The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1897, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1897. ) S iWranfista @' ey . The | | PALDWIN THEATER —*“Macbeth.” ] " e Proligal Father." THEATER.—Symphony Coucert on | rnoon, February 4 S Linkanotan= The Westerner” | TrrATER.—“A Legal Wreck.” | Housk— - Aladdin; or, The | ALCAZAR 11gh-Class UTES AN treet, one t SUTEO BATHS— B YacrricCoast Jo ‘audevill SKATING RINK of the P: d pertorm: ALCTION AL NA ATCTION C 1057 Mark IY EASTON & ELDRIDG Feul Esi 1 2 o'cloe ¥y FRaxk W. BUTTERFIELS ruery 2, Furniture, at 2614 Bush st. FY CHas. LEVY .—This da. Furniture st salesroom, 1185 Market s BY H. & Kozmrxsky—This d cerles, at 508 Bryant stre OITY NEWS IN BRIEF. | some showers to-da, I8 the weath- | his day. Fevruacy 2, | ed of man- mitted | rday. | 1+ has sued for a divoree avers on the ground of pastors held a warm dis- | roblems at their Monday of John L. Durkee, ex- took place yestérday from St | rch. | teh has sued W. A. Van Dervo for rent of the premises know: k street. | Sing and Chin Poy were arreigned in Joachimsen's court yesterday for the > Pete. , & professional witness, was i ed on a charge of pel y Juage Low. ryisors have dec e crushi on the C arles L. Woest, 8 7 Jackson stroet, o red unanimously at Folsom prison Ex-A: ppointed a fees in € to receive will prob- under the v using of & tin cup [ | i an ‘employe on the l’nrlfic“ | | ested on complaintof Cap- 1,10 the cust m-h ties have com- leside. ves. | Wyoming, , King William borer, who s accused ogl boxes, had three booked against him the Port Wise hes promoted irom the position of boai- to that of opener of the University of Academy of Sciéiices ience on the cyanide 1o [ ck ‘yesterday audited the | p ént of Schools > B arge cess of zoid r_Brode: nand of ¢ nd his app contestant, {rs. Lou Holstrom of fighting for the possession o which was taken from hery K Vic The Board of Supervisors voted return ali bid yesterday ml irancaise. of | o made them, ‘ iously taken | e board in regara te the franchise. s Raffe a b 19 k and was found in 44y mo streets and_taken al under the . belief of age, got unconscious con- g at Third and 0 the Receiving he had swallowed 8s_been incorpo- g on the wine §25,000 | A woman ebout 28 years of ags was found ous:. con in an unco doorway on Thi . nue and taken to.the Re g t where ft was discovered she was suffering irom morphine poisosiing. Suit'has been Institufed ern Pavific €ompany or accour: Dyas 0 ants are Mag and deughter 6f th The Ciibr-Sociéty of “the vent, an Ele thie adm on_last nightina against the South- 000 dam: liing of Jo st October. The claw ndLoretta Dyas, widow deceased. shureh of _the A enth “street, is Tegotiating wi ajors o1 the Fair estate for a | case o buildings -aud gronnd on Mission and Twelfth sireetd;.for the purpose of provid- | ing & home for tiie mea and boys. “The Judiciary. Committée of the Board of s iaf 4. Teport. yesterdsy touched upoa . the- anmouiipement, of - the Superior Judges that thies.4till-disrégard the refusal -of the § 10 allow for meals. furnished s‘chops and-Lomatdeguce:” PREPARING FOR: THE DAY. 3001 be on over The General Comm ttee on Y. M, K Day Listens to.}rogress.Reports. The general committee of tlie several conncils of the Yonng: Men’s Institute of this City met last night. arid. listened to progress: reports. by.the varions sub-com- mitteés in conneéction with the fortncom- ing -celebration of Y. M. I day on the 234 of February. The committee on talent announced that it-had decided upon a programme, but asked for furiber trme in order to se- cure those Who are to present the several numbers decided upon. -It-is probable t at the next meeting ihe names of those-who will take part in the literary exercises in Metropolitan Temple wili be announced. rom the report on the Ball in the even- ing in the Pavilion ‘it. appears that the event will be the. grandest ever under- taken by this organization—one that will afford pleasure to all who attend and re- flect credit on the oraer. - Germans Organize. A Young People!'s German Society has been organized from all the churches in the City. Meetings will be held quarterly atthe Y. M. C. A. The following" officers have been elected: President, B. Hoener: first vice-president, - Chs. Kant; second vice-president, Miss C. Dall; recording secretary, A. Efarrer; corresponding sec- reiary, H. Zwick; treasurer, L. - Kuli The ‘society has promised to entertain a large