The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1896, Page 5

‘'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1896. SAW DEATH ON EITHER HAND. Chinese Surrounded by Flames in a Burning Building. SECOND ALARM SOUNDED A Family of Seven Supposed to Have Perished in Their Rooms. ESCAPED BY A LONG LADIER. Merchand:se Stores and Tenement Apartments Gutted on Jack- son Street. Chinatown was the scene of another serious fire at 11:15 o’clock last night. For s time it looked as though all the build- ings on the north side of Jackson street from the theater to Kearny street would be destroyed. For the third time in five days the Fire Department was called out on a double alarm, and the men under acting Chief Dougherty acquitted them- selves nobly. The fire started 1n Wo Lung Cheong’s shoe factory and the first intimation of danger to those outside was a sudden burst of flames from the front, which seemed to spring half way across the street. Then followed a scene that beggars description. The Chinese inhabitants of the locality 1 all self-possession and ran hither and thither shrilly scréaming in their barbarous language. They knew that Cheong’s family lived in tie rear and that all apparent avenues of escape were cut off by the wall of fire that stood between the rear and the street. They aiso knew that the second and third stories of the large building were literally packed with dozens of their countrymen, whose escape by the stairs was impossible. | The discordant cries and screams in the t and from the windows of surround- buildings soon awoke those who iwelt in the tenement, and every window was thrown open. A few gave vent to their alarm by calls for help to those be- low. Inavery few minutes the Chinese o lived in the second story were out on the wooden awning over tue sidewalk, where for a time they were safe, if not well clad. Foot by foot the flames rapidly went up the building on the inside until the heat was interse. The Chinese in the upper part had ceased their cries and watched the approach of the fire with stoic forti- To jump out of the window meant i or serious injury, sothey crowded to the windows, where they gasped for fresh air, for clouds of smoke were pouring out er their heads. At last the heat became unbearable, and a break was made. One by one they crawled out upon the six-inch window ledges and stood clinging to the wall. Death stared them in the face on both sides, but not a word did they uiter. They were waiting for the firemen to erect the long extensi n ladders, and, though the firemen worked with a will and the feat was quickly done, it seemed an age to those who watched above and below. When the ladder came within reach the first half-clad Chinese stepped on and quickly reached the ground. did not attempt to rush, but th remarkable coolness each took his turn, notwithstanding that the fumes were scorching hands and faces. At last ached the ground in safety and they ied away and were lost in the crowd. Then came the cry that Cheong and his family, consisting of the father, mother, three girls and two little boys, were still irprisoned in the building and the first effort of the firemen was to reach the un- fortunate. All the doors and windows on the front were smashed in and with each collapse out poured a big volume of smoke. To reach the living-rooms of the Cheongs was an impossibility, for falling timbers and leaping flames completely blocked the way. If the family had not escaped not a member would live to tell the tale, for there was mno exit in the rear. Tie horror of the situation was plainly manifest on the faces of the Chinese in the crowd. Later in the night the word was spread that a boy had -seen Cheong fleeing from the burning building with his brood a minute or two after the first cry of fire was sounded. A search through the Chinese quarter was made, but where they took | refuge, if they did escape, could not be tound. Meanwhile the firemen had their hands full. Fire tower. hosecarts, line of hose were piled and jammed in the streets in confusion. Lines were carried to the roofs of the adjoining buildings, and by the time the outside engines had been on the ground ten minutes streams were pouring into the fiery furnace within the brick walls from all sides and above. While the blaze was at its worst there was a dull explosion in the building, fol- lowed by a clatter like hail oun a tin pan. Evidently a can of powder and a few big boxes of firecrackers caused the dis- turbance. . The fire was under control within a half our. The fire burst out with the suddenness of an, explosion and in consequence it is impossible to ascertain just where or how it started. It is presumed, however, that it originated in Wo Lung Cheong’s shoe- store, at 721 Jackson street. In a few moments the fire burst through into Lang Wo Lang & Co.’s general mer- c: andise establishment next door. The flames then ate their way into