The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1896. 5 FUREKA'S REDWOOD LUMBER TRADE, he Principal Industry of t Northern California Seaport. ENORMOUS SHIPMENTS. Large Exports to Europe, Aus- tralia, Hawaii and Central America. | SOUTHERN PACIFIC CAR RATES Affect What Would Otherwise Be an | Immense Business in the Eastern States. EURUKA, Car, June 14.—There are probably no commodities shipped from | California which are so peculiarly Califor- | 1 as redwood lumber and the products | of redwocd. Nowhere else in the United States, or in the world, is redwood timber | to be had; therefore in these lines nature has endowed California with a monopoly secure from disturbance from otber loculi- ties for all time. The redwood manufacturers of Califor- nia have for many years been satisfied to allow their material to make its own way in the markets of the world. Knowing its ad- | vantages over other materials in the mat- ter of non-inflammability, also in the mat- ter of lightness and softness, the latter | quality rendering it desirabie for general | interior and exterior finish, and knowing | its superiority over all other woods for its lasting qualities when put in the grouud, | they thought it would gradually make | itself necessary in the markets of the | world, and up to this time have done lit- | tle or nothing to make its many qualities | generally known. S In this respect, however, the manufac- turers have now determined to pursue a different policy. They have been encour- aged by a good demand for redwood lum- ter from Europe, Australia, the Sandwich Islands and Central America, as well as| by the growing demand for carload lotus | for shipment East, and have concluded to put men in the different markets who know the superior qualities of redwood lumber and shingles and who will educate our brethren in relation to the same and thus increase the volume of the redwood | lumber and shingle industry much faster than has been done by metbods employed | in the past. The Southern Pacific Company has lately made Eureka a terminal point for the shipmeni of lumber and shingles East, They have imposed a condition, how- ever, which renders their proposition of httle value to shippers. They re- quire that the material to take the new rate sball have continuous transportation from Eureka to the East, and that it must be delivered direct to cars of the Southern Pacitic Company by vessels transporting | the same from Eureka. This cannot be | done except on rare occasions, for tte rea- | son that the climate of Humboldt County is not well suited to the proper seasoning of redwood lumber or shingles. It is too | damp, and the process of seasoning con- | sumes too much time. Besides, the class | of lumber shipped East bhas to be worked | in a variety of ways, and this the manu- facturing mills of Humboldt are not fitted up to do. The seasoning and workings of redwood lumber can only be satisfacior.ly done in San Francisco, and the railroad company should allow shipments East to be made from San Francisco yards, or upon shipments so made should rebate the cost of transportation from Humboldt to San | Francisco. Thisdone, there is great hope | of material increase in car shipments of | these materials East. Shipments of redwood lumber to Europe during the first five months of this year | amounted to 1,554,000 feet, as against no shipments during the vear 1395. During the year 1895 shipments to the Australian markets reached 000 feet, and this year give promise of shipments | double that amount. There is a large! shipment soon to be made to Adelaide, a | markei whica up to this time has not made many demands upon us. The demand from the S8andwich Islands and Central America shows a very healthy increase, and on the whole the manu- facturers of redwood lumber have good reason for looking for a large increase in the volume of their business from now on. YALE'S ANNUAL PEIZES. The Hurlburt Scholarship Captured by John P. Norton of Los Angeles. NEW HAVEN, Coxsx., June 14.—The winners in the annual award of prizes at Yale were announced yesterday. Among them are the following: Scott prize in French class of 97, honorable mention of Louis Samter Levy, 8t. Louis. Declamation prize, class of '98, first prize B. Eddy, Leavenworth, Kans. Class of '98, first prize, Morrell W. Guines, Albuquerque, N. Mex. Class of '99, first prize, John P. Norton, Los Angeles, Cal. Hurlburt scholarship, class of '98, John P. Norton, Los Angeles, Cal. Thi:d ireshman scholarship, class of '99, Edward B. Boise, Grand Rapids, Mich. | Berkeley yremiums in Latin composi- tion, class of '99, first grade, E. B. Boise, Grand Rapids, Mich; 8. W. Sawyer, In- dependence, Mo. Becond grade, E. Wat- trous, Rockford, IIL. il ALPHEUS FELCHB DEAD. Was One of the Barristers Settled Spanish Land Claims. ANN ARBOR, Micn., June14 —Ex-Gov- ernor Alpheus Felch died yesterday. He was born in Maine in 1806, was admit- ted to the bar at Bangor in 1830 and prac- ticed three yedrs at Houlton, Me. Then he went West, and in Ann Arbor found bis place of permanent abode. He was elecied Governor of Michigan in 1845, and went to the United States Senate for a full six years’ term ‘n Afterward he served as president of the commission which settled Spanish and Mexican land claims in California. He was for many years on the Board of Regentsof Michigan University. : He Who e STREICKEN LY HEART FAILURL, Eax-Judge Maynard Suddenly Passes Away While alone. ALBANY, N. Y., June 14.