The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1898, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1898. 4 - 3 TWENTY YEARS LATER-- STRANGE COINCIDENCE RINCE George, Duke of York, son of ble suctessor to Queen Vi tation on the warship Crescent. the Prince of Wales, and throne, has been conducting The Duke was smitten a year ctorfa’s ago with the charms of the Princess Henry of Pless, a beautiful | English girl, married to a German Prince. The Duchess of York | was furious with jealousy. The Duke went to sea in command of the | Bri a compromise. The Duchess went from port to | por sited her husband when his ship called. The Princess of Pless, | who had ¥ taken to Germany by her husband, returned to England ] and visited Cowes. OSSIP in England just at pres- ent is making much ado over the so-called fiirtation of the Duke of York with the young Pless. The most strik- feature about the whole the older gossips’ point ing from of view, is the fact that twenty years ago the Prince of Wales, the Duke of matter, y much smitten , mother of Cornwallis York's fathe with Mrs. ( Prince t is now the »bleman. “Like father, like son,” they say, and sagely. echoes the an- Is it inherited beauty and inherited that draws these two to Does the daughter of Mrs. West derive from her Cornwallis mother an indefinable power of fascina- tion which, exerted once over Albert ward, finds equal sw over his son? an eresting question for the hologist. [fiugke of York is a rather feeble, colorless young man. He has not the qualities which have made his father admired by the sport-loving public. If he has an trong inclination it is to- ward the eternal feminine. It is be- ‘lleved that he married a naval officer’s daugh and was compelled by his family to dis- card her. When the Duke of Clarence died the of York became heir to He had been educated for the sea, but in his stay ashore mc The Duke of » was engaged to his cousin, the incess May of Teck. When he died she me engaged to his brother, the Duke of York ar- rangement both convenient and consol- atory. The Duchess is not beautiful. Her looks do not improve with age. She is said to have a temper of alarming quality. Her trouble with her husband began in this way. Last year the Duke and Duchess of York pald a visit to Ire- land, the British Government wishing | to show that the royal family , loved “our warm-hearted and loyal fellow subjects in the sister isle,” as the Tory newspapers put it. At a great recep- tion given by Earl Cadogan, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of York met the Princess Henry of Pless and was smitten. The Princess spared no pains to hold her royal admirer. She fiirted with him outrageously. She dis- played her prize too publicly. The Princess was to have been pres- | ent at house partles given by the Duke | of Abercorn and the Marquis of Lon- donderry, but the Duchess of York pro- tested g0 violently to her husband that PEOO®® The Duke immediately took his warship there. wife of a very wealthy | “Like | er before his older brother died, | the | new position he had to | the Princess was omitted. Later, in London, the Duke and the | Princess met again, and the flirtation renewed. The Duchess was fu- rious. She threatened to leave her husband. The British public caught a | | glimpse of the trouble in the form of | two contradictory official i ments. The first stated that the Duke would visit the British colonies in com- mand of a naval squadron. It was issued by the Duchess in the hope of forcing the Prince’s hand and getting him out of harm’s way. The second | came from the Duke, and denied that | he was about to leave England. | | At this point the Prince of Wales | hastily returned from the Continent| and effected a temporary truce. It was brief. The Duche: who is not ! patient like her mother-in-law, the Princess of Wales, found cause for complaint. It was rumored that a sep- aration was imminent. The Prince of Pless, who seems to | have figured hitherto as an impartial onlooker, then became a factor in the situation. Duke of York and the Princess of Pless became unpleasantly general her hus- [OXOXOROROXORONONOROROXOROROXOROXO) HEN Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, who has since be- come famous as the buflder of the Pasadena Mountain Railway, introduced the mo- noxide called water gas as a | superior and cheaper fuel than coal gas, there shortly followed a great change in the gas world upon the sub- ject of the manufacture of this pro- duct. Professor riance with ment over through its | an entirely gas. One physical characteristic of water gas, however, is that, under the influ- ence of pressure, friction or low tem- perature, it will deposit much of its hydrogen In the form of water, and this has to be pumped out of the ‘“drips” along the lines by which it is trans- mitted to the consumers. This loss aggregates about 40 per cent of the to- tal bulk of the manufactured product. It costs the California companies about 78 cents to manufacture gas. But a gas which Is a "fixed gas,” in | that it is homogeneous, elastic, does | not condense under pressure or friction, | and has successfully, stood the test of Lowe's theory was at va- and was a great improve- that of the coal gas; application there resulted new product called water No particufar demand for flour. HERE fs a man at Edgar Springs, Phelps County, Mo., en- gaged in the general merchan- dise business who will doubt- less make a fortune In a short ‘Ime. The stories that come from there soneerning his methods to make busi- ness boom in dull times are numerous, ind one of them, at least, is worth re- peating. Recently he found himself with a large quantity of flour on hand and there was no particular demand for it. In a few days he placed part of the flour in a large bin and then circulated