The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1898, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 189S. ~ A DAY ON THE WATER FRONT. iR FRONT. immense respect is the A DAY ON I have alw for the wr \ person who dis: v about things nautical. H the difference between arkentine, be schooner. He never that floats without i he calls everybody tween allude feminin is T knew before I an one day 1 t my admirat watér front reporter | way from the Mail week upe wharf, d back 111 have to revise my him. How the | 1 e manages to all the mul- t make up of the mysteries. t bound ar Into the | themselves they be refused admittance to this glo- | rious land of ours.” Think of what it means to a Chinese laborer to earn enough money to pay his passage both ways from China here | and back: of what the contingent fund must be to pay his expenses should he be detained. Think of the voyage in stern of the Belgic, where these men are permitted to make a Chinatown for in one great room, where they sling hammocks and cook and eat. And think, too, that all this on the chance only of their galning admission here, The world’s not so old after all when the name of America still holds such promise as to induce men to sacrifice so much, often merely to meet disappoint- ment. The prettiest sight on board the Belglc is Lee Toy Wan. You should see her as she leans from the upper berth in a stateroom, which she shares with two other Chinese gigls, one of whom, in a green blouse and dark blue wide trousers. stands smoking a long pipe. But Lee Toy Wan, with her soft, pale face, her tiny brown hands, a purple silk handkerchief knotted about her throat, long, blue, enameled earrings depending from her pretty ears, is unlike these others. She is very voung, this Chiness Th re i3 a babyish graclousness in Her that s Can- answer the inspector's qu voice is gentle and soft, strident ring that Whan Choy ton accents hav Fa Whan Choy is a shrewish little maiden; pretty too, but not with the in- cent grace of Lee Toy Wan. Whan v Fa and another Chinese girl sat ailor- e in a lower berth of another stateroom. In front, on the floor, rested their embroidered shoes, one pair ich was perched upon a heel In middle of the sole, so that Mademoi Choy should be high and dry above wet decks or muddy streets—should ba so fortunate land. In olden days, before American expe- rience matched Oriental shrewdness, these same guileless-looking heels were packed with opium, and every Celestial belle walked down the gangplank with a she to be permitted to tiny dowry beneath her small, white- stockinged foot. vhan Choy Fa was susplclous. In an- swer to the Inspector's query she would only repeat, in a nasal sing-song, with much movement of jaws: “Whan Choy F Whan Choy Fa!" w Of that much she sure, but this Canton girl was not going to risk any- thing by furth All her tion was aro d by the reporter’'s note book. She been well drilled and she was over-zealous in Like a little Celestial tiger cat she snatched back, from the inspector's hand, the piece of white I n she was embroider- ing for a sock—part of her trou perhaps, for the first of her marriages here. ow all Whan Choy hopes, all her Fa's desires, , tend in on he pity of n craves is to she repeated wer to the home. Go a “Go This was the burden of her little Chi- And could you have seen the > with her ingratiating, r readin her delicate bridging of wrated us, you'd he power to send this 3 the interior of | pretty ) | ch e smile, be China whence thini bility 1l friendship of the ¢ block, or for the h might be mine in st of ho . But all the r of bovish energies to the water front re- horse-po fag. For him T'd heart I'd soften r which lies in h. dog-like, be as s I should be briny lord- True, in rerience that he is, the s poetry to him. stores of , prosale of the boyhood will as not to be a not have quite will la cent fickleness to in moment a and the next an hour changing s is mot only to youth that th shores of the bay so attractive. E nationality under the sun, every type human nature, all the evidence th 3 isco is a cosmopolitan city, is to be found along the miles of sca wall, aga which the anchored ships lie close, load- tng and unloading. .. On board the Belgic the Chinese saflors nds are scrubbing industri- tory to Saturday’s depar