—Ex-Judge Isaac H. Maynard, senior member of the Jaw frm of Maynard, Gilbert & Cone, and former Judge of the Court of Appeals, died suddenly in his room at the Kenmore Hotel yesterday of heart trouble. He was alone in bis room and was sittinz ina chair at thetime of his death. He had just finished his luncheon and was ap- Jarently in the best of health, except that [e had been undergoing treatment lately for indigestion. During the morning he had been at his office as usual, e itossland Scowrged by an Epidemic. SPOKANE, WasH., June 14.—An epi- demic of typhoid and mouutain fever has .struck Rossland, B. C., the lively Trail Creek mining camp. Over 100 cases have been reported in the last ten days. De- fective sanitary regulations is the cause. S AR S NEWS OF M:RE ISLAND. Daily Increase in the Force of Workmen at the Naval Station. VALLEJO, CAL., June 14.—It was satis- ctory to those men off the yard on fur- lough to learn of the passage of the general deficiency bill, as it meant employment for them and an increase of the force. Since Thursday last over 100 have been given | employment, and it is given ount that by the middle of July fully 1000 men will be on the rolls. The construction department is the only one that has increased its force. The gun- boat Bennington will be the first of the | shipsat the yard to receive repairs; thelast | will be the Hartford. The Baltimore will | follow after the Bennington. The boatshop bhas plenty work ahead, and a larger force of boatbuilders will find steady employment than has been the case in years past. The officers feel as jubilant | over the prospects of plenty work abead as do the men. el st BEAT A CRAP GAME. Make a Winning aand Get Safely Awa ASTORIA, Or, June 15.—Two masked men entered the **Our” saloon in this city at12 o’clock to-hight and held up the keepers of a crap game. The men, upon entering the room in Masked Men | which the crap-table stood, ordered the game-keepers and two others to throw up { their hands, a command which was at once obeyed by all except one of the own- ers of the bank roll, who rushed out call- | ing for the police. the robbers carried a canvas hich he placed the money, while his companion kept guard, The men got safely away with their booty, which amounted to about § One of sack in w Woodiand High School Graduates. WOODLAND, Car., June 14.—The com- mencement exercises of Woodland High School were held last evening. The gradu- ates this year are Miss Harriett Hoppin of Yoloand Frank Porter of this city. An interesting address was delivered by Professor Kellogg of the State University. At the close of the entertainment a recep- tion was given at the Hotel Julian. SRS et Capturcd at The Needles. LOS ANGELES, CaL.,, June 14.—Actor Sam Black was arrested at The Needles on charges of bigamy and embez- zlement. He will be brought back for trial. Black is aileged to have married a woman in San Luis Obispo and another one here. He induced the latter to give him $120 on the plea that they would go East, and then he deserted her. s SE Acquitted at Bakersfleld. BAKERSFIELD, Car., June 14.—Lyons | | Brown, who shot and killea Dr. H. Lemke here on April 16, was acquitted of the charge of murder. The jury returned a verdict at 3 o’clock, aiter having deliber- ated since 10 o’clock last night. SRS Healthy Pctaluma. PETALUMA, CAL., June 14.—The Board of Health reports that no contagious dis- ease exists in Petaluma. No one is seri- ously ill and the mortuary record-book of Undertaker T. 8. Blackburn notes but cne death in this city during the monthjof May, and June to date. SHASTA COUNTY" MINING, Smelting Plants to Be Erected in the Igo and Mule- town Districts. Renewed Activity in the Iron Moun. tain Country—Progress in Trinity. REDDING, CaAL., June 14.