The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1896, Page 21

SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1896. 21 ALIFORNIA GOLD | MINES N NEW YORK, Mackay Says $500,000,000 Can Be Taken From .the Mother Lode. Gotham Hotel-Keepers Complain of Hard Times—Wedding of ‘Ella Sterling Cummins. Gossip From the Eastern Metropolis About Men and Women of the Golden Coast. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 23.—New York has & mining exchange with a Cali- fornian at tbe head of it. I refer to the Mining and Industrial Exchange at 45 ew street and to Stephen H. Emmens, s president. This newly organized in- stitution, baving a membership already of nearly 100, has been orgapized on the plan of most all stock exchanges, but its presi- dent, baving large mining interests in California, proposes to push California rties to the front. have,” said he, ‘‘been associated with great mother lode mining belt of Cali- fornia ior several years past and it is my intention so far as I am able to boom the werits of that wonderful gold-bearing ode to the utmost. There are eight valu- able mines in Amador County of which I have the honor to be president, and 1 have nad them thoroughly investigated, as have others, with the result that such men and authorities as Clarence King, ex-head of the United States Geological Survey, and Professor Penrose, the pro- fessor of geology at the Chicago Univers- ity, pronounce the motber lode of Cali- fornia as the greatest gold-bearing min- eral section in the United States. ining men all over California con- cede that the mother lode is far and away abead of any similar deposit known. It is 110 miles long and covers five coun- ties. That is to say, it is visible from croppings for that distance. How much tarther it extends it is hard to say, but for that distance its existence is certain. Clarence King and Professor Penrose were acting at the time of their investigations for Ferdinand W. Peck of the Chicago | Auditorium. Mr. Peck is at the present time associated with John W. Mackay, John P. Jones, J. B. Haggin and other millionaires who are preparing and are at | the present time at work on a gigantic | mining scheme on the Fremont Grant in Mariposa County, founded for the purpose of developing the mother lode. Mr. Peck told me when last in New York, and you are at liberty to quote me with the state- ment, that John Mackay believed it was possible to take out $500,000,000, and that he expected to do it with the aid of his associates. Of course I represent but a small section of the great lode, but I use these facts to show those who are not fa- miliar with the case that it is the logical gold-producing center of the United States. [ read not long ago, in THE CALL, I believe, that the annual output of gold 1 fiscal year would be 25 per cent > record of last year ¢lesing 1n July, Iam of the impression that it will pr 1895, be more than that, but those figures are at least L Mr. Emmens further stated that it was the purpose of the exchange to appoint agents in California to further promote the sale of mines listed from ‘that State, and that every effort would be made to do business with the European markets, That Mr. Emmens stands well it will be cufficiently convincing to state that he is the inventor of Emmensite, the new ex- e recently adopted by the Govern- e from being president of the Amador Railroad, he stands on a firm personal and financial footing at Washing- ton. He has only recently returned from California, where he has been for the last two years pushing matters to a close for the purpose of getting good mining deals before the public. Charles M. Maxwell of San Francisco has been 2t the Holland House ior the last few days amd will shortly return to the coast, having closed a deal for some gold mining properties in Yuba County. A syndicate has been formed and an eight-stamp mill is now in construction. A force of twenty-tive men will be put to work immediately on his return, and by the middle of the summer it is expected that some unusual developments will be made, as the indications thus far point to rock that will go high in the assayer's crucible. Mining appears to be- picking up from all appearances and New York seems to be full of buyers. Mrs. Orrin Black arrived in this city last | cek and is staying with friends at 23 West | Thirty-second street. Mrs. Black is here for the purpose of doing some special work on the Journal and will return to San Francisco in about two months, preferring it, ds she says, to “overgrown New York.” The wedding of Phillip Mighels and | Ella Sterling Cummins, at Chapel Hill, N. J., last Wednesday, was qnite a roman- tic affair and wae well attended by repre- sentatives of the local literary colony. J. B. Ferguson, the Bay District and In- gleside starter, etting things in readi- ness to put up the Australian starting ma- chine at Gravesend. The paraphernalia