The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1898, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1898. - 9 HOLLANDER HAS SOWN HIS CROP OF WILD OATS Sumner R., the Gay Bostonian, Promises to Eschew the Wine Cup. Awakened to a Realization of His Position in This City and Now Forswears Soubrettes and Wild Company. Sumner R. Hollander has sown his wild company at an Informal little after-the- ‘ nearly proved his undoing. While in her d in & theater repast he became involye n of a widely known Boston desatf ersonal_encounter with Captain J. C. o0 cut so wide a swath here re- | Blaine, United States Volunteers, which ed to e e soclety | {t was thought nothing but recourse to the de duello would settle. Mutual friends intervened and serious results were averted, Hollander emerging from the controversy with colors flylng. Hollander was a remittance man. The $20 gold pieces which he commenc; to roll down Market street so soon after his arrival here came in such bunches ag his father thought it expedient to forward the of g! “the | v that has reached t, Hollander gives reformation to an occuples 1 to this e Bverott | him. When the storles of his escapades e reached the East his allowance was his family wor- g had As his credit was gpod, thi: able effect for some day which he had been o travel b grew rapldlg’. soon owed the Palace Hotel 3500, and creditors in proportion. As money not forthcoming, the hotel manage- levied_upon his personal belongings, ment he bethought himself 1 his_intention | st New York, and | y arrangements up | he oath of allegi- | point, supposedly through of friends this ctllf. ! :nt {n pursuit of f the tenderloin. a sybarite. The | e table and of the wine re not for him. The sparkling, ef- ent wine pressed in the vineyards hern France had no charm as in . He had, in fact, reached the | g point at the end of a long blow- had suddenly awakened to a n of the position in which he ed both himself and his family. He_ refl invitations to drink. Before his good Intentlons could be shaken, and possibly fearing a lapse from the straight and narrow path of probity hich he was treading. he turned his face to the eastward. Thus is closed an | i nt in the history of the town that | or a time promised to furnish more than i its share of the sensatlonal. ] of the city and also to induce the Ameri- | can people to patronize the worthy and | industrigus women of their own race in- { stead of taking and wearing clothing | made in the dens of Chinatown. he scheme of the operation of such a y was suggested to a number of and the organization of the com- v was the resujt. Allen, who at its LLLENS WATS WERE NOT SATISFACTORY made its manager, be- | sfast in the cat He, | days, elaborated he | thought, on_the original scheme. He sug- Labor Commissioner that re employed at the | ve 70 per cent of the | 0 bors, and that the re- maining 30 per cent should be divided | among the few who directed its opera tions, after paying the manager his sal | gested to the the 1 AN ENGINE T0 GIVE VESSEL GREAT SPEED Secretary Long Will Investigate. HEWSON'S STEAM TURBINE A NEW METHOD OF MARINE PROPULSION. Expert Engineers From the Navy Department Have Been Ordered to Come to This City. The Becretary of the Navy has for the past three months been in correspondence with Robert Hewson of San Francisco, inventor of a steam turbine that recently startled the mechanical and engineering world and just now promises to revolu- HAZEL WILL FIGHT THREE CORPORATIONS Little Miss Bluett Is in Earnest. DAMAGES FOR A DEATH HER FATHER WAS KILLED BY A TELEPHONE WIRE. He Was Working at the Time on a Freight Train Between Liver- more and the Oakland Mole. As a sequel to the death of Willlam J. Bluett of Oakland, which occurred se eral weeks ago at Decoto, a suit for dam- ages is about to be commenced in the courts of Alameda County in which a little girl, appearing as plaintiff, will do THE HEWSON STEAM TURBINE tionize steam power as used In propelling | the fighting ships of the United States | navy. It is the purpose of Secretary Long | to have this turbine inspected and report- | ed upon by experts, who will shortly | come here from Washington. The object | of the Inspection is to ascertain if the Hewson multiple-expansion steam tur- | bine may be practically applied in the | | ary. Fitzgerald declined to have an | thing to do with any company that woul operate for the cause of deserving labor Dropped by Women’s Sew'ng Company' | on & charitable basis. | To raise funds to equip the facto — | was agreed_that stock should be i {and sold. It was understood that no dividends should ever be declared on the DEPOSED AS THE MANAGER |stock, but that its sale was equivalent to | & charitable donation to the company. The holders of the stock, however, would | be entitled to a voice in the management | of the factory. Allen, the manager, be- DRGANIZATION TO AID WORTHY | came an enthusiast in the disposal of the | WORKERS. stock. For several d; he was t e ued | | busy disposing of it to the charitably posed, when word of his proposition to | ssioner Fitzgerald came to dies of the board of man- | No time was then lost in asking | statement of the finanaces | That Allen neglected to agers. Allen for a of the company. | give. A few days after the company was or- | ganized the board of managers, energetic | Its Factory to 1 ious Women Will Receive Full Value for Their |in their work, decided to have the fac- | | tory in working order with as little de- | lay as le, and they