The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1898, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 189 HISTORY SHOULD HAVE TAUGHT PHELAN A LESSON Two Other Instances of “Hefting” in the Treasury Department Whose Moral Was Not Heeded by the Posing Boss. With Defcat Staring Him in the Face the “Holier Than Thon” Mayor Cries for Aid While the Boodling Examiner Pleads for a Corruption Fund. James D. Phelan, the *‘hefting” Mayor, cannot practices, for the history of San Fran- cisco has two dark pages in it previous to the Widber page, and these pages re- crime, suicide and loss of money to y through similar methods. When A. J. Bryant was Mayor a clerk in the Treasurer’soffice abstracted money «from the vaults, and his peculations were permitted to go on through the re- missness of the Mayor, Auditor and County Judge, who fatled to count the cash, but trusted to seeing the bags and “hefting” them. After taking $20,000 the deputy found that his crime was about to be discovered and made a clean breast of it and then killed himself. Some years later, when James Otis was Mayor, Alexander Austin, Tax Collector, produced ‘‘certificates” from a depository instead of the coin, which the law says must be ‘“seen and counted.” Judge Stanly iInsisted on “seelng and counting” the coln, and for this was roundly de- nounced by friends of Mayor Otis and Collector Austin. When the bags were opened it was found that there was a de- ficlency of ,000. Austin’s bondsmen were compelled to make good the amount. Phelan is undoubtedly familiar with the s in these cases, and knew that had law been complied with there could | been but a small deficlency, which would have been detected in the begin- ning. Had he properly a ed” Widber’'s cash there would efalcation, and the city wi | e loser to the extent of more for b > duties for which h 1ce Widber's defalea to grow from month 1 it reached a point where surer could no longer con- | ceal it and exposure and ruin came, While Phelan prates of his own hon- est i says there are nome honest enough sit in _council with him in | either the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth | Tenth Wards, the people would like | to know what grade of honesty it is t . man to draw a big salar the city’s Interests and t iin lefter and spirit of the the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Wards, whom Mayor pplant by “‘honest and wards may not have men in d ish bln 5 rom other excuse his dereliction of duty | through ignorance of the evils of such | this the party all Democrats who have the honesty ~and temerity to vote agaidst | Phelan. | arrogance and flocking to the standard | found wanting. that kind of “honesty,” but they have the honesty which will see to it that they are represented by men who will not slight thelr duty. These men in the tabooed wards may not be “fit” to work with a Mayor who oses as the acme of morality and purity | n politics and then descends to political | tricks to gain his ends, but they are “fit” to pass judgment on him, and when Phe- | lan is weighed In their balance he is The Mayoralty chalr as a stepping-stone | to the United States Senate may be Ph lan’s idea, but the people prefer it to be | used for the good of the city, and when | the “hefting” Mayor tries to surround | himself with men who will do his bidding and let him be in abgolute control of city affairs, those Democrats who have been turned down as unfit {e'.l\]‘?“‘ there m;\s‘(‘ be some desi udden assumption | of honesty They feel that the Mayvor's business methods, 80 far as city affalrs are concerned, are bad and | they condemn him. They condemn his they dereliction of duty his assumption of ultra condemn his_snobbishness he aristocratic element of ing that the men in al- are not fit to asso- condemn him for | by and | condemn most half clate with him; swearing that but during th ry evide: = ) was spent of dollars were spent; ondemn mml for wearing & silk hat and kid gloves when he goes among the aristocratic peo- ple, and t howing his contempt for workingme Appearing before them in old clothes and a slouch hat; they | condemn him for his arrogance in ap- committee to look after the the Democratic party and nd flle of the party a pointing a interests of refusing the rank voice i in the hefting' ounc Mayor begins to feel this for he has abandoned all tion by his own rty and wheedle Republican’ votes, and his champions, the twin evils of jour- nalism, the Subsidized Bulletin and the blackmailing Examiner, brazenly admit | efection and proceed to read out of But while “hefting” Phelan poses and his buzzard newspapers split hairs over grave accusations, the people of the city are turning from the man of pretense and of Patton in such numbers that conster- sits in the Phelan camp and the “hefting’” Mayor is crying aloud to the leaders of his party for help, while the boodling Examiner devotes its columns | to frantic appeals for a corruption fund wherewith to buy the election. nation NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. at Britain will expend the sum of 0 on the Honkong dockyard exten- The Russian Imperial yacht Standart is the largest, fastest and most elegantly furnished vessel belonging to rovalty. She ed as far back as 1893 by the X ar, yve the first rivet of sil- er in a plate of the same metal, now con- € or one of the toptank plates. intended for a | nearly $1.250,000. tors in Copenhagen, Denmark, rert the vessel into an Iperfal yacht | fitted out for which the sum of | 5 X additional was to be allowed. But | during the following two years more