is | arriving daily and a trial is to be made soon. Mr., Ferguson will also take in the Montana circuit before returning to what | he says is the “finest country he ever saw’’—California. Police circles are echoing with the re- port that Commissioner M. A. Gunst of San Francisco is soon to make a visit to frienas, Roosevelt and Conlon. When M. A. arrives here every one of , the finest will have his hat brushed, knowing that Mr. Gunst is a stickler for style. I met an old Comstocker down on Wall street recently, He was holding forth to a bevy of Easterners, and trying his best o convince them that the West was the only part of the earth that a young man could find any real encouragement in. “Why. aid he, swinging his arm over his head, and bringing his fist down on the paling of the Treasury steps, ‘I used to get $90 a month in Gold Hill clerking in a store in 1 % “Ninety dollars is no wages,” ventured & bystander. o wages?” inquired the Westerner, leaning forward and looking knowingly at the doubtfui one. “No wages? What? Ninety dollars a month and a chance to steal?” Gold was pretty thick in those days. * % % This summer in New York has been par- ticularly barren for the hotels. Some of the big institutions claim to be losing | | would place on my wife and children. from three to five hundred dollars a day. One would suppose that they would tire of that kind of an occupation, but the managers only wink knowingly and say they will make it all up and more too in the winter. This coming season will be very fruitful, owing to the campaign and the existence of a sack, which will oc- casionally be deposited 1 the hotels. Ropert H. Davis.. A Terrier That Can Kill His Weight In Hawks. Barney isn’t pretty to look at and his parentage is a matter of the purest con- jecture, but he is a terror to hawks, and in consequence his master—for Barney isa dog—prizes him more highly than the most aristocratic St. Bernard ever whelped. Mr. Murphy, Barney’s owner, lives out on Bernal Heights and conducts an estab- lishment where hens of high and low de- gree vie with each other in producing eggs for the market and where succulent broil- ers may be obtained for a consideration. Previous to his acquisition of Barney Mr. Murphy’s life was not a path of roses, owing to the hawks that infest the Heights. Just as some particularly promising pul- let had reached marketable form and age a sharp-eyed denizen of the upper air would swoop down—a squawk, a whistle of wings and another marauder had dined at Mr. Murphy’s expense. The chicken rancher had about made up his mind to give up the business when one day a heated argument between a game- cock and & nondescript terrier about the place gave him an idea. “T’ll give thelad as brings me a wounded hawk a dollar,” announced Mr. Murphy that evening while at the neighboring gro- cery, and when the news got abroad he soon had a collection of mainied hawks to choose from. A big red fellow with a broken wing suited nhis purpose and that afternoon a battle royal between the terrier and the hawk took place in Mr. Murphy’s chicken- yard. Of course the dog finally killed the hawk, but not until he was ‘badly cut by the hawk’'s talons and beak. That was three months ago, and since then Barney has lived for nothing, apparently, but to take a fall out of the entire hawk tribe. A speck high up in the sky is sufficient to make the bristles of his buck rise, and he fairly beams as the bird nears the earth in search of a chicken dinner. Barney crawls along on his belly in the direction of the unsuspecting chickens, and just about the time the hawk stoops for his prey he is quite certain to meet, in- stead, a chunky terrier with snapping jaws, springing into the air in an effort to catch him, and with an air that plainly says: “Just hold up a moment. do a thing to you.” Mr. Murphy has not lost a chicken by hawks since Barney completed his educa- tion. Neighbors have learned of Barney’s accomplishments, and have tried to pur- chase and even steal him, but he is the pride of Mr. Murphy’s heart, and money will not buy him. The Legless Man Who Coasts Down The Grades. Oh, I won'’t A man entirely minus legs would be about the last one to be picked out as lia- ble to entertain a desire to ‘‘coast” down the steep hills of San Francisco, yet the spectacle of such a man speeding on pre- cipitous gradesis not unusual. There is sverything in use, and the man who turns hillside pavemehts into a toboggan-slide has come around to it by slow degrees. He has only a few inches of the stumps of his legs remaining. He moves around on a very small and verylow four-wheeled contrivance, to which he is securely strapped, and he has been here long enough to be a familiar figure. On a level he propels himself by semi-circular affairs to which are affixed handles. His progress on a leve: is slow. Ona grade the propellers are used as brakes. Firmly held down on