The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1897, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1897. ONE BY ONE THEYRE GOING Death of Mrs, Selina Truett, a Heroine of the Revolution. Her Father Once Governor of Wisconsin and Her Broth- ers Famous, Incidents of Her Life in the Black- | hawk War—Jefferson Davis' Wooing. A great man dies, and bohold the news is eralded on the streets by the town- crier, transcontinental wires are kept hot with the fact of his demise and a recora of his deeds in the flesh, and the busy world turns aside from its cares long enough to say, parted from us.” But in the very heart of this City, s rounded by ali the roar and tum dent to the trade of a large co there passed quietly out of e last Friday a famous woman, and known not. She was Mrs. Selina Truett daughter of a Revolutionar: e who afterward added to the Juster of a proud family name by becoming the Governor of Wisconsin, and whose sons nephews have held some of the highest positions of state the gift of a country. After an adventurous life in the South- ernand Middle Western States, both 2irl and woman, Mrs. Truett came to the remainder of her days on the snores of the Pacific some y Her da are ended, for last F hing expired at her home Devisudero sireet, surrounded by loving children and grandchildren. Her decease was pri- marily due to old age, for she had passed the three score years and ten man by milestones eig *“Iam now through she ss 1 Another genius has de fight, Although Mrs. Tr she was truly a heorir ‘ and could trace her fighting-stock back 10 Israel Dodge, b nal grandfather, who lived in e p » of Lonisiana b-fore it became a part of the United States, fought valiantly in the war of the Revolution, was wounded st Brandywine, and served on the extreme outposts of the Mississippi. After the war he underwent many of the Is and exposures to dan- ger of life on the “dark and bloody gr 0 Ken the old_French village of below Bt. Louis, the oldest s the west side of the Mississi lage is still 1z existenc hangs still the aroma of anci manners and cusioms. The d er was calle1 Sel after the name of the river on the banks of which she was born. The fam afterward moved to the region of Lilinois, and there passed through those scengs of s never met with when a country has sed ths ruggea rocks and s treacherons whirlpools encountered in the stages of its progress. Many a time was she in a small blockuou-e, with the din of mus- ketry and the piercing warwhoop of Indian braves ringing in her ears. After the war was over she saw Blackhawk, th noted chieftain whose name was given the struggle, and talked to him in the innocent fear of girlhood. Mrs. Troett's brother, A Dodge, who afterward became States Senator from lowa, was in this war with the Indians. He was also at one time United States Min served in that capacity for nephew, the Hon. W, W now State Senator of lowa. Shortly after the expiration of the Blackhawk War somethi occurred | which, but for a small mischance, might have altered the history of the nation Jefferson Davis, who was then stationed at Dodgeville in command of r to Spain and | small | sz 1 body of soldiers, fell in love with Mrs. Truett's eldest si ter, Mary. He wooed and was in a fair way to win his suit when he twas ordered 1o another post. When he returned to his former love :ev- cral years later he found that another more constant lover had carried off the prize. ! Mrs. Truett's father ard brother have been in the Senate at the same time. She was a woman unaccustomed to boasting, nowever, and never spoke of these things except in the sanctity of the home circle. The deceased leaves two daughters, a son and several grandchilaren. The neral_will take place to-day at Sacred Heart Church and the interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. — -, ABOUT ; O0EAN TELEPHONY. Edison Doubts If the Voice Will Ever Keach Across the Atlantie. Edison, who bas been interviewed as to statement of a Russian inventor that able could be laid by which telephony could te carried on bstween Loudon and New York, says tbe thing is absolutely mpossible. Edison foliowed up the as- sertion by figuring out why it could not be aone. The Russian claims that he has telephoned under ten miles of water. In