delegation of. Christiax Endeavorers Wi}ler-lrolll commission merchant, | reioieing yesterday over he recovery ic 2t the 97 convention, VESSLS RN OB THE OPEN SEA Had to Put About When the Southeaster Came Up. | The King Edward Is Still Beating Abeut- to the Northward. John Oppesheim, the Water-Front Clothier, Had a Narrow Escape From Drowning. The people who live at Point Reyes must have been treated to a pretiy sight yester- day morping. Three vesvels were all beat- ing their way to San Francisco, the southeaster came up the; about and ma ward, from Newcastle, Au other was the bark Santiago, 18 days from Hilo, H. L, and the third was the barken- tine 8. G. Wild 1 The from Honolulu. bark and the barkentine were towed in during the day by the tugs Vigilant and Reliance, but the King Edward is still de, and the Swanhilda may yet beat 0 port. Captain John Silovich of the Vigilant was elose to the vessels when the storm came up, and he | about and scudded away off shore -it was one of the prettiest sizhts he ever saw. On the wav up from Hilo Captain John- son of the Santiaco, sighted a square-rig- ger, but could not make out her name. 1t may be the Swanhilda, and yet again it may be the Olivebank or oneof half a dozen other square-riggers now fully ave. On board the Santiago on January 2 Oscar Rygh, one of the sailors, fell from the fore topsail yard to the deck and was almost instantly killed. He was buried at sea. Trade between San Francisco and the Columbia River seems to have fallen off. | Some time ago the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company was compelied to tie up the steamer Oregon in Richard- sons Bay and the Cclumbiaand State of Cabforpia did ail the work. Now for a week at least the te will have to do the work alone, as yesterday, instead of going out on her usual run, the Columbia was taken to the Union Iron Works for a gen eral overbauling. Another vesse| for As- toria and Pordand will not leave until next Sunday. Competition in the shape of steam schooners has been very keen, and freight and passengers have been car- ried at a dead loss. The ferry steamer Oakland was laid u for repairs yesterday and the Newark took ber place. The Garden City the creek route and will remain there until the Oakland is ready for service again. The English mail for Austral late and the chances Steamship Company’s Monowai will not get away for Sydney before midnight Thursday, and it may be Friday morning. Captain Carey of the vessel is a very sick man at the Occidental and Chief Engineer McKaig has béen confined to his room abonrd the ship for a week. Both gentle- men are in hopes of being well arain by seiling day. John Oppenheim, the well-known water- front merchant, had an experience last Saturday night that he will not forget in a burry. Captaiu Currie of the Elsie wanted seven men to take the place of the muti- deersnow in the hands of the United States Marshal, and Oppenheim agreed to get them. He succeeded and took them out to the ves-el, off Black Point, in order to get the money to pay their advance notes. It was raining and biowing hard and everybody got drenched. At the last moment one of the men refused to sign, and he had to be sent ashore and another brought out to fill his place. By the time everything was straightened out it was 1:30 a. and Oppen- beim had to face the storm again as the schooner was getting under way. His boatmen worked bard but could make | no headway, and the Whitehall began to | fili, The passenger had to take off his hat and bail out while Murray and his assist- ant did all in their power to stem the tide. “Put me ashore, boys, and 1 will give each of you a new suit of clothes,” said the now thoroughly frightened merchant, and just at that time there was a let upin the storm and the boatmen managed to make a landing a litte below Meiggs wharf. Mr. Oppenteim at once took a hack, reaching home about 3 A. ., just in_time to meet | his wife and son, who were bound for the water front to look for him. ‘It was the wildest night I ever encountered,’” said he esterday, “'and.I will never £0 out on the bay in another such storm agam.’’ Dominick Roberts, - the well-known was f a watchchain that has been out of his pos-ession for five months or more. When he was staying in the EI Monte Hotel last summer jewelry to the value of over $300 was stolen from his room, and Constable Maber of Mill Valley offered to recover il. In order to identify the stolen prop- erty he took along Mr. Roberts’ chain to compare it with the other trinkets. This was five months ago, and, in spite of the fact that Roberts wrote several times ask- ing for the return of the chain, he couid no satlsiaction. Then he swore out a h warrant, and ‘Maber failed toap- pear. Later, however, he showed up and Teturned the cnsin, and Roberts ex- hibited it with pricde to all his brotlier merchants along the front. Maher has, however, got even ina certainway. He hes told “all his friends and aiso the people who travel on the Sausalito route that he was arrested at the instance of a Japanese. The suip Oriental made a phenomenal ran from San Franicisco to Deperture Bay. She left here on January 26, and accord- inz to advices received by the Merchants’ Exctange reached her destination on the 30th. Steamers take all the way from eighty-five 1o ninety hours making the same run, o the Oriental must have car- ried a southeast gale with ner the entire way. ORIMINAL LIBEL Captain Anderson of the Mail Dock Has David C. Craig Arrested. David C: Craig, an empiove on the Pa- cific Mail dock, appeared in Judgze Con- 1an’s court yesterday to answer a charge of libel preferred against him by Captain J. F. Anderson, the superintendent, The libel was contained in a letter al- leged to have been sent by Craig on De- cemver 21 to R. P. Schwerin, the man. ager. In‘the letter it was charged that Anderson bad, With the connivance of employes on the dock, been stealing bags of coffee and other articles, and taking them to his private residence for use. Captain Anderson denies the allegations, angclnlms that he has been mialiciously libeled. e The case was continued till February & for trial. ———————— * Railroad for Angels Canip. The Sierra Reilway Company of California has been incorporated to construct a rallrosd from Ogkdale in Stanislaus County to Angels Camp in Calaveras County, & distance of sixty-five miles. Branch lines are to be run 10 Modesto, Knights Ferry, La Grange and Coulterville. The eapital stock is limited to vs that when tuey put | was put on | is again | are that the Oceanic | Late Yesterday Afternoon the Ship King Edward, the Bark Santiago and the Barkentine S. G. Wilder Were All to the Leeward of Point Reyess. When the Southeaster Came Up They Had to Put About and Make for the Open Sea. The Above Sketch Is Drawn From a Description Furnished by Captain Joha Silovich of the Tug Vigilant. | £5,000,000. The incorporators are Sidney D. shman, Edmund Stmpson, John M. Bon- ner, Charles Gross and James Henry. PAYMENT MADE EASY. e and County | City Treasurer Widber Clerk Curry Co-Operate for the Public Convenience, an innovation that will be appreciated by attorneys and others having business with County Clerk Curry. Since tue fee bill of 1805 was put in | force it has been necessary for litigants to walk about a quarter of & mile in paying fees to the County Treasurer for filing pa- pers in the County Clerk’s office. Beginning yesterday Treasury Widber stationed one of his deputies in Clerk Cur- y's office for the purpose of receiving ail such fees. By this arrangement business is expedited and there is less inconve- nience suffered by lawyers ana litigants. Ex-Assemblyman Joseph Winrow has been appointed receiving clerk for the Treasurer 1n this new position. e~ A Check Thut Has Led Charles L. White Into Trouble. day afternoon by Detective Ross Whitaker and Policeman T. P. Walsh on the charge | of forgery. Sunday he obtained $10 from A. W. Lindsay, 73 Fourth street, on a check for | $675 drawn on the Baunk of California, pay- aole to €. L. White and signed, “Miller & | Lux, by J cholson, manager. | “Lindsay presented the checkat the bank | yesterday morning and it was pronounced a forge He then called at Miller & Lux's office, and J. O. Nickle, the man- ager, told him the same thing. The police were notified and White was arrested. Detective Whitaker says tuat he arrested White four or five years ago on a similar charge. He passed a forged check for a small amount, drawn upon a bank in | Reno, Nev., but owing to the expense of the case feil through. The Contestant for the Super- intendency Makes Violent Protest. Auditor Broderick Says the Law Cited in the Latter’s Behalf Is Irrelevant. Auditor Broderick yesterday audited the warrants of Superintendent of Schools Babcock and his appointees, despite the vrotest of R. H. Webster, who is contest- ing the office, having received the greaier number of votes at