the pavement, they make a hissing sound as the wheels of the cart re- volve rapidly. Faster and faster spin the wheels, until the lower part of the grade is reached. Then the crippled man, who has been gifted with a cool head and stout arms, ‘“puts on brakes” in earnest. Horrified spectators, seeing him in the madale of the grade, expect that he will be dashed to pieces. Not he. On the con- trary, he handles his brakes with coolness and certainty and never makes a missin stopping when he wishes. The Lombard= Street Man Who Placards All the Trees. Jacob Engle lives on the northeast cor- ner of Lombard and Filimore streets. ose bushes are trained upon the sides of his house. A smooth sward like a broad ribbon of green lies between his house and his boundary fences. On the south and west of his home are growing hardy shade trees of the evergreen variety. set out by Mr. Engle personally, and he holds them in high reeard. In fact, he has for them a sort of Druidic attachment. “They did not cost much and they would not sell for much,” he said when talking about them, *“but if you should ask me bow much they are worth to me I would respond by asking what price you think I 1 simply don’t want to part with them.” But there may be some danger that the trees on Lombard street will be cut down. | Mr. Engle has heard that the street may be widened and ne has placed placards on the trees warning every one to Jeave them alone. These placards are read by all passers. Mr. Engle thinks that the or- dinance concerning trees is sufficient to Emcect his vegetable pets against even the Street Department, and he explains that the Street Department is included in the warning. JAMES CARR INSOLVENT. He Had Too Many Impecunious Friends to Take Care OL James J. Carr, a saloon-keeper at Larkin and McAllister streets, has filed a petition in insolvency. His liabilitics are $4333 65 and his assets §125. Carr’s failure is due to his ready response to the delicate touch of impecunions friends. He has notes which he thinks are valuable, amounting to $4711. His principal creditors are wholesale liquor- dealers and the San Francisco Brewing Company. Carr also owes the City $1000 on a forfeited bail bond. e — A Family Quarrel. Edward A. J. Linforth has filed a suit in ejectment against Alfred Linforth alleging he illegally hoids the property of the estate of Eliza Linforth, on Valencia street, near Nineteenth. ————— Do not fail to read Thomas Slater’s advert] ment on page 30 for men. These were | One of the greatest beauties of whist is the drawing of interences from the cards played by your partner or adversary. To win as many tricks as possible is always good whist and laudable; to win more than others playing the same hands is satisfactory to the player and shows men- tal ability; but the keenest enjoyment comes not from the number of tricks made, but from a study of the motives that actu- ate a player, his reasoning and the work- ing of his mind, the locating of the un- vlayed cards in the three unseen hands, and then playing your own cards 8o as to win a trick that could not have been made had the cards remaining unplayed not been properly located. This is one of the reasons why good players prefer to play against strong opponents. Every card dropped on the table by an expert is played for some reason, and the other players at once try to ascertain the mo- tive for the play. The novice is constantly ata loss what to do and decides to ‘‘play the card his thumb is on” for luck. In the hands of good players every lead or follow is in the nature of a puzzle which the piayer offers for a solution and which the others work out according to their ability. Naturally the player endeavors to make the puzzle easy of solution for bis partner and difficult for the adversaries. But to do so players of the first class do not play false cards when the only object. is to deceive. They can win without re- course to such play. False cards played without a reason— that is, played simply as false cards—have no place in whist, and rob the other play- ers at the table of their enjoyment. You shoulu remember that you have no more right to deprive your associates of their pleasure at whist than you would have to mar their pleasure ata dinner by acting in an uncouth and unseemiy manner. Po- lite society requires you to conduct your- self conventionally, or you will not be tol- erated. Whist etiquette asks the same. Many players advocate the study of the rules, the leads and the follows, and insist that all the recognized conventions shall be resvected, but if they happen to have & partner who is not well posted they aban- | don all their prin ciples at once because their partner cannot understand the play and they want to “‘fool the opponents.” Touching such players Pettis says: *‘He lowers himself and injures his reputation who falsifies his hand to the opponents merely because his whilom partner