The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1898, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1898. no fewer pe 1 sho t the pur- can dwell- at many X is the unit and pr s only ir ntally dependent w York e and re sure to be ome plenti- aind the ould become a In either case le to do with it. i but con- k, like ithin its oudest for that are from such ‘ 1d Buf- the price of higher t r Washir in those of tha‘interior. This agree- :have been z the frefght rate at 95 cer fa caeh case. At first sight this uld s n to 1 nomalous state of affairs, but based on good reasoning and en. atisfactory both most frults, are sold Big d nges, on commission. vk handle a large pro .ach year. They Keep as to the price of oranges city, using the wires freely purpose, as- Wall street men ding the prices of stocks and s. They also keep well informed rning the oranges on hand in each ‘Ten carloacs may be due to arrive in Cincinnati to-morrow. In some é{rcumstances they would sell readily- and at good prices, but there may be a glut in the orange market in. that city just now. and the price be 80 10w that to sell them there means 2 lo! - Boston oranges may be scarce and prices eood, and the freight rates being the same to that town as Cin- ® | of the monument to Washington at the | we had pi ' | nean growers ana alers in | U ) the simplest thing in the aph to the railroad au- ignment mov- n where sales ofit. This plan is 1 to all California ieption the t and more satis cor steadier be- | around than ever it was | all odds the best | s the | con- | as many in a year heaviest consum > number that are d cago. After Chicago | a, then Baltimore | , with the other cit- | Imost exactly in the population. New York the steadiest orange > reception of a few extra demoralize prices fear- city, but the demand k is so heavy and steady in its ~tion rooms ha depressed below a fairly no matter how large the fruit. m strange to the reader > and Philadelphia each er oranges than Boston, a son lier the r S M | ! of excellent quality, has,never reached | its ante-big-freeze-up proportions. The crop this year, however, will aggregate rather more than the crop of last year, and Philadelphia are un- and both for getting ew ntrepot for t | say from 500,000 to 750,000 boxes. lirect from the More oranges are dis d of at most ba- | animated wholesale by auction than by any other plan, and the orange sales in New York and other big cities are frequently as as the busy hours on the Chicago wheat pit or the New York Stock Exchange. ‘.40 G0OD STORIES OF ng that the seginning of | be said in pa ity | would | ans trade have 29| Here is a story of the fitth Duke of a thoroughly flourishing condition, and | Bedford: | has been all summer long. Cargoes | *“One night at Newmarket he lost a | of bananas are being received with | eolo At A v at regularity at all the chief sea- up ports. | dice them in his | The number of oranges in a box va- | pocket and went to bed. Next morning | from 176 to 296. Two hundred is | he examined the dice in the presence , and the to i anges may be far from 1,100,009,000 y a fa of of hi boon companions, found that they were not loaded, and had to apolo- ENGLISHMEN OF FIFTY YEARS JA€O re not gize and pay. ome years afterward ear. That Imost an unthink- | one of the party was lying on his number, yet If all the California | deathbed, and he sent for the Duke. ges offered for sale were distrib- | ‘] have sent for you to tell you that you partially among men, women, | were right. The dice were loaded. We and ba in the United | waited until you were asleep, went to scefve only fourteen | your bedroom, took them out of your | or fifte Piled up In the wajstcoat pocket, replaced them with | boxes they are shipped in, though, 1.- | unloaded ones, and retired.’ 