changes were ordered involving $150,000 additional cost and by the time she was finally completed, one year ago, her total | cost had. run up to $1,750,000. The Standart | is 370 feet in length, 50 fi and displaces 5247 tons. tery of eight six-pounder Hotchkiss guns, elght boats and four 40-feet steam launches. on the main deck aft the engines, while forward of the boiler room the officers of the ship are quartered. The vessel is lighted by eleetrioity, over 1000 Jamps be- ing distributed and nearly twenty miles of wire is used. Her speed s 22 knots, with 11,323 horse power. | strengthening into the hulls, thereby in- | & speed of about 18 knots. The Imperial apartments are | | fore’ the court, | hammer. The Pegasus, one of eight cruisers of | 2135 tons building by contract for the Brit- ish navy, has passed through a very satis- factory natural draught trial of eight hours. The contract called for 18.56 knots with 5000 horse power, but she developed 20 knots and 5400 horse power. She is fitted with water-tube boilers of the Reed type and carried 278 pounds of steam, the air pressure was .86 of an inch and the revolutions averaged 28. Unfortunately for a fair comparison with her sister | ships, the Pegasus was flying nearly two feet light, and under the same conditions, she will have no difficulty in reaching 21 knots when her forced draught trial comes off. At the thirty hours coal con- sumption trial the engines developed 3698 horse power, giving a speed of 17.26 knots | and the coal consumption was only 196 | pounds per horse power. In the French armored crulser Jeanus d'Are, the triple screw engines occupy nearly three-quarters of the length of the | ship, although the length of :the vessel {s ver 469 feet. A total horse power of | 25,000 and a speed of 22 knots Is expected. | Bhe will have six funnels, and electricity will furnish the motive power for the larger guns and for the ammunitfon hoists. Lockroy, Minister of the French Mar- ine, has great faith in the utility of the submarine boats building at Brest, and devotes much personal attention to the | subject of submarine warfare. Japan has now an Institution of Naval Architects, the new society just orga- nized beginning with 250 members and as- sociates. An Assoclation of Engineers has existed in Japan for nearly twenty years. The Emperor of China, acting upon the suggestion of Yu Lee, the new member of the Grand Councll, has issued orders to the North and South Superintendents of Trade to advance $250.000 annually for a term of ten years toward the building of a new navy. Other viceroys have also been ordered to subscribe, and the Im- perial Maritime Customs will forward the requisite amounts. A torpedo boat destroyer, bullt for the German navy by Thorneycroft at Chis- wick, and known as D 10, had a measured | mile trial last month at the Mapiin. With the official load of 84 tons aboard the boat made a mean speed of 28.545 knots. The contractors have guaranteed a speed of 27.6 knots on a trial to be made in Ger- many with German engineers and firemen in charge of the machinery. The boat is 211 feet § inches In length, 19 feet 6 inches beam, displaces 300 tons on a draught of 7 feet 6 inches, and the harse- power is 5500. The armament consists of five 3-pounders and three torpedo tubes. Nine years ago ten torpedo gun boats of 735 tons were bullt for the British navy. They were to have a speed of 21 knots with 4500 horse power under forced | taken, That was a tru 3 tory, was the draught an .76 knots under natural | other fellow b HE draught -.us horse power. The re- ?}laba-ber‘x’:ocr:l? inp T on L ey | yield in the world. | tin mine; South America, only one | area, Bolivia and Peru yielding less than | 4000 “tons a year, and Australasia, the youngest, contributes about 6000 tons a | year. sults, however, were very disappointing, | as the higt only 3500 and a corresponding speed of 20 | knots. But the trouble was not confined | to wae bollers alone, which were blamed for the failure, for the hulls were found to be dangerously flmsy and threatened to fall apart at the high speed. It be- | came necessary to put additional | creasing the displacement from 73 to 770 tons, and the Admiralty was satisfied with natural draught power, which gave In Brassey's Annual these boats have ever since ap- peared as 20-knot racers and a uniform horsepower of 3500, One of these boats, the Salamander, underwent a three hours’ natural draught trial in Septem- ber last and with new bollers developed 2126 horsepower and & speed of 17 knots, which falls considerably short of the esti- mate when designed. e ey SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. 1t is said that the cruelty and selflshness of Tiberius, the Roman Emperor, deprived the world of aluminum for eighteen cen- turies. During his era, 41 B. C. to 37 A. D., a worker in metals appeared at his court with a beautiful goblet, which shone like silver, and yet which;~when purposely dropped on the floor by the arti- ficer, was bent out of shope, Quickly, be- he repaired it with' his The Emperor asked as to the material and was told the workman got it from a certain ('la.ffi The metal had the same brilllancy as sllver, was lighter and more ductile. The Emperor asked if any one else knew the secret of the manufac- ture and was proudly told no by the clever workman. Thereupon, Tiberius, reallzing that the value of both gold and silver would be greatly decreased if the new metal became popular, seized the workshop of the man, destroyed the con- tents and decapitated the unfortunate in- ventor himself. There