The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1897, Page 19

e KA S S - | ! . paine - put_that in your pipe an :sylvania depots, : between the New York and Brooklyn THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY -3, 1897. 19 SKIPJICKS ARE NOW IN ORDER Pacific Yacht Club Will Have Six Fifteen-Foot Yachts. Mcnthly Races Will Be Held for Points and Also for a Trophy. An Idea to Be Adopted Which Has Been Beneficial to Yacht Clubs in the East The Pacific Yacht Club has about ma- tured plans for the introduction of a fleet mall yachts, six in number, of the skip- jsck model, fitteen feet on the waterlir carrying a jib and mainsail, and practi- cally not capsizable or sinkable, the idea being to secure perfect safety to the ama- teurs and uninitiated yachtsmen. This announcement is made: by J. D. Maxwell, the secretary, who sent out a circular letter to members, which is, in part, as e six are now pledged and the ry next. Tlese yof the clup for e free use of all to large pro- uch a fleet has b. b on winter and sum- ating in each | given thus far are made o members offer one boat ers club to- at; and three | meking four in he contribu- t to the donors in should be discon- vlan care ¥ ce and should be serio al member of the ilitation and preser- lub. Yach! g of the directors of | ub, held December 22, | duce the annual dues ning Jannary 1, 1897, and also ayable in such install- the financial con- ber. It is thouzht be of advantage to k breakfa:t will be given by the Yacht Club at.the cluvi.ouse next honor of John H. noon, in H. Crocker, Hugo ning bave tendered Wanderer, Cynthia and shine, for conveying tho: dance to and fro between the r landing and clubhouse. Mem- ds for themselves or their ain them from the secre- | ore Friday, January 8, in | - steward may fully provide | er zood things for every ntleman present. The 11 ferry-boat should be who do not go bya launch. Imports of Specie. W YORK. N. Y., Jan. 2.—The im- s of specie at New York for the week 70, ot which $42,034 were gold 8,536 silver. For the same week of 5, the imports were $162,:57. The im- 3 ve of specie were $8,076,503, goods and 34 were $6,( chandise. For the e car, 1he imports h 3,827 were goods and $8,104,302 general mer- dise. ————— Receiver for @ Faper Company. CHICAGO, ILL., Jan.2.—The Western P Bag Company of Batavia, Ill,, one ne Van Nortwick plants, was placed in L s of a receiver at noon to-day by d States Court. Wilam G.| 20, agreed upon by the | insel on both_sides, was appointed the | receiver with a bond of $100,000. THE IRON DUKE REASONS. And by Doing So Helped Himself in the Chase as Well as in Battle. It is told of ke of Wellington | that he was onc fox hunting, when g the bank of a | The master of o the Duke. 5 n is over. up the scent.” en to one,’’ replied the Duke, “the as crossed to the other side.” ylord. A fox hates “I'm The aye,” urgzed the Duke, “but he v have crossed over by some bridge.”” 1don’t believe there is a bridge,” an- d the master of the hounds. Well,” continued the Duke, “unless you know to the contrary, though I was | never here before, I will wager a trifle you ind one within a mile.” The two men, followed by the hunt, | hed on, and less than a mile off came rudely construcied bridge. The ed it, again took up the scent | be fox. | swe Asked for his reason | hat there was a bridge near, | I saw three or four cottages | together on each bank of the| er, and I thought the people living in | be tempted by their social conirive a means of visiting That same inference of mine ? me one of my battles.’—London Telegrapu. ———— A In the Kitchen, “‘Life is such a yrind 1" sighed the coffee- mili to the lamp chimnay. “0n, I don’t kuow, “'Of course, the world times, butlife to me seems bright enough.” ““You wouldn’t think so,” interrupted the match, *if you got your head scratehed as I doevery day. And, say,youwouldn't amount 10 much Witho 1e, any way, S0 U smoke jt.’’ *“You seem to copsider yourself a great card,” put in the nutmez pulverizer, *'but Iam agrater.” i And iben shaking the matcn roughly the grateradded: *Youred-headed skele- ton. Why, you are nothing but a stick.” At this junctare the cook came in. The lamp chinney looked at her wickediy, the coffee-mill gronnd its teeth and the match lit out.