The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1897, Page 25

THE N FRANCISCO © ALL, SUNDAY, FEBRU ARY 1897 21, RESORT OF | | PLEASURE WILL| A BE | LAKE MERGED. T’HE corporation which supplies San | R i \ Francisco with drinking water finds | Ol a source for at least one-quar- | ter of the guantity consumed from the | little Lake Merced, which lies in the| southwestern part of the county, near the | San Mateo line. From its clear, crystal deptns from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 gallons are drawn daily. Its superficial surface is avout tour hundred acres and itis fed from - never-failing springs which have their origin in the mountains of the Sier- ras,” From early days this lake has been a source of the City’s water supply, ac- cessible to all who chose to appropriate it until the Spring Valley became the sole proprietor of the lake and its water- shed. This corporation now owns the land surroundin lake in_every dir tion and control i of twenty-two tifally sit- in San nated and gene Francisco Count This tract borde for two miles upon dfrom the beach by in stormy weather, ws from the southwest, e ocean rises in clouds y from t to its waters a distinct em unpalatable and In such anevent p their revolutions un- er has clarified itself. Though Lave been made to prevent the sur- e waters from draining into the lake in f heavy rainfalls they have not al- been successful, and atter such is' the waters have been to some ex- taminated and their use tempo- v abandoned. e must come, however, when o waters of Lake Merced cannot be used o the City. If Ban le its present popula- e would remain bus little vacant room on the peninsula. With ion population there would be none. With Lake Merced surrounded by houses, the water could not help but be- come impure, and its use for human con- sumption would then cease. This result would be no embarrassment 10 the waier company, for it has ample re- sources elsewhere for a city five times the of San Francisco. he problem therefore o!f utilizing Lake Mercea in such manner as will afford most faction to the greatest number is one be considered now with advan- is assumed that the lake will in come an annex to Golden Gate rk,.connected with it by boulevards ex- tending along the ocean beach, encircling tue lake and baving another route to the | k by the way of the Almshouse thor- | ng Here is a distance of about ten miles by aroute which can be equaled nowhere for vgriety or beauty of scenery and general attractiveness. The road along the ocean shore is practically com- the via the Almshouse | require widenir grading and to make a first-ciass boule- The last one passes through a most | resq e couniry and is already bor- nes of eucalyptus trees. The Twin Peaks rise in majestic altitude on while on both slopes always vernal descend A grand boulevard around ce Merced would afford a connecting & between the two boulevards already vartially construct Could such a drive | be constructed, of wis icient for ve- hicles and horses, with walks for foot p: sengers on each side and bordered with rows of palms and other umbrageous spe- cies, an avenue would be created without a peer in the wor.d. Just imagine a trip through the park to | ine ocean, whose shores would be followed for three miles to the lake, thence by a driveway around Merced undulating ac- ng to the outline of the surface of the ore. and thence back to the park the Almshouse boulevard. e lake 1self could be made a scene tment by utilizing its natural ages for adornment. Yachts and steamers, rowboats and other craft would crowd its waters, which could be mace available on occasion for races and ma- rine display. A~ pleasure lake such as no city of the world possesses. With thou- sands of arc and incandescent lights, im- agine how magnificent would be the| scene at night. i It is said that the corporation owning the tract of land in which Lake Merced is situated admits that the time is approach- | ing when the waters of the lake in conse- | quence of the density of the population on’ its ‘'shores will be unavailabie for do- mestic use and in view of that contin- gency have discussed the ways and means | forthrowing upon the market the 2000 acres of land which they own to the pub- lic. They have already figured thatthe amount they should realize from the sale t‘ f the tract would almost pay the bonded cne side of the roadway sides gent! to.the ro 1L debt of the company. Should the sale e 1ade then Lake Merced ought to be ac- quired by the City and placed under the control of the Park Commissioners to beautify and make available as an added source of pleasure to the people of Cali- fornia for all time. Such is the tuture of Lake Merced as pointed out by manifest destiny. The Steam Hammer. Thump—Thump—Thump—Thump— ¥hlls the steam-hammer upon the Jump Of glowing iron, like massy gold; And & stream of sparks, like stars untold, Fiy out and flash With each thump—thump. In the gloom around move Titans tall— Unearthly shadows that shift and call— Black-visaged, and bare of arm