Rather superior look- ing Chinese labo these, in their dark blue shirts and trousers. We watched them loading meats into the refrigera- tor, pigs and lambs ‘and sides of beef, with the giblet appurtenances, enough to feed an army. Here’s a Chinese boy, who works steadily handing one butc! ered innocent after the other to his com- panfon in the re rator beyond. He wears a peculiar woolen cap, turned up helmetwise on the de, and his intelli- gent brown face watches every move of the men working with him, while he ke up a steady clang of Chinese ex- hortation that ordlly testifies to the business going on aboard. Far back—I believe the water front re- porters call it “aft”—a group of about twenty Chinese are huddled. They have come over on the Beligic and have been detained because of Uncle Sam’s insistent fussiness about certificates. If their cases are not decided by Saturday they will be transferred to some other vessel. “And who pays for their board in the meantime,” 1 asked the inspector, who was surrounded by a chattering crowd of lestials. “The Chinese themselve swered, he an- “More than that, they put up a bond to pay thelr passage back should | ng in a cargo Barrels and barrels ting here to be put on ther side sacks upon ast. he men, the stamp- , the hideous rattling 2 donkey engine, | scream of steam. You can put your | finger upon one of the country’s arteries | here and feel the strong, healthful, busy | beat of the commerctal pulse. We walk along the front past the schooner Bella of Florence. The air is the | e leans forward to | t | Marshal down from the upper deck far into the | hold below. Down, down at the bottom of this wooden shaft three men are work- ing shoveling the coal into the great iron baskets which swoop down empty from | the tall iron cranes and go groaningly full aloft, to be turned upside down and sent flying down again Into the bowels of the | ship. Look at these three. They wear high hoots, trousers and brown flannel smocks, | with great arm-holes and deep-cut necks. Their faces are so black and grimy you'd hardly take them for white men, and the great muscles of thelr bare arms and their powerful shoulders are becoming coated more and more thickly with the stifling black dust. They look like poor, ineffectual pigmies laboring down there to reduce that mighty black mountain of coal. “What are they pald?” I asked the gen- fus of the water front. ’ “Twenty cents an hours,” he replies. | Ugh! It makes one think of Daudet's Jack.” And yet these men have air and light—such as it is. | “ee e | The two words heard oftenest on the | water front the day I spent there were Klondike and Alameda. Every boat that wasn't bound for the Klondike must have been sorrowful and | envious, so completely was it out of the swim. Here's one ship after the other being fitted up for northern trade. And | the reason of these early large shipments | of coal and lumber is also told in the word Klondike; for the dealers in the north know that if they do not send down their cargoes before the spring rush to the great Alaskan gold mines begins, there be no ships at their disposal. As to the Alameda, everybody on the water front was Inquiring about her, from Baldwin, waiting on Meiggs whart for the Australian criminal who | never came, to the crowd of relatives and riends straining their eyes and their tempers, while they wait | e e Further up around Telegraph Hill way the North Bend is being repaired. Her captain thought he didn’t need any one to bring him into port, and the North hed upon Point Diablo, and they gored her sides, an angry bull. | TLook at the keel torn away, the great timbered sides ground and splintered and softened until the bruised patches on the | poor ship’s hull look like pieces of rotten rope. When you stand on the dry dock and look up to this majfestic vessel, you'll realize the power of wind and waves and cruel_rocl sunken rocks. Fancy a great bulk like this hurled against Diablo and ground and ground upon the rocks! There's romance in the sea, but there's danger and death there, too. But the North Bend, cradled on the dry dock, with the merry tap of the ham- mers sounding against her sides, with the old calking pried out and the seams filled anew with oakum, has already for- gotten Point Diablo. If the old » dreams, as she lies there, it is of other s, to the north and Klondike, again. ok d Here's the Henry B. Hyde, the largest American ship in the bay just now. And there's La Madeleine from Peru, the only French representative in this marine con- gre Down below the pier's edge lies the poor little Katie 8., a drudge of be humble, insignificant tofler she with n. She looks humil; abashed and ill-at-ease there among the eat ones of the sea-going world. The Gerald C., whose red-sweatered mate is ov ing of pressed bricks and sed for mortar, 1s bound up the coast. So Is the scow Columbus out there on the Iving still and motionless, waiting for the tide to turn, laden with bricks which make a pretty dash of color against the pearly white er, the white cold skies and the long, slim black lines of the masts, Her crew is below eating lunch and the only living thing above is a great, gen- ial Newfoundland dog, who waves his | great tall in amiable salutation as we g0 by on a little launch. We pass a host of saucy little tugs, and the great authority on this floating cos- mopolitan city explains to me the signifi- cance of red stacks and black stacks and yellow stacks. There's the Othmarschen from Hamburg | and further on the condemned Eureka, shamefacedly nosing into the shore, Hera come the English ships; or rather theyap- NE NO'S ALOWID MOKING THIS WHARY on Groups of Laborers Smoked Contentedly Beneath Unobtrusive Signs. sweet with the smell of the fresh lum- ber which is being taken from the flat- bottomed boat. All around the place is strewn with the yellow planks. They've been unloading for hours, and yet those sharp, short picks which the men wield lift out one layer of planks only to lay bare another covering. Bella of Florence has been up north. Her name signifies nothing of her home or destination. Here's the Crompton, a great square- rigged English ship. She has brought coke up from the colonies. And opposite lies the Progreso, a steam collier. Both of them are unloading, and the place is black with lumps of shining coxl and burned out porous coke and sifted black dust for the blacksmith's forge. Such a dirty Progressor! One would al- most believe that the boat knew that this Is almost its last opportunity for be- ing good and dirty. The Progressor, like other adventurers, has caught the Kion- dike fever. She intends to put off this grimy black coat of hers, don respectable garments, have her deck bulit up like the Excelsior’'s and, then ho, for the gold fields! . Instead of coal, the Progressor will carry fortune-hunters and gold. O, the scorn this new passenger ship will feel for its old companions in the colliery business! One gets a wonderful picture by looking pear to come. Tt Is we who go by on the launch. Fine ships, these English | ones, big and shapely and well-named. There's the Marlborough Hill from Liver- pool and the Primrose Hill and the Roderick Dhu, which possesses the most | pleturesque figure-head in all the harbor. We sall scornfully by the ferry slips. What romance attaches to a trip across the bay, or even to the river steamers that go as far as Stockton? They're too petty, too near. They lose ‘woefully in complnl'llon V‘vifilh the associations that crowd upon these traveled, h: - tant relatives of theirs. rg e On either side of Melggs wh fishing lines, left to themselve:rfloh‘lzi what they, unalded, can do in begulling the wily smelt. Here's where the boys | 80 crabbing, and their baskets are con- tinually being hauled up and let down with a splash again. Over there to the northeast lle three £mall schooners. The one at the end is | the Central Pacific. Now, although the | name is imposing, this poor, declasse boat is never named by those who go down | to the sea in ships without a guffaw. It | seems that the Central Paclfic is pos- | sessed by an old preacher, who in turn is possessed with the desire to save water front souls—sadly in need of saving, no doubt. All about the bay, the good old | i fellow goes preaching to those who will listen. He gets up as far as Btockton, I belleve, always preaching the word and praying for the wicked ones. Be it under- stood that it 1s not the plety of the preacher which provokes laughter, but his original methods of sail construction. At any rate, he offends against all rules of