the two floors above, and the whole interior was soon a mass of raging flames. Sun San Key’s butcher-snop, 717 Jackson street, next furnished fuel to the flames. Large quaantities of meat and ‘tallow were stored in the shop, and as the flames reached this stock the smeke and stench of the’ burning meat became unbearable. The firemen were driven half suffocated into the fresh air. Acting Chief Dougherty, seeing that it was impossible to check the flames with the bhand hose, ordered the water-tower ;i_lnced opposite the burming building. his was done and a powerful stream of water, fed by three engines, was turned through the upper windows into the burn- ing mass of goods and furniture. Thousands upon thousands of PI”OI'II of water went pouring into the building, but it was fully half an bour before the flames were under confrol. During the progress of the fire streams directed toward the flames would strike a projecting corner or a standing ladder and the water would pour into the adjoining buildings. In consequence the Jackson-street thea- ter, owned by the 8am Yup Company, was thoroughly flonded. A three-story - tene- ment house, 615 Jackson street, owned by L. and C. Gendotte, and occupied by & number of Chinese families, was also badly damaged by water. It is difficult to_ascertain the exact loss, but it is estimated 1o be somewhere in the neighborhood of $20,000 or $25,000. The building, which is owned by H. Miller, was completely gutted, and the stock of goods it contained were almost entirely destroved. Considering these facts, it1s quite probable that the damage will prove to exceed the above figures. 1t proved a most stubborn fire to sub- due. No sooner would one portion be seemingly under subjection to the stream of water poured on from the hose than the flames would be seen to shoot out through the window, there to be attacked in turn by another stream. The tower, with its tremendous force of water continuously pouring in through the open window, went apparently for naught as against the violenit heat and shooting tongues of flame driving their forces against the water. _This fight was kept up between the two giant destroyers until orders were given to dixcontinue the use of the tower, and a ladder was run up against the building and a line of hose sent up where it was seized by one of the firemen who, with daring so characteristic to his calling, stepped inside of what seemed a veritable furnace. 3 This bravery was rewarded by an imme- diate cessation of the flames from the wood which served to partition off the interior of the beehive into cubby holes for the tenants. After this application the fire was vir- tually under subjection, and it required only u snort time before what had been an hour previous a fiery furnace was con- verted into a charred and dismal spectacle of ruin and desolation. The stretching of the hose across Kearny strect had the effect of stopping the elec- tric-cars, and all those which had been caught north of the scene were compelied to remain where they were until long after 1 o'clock, much to the chagrin of the men employed upon them. GOLD, BUT NO FOOD. Experience of Amateur Pirate on the Chinese Coast. It has surely fallen to the lot of few men to come near starving to death in aland ot plenty, with over $900 in gold in their pocket—nay, by reason of that very fact. 1 bad shipred 2t Rangoon on board a steamer bound for Shanghai, says a writer in the London Standard. When I signed she was flying Jardine’s flag at the main, but I believe she carried the ensign of every nation and half the house flags of | the world in her signal locker. An opium smuggler I was prepared to find her, but that her chief business on the waters was piracy of thie vilest sort and unredeemed by a glint of romance came upon me cer- tainly as a revelation. ‘We attacked no ships as far as I know, but handlea with marvelous skill and knowledge of the intricate coast naviga- tion, she, would run in after nightfall among the rocks and banks where one would expect a sampan to take the bot- tom, while shrieks, flames, the report of firearms and clash of steel would testify to the descent of my delectable shipmates upon one or another of the numerous fish- ing viliages which fringe the shores of the China seas. { After four months’ duress I struck a | or liberty., My little hoard of mor- i alously guarded toward this even- | tuality—deepened the narcotism in which the whole crew lay steeped after a ghastly | debauch as we rode at anchor and, for- saking all my goods and chattels and seizing in lieu such moneys as I cond find, I dropped into the dingey and pulled off, | shoeless, hatless, arrayed only in a shirt, | trousers and belt containing the above- named sum (close on £200), hoping to reach a German gunboat which had been sighted in the offing earlier in the day. But the night was thick, and in less than lan bLour I found myself close in shore. The 