and breast, Tnose gods that Wrestle end sweat, nor rest. "Neath the gleam of their stern yet hopeful eyes Comes Form out of grossness—the while Time flies Marked by each gold-flashing shower and .thump Upon that divinely shapening lump. Thump—Thum’—Thu'—Th'— The trip in the master’s hand is raised. The work of the hammer done and praised— From the workshop's gloom to the light of day The still glowing metal is borne away Bv those shifting shadows ere it is cold— | That shape-set thing which once streamed gold. 5o, while Life lasts, the heart must thump, And the Master watches the shaptog lump. % BEAFORTH YEO. Our senses do not fail asleep simuitane- ously. The eyelids are first affected and ghut out sight, next follows the sense of s into the lake in such guan- | Lotta, substitute; Jose Manuel, right INDIAN MAST tackle. ARIZONA’S INDIGENOUS CYCLONE FOOTBALL TEAM. Top row—James W. Ellis, left half; George Head, right guard; Carl Bending, -ubstitate; Millard Walker, quarter-back; Center row—Joseph McDanald, left tackle; John G. Whittier, fullback; Howard Sanderson, substitute; John Ames, Bottom row—Henry Soatikee, substitute; James Peters, substitute; Juan Allen, left guard. Cyrus Sun, right hal William Stevens, center; Vavazes Buok, left end; Kisto , right end; Mark Antonio, substitute. HE revolving wedge will yet become ~ a thing 10 conjure by in all the foot- P ball world or else the prophecies of the experts who have seen it and felt it | will fail. Itisclaimed to be the inven- tion of Arizonw's indigenous gridiron | team. Uncle Sara’s Indian School lads at | Pheenix are masters of it and the 1e- | markable work they have already accom- | wide. Nothing in Arizona, at all events, can stand before it, and yet there are some | crack players in the Treasure Territory. | The boast is openly made, too, by those | who bave gone down before it and by | those who have seen it in successful oper- | ation that no football eleven outside or in- side the Territory can win a straight score against it. ‘Who can describe it? Certainly no one | plished with it has spread its fame farand | | but a football | terms of Queen’s and altogether cyclonic in effect, though it operates beautiiully to the same end as the ordinary wedge. Itsswift motion i< expert who considerable felicity vith the the main thing, and 1t is doubtful if ever | a Caucasian team will learn to operate it as do these Pima Indian boys of the »na Government Indian School. The stantly, apparently without the least pre- meditation, and insideof it is the player who has the ball. Main force cannot break the wedge, for the weage is in apid, circular motion—so rapia, in fact, that there is not an instant in time when | the opposing forces can bring any amount of concentrated effort to bear upon it at any one point. It mov ving wedge1s formed suddenly, in- | indeed, like a l s also on | cyclone, and it moves always toward the | average weigk | zoal. And when the t of the entire team i only | consciousness that is altogether beyond vorable moment ar- | 146 pounds. Now, it is a poor Arizona | the comprehension of the ordinary white glish. Iuis circular, revolving | rives—which always happens to be the | Caucasian football team that will not|man, and not a little uncanny in some re- moment that everybody else thirks is the | average 170 pounds at least, and in aver- | spects. least favorable—pop! gzoes the cyclone. | | It bursts, scattering the surprised opposi- | | tion and releasing a swift runner, who is | out of jurisdiction with the ball before he | can be located. | ‘ The Indian School football team at Phee- | nix has played and defeated about every- thing on the Arizona gridiron. The In- dian boys are not beavy-weights. In all | the games they have played so far they | have been outmaiched in s ze and weight, | but never equaled in skill and strength. | The heaviest man in the team, who is | Cyrus Sun—a straight-shouldered, strong- | | sinewed, pure-blooded Pima Indian of 18 years—weighs only 169 pounds, while the age height and reach the red men have | usually been overmatched. The last vic- tory won by.them, only a few weeks ago, was wrested from the Prescott team, with average weight of 175 pounds. One of the secrets of their success is perhaps a sort of tribal intuitive conscious- ness which men born of civilized parents never seem to possess. Without speaking a word, with scarcely a sound uttered when the gams is hottest, these red men, and especially those who form the revolv- | ing wedge, act togetner as a single man as if they were so many automatons all moved by a single hand. They seem to possess a kind of collective thought or They are all wards of Uncle Sam, and though they are perkaps not the brightest scholars in the world, they are docile and tractable pupils, anxious to learn, ana some of them are every whit as keen and quick in the lower branches of the Eng- lish curriculum as they ars on the grid- |iron. The boys are very patriotic as well. They are under strict military training at | the school and they drill finely