—New York Heraid. then feeli said the chimney. dark and rold at —_——————— Pneumatic Mail Tubes. The pneumatic tube kas made another advance. The Postoffice Department has contructed for mail tubes between the central office and the Reading and Penn- in_this city, and also postoffices. It is well understood that the ultimate plan is to connect all the mail stations with the central office in this way, and, as the tubes are adapted to carrying merchandise as well as mail, we ‘may expect 10 see many of tue streets of this and other cities ur.derlaid with them belore many years.—Philadelphia Lodger. | Keong wouid not appear to identify any- |do not care to carry cases into court— DOMESTICS! . In addition to our great specials in Blankets and Linens we place the follow- ing lines ON SALE THIS WEEK. 500 pieces ENGLISH FLANNET. ETTES. the soft, stylish makes that were 10c a yard, on sale at i) 200 dogzen BLEACHED IRISH | LINEN HUCK TOWELS, size 19239 inches, the $175 grade, x at per dozen. e $1.29 2 csses hizh-grale MARSEILLES BEDSPREADS, the on special sale at.. 1 case BATES' BEST HONEY- COMB SPREADS, the green ticket, on special sale at...... 95¢ £ A small lot of fine Bleached Table Damask and Napkins, slightly damaged by water, to be closed out at once. CLOAK DEPARTMENT! LADIES” NAVY BOUCLE CLOTH JACKETS, box front, high neck, storm collar, regu- | lar price $450, clearance sale STRACHAN CLOTH CAPES, tined with c, storm collar edged with < Thibet fur, regular price 50, clearance sale orice. .... $4.95| LADIES' BOUCLE CLOTH JACKETS, pointed storm col- lar, nigh front, colors black and navy, regular price $3 :0, Clearance sale price LADIES' PLUSH CAPES, hand- somely beaded, lined with silk serge, storm collar and fronts edged with black Thibet fur, regular price $10 50, clearancs sale price....... $4.95 $6.50 CHILDREN'S JACKETS, in mixed colors, assorted styles, sizes 4 to 12, regular prices $5 10 $6 50, clearance sale price.. | LADIES’ WALE BLACK SERGE BROAD- SKIRTS, lined with percaline full width, velvet binding on bottom, reg- ular price $5, clearance’ sale sg oF .. 39,99 EMBROIDERIES! ieces CAMBRIC EMBROID- ERY, regular price 10c, clearance sale price 6c a yard. At (3 EMBROIDERY, regular price 12}4c, 292 pieces CAMMBRIC GUIPURE clearance sale price 7c per yard. At 76 At | 247 pieces CAMBRIC GU1PURE 9 EMBROIDERY, regular price 15c, 0 | clearance sale price 9¢ a yard. At | 229 p'eces CAM BRIC GUIPURE EMBROIDERY, regular price 20c, ciearance sale price 11c a yard. 11¢ At 13¢ 211 pleces CAMBRIC GUIPURE EMBROIDERY, regular price 25c, clearance sale price 13c a yard, EXTRA SPECIAL! FINE CAMBRIC, NAINSOOK AND SWISS EMBROIDERIES, in sets to match, will be closed out at half price. LADIES’ KID GLOVES! 112 dozen 4-BUTTON UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, large buttons, ol- ors tan, mode, brown and siate, reg- ular price $1, clearance sale price At 59¢ 59 a pair. 100 dozen 4-BUTTON KID At | GLOVES, embroidered backs (large 75 | buitons).’in dark and medium tan (90 | shades, aiso biack, regular price $1 25, clearance sale price 75ca pair. At | 100 dozen 5-HOOK KID GLOVES, == | in black, regular price $125, clear {90 | ance salo price 75¢ a pair. 98 dozen 4-BUTTON GENUINE At |FRENCH KID GLOVES, em- broidered backs and large but- tons, colors tan, mode and brown, also black, regular price $150, clearance sale price $1. $1.00 NEW TO-DAY——DRY GOODS. GREAT SACRIFICE CLEARANCE SALE We begin the new year with every way TOTALLY ECLIPSES a Sacrifice Clearance Sale that in ANY OTHER CLEARANCE OR BARGAIN SALE EVER KNOWN IN THE WEST, for the quantity of goods to be disposed of is greater, the styles and qualities are later and choicer, and THE CUTS IN PRICES MADE ARE SIMPLY PHENOMENAL. It will only need a glance at the accompanying quotations tol$2_00 verify the latter assertion, but the goods themselves must be seen to fully realize the TRULY MARVELOUS OPPORTUNITY PRE- SENTED BUYERS, therefore we invite every one to call and, if possible, to Call Early, As the Biggest Bar- gains Always Go First. MEN'S FURNISHINGS. 