—The erection | and successful operation of the big smelt- | ing plant at Keswick has been but a fore- | rnnner of the commencement of smelting generally in Shasta County. The Clear Creek Mining Company has made all | arrangements for the erection of its large | 200-ton smelter on Clear Creek, four miles from Reading, and by the middle of July the whistles will be blowing and the rich ore of the Igo and Muletown districts be worked. Igo district has some of the richest gold- bearing mines in the county, but the trouble heretofore has been the lack of | process by which the ores could be suc- | cessiully worked. There will be renewed | activity in the famous Iron Mountain | mining camps. beginning with this week. The directors of the Mountain Mines Com- | 7 any (limited) are now at their plant at {eswick, and extensive improvement is | the order. A new 300-horsepower plant | has been ordered and will arrive on Mon- | day or Tuesday. Five large smelters will beerected in the immediate vicinity of the present smelting plant at Keswick, one of the new ones being located, it is re- poried, near Middle Creek, about three miles from Redding. Tne company is now at work on its eleven-mile lume and ditch, which will convey water to the plants for power pvrposes. The work of putting in the new smelters will give em- ployment to about 300 more men. These improvements, together with a projected electric railway from Redding to | the works, will boom the mining interests of Shasta County as they never have been boomed beiore. The gravel mine of the Minersville Gold Mining Company in Trinity County is be- ing opened up extensively, Over 100 more men were puc to work last week and astill | larger force will be put on. The property comprises 3500 acres of gold-bearing gravel | and the mines are being well equnipped. Four thousand feet of hydraulic pipe has just been put in, with three large giants. Over 300,000 feet of cut lumber is piled up and ready for use and the large sawmill 10 connection with the mine is being worked to its fullest capacity. -— LOS ANGELES TRAGEDY. Rival Editors of Spanish Papers Have an Altercation—0One of Them Stabbed. LOS ANGELES, CAL, June 14.—A. Olivis, editor of the L'Union, a Spanish paper, stabbed seriously Franci:co P. Gueterrez, a rival editor, to-night. The worst wound received by the latter is about the heart and it is feared that he will die. _ Gueterrez edits the Gazette, anotber Spanish paper, and bad blood has existed between them for some reason. To-day both were at Santa Monica and though drinking quite freely haa no meeting. Gueterrez thought Olivis intended at- tacking him, so he dealt tue other several blows, one on the head, with his cane, and tnen started to walk away. Olivis drew a knife and followed, trying to stab the man who had caned him. Gueterrez was standing at the plaza church to-night when Olivis walked up and laid bold of his shoulder, asking how lie was getting along. Gueterrez fought for awhile, but Olivis wounded Lim in the srm, and then stabbed him over the heart and once in the left side. Gueterrez was carried into an adjoining store, where he was allowed to remain. He was too weak to be moved. Olivig escaped and locked himself in his office. He would not admit the officers, but they MILLIONS LOST BY COMPETITION What the Rate War Has Done to Insurance Men. MANY HAD TO SUCCUMB. Premiums of Nearly Seven Mil- lions and a Half Lost in Two Years. THE PEOPLE ARE BENEFITED. Ratio of Losses to Premiums Consider- ably in Excess of the Old Average. Almost simultaneously with the aban: donment of a last attempt to organizea combine of all the fire insurance com- panies in San Francisco the year in fire insurance circles came to a close. It proved to be a rather depressing retro- spect that was presented 1n a review of the twelve months—that is for the insur- ance men. But what brought gloom into their camp only brightened the view for the general public, since what was loss for one meant gain for the other side. The underwriters, however, do not look at the question in the same light as the public do. They hold that the present exceedingly low rates resunlting from bitter fighting and demoralzation of the old compact spirit are a temptation to care- | lessness in making provision against fire. | Even more than this, they say it has been | proved by experience that such conditions | as now prevail in San Francisco in fire in- surance business not only tends to lack | of proper vrecautions on the part of the | insured, but resultsin an abnormally high i loss ratio. i In other words the proposition is that unusually low rates cause the losses on fires to run up far above tne normal per- centage. The following interesting statement has just been published by the Coast Review for the year: During the past twelve months the fol- lowing Fire Companies have retired from the Pacific Coast: Sun, 8an Francisco, reinsured in the Fire- man’s Fund; Agricultural, N. Y., Teutonia, N. | 0., reinsured in the Lancashire; Delaware, re- insured in the St. Paul; Germania, N. Y., rein- sured in the Prussian National; Girard, Phila- delphia, risks run off; Glens Falls, N. Y., risks run off rchants, New Jersey, risks run off; | Niagara, Y., reinsured in the Hamburg- Bremen; Pacific, N. Y.,reinsured in the Royal; Traders, Chicago, risks run off; United Fir men’s, Baltimore, risks run off; United States, risks run off; Patriotic, Ireland, risks run off. Premiums from coast and mountain terri- tory passing through San Francisco channels in 1895 were $1,865,000 less than in 1894, and $2,800,000 less than in 1893. The Erincipll loss in 1895 ($1,632,476) was on usiness in California, where a bitter war of rates continued during the year and in & diminished degree is still in progress. The lessons of this rate war, 1t is believed, have been salutary and will be lasting. The average premium rate in Califoruia was very much reduced, leaving no margin of profit. The average rate in coast territory outside of California has been nearly the same as form- erly. The business in this field for 1895 was divided among the three classes of companies as follows: | Crasses. |Premiums.