The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1898, Page 30

L IenggvEes ¥ Recdos 8:3,% AV (i3] c2orerthbL i O~ K T Py the prettiest miles above r Veterans, Mexican and structure. er atest im- a tempo- Therein all mined as to re placed and { their examina- »n is so construct- nodate a large rary hospital who ental PERPRY B FEE G AU T g} 1R es € Agt P giidts ¢ oatry e At o N Ve s thsasbsrtaty BEAY L Ay : : et T plheeron vern TR 0 i gy &,;;5‘%\,{4&5‘3331\ PR BIRDSEYE VIEW o NAPA CITY: gfl»fi e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUN AY, MARCH 13, 189¢. -3¢ oPove ey ot /// anch of the California Pacific 5 v the capital. complete system a business house minently , and the' str i electric ligh The ¢ work: into town arantee efficiency the thorough pr ) department ard w7 number of patients with perfec institution is under the rent of Mr. Qa th of t ared f Hennessy es to_the n mous Apa This Napa_Soda : prop- owned by Colonel J. P. Jackson, t Collector of the Port of San pe lly managed by An- ckson, son of the proprietor. The ank among the popular asure h resorts of the State. Hand- some large buildings adorn the premises. Other resorts in_the count worthy, among which » Rural Health Retre . Helena, Aetna Spring Samuel Spring: In the vicir are ex- 5. a County ments to the home- or, W land held at much r prices than in many counties of the apa, the county seat, is ad of navigation on the he city of even miles from San fine_educational facili- consisting of public and private Its high school is well equipped, population is 4500, and the assessed 1ation $3,000,000. The city is practically from 'debt. Numerous enterprises he water front, comprising four tan- in_which are made glove, shoe, s and sole leather; a woolen mill, e factory, a shoe factory, a planing a flour mill, fruit driers, a _cannery, tar works, distilleries, ses, lumber yards, etc. . warehc and three weekly papers reflect the enterprise of the town, and there are three well-established banking institu- tions. Napa's commercial advantages are creat, in fact superior to those of most alifornia towns, for Napa has water as well as rail communlaction with the out- side. Passenger and freight trains find in it their principal station on the Nava i 7 7. vers. The works are owned by a joint k company in which citizens generally are interested. The city also possesses an active Board of Trade, 'th qugh, whose in- strumentality, coupled wit e enter- b 5 the industries prise of the people, many of here flourishing were attracted. A free public’ library is one of Napa's institu- tions. It contains over volumes. During the past year the librarian’s rec- ord show that there were 30,000 visitors to the institution. The valiey surrounding Napa City is wonderfully picturesque. The average annual rainfall during the last twenty years has been less than 27 inches, but this is an amount amply sufficient for all purposes. This year's rate of taxation— city, county and State—is only $1 50 on the $100. rominent business Among the most enterprises of Napa is the Napa Woolen $ilis. This mill was established in 1885, and has been running almost continu- ously ever since. The main building is a Targe wooden structure 100x100 feet in size. In addition to the main building a brick warehouse 50x70 goes to make up the plant. Sixty-five persons are em- ployed. So great 1s the amount of orders that they are all working overtime. The daily output is about 1200 pounds of Seoured wool. THhis year quite a quantity of blapketing has been cut up for the Kiondike trade. and large quantities of 10, 12 and 14 pound blankets, which are iwice as heavy as those called for a year ago, are now in hand for the gold-seekers ¥ho go morth. The plant is owned by twenty stockholders. The officers are: S8 Holden, president; Manuel Manasse, B. F. Holden, secretary vice-president; and treasurer. The last manufacturing enterprise es- tablished here is the shoe factory of Evans, Norton & Co., which began op- erations about six months ago. The Nngl Board of Trade provided a lot in the manufacturing district in East Napa. erected a bullding 100x38 feet in size, two stories high, and made a contract with the new firm that if they would occupy it with a shoe factory, empioy at least twenty-five hands for five ye . at The principal building of tory wooden building, by seventy-five the ago the Union Tan- an operations and since Union Tannery. this plant is a two other. tors of the glove factory exceeded their conditions from the start, and there are