canvas-holsting, and the hugest joke on the front 18 to try to classify this meek little Central Pacific, according to the changes her erratic owner makes in her appearance. ce e We walked down from Melggs wharf along tho sea wall, through the grain sheds. The Walla Walla had come down the night before from the north and the sheds were pilled with pale gray-brown sacks of wheat, darker tan sacks of beans and white sacks of the Oregon flour that excels ours, so they say. The Kilmory was filling her hold with the Walla Walla's grain. The Kilmory comes frae Glasgo’. She belongs to a firm that christens all its ships Kil .z or other. The Kilbrannan is the Kilmory’'s own sister. “Where are you going?” I asked the Scotch mate. He leaned over the side, a soft cap pulled over his tawny brows, a short pipe in his mout! “S'uth Afri he sald, with just the agreeable shade of a burr. “And then?” “The cqlonles, perhaps. Or back here, who knows? Anywhere but home.” We climbed up the Kilmory's brightly painted side, and the Kilmory's home- The Old Fisherman Sat Mending His Triple Net. sick mate, Who has made no friends in “Frisco” and doesn’t like the place, told s (as we watched the grain being put in the hold), how they pack frozen meat in | the Australian and New Zealand ships. ass of them tled In a cal- rerred with frrost. it might be a hot day, on’ on deck be sweltering, while down there to the hold—"ye'd see the men ms aboot, trrying to get ard town again, through . untenanted save for the rows, who keep up a ng in the dark rafters; a paean of praise, doubtless, to God for a great harvest, and to man for gather- ing the wheat and providentially ripping up & bag or two. Past groups of labor- ers now, contentedly smoking their aft- er-lunch’ clay pipes, beneath unobtrusive prohibitive signs. . On down t the grain.she: myriads of sp: ceaseless twit PR Here's Fisherman’s wharf. You'd know | it before you saw it, for your sense of smell would forewarn you. But it's | worth seeing—the most plcturesque sight about the bay. All the jaunty fishing smacks are lying bobbing upon the waves in the rectangu- lar space Inclosed by the pler. Their safls are furled, but the diagonal lines of their tall, slanted masts show clear against the sky, which is blue, now that | the sun is higher. | This red-shirted, low black-mustached fel- has a whole boatload of shad and 1 bass, caught up in the Sacramen- He and the sunburned boy who helps to. him, load basket after basket full of the fish, their gills red with blood; and the merchant in shirtsleeves above on the wharf hauls up the catch. The other boats are covered thick with silver her- | ring. There are flounders, too, and up on the wharf great sacks full of drowned and smothered mudhens. Watch young Italia. He's Interesting. A baby about 4 years old, with a warm- tinted face and dark eyes and clothes his mother made, of course. What taflor could turn out trousers such as these, guaranteed 1o be of the same width top and bottom? The little fellow slings a dozen birds over his stout round arm, and marches off to do his share toward supplying San Franclsco’s housewives with th poor, wretched looking, un- bled birds. Two others of his kind, a few years older are rolling hoops in the market place, where no one exposes his wares, incidentally. These two are smoking ci- garettes. They wear upon their heads crocheted red caps like their fathers'. One has rubber boots and the other shoes that he can hardly keep upon his feet. Thelr clothes are beyond descrip- tion and yet with an absurd resemblance to those the fishermen outside wear. Up on the long side of the rectangle the red-brown nets lie drying in the sun. Look at this old fellow, who sits mending his triple net. He wears a great sealskin cap lke a Russian's kaftan, but with an absurd single, mangy fur tassel hang- ing down in front. His rubber boots reach nearly to the thigh. What trousers one may see are of the latest rough ma- terial milady wears, green, tufted. Where outside of a dry-goods store did he get these? His shirt is of bluish green and his coat is dark blue. He has a mustache fierce enough for Tartarin and a smile as gentle as a child’'s. He weaves his bone shuttle in and out, using the toe of his great boot to hold the net taut. Here is a swarthy-faced