The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1897, Page 14

“.ferred to cancel the match. “several Butte men are injured will the - mot yet recovered from g recent atfack of ~ jfstead of Erskine, and Hqpbs will take 14 THE SAN. FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDA Soe JA 1897, RY 1, A TWO BUTTE MEN PROFESSIONALS Such Is the Final Dictum | of President Hum- phreys. Without Them Montana's Team ‘Will Play Fiercer Than Ever, Olympic Has Made Some Changes and Hopes To.Day to Smash the Butte Record. Butte will clash with Olympic again | this afternoon. The two big football | teams will line up on the Central Park | gridiron at 2:30 o’clock, no matter what the weather. Yesterday final decisions were rendered by the local representative of the Amateur Athletic Union upon the alleged profes- sionalism of Hall and Laswell of the Butte team. ‘He positively deciares that they shall not play to-day. His investiga- tions since the last game have failed, it seems, to convince him that he should again permit these men to play under protest. Certain records of the amateur union show that they are charged with profes- sionalism, not in football-playing, but1n some other branches of athletics some | time ago. Whether or not the charges be West Point end, will be on hand to strengthen the other side of the Olympic line, Otherwise the Olympic eleven will be the same as it was in the Christmas game. Following is the line-up and the strippedweight of the players: Position. Olympics, L E. R.....McCormack, 158 E Sheeby, 184 H. Perham, Hobbs, 202 Prabm, 175 Ames, 155 Ed Pernem, 160, Hall, 198. .. X 1 G. L...J Smith (cap), 193 Hooper(cap.). 216..) Jones, 175 Porter, 185 Nolan, 158 Code, 158 Morse, 158 Searlght, 172 Stickney, 165 With its team slightly weakened Butte may be expected to play with redoubled fury in order to maintain its reputation gained in a series of remarkable vic- tories, Tishould be a slashing, crushing, tornado-like game with plenty of interest even for the uninitiated. A particular cause for fierceness and dash in the Butte’s pleying to-day lies in in the comments madein THE CArn by Stickney in criticizing the Christmas day match. It will be remembered that bis remarks were practically to the effect that Butte playsan ignorant style of game without tricks, and characterized princi- pally by massing weight upon an OpDOS- ing line. That criticism at the time rankled deep in the breastsof the Butte men una they are mow determined to show Mr. Stickney that they can fool him by their plays. Atthe sume time they are not personally particularly. kindly dis- posed toward 'the one Who so jbelitiled their ability. AR O LEAGUE OF CROSS MATCH. Companias A and B to Meet at Central Park This Forenoon. The fiercest and so far the most evenly matched rival companies of the League of the Cross Cadets will come together this forenoon to settle their third annual foot- ball contest. The match will be played at Central Park, with Companies A and B in the field. Game will be called at 11 o’clock. The proceeds of the exhibition will be donated to the Children’s Hospital. Com- JIM HOOPER, 6 Feet 3 Inches. Weight, 230 Pounds. true does not matter. The men remain under the ben’ until they are properly re- instated by the courts that passed upon their particular cases. The charge against Hall is based largely upon an allegation that he once received money for coaching a football team and it is the more serious of the two.- Haswell is charged with, gramme so indicates, that he was entered | in a picycle race as pace-maker for a pro- fessional rider. He was injured before he was able to | fulfill bis intention, but the League of | a American Wheelmen suspenddd him for a year. He did not protest the action, and so there he is. The rules of amateur ath- letics are very much stricier: than most persons even imagine. 