3uestion of what to do was speedily settled by the boat capsizing among the breakers, leaving me no alternative but to {lana. Day was breaking and I lay till next morning in a tomb cut above the road in the hillside, and for the next three weeks I nearly perished for lack of nour- ishment, not daring to exhibit a gold piece, for I had no weapon and would cer- tainly have been robbed and murdered. I would gladiy have thrown away all but bne piece, but there was no single small coin in the sum total, and the result would have been the same. Though a good walker at that age (1 had made a record of twenty miles not long before and could cover 300 a week without a blister), I ac- complished no more than 200 miles in and hiding in tombs or ditches all day, often rushing back te my last deserted lair in terror of the advancing sun when no suitable place of concealment hove in sight. With paddy and plantains snatched pre- cariously here and there I managed to exist during those awful weeks, Chan- Chan is not regarded as a terrestrial para- dise by those Europeans whom fate malign has compelied to sojourn there, but Wal- halla was never hailed with greater ecstacy by the world-worn pilgrim than was that Celestial sink by myself. Toward the twentieth day the smell of meat cooking absolutely overcame me one morning and j at the peril of my life I emerged into the light of day and laid felonieus hands and teeth on what I believed was part of a baked cat,in the temporary absence of the legitimate landlord thereof. .- — THE PIG RETURNED HOME. Beating the Record of the Cat That Came Back or the Homing Pigeon. The late Joseph Millward, father of the present Joseph U. Millward, told the fol- lowing story of a pig to Colonel William A. Gunn, who 1s cur authority. It is a little incredible, but it is so well authenti- cated that we believe it, for no man in his day in Lexington stood higher for veracity and integrity than did “Ola Joe'’ Mill- ward, as he was known to his -ac- quaintances: Many years ago he wasat a farmer's house to dinner, and while they were eat- ing a little pig came into the dining-room, and the good woman of the house re- marked to her husband that she ‘‘couldn’t keep it out and she wished that he would kill it.” Mr. Miliward said: “Don’t do that, but send it to town to me.” The farmer replied that he would. It was in the days when wood was burned in Lexington for fuel, and in a day or two the farmer sent in a load of wood and put the pig in a basket and hung it on the coupling-pole of the wagon, and in this way brought it to town to Mr. Millward. {t was a very rainy time, and the roads were muddy and wet. In a night or two the pig disappeared, and Mr. Millward supposed some negro had stolen it. A few days afterward he met his farmer friend and told him that some one had stolen his pig. The latter remarked that the pig had come back home and that he intended to keep it. The pig had crossed over town, took the Newton road and got to Elkhorn Creek, which was very high. The miller at the creek told him that he had seen a lite muddy pig come to the creek and take a peep at the high water, and at last he plunged 1n, and the swift current swept him down and over the dam, and the miller thought it was drowned; but after a little time he saw the pig coming up the opposite bank, and when he came to the road he took up the hill and disap- peared toward home.—Lexington Gazette. Unrewar: y. _Every one around the lilinois Central city ticket office was talking about the finding of the $50 gold watch and “Hon- est” Bradley, who returned it. Bradley was getting a good deal of praise forhis honesty, but 'e remarked that 2e would have preferred a half dollar. **This case reminds me of a similar one when I was & raiiroad conductor,” said one of the old timers. “It was in the early days of Pat Hill, you know, every one remembers Pat. In fact a short time ago he was still brak- ing on the Louisville and Nashville be- tween here and Mobile. Well, he was riding on my train, and he found by the end of his seat a ro'l of bills, amounting to Pat was too honest to put the money in his pocket, so he hun about until he fonnd the man who had lost it and returned the mone; The owner handed him- a half dollar.””