rented a suit- | | able building at Eighth and Folsom streets and began putting in the nec s~} ving machines as soon as they | fon. A sewing machine | the ladies all the credit | s they desired. Allen, as er, objected to so much haste, de- | ng that the ladies should devote | r time in disposing of the stock and | ating a large fund, which he, as | would have the privilege of h g There was friction with the manager over that, and Allen was asked | for all the books and other records of the company In his possession. _ Alien | claimed that the board of managers had | no right to interfere in his methods of | conducting the business, and for a few days it looked as if the company would : & hard time in adjusting its affairs. | Allen was prevailed upon to com- | ply with the request of the ladies of the | managing board, and he promised to hand | ver the books and other records he held, | long with his resignation from an un- aried position, by 1 o'clock yesterda: when the board of managers would mee He did not keep his promise, and at th meeting the position was declared va- | r 2ant. SQUIRE, President. Without Allen’s interference the work . Secretary | of putting the factory in shape for opera- | tion went along at a rapid rate. A Grand Army veteran named C. B. Blackburn was put in as overseer by Alien at the factory, but at the first sign of a storm | . | between the manager and the directorate | | Blackburn sided with the ladies, declar- | ing that they were right. He is carrying| | on the work faithfully, devoting all his time to it and remaining in the building at night, taking upon himself the dutles | | of a watchman as well as his other la- thel ® ¢ was or- Anselm - directors was purely is formed and It thoro bors ¢ king no questions if he will | ever get any remuneration for his work or not With Allen gone from the management | and the factory operated on the lines | that the women employed there shall re- celve the full benefit that is derived from to women a | thelr labor, the company has the full in- form and | dorsement ' of t! abor Commissioner and the Mayor. The factory will, in addl- tion to the work that will be done with- in its walls, serve as a depot for sewing | work or any kind of work that women can do. A record of all the women de- serving of labor and who can faithfully perform the work assigned to them will be kept and it is hoped that much sew- ing can be secured that women can take to their homes and perform, handling it all through the agency of the factory and receiving full and reasonabfe remunera- | tion for what they have done. he sweatshop the sewing contractors GRAPE-NUTS. | MRS. RORER, ON COMPLEXION. | i | ; Not a Matter of Outward Applica- | shaft. | Within the interior face of these steam 3 stead of triple-expansion steam engines The Navy Department is quite aware of {used in the big battle-ships. \ the stmplicity and economy of the inven- | — tion, and the only present question to be | | decided is the practicability of it. If Mr. | Hewson's machine shall stand the te expert inspection, then the Gover will place at his disposal for a pr orpedo-boat, so that the world may | shortly know whether or not an Ameri- can inventor has solved the problem of economical propulsion of great ships. The turbine which Mr. Hewson has just test a completed as a working model to be Sub- mitted to the naval engineer exper is beyond doubt the most wonderful and | startling Invention that the engineering | world has known. It is wonderful from | the mere simplicity of it and startling be- | cause of the immense power, great en- durance and freedom from danger of ex- | plosion. It is so simple of cc ;\—rm«ulunl | | that a boy, without previous Knowl of engineering and with but a few da or hours’ instruction, could drive it with | perfect safety. | It is the first multiple-expansion steam turbine ever invented and constructed. Mr. Hewson has been at work for some fourteen years in the effort to attain mul- tiple-expansion, afd from his former in-| vention other inventors have produced | triple-expansion turbines, but of vastly | | | different mechanism from this, which is| 10 be examined by the Navy Department. It was from a small model constructed by Mr. Hewson that Mr. Par s, an English inventor, who visited Fran- cisco some twelve years ago, obtained his ideas for the steam turbine that he ap- plied to the Turbinia, a vessel that for several months has been navigated in British waters. It w: from drawings and models of Mr. Hewson's later inven- | tions that another foreign inventor se- | cured his principles of steam turbines. Pt the present invention was so closely | guarded that no one, except the builders, | Gver got the faintest notion of its con- struction until the security of the Patent | Office had been piaced around it. | "The machine is cast in only four parts— | two steam chambers, one disk and one | The two Steam chambers are riv- | eted together at their rims, and each is on exact duplicate of the other. The disk, Which is attached to the shaft, fits with utmost precision within the steam cham- bers. The steam, which may be gener- | ated at any point near by or distant, is | eonveyed to the chambers of the turbine by means of a plpe at the rear side. chambers are four circular rows of small | pockets, Into which the steam from the supply pipe is discharged. The force of fhetsteam n the upper row of pockets is driven into a corresponding row of shaped buckets cast in the disk. The steam then escapes from