1fatany timeina man's life he bas received a. money con- sideration even of trifling smaliness for atbleuic. work or won a money bet on his own athletic performance, or competed with or againsi a known professional, he | is undoubtedly a professional athlete and could be so declared were the case pushed. But very often because of the compara- tive insignificence of the transgressor or | the want of professional intention, as| with small boys competing in baseba.l or otherwise for little amounts, ihe violators of the amateur code is no: brought to task, nor would he properly be unless he should undertake to compete in & recognized amateur contest. As an instance of the far-reaching effect of the contact of a professional it might be stated that Heffelfinger, when here several years ago, made nearly every football player in the big four California teams a professional. Heffelfinger became a professional ath- lete immediately upon receiving money for coaching the Berkeley team. He then played with the Olympics in a regular game against Stanford, and although no notice seemed to be taken of it at the time his undoubted professionalism cer- tainly tainted, according to amateur rules, all the players that participated in that contest and all the others with whom any of them afterward played-in a regular match. Had the charge been made all these men would doubtless have been readily reinstated because of unitention- ally violating the rules. For the tame rteason Walter Camp, Butterworth . and all the other coaches that have come- here from the East could be objected to as competitors in a strictly amateur athletic contest. For some time yesterday the Butte men quietly but firmly declared that the Butte eleven would not play unless Hall and Loswell were on the team. Their record this season means more to them than the matter of expected gate receipts to help defray expenses. So far they have over- whelmea-every team they have met, and rather than risk & game with two impor- tant players out of the team they pre- Even at a late hour last night Captaln Hooper and Acting Captain Benson were still hopeful of making some arrangement by.which Hall and Laswel] may be al- Jowed to play ‘this aiternoon. Théy will not give up hope until they shall have had another conference this evening with Mr. Humphreys, president of the Pacific Coast branch of the Amateur Union. The game, however, will be played, if necessary, without:Hall and Loswell. Ed Perbam, “the only bald-headed footbatl { Player in the world,” will take Hall's place at guard and Dygert will take Los- weil's place at_fullback, while lttle “Mickey’’ Harrington will go in at balf- back in Dygert’s old place. ~ Only'in case giant red-headed captain’ play, for he has rbeumatism. The Olympic team has beent changed somewpiat. Sheehy will play. right tackle and the printed pro-{¢: pany B, generally speaking; represents the Mission side of Market street and Company A the Western Addition side of the City. Severalof the players in their particular fields have attained some prominence as football players. Following is the line-up—the way the teams wlii actually face each other: Company, A. Position. Company B. L E R.. s SCOTS DANCE AND FEAST. San Francisco Thistle Club Holds Its Sixteenth Annual Hogmanay Suppe: The members of the San Francisco Scottish Thistle Club and their friends bad & royal New Year's reunion at the sixteenth Hogmanay supper in B'mai B'rith Hall last night. The evening's emusement started with dancing to Scot- tish music and among the dances were the “‘Highland Schotiische” and the “Reel o’ Tulloch.” Donald Weir officiated as piver. It was an animated scene in the ball- room, for the hall was elegantly decorated with Scottish emblems. Prominently dis- played were flags and banaers on which were the lion rampant and the thistle. Neatly all of the members appeared in hi-hland costumes and regalia. After the seven dances, first on the pro- gramme, the music played for the march to supper, ana such a banquet as it was. The menu was a foot long and contained a list of dishes sufficient to provision a small army. Aod the ndmes, none but ‘one from the land of the heather would know what they meant.. But for all the strange sounding names, the tiolex themselves were of the most pal table order. W. A. Dawson, the chief of the club, presided and he proposed the following toasts: “The President of the United States,” “The Queen,” “The Land We ‘Live In,” “The Land o’ Cakes,” “The San Francisco Scottish Thistle Club,” “Our Sister Socicties,” “The Press,” “The Lassies.”” At the conclusion of the ~feast the assémblage repaired to the dancing-hall again, and the dancing was kept up to a lare hour. At midnight all joined hands and welcomed the new vear by singin “A Guid New Year.” The affair