the late election. late to prevent the Auditor signing the warrauts. The protest came earlier this month and the Auditor called for authori- ties in iaw upon which the protest was based and a number of these were cited by Garber & Garber, Webster's attorneys. The Auditor. after examining these de- cided that they were irrelevant. The point principally relied upon, he says, was that Babcock held office by virtue of bis appointment only until ihe regular election.” .The Supreme Court in the case of Lynch vs. Budd, wherein this same point was raised with regard to Lieutenant-Governor Jeter, quoted a case from Florida which held tha: Where 1t is declared that the City Council shall nll vacancies: uniil the next regular election, it means until the mnext reg: eiection provided by the charter for eleciing the officer Whose term has become vacant. The Superintendent of Schools is elected only at gubernatorial elections, and no such election has occured simce then, he saye. ! It was also urged that when an office was in contest, no salary should be paid until it was decided who was entitled to the office. The amendment of the law, March 10, 1891, Broderick says, covers that, and requires the Auditor to audit the bill of the person holding the certificate of elec- tion and performing the duties of the office. Notwithstanding Babcock and his appointees are getting their salary and as Webster is not, Webster, he says, will receive all of the salary due him in a fum in case the court dec:des in his favor, says Webster has not yet made a claim for salary, and that he must do so within thirty days, or the claim will be void. Following is the 181 amendment re- ferred to: % When the title of the incumbent of any office in this State is contested by proceedings fustituted in any court for tha’ purpose, no warrant can thereaiter be drawn or paid for any part of his salary until such proceedings bave been finally determined; provided, how- ever, that this section shall uot be construed 10 apply 10 ANy party to a contest or proceed- ing now pending or herealter instituied, who bo'ds a certificate of election or commission of office and discharges the duties o the office; bu: such party shall receive the salary of such cffice, the same as if no such contestor pro- ceeding was pending. L e Three More Insolvent Debtors. Petitions In insolvency were filed yesterday as follows: R. S. Wallace, & clerk—Debts, $424 75; no sssets. Chifion €. Gilbert, doing business as a com- mission merchant at 118 Davis street under the firm name of Glibert Bros. & Co.—Debts, $8442 20; assets, $1490 91. . W. Gray, 8 miner—Debts, $3341; assets, quartz mill 1n Arizona; value unknown. - —————— -Trunks Moved 25 Cent: Comméreial Transfer Company, 43 Sutter | Tel mein 49. Furniture moved reasonably.* City Treasurer Widber has introduced | bringing witnesses from such a distance | BABCOCK ORAWS HIS PAY A protest was made last month, but too | ‘next | Charles L. White was arrestod yester- | SCHUSSLER BACK FROM EUROPE Strange Discoveries in the Water of the Famous River Elbe. The Kind of Drink With Which Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen Are Supplied, Scmething About Bacteria, the Su- perb Plumbing of Ancient Rome and California Water. Herman Schussler, eéngineer of the Spring Valley Water Company, has re- turned here after four and & haif months’ absence in different paris of the East and Europe. He went partly for rest, after | three years of uninterrupted hard work, | | | an extremely pleasant trip. and to see all the newest improvementsin hydraulic engineering, and particularly to look into the water supplies of different cities. Mr. Schussler visited Germany, Den- mark, Norway, Sweden and Italy, and bad In 1863 and the 1864 Mr. Schussler was a student 8t | Polytechnic School at Carisruhe, in Baden. ‘When he visited Baden this time he met several of his old schoolmates and two of his former professors. At the request of tie faculty he delivered a lecture on the progress of Amerlcan engineering, the supplies of water here and irrigation. He also delivered two lectures at Bremen and Hamburg on similar subjects. The inyestigations which he made while abroad ure of considerably more than or- dinary interest. He examined into the systems of the leading cities in order that any improvements they had might be | adopted here. “Among the most vrominent water | | works of Germany I thoroughly investi- | gatea those of Berlin, Hambarg