| Losses. !mmo. 8 740,850 8 3 3,196,123| 1,74 | Totat Amerlcnn...!$8 936,973 32,08 Foreign.... 4:672/527| 2,5 California...... Other States. Grand totals b3.4 [Vs.son.fiiu. 21,585 | An exceedingly large amount of term busi- ness weas written during the year, and the | actual ratio of losses to premiums on tne cur- rent year's risks was therefore considerably in excess of the foregoing average percentage. san Francisco fire premiums in 1895 were $1.643,920, & decline of $675,773. There has been & loss of City premiums yearly since 1891, when the amount was the largest ever collected in a single year. The yearly pre- mium receipts on San Francisco business dur- ing the past six years have been as follows: 2,44, . 2,436,481 2,319,693 . 1,643,920 COAST FIRE BUSINESS BY STATES. Following is a table of coast business by States in 1895: | Losses Premluml‘ 3 Ratto. California .184,704,584 82,800,672 60.6 Coiorado o 11497412 " '520068| 34.8 663,192 67.0 38>,484| 462 201284 32,0 53.9 314 26.5 72,377 445 ¢ 149, 66,250 45.9 Wyoming. 125.560| 121,640 96.8 Alaska. 31,667 1,912 06.0 Socialist Labor Party. Two sections of the Socialist Labor party have been started recently; one at Los Gatos and another at Santa Cruz. A meeting of the State executive committee of the Socialistic party will be neld at the Turk-street Temple to-night, June 15, at 8 o’clock, at which reports will be received from the Oakland, San Jose, Los An- geles and San Diego sections. New headquart- ers and committee rooms for the use of the central committee and officérs of the State ex- ecutive have been opened at 28 Ellis sireet, this City. Liberty Branch, Socialist Labor party, wili hold a mass-meeting at 115 Turk street on Wednesday night at 8 o’clock. The Jecture of the evening will be by Siegiried Seiler. Subject: ‘‘Socialism, a Solution for the Unemployed.” GODDESS Or LIBERTY. Miss Yates Appeals for a Living Image | at the Golden Gate Two of the new women were figuratively and literally in front in behalf of the wo- man’s suffrage last evening in the hall of the Socialistic Labor party in Pythian Castle on Market street. They were Miss Elizabeth Yates of the Woman’s Suffrage Association, and Jane A. Roulston, secre- tary of the Socialistic Labor party, who presided. They sat on the platform, and Miss Yates addressed a large audience on the desirability of the adoption of amend- ment 11 to the constitution of California. She svoke on the progress of civilization with progress of the ages. It caught the ear of the audience and fixed its attention to what she had to say when she declared: “A few have the oysters, and the masses the shells.” Then she went on to say that man has the lion’s share of the world, and most of the lamb’s too. There should be no eva- sion of the question of the equality of the sexes in society and before the law. ‘Women should have equal responsibility with men both in the home and in the State. She did not approve the claim that woman’s sphere should be exclusively the home. She said woman could have her orbit of activity enlarged and still at- tend to the duties of home and mother- hood, because the natural tendency and the greatest force of womanhood was toward the home. “If you have a home queen,”’ she said, ‘“you should have a home king also.” Miss Yates appealed eloguently to the audience for its support for the eleventh amendment at the election next Novem- ber. She said: “@ive to the home queen the power to protect her subjects and her children. Are not children more precious than seals and their young, which the Government is try- ing to protct? We appeal to you men to help us enfranchise the women of Califor- nia. It depends on you what shall be the civilization that will open the twentieth century. “Your vote,” she continued, *‘will affect the legislation of the world on this impor- tant question. Wyoming and Utah ware two States which have already given woman the bailot. “Wyoming has had it seven years, and there has been a decrease in divorces in that State during that time as compared with the divorce records of other States not having woman'’s suffrage. When you men go to the ballot-box next Noyember vote for the eleventh amendment first, so that you