w: under the management of the following officers of the club and committees: W. A. Dawson, royal chief; J. Hill, chief- tain; George Paterson, Tecorder; John Ross, treasurer; George Bushby, financial sec- Tetary; J. Irvine, sergeant-ai-arms; Alex Sherp,’ property man; trustees—J. Lawrence, R. Wilson, D. E. Auderson; reception com: mittee—W. A. Dawson (chairman), Alex Nicholson, James Niven, A. Currie, A. Shar| A. Campbell, D. Young, D. G. C. M¢Kay, J. McDo: Captain Weir; floor manager, Wil- liam Grant; floor commitiee—George Bushby, P. Riddle, ter, Andrew Ross. STl aa e b h WILL OF A. L. TUBBS. e, Valued at an-:lmuon Dollars, Bequeathed to the Heirs-in-Law., ““The will of the late Alfred L. Tubbs, president of the Tubbs Cordage Gompany, .has been opered, but has not been filea for probate. An estimate is made that Mr. Tubbs left a forturie exceeding in value $3,000,000, The bulk of the vast fortune 1s bequeathied to the heirs-at-law. No large sums are bestowed on charitable! .| institutions. - The will may be filed early next week.: e . DixMoNDS, Watches and Jewelry. One week Beehy’s ;place aj guard. Nolan, the crack | only. Vacate Jun lst. §and 7Third street NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH T0 BE TOLD One of the Last Requests of Journalist J. Ross Jackson. Judge Hunt, George Barmes and Others Will Make Brief Addresses. No Display of Mourning in the Press Club—Rcoms to B: Ad.rned With Shrubs and Flowers. The arrangements for the funeral of the late ). Ross Jackson, the newspaper man and popular club member, were partially made yesterday. The funeral will take place from the rooms of the Press Club at 20’clock to-morrow. Superior Judge John Hunt will, as was requested by Mr. Jack- son, make an address. Judge Hunt re- turned from Mount Tamalpais last even- ing. He at once called on Mrs. Jackson and Judge W. 'P. Lawlor, thé executor, and expressed his willingness to.comply with the request. George Barnes, John Timmins and ' perhaps other well - known newspaper men and ‘in- timate friends of Mr. Jackson will also make appropriate remarks. The joure nalist expressly asked that nothing be said of him but the truth. There will be suitable vocal and instru- mental music by the Press Club Quartet and Rbys Thomas. The decoration of the rooms will be simple and effective. There will be palms and other potted plants and flowers, but no mourning, in accordance with views long held by the journalist. The remains of Mr. Jackson have been embalmed and are now at the St. Nicholas Hotel. - Mras. Jackson is bearing up bravely under her affliction. She was unremitting in her at- tentions, being always at his side, and is now, with intimate friends, in attendance on the remains. The pall-bearers will include a represen- tative Irom each paper, one each from the Press Club, BohemianClub und Olympic Club, and’ probably Judge Hunt and Judge Hebbard. The indications are that there will be the largest assemblage of the newspaper profession at the funerai that have ever been summoned together here. Doubtless there will be a great many besides, for everybody knew Mr. Jackson, and every one held him in high esteem. After the exercises at the Press Club the remains will be taken to the mortuary chapel at the Odd Fellows' Cemetery. Sunday at 2 . M. the remains will be cre- mated. Probably there will be no other exercises there than the singing of a hymn by the Press Club quartet, like “Nearer My God to Thee.” WOOL MEN AROUSED. A Communication to Congress Explain- ing the Present Situation and Suggesting a Remedy. The California Wool Association has sent the following communication to the Senators and members of Concress, also to the members of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representa- tives, relative to the hearing of the pros- pective tariff on wool on the 6th prox. SAN FrAXcISco, Dec. 28, 1896. Dear Sir: Wewish to cali your attention and careful consideration ta the foliowing facts concerning the wool industry. The decrease in the clip of the United States for the year 1896 was enormous, and for 1897 wili be yet more disastrous. In addition to this enormous falling off in production prices have fallen so low that it no longer pays the cost of growing. In many instances in our State during the past two years well known wool-growers have offered their