and Bremen,” said Mr. SBchussler. “I found the new water works of Hamburg, con- structed since the cholera of 1803, with its enormous filters,basins and pump stations, to be one of the fiaest anywhere. Ham- burg gets its water from the Elbe, which drains an enormous country, comprising the central part of Prussia and the whole of the kingdoms of Saxony and Bohemia. | “There are also many large cities on the | Elbe above Hamburg, the largest ones | being Magdeburg, Dresden anc Prague. Bohemia forms the headwaters of the | Elbe, and these three large cities and a number of smaller cities and villagss dis- | charge their sewage into the Elbe, and the | waste and offal from thousands of manu- faetories and from all the vast area of | farming land go dowgy this river. It shoula be remembered that this vast | region is inhabited by teeming miiliona of | people. g “Bremen is similarly situated to Ham- burg, except that the watershed of the river Weser, from which it gets its water suppiy, is smaller, but is almost as densely populated as the watershed ot the Elbe. “Berlin draws its water from the Havel, Spreeand some of the lakes through which | these rivers run. On their course they also drain a densely populated country, in‘addition to extensive peat swamps. “In all the three cases—Berlin, Ham- burg and Bremen—the water is first lifted with low-lift pumps out of the respective rivers into settling basins, in which it de- posits a certain per cent of its filth. From there it runs by gravitation into the sand filter-beds, when it passes tnrough layers of sand varying from four to five feet in thickness, and thus filtered 1t ruus into the pump-wells, from which ihe high- level pumps draw it and force it into standpipes, from which it flows into the | respective city pipe systems. “By the above system of sand-filtering \he water works are trying to reduce the number of bacteria, which in the river Weser, for instance, near Bremen, had been known at times to exceed 200,000,000 ta the American gaflon‘ down to the Gov- ernment standard of 378,000 bacteria to the American gallen. Frequently one filter- ing is not sufficient to do this, and so a double filtering has to be resorted to. “Thus the water is mechanically cleansed of most orits living and dead im- | Griffith and. John M. Fisher. water works, old and mew, which are always interesting to see. In one of the large houses lately excavated in | Pompeii I probably saw one of the most interesting examples of ancient plumbing extant, This building, called the Casa Nuovo, which hlsg)llrga courtyard, with fountains and stafues, had a perfect sys- tem of inch and' three-fourths inch lead | pive laid through the courtyard, showing wiped joint connections where the smaller branches were soldered on to the larger pives and most perfect bronze stopcocks, about three-fourths of an inch in size, and made just as perfect as any at the present day, and serviceable to this day, after having been buried under thirty-five feet of ashes or pumice stone for more than | 1800 years. These branch pipes, each with a bronze stopecock, léd to statuettes | in the four corners of tne courtyard and | the stream issuing from a shell or other ornaments in the hand of these statuettes { baa been discharging into a basin in front | of them. A few days after my visit on November 27 some royal personages | were expected and some plumbers were | laying one-inch lead pipe from a modern | hydrant, 200 or 300 feet away, to connect the same with the ancient pipe system, and make the fountains play again, after a rest of 1817 years. To meitwasa sin- gularly strange and interesting sight. “On my way home, after reaching New York, I stopped in New Orleans. I also visited the water works there, where they | pump the water out of the Mississippi | River direct into the pipe system without | an intermediate fittration, “Owing to the | muddy character of the Mississippi River | water at most seasons of the year large filter beds would be very difficult and ex- pensive to maintain, as they would choke up a sand filter very rapialy.” Ar. Schussler made interesting investi- gations regarding bacteria in the water. It has been found, strange as it may seem, that scme of the queer animal life found in water is essential to bealih. The only thing is there must not be too many of a kind. How to keep the rignt proportion is now a subject that is com- manding the attention of the foremost scientists in this