The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1896, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 1896. 21 OPENING COLORED DRESS GOODS! A GENUINE SACRIFICE. At 10 250 pieces 36-INCH FANCY WOOL SUITINGS, former price 25¢, marked down- to | 10c a yard. At 25 500 pieces 36-INCH IMPORTED NOVELTY SUITINGS, former price 50c, marked | down to 25¢ a yard. At 25 350 piec 25¢ a yard. At 25 Cents. Cents. Cents. es 40-INCH PURE MOHAIR SUITINGS, former price 60c, marked down to Coents. 110 pieces 38-INCH GENUINE S8COTCH SUITINGS, very effective, former price 65c, marked down to 25c a yard. At SO Cents. 60 pieces 50-INCH REDFERN MIXTURES, in a great variety of colorings, marked down from $1 25 to 50c a yard. BLACK DRESS GOODS! At 20 Cents. Two cases 33-INCH EXTRA HEAVY AuL-WOOL CAMEL’S HAIR, former price 50c, will be closed out at 20c a yard. At 25 Two cases 37-INCH FIGURED ENGLISH ALPACA, former price 50c, will out at 25¢ a yard. At 25 Two cases 37-INCH ALL PURE WOOL price 50c, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard. At 35 Two cases 38-INCH FIGURED ¥ price 60c, At SO Three cases 44-INCH ALL PURE WOOL in a variety of new and elegant design: out at 50c a yard. Cents. J e closed Cents. IMPORTED FANCY “\'EA\'HS| former Cents. NGLISH MOHAIRS, in a variety of designs, former will be closed out at 35¢ a yard. Cents. FRENCH AND GERMAN JACQUARDS, s, former prices 75¢ and 85¢, will be closed SILK DEPARTMENT! At 35 Cents. 1200 yards ENGLISH SILK POPLIN, in a good variety of colors, suitable for fancy waists and evening dresses, former price §1, will be closed out at At 25 950 yards FANCY STRIPED TAFFETA, yara. At 7S 730 yards BLACK BROCADED MERVELLIEUYX, all pure silk, elegant, soft finish, extra heavy guality, former price $1 25, At 7S 400 yards BLACK SATIN DUCHESSE, 2 former price $1 2: will be closed out at 75¢ a yard. 5¢ a yard. Cents. former price 75¢, will be closed out at 25¢ a Conts. will be closed out at 75¢ a yard. Cents. inches wile,all pure silk, extra heavy, WEEK OF OUR GREAT JULY CLEARANCE! i STOCK, and represent Having successfully completed the closing out of our vast overstock, |jwe now begin OUR REGULAR JULY BARGAIN SALE, the mere announce- |ment of which wouid be sufficient to crowd our mammoth salesrooms with ithose who, from past experience, are fully aware of the MARVELOUS |[VALUES offered, but when this announcement is backed up by the appended STARTLING REDUCTIONS it cannot fail to create A STILL {GREATER SENSATION, as proportionately DEEP CUTS IN PRICES have been made throughout every branch of our SPRING AND SUMMER THE GREATEST SACRIFICE EVER KNOWN TO THE DRY GOODS TRADE, LADIES KID GLOVES! At 35 Cents. LADIES' UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, every pair guaranteed worth $L, will closed out at 35¢ a pair. At 65 Cents. 1700 pairs 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in dark and medium tan shades, also black, regular value $1, will be closed out at 65¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 1500 pairs 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES, large buttons, in tan, brown and slate shades, also black, rezular value $1 25, will be' offered at 75¢ & pair. At 95 Cents. | 1000 pairs two-clasp PIQUE KID GLOVES | (embroidered back) in tan, brown, red and opera shades, also black, regu- lar value $150, will be closed out at 95¢ a pair. BLACK SILK LACES! At 10 Cents a Yard. BLACK CHANTILLY LACE, all silk, 4 inches wide; BLACK BOURDON LACE, 4 inches wide; K ET TOP BOURDON LACE, 4 inches wide, regular price 20c and 25¢, will be closed out at 10c per yard. At 15 Cents a Yard. BLACK CHANTILLY LACE, all silk, 51§ inches wide; BLACK SILK BOUR- DON LACE, 5 inches wide; BLACK NET 10P BOURDON LACE, 5% inches wide, regular price 30c and 35¢ will be'closed out at 15¢c per yard. At 25 Cents a Yard. 6and 7 inches wide, regular price 50c, and 65¢, will be closed out at 25¢ Cents a Yard. BLACK SILK APPLIQUE LACE, em- | broidered in butter shade, inches wide, regular pric | 75¢, will be closed out t 25¢ per BLACK SILK CHANTILLY LACE, BLACK SILK BOURDON LACE, | BLACK NET TOP BOURDON LACE, 6 and 7! WAISTS AND UNDERWEAR! At 50 Cents. LADIES' PERCALE WAISTS, of fancy stripes an: hguras, extra full sleeves, Stanley braid, regular price $1, will be closed out at 50c. At 60 Cents. LADIES' MUSLIN GOWNS, full sleeves, yoke finished with insertion of fine embroidery, special value,will be closed out at 60c. At 50 Cents. LADIES'’ MUSLIN CHEMISE, square yoke of fine embroidery, extra value for 75¢, will be closed out at 50c. RIBBONS AND PARASOLS! At 20 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBONS, 3 inches wide, all silk, will be closed out at 20c. At 25 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBONS, 314 inches wide, all silk, assorted colors, will be closed out at 25c. At $1.00. