almost one "BRe’ Philadel ia Telegraph of he iladelpbia Evening Teiegraph of April 18, under the_ head-lines, ““Whist Lectures From the Pacific Coast,’ pays our whist editor a flattering compliment by republishing one of our entire articles. The president of the Pacific Coast Whist Association bas received a challenge for the Rideout trophy from the Vallejo Whist Club, now held by the San incisco Whist Clup, and have named Saturday, May 9, as the date of the match. Rules for scoring under the Howell- Mitchell system: A mateh and trick score 1s kept of each team. The team making the highest match score is declared the winner, each match won count- ing one and each meich tied counting one-half on such score. (No half tricks are counted.) In case of a tie in the match score, the trick. score of the teams tying will determine. If & team phJ. eight matches, wins four, and four are tied, their total score is six matches won—they lose_four half matches as well as winning four. If another team wins seven matches and loses one, they rank first, of course. So far out of nineteen replies we have received no correct solution of problem 4, 80 give it. rge L. Bunn saysat trick 6: This situation is a very delicate and interesting one from East's pointof view. Hecan practically absolutely place the number of cards of each suit that each player now holds. South has three clubs left, and so has North, as West can have no more; South has not four trumps or he would have ventured a trump lead at trick five; he has not more than one spade leit, for he did not make the unblocking play; he has not more than oue diamond or would not have played king second hand; he has, therefore, one spade, one diamond and three trumps; West must have two spades, as North _had but five and South but three originally, and three diamonds in all probability, as the deuce did not fall at trick 4, and three trumps; North has three spades, three clubs and 1[;arolgnk:-ly two trumps; Kast cannot tell the size of the trumps in the different hands, but unless South’s trumps are such that he will be able to win the second round and have the commanding trump left todrawa third round a lead of trumps will do no harm and may work very well; the fact that ‘West must have three trumps is the con- trolling factor, for it will prevent the ad- versaries from making their suit unless South has the winning trump and isin the lead aiter two rounds. East, reason- ing this out, ventures a trump lead from three remaining. 3 We give the following answer to our query of April 6, What should South play on trick 5? which we think tne best out of twenty-three: Whist Editor—DEAR SIR: In answer to ques- tion in issue of April 6 of your esteemed paper my opinion of South’s play on fifth trick is to play 4C and take cfi.nm on N. taking the trick. My reason is that you do not neces- sarily lose all chances of mlkin’g your K of C good. Itseems evident that E. is not stron in the ciub suit or clubs would have been I instead of diamonds on the fifth hand. Yours most truly, R.L. R. The following is a remarkable whist sit- uation: Clubs trumps. South to lead and holds: Spades—Ace king queen. earts—Ace kInE queen jack. Clubs—King jack nine seven. Diamonds—Ace king. This nand was dealt in a game of whist some years ago. South opened with a trump and never took a trick. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. An unpublished poem by Robert Louts Stevenson High as my heart! the quip be mine That draws their stature 0 a line, My pair of fairies nlump and dark, The dryads of my cattle park. Here by my window close I sit, And watch (and my heart laughs at 1t) How these my dragon-lilies are Alike and yet dissimilar. From European womankind They are divided and defined Bv the free limb and the plain mind, The nobler gait, the naked foot, The Indiscreeter petticoat; And show, by each endearing cause, More like what Eve in Eden was— Buxom and free, flowlng and fine, 1n every limb, in every line, Inimitably feminine. Like ripe fruit on the espaliers ‘Their sun-bepainted hue appears, And the white lace (when lace they wear) Shows on their golden breast more fair. So far the same they seem, and yet One apes the shrew, one the coquette— A sybil or a truant child One rans—with a crop halo—wild: And one more sedulous to please, Her long dark bair, deep as her knees, And thrid with living silver, sees. What need have I of wealth 'or fame, A club, an often-printed name? It more coutents my hesrt to know Them going simply to and fro: To see the dear pair pause and pass Girded, among the drenching grass, Tn the respiendent sun, or hear, When the huge moon delays to appear, Their kindred voices sounding nesr In the veranda twilight. So Sound ever: 80, forever o And come upon your s:rong brown feet, Twin honors to my country