and make excellent soldiers. They form the only all-American football team and they are | the orizinators of the now famous revolv- | ing wedge. | The British mint coins wenty-five tons of peunies every[year. A REALISTIG STORY OF A RAINY DAY, A WOMAN AND AN HE rain came on suddenly and 1t caucht bher, as the sailors say, “amidships.” She was anxious to match a fragment of dress goods which she had 1n her pocketbook, and she had on her best hat; therefore, she went into a near-by store and purchased a low- priced umbrella. Coming out of the establishment with the air of one who has got the better of | fate and circumstance, she essayed to | open Ler new acquisition and bid defiance to the elements. A moment of uncer- iainty followed ‘while she explored the inner mechanism of the article in hand. Then came a decided pressureon a stiff spring, a vigorous outward shove of the curving ribs, followed by shrieks of infan- tile indignation anda disgust. An inof- fensive child troit ng by at the mde of its maternal parent, a stout lady with a high nose and a peppery temper, had received the full broadside of the suddeniy ex- panded convexity, and sitting flat on the muddy sidewalk, loudly howled its disap- proval of existing conditions, During the dialogue which ensued vituperative on one side and humbly | apologetic on the other, the naif<open cause of it, beld atan angle of 45 deg. be- hind 1ts owner, managed to trip up a pompous and near-sighted old gentleman and land him on all fours on the pave- ment. Turning suddenly about, aghast at this new misfortune, she hit a sober-minded dog peacefully standing under the shelter of the awning a blow in the ribs that sent him ki-yi-ing with his tail at half-mast out into the middie of the street and brought his owner out of a cigar-store to make excited inquiries as to the identity of the individual who had dared to treat his four-footed friend with such wanton crueity. The innocent offender fled back into the store which she had just left until the ex- citement snbsided. Then a polite clerk putting her purchase in working order for ber, she started out again. As she was a rather short woman she managed in a walk of half a block to knock off the hats of no less than five gentlemen and by the simple process of leverage wrest three umbrelias from the hands of their proprietors. Not wishing to continue these exploits she then vroceeded to hold her umbrella over one shoulder like a musket, with the result that she caught one of the rib points in the fashionably disheveled hair of a young woman walking less rapidly than herself and dragged her unwilling captive along for some distance before becoming aware of the state of affairs. Releasing her prisoner with some little difficuity she plunged into the depths of a dry-goods store and coming out a few minutes later found that the wind had shifted, and therefore veered her stelter. ing cetton to the frout. For the next block she blindly prodded all the unfortunates coming from the op- posite direction, and finally nearly over- turned an Italian who was dragging his peanut roaster into a sheltered doorway and quite overturned his stock in trade. It tpok some smail change to settle this matter, but having settled it onr heroine proceeded on her way. Mindful of previous misfortunes, she now raised ber umbrella high in air to avoid the possibility of hittinz anything or anybody, and rude Boreas, seeing a chance for fun, swooped down upon it. A moment later she was taking a kind | of fiying run along the sidewaik, the um- breila struggling violently to raise her off her feet and v with her to parts un- kuown. Regaining partial control of her property si true feminine fashion, braced her back to the wind while en- in | deavoring to *take in sail,” and in an in- stant the unruly thing turned inside out and became an apparently hopeless wreck —a coniused tangle of bare wires and wet gingham. A gentleman coming to her assistance righted matters speedily, and she rewarded him by catching one of the rib-ends in his whiskers, knocking his hat sideways and nearly gouging out one of his eyes while she thanked him. Discouraged by her many trials, she concluded to give up her shopping and go nome. Joining a group waitinz for cars on the corner, she stood gazing straight ahead of her with a lofty air of being su- perior to and oblivious of the disagreea- bles of her environment, until a half- smothered *‘cuss word” from a young man near apprised her that her umbrella was lield at such an angle that a good-sized stream had run from it inside her victim’s coliar and was meandering cheerfully down his spine. The car arrived opportunely at this juncture, and after nearly knocking the breath out of the conductor by hitting him in the pit of his stomach with her all-conquering weavon as she ascended the steps, she wedged herselt firmly in the door by attempting to enter with it still open in her band. Extricated from this unpleasing position she sat down, and placing the tip of her subdued but drip- ping parapluie on the