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in Gloria silk, lined, will be closed out at $1. NEW DRESS TRIMMINGS! We have received a large and beautiful | assortment of JET BEAD and COLORED BEAD and SPANGLE YOKES, with and sale te-morrow_at fully 50 per cent less than regular price. We will also show a new arrival of | COLORED SPANGLE TRIMMINGS, ‘in | all widths, at very lew prices. i without epaulettes, which we will place on | MEN'S FURNISHINGS! NECEKWEAR. At 25 Cents. 520 dozen LADIES’ AND GENTS’ ALL- SILK TECK ¥OUR-IN- HAND SCARFS, adjastable Bows and Club- house Ties, in the very latest style and colorings, regularly sold at 75¢ and 50c, will be closed out at 25c. BOYS’ WAISTS AND BLOUSES, At 35 Cents. 360 dozen FANCY PERCALE FAUNTLE- ROY BLOUSES AND STRIPED LINEN DUCK PLEATED WAISTS, with lanyard and whistle attached, usually sold at 65¢, will be closed out | at 35¢c each. MEN’S COTTON HALF HOSE. At 12 Cents. 120 dozen SUPERIOR QUALITY FULL | FINISHED COTTON SOCKS, in mode | shades, tan and black, regular price 25¢ a pair, will be closea out at 1234c. TINDERWEAR! At 75 Cents. 98 dozen SILn FINISHED BALBRIG- GAN UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAW- ERS, medium weight, in flesh, tan and cadet blue, regularly sold at $2 50 & suit, will be closed out at 75¢ each garment. HOSIERY! At 12X Cents a Pair. CHILDREN’S FINE R1BBED BLACK COTTON HOSE, double knees, heels and toes, fast black, regular value 20c, reduced to 1234c a pair. | At 25 Cents a Pair. | CHILDREN’S BLACK FRENCH LISLE | THREAD HOSE, spliced knees, heels | and toes, sizes 514 to 8 incnes, regular price 40c and 50¢, reduced to 25¢ a pair. At 335 Cents a Pair. | | LADIES' "4-THREAD BLACK MACO | COTTON HOSE, extra bhigh-spliced heels, double soles and toes, Herms- dorf black, regular price 50c, reduced | to 33%4¢ a pair. | WASH GOODS DEPARTMENT! & No Samples Given. Not Sold to Dealers. 50 pieces FINE DIMITY, all new and stylish, well assorted, was 10c yard, |~ this week 20 BEST GRADE 3; INDIGO PRINTED CALICOES, all new and first-class, 4 that were 8}4c, this week. 4 C 500 pieces HIGH-GRADE SHIRRED CREPON, woven colors, every one 1 stylish and fast, that were 1214¢ & yard, this WEeK................o.err.. {20 250 pieces GOOD GRADE TENNIS FLANNELS, medium colorings, a nice | B fabric, that were 7}gc, this week.. 20 150 pieces CORDELETTE DIMITY, these are the new fine grade goods 10 that were 15¢ and 20c yard, this week’s price................ e AR () 2 cases CHECKED NAINSOOK, fine fabric, neat designs, that was 8'4c a 1 ReyAatiilayeer A MR E R w1 e 5 i€ CURTAIN DEPARTMENT! 500 pairs GOOD NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS, ecru or white, nicely made 8" and stylish in design, that were $1 25 a paur, this week’s price..... b1V Full line of designs FINE GRADE NOTTI)(?H CURTAINS, in fish net, point d'esprit, etc., designs, that were $ d $275 pair, week at GOOD GRADE IRISH POINT CURTAI good effective desizns, that were $4 pair, 100 pairs in 0dd lots MEDIUM AND FI iis| 89 () 1$2.90 E PORTIERES, the clean-up | HALF well and heavily worked in on sale this week at of a large Philadelphia mill, on sale this week at............... EBT | PRICE. { One lot BEST GRADE (Daghestan effect) IMPORTED RUGS, size Sl 90 inches, that were $4 each, on sale at. 5 Bl B 31 e 50 pieces FINE GRADE OPENWORK SCRIM, 40 inches wide, that was g! 1234c yard, on sale at 3G D@ Sce “Chronicle” and “Examiner’’ for Specials in Linens and Blankets. LADIES’ CAPES, SKIRTS :SUITS LADIES’ CAPES, made of fine material, prettily embroidered or braided 1 00 in contrasting shades; also trimmed with bias bands and small buttons, . lined and unlined; tan, brown, navy and black; worth $4; reduced to.. Each | LADIES' CAPES, made of fine material, richly embroidered or braided, 89 '0 all lined with silk, ruche trimmings at neck; also black velvet with jet | &) s®) trimming, all lined, ribbon ruche at neck; worth $7 50, reduced to..... Each 100 LADIES' SKIRTS, made of Navy Blue Serge, all lined, five yards wide, $1 = O reduced from $3 50 t 5 ] 1‘001: .............. i Eacl | 85 LADIES’ SUITS, consisting of Double-breasted Reefer and Skirt, made $% ()0 of biack and navy Cheviot, skirt lined throughout, worth $7 50, will be | ®D*)e¢ closed out at. 3 Each LADIES’ SUITS, consisting of Skirts and Double-breasted Jackets, in | q“ ()0 black and navy Cheviot, lined throughout and neatly tinished, worth [ U.e $10, will be cleaned out at.. ...