may not forget it, and then vote for President of the United States. “The impress of liberty to-day is made by the pen and not by the sword,” she said in conclusion. “There are men here to-night who will cast their first vote and men who will cast their last vote next November. Let it be for woman. The Bartholdi statue of Liberty in New York harbor is after all only a symbol. Let us have here at the Golden Gate the living image of the Goddess of Liberty.” EOODWIN'S LAST WEEK He Will Begin “The Gilded Fool” at the Baldwin This Evening. It Is a Comedy Play of a Brighter Order Than That of “In Mizzoura.” This evening Nat C. Goodwin and his extellent company begin another week at the Baldwin Theater. The play is Henry Guy Carleton’s comedy, *The Gilded Fool,” a piece especially adapted to Mr. Goodwin’s abilities in sentiment as well as in comedy. 1 the story of a country store clerk who suddenly finds himself the possessor of a deceased uncle’s wealth. The young fellow brought up in poverty is then *‘The Gilded Fool.” He removes to New York and begins to go the usual yace. He is suddenly brought up with a round turn by meeting and fall- ing in love with a blue-blooded young woman named Margaret Ruthvan. His love for the girl is a windfall for the falling house of Ruthvan & Co., for its junior partner, one Bannister Strange, an adventurer under a false name, is wreck- ing the establishment. Strange, thinking to make his own pickings the larger, in- duces “The Gilded Fool” to invest $284,000 in the concern and become a partner. Then comes the love-making. Miss Rathvan spurns “The Fool's” advances, and his investment promises poorly. But he perseveres, and woos in such a manly way that she is led to appreciate his noble nature. He balks the villain’s junior part- ner, and saves the bouse from ruin, after which Margaret confesses her love for him. Strange meets the reward for his rascality, and all ends well. The Elay of “The Gilded Fool” is well adapted to bring out all of Nat Goodwin's well-known attentiveness to details, It is full of variety, and he never forgets to play all the change and color contained therein. He is an artist, and his touches quicken every part of the piece with life and mo- tion. His part is far more clever in this than in “In Mizzoura,” and notwithstand- ing the popularity of that piece last week the public will doubtless be more pieased with Goodwin’s work in “The Gilded Fool.” broke in the door and arrested him to-| Nat C. Goodwin, Who Will Appear This Week at the Baldwin in “The cilded Fool.” night after 12 o’clock. FULL NEWS OF TWO CONVENTIONS, Ovér One Hundred Thousand Words to This City Daily. TEN WIRES TO CARRY IT. Extensive Arrangements Made for Handling the Volumi- nous Reports. THE UNITED PRESS' PLANS. Facilities at St. Louis for Full and Correct Accounts of the Pro- ceedings. ‘When William McKinley’s private sec- retary knocks at the bedchamber of his chief on the morning of June 17 and an- nounces, “Morning papers, sir,”’ the pop- ulace of the City of San Francisco will al- ready have been apprised of the doings of the St. Louis Convention. It will be no meager account of the main incidents of the day that will have reached the people of this City thus early in the proceedings. It will be a graphic and ex- haustive account, gathered by expert newspaper men, of everything of interest in and appertaining to the great Republi- can concourse, The citizens of tkis City will know not only who has been elected chairman, what committees were appointed, of the speeches that were made, of the party leaders and the attitude displayed in con- vention by the delegates toward the Presi- dential candidates. They will know also of the interesting bits of gossip rife about the hotel corridors, of the plans that the managers of the aspirants for Ligh places are formulating, of the prominent char- acters seen about the city and what their own representatives are doing to uphold the glory of the Golden State. And all this will take words. Words by the many thousand until the heaa swims in contemplation of them. And all these words must be gathered from the scene of wild confusion that invariably attends a political convention. They must be gath- ered, too, in the least possig]e time, so that no matter how late the Republican body may prolong its deliberations, the result of the day’s labor may be handed to the operators and transmitted across the many miles of territory to the Western shore. These messages raust reach the San Francisco newspaper offices in time to pass through the hands of the telegraph editor and his corps of assistants, be put m type and printed in the same issue of the local papers in which the St. Louis jlgumnl describes the events of the day. here is no to-morrow in modern jour- nalsm. Never before have such herculean efforts been put forth by the telegraph compa- nies to supply the press with the amount