fall clip of wool to any one who would shear and take 1t away, because the expenses of shearing and marketing were greater than its value, thus showing the deplorable condition of the wool industry. Owing to this serious condition of affairs the California wool clip will show a Toss for 1896 of fully 6,000,000 pounds, ana the decline in the value of sheep has been about 70 per cent. Prices of spring California wool before the Wilson tariff ranged from 1 cents; rices of spring California wool now range rom 4 to 12 cents; prices of fall California wool before the Wilson tariff ranged from 7 to 15 cents; prices of fell California wool now range (rom 2 to 9 cents; prices ofscoured Cal. ifornia_wool before the Wilson tariff ranged from 30 to 55 cents; prices of scoured Califor- nia wool now range from 12 to 30 cents. Tne manufacturing - Interests of the country have also suffered greatly. Our domestic manufacturers cannot successfully compete with the low wages paid labor in foreign countries. Wages in England are much lower than in the United States, and in France and Germany still lower. Japan is rapidly becoming a manufacturing nation. The wages are absurdly low, being from 38 cents a_day for_their best aperators down to 3 cents and 5 cents for unskilled labor. The immense importations of wool, shoddy, waste, elc., have lessened the demand for raw material, labor and manufactured product to the detriment of the entire population of the United States. The effect of this has been to enforce idfe- ness and to stop nearly 75 per cent of the woolen machingry in the United States within the past year. There are in the State of Cali- fornia aione seven scouring-mills, employing from 400 to 500 hands, which have been very disastrously affected by the enormous importa- tion of scoured wool from foreign countries. A thorough protective tariff for both wool and woolens. with specific and not.ad valorem duty for wool, and & combinéd specific and ad valorem duly for goods, neither to be less than the McKinley tariff, will insure reason- able prosperity tor our wnole country. J.R. HaLL, A.C. S('HL!B’!HG!I'; Committee. M. 8 KOSHLAND, 4 WILL SELL HER DEER. A Little Girl in Sbasta County Writes a Novel Letter to Mr. Grand. A pretty letter was received last night by Manager Thorn of the Grand Hotel from a little girl in Shesta County who desires to sell a deer, doubtless to get some money for the holiday season. It afforas a chance for some rich man or otber person to make a little girl very happy. The deer, too, might be piaced in the Golden Gate or some other park. The letter is written in a small, round hand, and is almost a model in its way. It isas follows: 7 160, Shasta Connty CQLI Dec. 27, 1896. Mr. Grand, Grand Hotel, San Francisco—Dz. Srr: 1am a little girl 12 years old and I live st Igo, fifteen miles from Anderson, our near- est railroad point. I have s pet deer and I want to sel) him 5o I can have some monéy all of my own. A young lady in this neighbor- hood "told me to wrife to you, as she thought you had a park and might be giad to have him in your park. I will get & man tocrate him and put him on the cars at Anderson for me for ten, if you want him, and I hope you will let me know soon. Your little friend, Lira B. RUSSELL, Igo, Cal. e T— The Patriarchs’ Bal This ultra fashionable affair was . re- | moved this year from Delmonico’s to the ‘Waldortand was exceptionally mdgnifi-. cent. The toilets were superb, the music sublime, and the menn a masterpiece of culinary art, irterspersed with claret, Moet & Chandon champagne and Johan- nis water.—Exchange. - - o Not Gét Damag The Supreme Court has reversed the. fudg- ment which gave ¥. P, Howland damsges | Paris during the fourteenth century. against the Oakland Consalidated Street Rail- way Company and the Consolidated Piedmont Cable Company for injuries to his wife, 0CCa- sioned by & collision between cars owned by the two companies, one being a horsecar and the other & trolley-car. The court reverses on the ground that evidence was improperly admitted. \CAPTAIN TRASK DEAD. . The Well-Known Ex-Pilot Expired at His Residence in This City Yesterday. Captain Freeman Trask, the well-known ex-pilot of this port, died last evening about 11° o’clock at his residence, 3549 Twentieth street, in. this Ci He had been actively enzaged as