The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 13, 189 DAY, FEBRUARY brief, of | ng his nature su ¥ occur degrees, and the wet to the April day i he M generall ck in the morning m the the c to5a. m. - history of San Bernardino be- 1838, when a grant of land was comb Valley | ble covering at'least a quarter' sectipn, {and many fine specimens are found easily accessible in fll“ quality of sandstone is found in the foot- | | hills, ‘and clay suitable for building. is | abundant. Black marble is found in large . The ranchoi Quantities, as well as some jaspar.' . which gave name to the Coun- | awar connected, | San Berns . Jose del ¢armen Lugo, Vi- ) Sepulveda in 1842 | the early days and bas been worked for | | years. The ‘same may be said of Hol- | Department of California, | COmb Valley. Along the Mojave River | rado, Constitutional Go in the District of L asa Lyman and C yman and Rich were two quorum of twelve' rs of a party of 500 Mormons am Young from Salt Lake City nize San_Bernardino. 3 from Salt Lake two vears pre- and attempted to purchase the Chino : magniicent Were unsucce f settled on Lytle Creek and built moved to the ien the Apostles | by Brigh | to | & sma | site of the pr | made the pu readily accessible and easily worked. The separated from Los | Streams has proved detrimental to Dblac 83, by act of the Leg- ood and John Brown ioners to locate | arms and town boundaries were | were "appointed Comm ; e within a few years San Bernardino Coun- v tv will become one of the greatest gold- producing sections in the world. Among t then had a Fort Yuma, ott and Santa Fe Bernardino. ed an act May 18, t charter, provided - the people, which | Clarks, Vanderbilt, New York, Troja | and the Providence Mountain " districts | are all coming into prominence and con- ng, fearing a_conflict of > United States Government | i rtion of the pop- eir property San Bernardino | then no longer a Mormon city, al- two vears later a number of the s returned, having repu not_consist of gold alone. Sily lead. zin €T, copper, soda, baryta, g: 3 tos are found in abundance. original coloni itiles had been com- d although the s still apparent, again obtained control of the agricultural products of San Ber- nardino are man wh There ces of San Berna Ti b = requisite to the bulld- | ter advantage. Twenty tons can be grown Ithy communi prominence over many of the counsisting of cedar and m: the mountains of Hol- | cattle. HILE the matinee girls are g the brutality to ich Actor Ratcliffe sub- jected his English as well as his Ame:ican wife, the courts of Europe are agog over a we.l-authen- ticated story that before the final sep- aration of the young Grand Duke and d Duchess of Hesce, a fortnight re Grand Duke laid violent hands beautiful and high-spirited con- sort; first of all using his fists upon her and ultimately pitching her by force out of the room in which the cli- max of their matrimonial bickerings | ok place. | Both are the grandchildren of Queen Victoria—the Grand Duke being the only surviving son of Princess Alice of Great Britain, while the Grand Duchess is the offspring of the Queen's sailor | Duke Alfred of Edinburgh and Co- | burg. There is no doubt that they were | married too young, and their separa- | tion is distinguished from all other dis- lutions of royal marriages by the fact | that for once it has not been caused, | either directly or indirectly, by any in- | fraction of the seventh commandmen In fact, the trouble originited entirely with the Grand Duke’s tendency to| practical joking, a tendency which is| quite frequent among European royal- ty, but which, in the case of the young | ruler of Hesse, is carried to an extrav- agant degree. His practical jokes differ from those | of his uncle, the Prince of Wales. They | resemble those of his first cousin, the | Kaiser, in that they partake of the na- | ture of rough horse-play and coarse- | ness. Moreov the Grand Duke has | been, ever since he married, in the habit of selecting his beautiful young | wife as the principal butt of his harsh jokes. These have already, in the spring of last year, led to her suddenly leaving Darmstadt and seeking refuge with her | eldest sister, the Crown Princess of | Roumania, at Bucharest. | In the middle of a ball at the palace | at Darmstadt the electric lights were suddenly extinguished, whereupon the voung Grand Duke and several of h assoclates, who had previously provid- ed themselves with squirt guns, shot | water at the bare necks and shoulders of the ladies