234dozen MEN'S AND BOYS’ HAND- KERCHIEFS, with white and fancy hemstitched boraers, extra iarge size, usual . price $1 20 dozen, clearance sale price 5c each. At 142 dozen MEN'S AND BOYS’ SILK NECKWEAR, in Tecks, Four-in Hands and Bows, satin lined, regu- larly sold at 25¢ and 35¢ each, clear- ance sale price 15¢ each. At 13c 237 dozen MEN'S AND BOYS' HEAVY SEAMLESS SOCKS, in browns, slates, lans, etc., finished with double heels and toes, regaiar price $150 a dozen; clearance sale price 7}4c a pair. At T 183 dozen MEN’S FULL-FINISH- ED HEAVY MERINO SBOCKS, in vicunas, grays, cadet blues and tans, regular price $3 a dozen, clearance sale price 12}4c a pair. At 12i¢ ! 96 dozen MEN'S UNDYED SANI- TARY WOOL UNDERSHIRTS and DRAWERS, warranted shrunk, regular price §1; clearance sale price 50¢ each. At i0c 75 dozen MEN'S HEAVY CAM- At | EL’S-HAIR UNDERSHIRTS and 75 DRAWERS, warranted thoroughly 0 | shrunk, regular price $125; clear- ance sale price 75¢ each. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR. BOYS' EXTRA HEAVY BLACK At/| COTTON BICYCLE . HOSE, fine 90fg | ibog. doubie heels and roes, fast 0 | black, sizes 63¢. 8, 824, 9, 834 inches, worth 334c, clearance sale price 20c a pair. LADIES FINE-GAUGE IMPORT- ED BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, high-spliced heels, double soles and toes, fast black, worth 25¢c, clearance sale price 15c a pair. 196 LADIES’ 4THREAD BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, extra high spliced heels, double soles and toes, Hermsdorf dye, regular price 50c, clearance sale price 3 pairs for $1. At 3% EGYPTIAN COTTON FLEECED VESTS, high neck, long sieeves, pants to mateh, worth 40c, clearance ale price 250. LADIES’ NATURAL GRAY SAN- ITARY WOOL VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, drawers to match, non- shrinking, reguiir price $1, ciearance sale price 75¢ éach. At 120 At |Tie LADIES’ WHITE SWISS RIB- BED SILK PLAITED VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, ankie length, French cut, drawers to match, worth sal: pric $1 each. At |81.00 CHILDREN’S JERSEY RIBBED | $1 50, clearance | UMBRELLAS. LADIES' GLORIA SILK UM- BRELLAS, with pearl or natural stick handles, steel rods and covers, clearance sale price $2 5. At 1§2.50 At | GENTLEMEN’S GLORIA SILK UMBRELLAS, steel rods, na- | tural handles, clearance sale | price $2. GENTLEMEN'S SILK UM- BRELLAS, with steel rods, nat- ural handles and covers, clear- ance sale price §3. At $3.00 MACKINTOSHES. At CHILDREN’S MACKIN- $9 00 TOSHES, in navy biue cloth, -e value $3, clearance sale price $2. At LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, in 33 50 navy blue (2 capes), value $5, 9 clearance sale price $3 50. At LADIES' MACKINTOSHES, in doubie texture, in navy blue, ;‘;lne $7 50, clearance sale price $5.00 |LADIES’ WOOL WAISTS | At |LADIES' WAISTS, made of fancy \;-5 striped tennis flannel, yoke back, i (90 | latest_style sleeves, clearance -sale price 75¢ each. LADIES’ WOOL WAISTS, in fancy plaids, latest style sleeves, yoke back, launderen collar, reg- ular price $175, clearance sale price $1 25 each. $15] At LADIES’ FANCY PLAID o | WAISTS, made in the latest $] 50 | styie, linea through, clearance *%V | sale price $1 50 each. | At (LADIES' ALL-WOOL PLAID | $3.50 {7 AISTS, in fancy plaid effects, | 9V yoke back. regular price $4 25, | clearance sale price §3 50 each. A.t 1250 Colored Dress Goods. 174 pieces 36-INCH ALL-WOOL LADIES' CLOTH, in plain .and mixed colorings, clearance sale Pprice 25¢ a yard. A.'. 256 122 pieces 36-INCH ALL-WOOL NOVELTY STRIPED SUITING, former price 40c, clearance sale price 25¢ a yard. 115 vleces 38-INCH ALL-WOOL NOVELTY CHECKS AND MOT- TLED SUITING, former price 50c, ciearance sale price 35¢ a yard. A_t 356 9781“0! 43-INCH HEAVY ALL- WOOL HEATHER SUITING, as- sorted colorings, former price $1, clearance sale price 50¢ a yard. 5?0 82 vieces 42-INCH FINE ALL- WOOL BOURETTE SUITING, in blue and black, brown and black, tan and black, and red and black, former price $1 25, clearanc? sale price 75¢ a yard. At YEG 73 pleces 44-INCH HIGH- GRADE FRENCH NOVELTY SILK AND WOOL SUITING, new colorings, former price $1 50, clearance sale price §i a yard. $1.00] BLACK DRESS GOODS! At |20 pieces 3INCH ALL PURE 93¢ | WOOL FRENCH SERGE, worin 9 € | 50c, clearance sale price 25¢ & yard. At |20 pieces 50-INCH ALL-WOOL STORM SERGE, worth 60c, clear- ance sale price 3734c a yard. 3736 At |20 vieces 52INCH ALL PURE §5¢ | WOOL SCOTCH CHEVIOT, worih 0 | 51, clearance sale price 55¢ & yard. At |20 pieces 44INCH ENGLISH MO- m~ | HAIR NOVELTIES, worth $125, (D0 | clearance sale price 73c. Murphy Bullding, Market and Jooes Stregs. Murphy