a pilot in these waters since 1867, bul resigned abouta year ago on account of his health. He has been s sufferer from rheumatism for some time, and his deati was caused by that complaint. Captain Trask wasa na- *| tive of Maine, aged 68 veers. CONSUMED BY FIRE Three Tons of Stuff Seized by the Police Destroyed. There was a conflagration on the sea- wall at the North Beach yesterday, but it was not necessary to call out the Fire De- partment, as nothing valuable was de- stroyed. For the past three vears sbout three tons of stuff had accumulated in the Po- lice Property Clerk’s office, and yesterday Chief Crowley instructed Captain Moran to have it carted to the seawall and burned. . The stuff consisted of Chinese lottery tickets, bloody ciothing of men execated and of others now serving sentences i the State prison, obscene books, pictures and models seized by the police, and other miscellaneous article. THE NEW PAVTONINE Miss Fuller Appears at the California in “A Paris Tragedy.” Ea Loie Is Not Considered So Good a Mimist as She Is a Dancer. *La Loie” Fuller reappeared at the Cal- ifornia Theater last night for an engage- ment of four nights and two matinees, She had strengthened her programme for the occasion by a new Chinese dance which she has been preparing for the edi- fication of Li Hung Chang, and also by “A Paris Tr:gedy," a pantomime which was described on the programme as being “from tae French,” although pantomime, being a universal language, it was diffi- cult to see where the transiation came in. “A Paris Tragedy” interested the audience very much, partly, no doubt, because of the novelty of such a style of entertainment in this City. At odd moments there were sounds as of stifled hilarity from the darkened and crowded house, but that was when the pantomime showed a tendency to become French. On the whole, *‘A Paris Tragedy’ evidently gave satisfaction. Miss Fuller inaugurated an interesting departure in her pantomime by playing it o a symphony of color, instead of to a musical accompaniment. The stage was set as a sumptuous boudoir, with vistas of a sleeping-apartment beyoud,and every- thing was bathed 1 a halo of rainbow- tinted light. The foreground was a glow of gold, the middie distances were steéped in all the latest and most fashionable chromatic tints and the background was steeped in a lurid red, which was no doubt intended to be theleading motive.of the tragedy. Loie” was discovered in & dormant condition reclining on a couch under the rays of the yellow light when the curtain rose in pantomime, she refused her desire for a little more sleep and a little more siumber, shook off ber slippers and curled up sgain in a neglige attitude. The maid Fanchon, played by Helen Foster Vane, entered ou tiptoe and watched madame’s slumbers; then she arranged flowers about the room and unpacked sundry boxes of gorgeous apparel for her mistress, express- ing horror and indignation at the length of thebill. In leaving the room Fanchon made a noise and aroused madame, who seemed to be terribly bored, and after putting on her slippers, whiled away the time by eat- ing candy and other diversions known to the rich unemployed; she also aanced a very little dance, in which a voluminous wrapper figured conspicuously. Finally madame discarded the wrapper to puton some of the gorgeous apparel that her maid had unpacked, and it was here that th: French element came in most strongly, for the lingerie beneath the Wwrapper was even more scanty than that affected by. Katherine Kidder in “Mme. Sans Gene,’’ and the audience gave astified titter when they beheld it. After arrayiog herself sumptuously “La Loie” danced another simple dance, which was interrupted by the arrival of monsieur, a part portrayed by Howard Kyle. Monsieur gave madame jewels after she had searched his pockets for them, and the search revealed the fact that he carried pistols -and a package of letters. Those. lefters aroused .madame’s suspicions. Bhe waited till monsieur had fallen asleep on the sumptuous lounge and then she stole them from his pocket, read them, and was expressing horror ana despair when monsieur awoke. Instead of being contrite he defied his wife, and, snatching up one of the pistols, she shot him. A struggte ensued, which re- sulted in a double tragedy, and the cur- tain went down on two