may not understand what is correct. What would be thought of any one of three men who took an ambitious fourth into occa- sional business council and who changed his cherished policy of right to the delib- erate doing of wrong merely to keep pace with the action of the uninstructed new- comer.” None of the fine endings, brilliant coups, remarkable finesse and other good plays by bright whist minds which are con- stantly published would have been possi- ble had the players at the table indulged in false carding. Take any of the hands illustrated show- ing some particular brilliant play; suosti- tute a false card or two in the early part of the zame and see the result. These plays which excite our keen admiration would never take place. Hamilton says on this subject: “fl is not in harmony with modern scientific whist to play a false card under any circumstances, not even when it de- ceives the adversaries only. If you, sec- ond hand, holding queen, knave and one small, play queen, and if on the return of the suit the leader finesses the 10, reading that you cannot have the knave, and your knave wins, and if by that faise play you gain a trick, you have a trick that by right does not belong to you. “‘There is no strategy, no merit, in the play. You have practiced a cheap deceit | and nothing more. * * * *“If the play of one false card is sanc- tioned so may the play of two, or you may play one card conventionally and the other not, and the integrity of the game is | gone. * * * “If the right to play false is recognized then there is no limit to the pernicious and disintegrating practice. Besides, the privilege to play false goes around the table, and in the end you have been de- ceived as often as you have deceived others. You may not hope (o become | mgore adept in the play of false cards than | your opponents, for such play is devoid of | strategy, and the novice will outdo you.” False cards and irregular plays and leads must ot be confounded. The lai- ter are the spice of the game and prevent it from becoming unpalatabie. To divine the reason for an irregular play is a pleas- ure, but there must be a reason beyond | mere deception. The better the player for covering what looks like a strengthen- ing card. ast plays the green signal. Trick 3—West chuckles, Trick 5—East cannot finesse as K is marked with South. Trick 9. It is not clear whylsonth plays his ace. TABLE 2. TRICK. EAST. | SOUTH. | WEST. | NORTH. 1 w7 | %K | %2 | #3 2 A5 A2 | a3.| a0 a7 A8 AB. |\ Tan 4. 02 | OA | U5 |T0g 5 04 |73 | 00 .| oK. 6 08 Ve 0l [V} ] 7 * ) w5 o *8 o S | 08 | oF |- o 10. %6 (07 |_OJ 440 11. 05 | 06 |_OA | 03 12. 08 | a9 | 00 | a0 13. *9 sl 0T oK Beore: N.andS. 3, E.and W. 5. Trick 1—West does not begin a call, as he does not want trumps led through him. Trick 4—North must discontinue the spades, as one opponent will trump and the other discard. Trick 6—West makes an effort to obtain the lead. He evidently located the K hearts with his partner. Trick 7—North bas no choice but to lead through the strong club suit. West must take his partner’s trick, as the ace clubs is marked with East. Trick 8—The 10 D is only a variation of the tactics used at table 1, to lead through the king. North, however, plays the king and gains two tricks by the play. North noted that East had not asked for trumps, although he had opportunities to do so in both spades and hearts. WHISTLETS. George L. Bunn, in the St. Paul Globe, thus describes a pretty trump plav: **Another prefty point in trump play arose in a practice game the other night; a small club is turned by West; leads ace of trumps; East plays five; nas the following hand: Spades, jack, 3; hearts, 6, 5; clubs, X, 7; diamonds, A, K, Q,J, 7, 6.4 What should South play on bis partner's ace of trump? Clearly the king, for in all probability North has both queen and jack of trumps, as with- out them he would not lead ace unless |he had seven trumps at least; by throwing the king, South gets out of the way and enables North to get three swings and thereby probably to ex- haust all the adversaries’ trumps, South meanwhile indicating his great diamond suit by his discards, while 1f South plays his small trump his king wins the next trick and he must either lead his diamonds and haye the suit shut out by an adverse trump or he must lead one of the other suits, taking the chance of losing several tricks in those suits by the attempt to put his partner in. In the hand mentioned four tricks are gained by throwing the king, as North held six trumps with ace, queen, jack and was thus enabled to draw all the trumps b:fore his singleton dia- mond was taken away from him.” The question of a woman’s whistleague is being discussed. The Philadelphia Tel- egraph thus comments on the subject: The large number of women whisters from Philadelphia and other cities that will attend the Brooklyn congress fur- nishes most conclusive evidence of the