| Each LADIES' SUITS, consisting of Skirts and Double-breasted Jackets, in black 07 g 0 and navy Serge, lined throughout and neatly finished, also checks and | &) «0 mottled effects, in shades of gray and tan,worth $10,will be closed out at | Each Murphy Building, Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. | | | Market and Jones Streets Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests. Murphy Building, , Market and Jones Streets Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets, | Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets, | Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. If All Realms of Plausible Fiction the Fire Grackers in the Universe Were Rolled Into One The rage for novelty in Sunday litera- ture and illustration having led somebody to picture to a deeply concerned and thor- oughly interested world the comparative size of a structure that should contain as much room as all the houses in the City put together, a member of THE CALL staff has contributed a chapter of up-to-date materials in all the firecrackers that Jaly. If that magnitudinous combination were to be set off on the McAllister-street side | of the new municipal bui!ding the force of the explosion would be such as to blow | the structure to atoms and buildings were fired everywhere on the Fourth of | speculations that will be found far in ad- would be wrecked for a radius of a mile | around. The Parrott block would have | its marble front shaken out of its steel | casements; there wouldn’t be a whole win- | dow left in the gigantic downtown palaces, and the loss of life would be frightful. The | Lick monument would be buried out of | sight, and Market street, facing the monu- ment plaza, would be so covered with debris that the streetcar company would tainous obstruction than from newsboy traffic in Powell-street trans- fers in a hundred years. Toerealm of plausible fiction isa do- main entirely too dry and tame for the | latter-day genius of Fakedom, and this article is written in order to furnish him with additional pointers and suggestions on the illimitable grandeur of the impos- sible. vance of anything of the kind previously attempted. It is confidently expected that this article will go a long way toward fill- | ing & “long-felt want”’ of something new, bitherto undresmed of, and gloriously | impossible. If the people of San Francisco consume 330,000 pounds of beef a day, what a mam- moth creature would be the steer or the heifer which would represent in size and weight the grand aggregate of all the beeves siain on the altar of this com- 1ity’s appetite for one whole year! It ould, of course, be a couple of hundred d times the size and weight of the ordinary steer, and if the sun’s rays fell directly on it from above the body would throw a shadow that would cover forty times the area occupied by the Palace Hotel. 1f the animal could be kept still long enough all the military companies of the City could parade and maneuver on the pl of its back. The creature would require about 10,000 tons of hay as its daily food, and its board would cost about $700,000 2 week. 3 It will be next in order for some bril- liant mind to obtain from all the cities of the land wherein the electric light isn use relisble information as to the total number of lights in use and their respect- ive candle-power. The ageregate candle- power of all the electric lights in use may | then be obtained, and the reader will be dumfounded with the information that if the total candle-power of all those elec- tric lights were combined in one, and that one immense light hoisted up to an alti- tude that would put iv aloneside the moon when thatorb is 1n mid-heaven, the silvery disk would fade out of the unequal contest with twentieth century science, even as it melts away before the radiant eye of the morning. In fact, it will possibly be shown that were all the electric candle-power in the | world, and all the power that can be gen- erated by Niagara Falls and all other tor- | rents and whirlpools and swift-flowing riy. | ers and