doinz this he would be confronted with many difficulties. But the difficulty of telephoning increases according to the square root of the distance. To telephone enty miles would be four times harder ) telephone ten miles; foriy miles xteen times as hard; eighty ir times as hard; and so on miles, nearly the distance \cross the Atlantic, which would be 65,- hard. So, as Edison puts it, ian engineer can tackle and jab times as hard as ier ten miles of water, he may lephone across the Atian- tic Ovean. is not a question of battery, but of 1d the overcoming of resistance heimpossibility of getting rid of the »ntat the moment the voice ceasbs. way of illustrating this Edison sup- vo-inch pipe is run across the human voice con- The man talking at one Id have 1o hold forth a long time voice out at the other end. Even when he got it filled and finally stopped talking tht man at the other end wouid have to wait an equally long time for the water to run out before he could get it going his way. Infact, such a distance, especially under waier, affordsentirely too clumsy a chanuel for the guick and variable cur- ry to a tebephone wire. »ses this disquisition on the 1 would undertake to d the world. As you earth, however, the diffi- se greatly, and they are of urethat 1 am atraid ihey will come—at least not with the 1 intelligence.”’—Pittsburg e s A HORSE THAT EATS PIES. He Likes Them Better Than Oats and Prefers the Mince Ones. Leonard Jaccbs, a pie peddler, has one | of the most remarkable horses in Con- necticut. Other towns have boasted of horses that chew tobacco, chew gnm and drink beer, but Jacobs’ horse will eat pie. | it not been for the good sense of ti-e Lon- | The horse is 23 years old. Jacobs’ pies come from New Haven, packed in cases, and in transportation some of them gen- erally get broken and cannot be sold. One day Jacobs threw a broken pie o the ground near ti.e horss's head. The ani- mal smelled of it, touched it with his tongue, lapped it up and ate it with a relish.’ Then Jacobs began to feed pies to ho: The horse soon got to like th them and would even refuse oats when | pie was to be had. The havit has grown on him untilnow, when Jacoos says “pie’’ to him, the horse will turn_bis nead and wink expeciantly. He hus a_decided preference for mince vie, and the more raisins and currants and cider there are the better he is pleased. Apple pie is not a great favorite with him. Most bakers put grated nutmeg into the apple pie, and this doesn’t seem 16 agree with the equine tast: Pumpkin pie he likes, and_cranberry tarts are an especial ight. Peacn, apricot, berry and prune pies are acceptable, but unless the prunes are stoned he will not touch prune pie after the first pie. and youthful in his movements, and Jacobs expects to keep him on the pie-cart he is long past the age when most s are turued out to erass for the rest of their days, or are carriea to the ceme- tery by the side of the murky waters of the Nangatuck River.—Baltimore Ameri- can. . Parisian cabmen are not oke pipes while driving. allowed to A MATINEE BEAU FOR THE ALCAZAR. Francis Carlyle, the idol of the feminine world, will arrive shortly to assume his duties as ieading man of the Alcazar Theater. Already the tender little hearts of the matinee girls are in a dreadful state oi trepidation, and tinted note-paper commands a premium. The youthful matrons of to-day—the matinee zirls of some ten summers agzo— were wont to spend eli their pin money in dainty favors for the handsome, fas- cinating Frank Carlyle. In those days the actor was the leading man of the Tewis Morrison stock company at the old Californ'a. He strolled gracefully about the stage, attired in fetching white duck, and distinguished himself by plunging into a river of “real water,” the sensational scene in a startling melodrama, “'A Dark Eecret.”” After his tank experience Carlyle went East, joined the Frohman forces and had his name printed on the programme as Francis Carlyie. His last visit to this coast was with “Shenandoah,” in which play be impersonated the patriotic young hero, Colonel Kerchival West. The first appearance of Carlyle all depends upon the Chinese play. Just as soon as the public tires of this realistic bit of Oriental life it goes on the road with the