in- terest taken by the fair sex in the game, and proves beyond doubt that 1n the future women’s whist is a question that must be seriously considered by all interested in the game. * * * Women in whist must therefore be recognized either by giving them co-equal rights with men in the American Whist League or by the forma- tion of an associate organization, which will act in conjunction and harmony with the A. W. L. upon all subjects of legisla- tion, and which wi!l hold its own tourna- ments, awarding the women’s champion- ship of America to 1ts champions. For many reasons the latter plan appears to be by far the more feasible and advan- tageous; that it snounld be got under way few will question, and that the time forlaunching it is the Brooklyn congress there can also be but little dovbt. “The following end situation occurred in a practice game the past week: Three cards_are in each hand and trumps are out; North has king, nine and five of dia- monds, East queen and six of diamonds ! and jack of hearts; South seven and three of diamonds and queen of hearts; West ten and eight of diamondsand the thir- teenth spade; North leads king of dia- monds and East throws queen of dia- monds, enabling West to win the next trick with the ten of diamonds and make the thirteenth spade; whereas, by playing low, West would win the next trick and would be compelled to lose his heart to South’s queen.” All the writers of whist news in the Eastern papers say that in Jocal whist cir- cles matters are very quiet just at present. All the “stars’” are in Brooklyn, and many other plavers have gone to the country on the less can he afford to play false cards because he is always quoted as authorit The poorer his partner the more rigid should he adhere to the rules, otherwise the poor player, seeinv the false leads and | follows, will imitate him at once, and the | game is ruined for all. The world loves a good fighter—if be puts up a clean, Square fight, So we love | a hara fighting whist opponent. But we demand a clean whist fighter. Elect the class you wish to play in—bumblepuppy or whist. If you enter the whist class leave the puppy outdoors. Do not enter the whist arena as a whist fizhter and after you are in use bumblepuppy tactics. If bumblepuppy is your choice, remain in your own class. Considerablie discussion is going on about the play of second hand holding king and one small. Below is given a hand played last week with a va- riation of six tricks, depending upon whether second hand plays the king or not on the first round. #—A, K, Q10,4 0—K,J1.9 &—10, 8,3 o 3 6,3 N ' —7,5 3-4!, 10,5 Z \3—3, 4,2, Q4.2 E4—A 7976 0—A,Q,J,10,7 5 ‘o—a. 5.2 81,982 0—A,7,6,38 #—K, 5 0-9,6,4 King diamonds trump. East to lead. TABLE 1. (The winning card is underscored ) TRICK. EAST. | SOUTH.| wEST. Ixon’m. 1 w7 *5 -'-?_ w3 2 05 04 ‘T, 03 3. 02 06 [TOA | OK 4 08 | 09 [T0Q | +8 5 %A | #K |[mg| *I0 L _*J | 03 | 42 | 84 2 *9 | 06 | a3 | 99 8 *6 | A2 as L 9 08 | oA | 056 | O 10 a5 Al o7 [ 1 02 | 97 |00 |_© a7 A8 | 010 | &A 04 A9 T0I0_| &K Score: N.and 8. 2, E.and W. 11, COMMENT. East at each table opens with the fourth- best club, holding A, J and three small. Perhaps the absence of re-entry cards justifies the play. We give the hand as played. Whether the low lead is a trick winner in this case depends on the play of second hand. At table 1 it gained. If Hast had ovened with ace clubs and con- tinued with small on second round the subsequeut play would have been similar to table 2. outing trips. Hereafter the Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday night games at the Trist Dupli- cate Whist Club will be started promptly at 8:15 o’clock, The contest committee propose to enforce this rule strictly if it is possible to do so, and players arriving at the clubrooms after that time will not be given a chance to play if the tables have been made up. “You cannot favorably impress gentle- men with your game by thumping the table nf)on the delivery of certain winning cards that you happen to hold. You add nothing to the score. The cards will win just as surely if thrown with quiet dig- nity. C. D.qP. H.” The Newark Call has this advice to players training for a match: “The whist brain of a player should have complete rest for at least ten days previous to the game; in that time no whist should be played; no debatable or knotty questions should be entertained; no study nor solving of problems should be indulged in. In this manner one com- mences with a fresh, vigorous mind, and is much better able to retain his powers longer'than when he is ‘ whist stale.””” The whist editor-in-chief of THE CALy started for the Brooklyn congress, but has not been heard of since he met President Schwab, and report has it that he is lostin Robinson County. To students: In the middle of a hand South leads the 6 of spades, second hand plays 7; North, holding K, 9, 8,4, plays K, and the trick is taken