now employed steadily and at a falr rate of wages over 110 persons. The buflding is wooden, 40x100 feet, and has twe floors. he end o seriod . ‘property ning Company be el zo‘(el;—elul»cr:trx‘;xnr(‘s etk that time the works have been running An enlargement is now planned. ge. Many more than the re- continuously. amount of the yearly The monthly output of the factory is mber of people are already em- output is valu . The aphout 2000 dozen pairs of gloves. The an- nd the factory is working untll rnanagem morile, nyal business foots up about $150,000. F. o'clock at _night every day filling presid ce-presi- Yy “yyilljams is a native of San Francisco ers. Most of the leather used by the dent; H. y-treasurer. a3 'R Raymond is a native of Eng- company is produced in the’ State. Among the enterprises of Napa s the land. ] s of the firm are Luther J. tannery run . Cropley. e Saw- In the southern part of the town of s ifon o m;mfi twenty years a Vver Tanning Company own the building. Napa s the Sawyer tannery. This is the actical shoe manufacturer, more than In the northern portion of Napa, but largest and most extensive manufactur- Raif of this time he having been con- bevond the point where Napa River is ing plant in Napa County. nected with one of the large shoe fac- navigable the tannery of Thomas Mc- The daily output .s about 1500 hides. s of San Francisco, and Lewis J. Bain. This has been estabiished About 1,000,000 pounds of wool per annum and treasurer of the about tv ars. It has numerous is pulled from sheep peits, which is ship- Company of this city, buildings. A feen men are em- ped to Boston commercial houses. concern he has been cob- ployed contin v by the concern. The The Sawyer Tannery was started in nected for over seventeen years. monthly-output is about 1200 to 130 hides, 1§70 by B. F. Sawyer, from whom It de- ) istance bel Napa, Harness, skirting and sole leather are rived fts name, and since that time tne A Short distance below Nope age. among the principal qualities of leather plant has grown to be one of the finest e A Mulkey fs situated the that are here produced. Thomas McBain equipped establishments of its kind in Spreckels ranch, one of the finest breed- is the owner and manager. the world. €. a NP AT TS LI INSANE ASYLUM The Three years ago the enterprising citl- _In 1880, owing to the death of B. T. ing farms for horses in the State. tract of land consists of 250 acres of fine bottom valley land, on which fine hay is raised and fine grazing for stock is af- forded. A fine training track, the most modern and _convenient stablés and handsome buildings are situated upon the premises. The farm is used principally for breeding and raising fine stock. A visitor to Napa should not fail to visit this finely equip- ped farm. ‘Among the enterprises of Napa is the zens of Napa induced Messrs. Raymond & ‘Williams, who were at that time engaged in the glove business in San Francisco, to locate here. The citizens of Napa sub- scribed liberally toward the new enter- prise and raised sufficient funds to pur- chase the site and erect the glove factory building, which they presented to Messrs. Raymond & Willlams upon the expressed condition that thirty-fiv. rsons at least were {o be given employment for at least five successive years. The proprie- Sawyer, the firm was reorganized without change of name taking place. The pres- ent company is_incorporated and .as a capital stock of $100,000. The management consists of S. E. Holden, E. Manasse, L. J. Norton, H. F. Norton and J. D. Jame- ®on as directors. One hundred and forty people are constantly employed. The pay- Toll foots up to -about $4000 per month. The yearly output amounts to about Napa also boasts of the thres great wine cellars of the California Wine Asso- clation. The capacity of these cellars in total is over 1.000,000 gallons. Among the Jargest and most productive wine cellars in Napa County is that owned by G, Migliavacca Co., the foundation of which dates back to 1872. The company handles about 3000 tons of grapes and makes about 500,000 gallons of wine per s % S * v LN _—— e DN DAY e annum. G. Migliavacca s aided in busi- ness by three sons, 8., J. A. and H. B. Migliavacca. Napa has a brewery conducted by M. G. Wagner. Close to Nagn is the Bay View vineyard and olive orchard. Last year F. Borreo, the proprietor, manufactured 750 gallons of olive oll. ¥. J. BROWNLEE. MACHINES TO COAX YOU TO GO TO SLEEP. OW to obtain sufficient sleep— this threatens to be a stubborn problem of the mnew century about