original company, Who in turn make place for the new stock organization. e he coujd fiil that tube and pour his | “If I could erect poles | The horse is fat, slick | T0 BE DUMPED IN'THE THANES London Authorities Intend to Reject That Bogus Brandy. A New and Unexpected Ally Comes to Dockery’s Rescue. Thousands of Gallons of Another Spurious Article Being Shipped South, A new and unexpected ally has come to his fighi to destroy that shipment of 107 barrels of doctored California grape brandy. After running the gamut of the Federal authorities the consignment is likely to come to the end it deserves on its arrival in London and be dumped in the Thames. The agitation over the subjact has reached the ears of the London Ex- cise Board, and the London Gaz:tte is authority for the statement that the con- signment will be rejected at its destina- thorities. The brandy is at present in New York awaiting shipment to Europe. Since attracted the attention of the pure food authorities it has had a checkered career and has changed its name with as much regularity as a confidence man. When Dockery first fell afoul of it the article was masquerading as “Pure California { Grape Brandy,” although its principal | ingredients were Nebraska corn spirits | and Spring Valley water, there being but one gallon of brandy in twelve in the mixture. The Federal authorities preventea the | Board of Health people from dumping some nice legal technicalities by dropving the word “‘pure’’ from the barrels and for- warding the shipment to New York as “California grape brandy.” Its reputation had preceded it, as many protests agawnst th the word “‘California’’ in connection with Assoc'aticn of this City. The treasury [ officials in New York sought to modify | the offense by again changing its name, admitting it through the clearing-house, time Tn- | where it bobbed up again, this | ““rectified Oalifornia grape brandy.’’ | doubtedly it would bave found its wa. | this spurious guise to the consumer ad | don Excise Board, who, ever zealous of | the food supplies entering the kingdom, condemn all frauds. The decision of the London Excise | Board to reject this consignment is a vic- | tory to all who have the interest of Cali- | fornia wine and brandy at heart. The Briton is a connoissenr in liquor, and to | have fed him this decoction of corn spirits | and Spring Valley water as a sample ot | California brandy would probaoly have been the means of doing the industry in- calculable harm. It is known that thou- being nrepared in the same frauduient manner for the European market. There is no way to touch the conscience of the manufacturers of it, it seems. The action of the London authorities, however, may be a more wholesome lesson than ail the condemnation of all tha local boards of health and manufacturers’ and producers’ | association. As soon as the shippers of this spurious brandy find that there is no market for it they will cease to manufac- { ture it. Possibly in the end the reputa- | tion of California goods may thus be saved. that thousands of gallons of an article | labeled ‘‘California Blackberry Branay' | bas been shipped to South America. Thus far he has been unable to give the | matter his attention. An analysis of some of this mixture shows there is no blackberry in it and very lLttle brandy, the taste of the berry being given by flavoring exiracts. The Merchants’ Asso- ciation intend to take up this matter at once. The formula of the mixture is as follows: Vina brandy, 1 gallon; raw Ne- braska corn whisky, 7 gallons; water, dyes and flavoring extracts, 4 gallons, LAND TRANSFER SYSTEMS. How Germany and Austria Facilitate Kealty Sales and Loans. C. Fortescue-Brickdale, the Assistant Registrar of the Lana Office, was, on the suggestion of the Land Registrar in May last, instracted by the Government (0 in- vestigate the practical working of the system of land registration carried on in Germany and Austria-Hungary, says the London Standard. The British embassies at Berlin and Vienna procured the fullest official and general facilities for the in- quiry, which included visits to Berlin and Vienns, and to several important towns in various paris, as well as to some of the smalier provincial centers and country districts. 