—New Orleans twenty-two days, traveling only by nignbt | ORGANIZED IN THE FORTY-FOURTH A Club Formed Under In- structions From the Ex- ecutive Council. SYSTEM IS NECESSARY. Citizens Who Will See That Every Vote Cast Is Counted. CAPTAIN HANSON'S RECORD. Young Men Show Their Appreciation of Good Government in the District. Organization in politics is as necessary for success on the eve of a campaign as is discipline in an army previous to a great battle. This condition is evidently recognized J ° : ) 3 OFFICERS OF THE FORTY-FOURTH DISTRICT REPUBLICAN CLUB. by the Republican party leaders in San Francisco, who, through the executive committee, encourage the men in the vari- ous Assembly districts to hold club meet- ings, and who impress upon the minds of the party followers what will insure a tri- umphant victory. There is a more important duty to be fulfilled when the votes are all in the box, which is to 'see that an honest and faithful count of the votes cast is had and the men for whom they have been deposited are credited with their rightful shares. In a well organized political club the members become known to each other and when the time arrives for volunteers to take charze of the polling-booths and see that fair play is accorded to all, there will be no difficuity in securing the proper material from the ranks, ¥ This precaution no doubt is the incen- tive which prompts the young men of the several Assembly districts to keep up a cuntinuous club organization. ‘With this object in view the Forty-fourth Assembly District has not been backward in placing the Republicans of their district on a war footing. This club was organized on the 16th of last January in pursuance of instructions from the Republican Executive Council, It continved with its regular meetings | until the 6th of the present month, when a reorganization upon a broader plane was perfected. At that meeting 330 names appeared upon the clubroll, all of which represented bona-fide residents and voters of the dis- trict, Among the officers elected for the year are men well known, not only in the im- g_edi;u neighborhood but all over the ity. Captain F. Hanson, the vice-president, held the position of Market Inspector un- der the late Republican administration and left a splendid record behind him. is army record, too, is as good as any man’s can be and his Republicanism stands second to none. The president of the club, I. E. Jarrett, is a young lawyer of brilliant attainments and of great popuhrit{. With these men at the head of the club as officers, and ably assisted by their asso- ciates, chere is every reason to believe that the Forty-fourth District will give a good account of itself when tbe votes are counted for Major William McKinley and Hobart, as also for the municipal nomi- nees. The following - named gentleman are officers of the club: I E. Jarrett, presi- dent; Captain F. Hanson, vice-president; ‘W. W. Cross, secretary; 8. C. Jones, treas- urer. The executive committee is composed of J. C. Kimbail (chairman), W. W. Cross, Frank McFarland, Captain F. Hanson, A. i)’l Pll‘ltorson, Stephen J. Garibaldi, R. L. ark. This committee has-been authorized to procure suitable headquarters for the cam- paign. In view of the action recently taken by the County Commitiee in increasing its number, I. E. Jarrett was indorsed as the additional member for County Commit- teeman of the Forty-fourth Assembly Dis- trict. SAND IS HEALTHFUL. In Cincinnati the City Furnishes Great Piles of It. Some time ago, when an item went the rounds of the press about the large num- ber of bow-leczged children in Cincinnati, it was suggested that sand piles should be vrovided for the children to play in. The sand-pile idea has been adopted, not only for the bow-legged children, but for all the little tots, and promises to be carried to a novel extent. Many of the school yards haye now in one corner large piles of sand in which the little tots' roil and lay to their hearts’ content, says the Cave s tares 30 are en de _clf d secured from one of the bars in .t.hne O-I:‘io river, and it is changed often enough to make it perfectly healthful. It is declared to be the healthiest thing xonibl, for children to play in, and some doctors have advised the making of mud pies as a regu- lar prescription for puny - youngsters. say there is ncthing like contact with mother earth, and if the children do not get healthful sand or dirt to play in they will wallow in the gutter or yards and be contaminated with all sorts of disease ) erms. 2 City Legislator John Regan has gone further, and has introdu an ordinance in the city council to shut the worthless element out of Eighth street or Garfield Park, and give it over to the children. He proposes to have sand piled in the corners of the parks and let the ehildren Pl" all they want. Mr. Regan, who is well known in New York, says that this: should certainly be done. WONDERFUL BENEFAQTIONS. When Baron Hirsch Began to Give His Fortune Away. Ever since the death of his only son he devoted his life and fortune to works of philanthropy, and in the first place to the improvement of the lot of his own co-reli- gionists in Austria, Hungary, Roumania and Russia. Thus the Hirsch fund in ‘Austria disgoses of a sum. of 12,000,000 francs for the purpose of educating the children of indigent Galician Jews and teaching them trades. There are no less than forty-one sach schools fn existence here at present, and their success is un- guestioned. They are rapidly human- izing thousands of unfortunate Jews whom centuries of cruel persecutions had brutalized. 