by fourth hand with the A. Five better than the 6 are ac- counted for. If you were North and strong in tramps would you exhaust trumps and give your partner a spade? If you hold A, Q, 10 and 3 of trumps and y our partner leads the 9 of trumps, second band plays 2, what would you do? If a player leads the ace and follows with the 10 how many cards has he in suit; what does he show and what does he deny? If he leads the king and it winsand he follows with the knave what does he show and deny? Tf he leads the ace and follows with 9 what has he and how many cards in suit? If he leads the knave and follows it with the ace how many cards in suit has he? If he leads the knave and follows it with the queen what has he? If you are second hand holding A, K and 10 of a plain suit what would you play on a 7led? Holding K, Q, 10 and 4 what would you pl;{ second hand on 7 led? olding K J only, what would you play second hand on an 8 led? An ending for students. A trick is often lost by careless play at the end of a hand. Here is an iliustration of an ending which came in Jocal play iast week. It is simple, but illustrates bow fuily careless or thoughtless play can 0 se. Trick 2—West tries to lead through the turned king. North has no good reason There are two cards remaining in each = and. South has the lead and holds the lon an” excursion to best trump and a losing twelfth card of a plain suit, ‘the best being with one of the opponents. North is marked with a trump, but its size is not known to South. There is also a trump with ecach of the opponents. The thoughtless player will lead . the best trump to draw the remaining trump of the adversaries and then lay down the losing plain suit card. A very little re- flection will show that the only ‘chance to -| make both tricks is to lead the’ plain suit card. If North has a better trump than the opponent, who'has none of the suit led, he will win and the best trump must make the last trick. If North has not a better trump than the opponents nothing 1s lost, as in that case North and South can make but one trick. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A. B. C.—There is no direct penalty for saying to your partner “You call a lead.” Itisonly a breach of etiquette. A “‘breach of etiquette’’ is not punishable under the rules. The only remedy is to cease to play with those who habitually disregard the etiquette of the game. S. M.—If fourth hand draws a card before second hand plays, intimating by his manner that he can fake the trick, or if a player leads a card and before all have played draws another, intimating that the card led will win and. that he will have another lead, no penalty can be exacted. It is only a violation of whist etiquette. It 1ssplgving “signs,” not signals. 8. 8.—Tbe answer to problem No. 6 will not be published until the solution is given in **Whist” in the June number. Several queries remain unanswered, awaiting the return of the Whist editor from the Brookiyn congress. PRIZE PROBLEM. The grohlem given below is from Pro- fessor C. Harold Howard. It is unique in that all the cards can be placed after the fourth round. A prize of a dozen packs of playingcards will be given for the best correct answer. North’s hand and the play of the first four tricks is given. From this read every card in the other hands. North’s hand: a A O AI10943 - 9865 © 9 4 King diamonds trumps. South to lead. TRICK. |soUTH. | WEST. | NorTH.| EasT. BRI 05 |04 |9 1 L3 ‘ a3 |_an_ 402 | o 06 LG THE WATR FRNT The Composite Lighter Renown Has a Successful Trial Trip. Loss of the Sco'tish Dales on One of the Islands of the Fiji Group. Stewart Menzies & Co.’s new boat, the Renown, had her trial trip on the bay yesterday. Her machinery stood all the | strain of a first trip, and, with the excep- | tion of a hot journal, there was not a | hitch from start to finish. The Renown is a flat-bottomed lighter. Since the loading and unloading of ves- sels at Sausalito and Port Costa have grown to large proportions the stevedores have been put to great straits on occasions to discharge and load them. Captain Men- zies determined to do away with this difficulty, so he had the Renown built. By means of a simple contrivance her hoist- ing machinery can be connected with the propeller, and under full steam the strange craft can make about six knots an hour. The machinery was built by Murray Bros., and yesterday, without any preliminary work in order to get the bearings into good working shape, the Renown made the trip to Sausalito and back in good time. Cap- tain Menzies is not satisfied, however, and | intends putting a large propeller in the strange-looking craft in order to make better time. In making the trip across the bay Fred G. Wilson acted as master, and to do so he had to pass an examination and getouta pilot’s license. The Renown was steered by means of ropes and CaptainWilson showed his thorough knowledge of the