1t appe: from the report just pub- lished that systems of registration of title practically the same as the colonial ““Tor- rens” system and the system partially es- tablished in England under rd West- bury’s and Lord Cairns' acts ol 1862 and 1875, are now in almost univerral opera- tion over the whole of the German and Austro-Hungarian empires. These sys- tems are every where exceedingly popular. Land-owners, business men (particularly bankers and otliers employing capital in loans on real security), and even lawyers appesr unanimousas to iis savantages. The system is found to_bs cheap, easy, rapid, siraple and safe. This is not due to any special simplicity in the titles, rights or transactions themseives, the majority of which are quite as compiicated as aver- age dealings in England. Several exemples are given of the regis- tration of what we shouid call coblemen’s and country sentlemen's estates—one, comprising 120,000 English acres of town, village, arab e, pasiure, wood ana waste, filling two folio volumes of 500 pages together with 600 sheets of the tral map. These properties are sub- ject to entails and settiements similar to | tbese prevalent in Engiand, and often to charitable and religious doles and charges of great sntiquity, and likewise to heavy mortgages. On the other hand small properties are far more common than with us and give rige to such numerous trans- act that in Ausiria over 70 per cent of the sales are far under £50. Very low scales of fees suffice to pay all official ex- penses. In Prussia, for instance, the fees for reg- istering sales begin at 5d for a value of £1, at £20 the fee is 25 7d, at £100 it is 7s 3d, at £1000 it is £110s, at £5000, £4 5s, and so | on. Where dispatch is not demanded, ten and fifteen days is the usual time oc- cupied uver and morigages. In Prus- sia, the security of a registered purchaser is absolute immediately on registration, and in Austria practically so, though a nominal interval is given for possible ob- jections. Orainary people can, and fre- quently do, look up titles for themselves, reducing the lawyer's. work to the mere drawing up of the deed. In the country, in Prussis, even this isnot usuaily wanted, the mere verbai declarations of the baver and seller, made before the local registrar, being sufficient to.pass an esiate. Thy | privacy of the registers is strictly guarded | pri the rescue of Food Inspector Dockery in | it by the Manufacturers’ and Producer.’ | sands of gallons of this same mixture are | tion and condemned by the British au-| the decoction on the ground, and avoided | Inspector Dockery has also discovered | | all U e e e e e e 35c on the dollar. [Seal.] Men’s Tweed Suits. ... Men’s Men’s State of California, ) City and County of San Francisco. M. HYMAN, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is the President of the FAMOUS CLOTHING COMPANY, a corporation, engaged in the Clothing business in the City of Oakland, County of Alameda, and that heretofore, on the 21st day of June, 1897, the entire stock of said company, of the value of $68,000.00, was sold and transferred to the BALDWIN CLOTHING COMPANY of San Francisco, at Men’s All-Wool Cassimere Suits. ..... Mee’s All-Wool Covert Top Coats.... All-Wool Beaver Overcoats.... Heavy Cassimere Pants........ Men’s Heavy All-Wool Tweed Pants Boys’ Heavy Long-Pants Suits, ages Boys’ Heavy, Strong Knee Pants........... DB L L L e ettt A GREAT SUCCESS! Excitement Intense! Store Crowded to the Doors! _Consternation Among Competitors! THE BALDWIN CLOTHIERS' GIGANTIC CLOTHING SALE! The Entire Stock of the FAMOUS CLOTHING COMPANY of Oakland, consisting of $68,000 worth of goods, was bought by us at 35 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR! And will be sold at the ACTUAL PURCHASING PRICE. The foliowing is seli- explanatory : SS. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d day of June, 1897. JULIUS CALMANN, Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California. A FEW OF THE PRICES: Men’s Cassimere SuitS......cceeceecssc...$2,95 ® 3.95 5.95 6.95 ¢ 7.45 95 1.45 1.95 25 @9 Men’s Latest Trilby Shirts. . 