100,000,000 oranges would make a pile | “‘But suppose I had woke and | two and a quarter times as high and |caught you doing it?” of rather more than twice the diameter | = Well, we were desperate men—and ols.” " | national capital. | | The importation of foreign oranges, ! a big item of commerce between United States and the Mediterra- been clety. As for the morals, such things as morals were not for the grea: “When Lord Melbourne had ac dent- ports, has_ virtually wiped |ally found himself the unwilling hearer out by the combined influence of the |of ‘a rousing evangelical sermon about sresent tariff and the enormous Cali- |sin and its consequenc fornia crop. 0COOO0000C0000000000O0CO0CC000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000 The Idol of the Confederacy, Winnie D@jflg&_ Passed Away Called the Daughter of the South, but North and South Alike Followed Her to the Grave. ; \ | | HE Flower of the South,” and | Winnie was just learning to talk, and | “Undeviating Devotion to Consti- ‘} was the pet of every one, although the | tutional Liberty,” were two {xs;fllfn‘!ln‘«e{?m&y‘;}fe often subjected | | toasts drunk at a dinner at the | One day Winnie came to her mother Executive Manslon of the Con-|in high glee. She had learned a new federacy the day that Winnie | song. It had been taught to her by | Davis was christened at old St. Paul's | some ladies living in the hotel. s shurch in Richmond. “Well, sing it for mother, then,” and, {@harchyn i | taking her little tot on her lap, the Last week, Winnie Davis w her father's grav thirty-three years later, |y ,s5eq mother walted for the song. laid to rest beside | "G g 3 in Richmond, but it | e'll hang Jeff Davis to a sour TG » 2 apple tree” was what the child sang. was an escort of Northerners Who| When she was told that “Jeff Davis” formed the guard of honor. Behind | was her own papa, for whom she pray- them marched the veterans of the Con- |ed every night, the little girl scbbed S erats adtny, whosa.1d6l she 'was. ..l and sabbed/tlil sheovas il e e 'year when the Confeder-| The newspapers were full of accounts acy was most secure, she was a baby of the illness of Mr. Davis and of pic- £ tures of the prison scene when he was two years old when her parents 1led t00 | supposed to be manacled. These sen- late to avoid capture. sational reports were all the news that When her father was taken to Fort- | Mrs. Davis could obtain from her hus- | ress Monroe the mother and the four | band till contrary to his instructions children were left to make their way | the physician at Fortress Monroe, Dr. as best they could to Macon, Ga.. Their | Craven, wrote her that Mr. Davis was TEe-horses were stolen, and the | il but improviag and that many of the day's journey was made on foot. tales told were fabrications. Davis carried Winnie, while the | g After his release their return-to the | two servants, Rosette and Janet, car- | South one ovation. He had no money nor would he accept any though | ried as much of the family clothing as | they could. it was offered over and over, for the | “You are allowed to pay your ex- people of the South, still firm in the belief that their principles were the | penses, but must not leave the city” | was the order from Washington to Mrs. | ;1" quring her reign at the Executive | they were reduced to two little rooms | love of the people. right ones, looked upon him as a mar- Davis, Mansion and so it was that on Winn% in the hotel. As the days grew warmer | Mr, Davis would not accept any gifts, Such were the manners of high so- | | ments the upper portions of the win- 5 r s he exclaimel |rooms contained vitiated air, compara- The Florida yield, though |in much disgust as he left the church: |tively stagnant.” | his famous triumphal tour through the tyr. Mrs. Davis had never been popu- The family's money was gone, and | wgg showered the benedictions and the the children could not be kept Jn the | but when offered the presidency of an cloge rooms, but played on the streets. | insurance company, where his name *South. ‘Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life!” “Arthur Young tells us that a daug] ter of the first Lord Carrington said to a visitor: ‘My papa used to have pray- ers in his family; but none since he has been a peer.’ Talking of the “art or science of do- mestic sanitation,” it is somewhat startling to read in the pages of our Diarist: “Sir Robert Rawlinson, the sanitary expert, who was called on to Inspect Windsor Castle after the Prince Con- sort’s death, reported that, within the Queen’s reign, ‘cesspools full of putrid refuse and drains of the worst descrip- tion existed beneath the basements. + * * Twenty of these cesspools were removed from the upper ward and twenty-eight from the middle and lower. * * * Means of ventilation by windows in Windsor Castle were very defective. Even in the royal apart- dows were fixed. Lower casements alone could be opened, so that by far the largest amount of air spaces in the woull be of real value, he accepted Shortly after this Mrs. Dorsey, an ar