is no doubt the metal was the aluminum of to-day. The fact that tin, of all metals in com- mon use, 1s only sparingly distributed | throughout the world is agaln called at- tention to by an Australian geologist, Mr. B. J. Skertchley, who has published a monograph upon the subject. While the known gold flelds of the world cover more than 1,500,000 square miles, the tin flelds have an area of less than 12,500 squares miles. Thus, for every square mile of tin ground, there are 132 squares miles of old-bearing country. There are seven tin istrict inl Eum})e, producing about 8300 5 o tons year which the Cornish mines ~ vield about 800 tons. _ Asia | has two tin areas—Hunan in China, estimated by some of the best au- thorities to produce 10,000 to 20,000 tons a year, but proved by official figures to ield less than 2500 tons, and the Stralits | Settlements and adjacent principalities, yielding 58,000 tons yearly—the richesat Africa has no known tin ——————— JOHN ALLEN’S TRUE STORY. It is a debatable question among his friends whether John Allen depends more upon memory or invention for his inex- haustible fund of etories. Cologel Wil- llam R. Morrison, who is something of a story teller himself, once felt called upon to explain Mr. Allen’s staying powers, after a bout in which he and the Missis- sipplan had alternated in entertaining a party of railroad men while the Interstate Commerce Commission was having a sit- ting at Tupelo. “I can’t compete with John Allen,” said Colonel Morrison, apologetically, “‘because I haven't got the gift of imagination., My storfes are true. They are actual occur- rences. Everybody in Washington knows that John Allen’s stories are made up as he goes along. Now, I once heard him tell of an army experience that was pure fiction on its face. He sald that a com- rade and he were lying behind a log while the battle was going on in front of them. The fighting was pretty hot. Allen and his comrade were & good deal in doubt as to how long that log would protect them from the bullets. hey got into a discussion as to which should poke up his head and take a view of the surround- ings. Finally, Allen says, his comrade urged: “John, you look and see where the Yankees are. You know you are a single man and haven't got any family.’ Now,” concluded Colonel Morrison, “that was something that never happened, but I have heard Allen tell it repeatedly, and | always raise a laugh.” There was a general smile at John Al- len's expense, and then Edward L. Rus- sell, the president of the Mobile and Ohio Rallroad sald: “Colonel, you are mis: t horse power reached was | LEFT HER COMPANY N THE LURCH Clara Thropp Leaves Town Suddenly. HER WHEREABOUTS A SECRET MISS SWIET MOURNS A SUIT OF UNDERCLOTHING. Manager Leavitt Will Take Out Requisition Papers and Have the Actress Brought Back to Town. Without a word of warning either to her company or her manager Clara Thropp quietly slipped out of town yesterday af- ternoon, leaving her business and profes- stonal assoclates to face the unpleasant | task of accounting for her absence to an audience that comfortably filled the New Comedy Theater last evening. Miss Thropp, who is advertised as a soubrette, was billed to appear yesterday night in a medley of mirth and melody entitled “The Little Hussar.” BShortly af- ter 6 o'clock Manager Leavitt of the O»m- edy recelved a message from his “star®® stating that she was indisposed and would not be able to appear in the evening’s performance. Miss Thropp's reported in- | disposition aroused the manager's and the company’s suspicions, and at once Charlie Thropp, the ‘““‘Hussar’s” brother and rep- resentative, was started on a chase for the recalcitrant soubrette, with orders to { bring her back to face her audience and her duties. Brother Charlie's quest was useless. Miss Thropp was nowhere to be found. At the hotel where she had made her head- quarters it was learned that she had transferred her trunks to climes and hos- telry unknown and that she had neglected the small duty of paying her board bill. A search of her theater trunks reveale the fact that they were empty, an Incl- dent that went & long way (o explain the daily package that Miss Thropp carried away from the theater with her. In her installment packings the soubrette had bundled away elaborate stage gowns sne had borrowed from Miss Goodwin, one of the ladies of her company, as well as one suit of Jaeger's, which the actress bhad also taken from the same prolific source. While Manager Leavitt was having the city searched for the absent actress word was brought him that the winsome Clara, with a friend, two hand satchels and a ticket for theé Oregon express had been | crossing the ferry at 5 o'clock. The -ws completely prostrated the company, to which Miss Throp~» is heavily indebted. The charming and clever Clara'{s also be- htr:‘l‘den to Manager Leavitt for nearly Previous to lenv‘lni town Miss Thropp gave out the story that Manager Leavitt was indebted to her for.more than $1..0. Thropp explained the delinguency by Stating that Manager Leavitt, who was playing her on a per cent Dbusi- ness profit basis, had neglected to forward her the transportation for herself and pany from Ogden to this city. In an- swer to Miss 'X’hmgp's wire for rallroad fares Leavitt is said to have advised that the percenatge due him be used for that purpose. According to tne Throg{v story there was no profit coming to the man- agement, and the actress was forced to put up for the transportation. This al- eged Er!nl‘h of trust {s sald to have been Miss Thropp's especial grievance, and, ac- cording to her friends, explains her’ un- expected leave-taking unaccnmganled by the formality of leaving her address Manager Leavitt tells quite a diifferent story and backs his assertion by state- ments and a long list of figures. “Besides the shameful way in which Miss Thropp has treated her company, leaying them with many weeks' salary due, T have the added grievance of being out over $750. 