the report that he had lost a diamond ring walued at $175 in the flour while emptying it in the bin. Of course the agile reporter of the local newspaper heard about the loss and wrote it up. The merchant was greatly distressed over his loss, and for several days con- tinued to hunt for the ring in the flour and refused to sell any of it. Then he concluded that the ring was hopelessly lost and said he would give up the hunt and sell the flour, much as announce- | When the talk about the | OCKING CIN. band carried her away from the gaye- | and went to Cowes to participate in the | ties of the London season and took her | gayeties of the yachting season. } to Germany. the | quiet and s estates would be beneficial health and reputation. The Duke of York then became very unhappy. He missed his bright and | beautiful friend. s homely, jealous | and truculent wife appailed him, | Therefore he concluded that the naval | cruise would be a good thing. 1t was given out that his Royal High- | ness would complete his naval educa- | tion. *“How insp'ring it is,” said the English papers, “to see our sailor Prince thus devoted to his arduous duties re- | gardless of the delights and comforts | of home.” | The Duke was appointed to a cap- | tain's rank in the royal navy and en- | tered on his duties on the first-class | cruiser Crescent. He started out in| June and w at sea for ten weeks. | The Duke’s cruise may be defined as | a serfes of strategic coastwise maneu- vers, with the object of evading the | Duchess of York and finding the Prin- cess of Pless. The Duchess represented the enemy and the Princess an ally. The incidents of the cruise were varied. Sometimes the Duchess scored a suc- c ; sometimes the Princess. The Duchess with her two children | went from por to port along the Brit- ish Channel to meet the Crescent and its commander. This was partly to| calm public opinion. They were pho- | tographed in domestic groups at the | various ports. | Then the Princess of Pless escaped | \from her husband’s castle-in Germany | He thought that [oXOXOXOROROJOROROROXOJOROXOX i o¥oXoX oo JoROROORONOROJORoXOoY OO oXo} CHEAP GAS IS COMING FAST NOW. Works Now Belng Erected at North Beach to Supply Gas at Almost One-Half the Present Rate. temperature as low as 45 degrees below zero and, moreover, a gas which costs in its manufacture less than 10 cents per 1000 cubic feet and in places where fuel is cheap, as low as b cents per 1000 cubic feet, which burns with intense heat, its heat units being equal to that of natural gas and greater than those of water gas, such a gas has at last been invented and a factory for its manufacture is at the present time un- dergoing construction in San Francisco. A small and somewhat experimental plant has for the past ten months been in existence in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and has, during that period, been sup- plying that town. Such a gas, it may be expected, is des- tined to revolutionize the whole of the industry. Its appearance in the indus- trial world is, without doubt. the great- est event since the application of steam to power uses. TFor years the gas world looked for the coming of a gas which would do away with the use of coal as fuel; thousands of attempts were made to solve the problem, but none succeeding, the belief came to crystallize that such a gas was not pos- sible of production and that a cheap gas must, necessarily, be a poor gag. The inventor of this process for mak- ing gas is Thurston Gorden Hall, a gentleman whose struggle to get his idea upon its feet has been a life-long one. Seven years ago he met Dr. J. Placed a part of the flour ina large bin. he regretted to do so. The newspaper man made due announcement of this fact and then the flour trade took a sudden boom. A large number of per- sons who had previously said they were not in need of flour suddenly discovered a great shortage and insisted on buying large quantities. The sad-eyed merchant told of his grief at losing his valuable diamond ring, as he ordered more flour and pro- ceeded to stock up the families in the neighborhood with enough to last them until next year. He assured his cus- clusion of his vast country | the Duchess the slip, turned about and | to her | brought the Crescent into Cowes under | ENGLAND Immediately the Duke, having given full steam. seamanship. The Duke was more de-—oted to the Princess of Pless than ever. Their con- | versations, promenades and flirtations were the talk of everybody during.the | vachting week. Much of the flir.ations took place on the deck of her Majesty’s warship Crescent. The turrets, guns and bar- bettes of that gallant ship could tell | some amusing stories if they could talk. | The Duchess stayed at home, speech- | less with rage and jealousy. When the | Princess left Cowes again for Germany the Duke went to London, At th~ same time he gave up the Crescent. He was tired of it. It had lost its chief at- | traction. His trip cost the taxpayers | $40,000, and it doubtful if his naval | education wa-~ greatly advanced. | When he returned to London the Duchess took him and the children away to Copenhagen . to wisit their Danish relations. Undoubtedly the Duke had an unhappy time when he returned to the comestic hearth. But once within the charmed vicinity of .the Princess of Pless—the Princess of Flirts—he has no more power of re- | sistance than th: moth against the“ flame. The Princess Henry of Pless is one of the most fascinating women of the | European aristocracy. By her mother | she is Irish, by her father English, by | her husband German. It was a brilliant piece of W. Chisholm, a capitalist of Chicago who had been operating in electrical works, and after much effort finally succeeded in enlisting him to take hold of his project. The invention at that | time was in the