Eullding, Market and Jones Stregts Murphy Bullding, Market and Joes Streets. Murphy Bullding, Market and Jones Sireete Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. Murphy Building, Warket and Jones Streats. SUSPENSE IN CHINATOWN The Chinese Will Now Take Vengeanc: Into Their Own Hands. “Little Pele” Accused of a Shrewd Scheme to Nonplus the Efforts of the Police. There is going to be trouble in China- town at no very distant date if the proph- ecy of the police counts for anything, and in this instance it would seem to be forti- fied with cumulative evidence of a pretty strong character. The See Yups, the Chi- nese say, killed Lo How, a Sam Yup man, cn Stockton street, the Sam Yups retali- ated by murdering Chew Ging, a See Yup, and now the See Yups have the hatchet out to carry on the feud. 1t will be remembered that when Ser- geant Wollweber interviewed Chew Lee Keong, the brother of Chew Ging, he said he would do all in his power to aid the police in discovering the murderer. But when the police arrested Do Ming and two otliers for the murder no one appeared to identify them as the men wanted. So Sergeant Wollweber went to 724 Commercial street, where Chew Keong lives, to get him to come down and see if | the right man had been secured. Keong was not there. But a Chinaman in the house gave Wollweber to understand that body who might be arrested, but would get satisiaction in a different way. This | remark was sign:ficant. It demonstrated clearly that the Chinese do not intend to ai: in bringing the murderers to justice, but will be revenged with buliet or steel. The sergeant went again the next day to the same place in quest of his man, but he was again avsen. This time, however, there were several Chinese in the house, and they told bim in so many words that they would take the law into their own hands. There is another reason why the Chinese because they ciaim the cost is too great in proportion to the amount of satisfaction received. The Chinese are pretty shrewd in criminal matters and their heads are crammed with resources for every emer- gency. In” this affair, from the testimony of Chinese on the 1nside of the case, the po- lice haye been badly fooled. They have worked hard and displayed foreshought, s0 these Chinese say, but they were duped just the same. The manner in which the Chinese ex- piain the character of the game shows its ingenuity. “Little Pete,” a Chinese ran- ning a : ambling-house on Jackson street, above Dupont, is said to be the ring- leader. Heisalso said to be interpreter for the Wal Ting San Tong, the soclety responsible for Ging’s death, and itself composed of three bodies—the Gi Sin Seer, the Bo Sin Seer and the Bing On. In order to throw the police off the track, ‘Little Pete’’ is accused of hiring Do Ming and the other heathen to go to jail long enough to giva the real criminals a chance to escape, with the promise that they would be proved innocent and re- leased as soon as the coast was clear. The fact is that the police had to reiease the men for lack of evidence. These charges are made by the Suey Sing, of which Chew Ging was 8 prominent member. Chew Ging was al<o a member of the Bo Leong and the Hip Sing tongs. The mem- bers of these societies held a meeting last Friday, but decided 10 do nothing in the way of retaliation for Ging’s death, as he was regarded as 8 renegade for having joined the Suey Sigg. Ging’s relatives and the Sney Bing may be depended upon to seo that somebody immortalizes the Mosaic | dictum of ““an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,"” by giving up the ghost. As it is now the police are hourly ex- pecting trouble, and a special detail of eight police are patroling both night and day the region of Cum Cook. , Spof- ford and Suiliven alleys, Waverly place and Dupont, Washington and Jackson streets. Sergeant Wollweber is giving his time almost exclusively to the ‘‘Chinese question.” The Sam Yups claim that the Wah Ting Ban Tong is not to blame for Ging’s death, but that the recent marders in reality are a reopening of the old Kung Ciiow Asy- lum irouble. The thewry of a gambling dispute is also brought forward. I ol ARTIFIOIAL RAIN. Unique and Interesting Experiment in Which a Tempest Is Made in a Bottle. M. Errera, professor at the University of | Brussels, has succeeded, and by a very