seat, And its t00 happy master lent: My solace and its ornament. May Scribner's. LEFT EVERYTHING. STRANGE STORY OF AN ABANDONED GARDEN ON BELVEDERE PENINSULA, For many years past an old German, named Rupert, had a nursery near the northern end of Belvedere Peninsula. He was very industrious, and although his tract of rented land was small, he man- aged to grow an enormous quantity of flowers, that he disposed of in many dif- ferent ways. None of his neighbors, how- ever, got very well acquainted with him, and he never spoke of his business except to mention hard times. Some say that he made piles of money, und others believe that he was telting the truth when he said be never made a cent. At any rate, he always lived like a very poor man. One day, some time during last Pebru- ary, he was seen at work in his garden. He was also seen in Tiburon and attended to his usual business. The next day none of his neighbors saw him untilabout noon, when he appeared in an elegant Prince Albert suit and a silk hat and told them he came to say good-by, as he was going away and would never come back. He seemed to bein the best of spirits. Some thanght he was joking, but others asked him where he was going. “Oh, I am going to make a change,” was all the answer they gnt. 1t was naturally thought that he would take away his things and sell his plants before going, but he was seen wandering around his garden that ‘evening and none of his neighbors have seen him since. mystery. isitors to his house the next morning ‘When he left or how is a Portion of Old Rupert’s Garden. [From a sketch.) found doors and windows wide open and his few household utensils scattered about the floor. It is not known that he took a single thing with him. There was considerable speculation as to ‘what became of the old man, although no- body felt the least alarm. He must have had plenty of money or he would not have left evervthing behind him, because he could have sold his tools and plants for quite a sum. The general belief of those who knew him best is that he went back to Germany. Some believe he1s in San Francisco, but cannot imagine why he left so suddenly. He is not known to have owed anybod{ln cent. Since old Rupert’s departure the house has been going to ruin, and the furniture and tools have all been carried off by peo- ple who thought they might as we{l use them as allow them to go to decay. But the garden still continues to grow, and at present is a muss of flowers, in spite of neglect. Grass and weeds have grown all over the place, but roses by the thousands are blooming on all sides.” All of the flow- ers common to this locality are there in profusion. The serous membrane of the interior ear secretes a fluid known as the perilymph. BISHOP JOKNSON'S VISIT, He Will Arrive in a Few Days and Preach at St Luke’s. EPWORTH LEAGUE OFFICERS. The Archbishop’s Itinerary of Confirm- ation Services—Dr. Dille’s Tour of the Islands. The+Rt. Rev. Dr. Johnson, first Episco- pal Bishop of Los Angeles, is expected in San Francisco some time this week. He may arrive in time to attend the reception to Bishop and Mrs. Nichols at the Occi- den tal Hotel on Weanesday evening next. Anyway, he will be here by May 8, when he will preach the sermon at the annual meeting of the California Branch of the ‘Women’s Auxiliary in St. Luke’s Church. The services will commence at 11 A. M. The visit of the new bishop will be neces- sarily brief, as the pressing duties of his diocese demand his presence at Los An- eles. gTha officers of the Epworth League of the Methodist church for the ensuing year are as follows: President, W. G. Poage, Ukiah; first vice-president, E. M. Kimball, Downey; second vice-president, Henr_y Atkinson, Santa Rosa; third vice-presi- dent, Miss Estella Duke, Linden; secre- tary, C. W. Clough, Chico; corresponding secretary, Miss Hattie Glover, Salinas; treasurer, Miss Hamilton; superintendent junior work, Mrs. Richardson, Woodland. The Venerable Archdeacon Webber of the Diocese of Milwaukee has consented to come to the coast to conduct ‘parochial | missions in California during next fall, winter and spring. A The First Hebrew Congregation of Oak- land has asked permission of court to sell its old synagogue property for $27,000 to Hugo Abrahamson. It proposes to pur- chase a new site at Twelfth and Castro streets for $11,000. In the last five years 13,905 Bibles, cost- ing nearly $4000, have been given by the Bible Society to the Congregational Church Sunday-schools of this State. A branch of the League of the Cross has been established at St. Joseph’s Church, Berkeley. & Confirmation will be administered by Archbishop Riordan during the com- iug week as follows: Sunday, May 3, St. Helena; Wednesday afternoon, May 6, Lakeport; Wednesday morning, St. Turi- bius, Lake County; Thursday, May 