artist pains- takingly painting a slender line of dark blue on his loved Savola. There is a Tam o' Shantered Slavonian painting the bottom of the Reformo the most shriek- ing of scarlets, while above there is blue and white. There is the Garibaldl lying keel up In the sun. Here are the Rosetta, the Lucia and all the rest of the pretty Italian names. This is really Loungers’ Whartf. It's a place to lie and dream, and, If others in- sist upon working, why, to watch them work. The men lie outstretched against the sides of their boats, their pipes be- tween thelr teeth, their eyes narrowed partly through sheer physical comfort, partly by way of tribute to the glancing, shining waters of the bay. Look in this door and see what a beau- tiful effect the sun produces, shining in black bars through the deep blue smoke, You can barely see the faces of the men bevond. They are tanning their nets with oak bark, and the great caldrons beneath which the fires crackle are sim- mering and scenting the air. e e “The Alameda! The Alameda!" A tug goes whizzing by, men turn their steps toward the dock, the loungers leava the flshermen and the smotherers—they { can't be called hunters—to haggle over | the fish and the birds, i But to the naked eye the Alameda is | | not et visible. Carts upon carts block the way. These | are unloading coal from the Vancouver end the Yosemite. The Gipsy has| brought down potatoes. On the Mauna Ala the pumps are at work, three men on each side, thelr muscular, active figures bending now this way. now that, while the water pours out from the ship's side. Here's the 8. N. Castle, her decks redo- lent with tobacco she is taking down to | the Sandwich Islands. There are bales of hay, too, and dissected carriages. Down in her hold the grain bags go spin- ning. They are marked “Hana.” And at | sight of that word the whole busy water front vanishes and the eye of one’s mind | sees that beautiful bay, the high moun- tain of the dead Hawalian kings, the great cane plantation, and the tall Dane. the manager, whose hospitality was truly Hawallan. The Alameda safled In serens and | splendid. Her entrance was like & stage entrance that has been fittingly led up to. For just an hour {n the history of San Francisco's shipping she was to be lead- | ing lady. On she came stars and stripes | and pennant flying, gray-bearded cap- | tain and pilot aloft, passengers on deck and an Interested crowd on shore. | And just at the critical moment a stupid, jealous, flat-hottomed scow swung her broad nose against the ocean steam- er's side, and the glory of that striking entrance was forever marred. The Ala- ] meda had to stop and walt while the fussy little tug, the Governor Markham, | blushing cardinal red with vexation, | and stage fright threw a rope to the | scow and tugged and pulled and towed | her out of the way. Then the Alameda | really docked. The saloon passengers are as uninterest- nig as saloon passengers usually are. But over on the steerage side were five | men bound for—Klondike, of course. Come clear from Australia and New Zea- land to go to the new gold mines. One | of them, a Cornishman, with a short, black-gray beard, a stout, sturdy fellow, | whose brown coat was too short in the | sleeves. Another, a Cockney, blonde, facetious, with a pipe between his teeth | and a laughing word on his lips. “What the deuce do they want? Do you know?” drawled one. “T" gow through ¥'r leggage, don’t you know,” replied his companion. But Uncle Sam only wanted to assure himself that none of these foreigners was coming to America without the prescribed When the commissioner called out, ‘American citizens: first!” Jock turned laughingly to his companion, and said: “Try it, me boy; keep your tongue closed. They'll think you a Yankee?' | But the steerage waited patiently, sub- mitting, as is the wont of steerage, to rules and regulations the saloon escapes. Soon the Alameda is deserted. A news- paper correspondent who has been half way around the world and back again, | a Honolulu merchant and an adven- turous doctor of medicine, tall, lanky, | spectacled, wearing golf stockings and surd low shoes, knee trousers and canvas coat. This man sought the Adamiess | Eden and, like other enthusiasts, learned to be content with little—the profit on a riffie