The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1897, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1897 1010101010101 0I0I010IC 10, Commander Ballington Booth arrived here yesterday morning, in company with Major Fred Gardner, his secretary, after a most successful tour of the Northwestern States. He came here with a view of sce. ing, encouraging and organizing the Vol- unteers. Thisis the first visit the com- mander has pa:d to San Francisco since his connection with the Volunteers of America, and although the trip has been an extremely busy one, he expresses him- self anxious to begin his labors in this city as soon as possible. In speakine of differences between the 3 on Army and Volunteers, he said that they were so distinct that there was no possibility of the two movements ever being united. Upon the commander being reminded that it was rumored that his fatber, the old general from Englan”, was coming to this country in January and being asked whether it was true that there was any likelihood of the twe movements being ‘united, he replied emphatically, N ‘The principles of the . constitution on ich the Volunteers are based entirely h a possibility. Forexample, an autocratic and a democratic govern- A grand concert and dramatic perform- anca in aid of tke Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be given 1n the parochial hall, 908 Broadway, on Thursday evening, October 14, at 8 o'c.ock. +The raily of St. Charles Branch of the agee or the Cross will be held on | October 11, The essay contest will be the | vrincipal featnre of the rally. i Very Rev. J. J. Prenderzast, V. G,, will | preach in St Mary's Cathedral at the 10:30 o’clock mass this morning, and Rev. J. B. Hannigan will deiiver the evening discourse. This evening the Rev. Dr. Adams of the First Congregational Church will inaugurate a series of sermons on the book of Ecclesiastes. They will continue for four months, with a musical service once each month by way of variation. Many of these sermons wiil be along soci- | ological lines, The Rev. George D. B. Stewart, for sev- | eral years the successful pastor of the | Franklin-street Presbyterian Church, pur- poses resigning his pulpit at the close of the year. His people are unanimous in asking for a reconsideration of his de- cigion, | Dr. Dille began his second pastorate of i the First Methodist Episconal Church of | Oakland on September 26. He was greeted with large congregations. | ment could hardly exist under the same flag, and a movement incorporated and one non-incorporatea would hardly amal- gamate.” Farthermore, the commander pointed out that the principle of tne Voi- unteers was opposed to an international rule, Commander Booth makes his first ap pearance to-night at Metropolitan Tem- ple, when he wlil speak of the source, rise and progress of the Volunteers, touching especially on the wonderful work in the State prisons. Being a musician, the commander has been asked to play his beautiful concer- tina during the meeting. Great preparations are being mude\ for the annual celebration of the great Feast of the Rosary on Sunday next at St. Dom- inic’s Chureb, this city. It 1s a day of great interest to the Catholic population at large on account of the wonderful and rare indulgence granted to the Catholic faithful who visit the church on that day. The great pardon of the rasary, or ‘‘toties guoties,’” 1s a special grant, whereby those who, being contrite and having confessed and received holy communion, may gain . a plenary indulgence for each and every time_ they visit . the altar of "the rtoary in the Dominican Church from 2 o'clock P. M. ou Eatur.ay preceding the feasi till sundown on Sun- day, praying at each visit for the intention of the Supreme Pontiff. There is no par- ticular prayer nor length of time pre- scribed for these visits. This feast was instituted in commem- oration of great favors obtained through the practice of the rosary, and, in partic- ular, of the glorious victory of Ls;anto (October 7, 1571), which Catholic faith has attributed to divine interposition and the intercession of the Biessea Virgin, and which was the preservation of Christian civilized Europe through the destruction of the growing power of the barbaric Turkish hordes. The ceremonies next Sunday commence at 10 A. ., with the blessing and distribu- tion of r to be foliowed by solemn nigh mass and asermon appropriate to the character of the occasion. Aiter the mass the procession ot the rosary will be immediately formed and will take its way around the church block. The Pope's encyclical letter, which has just been isswed, calls especial atteation 1o the eminent position in which God has placed the Virgin Mary and requests par- ticular devotion to be paid her durnng | October, the month of fruils, as was done in May, the month of flowers. In closing e commends the rebiossoming of the perpetual rosary as a true devolion to the hoiy mother. - The Feast of the Holy Rosary will be observed with special solemnity in St Francis Church, Vallejo street, to-day. liigh mass will be sung at 11 o’clock, at which Rev. T. Carraher wili deliver an appropriate sermon. In the evening there will be a rosary procession, in which all the sodalities attached 1o the church will participate. The interior of Bt Francis Church has been beautifully dec- orated and fittea with electric lights, which will be used for the first time to- morrow evening. The ladies of San Carlos parish, Monte- rey, have been making preparations for the “Fair of the Oid Missions,” which is 10 open on October 