to dawn over this busy, bustling world. Some learned scientists believe that enlight- ened man s fast forgetting how to sleep—that Insomnia {s a necessary perquisite of higher intelligence. Scarcely a week passes during which we do not read of a death—self-inflicted or otherwise—caused by this horrible curse, which preys especially upon in- tellectual men. Improved labor-saving machinery is rapidly eliminating all necessity for physical exercise, and exercise of the body, before all, is the one great sleep producer. We seem to be drifting to- ward an age when man must resort to artifice to obtain that share of sleep originally meted out to him by nature, when the sleep producing machine will be one of the necessities of human life. But how are we to produce artificial sleep, and how must the sleep produc- ing machine be made? ~ Already sub- jects have been artificially placed in a state of somnolence by clamping the arteries leading to the brain. The clamps remained in place but a half minute before sleep occurred. ‘Another method of producing artifi- cial sleep by physical means, discov- ered by Dr. Hammond of Washington, is to apply an electric current to one of the sympathetic nerves along the spinal column. The tired man of some future age may have to resort to the electric battery for such a purpose. It would be much more comfortable to be lulled to sleep by a mild electric cur- rent communicated by a pillow or mat- tress than to have to attach clamps to the neck. Some authorities believe that sleep will result from fatigue of the eyes. Machines are now made for producing that condition. Cold water bags applied to the fore- head and hot ones to the back of the neck and feet are recommended to pro- duce sleep, since by their means the blood is driven from the brain. Hot baths increase the size of the blood vessels of the skin, and produce the same effect. Another method of free- ing the brain of blood and causing sleep —one which will be found acceptable to everyone—is the eating of a light supper just before retiring. Experiments prove that monotony ls an effective source of fatigue to the brain, which organ appears to automat- ically drain off its blood when fatigued to a normal degree. The lullaby of the American mother produces sleep because of its monotony. A Papago Indian recently told the writer that the native doctors among his people sit at the bedside of the sick and sing monotonous chants, repeated over and over, throughout the whole night. No additional treatment beyond conjuring is applied. Many patients are doubtless cured, the only virtue of the treatment being the relief of pain and the nourishment of the system by sleep produced by monotony. Repeated rock- ing produces sleep, as does repeated brushing of the hair. There is an interesting theory that we require sleep in proportion to the scar- city of red corpuscles in our blood. All people, therefore, do not correspond in their need of sleep. Many authorities agree that the degree to which sleep is needed depends upon the strength of consciousness. Too much sleep is thought to be harmful by some authorities. Since con- sciousness requires waking hours for development, too much sleep will rob it of its education. During sleep a man grows like a vegetable, but his mind gets no exercise, which its development demands. Were a child to sleep twen- ty hours a day until ten years old he would doubtless have a feeble mind. Children who sleep too much are found upon investigation to be fatter than those who sleep at a normal rate, but their intellects are duller and their muscles weaker. Insomnia, on the other hand, is always a dangerous symptom in children. ———————— In 1788 there were only 29 head of sheep in New South Wales, but now the stock has reached 60,000,000. Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania together possess about 130,000,000 sheep. GOOD WORK OF THE N a bleak wintry morning in the month of March, nearly ten vears ago, there was found upon the doorstep of a Sacramento home a little bundle of lifeless human- ity. The spot upon ‘which it lay was damp and cold, the rain dripped from the eaves above and gusts of chilling wind swept over the little body, the life’s spark of which had been extin- guished for many hours before it was found. It was a Sabbath morning and the people were returning from church. A crowd had gathered and among them were several Christian women of Sacramento, whose hearts were touched by the pitiful spectacle before them. Mrs. F. W. Fratt in speaking