and a small copra plantation in Fijl. They all leave, and ine Alameda be- comes one of many—a has-been and a | to-be of ships, like all the other waiting | vessels. Before her passengers are leased from the customs officers, the bales of wool are being wheeled out from her | hold. The English sovereigns are on their way up to the mint, where they will be- | come more than tliree-quarters of a mil- lion of American dollars. The skins and hides from Australia, the tin, the New | Zealand flax, and the copra from Apia, are all being hauled out from their hid- | ing place, and piled on the dock. | And soon the show Is over. The ship | lles quietly bobbing at the dock, as she | will lie ruminating and resting for the | short interval that elapses between runs. | PSS One comes blinking back into the world Franeisco the actual time it would take | to go about and see all these foreign | people and things; to have been in China | with Lee Toy Wan; In Glasgow with the Kilmory’s mate; in Hawall with the | cook’s boy on the S. N. Castle; to have | been where those great shining lumps of | | clean coal and shale come from; to go with this immense quantity of canned | goods and condensed milk and bread- stuffs to the Orient,.where they are pre- paring for war—in short to have been everywhere and to have tasted life in all its varied aspects. The town looks commonplace. The peo- ple who sit opposite you in the street cars are ordinary, insignificant. Down | along the water's edge another day of | romance is preparing. Here in the town, the monotonous, old round is to be gone over again. Down there men have char- acter and individuality. Here they are patterned all on one model. On the | water's edge there Is color and there ara | plcturesque differences. In town, man's | highest ambition, sartorially, at least, is to look as much like his neighbor as his personal peculiarities and his tallor will permit. MIRIAM MICHELSON. PERPLEXITY OVER THE CITY'S DEAD The Closing of the Cemetery Brings About Its Dis- advantages. The Chinese Will Purchase a Tract of Land In San Mateo County for & Temporary Resting-Place. Notwithstanding the long notice given | by the Supervisors that the City Ceme- tery would be closed for all interments on and after the first of the present year, nothing has been done by those societies and the undertakers having the responsi- bility of providing a final resting place for the indigent dead. The same condi- tion of affairs has existed with the Chi- nese. They, as well as the others, per- mitted time to slip by without making any provisions for the future, until they found themselves in the capacity of beg- gars, so to speak, asking for an exten- sion of time, which the Supervisors gra- ciously granted them. The time now bheing extended to the first of April, steps will be taken by the Chinese to procure a tract of fifteen acres in San Mateo County for a temporary resting place for their dead. ‘Within a few days a meeting of the six Chinese companies wiil be held and a lawyer will be deputed to proceed to San Mateo and make the necessary ar- rangements with the County Board of Supervisors for the privilege of locating a cemetery in that county. This step has been decided on by the Chinese who are fully cognizant of the popular prejudice evinced against them as a race. Of this prejudice they have had experience in the past, as the superintendent of the City Cemetery, while admitting all other corpses to a grave in the city’s burying und at $1, has charged the Chinese 5, and the undertaker who has the contract for the burying of the city’s in- digent dead had a wholesale contract at $30 a month, irrespective of the number of interments. A simiiar figure has been charged the Chinese for exhuming the bodies of their dead. This the Mongolians characterize as discrimination against their race even unto death, and resur- rection. To avoid this it is proposed to | weeks who says that parties of miners close of business on January 21. as though he had been away from San | s | sia_Tablets. own a cemetery of thetr own where they[ will not- be subject to this diserimination and extra charge. The number of deaths and exhumations | average fifty every month of the Chinese, which, to-the superintendent, is quite an item, together with his other