present, incidentally hug- ging them whenever they got the| chance. | The urand Duchess was drenched, | besides being embraced roughly by at | least two men who were not her hus- | band. Frantic at the indignity to which | both she and her guests had been sub- | jected, she left Darmstadt. accom- panied only by her maid, early the fol- lowing morning. No one knew what | had become of her until thirty-six | hours later a telegram from Bucharest | announced her arrival there. It was | only with the utmost difficulty that she | vas persuaded to return to her husband | and child, and then only on the solemn promise of her husband that he would | abstain from practical joking at her | expense. | Since her return matters have gone | from bad to worse. There has been more practical joking, and, moreover, | the highly cultivated and exceedingly clever Grand Duchess, who has been | brought up in England and is ess2ntial- | ly an English girl, has strongly resented thevery anti-British attitude which her | husband has taken up in connection with the recent ill feeling in Germany against Great Britain. The Grand Duke was never tired of abusing the English policy, the English court, and, indeed, everything that per- tains to Great Britain, entirely oblivi- ous of the fact that both his father and himself have been dependent upon | the bounty of Queen Victoria. The venerable sovereign has not only dow- ered his sisters and provided him with | a large annuity, but she actually pays | most of the expenses of the court, the Grand Duke being the poorest Prince in_Germany. It may be added that the Grand Duke as a boy had the misfortune to kill his younger brother. He was chas- ing him through the rooms of the ducal palace and upon catching up with him gave him a push. The blow carried the | growers succeeded in producing fine fruit | | {nm the brands from this county always | PRACTICAL JOKES OF BRUTAL NOBLEMEN rounger prince over the low balustrade | & £ n window to the pavement of | L His ‘ orange-growers. neck was broken by the fall. 29 1s a quarry of beautiful mar- | er places. An excellent | MINERALS — The precious metals | abounds in all the mountains and ravines. Placer gold was found on Lytle Creek in for forty miles and in the hills north of | Dominguez, first Judge of | the city gold-bearing quartz is found in | every direction. The county contains among other camps the Victor, which has | been pronounced during the past week | to equal the famed Cripple Creek of Colo- | rado. The Mountain district, Ruby dis- | trict and Morongo have mines that are being worked to advantage, as have Pi- | non and Twenty-nine Palms. Virginia | Dale is one of ‘the most promising dis- tricts in_the county, and contains many very rich mines. ‘It has been recently demonstrated that many rich veins of gold, silver and lead lie in the desert wastes that have heretofore been over- looked by prospectors, but which are future of gold mining in San Bernardino is full of promise. The absence of large cer mining, most of the gold being in quartz and requiring expensive ma- chinery to develop it. This is fast being introduced, and it is easy to predict that the other flourishing mining districts in the county may be mentioned Johannes- ix mil from Kramer on and Pacific railroad and thirty miles from Mojave on the South- ern Pacific. The Lone Star, on the ex- treme north, is another district rich in gold. Grapevine district, on the Atlantic and Pacific, off from Barstow, contains many valuable mines. Calico district and Alford have many good mines. Soda, tain great possibilities. Sacramento dis- trict, west of the Needles, Lava Bed, Dry Lake and Black Hawk contaln mines that pan out well. Oro Grande district is the largest in the county, and is on the Santa Fe route on the Mojave Desert. The mineral wealth of the county does iron, manganese, borax, salt, ypsum, sulphur and asbes- AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS — The and varied. Corn, . barley, rye, buckwheat, oats, potatoes, sorghum and tobacco flourish, _ no place in the world Ifa can be grown to bet- to the acre, making it a most profitable crop. Barley is perhaps the principal crop, ‘being more profitable than wheat, more productive than oats, and is the ‘chief horsefeed. LIVESTOCK—The climate Is pecullarly d for developing neat cattle and fine s. The Jersey, Holstein and shorte n are fast supplanting less favored CITRUS FRUITS—San Bernardino is the | home of the orange. So well have the ring the highest prices in the Eastern | markets. The district is rarely visited by frost, and the water supply is abundant, The acreage of orange and lemon orch- | ards in the county is over 20,000 acres, and | the oranges are largely of the navel | variety. “The crop for the county this | ason is placed at 35000 carloads, or | 000 boxes. Twomedals from the South- | alifornia Fair, one from the World's | ir at Chicago and one from the Atlanta | Zxposition were won by San Bernardino | Ansen Van Luven planted the first | N s orange trees in San Bernardino County, near‘lhe pld Mission, in 1856. One tree ?s still living and bearing fruit. | Lake and Arrowhead are all easily acces- sible and popular_resorts. THE IMPERIAL® CITY—Imperial San ity of homes, of schools is the third in the cities of Southern California situated on the southern slope of the San Bernardino Mountains, at a height of 1075 feet above the sea. are included in the corporate area | and the population is 11,000. dino is the central point of supply for and large sections of s of other countles and de from Southern nd New Mexico. h laid out_one mile ers from Utah, acres in the county planted to deciduous trees, including peach, apricot, prune, penra fig, walnut, apple, cherry and al- mon other parts of the State. The acreage is 6000, two-thirds of which is raisin grapes, one-fourth wine grapes and a small per- centage of table. grapes. v WATER—The majestic snow-clad peaks that stand like grim sentinels above im- perial San Bernardino iurnish an abun- dant supply of water for all purposes, including irrigation andé electric power. The principal basin for this water supply from the mountains is Bear Valley Lake, | belonging to what is known as the Bear | Valle) the headwaters of Bear Creek and has a water shed of over fifty square miles. From October to May it iS not necessary to draw on the lake for water, the over- flow being sufficient. By storing this overflow the water supply o nardino could be easily doubled, County _has within her borders two Tnited States forest reservations, com. prising about 1,500,000 acres. Thése re- serves lie between the desert and the city and cons valjuable timb country can boast of more charming sumo DECIDUOUS TREES—There is 8000 The vine thrives as well here as in irrigation system. The lake is on | San Ber- | FOREST RESk-AVES—San Bernardino | mer resorts than can this county. Squir- rel Inn, Fredalba Park, Seven Oaks, Bluff Bernardino, the c and of church: any in the State. Seven square | and has already cost over $200,000. It is a massive | stone with heavy | ble at every the whole count: the mining distri draws a considerable tr maintained in ! ory brick building on Fou It has over 2000 patrons and issues Ella Lawson Is | Pr | librarian, and the Library Board is com Judge F. W. Gregg (president) - John Anderson, | W. Richardson, publisher and editor, and Drew and D. A."Moulton. . SCHOOLS—Few. if any cities in Amer- | publican), R. C. Harbison, editor and ica of equal population offer better edu- | publisher, and Kendall Holt, city editor. cational advantages that San Bernardino. s are the pride of the city. The | in the county. stem is a splendid one. e appliances and the methods of. wide, straight streeis and line the The s e plan has been the numerous additions that been made to wide, shady streets, splendidly paved, a ford ‘charming walks and drives cite the admiration of all visit artesian water flows from about six hun- dred wells of from two to seven inches in diameter in the city and immediate vi- These wells extend over an area are miles, the ordinary depth The bulidings of thirty squ st of large quantities of SUMMER RESORTS—No part of the | 1 being 150 feet. beautiful, commodiou: ings, the public build; is noted for its and costly bufld- s vided grounds for all its s | county courthouse, situated on subsequently of the property of the municipality. schools of the eleven different buildings—four and seven of brick—which, with one ex- [ Fari been erected during the | Marshal, Willlam B. Reeves; Clerk, Le. These, with_ their grounds, | gare Allen; Treasurer, Marion Aldredge; During | Assessor, Jeff McElwain. car forty-two teachers are AILROAD FACILITIES—The city is including a special teacher in past decade. represent a value of over $2 | E streets, is the finest structure of its San Bernardino has four banks, fur- kind in Southern California and equals | nishing ample facilities, and all of them It is not vet completed | in excellent condition and in handsom It was quarters. They are the Farmers' Ex- built