driving seas, to be combined in one sublime light, and that light raisea a | couple of hundred thousand miles above this terrestrial sphere, the astronomerson | the planet Mars would go crazy over the | inexplicable phenomenon, which would make nignt on half the earth only amem- ory of the past. The figuring might goon until we had an electric light that would ! make old Phesbus himself turn sick and | vellow and in comparison look like a gas lamp alongside of an arc burner. | But stop & moment! It is now ‘about the season for some enterprising editor wio doesn’t put any faith in the proverb that “there iso’t anything new under the sun’’ to detail somebody to tigure ont how big a firecracker would result from a com- bination in one.single explosive of all the 'ENGLISH PROVES BEJTER THAN MOTHER TONGUE The population of Chinatown progresses steadily and some of the tan-colored | youth up there are fin de siecle decidedly. Stockton and Clay streets, there were gathered three or four young Chinamen | whose attention was riveted on a moving tableau on the southwest corner of the | two strzets named. The tableau embraced two Chinese girls done in “fast colors,” opulent in jade stone rings and gewgaws, rigid as to deftly plastered hair, roseate as to lips painted an unnatural and vivid red, and as white as a miller’s coat with some sort of dust liberally put on to make a pale background of cheek for the flares and splashes of red conspicuous on their small facial area. The Chinese youth discussed them freely from their. head ornaments to their milk-white hose and funny little, vivid green bottines or slippers. But the Chi- | nese language was discarded and the talk went on in English, to the amusement of Eastern tourists and other bystanders. “‘She’s my girl,” said one in English without a Chinese inflection. *'Oh, no,” said another, “she’s mine.”’ The conversation was of this sort all through and 1t was all in English, spoken | with a San Francisco accent throughout. THE SGARGITY OF GHINESE INTERPREJERS ‘While there are now quite a number of white men in San Francisco who are able o converse in the Chinese language with | the Chinese merchants it is a singular fact | that there are only three or four who are able 1o act as court interpreters. The | Chinese lan-uage has been spoken in S8an | Francisco nearly half a century and dur- | ing two score years the local Chinese popu- | 1ation has numbered thousands continu- ously. These conditions would naturally | suggest that there would be seores of Chi- | nese interpreters competent to go into | court, but such is not the fact. Mr. Millard, who has been an interpreter | many years, says that part of this is due { tp the fact that the Sam Yups and See Yups employ totally different words to ex- press the same idea or to describe the same object. For instance one branch of the Chinese speakimg people here call an association a “bong” while the other branch calls it a “tong.”” The technical names are very hard to acquire in both the Sam Yup and See Yup dialects, espe- cially names of medicines and drugs, names and varieties of fabries of differing kinds. Many persons have tried to become interpreters, bat few white persons have kept on. Mr. Millard picked up the two dialects himself without the aid of rules of constiuction, which are now better understood by white persons interested in philology than they were formerly. ——————— MOGK FLOWERS OUT OF REAL BLOSSOMS The park gardeners have devised and are executing something new in the way of floral designs for the ornamentation of the people’s play-ground. Heretolore the slopes around Conservatory Valley have been decorated with geometrical figures | Yesterday afternoon, at the junction of | lose more nickels by reason of the moun- | it would miss | very largely, these being done in vari- colored foliage plants. The odd and pleas- ing fancy suggested itself of making mock flowers by the same means. So the slopes are now becoming interesting with mimic plants of size sufficiently large to fit them | for prize-winners in the land of Brobdig nag. Some plants with green foliage are | used to make up the outlines of the stem, | these stems being fuily ten ortwelve feet long. From these stems radiate smaller stems on which the mock flowers appear, the petals being outlined by flowers of‘ | | | | New Pieture of Washington The Only Living Descendant of the Father of His Gountry Collectors of Washingtoniana will