of the incident said: “On Monday afternoon, the 24th day of March, 1890, five ladies met together and organized a charity to be known as the Sacramento Foundling Home Association. Why? Because our sym- pathies were awakened by the sad death of a little waif whose life went out beneath the pitiless rain that Sab- bath morning on the steps of a home in this city. We had seen the need of this home for some time, but that lit- tle breath, that was wafted away In the chilly morning, breathed life into our hitherto indefinite plans. ““We incorporated June 21, 1890. The first directors were Mary E. Tryon, Charlotte P. Huntoon, Sarah E. Clay- ton, Helen P. Mandeville and myself. Though it has been a hard struggle to arrive at our present usefulness we have trodden down each difficulty with the help of our Master. Now we reach out with hope inscribed upon our ban- ner, which floats its folds of purity over the helpless, homeless, unloved, unwelcomed and unclaimed babes.” Mrs. Sarah E. Clayton, who has done much for the establishment of the foundling home, in speaking of the in- stitution said: “Seventeen years ago in this city an Infant was left on the doorstep of the old Catholic church, which was then at Seventh and K streets. A policeman took it to the orphan asylum. He was informed that they could not take care of infants there. ~We did not know what to do with it, and a gentleman agreed to pay for the care of the child until I could obtain a home for it, which I did in a few days. In a few weeks an- other babe was found abandoned, and I found a home for it also. Dr. Hardy about this time Invited me to visit the Home for Infants in San Francisco, over which he had charge. I found that our generous State had made some provision for the little homeless ones there and I wondered why we should not have such a home in Sacra- mento. While I was doing all I could to establish a home I found homes for eighteen babtes, of which only four died. If you could see those who are living to-day you would see what fine looking people they are. They are thankful indeed that they live in a Christian land where we have been .taught the value of unselfish love.” The Foundling Home under the man- agement of these noble women has be- come one of the best public charities in the State. The present board of di- rectors {s composed of the following ladies: Mprs. Annie E. Clark, Mrs. Sarah E. Clayton, Mrs. Ella J. Flint, Mrs, Ella T. Merkley, Mrs. Cornelia C. Fratt, Mrs. W. H. Weinstock, Mrs. Lottie Deming and Miss Minnie Roth, the last named being the secretary. The institution reflects great credit upon those who are identified with it. Mrs. Nellie Clark, the matron, deserves much praise for her untiring efforts in the care and discipline of the little ones under her charge. Dr. Henderson, the attending physician, is very proud of the high standard of healthfulness which he has maintained during the period of his administration. The building I8 on Ninth apd X streets. There are twenty apartments not ingluding clcsets and bath rooms. On the lower floor are two large par- lors, one on each side of a spacious re- ception_hall. > Mrs. Fratt sald: “Only last week we placed a month old babe in a woman's arms at the earnest solicitation of her mother and husband, to fill a niche in the heart made vacant by death. If the work we are enabled to do shall save some of the little ones whose first breath was drawn in the atmesphere of sin and rear them to be noble men and true women we shall feel that our work has not been in vain. No nobler effort for the future good and pros- perity of our State and nation can be made than to set the feet of the help- less child into the path of virtue and honest living. In the name of him who SACRAMENTO. FOUNDLING HOME Blessed’ with his divine love even the Magdalene, and who said, “‘Whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me,’ we are working.” — FElectrical Railways in Europe.—Re- cent statistics show that Germany takes the lead of all European countries in regard to the use of electric rail- ways. She has 398 miles of such roads in operation; France has 173 miles; Italy 72° miles, and England 68 miles. All of Europe combined contains a lit- tle more than 900 miles of electric rail- way. ———e——————— The United Kingdom consumes 600,- 000 pounds, or about 4,000,000 gallons of tea every day, which is as much as is used by the rest of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Australia combined. T NURSES AND CHILDREN RN |\} AN L BN £ Ik IN THE HOME