of matter they demand. Never before has the local press put forth such effective efforts to supply the people with a full account of the events away from home. To further complicate the task which each has assumed the State Democratic Convention at Sacramento will be on at the same time as the great affair at St. Louis. . Yet for this reason the Sacramento event is not to be dwarfed. On the contrary, ar- rangements have been made to give a most extensive account of each gathering, and the telegraph companies have for weeks been actively engaged in preparing for this great tax upon their facilities. For the purposes of news distribution the convention could not have been better iocated. St. Louis and Chicago are con- sidered the_ great distributing centers of the West. From St. Louis to EhiCiuo the facilities are practically unlimited. Over 150 wires connect these two cities, and if necessary millions of words a day could be transmitted. Thus far, then, it is all plain sailing. From_ Chicago to the far West the matter assumes a more delicate com- plexion, The Western Union, which owns the wires over which the buik of the matter wiil be_transmitted, has ten main_wires from 8t. Louis to San Francisco. Five of these are along the Central Pacific, two by the Northern Pacific, one by the At- lantic and Pacific, one by the Southern Facific and one by Chicago. On these wires the duplex system—that is the sys- tem by which messages can be sent in op- site directions at the same time—will used, and all ten will be required to convey the immense volume of news de- manded. Throughout the great entire length of each of these slender threads of metal :hey must be kept intact or they are use- ess. - A blizzard in Canada, a cyclone in Mis- souri, a forest fire in the South or any of the kindred calamities which constantly threaten teiezraphic communication might at any time render one or more of the lines inoperative. Ordinarily such an accident would mean only a temporary inconvenience. During the days of the great convention the loss of a wire might mean a serious embarrass- ment, and the company has taken precau- tions that such a loss may be speedily re- paired. To this end they have distributed extra linemen along each of the routes, at distances of not more than fifteen miles apart. 5 At division stations, that is where there are engines that might be sent (o the res- cue, there are double forces. These will be in constant readiness to hasten to the scene of the accident and at once repair the break. skilled mechanics will be on watch during the entire session. Should there be such a general devasta- tion of wires that all but one of the ten iines are destroyed, arrangements have been made that thegreatest part of the matter might be handled, at great trouble and expense, it is true, but still the news would be dehivered, which is the main consideration. « In the event of such an improbable calamity the Wheatstone multiplex sys- tem would be called into requisition. This 18 & most ingenious device by which 150 words a minute may be delivered on one wire. This system is not used except in emergencies, as the characters are not taken by sound, but are printed upon slips, requiring a large force of copyists to transcribe them. In spite of the unlikeli- hood of -their services being required the copyists w1il be held in readiness. At St. Louis the work to be accom- plished is something collosal. Five min- utes after the Presidential nomination has been proclaimed the Western Union promises to have the news in eacn of its 22,000 offices, and the comparatively less important matter it is in a position to for- ward with equal dispatch. In order to do this it will have, exclusive of the force employed by the United Press and other associations, forty operators in the convention hali and over 400 extra men in St. Louis. These will be ready to bandle on the instant the matter as it is banded them by the Pacific Coast special correspondents. This will at once be laced on the wire, and most of it will 2o irect to . the newspaper offices of San Francisco. THE CALL has alreadv received a large amount of matter direct in this manner, though the usual course of news transmis- sion is to forward it to Chicago for distri- bution. To send such a lone distance without re- peating is a practical impossibility, but this involves no deiay. Along each of the routes there are from four to five repeat- ing stations, at which there are automatic repeaters. At each of these expert opera- tors will be placed to watch and adjust the instruments. Shouldany serious disorder along by manual repetition at but trivial delay. For this purpose special operators have been employed. _When the matter reaches San Fran- " cisco, and it will be but an indescribable space of time after it is put on the wire, another small army of men wili be re- quired to handle it. ‘The first of the