be in- | ture age. The discoverer is a gentleman small leaf adapted for the purpose of indi- | terested to learn that a hitherto unknown cating the proper segregation. These | engraving of the Father of His Country strange but interesting productions at- | has recently been discovered. tract the undivided attention of those who | mentioned in W. 8. Baker's ‘‘Engraved see them the first time. Tne work has | Portraits of Washington,”” whnich is the been vrogressing during the past week. | standard work on the subject. But Mr. The mock flowers appear to have an aver- | Baker has recognized it as a valuable ad- age diameter of three feet at least and th. mock leaves are on the same large and | our first President. . generous scale, The engraving in question, according to = S ’ RECENTLY DISCOVERED PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON. Officers in the English navy were dis- It is not | lendum to the contemporary portraits of | tinguished by no particular dress from those in thearmy till the time of George II. ——————— In Wales and Cornwall many of the miners burn their bats upon the birth of a male child; if & girl be born his neighbors burn it for him. the legend thereon, was *‘Pubd. 15th July, 1784, by Whitworth & Yates, Birming- ham.” These English engravers are well known as the publishers of other valuable vrints of the same subject. It shows Washington in his early manhood and differs considerably from the more fa- who purchased half a dozen impres- sions, belonging to a farmer in the West. The Western gentleman explained that they had been in his family for gen- erations, but could give no further infor- mation. He was not aware of the rarity of his property. One of the closest relatives of the “Father of His Country” is selling cigars at a stand in the Pension|Office in Wash- ington, D. C. He resembles remarkably his distinguished ancestor. Visitors to the Pension Bureau see in the center of the, building a small stand, behind which is a man whose face bears a wonderful resemblance to the familiar portraits of Washington. He is Colonel Ebenezer Burgess Ball, one of Washing- ton’s nearest of kin and related to him through several different lines of ancestry. Colonel Ball1s one of four people who claim equally near kinship of Washing- ton. The grandfather of the present Colonel Ebenezer Burgess Ball was a Colonel Ball who served in the Revolu- tionary army. He was a near relative to Mary Bull, General Washington’s mother. The Colonial Colonel Ball and Washing- ton were cousins, both being grandchil- dren of a Ball. This Colonial Colonel Ball married. Frances Washington, a niece of Washington, so that the present Colonel Ebenezer Ball is doubly related to the father of his country. There are four di- rect, living descendants of the marriage of Frances Washington and Colonel Ball— Mrs. Kittie Middleton of Loudon County, ‘Washington Ball, Colonel Ebenezer Bur- gess Ball and his sister, who is an aged invalid in the Home for Incurables. Colonel Ebenezer Bu rgess Ball was born in Loudon County, Va., in 1817, and came to Washington when 17 years of age to work in a store which stood on the corner of Seventh street and Pennsylvaniaavenue, He went West and settled on the Osage River in Missouri, but when the zold fever | broke out in California he fitted out five ox-wagons and started for therich fields of | the Pacific Coast. But he never reached them, going instead to the wilds of the then unknown State ot Oregon. The val- ley of the Rogue River was settlea by miners, and the Indians of that locality made a savage war on them, capturing their wagons and leaving the drivers dead and scalped on the fields. Colonel Ball fought during the war, and after it was ended went into the provision business, taking supplies from camp to camp. At the commencement of the Civil War he returned to his old home at Leesburg, Va., and remained there to care for his aged mother, assuming the charge of the fine home plantation. The close of hostili- ties found him a ruined man. He then came to Washington and engaged in the butter business, but could not make it pay. ‘When the Washington monument was completed Colonel Ball applied for the post of custodian, but it was denied him. He has since supported himself by selling cigars to the clerks in the Pension Office. He is unmarried, quiet, polished and courtly of manner and very proud of his miliar portraits which limn him at a ma- | family history.