The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1899, Page 25

THE SUNDAY CALL. 23 A The Story of Ol Wenderfll ol Wells Told by i j = o % 2 QFficTal A R 2 nspecicr o - D BN For the e 0 b a 'v A ay @\ = o1l For Fuel, Light and Sgrinkling Roads. aeliy n of large e most ad- the East for a fresh start of them b came the wonderful ofl lown in Fresno and 1e develop- ) barrels per 150 acr oduced 4500 easing pro- facturing con- supplied. The saving of ed and its one hundred and thirtieth An amusing story wh! itin News is thor. It reming 1 Quaker who said *noboc is quite right except me in the and thee eeing the ple- displayed: fa e bookseller, m it repre- as_the reply. Being told as not a preacher, ? What did you say inquire nted, Where that Mr. he asked: ts & Co., Philadelphia.) Literary Notes. Admiral Sampson’s generous tribute to the victor of Mani October Cent miral Dew A new and cheaper edition of ““The Let- ters of Ellzabeth Barrett Browning,” ed- h blographical additions, by Fre@e G. Kenyon, will be published during month in one volume by the Maomil- lan Compa: wllithcsie The G. W. Dillingham Company will be the American publishers of the long-ex- he Like Daudet, re the Academie Fran- jected him when he be- te for one of its fauteuils e. The result was a sar- the institution that will for the first time. The v s the hitherto unpub- lished details of the execution of Louls XVI, which were recounted to Hugo by an eye wlmess.. came a cand for the fi o iller Brown & Co, Pl complets thia A Jpouting Oil Well. = . the Wormeley Balzac in thirty-three volumes, ssued by arrangement with ) the heels of this announcement comes was received with great cordiality by the P G e SnAlessrs Har- $h3¢ of the first Bnglish translation of press of England and America, but falle history new volume, the Personal Opinions of .La Princesse Lointaine,” by the great to attain the remarkable popularity of hours Balzac, compiled and translated by Kath. French dramatist. This translation is to the book of which it was the forerunner. 3 arine Prescott Wormeley. The new jl. be by Charles Renauld, whose English The new edition will contain two entirely brary edition of the Works of Edwarq Version of yrano de Bergerac” was new_ chapters, apropos of recent events Everett Hale will also be completed; and K;rm 3 the best of the translations of in France. It has been revised through- a number of new volumes will be added ostand’s masterpiece, “La Prin- out, and will be prefaced by a new in- to the uniform library edition of Daudet. Cesee Lointaine is a play of four acts and troduction. among them Kings {n Exile and the Tar. IS _Practically an exquisite poem having CHer s, 2 for {ts subject the undaunted pursult of _Just what has made ‘Point Lace and tarian series, translated by Katharine the ideal. Diamonds” sell to a greater extent than Prescott Wormeley. A new serles of Le- ver's novels 1s also announced. They will also publish an interesting seriss of This_translation is, wa belleve, the first many a much boomed novel has always maded“i)w Emzllsl':‘,J amti 1;1 is mmhe accgm- ?e?‘n mméthlni of a mystery to uskpu - ! - . = anie: a portrait of the author and to lishers; but they are content to know a o Hor e D Lot Al AL G Base e ok the {]uulextgt the low price of % cents— that the demand for it is perennial, and a) - d e .. 1 M. 3 2. .+ partly in the hope of a large sale, partly ey announce a new holiday edition o the road to fortune and Nora Perry, Helen Hunt Jackson, Laura Foiile'om competition. The author Is to this volume of vers de sociste with fllus- o Story goes over the old B. Richards, Juliana H. Ewing, G. s do—int Alger’s simpilcity Plympton afid other well-known' writers R It et s Daman e T O directness of method, aversion fof children are represented. o o0 8 George A. Baker Jr., the author of this plot or r;xrll'!nxh incident, and N The Century Company announces for successful little book, mysterfously dis- moral tone, Eive his books a cer- It is announced that an English trans- publication in October a new edition of appeared from New York some years ago 49.;w::mln:r:v-nt for the im. ::;1:51 Rgf“lnlé,es(!itlgukx):n; \lx‘essfiedbg'y !;1‘?; ;‘rhe Iful‘n‘.{}d," b; hmcgt“dtw" h!xt_iljng,tan- and huhpublllhem and others ‘Interestad ns. the young hero. an hon- Doubleday &/ McClure Co TANoOWIng O Aesk SaneAriA sacie tan Saara Atioa Snd ni hatsios "0t i pon EHe e i 98 VIEW OF OIL CITY, BLUE GOOSE WELL 1N FORESOUND. % alifornia Has Become a Great Factor n the OF Producing Industry of the World. Reduction the Prige of Fuel WITT Make This Qoast a Leadgr n : the Manufacturing World. PRIAL 54 VAL g R!s OF TAE OlL € ITY B s tc S =UrA Go for gilt-edged increasing de- 1s now sellin th a constan r manufacturers over Tastern com- newed once titors can hardly be realized. With the mile to sprin vantage of over 2000 miles in distance, this obviate distnat when it will be on it a commerclal impossibility for the East southern section to competa for the home market in manu- the work of factured products. The petroleum found in California is as To return to the matter of variations in variable In its characterstics as the cli- the character of the