1 played Miss Thropp and company from St. Joseph out here and was to have received 50 per cent of the gross receipts. As business was poor, I allowed Miss Thropp to collect and use my percentage, and she owes me my share from the first town out til] here. When she got to Salt Lake she wired me for transportation and I forwarded her $160. Instead of using the money as T in- tended she should, Miss Throp‘n_hypoth@ cated her trunks out here for §250, and so that she might open here as advertised I had to redeem those trunks from the Southern Pacific.” cided to take out requisition make Miss Thropp come bac! the musie. Charles Thropp, brother of the missing actress, professes to know nothing of her whereabouts. *“I lunched with my sister yesterday noon,” he said, ““and that is the jast T saw of her. At that time she was extremely nervous and excited and ex- pressed her fear of fnclnf a San Francis- co audience in a new play of uncertain merit. She sald that to reduce expenses she had given up her apartments at the Langham and had gone to stay with a friend, Mrs. Parson Taylor. I feel con- fident that she has not left town, that she {s just unstrung and nervous and will turn up in time for to-morrow evening's performance.’ Mr. Thropp does not know where his sister’s friend Mrs. Taylor can be found, but is confident his sister is safely rest- ing with her. ¥n “The Little apers and and face stead _ of Hussar” “Where's Matilda' went on at the thea- ter last evening. Miss Marie Winsom assuming with Miss Thropp's part. success THE ENGLISH BARMAID. “If the Hoboken barmaids, about whom there is much discussion just now, were treated as the average English barmaid and waitress 18 treated they would resign in disgust,”’ sald a man who has just re- turned from London, ‘“‘Before I left nl;‘- land an investigation was being made by one of the mornin, lations under which these women work and the results were surprls!n?. The con- ditions of work there are trying and un. healthy. Owing to the reluctance ot em ployes fo give evidence against their em- oloyers it was difficult to get at the truth l’)ut enough has been discovered to wal rant a sweeping investigation. For e: ample, it was found to be a common pra tice for the employer to shut out a walit- ress or barmald from Saturday night to Sunday night, leaving her to lodge where she could. And this practice of the em- loyers to shut the waltresses in on Sun- ay between the time of closing and open- ing is to make sure that they secure the proper rest. As to the ‘wages paid, any one who has tried’to secure employment for a respectable girl, entirely dependent on the money she can earn, will find that the best remuneration is totally insuffi clent to keep her without additional hel The young woman who {8 willing to worl all day for a pittance which is some con- tribution to a common family fund fixes the standard of wages at . a starvation oint for the worker who Is dependent on er work. “The hours of work for barmaids are long and late. The Kemp bill, which has ust been drawn, fixes the limit of work- ng_hours for these women at ten a day. and forbids more than five hours at a stretch without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal. It remains to be seen how this will be enforced. Women in America who have to work for a living have no occasion to envy the women workers in England,” —_—————————— A REMARKABLE CASE. A thirteen-year-old girl of this county ‘was brought to the city Tuesday to have An examination made of her eyes. She was taken to Dr. Pricer's office on Third street, and, after a thorough exam- ination, the doctor found that the optic nerve was dried and shriveled and almost dead from the excessive use of tobacco. The doctor found, upon guestioning the girl, that she had used tobacco since shé was 4 years old. Bhe sald that she had %hgor;‘dfl!mo.lje j“l"t t&e'fflreb{lendvln home. e most tof nd, she {8 not able to distinguish objeycu that_are t{lls- case the child’s tant one foot from her eyes. The is rem:rluhle gn h?auount of age. case of this kind can be treated successfully If the patient quits th of tobacco.—Ironton Repul & 2 o Mr. Leavitt has de-| papers of the regu- | HORSES THAT WILL GO FOR RICH PRIZES California Jockey Club Stakes Filled Well. EASTERN HORSES ENTERED GEORGE KEENE THE MOST CLAS- SICAL ENTRY OF THE LOT. Entries and Weights for the Open- ing Handicap at Oakland as Assigned by J. W. Brooks. The list of nominations to the first ten stakes of the California Jockey Club, to be decided at Oakland track, was issued yesterday. There is a noticeable lack of Eastern horses among the list, but if the money stays at home there ¢an be no “kicking” on that score. These stakes and entries will later be issued in book form and public interest will revert to the opening handicap to be decided on the first day of the meeting, Saturday, October 20. The entries and welghts are as follows: The opening handicap, purse $1250—1. A han- dicap for two-year-olds and upward; entrance $10, $25 additional to start, the club to add an amount necessary to make the gross value of the race § of which §2.0 to second and $100 to third. Weights to be published