particular field of inves- tigation. Mr. Schussier has brought with him some of the latest German illustrated scientitic works on the subject. He has bis oswn jars of .water, and frequently makes investigations by aid of powerful microscopes. b FREMAN AT BEST, Last Honors Paid to the Memory of the Lats John L. Durkee. M:mbers of the Exampt Company and Monumental Aid Association Among the Mourners. The funeral of the late’ John L. Durkee took place yesterday moraing atan early hour from St. Bridgid’s Church, 6n Van Ness avenue near Broadway. The church was crowded with those who had known Mr. Durkee in his lifetime, and there was present a delegation of the Exempts in fatigue aniform and a funeral detail from the Monumental Aid Association, of which the deceased was one of the oldest members. The remains, encased in.a handsome casket covered with black cloth, was car- named, who were the active pallbearers: James Riley, William H. Martin, Wash- ington lrving, James O'Donnell, A. G. High mass as celebrated by Reyv. Father Cottle, as- sisted by Fathers Ryan, Sullivan and Ramon. During the offertory Mons. Charles -Pechin sang the celebrated *‘Pri Peccatis,” from Rossint’s “Stabat Mater”; Joseph Roeckel’s *Benedictus” was sung after the Elevation, by Mme. Ellen “Coursen-Roeckel, Senorita Andrea Mojica, Herr Ed Lotz and Mons. Pechin; after the Agnus, Chovin’s inspired *Liegy” was rendered in a very effective manner, by Mme. Coursen-Roeckel. At ihe close of the impressive service the remains of the veteran fireman were taken to Calvary Cemetery, laid to rest, and the mourners. and his former com- panions in the ranks of the volunteer de- | partment paid the last honors. SrBh The funeral was extremely simple in its character, and. was in accordance with the expressed wish of Mr. Durkee shortly. be- fore his death. There were bui few floral tributes, a request having been made that none be sent, still there was an exception, one offering being a pillow of violets, a tribute from the teachers of the Poiytech- nic High School, to the staff of which Miss Bessie Durkee, daughter of the de- ceased, belongs. The chief mourners were the widow, her two daughters and son purities, but no attempt whatever is made | and two nephews, William and Hamilton to cleanse it of any of the chemical im- purities that have been discharged into the rivers on the watershed above, and the chemical analysis is practically dropoed out of their investigations. “‘As regards the pumpirg plants in thoge cities I found very fine machinery, but from the point of the coal economy the engineers in our works here are cousider- ably abead of those in European oities. “When in the lectures I gave I de- scribed the water works here, and showed that they owned or controlled the largest proportion of their watershed, the best experts there pronounced it a very unique and unusuaily favorable case of water sup- ply to a large city, as it gave an oppor- tunity to control the parity of the water, while they, with their large cities, had to take such water from their respective rivers as flowed down to them from the above described densely populated coun- tries. “T'had an interesting trip throngh Den- mark ana paris of Sweden and Norway, | Morton. 8 —_—e——— DESPONDENCY AND DEATH. Why Jacob Ahrens, an Elderly Saloon- keeper, Committed Suicide. . Jacob H. Ahrens, who for thirty years past conducted a saloon at 205 Commereial street, committed suicide on Sunday night at his place of business in a fit of despond- ency. Ahrensbad been informed that the building in which the saloon is sitnated would soon be torn down to make room for a new structure, and that he must tind quarters elsewhere. He brooded over the matter for several days and then decided on death. He was found by his son yesterday morn- ing in a rear room of the saloon asphyxi- ated. Before turning on the gas Ahrens bad carefully closed his piace. Deceased ‘was 60 years of age, a native of Germany and leavesa widow and children. He wus a member of the Odd Fellows and of a num- and returned throu:h_Germany by way of Rome and Navles. In Rome I had an ber of German societies. i s opportunity to sgain visit its magnificent | HyroTic Inst., 6 O'Farrell teach, treat. * ried into the church by.the following | HOW CYANIDE AIDS THE GOLD MINER Even 50-Cent Ore May Be Profitably Reduced by It Professor Christy’s Interesting Lecture at the Academy of Sciences. A Large Audience of Miners and Students Learn