shape of a broad idea in the mind of Mr. Hall, but the two went to work upon it. Dr. Chisholm | spent hundreds of thousands of dollars before the process was fully evolved. The product was such that the tests could not be made in a laboratory, but a regular working plant had to be built in which to conduct them. The small- est apparatus which Dr. Chisholm ever used had a capacity of 1,000,000 feet per day; and one of these he buiit and tore down in all nineteen times. The plant now being erected is on the site of the old Selby smelter on Beach | street, between Hyde and Leavenworth streets. The completed plant will cost ,000,000 and will have a capacity of 20,000.000 cubjc feet per da will | first be furnished .to the rict of the clty comprising Stockton, Post, Sutter | and Montgomery streets, and the local- | ity generally bounded on the north and | east by the bay of San Francisco, on the west by Van Ness avenue and on the south by Market street. Gas will | be furnished consumers at $1 per 1000 cubic feet. The stock has been pooled for five years with an agreement not to increase the price of gas bevond that Her mother, rate. : The agile reporter tomers that he knew none of them was buying flour merely because he had the misfortune to lose his diamond ring in the flour bin, but for the reason that all were out and anticipated another war, with the consequence that flour would greatly advance in price. It is said that when he sold all the flour he could purchase in the vicinity he ordered more from abroad, and is still doing a land office business. Total strangers who never had been in his store before now visit him and go away with numerous sacks of flour. They all tell him that they had heard he sold the best flour in the country, and he modestly admits that such is a fact. All his customers who had been in the habit of dealing with him express great sorrow over his loss of the ring and occasionally he stops figuring up his profits long encugh to wipe away a tear as he ack.iowledges their good- ness of heart in tendering him- con- dolence. Meantime envious merchants in that part of the State have commenced in- timating that they do not believe he Mrs. Cornwallis West, | unlike that famous woman, she never twenty yes ago, was the greatest | suffered the same public reprobation. beauty in British societ She engaged | She was a de.ghter of Lady Olivia the attention of the F ce of Wales | Fitzpatrick, who in turn was the at the same time as Mrs. Langtry, but, | daughter of the Marquis of Headfort, of a local newspaper wrote up the ring incident. NE LOVE AFFAIRS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AND HIS SON, DUKE OF YORK. a great Irish nobleman. Mrs. Cornwallis West married Colonel Cornwallis West, an English landlord, with vast landed estates chiefly in North Wales. It is said in England that the Prince of Wales, wh~ is very fond of the Duchess of York, has determined that the Duke sh cease his attentions to the Princess of Pless. It will be in- teresting to know how the Prince of Wales proposes to accomplish this task. Will he, perhaps, read him a lesson from the history of his own life? Will there be a heart-to-heart talk be- tween father and son, and, if so, wouldn’t it make interesting reading? —_— The Armenians claim to be the most ancient nation on the earth, and are doubtless, like other Aryan races, of the line of Japheth. They have often been compared with the Jews, and they ex- hibit Semitic characteristics. e Over 100,000 horses are killed every year for food in Paris, and there are scores of restaurants where horse flesh is regularly served as an article of foou. The use of this meat has recently ex- tended to many other cities of Europe. e The marks on playing cards are said to have their origin in a symbolical rep- resentation of four different classes of society. Hearts represented the clergy; spades, the nobility, derived from the Italian word “spads,” meaning sword; clubs, the serfs; and diamonds the citi- zens. —_————— The flags to be hoisted at one time in signaling at sea never exceed four. It is an interesting arithmetical fact that with eighteen various colored flags and never more than four at a time no fewer than 78,642 signals can be given. —_————— One-fourth of the people on the earth die before the age of 6, one-half before | the age of 16, and one person in each hundred born lives to the age of 65. X3 :‘ X\ TR DUKE AND DUCHESSAND PRINCE. EDWARD OFYODK ON BOARD THE *CRESCTNT” : @@@@@@@@@@@@@9@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@®@@@®®®@@@@@®@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@é@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ CREATED A MERRY BOOM IN FLOUR WHEN TRADE WAS lost his diamond ring in the flour bin, but concealed it for sinister motives, and that even if he did happen to lose it in the flour he fished it out right away, and thc those who are buying so much flour in the hope of finding a diamond ring in one of the sacks and are sitting up ni@its to sift the flour in useless search are victims of a bunko game. But the enterprising merchant ignores such thrusts. He says that he always knew the people of Phelps County would buy their flour where they could i i \ 7 DULL. o7 There followed a rush of people who insisted on buying large quantities of Tloup get the best and cheapest brands, and since they discovered that he kept no other kind of flour they have been in a hurry to make large purchases before the stock became exhausted.—St. Louis Republic. . —————— The hump on the back of the dromedary is an accumulation of a peculiar species of fat, which is a store of nourishment beneficently provided against the day of want, to which the animal is often ex- posed. The dromedary or camel can exist for a long perfod upon this hump without any other food.