20. i Right Rev. George Montgomery will lsy ine cornerstone of the new convent school attached to San Carlos Church, Monterey, to-morrow. After the cere- mony Bishop Montgomery will deliver an address. | | are to last all week. The woman’s work of the First Congre- gational Church of ths city will in a few | days be organized along modern lines. | Steps have been taken toward an orgaci- | zation which will inciude all branches of | church work done by women. Pastor Russell will be in his pulpit at the Hamilton-square Baptist Church to- | day in this city. Last Sunday was ‘‘rally dav’ at the Howard Presbyterian Church. Three hun: dred scholars were present. The San Francisco Bible and Training | Bchool of the Deaconess’ Burean will open its fall term Wednesday, October 6, at 10:30 A. .. at Trinity M. E. Church. There will be an informal programme and a consecration service for the class. Teach- ers of the schocl, ministers and friends of the work are urged to be present. | Baturday evening, October 9, in the | lecture hall of the Association building, | | | Mason and Ellis streets, Rev. 8. M. J«ffer- son, LL.D., dean of the Berkeley Bible Seminary, will delivera lecture on **Origin | and Growth of the Bible.” All young men invitea, There will be 2 union mass-meeting at | the Young Men's Christian Association auditorium, Mason and Eilis streets, to- day at 3 o'clock, 10 be addressed by Rovert F. Coyle, D.D.. pastor o: First Presbyterian Church, Oakland. Subject, | “Losses That Knrich.” The Knick r-| bocker quartet will sing. Service free to both men and women. There wili be 2 union meeting of all the | ministerial associatiors in the city to- morrow morning in the Y. M. C. A. Audi- | torium. On Friday evening, October 8 the Sun- | day-school of the First Christian Church will zive an entertainment to the pupils and their parente. A reception to Rev. W. W. Woodward, the new pastor of Evworth M. E. Church, will take place Wednesday evening at that churct. Rev. J. W. Phelps of California-street | M. E. Church will inaugurate to-night the | first of & series of special meetings that | ev. | | A reception will be tendered the Rev. Henry Pearce ana family on Tuesdav evening at the Fifteentn-avenue M. K. Church. e The Woman’s Home Missionary So- ciety of Howard M. E. Church will bave a i meeting for the election of cfficers Friday alternoon. The Ladies’ Aid Eociety of Howard M. E. Church will bold an all-day meeting Friday, October 8, commencing at 10 A. M. Lunch wiil be servea at noon. 1n the afternoon the election of officers will take lace. chv. James Lyall, Scotch evnnnlln‘l will preach at Howard M. E. Church this morning and evening. The annual meeting of the Ladies’ Aid Society of Central M. E. Churen, for the election of officers and other business, will be held Thursday at 2 p. M. Reyv. C. E. Locke, the uew pasior of Cen- trel M. E. Church, will preach his first sermon in that church this morning at 11 o'ciock. At 11 A, M. to-day Dr. Ford will preach on “Trasting Jesus,” and at 7:45 P. ». his subject will be “Excuses.” . The Central Baptist Association will meet in Emmanuel Churc: on October 5, 6and 7. This will be the first (ime the church has been open ior meetings other than the regular service for two years or m;?; Rev. W. B. Randall, D.D., has re- signed his pastor.ite of the mmit (N. J.) Baptist Church to devote bis entire time i 1 to the work of an evangelist, to which he has given a part of each year for several years, Rev. J. A. Wickham, late of Poriand, has received a call to the Christian Church in Alameaa. Tue Presvyterian Boara of Foreign Mis- <ions has made a cut on the foreign field of between $100,000 and $200,000 and yet there remains a debt of $97,400. Divine services will begin at 5:30 sharp Tuesday evening (Atonement) at the syn- agogue of the First Hebrew Congregation. At the annual meeting of the Associ- ated Jewish Charities of ihis city Monday night Mrs, D. 8. Hirchberz was re-elected adirector. The aunual report showed the society to be in a flourishing condition. At ihe Busn-street Temple Rev. Dr. dore Meyers will preach Tuesday evening at 7 co'clock on “The Writing on the Wall,” and on Wednesday, Yom Kippur, at 11 A. M, “A Confession”; at3 “The Captain’s Question.” This morning at 10 o’clock the Free Re- ligious 8¢ .00l will be opened and organ- ized at the rooms of the Emanu-Ei Sister- hood, 1318 Folsom street. Divive services in the Temple Emanu-El in celebration of the day of Atonement commences Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock. The Southera California Methodist Con- ference opened its twenty-second annual session in Simpson Church, Los Angeles, on the 29tb. Rev. Barton W. Perrv, Ph.D., of San Leandro, has been elected presidentof the Methodist State Sabbath Association, in piace of the Rev. Dr. Ketchum, who has removea to Ore, Kev. Fay Donaldson, who graduated at Napa, took 1wo years’ gruduate work in Michigan University, and iater graduated at Boston Theological School, will take supply work in the California Methodist | Conference this vear. After Bishop Foss sails for India on the | 9 h of October Bishop Cranston will be in charge of tue conferences of the Pacific Norihwest. Bishop Cranston opened the session of the Ouio conference on th b, at Wash- ingion C. H. be fifth annual meeting of the Colum- bia River Branch of the Woman’s For- eign Missionary Society convenes at Olympia, Wash., on Friday morning, the 8:h. FARR OF ST, BRENDAN |A Determined Effort to Wipe Out the Heavy Debt Upon the Parish School, Crowds of Friends of the