7 He assigned about 10,000,000 francs to his co-religionists in Roumania, and he offered 50,000,000 francs for the purpose of transplanting Russian Jews to America. But owing to the refusai of the Russian Government this plan in its primitive and randiose form had to abandoned. gtill, it is mainly to his energy and gener- osity that thousands of Russian Jews owe S, the facilities afforded them of emigrating to the United States - and Argen- tina. in all this Baron Hirsch acted on the reasonable conviction that Jews are quite as capableas Christians of becoming skilled | artisans and successful agriculturists, if only they obtain fair play; and before his death he had the satisfaction of knowing that he had completely proved his case. But it would be a gross mistake to fancy that Baron Hirsch's generosity was sec- tarian. He was a philanthropist in the noblest and most catholic sense of the | word, and thousands—nay, millions—of mcn and women of all Christian churches will bitterly bewail his death. In Vienna, for example, he established acommittee for supplying needy artisans and laborers, without discrimination of creed, with loans for the purchase of trade implements, and for thisobject he allowed the committee 10,000 florins monthly. A similar committee in Buda-Pesth was1in re- ceipt of the same monthly allowance. In Lemberg and Cracow he paid 12,000 florins monthly for an identical purpose, while his committee in New York disposed of $10,000 per month. When the fire in the city of Stry, in Galicia, left large num- bers of people roofless, Baron Hirsch sent them a check for 100,000 guldens. All these and many otheracts of princely generosity were by their very nature made public, but millions of francs found their way from the Hirsch bank to the huts and garrets of the poor, no penny of which was ever re- corded. It is estimated that he spent alto- gether in works of pure philanthropy about 100,000,000 francs, or one-third of his | capital. He was busy drawing up further grandiose plans of philanthropy when death closed his career. On the occasion of his last visit to Aus- | tralia he complained to a friend of the high legacy duties in this country. *Are you anxious about your heirs, then?” asked the friend. “My heirs,” replied Baron Hirsch, “are suffering humanity. My one desire is to capitalize all my ben- evolent foundations so they may live and work forever.” The wretched in all quarters of the globe regarded Mauarice Hirsch as an earthly providence. Every year in Carlsbad he was followed at a respectful distance by hundreds of Polish and Russian Jews,who ;:eznrded "l‘;e "2‘“?,‘3 he tm]u as h:il" ver: st brought him countless begging Ienerys.pOOne w-g concluded in the follow- ing term: “If you are a man of honor h(fip an unfortunate lady in trouble. Send 20,000 francs by return post to B. G., Poste Restante, and never seek -to learn my name.” Another was as follows: “Messiah of the Jews. You, who likea second Moses, seek to rescue us from slavery, help me, your servant, out of my present trouble.” One youth in Buda-Pesth wrote a begging letter, and received from Baron Hirsch, who never saw him, 30,000 francs. A few da; before death Le sent one such letter to committee in Vienna, !@llm.? them to pay the writer of it 1000 florins, if the facts she alleged were true. It is difficult to realize the crushingly painful impression pro- duced throughout the Hapsburg monarchy by the sudden demise of the beneficent millionaire, who considered himself the trustee of the Foor and suffering, and who was the noble master—not the sordid slave—of his millions.—London Telegraph. e All About Eggs. To determine the age of eggs, dissolve a Enormous Expenses Connected With | ployes. This restaurant, with the bar and | quarter of a pound of salt into a quart of cold water and drop in the eggs one at a time. If a day old an egg will settle to the bottom; if three days old it will float; if more than five days old, it will rise above the water in proportion to its age. To ascertain the quality of eggs, make a coue of stiff white paper, place the egg in the large end of the cone and look through the small end toward the sun. If the con- tents look clear, even though the shell is discolored, the egg is 3 if sported, it is not. ‘ About 70 per cent of a fresh-laid egg is formed of water, sud this begins to evapo- rate soon after theegg is hiJ Air enters, introducing bacteria, which causes the egg to decompose. To prevent this, place new-laid eggs ina wire basket and im- merse for five seconds in boiling water. This causes a thin coating of cougulated albumen to form next the shell. The res of the snell can then be closed by ipping in linseed oil. Such an egg will k«g almost indefinitely. The whites of eggs. will froth more rapidly if cold. A pinch of salt in warm weather will cool the whites when ready for beating. Yolks well beaten, with a little flour sifted over the top, will last for a couple of davs, but if the whites are wanted to keep they must be left un- beaten. The yolk of an egg is a good substitute for cream in coffee and will suffice for three cups. Eggs boiled twenty minutes are more digestible than those boiled five. This is because they are dry and mealy A raw egg swallowed immediately will usually remove a fishbone stuck in the throat. The white of an egg is a good ap- lication for a burn. Mix black ink with he white of egg and sponge old black kid gloves to restore color. ———— 00ST OF RUNNING A OLUB. merchandise. Some of the Largest. 