the History and App'ication of the Procass. At the Academy of Sciences last night an interesting lecture was delivered on the “Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction™ by Samuel B. Chr.sty, professor of mining and metallurgy at the University of Cali- fornia. The hall was crowdea with a mixed audience of students and practical miners. The professor’s remarks, which were illustrated throughout by means of the stereopticon, tended to prove the many advantages of the cyanide process in the treatment, more particularly of the finer grades of ore. He stated that.in South Afsica, where the process was introauced several years ago, it has effected an im- mense saving in tailings which could not be profitably worked by any other method previously adopted. In 1890 the value of the cyanide product for the Witwatersrand district. was §6000; in 1891, $60,000; in 1892 $3,000,000, and in 1894 $6,000,000, and it is still increasing. The lecturer after rapidly reviewing the results achieved by himself and others— notably T. E. Eichbaum, C. W, Merrill, Leslie Simpson, H. C. Baldwin, F. Booth and E. A. Hersam—in the course of inves- tigations pursued in Usalifornia, proceeded to describe the actual process as clearly and as simply as the necessarily technical nature of the subject permitted. He spoke first = of the most satisfactory methods of dissolving the gold in cyanide solutions and afterward of the various methods of securing gold precipi- tation from these solutions. The solubility of gold in cyanide solutions had been known, he stated, for nearly a cen\'\lrf, though that knowledge was not actually applied- for purposes of gold extraction until ten years ago. In 1848 the German chemist Ellsner declared that while zinc would dissolve in a potassium |cysnide solution the presence of oxygen was neg- essary in the case of the nobler metals. J. 8. MacArthur who claims to have in- Vented . the cyanide brocess, denied Ellener's contentions, though as the result of personally conducted experi- ments, the. lecturer had seen fit to con- firm the Ellsner reaction. Mr. Christy discussed the effects of ox- idizing agents, and affirmed that his con- clusion after three years' study was that with low-grade ores ‘and diluted solutions the cyanide solution itseli will, if properly aerated, carry oxygen enough 0 dissolve the gold. The lecturer, in_the course of his expla- nation of the various methods of precipi- tation from the solution, discussed the use of electricitv. of metallic zinc and of copper. The first-named method, in spite of several disadvantages, has been more generally used on a large scale than any other. In -this connection, be pointed ouf a curious fact, discovered during the treatment of a solu- tion containing 0.1 ver cent, or $603 per ton of gold. -Plain strips ot volished zinc failed to induce the slightest precipitation, whereas when lathe turnings from the same sheet zinc were used, the gold was entirely vrecipitated by filtration of the solution through a large excess of zinc shavings. Several views of the largest vlants in Utiah, California and South Africa, where the process is in operation, were subse- quently thrown ugon the screen and rapidly described. In closing His address the speaker advised miners to save tail- ings even as low as 50 cents per ton, which could be profitably treated by the ¢yanide process. A List of Hotels Prepared for Endeavor Visitors. The entertainment committee which was recently appointed to make arrange- ments for accommodating the visitors to the coming @hristian Endeavor conven- tion has issued a circular containing a reference list of the hotels in the City, with their location and rates per day. The circular enumerates twenty-one hostelries which will make special rates to the visitors. It will be-circulated among Liotel and excursion managers throughout the country. ——— Diamond Locket Stolen. Albert Konigsburg, a frequenter of the race- tracks, sWore to & complaint in Judge Joach- XEW TO-DAY: MR. GROCER: Would your customers drink more tea if their tea were better >, Would they buy more groceries ? Would your business be better or worse, if you sold better tea? If Schilling's Best is all that we say it is, it will make your business better; if it is not so:good as we say, give back your customers all they have paid you for it, and #ey can’t complain. We pay you. A Schilling & Company San Francisco. 