matter will reach here shortly after 6 o’clock and from that time uctil 1 A. M. a force of over sixty operators will be kept working up to their limit in receiving it. Nearly forty extra men have been enrolled for the occasion exclusive of the forces employed by the press associa- tions. The Western Union expecis to handle about 60,000 words & night of specials from 8¢. Louis alone. From Sacramento thay expect to bring down altogether about 40,000 words. Be- sides this they will receive a considerable amount of extraneous special news matter Between 400 and 500 of these | irom the East, so that in the neighbor- hood of 100,000 words will be handled by this company each night. Arrangements have been made whereby TrE CALL'S specials will be received di- rectly in the oftice, where they can be acted upon by the telegraph editor with- out delay. There will also be a wire run into the business office, from which bul- letins will be displayed. Besides the voluminous special dis- patches which THE CaLL will receive the United Press has made arrangements to furnish-a remarkably full and correct re- port of the proceedings. In order to ac- complish that result the United Press will have in the convention hall three editors, three proceeding stenographers, seven ref)ertorml stenographers and sixteen telegraph overators. Over 100,000 words will be sent from St. Louis on eight leased wires. The headquarters of the United Press in the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, are fitted up more with an eye to business than toshow. It consists of four rooms en suite, all facing east. fimphic instruments ior the operators, ta- les for editors and reporters, typewriting machines and all the necessary outfits for the convenient and rapid performance of the work devolving upon that organiza- tion. Ttsleased wires are connected from these rooms with its own telegraphic cir- cuits, which extend over the whote coun- try, and, besides, it has established its own telegraphic instruments at the con- vention hall. The arrangements for news- under the personal supervision of Walter P. Philbps of New York, sccretary and treasurer of the Unitea Press, and ¢f P. V. de Graw of Washington, its general South: ern manager. The actual work of news- York, Washington, Chicago and St. Louis. THE CALL will receive from the United Press between 12,000 and 15,000 words. This, in addition to the reporis sent out by its own representatives, will make a most comprehensive report of the pro- ceedings. Tue Postal Union will also handle a large amount of special matter. They have not deemed it necessary to make any special araangements, but anticipate a pusy time for their regular working force. The successiul completion of such a gigantic undertaking as is here outlined will practically demonstrate the fact that where science, industry and enierprise unite ell things are possible and such formidable barriers as time and space sink into nothingness. USMOKD DAYS LATEST, A Girl Deceived by the Notori- ous “Masher” Attempted Suicide. She Is the Daughter of the Assistant Postmaster of Santa Rosa. One of Osman Day’s many victims at- tempted to commit suicide at the lodging- house 21 Turk street last night by swallow- ing a dose of chloroform. She was discov- ered by the landlord of the house, who summoned the ambulance and had her taken to the Receiving Hospital. Dr. Bunnell at once applied the usual reme- dies and soon pronounced her out of dan- ger. The poor girl had written a note to her betrayer, in which she spoke of him being the handsomest man on the street, and as he had betraved and abandoned her she had determined to end her life. The girl’s real name is Beppie Griggs, but here she went under the name of Clara Carlton. Six or seven months ago, while she was on a visit to the City, she met Osman Day on the ferry - boat from Tiburon. He introduced himself and so aroused her girlish enthusiasm by his at- tentions and taies of his wealth that she became an easy victim to his blandish- ments. She was only 18 years of age. Aifter accomplishing her ruin, fiay ad- vised her to go-to the home of her parents in Santa Rosa for a few days &nd then to return to the City. She was so infatuated with him that she did as she was told. Her Exrents notified the police, and Cap- tain Lees had Day and the girl arrested. They were detained in the detectives’ room at police headquarters for several hours, and as the girl said she was over 18 years of age and che had left her home of her own volition, they were both set at literty. Day in a few months got tired of her and suicide seemed to be her only alternative. The poor girl last nigkt constantly called for her mother, begging her to come and console her in her aftliction. She is the daughter of William Griggs, assistant postmaster at Santa Rosa. ile followed the girl home and introduced bimself to her parents as an English lord with castles and estates without number. AR L S TO0 ¥E1E AMLiEI0ANS. Elaborate Preparations for Their Enter- tainment at Buda-Pesth. LONDON, Exa., June 14.