1t costs over $300,000 a year to run the t will pay“you. now obtain takers for any considerable bonded indebtedness. The Union League Club of Philadelphia, one of the strongest in the country, was able recently to gon $175,000in bonds at 4.4 per cent, a very low rate for club bonds. The issue was greatly over-subscribed, bids to the amount of more than $1,500,000 having been put in. There are few New York clubs that could market their'bonds on better terms than these. 1t is pretty well understood when a weak club asks its members to subscribe for bonds that the subscription is likely to furn out an assessment. There are sev- eral New York clubs with bonded and mortgage indebtedness of $500,000, and several others with property approaching in value $1,000,000. Almost every club in New York loses | money in conducting its restaurant. The | Union League Ciub’s restaurant usually | shows a small loss, even after it has been | credited with $20,000 for the teeding of em- | Glasgow Dimities And ORGANDI RAYES, which is in reality a Dimity masquerading under another name—in beautiful Dresden designs—raised stripes run- bling Coronation Braid. The width is 30 inches. 'They were bought to sell at the EMPORIUM for r5c. The clearing sale price 10c a Yard. Imperial Organdie Or IMPERIAL MOUSSELINE— one of the widest Cotton fabrics made—full 39 inches wide—very sheer—delicate "color effects—war- ranted fast—ro vards would be ample for any dress pattern. In- stead of 25¢ special price. The Empo cellars, takes in from $115,000 to $135,000 | per year. There are four or five other | clubs that take in as much or more, and | there are a few that make a small profit | when the receipts from wines, liquors and cigars are accredited to the restaurant and proper credit is allowed for the mainte- nance of employes. About a third of the | income of the Century Club is from these sources, Nearly all the large clubs receive from Concerts Wednesday and DON'T FAIL TO VISIT THE ART GALLERY THIS WEEK—Two of the Paintings on exhibition have a world-wide reputation. *“The Condemned and His ‘Betrothed.” David. From the gallery of Jerome Bonaparte. *‘Marius at Carthage,” by Chas. Le Brun. Paimnted during the reign of Louss XIV. Obtained fiom the Hunter Gallery, New York. * FOR SALE, Ari Galiery, second floor, Market-street front. SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 1806. Great crowds of people here Monday —thousands upon thousands—yet at no time “crowded” because the World’s Grandest Store easily accom- modates 25,000 people. Some departments were greatly rushed, but prompt, careful service was rendered to every customer. than San Francisco has ever known are offered on all lines of seasonable THE CLEARING SALE CONTINUES. THIS IS WASH FABRIC DAY AT THE BIG STORE. The pretty Cotton fabrics that you want—not those that others did not want, as is the case in other dry-goods stores at this season. stocks have been picked over for months—no “left-overs’ here. Wash Fabrics are but six weeks old, and are being added to daily from the reat manufacturers’ closing sales in the East. y Union League Club. It costs rather less than one-third that sum to run the Cen- Standard = fine_ s tury Club. Clubs like the Calumet, the Percales. m},@ Dimities. Knickerbocker, the Reform and the Co- it . — Ji lonial are run for less than the Century. qumyely et Nc? ~S e i . spiration proof, Dimities in The Union Club, the New York Club, FalF-gard wide et Dictden the University and the Manhattan are dots, stripes, PRI, Sy among the most expensive to maintain. figulzes always ring§ ’stripefi’ So are some of the athletic clubs. The 12 1'2¢. 