October 25. Declarations to be made to the secretary at the track before 11 o'clock a. m. Friday, October 28; to be run Saturday, October 24, 1898; one mile: Satsuma 132, Ostler Joe 117, George Keene 117, Grady 116, Rubicon 115, La Goleta 114, Buckwa 112, Morellito 112, Crom- well 110, Ben Hadad 110, Judge Denny 110, Rosin- ante 116, Napamax 107, Hurley Burley 107, San Venado 106, Moringa 106, Osculation 108, Col- onel Wheeler 106, Wheel of Fortune 105, Mori- nel 106, Marplot 103, Hohenzollern 100, Recre- ation 98, Highland Ball 9, Rosormonde $3, Little Alamo 92, Olinthus &, Bonnie lone 87, Ralnier 85, Jennie Reld $3. The stakes with the entries thereto are given below, and are as follows: 2 The California Maiden stakes for two-year- olds (foals of 1896); for maidens at the time | of closing of the stake; to be run Saturday, November 5, 1568; six_furlongs—Rey del Rlo, Altenango, Mid Love, Lothian, Enges, Festoso, TFlere, St. Isidore, Tenebrae, St. Kristine, Irlan- Qais, Jingle Jingle, My Dear, Senora Caesar, Dont Tell, Long Dandy, Ed Lanigan, Master Lee, Wheat King, Hannah Reid, Dunpraise, Anchored, Glengaber, Wood Robin, Leiter, Miss Reel, Inola, Flamida, Baby King, Elizabeth K, Fortls, Correct, Rascination, Santa Flora, | Barl Isiington. 5 . The Naglee selling stakes: value $1260; for three-year-olds and upward; to be run Thurs- day, November 10, 1895, seven furlongs—Ring Master, San Venado, La_Goleta, Major Cook, Libertine, Col. Wheeler, Napamax, I(!L‘ru!llnn, | Marplot, Col. Dan, Bellicoso, Buckwa, Crom- | well, - Plexotto, Bonnie lone, Rosinante, Ber- nardillo, Moringa, Zarro, The Swain, Etta H, Hohenlohe, Hohenzollern, Ben Hadad, Hurley | Burley, Fonsovannah, Darechota, Chihuahua, | Rubicon, Grandezia, San Mateo, Lord Mar- | mion, Satsuma, Little Alarm, Whitcomb, Val- | enclenne, George Miller, Highland Ball, Hamil- | ton I St. Lee, A | "4 The Burlingame stakes; value $1Z50; for two-year-olds and upward; to be run Saturday, November 12, 1898; one mile—Rey del Rio. Goleta, La Maroma, General Arthur, Olnthus, Humidity, Obsidian, Recreation, .anm'{\u Marplot, Colonel Wheeler, Rosormonde, (.-e_y ser, The Swain, Hohenzollern, Hohenlohe, Es- Hurley Burley,' Ben f plonage, George Keene, | Hedad" Toluca, Rubicon, Storm King, Racio, | Tord AMarmion, Rainier, The Last, Morellito, Morinel, Los Prietos, Rio Honda. 2 5. The Cadmus selling stakes; purse $1250; for three-year-nlds (foals of 18%5); to be run Monday, November 28, 1398; one mile—La Ma- Toma. Y Goleta, Napamax, Recreation, Odds- on, ‘Marplot, Osculation, Moringa, Tom Cal- Vert, Hohenlohe, Plan, Flandes, Hurley Bur- Jey, Ben Hadad, Twinkier, Linstock, Fonso: vannah, Darechote, Chihuahua, Raclo, Lord Murmion, Little Alarm, The Last, Dr. Ber- nays, Torsida, Arbaces, Los Prietos, Invary 1L, Rlo Honda. §. The Produce Exchange selling stakes; purse $1000; for two-year-olds (foals of 1896): to be Tun Saturday, December 3: six furlongs—Rey | 8ol Rio, Reina de Cuba, Los Medanos, Blein, | Laay Meddlesome, Napian, Evgea, Humidity, Excursion, Gauntlet, irst Tenor,” Obsidian, Fermo, Flero, Festoso, Ventoro, Hemera, Saint- Iy, Royal Fan, St. Kristine, 8t. Isidor, Flam- aro, Allyar, Magdalenas, Jingle Jingle, My Dear, The Oftering, Don't Tell, Sam MciKeever, Sweet Cakes, EQ Lanigan, Toluca, Ann Page, Modwena, Headwater, Returned, Rey Hooker, Clarello, Sir Urian, Malay, Casdalo, Flamida, Simf, Revana, Ellzabeth R, Good Hope, Santa Flora, Horton, Rascination, Limewater. 7 "Fne Flirtation stakes; purse $1000; for fillles two years old (foals of 1896); to be run Satur- day, December 10; six and'a half furlongs— Relha de Cuba, Altenango, El Estro, Lady Meddlesome, Humidity, Engea, Banewor, Fuga, | Fiena, Racery, St. Kristine, Primavera, Royal Fan, Tenebrae, Violence, Chimura, Winifred, Jinks, Magdalenas, Don't Tell, Jingle Jingle, My Dear, The Offering, Senora Caesar, Sweet Cakes, Maud Ferguson, Toluca, Ann Page, Hannah Reld, Hemera, Lapenntente, Clarello, Loyalirta, Loyalusta, Flamida, Ocorona, Eliza- beth R, Migs Marion, Santa Flora, Rascination. % The Oakland prize stakes; purse $1250; for two-year-olds (foals of 1806); to be run Tues- day, December 27, 1898; one mile—Rey del Rio, | Relha de Cuba, Elsie, Olinthus, Flero, Fermo, Firet Tenor, Gauntlet, Humidity, Napian, Ob- Sidian, St Isidor, Flamaro, Almoner, Bt. Ap- pollinaris, Violence, C. H. Harrison Jr. C{(;r- Hne, Allyar, Jingle Jingle, My Dear. The Of- fering, Senora Caesar, Esplonage Dom't Tell, Sam McKeever, Sweet Cakes, Toluca, Hannah Reid, Saintly, Lapenntente, 'Sir Urlan, Simi, Rainier, Revenna, Baby King, Elizabeth R, Con Dalton, Ulm, Rascination, Banta Flora, slington, Limewater. e e Athenian Club oup eelling stakes: \rse §1500; for three-year-olds and upward: to PeTun Saturday, December 81, 18598; two miles d & quarter—Kitty B, Marplot, Rey del Ban- idos, Juckwa, Can't nce, 8y ’F, Sar- donle, Won't Dance, Forte. Vincitor, Personne, Paul Kauvar, Teutonna, Gotobed, Jack Brad- ley, Wheel of Fortune, Twinkler, Linstock, Charlie Tieif, Meroutio, Judge Denny, Twinkle Twink, The Roman, Howard 8, Schiller, Veloz. 