tide rip :in the bay by the manner in which he got his vessel inshore, and took adfintage of every eddy and current. e Renown towed to Sausalito the boats of the British ships Verejean, Ley- land Brothers, Beechbark and Almora, all of which took part in the regatta. The war between the Southern Pacific and the river pilots has only just begun and the latter are determined to have damages. In 1ts answer to the complaint filed by the pilots, the railroad company says that R. A, Paul was never employed as a pilot on the steamer Apache, but only as a wheelman, and that, therefore, no law was violated. This statement is supported by the affidavits of Charles Tnompson, F. A. Fish, K. A. White and R. A. Paul. The pilots say that they will prove that the Modoc and Apache have always been steered with steam gear and that for years past there never has been anybody in the filot-houss save the captain and the pilot. n this way they expect to prove their case and make the railroad company pay dam- ages. The yachts of the various clubs started Vallejo ' yesterday afternoon. The San Francisco, Corinthian and California clubs were well represented, and with a wet sheet and a flowing sea all should have made good passages. The boats will lie otf Valiejo all day and the passengers and crews will visit the pretty town and also Mare Island. A start for home will be made this afternoon and both visitors and men will probably be back in time for qu‘per. The pumps on the Blairmore gave out again at the critical moment yesterday, and the work of raising the sunken ship had to be abandoned for another twenty- four hours. The steamer Portland, which left here on the 20th inst. for Seattle, has been in trouble. She was caught in the recent gale that hasdone so much damage on the coast, and was unable to make beadway against it. She ran out of coal and some of the woodwork had to be burned up in order to get the vessel into Astoria. There she took on board a fresh supply of fuel and resumed her voyage to-day. News reached the Merchants’ Exchange esterday that the British ship Scottish Baleu, well known in this port, had gone on one of the islands of the Fijian group and had become a total loss. The crew escaped and were landed at Suva, the capi- tal of Fiji, from which point they will be sent to Melbourne or Sydney, Australia, and thence to England. The Scottish Dales went from here to the Sound and at Tacoma loaded wheat for Port Pirie, in South Australia. She was not heard trom until to-day, when the news arrived that she was a total wreck on the island of Vatoa. She was a 1998-ton craft, built for W. H. Ross & Co. in 1883. ‘The Pacific Mail Company’s Rio de Jan- eiro and Acapulco both sailed to-day, the former for the Oment and the latter for Central American ports. Among the Rio’s passengers was George Wise, son of the Collector of the Port, and in consequence there was a ;big crowd of Federal officials at the dock to see him off. Both vessels went away with full cargoes, but very few plsnngers. l The Occidental and Oriental Company’s NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. ~ GIGANTIC PURCHASE OF" RIBBOINS STUPENDOUS REDUCTIONS ! We have just uncased and this week place on sale a GIGANTIC SPECIAL PURCHASE of Plain and Fancy Ribbons comprising THE ENTIRE CLEAN UP OF A PROMINENT MANUFACTURER’S STOCK. The purchase includes AN ENDLESS VARIE!Y OF STYLES, COLORINGS AND WIDTHS, MANUFACTURED TO SELL AS HIGH AS 35¢ PER YARD, but was secured by us at such A TREMENDOUS DISCOUNT that we are enabled to place the entire lot on our, coun= ters and tables for immediate clearance at the uniform price of 5c per Y ard. PLAIN AND FANCY RIBBONS! At § Cents. FANCY RIBBONS, in stripes, worth 25¢, will be offered at 5¢c a yard. At T Cents. FANCY RIBBONS, in stripes and figures, value 35¢, will be offered at 5c a yard. Cents. At & No. 16 GROS-GRAIN RIBBONS, in assorted colors, value 20c, will be offered at yard. b5c & S Cents. At No. 22 GRO3-GRAIN RIBBONS, in assorted colors, value 25¢, will be offered at 5¢ yard. a At § Cents. FANCY MOIRE RIBBONS, in light colors, value 35¢c and 40c, witl be closed out at 5¢ a yard. EXTRA SPECIAL CLEARANCE BARGAINS! COLORED DRESS GOODS! At 1S 109 pieces 28-INCH FRENCH PRINTED At 92 pieces 38-INCH ALL-WOOL FA a yard. At 25 Cents Cents. CHALLIES, reduced from 25¢ to 15¢ a yard. 20 Cents. NCY MIXED SUITING, reduced from 50c to 20c 81 pleces 33-INCH FINE ALL-WOOL FANCY MIXED SUITING, in checks and figured designs, reducea from 50c to 25¢ a yard. BLACK DRESS GOODS! At 85 Cents. ) 25 pieces 38-INCH ENGLISH FIGURED MOHAIRS, former price 60c, will be closed out at 35¢ a yard. At 45 25 pieces 50-INCH ALL PURE WOOL ST Cents. 