300 etc. The regu- Metropolitan is run at large expense, and pieces now Tar 123%4c grade with increasing membership it will be as 8 1-3¢ a Yard e 5 costly & club to run as there is in the 8c a Yard. country. The cheapest and most econom- —_— ically managed clubs are the Greek letter Linnett clubs. Most of these clubs are run upon e Swiss less than $10,000 a year. A few small Shirtings. clubs with agreeable houses are run on a Duckette. Little over a_year, though $7500 is a Better . than small income for a comfortable club, even Percales, next A new lot' of when there is no attempt to maintain a to linen in firm- these attractive restaurant. - woven oods Most of the large clubs have a consider- :g:: oafnevegcg received g} ast able bonded and mortgage indebtedness. “inches wide. week, fastest The Century’s new house, with its fur- 32 Inches wide, i aah nishings, is worth about balf that sum- patterns pretty, SOUE iy e There was an_epidemic of club indebted, colors fast. An house, actually ness shortly before the panic of 1893, and ideal material worth 15c a several clubs have found their interest ac- for Women’s yard. That count since that timea serious’ embar- Waists and was the price rassment. It is usual to place a club’s Men’s Outin the 1st of Julv. pond, if possible, in the hands of the mem- Shirts. Inst 5 The price. TO- bers, ‘and the hatwking of club bonds about ks Instoa DAY the street is esteemed a scandal. It is be- of 15¢ lieved that only the strongest clubs could 8 I-3c a Yard 9 I-2c a Yard | porium, ) | Francisco before for less than 3sc. ning the length of the piece, resem- | ; tu Last wvisit before the execution, by And Better values Other Our Buy for next year now. Scotch Zephyrs. Whitlaw’s beautiful GINGHAMS in stripes and checks—almost as lus- trous as silk—never sold in San Offered NOW at 29¢ a Yard. Linen Swiss. All-Linen Dotted Swiss—small pinhead and medium-sized ' woven white dots on mnatural color—s0 per cent less than regular price. 35¢, 40c, 45¢, 50c. Cotton Bicycle Cloth. In Mixed colorings—Browns and Grays—one of the most popular . novelties in the Cotton Goods world this season. Clearing sale price 15¢ a Yard. to $25,000 for lodgings. This is an ex- tremely profitable feature of a large club, as the cost of maintaining lodgings is | small, and the presence of permanent | lodgers in the house works for good order | and helps to maintain the restaurant. Few New York clubs have greatly developed the | non-resident_list, -though it is becoming | more important in large clubs. Those clubs that make a specialty of non-resident membership find that is highly profitable to fix non-resident dues and initiation fees very low. The club with largest non-resi- dent list obtains about $13,000 a year from non-resident dues and has so constant a demand for its lodgings by non-residents | visiting the city permanent lodgers are no longer taken. Such a non-resident list, | made up of men from all parts of the countrv, most of whom occasionally visit New York, gives a variety and interest to club life that nothing else can give. One sees from time to time at the club strongestin non-resident membership Cabinet officers, political leaders from New England, ths South and the West, army and navy officers on leave, leaders of the bar from half a dozen States and business | §8 THE VERY BESI ONE Tu EXAMINE your eyes and fit tnem to Spectecies and Ere. with instruments of owninventioa, Whosesuperiority has not been equaled. My saa~ €085 has been dus to the meriis Of My WOk - Oftice Hours—14 10 4 . i BICYCLES BUILT T0 ORDER. YOSEMITE CYCLE WORKS, 112 Golden Gate Ave, S. F, IRON BEDS; BRASS BEDS, FOLDING BEDS* ‘Wire and Hair+ Mat- tresses, Reclining ‘W. A. SCHROCE, New Montgomer: St., under. Gra: Hotel, 5. F. WILCOX COMPOUND “F ANSTe FiiLs nd SURE. “Always relizble. ‘Take et W COX 2 Safeguard. WILOOX SPECIFIS 328 SOUTH EIGHTH ST., PHILAD. ,PA? men from nearly all parts of the country. It is difficult to conduct- a club complete in all its functions witha membership of less than 300, and such a club cannot be comfortably run upon dues of less than $40 per year. Out of the income from dues must be paid rent, wages, cost of repairs and whatever deficit may result from the conduct of the restaurant. If that deficit is not to be pretty large tne club must have a considerable proportion of its mem- bers regular frequenters of the house. If such a club can have an average of fifteen or twenty men daily taking breakfast and luncheon a la carte it is likely, with eco- nomical mapagement in all” its depart- ments, to live witbin its income. Ex- enses may be set down roughly in this Fsshion' 3,000 This consumes all the income from dues and results in a small deficit. Every such club, however, should be able to realize from $2500 to $3000 per year from lodgings, and if the loss on' the restaurant can be kept within $2500 a year the club may be held to be in good condition, for a club starting with a membership of 300 may reasonably expect, until it has reached its limit of membership, to take in from $1500 10 $2500 per year in entrance fees. Such a club at starting may reasonably expect also to furnish its house from the proceeds of admission fees, say $25 from each of the first 300 members. = Any surplus during the first five years of the club is likely to be needed for further furnishing. A club with such an income cannot hope, if it is to be run in first-rate fashion, to occupy an eligible Fifth-avenue corner, as that would mean doubling or trebling its rent.—New York Journal. The Most Popular Novels. 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