7, Hopland; Sunday, May 10, St. Mary’s Church, Sausalito, Rev. Dr. Hirst’s residence at Chicago was burglarized and $700 in personal effects stolen. The trustees of the Pacific Methodist College will meet in annual session at the Santa Rosa College on May 10. The Pacific annual conference of the Methodist/church will be held this year at Oakland. The new Congrecational Church at Mill Valley is two-thirds completed. The California Sabbath Association will meet in annual convention in the audi- torium of the Y. M. C. A. building in this Ci"l[y on May 14. he Congregational ministers and churches of San Bernardino and Riverside will meet at Mentone on May 5. Rev. F. F. Pearse has resigned the pas- torate of the Third Congregational Church of Los Angeles to go to Nordhoff, where he will have charge of a church. The receiptsof the Congregational Home Missionary Society from Southern Cali- fornia for the year were $5615 50. Rev. P. C. Yorke will lecture at Metro- politan Hall on Tuesday evening. The rally of the fourth district of the League of the Cross will take place at Na- tive Sons’ Hall at 2 o’clock to: lf" A class of forty boys and girls will re- ceive first communion at St. Teresa's Church to-day. Rev. Dr. Dille will deliver several lec- tures while in Honolulu. Bishop Joyce of the Methodist Church of Vancouver, B. C., will saii for Japan on June 22, PARK FUNDS EXHAUSTED, Over Eighty Laborers Laid Off in the Big Pleasure Ground. The Appropriation Not Sufficient to Meet the Needed Expen- diture. The lack of funds to retain the necessary nelp in Golden Gate Park caused the discharge of eighty laboring men on the last day of April. This shortage of funds not only acts as a drawback to work that is a necessity, but it prevents the Park Commissioners from improving Point Lobos road, a thoroughfare sadly in need of repairs. Since the Sutro electric line of cars com- menced to run through the Richmond dis- trict several houses have been built on the line of Clement street out as far as Tenth avenue, where streets are laid out, graded and macadamized. Yet Point Lobos road is neglected and germitted to remain year after year in its almost impassable condi- tion, because it is under the supervision of NEW TO-DAY. NOLAN -BROS. ' SHOE CO. LATEST STYLE TAN SHOES! We Are the Only House That Has All the Very Latest Tan Shoes: N0 OLD STYLES in OUR STORE Nothing but the very latest and all right up to the minute. So when you want TAN SHOES come or sead direct to our store and buy them. AT WHOLESALE PRICES, We Are Making a Specialty of Tan Shoes and Can Suit Everyone. All Styles That Are Made in Black Shoes We Have in Tan. WE SELL: . Ladies’ Finest Quality Tan Chrome Kid Button, hand-turn soles, pointed toes and tips, at.. 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The Point Lobos and Richmond im- Erovome_nt clubs have repeatedly tried to ave this road attended to, but so far the attempt has been futile, while the avennes intersecting it have been put in tolerably good condition by the property-owners. First avenue alone has been left in its normal condition by reason of a protest by a majority of the property-owners, who are opposed to its pavement on the line and terms which it was sought to have it paved with bitumen. This protest has the effect of staying the work for a period of six months from the time of its present- ment to the Supervisors. What action will be taken when the six months expire remains to be seen. ———————— The Golden Age a Superstition. I have compared only a few of the con- ditions of life at the gresenz day with those of the past. The task wonldybe too grnt, even if mv knowledge were suf- cient, to strike the balance between all those conditions and to determine which were the most detrimental. Some con- ditions are undoubtedly better and others worse than they were five, or two, or one century ago. Many of us, especially here in_ America, as is apparent to the most superficial o'bnmr,l ve in 400 much of a hurry and under too great a strain. We sbould undoubtedly be better off if we led quieter lives, if we relaxed the tension under which we work, and if we went more slowly and took life more easily and comfortably. Ouar life to-day is certainly more complexX, but there is no reason for condemning it wholly in comparison with the past. The golden age is, afterall, s mere superstition, and there is good reason for asking whether on the whole, our social conditions are not to-day more favorable for mental and nervous health than thei bave ever been before.—Dr. Fhilip C. Knapp, in the May Century. e The tympanum of a wha the end of The hearing ternaturally ear lies at a_long, narrow, bony tube. of this animal is almost pre- acute. 9 and 1T O’Farrell St., PHELAN BUILDING. 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