'ORM SERGE, reduced from 85c to 45¢ a yard. ONE THOUSAND DOZEN LADIES’ UNDRESSED KID GLOVES! EVERY PAIR GUARANTEED, Worth $1.00 WILL BE CLOSED OUT AT 35¢ a Pair : Market Steeel, corner of Jongs, SATN FRANCISOO. steamer Gaelic arrived from Hongkong via Yokohama and Honolulu yesterday evening. At first she was considered over- due, but when it became known that she had to stop at Honolulu all anxiety abated. They Climb Many Miles of Stairs Every Year. Two passengers on a Union-street cable- car were discussing stair-climbing as a fairly steady occupation. Their remarks led to an investigation concerning the family who climb the most stairs of any one in San Francisco to reach their front | door from the street level It is believed that the ‘occupants of a house on Union street, on the south side, just above Tay- lor, have this distinction. They climb sixty stairs, in three flighis, every timme they pass between the street and their home. This, of course, does not place them in competition with the residents of Telegraph Hill who climb from Sansome street up to the summit of that hill. They are in another class, for their steps are practically up a literal *‘air line’’ from one block to another. Allowing that any per- son passes over sixty stairs three times each way per diem, and that the steps | are 8 inches high on the averace, this in- volves stair climbing and descending to the amount of 87,600 feet per annum, INDORSE COMRADE MKINLEY. The Army and Navy Republican League Expresses Its Sentiments. At a meeting of the executive council, members of the staff and representatives generally from the different camps of the Army and Navy Republican League of California, held at their headquarters, 26 O’Farrell street, on the evening of June 22, | pursuant to the call of the commander-in- chief, the following resolutions were unani- mously adopted amid great enthusiasm: Resolved, That in the nomination ot Comrade ‘Wiiham McKinley for the office of President of the United States by the St. Louis Convention, the soldiers of the country have the proud satisfaction ot knowing that in him, as the chief executive of the Nation, they will have a | friend and sympathizer instead of an enemy and oppressor; that they can depend upon fair treatment at his hands, and, to say the least, the fact of having served in defense of the Union, other things being equal, will not be deemed an offense and as tending to make one ‘persona non grata” with the adminis. tration. Resolved, That a copy of the above resolu- tions be sent to Major William McKinley, e — Edwards Davis to Lecture. The Rev. Edwards Davis of Oakland will ad- dress the Good Citizenship meeting at Metro- politan Temple this afternoon. Sued on a Note. | on recommendation. Asa B. Bronson has sued W. H. H. Hart, Abner Doble and J. 8, Emery for $1500 and in- terest due on a_ promissory note issued by Hart to Doble and Emery and by them trans- ferred to Bronson. e g Lot . M. C. A. Meeting. This (Sunday) afternoon at 3 o’clock Rev. 0. H. Gruver, pastor of the First English Evan- gelical Lutheran Church, will address young men_at the Christian Association Hall, Mason. and Ellis streets. The service will be free to all young men. Mr..Gruver's theme will be, “The Secret of Getting Knowledge.” M s s i Christian Endeavor Excursion. There will be a Christian Endeavor exeur- sion to Glenwood July 4, to enrich the '97 fund. A good time is looked for, and all are cordially invited to attend. The train will leave the foot of Market street at 9:15 A. M., Saturday. Round trip, $1 25. HEALD'S Business College, 24 Post St., San Francisco. HE LEADING COMMERCIAL SCHOOL west of Chicago. Bookkeeping, penmanship, business practice, shorthana (Piiman, Graham, Eclectic), typewriting, telegraphy, modern lan: ages, £.nglish branchies and_everything pertain- ng to a business education rapialy taught. Department of Electrical Engineering in success- ful operation. Individual instruction, 20 teachers. Night ses- sions in all departments. Students can com- mence at any time. Thousands of graduates in positions. Write for catalogue. THE OAKLAND SEMINARY, STABLISHED 1858, 528 ELEVENTH ST, cor. Ciay. Mrs. M. K. Blake, Principal: T. D. Adams, A.M.. master; Mary E. Allen, A.B.. pre- cepiress. Best of accommodatifons for boarding or day puplls. Includes from kindergarten to uni- versity work. None but teachers of large cultare and experience. Speclal atiention oA, Music, Oratorical Work, Physical Cuiture and Deport- ment. A safe and pleasant home school. THE - LYCEUI. PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR THE UNI versity, Law und Medical Colleges. Admission Many students bave been successfully prepared at this school. Day and evening sessions. References, President Jordan or any Stanford professor. Phelan building, Nos. 338-385. PROF. L. H. GRAU, Principal, late of Stanford University. TRINITY SCHOOL (FOUNDED 1876). OARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS aud young men. Prepares for university and ece. ers limited to 36. Accredited school with the universities. Easter term opens Monday, August 3. REV. DR. E. B. SPALDING, Rector.