California ofls, it can mate of the Solden State. While all of it be stated that there are certain wells in 18 good for fuel purposes thers are marked what is known as the Krevenhagen dis- variations In !ts specific gravity and its ch lies south of Coalinga, whers qualities not to be met with in the other fine grade of oll, rich in lu- ofl flelds of the world. The ofl found in produced. This ofl when dis- the Coalinga district is not alone useful tilled will sell from 25 cents to 5 cen for fuel, but it is also available for re- per gallon, and, of course, the crude oil. fining purposes. and with the proper lis- which contains anywhere from 30 to 40 tiling devices it will yield illumirating per cent of lubricants, will naturally b Lewmen o e and Ioricating ofls equal to those of an enhanced price in the market. To-Gay. o e Pennaylvania. The California oil differs the crude ofl for fuel purposes sells at Sp 19 the ilondike When g from Eastern ol also In the fact that it about 31 per barre! at Ol City. In South- "iHesafesonearachand. =0 . has an asphalt base, instead of a para ern California the price at the wells 1s I0yestigation has shown that the groat base, and with proper handling this out §12 and higher, not because the T DEIS of Callfornia sxiend tom San phalt base can be made to vield by- oll Is better, but because it Is handy .to 250 COUDIY 1 the BORER 10 e Sreat products of equal value with parafine. a market When the pipeline has been f0% SUSLIOF U TIO8 SR 0 (10 There is no doubt that the day will come bullt from the new northern flelds to this R et when a large share of the Callfornia pro- city the producers will be enabled to get 2ty 15 the active center of interest duction will be used for refining purposes, a better price for their oil. et Tt e 80 that the possibility of an over-produc- When a well has once been drilled Into R o iae The tlon Is & very remote and ill founded one. the oil sand its current expense is a very I BT ie S Iobels Toliowe Thero fs another use for petroleum {n small factor ard Its production is largely < ince of Gevelopment and ia its orude state that will be found pecu- a matter of profit. The oll developments preparing an elaborate system of maps liarly acceptable to the' ranchers of Call- down in the valley are rapidly changing 0n & lurge scale that will enable the pub- fornia, and that is for sprinkling dusty the desert wilds to well populated cen- ep thoroughly Informed regard. roads. Crude ofl applied to & dusty road ters, and land that was formerly consid- e e absolutely lays the dust, makes a firm, ered too poor to bear even the burden of It is a story in the valley that when Joe or and Charley Canfield came to e of what Is now Ol City they had their finances to $16. These gen- tlemen to-d have an income of over $1000 per day each. In addition to thelr splendid holdin; ; they have up thou: of acres of alley hills, where the ‘“‘ofl of the hidden treasures lay is not far distant gentlemen will count their wealth by millions; and all this stirring story of financial enlargement is spanned by but a few months’ time. Such are the t of the State have begun ing good roads with the subject before putting up their elastic roadbed and only needs to be re- a perfunctory homestead location in many money to acquire sudden fortunes in ofl % FORTUNES IN CHINA. ter is only “shopping” you become & collector on the subject ay porcelain al- ime; it is more ar- 'HE = Rothschilds, the Queen and lector, Beckford. But with few excep- Lord Dudley own between them tions they were repurchased by the Em- most of the finest Sevres ware in peror Nicholas and conve: ed back to England. Russla just before the outbreak of the The most famous of Lord Dudley’'s Crimean war. Sevres is a garniture de cheminee, Prices that appear absolutely prepos- for which he gave $50,000; it is said that a terous are given for Sevres china of the housemaid broke one of the pieces the ‘‘Pompadour period,” which dates from day after its arrival at Dudley FHouse I8 to I783: for that of fHd ents XIT ord Dudley a few years ago had a sale period,” which dates from 1763 to : ; E‘ Some of his porcelains. & and for that of “Louls XVI epoch,” o LTS, Levi P Morton ts said to have on E ¢ : 786 he mOst ex dinner servi The collection of Pompadour and Du- INg f£om T8 10 5 - 4107 aptece for a Dresden in U barry Sevres, as It {s sometimes styled, geyres cup and saucer, or a small pail or R a plate—that is, nothing to a Rothschild or a royalty. The finest collection of Sevres in America_ belonged to Governor Lyon of Tdaho; it was sold at his death, and one vase was purchased by Mrs. Ayres of New York for $5000. A New York lady, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, has some Sevres plate similar to the famous Chanteau plates at Fontaine- bleau. She has also some delightful ex- re Mrs. Joseph Drexel lection, including many of the Marcolini_period—about colate pots of different shapes e choice bits of the collece sroom connected with al porcelain depots in in Dresden and a small shop de: ich Is permitted to s for eale. Oncs on somewhere in specimens— p defectiv ear there where defe an amples of the old English ware Spode, ective - which was only made at first for roval condiialunitn s el and ducal families, and was a great luxury. Cabbage roses is a favorice pat- o tern of the Spode ware, or some an e e = attern of deep blue. Mrs. Dodge has a 2t OfC e et ste-atete tea service of Spode decorated i Ll g e with the cabbage roses. has some S 3 g ; e Nyon cups and - saucers. iareis ment & (widplioaloisens reRs aelaf ] his china. Du marked with a fish because the factory LS ¢h e : 18 situated on Lake Genev: Bete S Ofj chuna werelmilla Lo therWinite Mre. Altred Duane Pell is a cdector of 10®% 0 0 o 8L Dituins. " "Pieces o fine china, and several specimers of St. ROW belong to Mrs Dicline Pleces of Petersburg ware are treasured by her. Doth sets have been acattered among This 1s the only European factory which PUDIS 810 PHVALS collecto &! never eells a plece of china, s everything ¥ ap - B ar eyal orerved DY the Czar 20 Since the Spaniards relinquished their €d by the Empress Catherine. Home of Sovereignty over Cuba and the American Mrs. Pell’s Russian porcelain is of a late forces assumed temporary pos- date, notably a plate made in 1881 Other conditlon of Havana, Yreasures are coples of the Prince of as well as that of other cities of the “Gem e s se.on s royal ot the Antill has been ed to a high yacht Osborne. They bear naval designs Il s and the three feathers and motto. Mrs, modern s ard. Pell also has copies, in Minton, of Queen tion and jtation which was effected Victoria’'s Buckingham ~ Palace service. under General Wood has been the subject e e rose; shamrock of many articles and a tribute to the an stle; a crown an e Initials e At o Vi R within a wreath of Toses talents of that brave and wise soldier Many multi-millionaires prize Minton and surgeon. ware to the extent of paying $2729 apiece _ As In the case of Santlago, Havana has for plates. A plate of plain gold costs been thoroughly cleansed. To-day she is ust about as much. For $135 10 one can ope of. the tidiest cities of the Western uy a crown derby plate which will an- phemisphere, which Is saying a deal for SYSE Suer iy e the genius of the Yankee. Mrs. Bradley Martin eats her Monday “yio'the United States the labor of sant dinners from plates costing somewhere .iion iIn Cuba has been of great e about $I75 each; of course, she has better ,23°0 %y "IN, DRS 0S°0,OF ETeat value, porcelain than 'this. indeed she possesses poc ‘e [TAD /(TS of the isle 1t has @ large cabinet of china of great historical "% "B, Woolf, who has fevoted meny in the possession of Queen Victoria has VAIE. = o gor YeArs of his life to the study of combate been valued by experts at much over a S FIeTPONL JotEnn s cholce 18 for ing disease germs, and who discovered quarter of a million dollars. ~And yet comyared with any others, so beansifuy ocompination of scx water and elec- there are only & small number of pleces; are they, so their admirers claim. They s i ot T these are displayed at Windsor Castle, in are as thin as paper, as brilliant as a mir- gojourn in Havana. Mr. Woolf s perin- the long gallery, where her Majesty usu- ror and as sonorous as metal. Mrs. Mor- tended the erection of & disinfecting plant ally receives her guests before dinner. Ean has many examples of that most pOg— in which his germicide is made. g One and a half million dollars is sald to be HIar of patterns—the one we can talk glib- This plant was placed in operation at the value of the Queen’s porecialn. ly about—the willow pattern. This IS on the beginning of last July.. It has a ca- what 1 called Turner's Caughley porce- pacity of 100,000 gallons per day. The cost The value of old Sevres porcelain is en- lain. The romantic story is always a fa- was about $30,000. It was erected after an hanced by the fact that ever since the Vorite of the cruél father who lived In a {nvestigation by the American military foundation“of the factory an exact regis- pasoda; the armed knight, the malden guthoritles. Lieutenant D. Gildersieeve ter has been kept of all sales. Probably :fl{ :!’l‘d’g’g;”“’ye’ge-a‘ce"‘;';e’ngg:'g’;fd";h_fi)“;; of the United States Englneer Corps had + a large o work. the most extensive sale ever made Was gays under a blue tree on the other side g Seag water els pumped into the vats of that in 1778 to the Empress Catharine of of the plate. . the plant. It is then subjectea to elec- Russia, who pald for a service of 734 pieces “Royal” was bestowed upon the Worces- trolytic action, which produces - such a sum of $80,000, which is equivalent to ter porcelains when Queen Charlotte on ““""f“ in the water that i& becomes a $200,000 at the present day. One hundred ber Visit to the factory with George Ill germicide. The germicide is sprinkled in end sixty pleces of this service were sto. Ordered a service; the pattern, by the streets and in houses wherever diseass e way, for this particular service was a lily. germs lurk. The American military au- en Sl s palace Ars' William Astor's favorite porcelain is thorities are generous with tha germicide. and found thelr way to England, where Worcester ware. They give large quantities to persons they were purchased by the famous cole Apropos of the terms porcelaln and who ask for it in vana