bottom of the skirts of the lady next her proceeded to gaze steadily and stonily at nothing. | When she was within three blocks of her home the rain ceased; when she arrivea at her corner the sun was shining, and when she arose to make her way ou of the crowded car she forgot her new purchase. A seedy-looking man slipped into her vacated seat, worked a finger into the bandle of the deserted article and assumed straightway an air of proprietorship. UMBRELLA And that woman and the umbrella were parted forever. FLORENCE PERCY MATHRESON. J. SMITH'S PLEDGE. Jrouble Gaused by the Geographi- cal Eccentricities of Market Street, Jehosaphat Smith has been coming home at all hours of the night for these last thirty years, but if he badn’t signed the pledge it is probable that the remarka- ble geographical eccentricities of Market street would have never excited interest in the Smith househoid. Jehosaphat signed the pledge, and after keeping it intact for three days, he felt so good over the fact that he just dropped in at an old-time resort on Montgomery street on his way home last evening to celebrate the joyous event with a glass or two of ancient elixir. When he came out he notea thatthe points of the compass bad become somewbat mixed in the last balf hour, but, laying this rather unusual event to the weather, he steered for Market street, homeward bound. At the . taste, then smelling, hearing and touch, the last named being the lightest sleeper -and most easily aroused. corner of Montgomery and Market sireets he paused for a minute to allow a car to Rass, 2nd then proceeded on hls way, A few minutes later, much to his astonish- ment, the plate-glass windows of the re- sort he bad just left loomed up before him. “S'loons 'n streets all mix’ up,” he and remarked philosophically, then soughtan explanation inside. What he found was eminently satisfactory, but thoughts of the pledge again turned his footsteps homeward. Again he paused at the corner of Market and Montgomery to keep from running over a Valencia-street car, and then again he bravely went forward. A little later and the familiar lights of the place he had left twice shone in his eyes. *Fol- low'n’ me up. Svame ol’ s’loon all th’ way home. Mush see what's matt'r.” And the swinging doors closed again be- hind the willing form of Jehosaphat Smith, Bix times did Jehosaphat try last night to get home. Six times did he pause at the corner of Market and Montgomery while the noisy cable cars ran by in jangling derision; and six times did his footsteps lead him back to whiskies straight, until the barkeeper put him in a hack and sent him home to his wite. To her Jehosaphat swore, and swore truly, that never aiter leaving the saloon on his homeward way did he turn around. Though unbelieved he protested that fate moved the saloon to meet his virtuous feet, Only the Post-street turntable as it whirled 'round and 'round in silent glee could explain the turnine-point in the journey of Jehosaphat Smith. Returns show there are over 68,000 art- ists throughout the country. ///’ ’V /'l/j&' : /s SRLLr) Lent Gometh. In pensive wise my lady stands, A gilded prayer-book in her hands, Her face averted from the world, A flag of penitence unfurled— For this is Leat. The world, the flesh and Romeo Are all furgot; but then, you know, Her sackcloth clothes & dream or grace, While ash of roses tints her face— For this is Lent, A thing demure, she listens well To what the churchmen have to tell; “ But all the wnile a cherub fair Of her attention has a share— Though this is Lent. For maidens, though they plous be, Will hearken to Love’s softer key, And woman 1s but Woman when There comes to her the man of men— Though it be Lent. FRANELYN W. LeE. —————— *Perhaps,” said the elderly genileman with the shiny coat, **perhaps if I had not bad such a circus in my vouth I would have more of a show now.”’—Indianapolis Journal. ————— A well-known artist declares that in ninety-nine cuses out of a hundred the left side of the human face {s the more perfect in outline. ERS THESE OF THE REVOLVING WEDGE THE GARE ANDGULTURE OF THE GENUS PULEX. What eyleth thee toslepe by the morwe? Hastow had fleen al nyght, or artow dronke?® —Chaucer. Out of the fullness of a wide and varied | experience, I am writing these lines. The | knowledze that I Fave acquired I would share with the world, my only recompense being the consciousness of having added— though but a mite—to the sum total cf in- tense interest and excitement that is al- ways swakened in those who become con- cerned in the care and culture of the Pulex irritans, Choose a large rea ylush easy-chair for the resting place. I think there is noth- ing superior to this, thouch my wife gives the preference to a fur rug along the side of the bed. I can with confidence, however, that the best possible results baye been obtained from the plush chair; | I would not be too particular about its color. Keep the chair in the sun. I find they thrive more rapidly in the sunlight and tbat warmth conduces to their liveliness. ‘When the