0. The Baldwin Hotel handicap; purse $1500; a handicap for two-year-olds and upward; to be run Monday, January 2, 1899; one mile: Tim Toolin, San Venado, Rey del Rio, La Goleta, Reina de Cuba, La Maroma, Olive, General Arthur, Olinthus, Rosormonde, Colonel Wheel- or, Odgson, Marplot, Napamax, Recreation, First Tenor, Gauntlet, Humlidity, Buckwa, Cromwell, Rey del Tierra, Rosinante, Bernar- alllo, Geyser, Paul Griggs, Hohenzollern, Sam McKeever, George Keene, Ben Hpdad, Hurley Burlay, Toluca, Linstock, Fonsovannah. Han- nah Retd, Jennle Reld, Brier Sweet, Bendoran, Saintly, Storm King, Malay. Rainier, Judge Joe, Ben Row, Satsuma, The Ro- Denny, Ostler Joe, Bel mima, The e man, Greyhurst, Arbaces, Fleur 1ito, Morinel, HANDLING COAL IN LONDON. Infinite as is the variety of the ship- ping that finds its way to the Thames, there is due to arrive in the river to- day a craft whose unusual appearance will excite the curiosity of the long- shore population. Recently there left the Tyne, in charge of three powerful tugboats, a large steel structure known in ship- builders’ parlance as a derrick pontoon, which, given a good voyage, will haul up to Its berth at the coal depots of ‘William Cory & Son, Limited, at Charl- ton. This derrick pontoon, which has been christened Atlas No. 3, is specially intended to facilitate the discharge and distribution of the seaborne coals. The pontoon measures 500 feet in length by 47 feet 6 inches in width and 12 feet 6 inches in depth, and her outfit of machinery is of such an ingenious and powerful character that she can claim to be the only craft of her kind in the world. Atlas No. 3 has, indeed, been specially designed to carry out a specific purpose, and when she is safely moored at her berth Londoners will be able to see their eoal handled at a rate which cannot be equaled at any other coal-importing center. At Charlton there are now two float- ing derricks, but they are simply old ships converted for the purpose. The new derrick pontoon is shinshaped at the ends, with a poop at each end, and has four lines of rails running nearly its entire length. On one side—the side which will present itself to the river, at which the steam celliers are to lie— there are nine hydraulic grabs, with weighing machines attached, rTunning on one pair of rails. With these grabs, when a colller arrives alongside, the 4 coal will be hurried out of the holds, welghed, and registered, and then swung round and discharged into nine corresponding chutes traveling on an- other pair of rails, and from the chutes the coals are shot out on the opposite side of the pontoon into barges. In the course of a day it is estimated that this derrick pontoon will be able to handle in this way about 5000 tons of coal, or the cargoes of four to five ordi- nary steam colliers. Nor does this exhaust the equipment of London’s new coal distributor. There is a complete set of workshops on board, so that repairs can be done by the staff; a large Kitchen, with range and grill, and separate dining rooms for the lightermen, private cabins for the captain and engineer in charge, and a handsomely fitted directors’ room, while the electric light 1s fitted throughout. The Cory Company imports and dis- patches over London and its environ- ments between five and six million toas of sea-borne coal per year. This vast quantity is used almost entirely for household, manufacturing and bunker- ing purposes, and leaves out of account another two or" three million tons im- ported by the great gas companies for lighting purposes, and also the large quantity of rail-borne house coal that comes into the metropolis from the OF INTERES TO BUYERS. Purchasers’ Guide fo Responsible Merchants, Manufacturers, Brokers, Ime porters, Wholesale Traders, Jobbers, Insurance and Real Estate Ageats. CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS MAILED ON APPLICATION. In Corresponding With Any of the Following Firms Pleass Mention “The CalL” ART WARE AND ANTIQUE FURNITURE. THE P. ROSSI CO., @rtistic Furniture and drt Ware Importers. 117 SUTTER STREET. AUCTIONEERS. Sive Stose TILLIP &CO. 22050 BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. WM. SCHOENING, Sh'grins, trade supplied. €36 Broadway BELTING. £ Belti da L. P. DEGEN, i [iirer ooz 07 s sion St., cor. Spear. Telephone Main 562. Yorkshire and Midland ‘coal fields. London Mail. R S NOW A BEGGAR IN NEW LEANS, “A few nights ago,” said a visitor from New York, “I was standing on the steps of my hotel, when a shabby fellow with a frightful cough sidled up and began the regulation hard luck story. His distyess was so evident that I gave him a quarter at once, but when I took a second look at his face I was startled to recognize a musician who had formerly been leader of the orches- tra of one of the princlpal theaters of New York, and who was supposed in those days to have a remarkably prom- ising career before him. He had com- posed several things that caught the popular ear, and to all appearances was a coming man. Then of a sudden, and for no apparent reason, he lost his grip, as the saying goes, and disap- peared. Perhaps there was a romance at the bottom of it, and perhaps there was something else. Anyhow, he dropped out of sight, and now, after half a dozen years or so, I find him begging in the streets of New Orleans. Queer, isn’t it? He did not look as if he had dissipated to any extent, and all I could get out of him was that he had been sick. When he saw I recog- nized him he hurried away at once. He was a_sensitive, high strung fellow in the old times, and it is pitiful to think what he must have passed through on his way to the gutter.