perquisites, all of which will be lost to the favored politiclan who got this job as a reward for services rendered to the political boss. | The condition of the Western Additlon | T'ndertakers who figured so low on the | contract as to bury all the indigent dead | | at 8 each s not so favorable from a | financtal point of view, as no conditions | were made with the city about a place | for the interments; this was their lookout | when thev made their bid. They gave a | bond of $6000 for the faithful performance of thelr contract and they must live up to ft. It is their duty to find a place for the elty’s dead Irrespective of price. The other socleties having the privilege of the City Cemetery will be likewise compelled to find interment ground on and after the first of next April, as the | Supervisors are determined to grant no turther extensions. —— THE RUSH HAS BEGUN. No Spare Births on steamers Bound for the Yukon. The move of Alaska prospectors to the north has already set in. Not only do the merchants of the city report that they are feeling substantial benefits from the | purchase of outfits and supplies for the | Alaska trip, but the transportation com- penies are already forced to admit that thelr carrying capacity of freight and ers is being taxed to the utmost, S0 that the problem that confronts them next omes more and more seric lla Walla will sall this morn vith every berth taken, and nearly all of her passengers are bound for Dyea and Skaguay. At least one- half of this number have been frequent visitors at the Alaska Trade Bureau and | de a close study of the facts and | object less ch were presented to | them at the ferry building. It is report- ed that fic Coast Steamship | Company has engaged a large part of its accommodations for some time ahead and is dally receiving requests by tele- | graph to hold berths. The Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s vessel Excelsior will sail on_Mol for Dyea, Skaguay and | Orca. Tt is reported that she had offers for more freight and passengers than | her capacity allowed. | Inquiries by malil wers more numerous | yesterday than on any other day. As an indication of the amount of ~mail which the Alaska Trade Committee is | sending out every day it is interesting to note that its bill for postage stamps alone averages $6 a day. Word was re- | ceived from a man who has been travel- | ing through Arizona for the last few are being organized in nearly every camp in the Territory, and for the most part prospective Klondikers will leave early for the north, so as to take advantage of the trail over the ice which has been broken by the miners who are coming | out to the coast. Other reguests by mail | and personal applications for specific in- formation and general literature is re- celved dally from almost every State in the Union, and shows a steady increase from week to week. The record of the | bureau shows that the inquiri from outside the city are assuming a relative- Iy greater importance as contrasted with the local demand e e s Civil Service Examination. | On January 29 a civil service examina- tlon for the position of stenographer In the office of the Collector of Internal | Revenue will be held in the same office Applications must be on file before the NEW TO-DAY. | GRATIFYING RESULTS. 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Over six thousand people in the State of Michigan alone in 1894 were cured of stomach troubles by Stuart’s Dyspep- | to the mos ab dis Full sized packages may be found at | all druggists at §0c, or sent by mall on receipt of price from Stuart Co., Mar- shall, ‘Mich. Send for free book on | stomach diseases. POSITIVELY | LAST WEEK. § ~ | | | BEFORE NEXT SATURDAY ‘We skall entirely elear out all CARPET REMNANTS At These Extraordinary Prices. Tapestry = = 38 per Yard Mogquette - - 53¢ per Yard Body Braussels, 59 per Yard Wilton Velvets, 60c per Yard Axminster - 60c per Yard THIS SALE ENDS 6 P. M. SATURDAY. LOOK IN OUR WINDOWS. A. MACKAY & SON, Furniture, Carpets, Upholstery, 715 MARKET ST. ELY'S CREAM BALM fsa lve cure. Apply into the nostrils. Itis quickly absorbed. 50 cents at Druggists or by mail ; samples 10c. by mail. ELY BROTIFRS, 56 Warren St., New York Cil FREE Self-adjusting. No Pain. Whispers heard. Send to ¥ lliacox Cou $53 B way, N.1.. Lor Book 4ad Froots Tuesday . | east of York NEW TO-DAY. $ m.og ENTERPRISE p HEATER. . : 3 \ H X H Ll . 