524 NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB (NGLESIDE TRACK), The only Perfeci Winter Racewrack i1 America. RACING addaRes RACING Racing From Monday, Jan. 2 ‘day, February 6, Inel: Five or More Races Daily, Rain or Shine. FIRST KACE AT 2 P. M. Take Southern Pacific trains at Third ani Townsend sts. depot, leaving at 1 and 1:20 . x. Fare for Round Trip, including Ad- mission to Grounds, %$1.00. Take Mission-su electric line direct to tracs. The Tarpey Stakes Saturday, January 30. ‘The Hobart Stakes Saturday, February 6. A. B SPRECKELS, rresidont W.S LEAKE, Secretary. has been the rallying: ery of reforn, directed against abuses. municipal or social. - For the man who lets him- self be abused by a cough the cry should be modified “to Mend it, or it'll efid you. ; You can mend any cough with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. imsen's court yesterday chifging “Johu. Joe™ O'Donnell with grand larceny.: He was pi ing billiards in the Baldwir Satirday-night and had a diamond 1o¢Ket- stoléh from: his chain. He accuses O'Donnell: 6i corimitiing the theft. B DG A L HE BLEW O0UT: HIS: BRAINS. Charles E. -Woest Coinmits Swicide While in a'State of Despondency: Charlés: L. -Woest; a -Gérman ‘baker; 42 years of age, residing at827 Jackson'street, committed suigide: at. 7:30" o'ciock: last night, by blowing out #iis brains. The deceased had been. in diificulties for some time pasf, and:his action: is atiri- buted to despondency: He was a member:of North Beacl Lodge No. 9, Sons of Hermann, and basa brother living'in: the person: of Charles A. Woest, who resides:at 734 Broad way. The London . Times- reaps - £3000 a year from its births, marriages-and:deaths col~ um: NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. iz 'FRILOLANDER. GOTTLOD & o L5565 AT rihaLR> HOW 7| DID THEY. LAUGH ! PERHAPS WESAID THIS BEFORE, BUT REALLY THIS I8 B e e e THE FUNNIEST OF THEM ALL! Comedy, 3 » THE PRODIGAL FATHER! ALL NEW FEATUKES! More or Less Up to Date, A Company of Twenty People. The Greatest Mirth-Provoking Farce-Comedy koyer Writen. MONDAY, Februsry S— ———The Only “CHIMMIE FADDEN.” COLUMBIA THEATER. ‘Fhursday Afternoon, Feb. 4, at 3:30, FIRST NYMPHORY CONCERT! ORCHESTKA OF 35! GUSTAV HINRICHS, Conductor. SOLOIST, Katherine Flemming-Hinriehs, Gentralto. 3 T PKOGRAMME ion, 81.00 n_x:d_'(im BALDWIN THEATER ALHAYMAN & Co. (Incorporsied)..... £ropeis Last Week. Last F' ights. Last Matinee. MODINSIS A "Assisted by JOSEPH HAWORTH and the conrpleie company. O-NIGHT (Tuesaay) and Saturday Evenings, MACBETEL MODJESKA as Lady Macbeth. R. HAWORTH us Macbeth. ‘Wednesday and Friday Nights and Sat- urday Matinee, MARY STUART. Thursday Evening —One Special Par- formance, *« ADRIENN l;E:COUVREUR.” MR, LOUIS JAMES. n a grand. ecénic pro- it NIGHT! (RN Volleys of Applause Greeted the Comedy Drama, A LEGAL WRECK! Pronounced a Perfect Productjon ! Beautitully Siaged! Artistically Played! Don't fail w'see the “Clift Scene Witness the Atlantic Storm and its Realism? HUGO TOLAND, J. B. POLK ——And All the Favorites. —— Our Regular Pric Phone for Seats—Black 991 TiVOLI OPERA-HOUS= Aus ERxESTINE KERyx . Proprietor & Manager. —THIS EVENING— - AT 8 _ax OUR UP-TO-DATE EXTRAVAGANZA; ALADDIN, Or, THIX WONDERFUL LAMP, A Hodge-Podge of Mirth, Music, Ballet and . Beauty. See “La Danse dos Fleurs Electriques! (The Latest Sensation). The Floating Palacé in Midair! The Six Litt.e Tailors ! The Superb Ballet of Cleopatra; The New-and Novel Specialtie; Popular Prices AnAd 502 MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE WALTER MOROSCO...Sole Léssee.and Mauazo: FIRST PRODUCTION ON THIS COAST Of the Successtul Comedy Drama, “THE WESTERNER!” An Intensely Exclting Play, Full 6t Heart Inter- est. A Story of the'Siocs Boacd. Charming Musi¢! —Gracefal Dancing! Delightful Comedy ! Evenme Prices—10c, and 393, Matinees Saturday and Sunday. i, AN EXTRAORDINARY' PROGRAMME! G U IX:xaE, The World's Greatest TENOR. WARD ant CURRAN, América’s Funniest Men. ALCIDE CAPIT.A BESSIE CLAYTON,.. THE F MIL AND NOVELTIES WITHOUT END! Reserved sea:s. 20c; bulcony, 10¢; Opera- chairs and box-seats, 50c. SPECIAL—Calls by telephone will be answered until 8 o'clock every evening. THE CHUTES. EVERY AFTEENOON AND EVENING. CHINESE FESTIVAL WEEK! BROW Y, the ANIMATOSCOPE aund a Host of Attractions. Admission. 10c: Children, be. SUTRO BATHS. Open Dally From 7 A. /1. to 6 P. M, Swimming Season 1897. Bathing, Inciuding Admission—Adull 25¢, Children 20¢. | - 3 General Admission,-10¢; Children, 5e.