the buck- ot in the disk to a recelving pocket in the | Steam chamber, and is then forced to the | Second row of pockets and buckets, and | this is repeated until the four rows of pockets and buckets have been acted o, by which time it is practically ex- | hausted. The disk, which is one inch thick at the outer edge and four and a | half inches thick at the hub, is thus Kept rotating at what speed may be de- sired, according to the horsepower of the | furbine and the demand for power; and the shaft which passes through the tur- bine and which is supplied at eithar end with belt pulleys, keeps pace with the | isk. . The advantages of Mr. Hewson's inven- tion over the triple steam engine now in use in marine engineering are easily seen. The turbine exhibited to' a Call reporter by Mr. Hewson is of 500 horsepower. It DY eupies a ground space of two and a half fect by six feet, and stands about three | feet from the ground to the top of the turbine. The turbine itself is about 30 | inches in exterfor diameter by 16 inches | thickness, the interior disk being 28 inches | in difameter. The ground space occupled | by @ triple engine Would be about 10 feet | by 20 feet. The Hewson turbine requires | S Roe in the Ladies' | Twenty-elght machines are now set in Torne an inquirer . place and if the work can be secured to | comp » an inquirer about good | FECF Tove in operation they will be sup- | &k citing that it can only | plied. Tables have been arranged for| Ithy condition of the | the operation of fifty-two machines. An 1 that it 1s not & mat.. | électric motor has been put in place to | R . give power to run the machines and it is | ! application, finishing | ¢xpected to have them in operation on | th the cannot poss have mu complexio | It is a known fact that many people | fail to properly digest the s(ar(’:hgl pzlx)rt‘\ of bread an r food. Grape-Nuts (a delightful breakfast food) are made of the grape-sugar which results from pr?puringnlhr: tarchy parts of the cer- eals, in the same way artificially the body should do hy)namra;—‘;rgce:f { ses.. Therefore Grape-Nuts give one | food: all ready for immediate assime | llation into blood and tissue. They | are made by the Postum Co. at Fattle | Creek, Mich., and are ready prepared, | require no cooking whatever and will -be found most valuable by Athlete, Brain worker or Invalid. 4 Sold by grocers. statement that “Your food with you if you ‘umatism and.a bad oncrete foundation. There is no jar, :g \fvl";r and tear, for the steam chambers | are effected by no reaction. The cost of construction of the turbine is about $2 per horsepower, while the cost of steam | Pngine construction s about $40 per ower. B e advantage of the turbines for use in big battleships is found in the fact that they would occupy about half the space and are less than half the weight of the triple steam engines, thus affording greater area and carrying capacity for B ®And that the cost of construction is so greatly reduced. Besides these the perfect safety and utmost slmFllcny of | | Fe turbines, being shorn of ail exterior | I eaplications, are items of economical Savantage that will be taken into account by the Navy Department. Mr. Hewson i8 a _man of youthful ap- pearance for one who has been on this coast for thirty-five years. He began his California career as a miner, Monday next. Mayor Phelan will be asked to start the machinery in motion. 1t is hoped to secure much if not all the work of manufacturing the clothlng for the soldiers that is now being made in sweatshops or in the dens of the Chinese, where the contractors are making all the rofit and paying those who perform the fnbor starvation wages. He Located the Claims. The Klondike Gold Exploration Syndi- cate has sued one of its employes, D. B. Davidson, for an accounting. The plain- alleges that it employed the defend- ant to locate mining properties for its benefit in the Klondike. Davidson pro- ceeded to Alaska, located many claims, sold them out and kept the money. The laintiff alleges that such acts were il- egal and he should be forced to turn over all moneys realized to the syndicate. 2 | sagglin | Worth,” by battle with three of the largest corpora- | tions in the State and with two private individuals, in an effort to recover a large sum of money. | Hazel Dorothy Bluett, aged 10 years, 18 to be the complainant, while the South- ern Pacific Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Bell Telephone | Company and Henry Crane and wife of Decoto are to be ‘defended in a proceed- | ing which promises to develop much in- terest and to attract widespread atten- tion in legal circles. Papers preparatory to the opening of an action are being drawn up by the Oak- land law firm of Gibson & Woolner which, with Attorney H. B. Griffin of Modesto, will represent the little girl and her guar- dian, John F. Bluett, in court. Coroner Baldwin in Oakland has been notified that the action will be com- menced, and has been requested by the attorneys to produce the depositions tak- en at the time of Bluett’s death and other records of the Coroner’s jury which sat in his case. The sum to be sued for will not be made known until the papers In the case are filed. The contest will be re- garded as extremely important, both on account of the intricate points at law to be brought out in the effort to locate the responsibility for Bluett's death and because of the large sum of money to b involved. The case will unquestionably pass to the record: an lfiulatt‘;vd