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat OR- ————————— In a new feed water regulator a float is placed on the surface of the water, and connected with a rod running to a slid- ing plate on the outside, which slides across a fixed plate to form an electrical connection as long as the water is low, the current operating a magnet, which opens or closes the valve in the feed water pipe. ————————— Gas is automatically shut off when blown out by a new attachment, consist- ing of a balanced arm with an umbrella- shaped hood, which is held above the burner by tho heat of the flame, and scends as soon as the flame is extinguish- ed, thus pulling a lever, which cuts off the gas. It charms with its flavor. delights with itstasteand, conquers with its purity and high quaiity. W RATZ B Na Co. Louis Cahen & Son, Wholesale Dealers, 416-418 Sacramento Street, San Francisco. JOSEPH FIGEL, 24 Floor Flood Bldi Entrance Room 5. A MAN’S CLOTHES. 1 make clothes to your order and measure, and make them well. | glve you a tremen- dous assortment of goods and patterns to choose from. | charge fairly and reason- ably for best work, sults from..$17.50 to 875 Pants from.. 7.50 to 18 Overcoats .. 17.50 to 75 Give your order, walt a day, try on, walt a few more-days for alterations (if any) and the clothes are finished. Samples and measuring gulde mailed on request. CATARRH Ask your Druggist for a generous 10 CENT . TRIAL SIZE. ELY’S CREAM BALM contains no cocaine, mer-| s\lr)’ or any other injurious| ot B0 DinHEAD Taste and Smell. Is quickl: rbed Tellaf 4% onca: 00 ct. &% Drogsioe o by s Tral Size; 106 at Druggists or by matl. H RS, 8 Warren St., New York. rug. It opens and cleans the Nasal _Passages, Pain Heals Membrane. of FLY BRO See San Francisco as the birds see it. Full course French din- ner, $1; lunch, 75c. Spreckels Rotisserle, 15th Fioor, Call Lfluldlu.. NO PAIN! NO PAIN! Prioes in the Oityl Buite S E I Offics Bra—9 am. to 809 3 pm.; Sun, 3 to 8 pam, ' BOILER MAKERS. EUREKA BOILER WORKS W. J. BRADY. Proprietor. Bpeoial Attention Paid to Repsirs and Ship Werk. Offioe and Works—113-115 MISSION STREET Telephone Main 5045. HARNESS AND VEHICLES. LEIBOLD HARNESS CO., 2il Larkin st., 8 F. Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers of afi Carts, etc. If you want bargains call or write HUNTERS’ EQUIPMENTS. Hunters' Equipments, mfllh.lnxsm for catalogue. EO. W. BHREVE, 789 Market street. IRON FOUNDERS. 234 Fremont St. Castings of Every Do- scription Made to Order. Tel, Black 1503, W. K. VANDERSLICE CO. OLD AND SILVER SMITHS, 136 Sutter st., San Francisco. Telephone Mcin 917. GOLDEN GATE WOOLEN MFG. CO. Manufacture blankets, Cassimeres, Tweeds and Flannels, 535 Market et., San F""g.';.“ Cal kinds of Harness and dealers in Buggles, Tackle, Athletic Goods, ‘Western Foundry, Morton & Hedley, Props. JEWELERS. MANUFACTURERS. Goods for eale at all leading dry go res. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS COMPARY, 342 t0 350 Geary Street, Above Powell, Periodicals, Books and Stationery. CARRIAGE MAKERS. 2 —Malkers and Dealers in O’BRIEN & SONSzenaaus, Hacks, Victorias, Carts and Buggles, Golden Gate ave. and Polk st., San Francisco. CASCA FERRINE BITTERS, The World's Greatest Tonic, Stomachic, Laxa- tive. At all dealers. SIERRA PHARMA- CEUTICAL CO., 1517 Market st. COAL, COKE AND PIG IRON. J. C. WILSON & CO., 900 BATTERY STREET. Telephone Matn 1364 COPPERSMITH. Joserh Fox, Supt. . Diyth, Mer. C. W, Smith, Ship Plumbing, Steamboat and Ship Work a Specialty, 16 and 18 Washington St. Telephone, Main 5641. DENTIST. DR- C. W. RICHARDS, £ "otn % SE. corner Kearny. DRUGGISTS (WHOLESALE). RED'NGTON & c k Secondand Steven. son Sts. Tel. Main 4 FIRE INSURANCE. EDWARD BEROWN & SONS, 411413 California street, rear. Capital Represented. over $14,000,000 MARINE INSURANCE. SWISS MARINE INSURANCE COMPANIES Combined Capital, 34,000,000, 8YZ & CO., Agents, 301 Caitfornis st MATTRESSES AND IRON BEDS. THE BERNHARD M=ttess Co., 4 2 Misston st. Telephone Main 1674 PAPER DEALERS. w"-LAMEnE PULP AND PAPER CO., 722 Montgomery Street. PIANOS. The Oldest Tirm and Tarpast Stoek. PIANO and MUSIC STORE, KOHLER & CHASE, 23 and 30 O'Farrell St. A corps of expert tuners and repalrers. PRINTING. E. C. HUGHES, o £50050 treet. ¥ SOAP. G. R, LOCY & 128 California street, room 37. Tel. Main 1661 STATIONER AND PRINTER. T PARTRIDGE i28% THE HICKS-JUDD C0., Fiire® = Firee « WAREHOUSEMEN, THE HASLETT WAREHOUSE co., D e Frce a1 Grala Warehoses: General office; 410 Californla at. Tel. Main 1Nk FLOLR. NATIONAL 56" cor ‘Bactery wad Facino sia: FRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS. BOYES & (0., 857 f.2%0 HARDWARE. JPALACE Haréware Co., Importers & Dealers in Hardware, 603 Market. Tel. Main 752, WALLPAPER. WHOLES ALE & retail; send for sam ing quality & color. DUFFY CO. WATCHES, ETC. ’l' LUNnY Headquarters for fine Jewelry and e » full 18-k. Wedding Rings, 4 34 st. ‘WOOD AND IVORY TURNING. C. F. HAAS, mfr wood articles, any descrip~ tion. Planing, turning. 417 Mission, tel. M. 5927. len. sta T RAILROAD TRAVEL. BOUTHERN FAUCIFIC COMPANT. (PacIFIC nYsTEN.) Frains leave and are due (o arrive at AN FRRANCINCW (Main Line, Foot of Market Street.) WEAVE — FROM OCT.9,18%. — ARRIVE *G:G04 Niles, San Jose and Way Stations,.. +8:d8a 71004 Benicis, Suisun and Sscramento.... 100 71004 Marysville, Oroville and Redding via Woodlaud .. Sidap 73004 Elmira, Vacavilie and Fumsey, 81402 71804 Martinez, San Ramon, Vallejo, Naps, Calistoga and Bants Rosa.. esr 8:004 Atlantic Lixpress, Ogion and 402 ®1804 Sau Jose, Biockton, Vfl]:‘y Sprin Tons, Sacramento, Marysvilis, Chico, Tehama and Red Rluff.... 4:18p snd Frésmo.« 91004 '!fl;fl,fill?‘!fle - B sgelen, Domiu Now Orlcans and Hast....vs1-ier G482 eeesnee. Fresmo, Mondots, T tinez..,, 6:43r 10:004 Valic: 7408 1:00r Niles, fan Jose sod Weg uaitons oo SanJose, Nilee and Wag Stations. 