without an issue of bonds and no | change Bank, the San. Bernardino Na- debt will be left for future generations. | tional Bank, the Bank of San Bernar- Mentone | dino and a savings bank. The soundness. columns of Colton mar- | of these institutions has never been ques- n The. interlor is | tioned. | finished with San Bernardino Méuntain | NEWSPAPERS — The newspapers of | San Bernardino are not surpassed by: v has a splendid public library of | any city of this size in the country. They a modern | are three in number, each of them pub- h street. | lishing dally and weekly editions, which 1600 | are well patronized. es (independent), the Times-Index (Republican), F. C. A. Whitmore, city editor; the Sun (Re-, ‘here are thirteen other papers published HOTELS—The city is well SHRDHed with hotels—the New St. Charles, the Stewart struction are in every sense up to date.|and the Southern, besides a number of In its earlier history the city wisely pro-|other smaller hotels and apartment hool buildings, [ houses. The restaurants of the city are both for those then in use and those that | considered good. and [ CITY GOVERNMENT—The city gov- these grounds are now a permanent part | ernment is composed at present of the The | Board of Trustees—J. B. Frith (presi- conducted in | dent), C. L. Thomas, Monroe Stewart, J. wooden | A. Wees and M. A. Pace; Recorder, J. D. C. Attorney, Colonel Haskel well provided with railway lines, being and music, and 1600 pupils are |situated on both the great transcontinent- al routes. It also has connection by rail The High School, with its library, ap-| with Redlands, Riverside, Colton and paratus and grounds, is valued at $110,000. Highlands. There are, all told, sixty ar- drawing and music. It enrolls 225 students and employs the | rivals and departures of trains each day. labor of four men.and two women in ad dition to part of the work of the City Superintendent, Profess The county contains 415 miles of standard- gauge railroad, 128 miles of motor line N. A. Richard- | and 15 miles of streetcar lines. The city and also 'of the special teacher in|is situated on the famous kite-shaped It provides a four- | track of the Santa Fe route. year course in English, Latin, German, The machine-shops of the Santa Fe seience ‘and ph: as elective all als to a good business course. , mathematics ical culture, vstem are located here. They constanuy employ a large number of skilled mechan- ratories — biological, physical—are as well equipped as any in | pended in the city. These shops and the excepting those at the uni-|rajiroads combine to make this a railroad BIY:S ics. The monthly payroll of these shops averages $55,000, nearly all,of which is ex- The High School is fully ac- credited at the State Universi Stanford and is w y at 1 represented in these | eries are operated in the city and vicinity, town in a measure. OTHER INDUSTRIES—Several cream- | educational center: Since 1889 30 per cent | with a capacity of 11,000 pounds of miik of its graduates have attended higher in- | daily. ns of learni During the last | The stores and business houses of the three years it has gr,ldruutod eighty-three | city are large, and are usually construct- f schools is | ed of brick or stone. They embrace all throughout the county. This | lines of mercantile pursuits. The city forty-six | enjoys considerable wholesale trade with grammar schools and eighty-four primary | the neighboring towns, and goods are oc- The value of the school property | casionally shipped to Arizona and New in the county is nearly $500,000 and the | Mexico. chool expenses for the last year | The manufacture of flour has lately )00. Miss Margaret M. Mogeau | been receiving considerable attention. The N N HARLEM SPRINGS. SAN BERNARDINQ. HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: The churches whi Congrega- H. D. Brown, copal, Rev. J. stian, Rev. J. C. McReynolds, efficient (Superintendent of the | San Bernardino Roller Flour Mills (J. V. Schools and is the first lady in the county [ Suman, proprietor) have recently been who was elected to office by vote.. There is an excellent private school in kept by the Sisters of Mary, in and _ well-arranged . building, the Catholic church, under the direction of Father Cabaleria. CHURCHES—AII the leading denomina- | is water. tions have churches In the city and most| The city is well lighted by the San Ber- of them have handsome church edifices,’| nardino Electric Light and Power Com- | which range in cost from $1000 to $30,000, ch have