Fr.nch corpses. - The above was the plot of - “A "Paris Tragedy,” which all who ran mignt read, even the Celestials, some of whom had gone in state to see ‘La Loie.” It would be idle to pretend that any of the performers showed themselves to be trained mimists. The danseuse and the mime are seldom contained in one son, and expressive as Miss -Fulier is, she is not a trained mime. Her panto- mine was very effective and. expressive, however, particularly *in" the - stronger scenes, where the continuation and lrlzefly gan, and all through “A Paris Tragedy” no words were necessary to express the thought supposed to be passing through her mind. Howard Kyle was satisfactory us the husband and Helen Foster Vane played Fanchon prettily. A Paris Tragédy” was preceded by the two-act play, “Sweethearts,” in which Howard Kyle and Helen Foster Vane played the leading parts. The entertain- ment concluded with the dances which bave made “La Loie’’ Fuller famous. There will be a matinee at the California to-day. 5 ————————— A Bemarkable Discovery. All Paris just now, according to the Journal, is’ flocking to 28 Rue Ravig- nan, Montmartre, where, a-few days ago, a most remarkable discovery was made. In this neighborhood-are the ruins of the'| ancient monastery of the Benedictines :and other old buildings - used by the Brothers, most of which are also giving way to the ravages of time.. At 28 Rue Ravignan Mme Berthelot keeps a grocery- store. She sieeps in. a small chamber in the rear that at one time was probably | used as an oratory. Mme. Berthelot, nioticinz that the tiles on the floor of the chamber gave forth a hollow sound as she stepped ‘upon them, and thinking that a’cellar there would be very convenient for her business, sent for a mason and had the tiles removed. A flight of stone steps was revealed, leading into a labyrinth of passa; @ author- i have now taken possession of the lace and a ematic investigation is be- 0g a?ndm:ud. Many relics have been found, and it isbelieved that much light is likely to be thrown upon-the history of | “When he went to bed he slept. He was HELPED TO BUILD - SIX TEMPLES Lorin Farr, One of the Ex- iles From Nauvoo, in the City. He Presided Over No Less Than Twenty Bishops for a Score of Years. His Story of the Prcgress of the Mormons and the Prosperity of Utah. | Lorin Farr, the contractor and widely | known and inflaential Mormon, who for | twenty years presided over a stake of twenty bishops, and who for the same length of time was Mayor of Ogden and member of the Utah Legislature, is at the | Occidental. Mr. Farr built 200 miles of the Central | Young to take the contract, buthe already bad a big Union Pacific contract east of Ogden. President Young recommended Mr. Karr, and he agreed to take the con- tract. There was great strife.between the iwo roads, and the Union "Pacific was making every effort to get to Humbeldt Wells first. - Whichever road got there first was to get $48,000 a mile for its grad- ing. . Mr. Farr secured all -the men that could be got in Utah, and beat out on the work. At one time he had 3000 men and many hundreds of teams employed, Pre- viously he had heavy contracts on the Utah Central, and afterward on the Rio Grande. Mr. Farr will be here several days, and will then probably visit Southern Catifor- nia, HEAVY COINAGE. More Money Made the Past Year Than for Eighteen Years. Reports from the local Mint show a larger coinage during 159 than has taken place since 1878, The figures are as follows: Gold pieces—Double_ eagles 1,403,925, value $28,078,500; cagles 123,750, 'velue $1,237.- 500} hslieagles 155,400, value $777,000 total pieces 1,653,075, value $30,093.000. Silver was as follows: Dollars 5,000, 000 value §5,000,000; halfdollars1,140948, Vaiue 570,474 duarier dollars 188,039, value 009 75; dimes 575,056, value §57,505 60: ieces 7,904 043, value $5,674,989 35. Gold pieces 1.683.075, valne $30,093 silver pleces 6,004.043, value §5,674,980 85; Zrand fotal 8,547,118, velue $35,767,989 35, A NIGHT ASOENSION. Vosmer Will Go Up From the This Evening. The Chutes will offer an unusual attrac- tion this evening, when C. W. Vosmer will make & bailoon ascension and para- Chutes Pacific Railroad. He has also helped to chute drop followed by the big search- LORIN FARR, Legislator, Mayor of Ogden, Railway Contractor and President of Bishops for Over Twenty Years. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist. build no less than six templés, or, as he says, “all that have been’ built since the time of King Solomon.” These include the Mormon temples at Kirtland, Ohio; at Nauvod, Ill., for the patriarch was one of .the famous Mormons Who ‘passed through these troublous times; at St George, in Iron Gounty, Utah; at Logan, at Manti, in San Pete County, and finally at Salt Lake, where the magnificent tem- ple, costing miilions of dollars, towers toward the sky. The man who has been so prominent an actor _through all these varied scenes is now 77 years old, but. is still very active. Heis a native of Vermont, and has trav- eled extensively in Europe, as well as in this country. Mr.- Farr is.a strong be- | liever in Mormonism and in Joseph Smich and Brighim Young. 3 «Joseph Smith was the greatest colanizer of this or any age,” said ‘he yesterday. “He was more like Mohammed "thin any one I can think of in his breadth of mind and determination of purpose. Yet he was a -singularly affable and agreeable man. Everybody liked him. He was a very positive man, but his judgment was good, and .when other men saw this they fell right in with him. Z “There was enother thing about him: not nervous.” He figured. broadly, but when he had done a_day’s work he dis- missed it from his mind. ‘It was thus that 's;a next day he was ready for other ngs. The day is fast coming when fre will be regarded as the greatest man that ever lived—not greater than Christ, but he was not & man; he was God. But he was the greatest man that ever lived. 3 “The -singular thing about all those temples, foo, was that the pattern of them all was given by revelation to Joseph Smith beiore he died. He knew they would all be completed just as they were. How could they everchave been finished as they are if it had not been for this reve- Jation? He was certainly a very wonder- ful man. Brigham Younv, who succeeded him, was also a great colonizer. He like- wise was a very affable and agreeable man, and numbered friends by thousands. He had a positive nature, too, and a judgwent that won peoplé over to bim. “As to the Mormon church, it is mov- ing steadily forward.- In Utah the people are progressing in every way, as well as could bee(;)guctad. The church has be- tween 250, and 300,000 members now, and, besides, we have between 1200 and 1300 missionaries out in the field in differ- ent places. . I came in 1847 to Utah with the first ten warons. All the country about Salt Lake about Salt Lake and Ogden was then a wilderness without a break in it. How it was transformed everybody knows. We began to irrigate the counuiy. and I learned irrigatior, “till now think I know as much aboutitas nearly any- body that lives. Irrigation bas.done as- tonishing things for Utah, yet we have large areas of whatare called dry lands that produce twenty busiiels of wheat to the acre. : “‘Business in Ufah was better immedi- ately aiter the election, but it got bad after that, and now “it las improved 'a little. 1-tbink the outlook is as ‘good there as anywhere I know abont.”- It was in 1868 and part of 1869 that Mr. Farr built 200 miles-of the Central Pacific road, oh the stretch between Ogden and a point near Humboldt Wells. The officials of the proposed road tried to get Brigham | and cut the capers of the season.- light on top'of the tower. As thereisno moon the sight will be a particularly bril- liant and beautiful one. » In the afternoon, in honor of New Year’s, there will-also be a balloon ascen- sion and parachute drop; R. W. Brown, the one-legged cyclist, wiil come down the long slide on_his wheel and land in the lake; Korto will walk down the chutes on aglobe, and there will be a potato race and five-mile bicycle contest. The animatoscope will- show a number of new views in the evening. HAILED THE NEW YEAR, Whistles and Pistols and All Kinds of Noises Speed the ‘Dying Ninety-Six. Brokers of - the ' Produce Exchange Indulzed in High Capers at Y:sterday’s Session. The advent of the new year was hailed with horns. There were -large horns and small horns and horns of every size, shape and style:in the hands of men and women and boys'and girls. The horn-blowers be- gan to throng Market and Kearny streets early in the evening, and by midnight there was a