Church Throng the Pretty Booths—A Financial Success. In an effort to erect a schoolhouse large enough to accommodate children of the parish St. Church was compelled to assume a debt of $18,000, so large in proportion to the financial abilities of the parish as to thor- oughly crippie its energies and prevent i expansion. The parisn, though large in numbers and enthusiastically devoted to its beloved pastor, Rev. John Nugent, has but few wealthy members, but are deter- | mined to make a supreme effort 1o clear the debt and celebrate the jubilee of the | pastor at the same time. For this pur- pose a church fair was determined upon, | which opened last evening, and is to con- tinue for the next three weeks. The fair is held in the larce room of the parish school, which has been fitted up in a manner displaying the utmost taste on the part of those ladies upon whom the active work of preparation ..as fallen. There are six booths in all, filled with choice selections of bricta-brac and ar- ticles of utility, at which officiate the most charming young ladies of tie parish, whose appeals are hard to resist. ery method known to church fairs for raising money for good purposes is employed, and the success so far indicates that the debt which presses s0 hard upon the church will be materially reduced, if not wiped | out altogoether. The ladies presiding at the various beoths, and who are conspicuous in sheir efforts to please and make the fair an assured success, are among the best known to Catholic society circles in the city. They are active in every gooa work, and ask that ail friends of St. Brendan’s will come and enjoy the attractions to be found at the fair. ————— SAVED BY A WASP, Its Sting Brought the Principal Juror to a Mood for Acquittal. “‘By what a slender thread,’ etc.; you now the quotation,” said the lawyer who | went West tbirty years ago to win his spurs and then came back to civilization to win fame and fortune. “I'll give you an illustration. *‘After T had been out there long enough to get acquainted with the people ana their ways I was called upon 10 defend a young tenderfoot charged with murler. Tuere was not the slightest doubt. fiom a legal standpoint, of his guilt. The only thing to be urged in his behalt was the fact that he had been buliied and fright. ened into a state of irrespontibikity. 1 put up the best fieht I could 10 *ave hs neck, but the entire community was th n | under the influence of a strong reaction- ary tentiment. Lawlessness had gone too far of late and there was a stern deier- mination to make an impressive example whenever oprortunity offered. I was really without boje of securinz an ac- quittal. But fate interfered in a way that was without precedent. “The man best calculated to dominate the jury was baldberded, large, big-voiced and pugnacious. The twelve good men and true had scarcely entered the jury- room when a wasp flew into the open win- dow, was attracted 10 the shining pate of the big man, and resented an argumen- tative gesture with a sting that eliciied a bowl, followed by a volley of exvressive frontier oaths, Two or three of the jury- men laughed, and the baldbeaded man made a dive for the rlace usually occupied by his sixshooter. It was missing, and by the time he got a thirteen-inch bowie- knife from his boot leg, he wae being held and talked mto reason. He realized how a slight provocation had put murder into his heart, and how nearly he had ‘com. | mitted the very crme on which he was sitting in judgment. They brought in a verdict of ‘not guilty,” and the big fellow told me afterward: ‘If tiat davilish wasp had been anywhere else that afiernoon ydur tenderfoot would have hune. Bat after that prod he had my sympatny.”— Detroit Free Press. e — A peer who becomes a bankrupt is dis- uslified from sitting or voling in the %ouso of Lords; a peer of Scotland or Ir iand is by 'bankruptey disqualified from representing his country. ——— One thousand novels are pnblished ev;ry year in London—that is over three a day. the numerous | Brendan’s | THEY WILL DREDGE OLD SACRAMENTD Officials Confer on the Sub- ject of Newtown Shoals, ENGINEER -~ NURSE'S REPORT. { Colonel Suter, U, 8, A., Indicates That Action Will Be Promptly Taken, SECRETARY OF. WAR TO BE ADVISED. First Steps of the State Auditing Board and Commissioner of Publie Works to Improve the River. The Auditing Board to the Commis- sioner of Public Works met in Sacramento recently and considered the reports of the Commissioner and Engineer in regard to the proposed improvement of the naviga- tion of the Sacramento River. - In an elab- | orate revort to the board, Commissioner Ed F. Leake fuily indorsed the recom- mendation of the Engineer in regard to the neces ity for the reduction of New- town Shoals. On this topic the Comms- stoner saiil: ‘1 earnestly urge prompt action to the end that at least partial relief may be afforded b:fore another flood season ar- rives. Recent contracts entered into be- tween the Government and private par- ties to dredge the channel at Mare Island indicate that no responsible bidder can be found who will do the work for less than 10 cents per cubic yard. To make the ex- cavations under such conditions would ex- haust our appropriation and isimpractica- ble. With & dreager owned and operated by the State, the same work can be done at an expense 0 much less tnat I feel warranted in recommending the purchase of a dredger.” The report of Engineer M. A. Nurse was submitied to the board by the Commis- j sioner. The document dwells av length ! on plans for the improvement