ent secessionist, died and left her prop- erty, including the beautiful old man- sion of Beauvoir, to Mr. Davis for hi lifetime and after his death to Winnie. Winnie was her father’s secretary and edited all his manuscript and after his death she turned her knowledge gained in this way to account. The family’s circumstances were very straitened and Winnie began her career as a writer for the magazines. In 1886, when Jefferson Davis made Southern States, he was accompanied by his daughter. It has been sald that he was received somewhat coldly at first, but that the ineffable charm of Winnie's personality captivated the country. She was the sweet attraction of all his journeyings, and everywhere there were outpourings, ovations and welcomes. At West Point, Ga., flve thousand people called for Mr, Davis to appear and speak. Owing to illness he was unable to move. The doctor forbade any attempt to carry him out of the car. Still thousands continued clamor- ing for a speech or a word. At this juncture General Gordon, commander-in-chief of the Cenfederate Veterans, went to the rear platform of the train to persuade the populace to moderate their demonstration. He found Miss Winnie Davis at his side, and observed the tremendous enthusi- asm that she evoked. In a moment of inspiration the great general clasped the girl around her shoulders and in a loud, clear voice ex- claimed: “Fellow countrymen, your late President is unable to greet you, but here is his daughter, our daughter, the daughter of the Confederacy.” Indescribable and prolpnged was the scene. It has become history, From that hour the brave and beautiful girl was the heroine of every great gather- ing in the South and welcomed royally as the Daughter of the Confederacy. She succeeded her father in spint and in truth, receiving new benedictions and affection everywhere through the Jti SREAKING ORANGE SHPNENT NADE BY CALIFORNA THS VEAR Over 5,000,000 Boxes, Valued at Over $8,000,000, Sent East, So California Has Raised Fifteen Oranges Apiece for Everybody Under the Stars and- Stripes. DivaLss SVERSUS® i kSN A AUCTI®N oF ORANGES - AT THE EXCHANGE IN NEW YORK <ExpeLLEDeFORS O MAKINGS TOO oMUCHe NOISEe Cranks Who Haunt the Courts In Search of Big Fortunes The Insanity Commission Gathers Them In, but the Supply Seems Inexhaustible. RANCISZKA SUCHORZYNS- | unwelcome calls at his courtroom. A KA, who tried to kill Judge Cof- | disturbance generally followed the ap-- fey of the Probate Court the | Pearance of the couple and especially ther day. Is not the only crank | It the woran managed to elude her other day, is na € Only Cran¥ | pyshand ar 1 call without an escort or that ever haunted the gloomy chaperon. Then she would invariably corridors of the City Hall bent on ob-|fa]l into the clutches of the police and taining wealth ‘hat existed only in the | go to jail or suffer immediate ejection recesses of disordered minds. There |from~the hall of courts. Repeated were many others. A majority are now | Warnings to keep away mzfqe but little o the madhouse and in their waking | ImPression on her and again a prison hours count imaginary piles of gold or | door has been bolted behind her. Another of the mentally wealthy who rave that the iaercenary world without has appropriated their wealth and | created an exciting scene in the hall locked them in a living tomb. A few last April is ~~own by the name of Wynkoop. Early in the month he are left and unmolested pursue phan- | wandered into the County Clerk's of- tom fortunes, but they, too, may worry patience until the law steps in and fice and after a casual survey of his surroundings approached the probate adjudges that henceforth they must be deprived of freedom. department desk and addressed the Mrs. Suchorzynska, through her as- clerk: sault on Judge Coffey, is the last to “Wynkoop is my name,” he said, “James D. Wynkoop, and in me you see come into pror:inence. Judge Coffey is unfortunate in that he is considered a descendant of revolutionary stock. g My name wasn't always Wynkoop, but by this unique person gifted with ab- solute power to adjust the wrongs of that is my business, none of yours, sir. My forefathers were revolutionary sol- the universe. That he has failed to do |diers and for their gallantry had land so is due solely to indifference is the opinion of Lirs. Suchorzynska and he s-rip issued to them. Some of it was floated in California. My share is right