column- of tooters extending on Market street from Van Ness avenue to Kearny street,and on Kearny from Lotta’s fountain to Montgomery avenue. Every one blew his own horn lustily. At first the girls were shy of.blowing, but they took courage as the evening wore on and tooted as vigorously as their brothers, The crowd whs good-natured end few resented the blowing of horns in their ears. The custom of horn blowing to greet the coming and send ont the going year is now so we!l established in San Francisco that every one expects the din. The clear sky and bracing’ atmosphere last night invited outdoor exercise and s0 the crowds on the street were unusualiy large. At the hour of midnigut, when the old year crossed the line, there were e2- plosions of gunpowder and a great chorus of tooting. The noise then gradually subsided and the blowers wended . their way to their homes. At the leading saloons, hotels, clubs and restaurants refreshments, mostly liquid, were ordered in honor of the year 1897 3 G © There is an unwritten law that good resolutions donot take effect until the day after New Year’s, and so the clean new page will not be turned until to-mor- ToW. The Jittle browh man from.the Mikado’s realm observed the New Yearr asis their custom when at home, by sitting aown fo breakiasi at 1 o’clock in their several dwellings. A°magnificent spread was e; jKeu by the students and their friends at tlfe mission o Geary street, near Leaven- Fworth. At the Produce Exchange yesterday the members relaxed from their ususl dignity vl . . threw fireworks, smashed hats and ‘overed each other with flour. SIXTY MILES AN BROTR Mechanical Phase of a Run at Extra. ordinary Speed. At sixty miles an hour the resistaice of a train is four times as great as it is at thirty miles—that ie, the fuel mist by four times as great in the one caseas in the other. But at sixty miles an hour this fuel must be exerted-fof a given ditance in half the time that'itis at thirty niles, so that the amount of power exertec and steam generated 1n a given period of time must be eight times as great at the. aster speed. - This means that the ¢apaciy of the boiler, cylinders and otber partsmust be greater, with a corresponding addtion to the-weight of the machine. Obviously, therefore, if the weiglt per wheel, on account of the limit of wight that the. rails will carry, is limitel, we soon reach a point when the drving. wheels and other parts cannot be fut... enlarged, and then we reach the nax. mum speed. The nice adjustment mc: sary of the various parts of these imnense engines may be indicated by some fimres as 10 the work performed by these jaris when the locomotive is working at .igh speed. Take a passenger engine on iny of the big railroads. At sixty milesan hour a driving-wheel five and a half eet in diameter revolves five times every ec- ond. Now, the reciprocating parts of ech cylinder, inciuding one piston, piston nd, crosshead and connecting rod, weighag about 650 pounds, must move back ad forth a distance equal to the strole, usually iwo feet, every time the wheel = volves, or in a fifth of a second. It stars from a state of rest at the end of eaty siroke of the piston and must acquirey velocity of thirty-two feet per second i one-twentieth of a second and must b brought” to a state of rest in the same period of time. A piston 18 inches in diameter has an area of 25414 square inches. Steam of 150 pounds pressure per square inch would therefore exert a force on the piston equal to 38,175 pounds. This force is uppled alternately on each side of the piston ten times in a second.—Troy Budget. e et To vrevent the flame of a lamp from flaring in a gust of wind and thus break- ing the chimney a Louisiana man bhas in- vented a wire gauze hood fastened to the top of the chimney, the idea being to break the force of the wind without hin- dering the drait. e The baya bird of India catches big fire- flies and fastens them. to the side of its nest with wet clay At night the nest looks like a street lamp. NEW TO-DAY. Women are notoriously care- less of their health—even more so than men. Much of their trouble comes from chronic constipa- tion. That nakes oor appetite, iliousness, dys- psia, canses istress after eat- ing, dizziness, coated tongue and sallow complexion. 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