of the San Joaquin River and Stockion and Mormon channels ss weil as the improvement of the Sacramento River. It is mentioued in the report that the Government engi- | neers had promised to present at an early date plans for the work on the San Joa- quin River. The report of the engineer on the ob- structions at Newtown Shoals is thorough and interesting. He maintains that the <hoals are a serious and increasing men- | #ce to navigation and a hindrance to the flood water outlets of the Lower Sacra- mento River. They extend for nearly 8000 feet across the river, rising as a bar- rier, or dam, with 2500 feet base, whose crest, but six or seven feet below low tide of Suisun Bay, is fuily twenty feet above the bottom of the river at the foot of its upper and lower slopes. The plan of improvement submitted to the Commissioner contemplates the open- ing of a channel 1000 feet in width from the right bank ot the river by the scour resultant irom proposed jetty system, aided by efficient dredger-work through the shoals and along the westerly shores of Woed Island, juily serving the inter- ests of navigation and becoming as well an important factor of relief to the flood devastated country above. Engineer Nurse made soundings to de- termine the character of material com- vosing these shoals. Wells were bored in devth from twenty 1o forty feet. He found silt, sand ana gravel strata of vari- ous depth, In pursuance of a resolution passed by tne auditing board, the en- gineer named the work as to importance in the following order: First —The reduction of the Newtown Shouls to conform 10 & channel of a mean depih of twenty 1eet below low tide in Suisun Buy and a nuiiorm width of 1000 feet. fecoud—The closure of tne Hershey and Buicher crevasses on the right bank of the Sacramento R.ver, between Eikhorn ranch and the confiuence of the Feather and Sacra- mento rivers, and the substitution therefor of nconcrete and rock easement of & length of 3000 feet and with a crest or elevation five 11-:.: below the high-water line of January, ihe importance of these particular works cannot be separated, for by the union of ac- tiou of the two I regard the success of river improvement. A beginning, however, must be made, and I would very respecifully suggest that the work on the Newtown sShoals be commenced imme- dintely and prosecuted to a successfui termi- nation. The plan of improvement I would ommend will consist of a system of jetties, ssisted by such dredging a8 may be found necessary “to produce the required channel way. I would recommend the construction of asystem of curtain jetties, us shown on the plan of this section of 'the river, placed at a aistance of five hundred feet apart and projecting from the shore line on the leit pauk of the present river to the pro- posed lefi bank of the new channei. The pro- osed cnanne: wili have n suriace width at high tide of 1200 ieet and should be so exca- vated and imvproved as to produce a uniform waterway of 20,000 square feet cross section below the line of low in Suisun Bay. From the indicatious of o:hersections of the river I am convine=a a watcrway over or through the Newtown Shoais of the dimen- sions ubove given once established would re- main practically permanent. The samples of materials taken from tie borings of the shoals indicste a very heavy sand deposi:, | bordering ou to smail gravel. It will requirs | tne concentration of all tke water power ayailable to remove the material by scour, and might require the contraction of the river chaunel more than above indicated to accom- plish the work. For 1his and other reasons I would recommend the use of the hydraulic dredge in coujunction with the jetty sysiem, ¥rom an exumination of the piat of river at Newtown Shoals, shown on maps of same herewith presented, it will be observed that I have .ocated the proposed jeities 500 feet dis- ot frem eacn other, measured down the stream. 1t will require severai lines of jatties varying irom & lengta of 300 feet at the upper poiut toa lengih of 1635 1eet at the maxi- mum. 1 would recommend as follows: Five jetties composed o1 & singla rowol piles driven to 8 solid foundation ut least five feet below the mean depth of the propused stream. At the west end of each jetty a clusier of three or more piles, driven 10 & depth satisiactory to the cugincer in chiarge and strapped asd bolt- ed firmly to each other at the surfa At the prescnt shore iine a cluster of piles, three in number, well driven, to whicha cable shall be auchored. Between the two extremes of these jetsies & single row of piles at least twelve inches in diameter aad driven twenty foet apart from center 10 center, and at such depths as the engipeer may direct. [0 the piie clusier ou the present shore line acable wire siall be recurely fastened and run thence at an elevation of mean tide, pass- ing through an suger hole in each pile thor- y tastened aud drawn to the nm;‘ and of emaller cable wires. On the up-stream side of 1his row of piles wili be placed a layer of fascines one abovs the otber, extending the whole léngth of the Jjetiles and firmly fastencd 10 each cluster, ihe fascines to be coustructed of well-selected brush bound in bundles with ordinary baling wire at in- tervals of two teet; the fascines thus bound tozether shall be so fastened in sections as to form one coniinuous rope of brush through- outthe length of each jetty,and of an eleva- tion equal to mean tide. The total number of feet o1 this charscter of jetty shall te 6290, located in sections at intervals of 1000 ieet, measured in the