—Special fes- tivities for Americans have been arranged in connection with the Hungarian mil- lennium celebration at Buda-Pesth. The Millennium Society of Cleveland,Ohio,will leave New York on June 18 on the steamer Havel. They will be joined by a number of Hungarian-Americans from Pittsburg and Chicago. A few days later a body of Hungarians from New York will sail on the Augusta Victoria. All these will meet on June 29 in Vienna. The following arrangements have been made for the entertainment of Americans: On June 30 a reception will be given to the visitors upon their arrival in the city. On July 1 there will be a rendezvous at tion. The next day the visitors will at- tend a fete in Old Buda. On July 3 they will go to Marguerite Island, am‘{ in the evening will attend a special fete. The Americans will visit the graves of Kossuth, Deak, Sechenyi, Batthyani and other martyrs of 1848. They will also visit the monument of Petofi and will place there wreaths. In the evening a banquet will be given to t.e Americans at the Festival Hall of the exposition by the managers of the Press Club. Prime Min- ister Banffy with the other members of the Cabinet will attend the banquet. There will also be a grand display of fire- works. Almost everybody in Buda-Pesth is securing American flags and colors for use on July 4. occur they will be ready to serd the news | Here are tele- | gathering, reporting and compiling are ! gathering, reporting and editing is done | by its own regular employes from New | Elizabeth Park and a visit to the exposi- | THREE POOLROOMS FOR SAUSALITO. The Little Town Is Face to Face With a Problem. JAMES BOWLAN TALKS. He Has Been Canvassing the Property Owners in His Own Behalf. TO-NIGHT DECIDES THE MATTER A Petition Going the Rounds Heavily Laden With Names in Favor of the Rooms. The poolroom situation in Sausalito re- mains in the same uncertain condition as on Friday last. To-night the City Trus- tees meet and their action on the proposi- tion will determine whether the fate of the commission brokers is for better or for worse. James Bowlan, a veteran poolroom man | of this City,has been canvassing that aris- | tocratic little villa with a view to opening a competition shop there. “Either there or Montana,” as he says. “Iinterviewed every man who keeps a place on the water front,”” said he yester- day, “and several gentlemen who are own- | ers of property and others who are carry- | ing on business in San Francisco and are residents of Sausalito each and all agreed that no harm could come from the acqui- | sition of poolrooms; but, on the other | hand, they answer that on the contrary a benefit will accrue to the town. “I am convinced that the poolrooms will be carried on in a widely different | manner from the system in vogue in San Francisco. I know further that the pro- prietors of the rooms will use strenuous | efforts to assist the authorities in keeping | the law and preventing any minors from entering their resorts. They have also | expressed a willingness to assist the tax- | payers in sprinkling the streets and light- | Ing the town. ! “Thatsame class of men who have been | Labitues of the Ingleside and Bay District tracks is the same that will patronize Sau- salito poolrooms. The 25-cent packers are buried so far as Sausalito is concerned. No bets are taken there less than §1. |~ “The opening of the poolrooms there I | know is purely a business venture. It is miles aistant irom the scenes of the races, | #0 there can be no possible collusion with the horsemen, trainers or jockeys, As a | proof of this Jackman lost $1000 the first day that he opened. “From my personal investigation I am led to believe that there are only about five ! people in Sausalito who are against the polrooms. They live up on tne hills. l hose in favor of them are legion. “There is a petition being circulated by he property-owners and merchants of ausaiito favoring the rooms, wiich will | be preseuted to the Board of City Trustees. A large number of names have already been appended to it and it is the beliei of those wao have gotten up the petition that far above the majority of the property- owners will sign. “Probably no arrests will be made Mon- day, but the authorities will await the action of the Council Monday night.”” Redwood City Accident. REDWOOD CITY, CAL., June 14—A | fatal accident occurred here yesterday | afternoon, where the railroad crosses Jefferson street, near the Congregational church. The train which leaves San Fran- cisco at 11:30 o'clock in the morning, arriving here at 12:45 o’clock, ran into a wagon on which Louis Peterson was rid- ing, causing injuries to Peterson, which | resulted in his death a few houra later. 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