simple process, in making artificial rain. All that he uses is a bottle of Bohemian glass which is covered with an ordinary porcelain saucer and is half-filled with al- cohol of 92 degrees strength. He bheats this bottle in a bath of water until the al- cohol, the sides of the bottle and the sau- cer are of an a.most equal temperature. Then be takes it out oi the bath, places it carefu/ly on a table and observes it closely. He ‘is rewarded by an interesting sight. The vapor of the aicohol soon mils the bottle, but the saucer cools rap.diy and the vapor, being warmer, becomes con- densed as soon as it comes in contact with it. The upper air in the bottle also quickly becomes of a lower temperature and real clouds soon appear.. These speed- ily become dissolved into a multitude.of tiny raindrops, which fall thicklg, just as an ordinary rain shower. The bath of water performs the function of the sun, the aledhol represents the ocean; the clear space beneath the sancer may be compared to the pure sky, which dominates the somber mass of clouds and the upper air in the bottle, chilled by con- tact with the.saucer, plays the role of the cold atmospheric curr nts which bring about the condensation of vapor into clouds, 3 ‘We see, then, that the phenomenon is faithfully reproduced in ajl its details. A still more striking result can be obtzined by using a cold saucer in place of the warm one. In that case the difference ot temperature will be increased and we can witness a regular old-fashioned storm or hurricane. This is, indeed, a tempest in a bottle.—New York Herald. % g Development of the Department Store. Department stores have advanced for- tunately in both the quality of the goods sold and the amount of the sales. The business of several amounfs annually to from $7,500,000 to $15,000,000, and this, | roughly speaking, is as much money as | many & prosperous railway 1000 miles long bandles in a twelvemonth; one great store in the West carries a rent account of almost, if not quite, $400,000 a_year; a number of houses send to the homes of their customers more than 20,000 packages in a single day, while perhaps as many more are carred away in the bands of the shoppers. In the busiest days quite 100,000 persons have visited each of tI very largest stores of New York, Phila- delphia, Chicago and Brooklyn. One firm spends more than $300,000 a year. for ad- vertising, and single departments in sev- eral stores sell more than $2.000,000 worth of goods annually.—From “The Conduct of Great Businesses—The Department Store,” by Samuel Hopkins Adams, in the January Scribner’s. ptd of She Did the Rest. “And you broke off the engagement?” said one young man. “Yes—not. brutally, you know, but I managed it.” “How?" “Told her what my salary is.""—Wash- ington Star. ————— A Chinese workman only asks & half pflll;: an hour for & day of twelve hours’ worl 1 around to the Imperial. FROM GREATER NEW YORK Budget of Interesting News and Gossip Bbout the Galifornia Golony in the Eastern Metropolis NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 29.—This meager budget shall not be filled up with snow and jingling sleigh belis. Every- body in the land knows that all the East- ern and New England States had a white- robed Christmas day and that even the antique city of New Orleans was treated to about eight inches of the feathery flakes. Suffice to say, the sun shone so brightly that the whole world looked like a big, beautiful Christmas card sprinkled with diamond dust, so white and glitter- ng was the snow as the children on sleds and the big folks o sleighs and droshkies skimmed over it. 4 Hon. Grove L. Johnson and wife of Sac- ramento have been in town some ten days, shopping and enjoying the holiday sights in New York. They will proceed to ‘Washington shortly after the New Year. It is becoming quite the Western fad lately to sample the hospitality and ac- commodation of Gotham’s different hotels during a short visit here. Hon. Grove L. Johnson and wife have been enjoving con- stant change since their arrival. They first registered at the Waldorf, remained there a couple of days and then drova They were cosily installed therein, but the desire for new surroundings was strong, so down to the Gilsey they went, bag and baggage. The following evening found them at the Marlborough, where they