is thus unpopular with the woman of | here in this city and I tell you I will largely developed eccentricities. find it if I have to search for it until Mrs. Suchorzynska and her husband, |I am a dea one.” Frank, have both occupied cells in the This statement made little im- Agnews asylu' = and it was after their |pression on the clerk. He had release that they began to add to the | listened to such tales before and he woes of Probate Judge Coffey. The |failed to enthuse. The old man finally court appointel guardians for the es- | became violent and as he was led away tates of the insane people during their | he was heard to mutter: “Born of confinement and signed the document | revolutionary stock, but now cast restoring them to capacity. When the [among thieves. Forefathers avenge couple learned this they looked upon 4t e Judge as infallible and made many me. | Mrs, Christina. Harrington is another | sTHoMPSONe STREETo | get his hands on that’ $30,000. - IDDERSs ULBERRY: from whom a next visit is:awaitéd with trepidation by . the officers - of the “cranks’ mecca,” Judge Coffey’s depart- ment of the Superior Court. - In:her opinion she is the legatee ‘of some $30,~ | 000 bequeathed her, she believes, by her uncle, the late Rev: Father J. F. Har- rington, although .the records: show that the property of the deceased is only valued at $5200 all: told.-and among the assets are some timber lands that it is thought are greatly overvalued. Miss Harrington made her last’ ap- pearance in court about three mionths ago. At that time she stated that she intended to create a disturbarnce unless. that $30,000 was promptly forthcoming, which she was of the opirion: had been: spirited away. She, like others with similar delusions, was led away. and; confined in a nearby ceill. . Afterward she made her way to the offices of At- - torney Thomas 1. Curran, where her demands were made known. -.THhe &t torney expostulated with her 'and in- formed her that he was powerless to Here the attorney made a mistake as:.’ Miss Harrington promptly wrécked his’ offices. Desks were toppled, cuspidors. penetrated glass paneled doors and . chaos in general prevailed: man or two extracted Miss H from the wreck, and the Insanity” Com- missioners busied theinselves with her. case, but found that at -the ‘time they . could not send her ‘to thé asylum. - One of the troublesome:<court - fre- quenters of old, who_has not materfal-: ized to press “his claimg’™ -for -some - time, is John Nevin. " Nevin has sev- eral times declared in open court that he is entitled to shares in’the:distribu-. tion of several estates. relinquish his claims, however, if -all: hands would labor in’ his behdlf .and- secure him a position on- the police force. ther press his claims is that he .is in the asylum for the insane at Ukiah. His last appearance in court .occurred . last April. department, as usual, and informed the bailiff that Chief of Policé- Lees had- hired five policemen fo shoot through the side of his house and rendér him hors de combat. This settled it, and’ he was bundled off to an asylum. ‘. James Dolan, a dishwasher, is under the impression that he is the Heir to a $500,000 estate, He is- a ‘great an- noyance around the courts, as well as to many attorneys, especially- Charles, J. Heggerty, of Knight & Heggerty. He visits the attorney’s office ‘at inters vals, and Mr. Heggerty never gets in a hurry to catch a car or a last boat but Dolan looms up and begs to learn - the last developments Tregarding his $500,000 estate. - fihes PR Dolan created a scene in the County Clerk’s office not long ago. He raved about that estate until the police had to be called and the ‘“opulent dish- washer” arrested.. He was found guilty of disturbing the peace and In conse- quence passed a week behind prison- bars. He was released after being ad-- monished by the Police Judge to re- main away from the “cranks’ mecca.” After a few days he returned, however, and he had a hearing before the In- sanity Commissioners. Judge Belcher thought that the evidence was insuffi- cient to prove that he was a danger- ous character, and ordered his dis- charge. Japan is to send to the Parls Exposition a huge house, hexagonal in sha and composed entirely of porcelain. meas-, ures several yards in circumference, and’| |tu welght will not be less than seventy ' ons, e i The reason Nevin fails to fur--. He sought Judge Coftey's | He offéred to -