2:002 N%-._;L":-:y, Mendota, ord s Livermore, Ban Jose, Nilea and 8 n 6:00 ¢ Kuropean Mail, Ogden and Tast.... *8:00r Vallejo... ereos 12:102 17:00r Vallejo, Port Costa and Way BSta- ot e » 8:007 Oregon itxproas, Sacramento, Marys- ville, Redding, Portland, Puget Toast . Sasa S BAN LuANDRO AND HATWA (Foot of Market Street. Melroxe, Sominary Park, DS ) soox | FiteWburg, Kimhurs! 8008 | Sun Fonpitco, Gouth San | ro®i4nA 10.004 Teandro, Extudillo, Toam) “.',':‘.’,‘:; Lorenzo, Cherry - A 2i00r L {5iaor § Buse iiengts Hies. Tidor " COAST DIVISION (Narrow Gauge). = (Foot of Market Street.) — “8:184 Newark, Centerville. San Jose, Felton, Boulder Oreck,Santa Oruz and Way Stations. 4 *2:15P Newark, Almaden, F Bauta Oruz Stations 41159 Newark, San Jose and Los Giatos. #11:457 Hunters' Excursion, Sa ¥ ey Biatioer o e Yo Sl CREEK ROUTE FERRY. 'n.? ;;I "““é‘fi"“;' f Market Streat (Slip 8)— i : 0A.M. 115 : e o A% 11:00 *2:00 Fram OAKLAND—Fool of Brondway.—*0:00 8:00 10:004.x. 112:00 *100 1800 300 $4:00 *B00rM. T COAST DIVISTON (Broad Gasge), (Thixd and Townsend Sta) o 1004 San Jose and Way Stati “Alinadeu Wednoodapaonty). oo 1iser 91004 San Jase, Tres Pluos, Santa Crus, fln fl(():‘glovt l‘lh‘ll‘rlx Robles, San Frinclpal Way Siublone,. oo oo Jose and Way Statios Jose and Way Station Mateo, Menl] Santa Clars, Sau .Jose, ollister, Sants _Orug, Mouterey aud Pacltic 13:00 1 B 1:304 *2:45¢ San Palo Alf Gilroy, Bulinas, nd Prineipal Way Stations ud Principal Wi 6:20r San Joas anid Wy Statio ammf H11:45r San Jose nnd Way Station A for Moruing. T for Afte * Bundays excopted: § Bundays anly | Satiriay only Santa FeRoute THE BEST RAILWAY SAN FRANCISCO fo CHICAGO, Doy Pullman Palace Slecping Cars Pullman Tourlat Sloaping Care Run on the Following Time Every and : W.T.F.8.8 M.T. M.T.W. p.m, T.F.SSM.T.W. :00 p. m., T.F.S.S.M.T. W, HARVEY’S DINING-ROOMS Berve Superior Meals at Very Reason- able Rates. v ¥ You Travel on the Santa Fe. SAR FRANCISCO TICKET OFFICE—s528 MARKET ST. TELEPHONE MAIN 180 Oakland Office—1118 Mn]. Sacramento Office—301 J Btrect. 8a Joso Offioe—7 Wost Sauts Olars b RAILREOAD TRAVEL. CALIFORNIA NORTI1WESTERN< RY. C0. LESSHD SN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFG RAILWAY COMPANY. Forry, Fcet of Market St {30 510, 60 p. m. Thursdays—Extrs tr at 11:30 p. m. Saturdays—Extra trips at l: and 11:30 p. m. SUNDAYS §.00. 820, 1:00 & m:; 130, E:M p. m. SAN RARAEL TO SAN FRANCISCO. WEEK DAYS—6:10, 7:50, 9:20, 11:10 8. m.; 13:45, p. m. Saturdays—Extra trips at SUNDAYS A8 o i10,” 9:40, 11;10 a. m.; 140, 3: 8:00, 6:25 p. m. oy Between San Francisco and Schustzen Park same schedule as above. Leave Arrive San Francisco. In Effect San Francisco. —————————] October 1§, |—————— Week Sun- 1898, Sun- Week Days. | days. Destination. days. Days. Novato, )0'40]171‘ 8:40am Petaluma, 6:10 pm 10:: Bapta Rosa. | 7:35 pm) Fulton, ‘Windsor, Healdsburg, Lytton, Geyserville, Cloverdale, 7:35 pm| Ha{land and Ukiah. 7:35 pm| 7:80 am)| o il 75 1 uerneville. | 7:35 pma 8:90 pm X 7:80 am Sonoma 10:40 am and 5:10 pm| 5:00 pm| Glen Ellen. 6:10 pm| 7:30 am)| Sebastopol. [10:40 am| $3:30 pm| 7:35 pm| Stages connect at Santa Rosa for Mark West Springs; at Lytton for Lytton Springs; at Gey- serville for Skaggs Springs; at Cloverdale for the Geysers; at Hopland for Duncan Springs, Highland _ Springs, Kelseyville, Carlsbas Spri d Lakeport and Bartlett B rInER: ot Dkiah Tor Vichy Beri prings; at Uklah for Vichy Springs, Sarato Sbrings, Blue Lakes, Laurel Dell Lake, Witter Springs, Upper Lake, Pomo, Potter ' Valley, John Day's, Riverside, Lierley’s, Bucknell's, Banhedrin Heights, Huliville, Booneville, Orr's Hot Springs, Mendocino City, Fort Bragg, Westport, Usal, Willitts, Laytonville, Cum- ming's, Bell's Springs, Harris, Olsen’s, Dyer, Scotia and Eureka. Saturday to Monday round trip tickets at reduced rates. 3 On Sundays round trip tickets to all points beyond San Rafael at half rates. Ticket Offices, 660 Market st., Chronicle bl 3 g g AN H, C. WHITING, E ~ General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent. NORTH Péglflfl Bl'].AST RAILROAD. usalito Ferry. FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO MILL VALLEY ND SAN RAFALL. WEEK DAYS—*7:20, *9:30, 11:00 &. m.; *1:48, 8:45, 5:15, %6:00, 6:30 p. m. EXTRA TRIPS—For San Rafael on Monday, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:30 p. m. 00, *10:00, *11:30° a. m.; m. run to San Quentin. FAEL TO SAN FRANCISCO. TS0 0E, 145, WM aomi " TRIPS on Mondays, Wednesdaya p. m. *8:00, *10:00, °11:55 &, m.; 115, EXTRA and Saturdays at SUNDAY! :20, *1:15, %3:10, 4:40, “6:20 p. m, Trains marked * start from San Quentin. FROM MILL VALLEY TO SAN FRA! SCO, u“"EE]‘\'E DAY%T&“, 6:45, T: fi:WNE.I m.; EXTRA TRIPS on Mondays, sdays NG T T e, 1 100, 10: H :05, 1. 33 5:00, 6:20 p. m. FIER 1 S THROUGH TRAINS. 20 8. m.week days—Cazadero and way sta'ns. P . Saturdays—Duncan Mllls and way stations. | 8:00 a. m. Sundays—Durican Mills and way sta's. THE SAN FRANCISCO AND SAR JOAQUID VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY, From Oct. 10, 1838, trains will run as follows: South-bound. “North-bound, Passen-| Mixed, Mixed. (Fassen- er. | Sunday| unda; # Dally. [Exo'ptd] Stattons. _[Exo ptd] Dafly. am| 9:35 am| Stockton pm| Merced pm Fresno pm| Hanford pm| Bakersfield pm| V}.clll 'fi intermedlate points ul . 'onnections—At Stockton with steamboats of California Navigation and {mprovement Come pany, leaving San Francisco at 6 p. m, dally, excepting Sunday, and Stockton at 7:1§ p. m. daily. For connectlons see official time table or inquire at Traffic Manager's Office, 311 Mar- ket street, San Francisco. SCENIC RAILWAY. to Ferry.) commencing Sunday, UOUNT TAMALPAIS (Via Sausalif L:"l:. San Francisco, P B B T Agents, 631 Market