9 s J : : . [ : i Gives more heat for amount of ofl conme sumed than any other heater. SMONEY BAGK?" = X7 SATise 'Myers Heater -- $2.49. Largest Variety Heaters in the City. EVERY KIND AT OUT PRICES. HEATERS FROM 99c AND UPWARD, COWEN'S, biamaersr. BAN FRANOIS00. Catalogues Free. AT AUCTION ) SHAINWALD, BUCKBEE & C0. Salesroom—218 and 220 Montgomery street, Mills Buflding. PROBATE SALE TUESDAY, January 25, 1898, At 12 O'clock, Noon. | By order of Public Administra- tor A. C. FREESE, Esq. REFEREE PARTITION SALE. W. L. Harper, Referee. Nos. 218 to 220 Ritch street, west line, 200 feet south Bryant street; 19 flats; rents $33; lot 60x75 feet. ESTATE OF ELLEN SLOAN. Broadway Corner. B. E. corner Jones and Broadway; lot 41 feet, with two frame tenements; grand maz view; flats on this property would pay well ESTATE OF DANIEL DRISCOLE. Mission and Thiriie'lh Sts., Extension o?r:ue 800 feet south of 9; close to San Mateo West line Clinton hire street; lot fc 1 ESTATE OF E. S. MATHEWS. Precita Valley Lot. South line Prospect place. 230:9 feet west of Columbla place; lot 30x150 feet to Mary street. ESTATE OF TIMOTHY J. GIBLIN, Deceased. 8. E. and Leavenworth streets; Leavenworth street, { Nos. 1 5 covered with sub- stantial tiree-story bulldings. two stores and five flaf solid foundation; excavated base- ment; total rents, $138 50. ESTATE OF MARTIN DOUGHERTY. Ripley Place Dwelling. North line Riplev place, 225 feet east of Fol- som street: lot 50x100 feet, with two-story house of 4 rooms. 2 ESTATE OF BRIDGET NEVIN. People’s Homestead. Lot No. 9. block No. 11, Silver avenue, near Rallroad avenue; lot 25x75 feet. ESTATE OF M. C. BONNEY. Southside Lot. Fast line Twenty-elghth avenue, 100 feet south of *J"' street; lot_150x120 feet: six lots Outside Land Block No. 742; good chance for a | speastation ESTATE OF JOHN S. LITTLE. Sutter-St. Building Lot. North line Sutter street, 137:§ feet W. of Scott street: lot 305 2-3x164:1 feet; street work done and gosepted: Sulter street cars pass; grand lot for Aats or residenc ESTATE OF JOHN TRAPP. Twenty-fourth Street Residence. No. 2771 Twenty-fourth street, S. line, 40 feet street; two-story bay-window house of 8 rooms and bath; street paved and accepted; Howard street cars pass the door; lot 40x100 feet. ESTATE OF ELIZABETH KELLY. Miu‘mnrgotmgn. Sl Nos. 56 and 58 Merritt street, N. line, seet E. of Rose street; lot 60.76x68.2¢ and 70 fest; 2 cottages, 3 rooms each: rents $12; street macadam; close to Eighteenth street electric line. 3 SPEAR-STREET WATER LOT. Lot N. E. line Spear street, 153:4 feet N. W. from Folsom street; 1 block from water front: splendid ot to improve; would pay good in- * ESTATE OF MARY LARKIN FLINW. Valencia-St. Investment. Noe. i21 and 521% Valencla street, east line, 315 feet north of Seventeenth street: lot 82x70 store mnd two flats of 5 rooms each; rents treet paved and accepted. ESTATE OF AMAWDA DALLAS. Polk-St. Income Property. Nos. 219-2191;-2191 Polk street, west line, 48 feet south of Fulton street; lot 24x82l§ feet: three flats of 6 rooms and bath each: rents $50; this property has a great future: close to Mar- ket street and the New City Hall. ESTATE OF LUCILLE HELEN WIELAND. Elegant Residence Property. Northeast corner California and Webster streets: lot 40x132:6 feet, also lot adjolning, north line California street, 30x132:6 feet; street work all done and accepted by the city. ESTATE OF MARY S. BRYARLY. Perry St. Income Property. No. 218 Perry street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, Harrison and Bryant: good two- story house of 7 rooms; rents $i; lot 25x80 feet. ESTATE OF OWEN CLEMENTS. Richmond Lot. 1ghth avenue, 75 feet south of Cles e ot 25x120 Teet; Street sewered and Mhacadamized; on line Park branch Sutro elec- tricroad. . @ Land Association. Lots 27, 25, 29 and 30 on Ford street, block No. 11; each lot 26x100 feet; close to Ingleside track. City Land Association. Lot 27, block No. 4, Monticello street; lot 25 X160 feet; elose to Ingleside track. People’s Homestead. Lots 14, 15, 16 and 3, block No. 9, on Sweeney and Hale streets; each lot 25x75 feet. People’s Homestead. Lot 2, block No. 4, Gaven street, near King; lot 36xT6 feet.