direction of the present stream and as indicated on maps herewith presented. Secondly—I would recommend the construc- tionof three milesof jetties haviug & mini- mum iength of 768 feet #nd a maximum of 1655 feet, 1o be construcied in the same man- ner as the first above-described jetties, except that in place of jescines there shali be substi- tuted a sysiem of trees anchored to the wire cabie and floating with brush end down stream. These trees shall be weighed so as to check the velocity of the stream to the sat- isfaction of the engineer in charge. It will require 3738 feet in length of these jetiies, as shown on map nerewith presented. ‘The num- ber of trees 10 each jetty shall be determined by the size and effectiveness of the same. I estimate the cost of construction of fascines system of jetties at §12,780, the cost of the tree jetties at $5719; total, $18,499. The present ehannel between Wood Island nd the west shore line of the river is not of such dimensions as would safely discharge the volume of water pr the channel formed by the jet should be en- larged by the eXe: 303.000 cubic yards of earth. The scouring power of the water will not bs adequate to tuis task, or at leasi will take severai floods to adjust the channel to the required capacity. 1 nm of the opinjon that this work should be rrosecuted coincident with the building of the jetty system, in order tnat ihe scouring power of the water may be more effective in the jeiy department. Again, it may be necessary to assist the jetty channel by a system of dredging. In view of these facts it leads me to a consideration of the best and cheapest p.an of operation. 1am persuaded by persoual inquiry that no machine except one than will deiiver the spoils from 500 to 1000 feet from the present location of the earth will satisfy the condi- tions to be met. Inview of this fact, if the work is to be let by contract to the lowest re- sponsible bidder, it will cost not less than 10 gents per cublc yard to remove the same. This, in view of the fact that it will require the excavation of probably not less than 1,000,000 yards on the shoals, convinces me that some method other than by contract for dredging shouid be adopted. To make the work effeciual and at the rate above stated it would probubly cost $230,000 to make the necessary excavation, I am corvinced by investigation that the dredging work will cost much less if the State should see proper to purchase and equip & hydrrulic dredge of its own and operate the same under efficient and skilled assistants, ‘The rectification oi the channel at the con- fluence of Steamboat and Cache sloughs and at Oid River with Steamboat Slough should be accomplished if possible, the former work re- quiring some dredging; the latter can be done Dy the coustruction of & jetty. The construction of thé necessary easement, assta‘ed in the work required iu the begin- ning of this report, on the right bank of the ameuto River, above Elkhorn ranch, in- volves & knowledge of the surface of the ground on which it is to be located, and neces- sarily the preper survey to delérmine the same. Not having been authorized to proceed wiih the survey, I can only give a generai plan of the easement I would use and the probable Gost of the same. The plan of ihe same is shown in cross-sec- tion vlan herewith preseuted. It wiil st of concrete walls with rock filitng and coacrete apron. The presumption is that between the con- crete walls, #s shown on plan, heavy stone will be placed weighing 500 pounds or more, well weaged with smal.er rock. Iestimate that & weir constructed upon the pan here shown and of 3000 feet in length will cost not less than $36,000. The amount of work required to render the river front in ®ood condition to support the weir has not been considered for the reason above stated, and that no survey has been made. Respect- tully submitted, A. Nugsg, Engineer in Charge. Commissioner Leake suggested thst a copy of Engineer Nurse’s report be for- warded to the United Statesengineers and that the latter be requested to designatea time for a conference between the repre- sentatives of the Government and the members of the Auditing Beard and Com- missioner of Public Works. A time was fixed and the meeting was held in San Francisco a few days ago. Colonel Charles R. Suter, U. 8. A., di- vision engineerof the Pacific, and Major Charles E. L. . Davis. who has immedi- ate charge of river work, met Ed F. Leake, Commissioner of Public Works, Engineer Nurse and members of the Aud- iting Board. Speaking of this conference, Colonel Suter said vesterday that the State au- thorities were requested to prepare pians for the decpening of the channel of the Sacramento, as outlinea in the report of the State Enginecr. The subiect was dis- cussed at length and many suggestions were introduced. As a resuitof the meet- ing the Commissioner of Public Works was advired that the Siate Engineer should comnvlete the plans on the line ot the report and submit the same to the United States Engineers. In order to carry out a system of work on navigable streams the consent of the Secretary of ‘War must be obtained. Colonel Suter remarked that if the plans submitied by the Stale authorities were such as the Engineers of the United States could approve there would be no delay in approving them and jorwarding the ap- proved plans to the Secreiary of War. It is presumed at the office of the United States Engineers that the State repre- sentatives are putting the plans and araw- ings in shape for official inspection, and that the finished papers