buildings ary erected in the heart of the city, and are run constantly at a capacity seventy barrels of flour per da; Only Home grown wheat is used, which is found to produce a finer grade of flour than the northern-grown grain. The motive power pany, which has a ten-year contract for public illumination. There is also a gas company and another electric light com- pany in actual working existence, besides several in embryo. The electricity is gen- erated by waterpower. The Southern Hospital for thé Insane is in San Bernardino County, five miles from the city limits, and is a lofty pile of buildings, beautifully located on the sun- ny slopes of the San Bernardino Range, and | surrounded by groves.of oranges and has | tropical plants, and directly under the ne church organizations and thirty- | snow-capped mountains. The view from church buildings. this spotis sublime. J. W. HEADEN. From the ranks of the understudies. And where do the understudies come [} O & OB, 20 Y%°C000e 60a000®D Jaoooocto0800 k’r‘ 155 NARGARET: M.MOGEAU. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOO T SAN SERNARDING. = \\\‘% X ALY \—— NN 2 s ANANNANRW SN W MUY AN NERVOUS TRIALS OF AN UNDERSTUDY. Do you know where the great actors| We are a set of aspiring young peo- and actresses of the future will come | ple who are studying for the stage on our own account, and we prefer the | practical lessons of the theater to the | theoretical ones of the dramatic schools. Of course, there are under- studies and understudies—some mere makeshifts, to whom many opportuni- ties come, but upon whom nobody's mantle ever falls. The genuine under- studies are those who have the divine fire in them and simply wait modestly but eagerly for their chance. The accidents that give undergtudies a chance to move suddenly to the front happen every day. Girls jump from the chorus to leading roles in comic opera. The boy who came on the stage with a card-tray last year and pompously announced “Mr. Blinkinsquigg McGuin- ness” plays a good part this year. Even the property man who holds aside the curtain through which Rose Coghlan passes when, as Lady Janet Maclin- tock, she arrives at the Duke of Shet- land’s ball—yes, even he, through op portunity, may develop into a farce- comedy star in a few years. And I, who watch Miss Coghlan night after night from my place in the ball- room—who knows but some unseen chance is near for me, her understudy? How we understudies long for that chance, yet how we fear it! Bvery night we stand in the wings, watching each expression and movement of those on the stage. Sometimes our imagina- tion carries us beyond the present time. The great, the looked-for night has come. We are on the stage saying our lines, The loud burst of applause, the curtain-call, is for us. We have suc- ceeded. Then the property man calls ‘“Strike!” the stage hands begin to change the scene and we are hustled from our snug retreat. We realize that we must hurry and dress or be late for the next act. As we mount the stage to our dressing-room we comfort ourselves by saying, ‘“Well, maybe it will be to-morrow night; I will be even better prepared then.” A principal generally delights in tell- ing her understudy that she is very ill, almost too ill to appear, and then watching the effect. Sometimes, quite often in fact, she will come to the theater blooming with health, yet secretly inform her under- study that she felt so badly all day that it was only with the greatest difficulty she managed to report for the matinee. ‘““And, my dear child,” she will add, “be prepared to go in my place this evening.” And then night comes. You go with- out your dinner; you remain at the theater between the matinee and even- ing performance; you spend every mo- ment of your time getting on a good make-up; you nervously say your lines and cues over and over. You pray for success; you think of the glories of to- morrow, following this evening’s work. You are so happy. Of course, you are saying that Miss — is ill, and you sin+ cerely hope she will be well—to-mor- row! You even make up your mind to send her a lovely bunch of roses. You think she Is one of the sweetest women you ever met. And then, just as the half- hour is called, you hear her merry laugh, and you go to her dressing-room, all the while your heart beating rapid- 1y, and vou softly ask her “how she feels.” She will reply that her head. jache is entirely cured and she never 1 felt so well in her life. v And I am not the only understudy who h#s had worries and trials.