13to 19 [GO000000D THE BALDWIN CLOTHIERS 924 to 980 MAREK ET STRERET (BALDWIN ANNEIX). Mail Orders Will Receive Prompt and Careful Attention. in most of the German States—only per- sons having an interest in the lend being allowed to inspect the registers. Owing to the clearness and security of titles the trouble and responsibility incurred by the lawyer on sales and mort- gages is very trifling and costs littie. An eminent advocate in Vienna states that £1isa very usual fee for a purchaser's lawyer; £10 is a high fee, even in large matters and with wealthy clients. One of the Judges in Vienna spoke somewhat 6d, which be had had to pay ona pur chase of £4176 valne. The system of regis- tration of title has prevailed in some dis tricts—especially in the older provinces of Austria—from the middle ages, but in others its introduction is of later, or even of quite recent date. Insome parts—the Rhine provinces, for instance—it is still in course of introduction. In the Tyrol it is about to be introduced. It has been compulsorily applied to the new districts from time 10 time by Minis- terial orders, under powers conferred for the purpose by general laws. The system is administered locally, in districts about the same size as our own County Court Registries. No place is more than ten of fifteen miles from its local land registry. In Baden and Wurtemberg every com- mune bas its own registry. Where the es- tates run into be registered in tates in Austria are registered in t tals. instead of in their local registries. The report concludes with a detailed de- seription of some fourteen Continental 1and registries—inciuding those of Berlin, Vienna and Dresden (with plans), Bnda- Pesth, Munich, Prague and Cologne—per- sonally inspected in the course of the in- quiry. —— - ABOUT BOOMB One Started With a Half-Finlshed Mill and Ended With a Finished Wreck. Some one had asked the ex-boomer from Oregon to describe the theory and prac- tice of his late profession. “Every boom.”” he said, “has its pre- text, which may range from a projected railroad to a salubrious climate, and its promoter, whose real object may be al- most anything imaginable, but is gener- ally a desire to buy or sell some particular piece of property, and booms are as va- their pretexts and promoters. ers of description. Capital and specula- tion are, however, the only vitally neces- sary elements for the creation of a small. zed boom, and it is possibie that one ex- perienced man may represent both of them and be wholly and dirently respon- sible for a boom of considerable magni. tude. I may cite as an example of sucha boom my own experiencs with a sawmill which I bad started to build for a neigh- bor of mine, a man of large experience in mber business, who died suddenly. leaving me in possession of a half-Anished lant, of whose operation I knew abso- l’m..x, nothing. On trying to sell I dis- covered that none of the other mills in the vicinity bad been making money for some time, and that it would be im possi- ble to fin purchaser for my property as it stood. ““Well, I had capital involved, and pro. ceeded to speculate with every cent I pos- sessed. I finished the mill, aading plan- ers, lath, shingie and box making ma- chinery, and an electric light plant to the I constructed s spur to the miMl from the railroad near by, built arge general merchandise store, a blacksmith-shop and a hotel, ail of Which I operated myself, and about fifty cottages which I rented to my employes. Ialso secured the estab- lishment of a railroad, telegraph and ex- station aud a postoffice, and soon complainingly of a lawyer's bill of £6 12s | rious in inception and dovdopm'ntu: *‘The most successiul and far-reaching | boom is a disturbance far keyond my pow- | Boys’ Cheviot School Suits. . Boys’ Strong Cassimere Reefer Suits........ Boys’ Percale Blouse WaistS....o0000eeenn Gents’ Eatest StylerFiess di. {sh aine g Men’s Heavy Derby Rib Underwear. . Men’s Latest Golf ShirtSi. . .. asmevasormen Men’s Latest Block Fedora Hats....oq avv.e. Men’s Latest Best Quality Fedora Hats...... Make no Mistake, these prices mean $1.00 WORTH OF GOODS FOR 35c! N M. HYMAN. --$0.65 1.35 25 10 35 45 55 95 1.15 DR AAMIUEOSUAIUEAEDAUD SRR BURIRRAOLOMIAA UL LD HULAAbUDIIL AU RRHULTACRMBIATRO RO TIATAR LD LM RO LA B R I i b i i v | E £ £ E S E E E E E : = £ 4 £ £ £ £ £ E S £ = E £ £ £ £ = E £ £ £ £ £ £ E = £ E = £ & £ = £ = 7 had a bustling little town started. I man- | aged to find some employment for every | man, woman and child that wanted it, | Consternation and 'had more money in circulation in | the county than the oldest inhabitants | yary disse: y e oldes itants i Ak By o | Steward L. Woodford Denison, a clerk “To keep the mill goine after the legiti- | {0f the American Sugar Refining Com- e local demand for lumber was ra 13- [ pany (sugar trust), took a check for fied I began to stock new yards n the two | $15,650 40 to the New York Custom-house nearest county seats, put up a fenceall | jast Tuesday to pay duty on two cargoes around my ranch and built new corrals and | of sugar consigned to the company. hed i . | White b o e Piace. onths after the | While ia the rotunda he stopped to. talk mill had started running I had about ex- | With John L. Rafferty of the firm of J. ADVENTURE OF A CHECK. aused by Its Tempo hausted my cavital but had gained arepu- | W. Masters & Co., custom-house tation that nearly sent me to the State | brokers. He 1aid the check down on a Legisiature that year, and, more to my | desk. Edward E. Barrett, a clerk in the purpose, had received several offers to in- ! corporate or sell my business. The best) of the offers 1 finally accepted and trans- | ferred the whole layout to a number of | moneyed men from the Siate capital for a price that gave me a net profit of $10,000. | *'The following summer I spent abroad. | Barretr. When he discovered his loss he On my return six months later the prop- | turned pale and exelaimed, “My God, I've erty was in the hands of a receiver and it | lost a check for $15,000.” was sold at auction in the following year| Rafferty thought he would let the joke for $6000.” —New York Sun. g0 on, but Denison was in such a siate —_—————— of mind that after a minute or two ke No fewer than 7000 people in Paris are | told him that Barrett had the check. employed in the preparation of human | They went in search of Barrett, but could bair for the marker. lnut find him. Then Rafferty began to custom-house, passed, and Rafferty picked up the check and handed it to bim, say- ing, “Here’s the money I owe vou.” Barrett took the check and passed on. Denison did not observe that it was the sugar trust’s check that had been given to | think it was not so awfully fanny. After along time it was found out that Bar- rett iived in Harlem. Denison and Rai- ferty went to his bome. When they ar- rived thers they were informed he had gone ont for the evening. It was late when he returned. 1In the meantime the two men had visions of Barrett on the way to Canada. Barrett was surprised to see his visitors. ““Where's that check?” ferty. **What check ?” usked Barrett. *That check I handed to you in the | custom-house this af*ernoon.” **Was that a check?’ inquired Barrett, “Ithought it was a piece of paperand I guess [ threw it away.” Denison nearly dropped dead. *‘Maybe I put it in my overcoat pocket,” | continued Barrett. With that he dived | his hand down in his pocket and pulied | out a piece of crumpled paper. “Yes, bere it is.” | Denison went home with the check and | dreamed he had been robb-d of $15,000,- 000,000,000,000,000.—Pittsburg Dispatch. e It is not generally known that, with cers tain exceptions, the population of the British Isies is liable to conacription for the militia. demanded Raf- { SNy, | SAB. 'BOARD OF HEALTH WILL FIGURE AT THE EXPOSITION. OAKLAND, CaL., June 26,—One of the leading features of the approaching exposition will be the pure-fooa department. The Board of Health will attend to this exhibit and Heaith Officer Dunn has promised something original in the way of a pure-food demonstration. Superintendent Craigie Sharp of the expesition made a remark at the last meeting tha: has caused a storm. He stated that a great deal 100 much has been said about adulterating jellies, and also that Californis currants will not congeal properly without some other sub. atance. This is denied by patriotic housewives of Alameda County, and they have determined to exhibit some ‘‘pure’” currant jelly at the exposition and to have the doctors analyze it. Analysis of milk and of several products of the county will be made, and the doctors are nOW busy getting their little bottles of microbes and other interesting things in shape,