one. William Bluett a ‘“‘student” brake- man in the employ of the Southern Pa- cific Company. He had been detailed, as his relatives now claim, to join the crew of a lrelibt train running to Livermore, and had been placed in a position where he might readily be instructed. He left Livermore on the freight train one afternoon in good spirits and hard at work. Next morning a tramp found his lifeless body beside the track at Decoto. He r?poneg his find and foul play was suspected, but the tramp was released. and later a Coroner’s juty found tnat Blu- ett had been caught by a sagging tele- phone wire as he walked along the top of the freight cars and had been thrown to his death. The wire found by the jury hung just above the cars and gave evi- dence of having been severely strained. After Bluett %\:\d been buried the rela- tives instituted an investigation on their ownaccount,andthe present suit for dam- ages, about to be opened, Is the result. A ltarge sum, it is understood, will be sued or. The Southern Pacific Company, the lawyers allege, will be held accountable for permitting a train to pass beneath wires when their employes were compelled to walk upon the car tops. The Bell Telephone Company will be made to answer for having placed the wire in such a careless manner as to_per- mit of its falling, and the Western Union Telegraph Company will have to stand sui! he attorn declare, because of its willingness to have its poles used for such a purpose. The Crane family had ordered the wire put up, It is claimed, and they will be asked to contribute, therefore, to ation. daughter, who is to sue, Is the eldest of three children. Although a com- paratively young man, Bluett had heen married twice, He was separated from each wife, but retained the children, of whom there were three. The two younger are in Stockton. When seen: to-day At- torney E. M. Gibson said 'We shall open the contest once, which will prnh:S)l)’ be a big one, suing on behalf of Bluett’s eldest child. We have a strong case and will make a determined fight. §[‘¢zel Blu- ett's little life has been over: dowed and we will battle for her right: dJnhn Bluett, the guardian, lives.in Mo- esto. Three Years of Festival Service. The inauguration of the fourth year of festival service will be commemorated this evening at Grace Episcopal Church, on California and Stockton streets. A special programme of music has been ar- ranged and will be sung by an augmented cholr under the personal direction of V. H. Holt. The principal singers are as follows: First tenors, Rhys Thomas, Ar- thur Messmer, Clarence Wendell, Dr. Smith and Arthur Lawrence; bassos, 3. Homer Henley, Charles Parent Jr., Wal- ter McBaln, Messrs. Fraser, Henning and Fossey, and Cyril Holt. Among the various features of the pro- gramme will be the selections “In Native Rhys Thomas, and a s0o by A new quartet, to be time in this city this selected and will ren- and appropriate 8. Homer Hen heard for the firs evening, has been der several selections piec; The service will begin promptly at 7:45 o'clock. e Granted a Divorce. Otto Anderson was granted a dlvorce from Christine M. Anderson yesterday. The decree was issued on the ground of desertion. tallor-made suits; latest designs; we M. Rothschild, 211 Sutter, r. 6 & 7. Ladtes® give credit. THE PIE WAS NOT LOADED. Walter Skerlock Seriously Injured by @ Cartridge Secured in Exchange for Pastry. A soldler with a cartridge, a boy with a home-made ple, a string which of a did duty for a fuse and a lighted match were the chief features tragedy which took place in the Western Addition last week and r in Lane Hospital receiving a tearful and nearly binided patient in the of 9-year-old Walter Skerlock. playmate of the injured boy visited Camp Merritt some days ago and'made friends with a soldier, to whom he gave a pie his patriotic moth- er had sent out for the boys in blue. The boy with the pie, having an eys for business, would not surrender the pastry to the young volunteer until he had secured in exchange an army rifle cartridge. In the course of events the plece of ordnance came into the possession of Walter Sker- lock, who resides at 2422% Bush street, and trouble immediately began to brew. With the usual curiosity of youth, Skerlock wondered what would happen if the powder in the little brass shell should be exploded. The desire for knowledge grew so strong that he determined to prove for him- self that a theory he had formed as to the effect was a correct ome. A hole he bored in the cartridge he filled with a piece of string in lieu of a fuse, and with the admiring and envious glances of two younger brothers upon him he touched a match to his embryo cannon. His theory that there would be a beautiful noise and flash was proven to Skerlock’s entire satisfaction, but the flame which leaped from the cartridge is the last thing the boy has seen since a week ago Thursday, when he per- formed his dangerous experiment. The eyes of the youth received the full force of the flash from the powder when the cartridge exploded and they were badly burned. The injured boy was removed to Lane Hospital, where in a darkened room with bandaged eyes he has had ample time to repent of his disastrous ex- periment with army supplies. The doctors have not been able to determine whether the boy will lose his sight entirely or not. One eye was not burned so badly as the other, and it is believed this one will be saved, and there are hopes for the other. 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