The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 10, 1898, Page 30

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUN APRIL 10, GGS, eggs, eggs, eggs in every way. How many eggs o you think are consumed in San Francisco on Easter Suncay? Just stop and do a little lightning calculation of your own before you read on. And then find that, though you have placed the figures pretty high, you have fallen wide of the mark. For n Francisco never does anything by halves, and when it falls a-egg-eating it means that the chickens have had to do their level best to provide a supply of . :gs large enough to meet the demand. Between the hours of sunrise and sunset on Easter Sunday 800,000 eggs are consumed in the city of San Fran- cisco. Eight hundred thousand eggs demolished in one day! And that is a conservative estimate airived at by studying facts and figures as found {n the books of produce houses that sup- ply the market with eggs. Beveral of the commission merchants place the total number of eggs con- sumed at a higher figure. But averag- ing the figu offered by those who have the necessary data to ake a computation, the result is the startling fact that 800,000 eggs are used on Eas- Sunday . average length of an eee is 21 therefore 800,000 eggs would, if side by side, make a line a little ‘1 length. Or : cisco on Eas- inday consumes twenty-eight of eggs, rding to the City Surveyor's fig- is a little over ven miles from )t of Market street to the CIiff u started in at the foot of placed y over twenty-eight mile in other words, San F one touching the other, from that point to the Cliff House, you would have enough eggs to place a double row on each side of the street the entire dis- tance. And there would still be enough to make scrambled eggs for a hun- ired of the biggest egg-eaters that the city could produce Just to what u the 800,000 eggs or twenty-eight miles of eggs are put it is hard to say accurately. A large pumber of them are converted into bril- liant colored hard-boiled Easter eggs to ight the eyes of the children at the expense of their stomachs if they at- tempt to ster comes but one t children are allowed to give appetites full swing. The number of eggs that one healthy child can consume is in direct 2p 0" 0,701, %, 0 20l 00,2 1T 20, Ry 2,58 Peyg % 0, % 7 R 22 U %, /"s_/"(o "e,.:' 6@; 4 % 2 Clag%s e 4, B " aid i, o Gl oqt o, equally distributed, would give each in- dividual 2 2-3 eggs. In one way or another San Francisco consumes its twenty-eight miles of eggs colored or natural, boiled, fried, poached, baked, scrambled or rolled into an omelette. them hot. some like them cold. children have even been known to eat them nine ratio as incredibly large as the number consumed by the entire population. The hotels and restaurants use an un- usually large number of eggs on Easter. Nearly everyone eats eggs for break- fast on that day even though they es- chew them on dishes are selected for the menus that require a great many eggs. many families make morning breakfas It ever there was an active, power- adds Muliler, He worked very hard, doubt whether hard work By itself can ever upset a healthy brain. very sensitive nature, and an wrought sensitiveness likely to cause mischief than steady intellectual effort. falling off in the egg sales. egg feeling, as it were, sets in. are those who even wait a vear before But when Easter comes round again they join the jubi- lant throng in trying to drive the egg consumption of San Francisco over the 1,000,000 mark and join the joyous Eas- ter shout of eggs, eggs, eggs. Of Ruskin Professor that he was uncompromicing and se- vere only with his pen. the most tolerant and agree- abie man in society. cover beauty where no one else could see it, and make of questions, and grateful for any In- Even on art topics I have listening almost defer- entially to others who laid down law in his presence. ways most winni..g, and his language He was one of few Englishmen I knew who, instead of tumbling out their sentences like so many portmanteaus, hat boxes from an open railway van, seemed to take a real delight in build- ing up their sentences, even in famil- far conversation, so as to make each deliverance a work of art. life that even temperament may have suffered much, and one saw that his wounds had not quite healed.” falling. to agais: watched him His volce was al- other days. simply perfect. is much more taking Emerson to lunch with him in his rooms in Corpus Emerson was an old friend of his, and in many respects a But some quite different subject turned up, a heated discussion ensued, and Ruskin was so upset that he had to quit the room and leave us alone. Emerson was most an egg-eating con- Next day there is generaily a sudden The bakeries do their share to bring “He was re- Christi College. the number up to 800,000. the demand for pi's and cakes greater on holidays, but in order to have thelr confections especially good it Is neces- sary to use a larger number of eggs than are ordinarily put into them. Since there are almost 300,000 people in San Francisco Not only 1s He could adis- cognate soul. allowances where I remember him as diffident as a young girl, full 800,000 eggs, if %, s, & Y, n 50 L% Y, op > 4,70 Y, b el Y ol and a4 all he could to make peace, but he had ta,leave without a recon= ciliation. “It is very difficult to make allow= ance for these gradual failures of brain power."” Matthew Arnold Professor Muller had known at Oxford as an under- graduate, and he watched and ad- mired him to the end of his life. “He was beautiful as a young man, strong and manly, vet full of dreams and schemes. His Olympian manners be- gan even at Oxford; there was mno harm in them, they were natural, not put on. The very sound of his voice was Jovelike.” % He was a delightful man to argue with, not that he could easily be con- vinced that he was wrong, but he pever lost his temper, and in the most patronizing way he would generally end by, “Yes, yes! my good fellow, you are quite right, but, you see, my view of the matter is different, and I have little doubt it is the true one!” Of living personages, and especially of living royalties, Professor Muller abstains from recording his recollec- tions, a wise abstention, yet one which undoubtedly robs his readers of much interesting material. But here and there a harmless anecdote finds its way through his reticence. Thus he resolutely closes his lips in regard to the Prince of Wales' stay at Oxford, save that he considers himself entitled to produce one small treasure from the many he has stored in his memory. This is a sixpence which he won from his royal highness at whist. “I have always been a very bad whist player, but good luck would have it that I won a sixpence at Frewen Hall, the Prince’s residence at Oxford. The Prince maintained that I had ecalcu- lated my points wrongly, but not be- ing a courtier, I held my own, and actually appealed to General Bruce. When he decided in my favor, the Prince graclously handed me my sixe pence, which I have kept ever ~since among my treasures.”