will soon be re- ceived in this city. The outlook for en early beginning of work under the direction of the Commis- swoner of Prolic Works is encouraging. The impressson obtains that Colonel Suter and Major Davis will approve the plans of State Engineer Nurse. They recog- nige the importance of the work and per- ceive that it is necessary for the Federal and State authorities to act in harmony with one another. Colonel Suter did not say in so many words that the plan pro- posed by the Commissioner ot Pnblic Works would receive the instant approval ot the United States Engineers, but he indicated that prompt action would be taken. Before the proposed investieation ot the plans are finished Major Heuer may arrive here and succeed Major Davis, Tne Legislature at its last session appro- priated $300,000 for the improvemerft of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. The money is to be expended under the direction of an auditiny board and a Com- missioner of Public Works, Before Goy- ernor Budd approved the measure Le ex- acted a promise from the men whom he subsequently appoinied to the auditing board that they would not expend more than $30,000 during the first fiscal year. The amount so far expended does not ex- ceed $3000, It has been ascertained since the adjournment of the Legislature that monsy will be available ;or this rive: provement and Governor Eudd may not insiston a fulfiliment of the promise which was made when the bill was signed. The proposed work is highly important and its value to the State can hardly be overestimated. Perhaps the State has entered upon a policy of river improve- ment and land reclamation which may be continued ior many years at great expense to the commonweaith. Itisa good sign, therefory, that the authorities are proceed- ing with deliberation and careful judg- ment. Youthful Rivalry. “My fatker isa policeman,” boasted a littie boy of Allegheny. “Poob, that's nothing!"’ replied another littie fellow, *‘my father’s a newspaper re- porter.” ““Weil, my aunt is going to be married next week,” said the first boy, returning the attack. “One of my sisters was married week be- fore last, and my oldest sister has twins,” was the triumphant reply. His victory was short, however. The other boy meditated for half a minute. “My uncle takes up the fare in church on Sundays.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tel- egrapk., —————— ? Archer and the Surgeon. ‘When Fred Arcner, Engiand's famous jockey, once consulted one of England’ most famous surgecns the surgeon i “You-must not think me rude, Mr. Arch- er, but I tuke no interest in.any branch of sport, and have never heard your name.” *“Well,” said Archer, “I hope you won’t think me rude, either, but till a friend advised me to consult you I had never heard your name, either, and when 1 asked my friend who you were he said: ‘He is the Fred Archer of the surgical pro- fessis '’ The surgeon probably had the last word, however, when he sent in his biil.—Boston Globe. WILL SAVE LIFE WITR A KITE Dr. Riehl’s Invention Tested on the Battle-Ship Oregon. The Inventor Jumped Overboard and the Kite in Midair Kept Him Afloat, It Will Come zs a Boon to Ship- Wrecked Sailors, Says the Doctor's Friends, Dr. F. W. Riehl gave a most successful demonstration of the utility of his life- saving kite from the deck of the battle- ship Oregon yesterdey. A good breeze was blowing and when the kite was at the desired altitude the doctor jumped over- board, seized the slack end of the cord which held the kite, fastened it under his arms and showed that his life-saver was not only able to keep him afloat but also able to take him along at a good rate of speed. Dr. Riehl went ont to the Oregon in one of the battle-ship’s cutters. A slight delay was cansed by tbe desertion of two of the men. Directly the cutter touched the float at the foot of Folsom sireet, Harris and McGlockin, the two bow men, jumped ashore and raced up Folsom street, as though their lives depended upon their speed, No one thought of stopping them as the boatmen and people around the wharf thougnt they were crossing the road to get a glass of beer. It was the boldest desertion ever planned on the bat- tle-ship and when the men are recaptured they wiil be severely punished. When Dr. Riehl reached the battle-ship he was received by Lieutenant Harris,who rendered him all the as-istauce possible in his test. “The proposition is this,” said the doctor to the officers of the war- ship, “Suppose a vessel is on a lee shore and a gale is blowing. All her boats are gone and the liferafts smashed. The life- saving crews cannot approach the rock- bound coast or make their way through the breakers. In thatevent theonly hope would be in the wreck holding together. With my device, however, every man would be saved, and he couid also save his clothing and valuables. Now I will show you bow it can be done.” Dr. Riehl then hoisted his kite and be- can tolet out the line. When 100 yards bad been let out the stars and stripes ap- peared, fastened to the line. “'In afew minutes,’’ said Riehl, *0ld Glory will be higher from the deci of this warship than it Las ever veen before.” When all the line was out Dr. Riehl was taken to one of the officers’ rooms, where he disrobed and donned his bathing suit. A few minutes Jater he appeared with all his ciothing in a square of waterproof cloth, He opened the parcel and showed his belonging-, and then with the aid of a ailor tied everything securely in the waterproof cloth. The bundle he threw overboard and it floated. Then he di- rected the sailor who was holding the kite to baul in a few yards of the line and let the slack fall over the side of the ves- gel. Then the doctor sprang overboard, cauzht the slack of the line, fastened it around his body and sailed away after his clothes, which aided by the tide were making good headway for Alviso. After testing his device for about twenty min- utes, the doctor and his clothes were picked up by the battleship’s cutter and returned on board. Dr. Riehl was pleased with his success and asserted that in a gale everything would work like clockwork. *“My kite,” said be, “would take aropeashore or a maan and his belongingsand through breakers in which a boat would not live.”” “Suppos- ing a steamer ran ashore,” said oue of the officers, “and the wind was offshore ?”’ “In that event,” was the answer, “‘the kite would be of no use, but statistics go to prove that in 90 tases out of a 100 in the event of shipwreck the wind has been blowing on the shore.” The result of Dr. Riehl's experiment are to bé forwarded to Washington and in the meantime the doctor will keep on practicing with and improving his ma- chine. FAST TRAINS THE SAFER. The Reason Why Slow Runners Kill the Most People. “There seems to be an impression,’ said arailway superintendent to an Indianap- olis Journal man, speaking of the fast service the railwags are now giving, “that the fast trains are the most dangerous for people to ride on, and that more persons are killed in crossing tracks, etc., than by the trains which are slower. This is a mistake. “The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has given this matter special attention, and has statistics to show that, in propor- tion to the fast and slow trains run, more accidents have occurred to the siow trains snd more persons not in the employ of the company killed by the slower trains. Men 1n charge of fast passenger or freight trains are constantly on the watch for dnnFH. *'The engineer feels that there is more at stake, and one will notice that the blasts of his whistie are more frequent and sharper; that the fireman is more pariicu- lar to ring the bell when passing through a10Wn oracity or near a highway cross- ing. It would be difficult to find people living on the lines of the roads which run fast traine that bave not heard of the Chi- cago limited on the Pennsyivanialines, the fast express No. 2, between St. Louis and New York, over the Vandalia and Pennsylvania lines; the Empire State Ex- press, the Knickerbocker on the Big Four, and the hundreds of other fast trains. Fast trains are run nearer oo time, and people know their time and keep out of the way. The equipment of the fast trains is kept at toe best standard, and everything conduces to make them safer to ride on and less liable to injure people at highway crossines and in passing through towns and cities. The Pennsyi- vania transportation department is fully satisfied that the above statement is correct.” The me remark will apply to the freight service. 1n 1883 twelve miles an hour wus considered the highest speed limit tor a ireight train, 2nd J. J. Turner, when superintendent of the Incianapolis division of the Panhandle, was the tirst to increase the speed of freight trains in this section, scheduling & train at sixteen miles an hour petween Indianapolis and Columbus. Competitors soon took simi- lar action and increased the speed of the fast freights to eighteen miies an nhour, then to twenty miles, which was the maximum for through freights for several vears, but with the betier track and bet. ter locomotives some of the roads are scheduling freight! trains at twenty-three to twenty-five mies an hour, using the schedules of passencer trains during the seventies and eizhties, ———— The Coming Bonapirte Revival. All carnival-loving Paris is looking for- ward with eagerness to the series of Em- vire balls with which the new Napoleonic society, Le Petit Chapeau, has promised to regale the gav cupital. It isan open quesiion whather there js even a grain of political rfl cuioa in the mirih-loving ex- pectation with which the Parisians are awaiting the new move of the Imperia i “The Little Hat,” as the clubis named, is so cailed 1 memory of the fa- mous headegear worn by Napoleon the Great. The club is serious enough in its proposal to revive a social interest in the Bonaparte dvnasty, but it remains to be seen what effect, if any, this masquerading and relic-exbibiting campaign will have on French political sentiment.—Philadel- phia Record. - INVOKED THE GRAND JURY. Precita Vallev Inspocted by the City’s Inquisitorial Body. The members ot the Precita Valley Im- provement Club are determined to have their grievances righted at any and all hazards. The frequent petitions and ap= plications sent to beth the Board of Su- pervisors and the Board of Health tohave the many nuisances abated in that sec- tion having vroved ineffeciual the last remedy sought by the club was to have the Grand Jury take the matter in hand, With this object in view that disuin- guished body paid a visit to the locality o last Thorsday and saw for themselves the congition of the sewers, which are permitted 1o drain into the many vacant lots, the principal one, however, beinz that which empties in the rear of tLe Columbia Grammar School from the school proper. The accommodation at this place is of such a nature that tke drainage from the school empties on the south side of the buiiding, the effluvia of which permeates the building, bringing sickness and dise ease to the children. The effects of 1his, 1t is said by