think they will remain until they go down to Washing- ton. Miss H., E. O'Neal accompanies them. Miss Mamie Polbemus arrived on Mon- day from San Fiancisco, and will visit friends here. Isn’t it a heart-warming sight to wit- ness the meeting of two old-time friends after they have been separated tor many years? There occurred one of those robust greetings the other evening when Clarence Hellen and William S. Gage met for the first time in many months. Mr. Hellen and Mr. Gage were for vears con- nected with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Nr. Hellen has been here sev- eral months, and Mr. Gage arrived last Tuesday direet from Nicaragua, Central America, where he has been engaged in mining ventures, which have proven most profitable. His handsome young wife was here to greet him, and after a visit of about two months he will returr to Cen- tral America. Mrs, Gage may take the journey with him. ), Another San Franciscan, who still re- tains his offices in your City, but who has transferred his energies to the compara- tively new fields of Central America, is Alejandro Davis. He is interested with coffee planting and mines in Salvador. At present he is here on his way to London and Paris, where he will combine business and pleasure. His stay will be about two months abroad. G. W. and Mrs. Stolph of San Francisco arrived in time to have a ‘‘white” Christ- mas in New York. W. F. Goad Jr. is frequently seen at the l theaters and on the avenue. The visiting Californians are taking advantage of the good sleighing and are enthusiastic over the chilly sport. - I met & man the other day who doesn’t eujoy it a bit. He says he would rather sit in a8 warm room with his feet in ice-water and jingle the sleigh bells himself than go out in the crisp, biting eir, tucked under a mountain of buffalo and bear hides, and hear the jolly crunch of the sleigh-runners. Captain Colan Augur of the Second Cavalry, who was stationed at the Presidio for several years, has been a guest at the Grand Hotel during the past ten days. Miss Blanche McClelland arrived direct from San Francisco on Christmas day. W. L. H. Noble is at the Marlborough. Miss Payson Graham, acharming young lady and one who is well known in Los Angeles and San Francisco, has been re- cently engaged by Dave Hayman for Dan- iel Frohman’s road company of the “Pris- oner of Zenda.”” Miss Graham has studied very bard during the past year, and her many friends in Ualifornia will be happy to know of the recognition her genuine talents have peceived. Sydney B. Palmer, the late advertising representative of severa! Western newspa- pers, has closed his New York offi es and taken permanent residence in Teronto, Canada. Mr. Palmer is a Canadian and he insists that the climate of his birth- place and tie friends of his youth are de- lightful adjuncts to this workaday life. Mrs. Palmer and their pretiy little daughter joined him last week in Toronto. Dr. L. M Lomax of Stockton bas had a most unfortunate visit in the East. A couple ot months ago she left her large practice in Stockton to take a well-earned rest in this city and attend acourse of scientific lectures at the New York Medi- cal College during her visit. Almost immediately after her arrival she was taken seriously ill, and has but re- cently recovered sufficiently to prepare for her trip homeward. She expects to be ready to leave for her home in Stockton next Wednesday. During the last two weeks the school teachers have been having their own time with tue chilaren of the public schools, because most of the bold ones have been playing old-fashioned **hookey,” and the parents, on -being informed of their ab- sence, have written excuses such as this: Dear Teacher: 11 Louis is bad please lick him till his eyes get blue. He has a great deal of the mule in him—he takes after his father. Mrs. POWELL. P. 8 Please soak him in school just as often as you have got time. Here is another, which carries a bit of pathos with it: = Teacher: Please excuse Henny for not comin’ to school, as he died from the car run over on Tuesday. Frankie hasbesick from the amonia and information of the vowels, to oblige b lovin’ mother. EMA CANBY. David M. Foliz, who has met with such success as'Eastern manager for"THE CALL, will leave for Chicago on Tuesaay to at- tend business of importance. He antici- pates stopping over at Boston to say “Happy New Year” to his sister, Virginia Foltz, who is at present a student at the | New Encland Conservatory. Mr. Foltz | will return to New York about January 10. | Mr. and Mrs. John T. Wright of Santa | Rosa have been enjoying a most delight- ful visit with relatives in New England. They are now preparing to return to the coast the middle of January. TrerrA Forrz Torasd. 