sun no longer sbines in the room sit occasionaily in the chair yourself. { It will be mutually beneficial, though, of course, when vou go away you are liable to carry ff some of the pets from their hatchery, but do not mind this, for there will always be sufficient left to nurse the younger brouds. Their numbers do not deplete readily under proper conditions. I know this to be true. Once the new servant-giry, in her first gush of enthusiasm at ‘getting a place,” dusted and swept the chair with a whisk-broom vigorously out in the yard at intervals of every balf hour throughout the day, but in the evening I enjoyed the society of fully the usual number of the genus pulex as I read and smoked in the red plush chair. Since then I do not think the chair has Dbeen disturbed much, and this is as 1t should be, for of course there is always danger of losing some of the pets through carelessness, or perLaps through their fondness for an individual in whom there may be some peculiar and unusual mag- netic quaiities, However, we have been quite fortunate, and have every reason to feel proud of our flea crop this year. Often I hear my wife disputing with the lady in the flat below as to the number of | tleas in the respective families, and though my wife and I have our differences at times—as what happy couple do not?— jvyet I have never had occasion to differ with ber estimates of either the number or the degree of liveliness of the Pulex irritans that we bave been fortunate to raise this year. My wife 1s prone to exag- gerate the number of people in a crowd, perbaps, but I know that her remarks concerning the virility as well as the nu- merical strength of our collection of fleas are always safely within the truth. I am glad to record this instance of feminine conservatism, for we know, as a rule, that our wives are greatly given to exaggeration in numbers, especially where the estimates at the lowest calculation have to do with more than five figures. We bave tried all the flea powders and washes on the market and with excellent resuits. But I would warn against one or two of the washes. Be careful not to actually drop the Jiquid upon the tiny irritans when 1n such a tight place that ne cannot hop away, for in this there is danger of impairing the respiratory or- gans as well as temporarily 1nterfering with the usefulnes of the suctorial pro- poscis. As this experiment has been made in our nursery several times I speak upon the point from direct personal knowledge. There 1is, indeed, obne particular wash that aciually stupe- fied and rendered lifeless for a moment the poor, joyful little irritans, when my wife dropped it from the bottle over my thumb and forefinger, between which was imprisoned the flea. But this was an isolated case, to be sure, and I would advise against drawing any general aeductions from it. There is, upon the whole, little danger to be feared from the judicious employ- ment of any and all of these xo-called “ex- terminators.” Ihave often wondered why they were so called. If you have a chair—a red plush easy- chair—as I have, spread the powder or spray the liguid upon it morning and evening. Some are afraid of using theso fructifiers too plentifully, but there is little danger in this direction. Once my wife covered the chair entirely with a yel- low flea-powder. I remember that it cost | $1 for the coating, and it was put on so tbickly that my brober-in-law, who is quite a thoughttul fellow, warned my wite that it might kill some of the tleas. But his fears, luckily, proved ground- less, and since that time I have not wor- riea much as to either the quantity or the quality of the antidotes used, for the Pul>x irritans thrives as successfully in one as the ather. Once we burned eucalyptusleaves in the house. This, I think, was very beneficial, for I noticed in the evening that although the library was still so fuil of the odor as to spoil the fragr ance of my cigar, yet my little pets in the red plush easy-chair seemed to have gained considerably in | numbers and were even more cheerful and | industrious and sociable than ever before. Then it was that, in the fullness of my personal knowledge and exverience, I de- termined to add my mite oi wisdom to what is perhaps already a too vo uminous literature on the care and culture of the Pulex irritans. Luke NORTH. It is said that & number of Japanese recipes for the making of ailoys which have hitherto been kept a close secret have been revealed by workmen engaged in making them. Among these is the +'shadko,” an alloy of copper and from 1 to 10 per cent of gold. This, when placed 1 a moraant of sulphate of copper, alum and veraigris, assumes the coppered or blue-black hueof sword sheaths and deco- rative articles. ‘*‘Gnishi-buichi’’ isa cop- per alloy wi h 30 or 50 per cent of silver, of the well-known gray color. *Mokume’ 18 a compeund of several alloys. About thirty plates or foils of gold, “shadko” copver, silver and the last mentioned al- loy are soldered. NEW TO-DAY. 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