the club members, has produced diphtheria and scarlet fever among quite a number of the children in the neighbornood, resulting in several deaths. The Grand Jury went there in a body on the day mentioned and made a careful examination of the entire valley. Wnat the result of this inspection may lead to is not known, but one thingis certain, and this is that theciub has shown a de- termination to have its grievaace made known through the proper official chane nels. The death-valley pond, where the sewer from thz City and County Hospital emp- ties, was aiso pointed out o the jury when they were there and due notice of us condition taken. Any attempt to obtain a school for the children for the present has been aban- doned, in consequence of the cutting dowa of the school appropriations by the Super- visors. A similar condition of resignation to the powers that be has been accepied in regard to the getting of a fire engine for thatsection for the present. Previous to the adjournment of tne club a committee was appoint-d_to make arrangements for the holding of a mass- meeting at Graham’s Hall on Precita ave- nue and Alabama street on the evening of October 15 for the purpose of discussing the condition of the valley. The members of the commitiee are: Frank Powers, J. B. Vizzard, J. T. Graham, C. Peterson and John McCallan. The city officials and many prominent speakers will be invited to participate. At this meeting the club will call the attention of the Mayor to the unused car tracks on Army street, belonging to the Market-street Reilroad Company. Resolutions of regret were passed over the sudden demise of the late health offi- cer, Dr. A. 8. Lovelace. The club feel that they have losta good friend and thecity a valued officer. Many of the improvements in the vicinity of Precita Valiey can be credited to his zeal and energy and wi.l stand as a monument to hiy memory. FRAHER' SPRITE THIEF. It Set a Market-Street Store Burglar Alarm Going for Hours, In the End Palace Hotel Guests Thought There Was a General Call to Arms, Officer Phil Fraher is on the still hunt of a burglar who almost caused as much panic on Market street early yesterday morping as a stage hold-up. It was net the swag the wary marauder succeeded in getting away with as the row that his attempt to do so, provoked, that is worry- ing the policeman. It was all due in the beginning to an attempton the part of some light-fingere | night sprite to break into the cigar-s'ore of Julius Hiller at 632 Market street, 1n front of the Bouguet saloon. The store is only protected from the street by a high iron screen, over which an agile vaulter migh easily jump. Once behind this ob- struction, the burglar found himself con- nected with an elaborate alarm system that shrieked out on the early morning air very ominously. Fraher beard the alarm some distance up the street, but when he arrived the first cause of it had disappeared, while the din was becoming loud enough to wake up some of the gues:s on the Mar- ket-street side of the Palace Hotel. How to shut off the alarm became of more im- portance 1o the officer than the pursuit ot a burglar no one had seen. Messenger-boys were sent for and boosted over the iron screen by Fraher, only to add to the confusion. Finally messengers were dispatched for Tom Shaw, the proprietor of the saloon in the rear, in hopes that the noise could be abated before the Fire Depariment turned out. Shaw could not be tound, so thére was nothing for Fraher to do but to grin and bear it. For three hours that burglar- alarm roared to the discomfort of the whole street and the merriment of a larce crowd that had eathered. It was oniy when Hiller arrived to oven up his store that the noise ceased and Fraber went home to recover nis nerves. ———— Fifteen vears ago about 3000 bicycles were annually produced in England. Dure ing 1896 over 500,000 were manulfacturea there. NEW TO-DAY. FREE T0 EVERY MAN. THE METHOD OF A GREAT TREATMENT FoR WEAKNESS OF MEN. WHICH (URED HIM AFTER EVERY- THING ELSE FAILED, Painful diseases are bad enough, but when a man is slowly wasting away with nervous weakness the mental forebodings are ten times worse than the most severe pain. There isnolet up to the mental suffering day or night. Sieep is almost impossible, and under such a strain men are scarcely responsibie for what they do. For years the writer rolled and tosiea on the troubled sea of sexual weakness until it was a question whether he bad not better take s dose of poison and thus end all bis throubies. ~ But providential inspiration came to his aid in the shape of a combination of medicines that not only completely restored the generai health, but enlarged his wglfi emaciated paris to natural size and vigor, he now declares that any man who will 3 the trouble to send his riame and address have the method of this wouderlul treatment free. Now, when I say free I mean absolutely wiihout cost, because I want every weakened man 1o get the beaefit of my experience, 1am not s philantnropist, nor do I pose as an enthusiast, but there are thousauds of men suffering the mental tortures of weakened manhood who would be cured at once could they but get such a remedy as the one that cured me. not try to study out how I can afford to pay the few postage-stamps necessary to mail the informatiop, but sead for it ana learn that there are ‘a few lhlni- on 0 g that, although they cost nothin, ;onh -‘ h:‘rum“ 10 wa:‘enl;nr: n‘ mew[ me of appiness ost of us, Thomas Binter, box 2285 xu.mmqum}: and the informniion Will be mailed in & plaja tealed envelope.