34 Park Row. Herrmann Left Little.| The Magician Made $50,000 a Year and Died Poor. Conservative estimates place Professor Alexander Herrmann’s net earnings in the last twelve years at $600;000, and vet | he died without leavinz a dollar. His| tours were always profitable, szys the New York Herald, and although his per- sonal expenses were enormous, he would | have accumulated a fortune if it had not been for his unfortunate speculations. He could make golden eagles sprout from the most unexpected places through legerdemain, and he could make them disappear with equal facility in his private He. There are few men who are able to make as much money as Herrmann did in an ordinarily good seasoun. He would leave the United States for six months, live as few princes could afford to do, and return with from $75000 to $100,000 in gold. During the last few yearsa judg- | ment against him was worthless, as he owned no tangible property and he was swamped with debts. He died in a private palace car for which he had agreed to pay Mrs. Langtry $12,500. He always carried from five to eight beautiful horses with him, at an ex- pense of probably $300 to $500 a week. ‘When friends remonstrated with him on this subject he would smile and remark between puffs of a cigarette: “They pay for themselves in advertis- ing. They aje noticed everywhere, and talk makes business.” Nobody was a greater advocate of ad- | vertising than he. Every chance that cf- | fered to get a line in the newspapers he eagerly seized, and stories about his mys- tification of strangers with his tricks were | spread far and wide. He was wiiling to devote his time and to spend money on | anything that would result in an adver- tisement. His private railroad car cost him about $500 a week, and he often had with bim in | addition a private horsecar, with which he | astonished the natives of the smaller | cities. His own hotel bills averaged eas- ily $150 a week, in addition to his great | personal expenses. He kept up an elab- orate establishment in Whitestone, Long | Island, where he delighted to entertain his friends. He took great pleasure in the | yacht Fra Diavolo last summer, and had | many charming parties with him up to | the time he startea *‘on the road for his | season’s work. He had bought the yacht | from E. 8. Stokes, paying a small sum in cach and giving notes indorsed by his wife | for the balance. As these notes were not met on maturity he returned the yacht to the orignal owner. Professor Herrmann returned from a | European trip fiiteen years ago so poor that be had to raise money on his wife's jewelry. He soon afterward started for a tour of Mexico, the West Indies and South America, and on his next appearance here tions followed. He went into several ven- tures with Richard 8. Newcombe and lost at least $50,000. Then he leased from James Dickson the Broad-street Theater in Philadelphia for thirty weeks, at a rental of $1000 a week. He lost just about the amount of his rent each week, until he asked George W. Lederer to relieve him of the burden, and Mr. Lederer disposed of thelease to Nixon & Zimmerman for $10,000 in cash. He made $200,000 in two years through his own work and his parwmership with Mr. Lederer in ““The Transatlantiques,” a vaudeville company, and “U. & L,” with Gus Williams and John D. Kelly as stars. This money quickly slipped through his fingers. He remodeled the theater now known as the Savoy, at a cost of $50,000, and sank $25,000 in conducting it for a sea- son. He arranged to build a theater in Brooklyn, through which he expected to reap great profits, but after he had spent $20,000 the place was condemned by the Building Department and he could not carry the scheme to a successful issue. He was passionately fond of the excite- ment of dabbling in stocks, and a large proportion of his earnings eventually went tobrokers. 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