The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1899, Page 6

| THURSDAY JOHKN Address All C PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Main 1568, LEDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Deltvered including ¥ 1w Snnday) ding Sunday Terma by Mall, DAILY CALL (inelud DALY €L “inel DAILY CAL nel DALY CAL Lo SEADAY O MEERLY CLLL One ALl postmasters Ve ar Sample copies wil CARLAND OFFiCY C. GEORGE KIOGNESS, Manager Forclgn AdvertisinzeMarguette Build- ng, Chicng SPONDENT: NEW YORK CORRI sese Herald Sgunare C. €. CARLTON. . NEW YORK HI¥ PERRY LUKENS Jk... TATIVE: Tribune Building NI 0 NEWS STANDS: Great Northe ern Hotel: Fremont Auditorinm Hotel. NEW JORK VEWS STANDS Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. €. .. Wellington Hotel L. BN crespondent. ry sireet, MeAllister Larkin Mission 041 ek, 2261 open until uatl 9 yuiil o son Vaudeville every afterncon and —Spectaittes. ney Island CONCEALING THE STA TE RECORDS. A. Moore, here again the recor t show the facts ce give information in °y to per nt meet- s of course are ope or and to con had the impudence c are due the right in ormation of es citizens to force the record resort to had no It o happens to be } itish. Tebbets of the would like moments 0 perate on 1 when one in the board is toc Osman Dignan 1s Oom Paul for Ic of an improvement on t is evident from the man- but per in which he gives the British the slip that he could give Agy Ido cards and spades and beat him out in a foo The police have arrived jocal degencrate who choked the iife out of a woman is a strangler. It is quite possible that they may supplement their opinion with the discovery that the woman is dead. a Chicago ministers have selves and have bitterly denounced Thanksgiving football as a desec Somebody in must have stumbled across a forgotten copy of the biuve laws. communed with them- The dispatches declare that Cecil Rhodes is pre- pared to escape from Kimberley in a balloon. This is the fist definite confirmation of the suspicion that the South African manipulator wanted to get off the carth. Dan Burns does not want an appointment to the United States Senate and he is convinced that he canzot be elected. Perhaps another trip to Mexico | may bring peace to his mind and satisfaction to the State at the conclusion that a | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1899. OUR THANKSGIVING DAY. ITH each succeeding year the people of the United States, and chiefly those of California, | nd in their conditions some special reason for : ne gratitude and sincere joy the ! nksgiving. It was so even in vears of financial panic, industrial depression and | t, and in this of prosperity such reasons are to be found on every side, in every line | il sections of the State and in almost with g festival of the oi dro r ye . | ent time the prosperity of California de- | dustries of her people, vral rather than a mu It is to the nu- or commercial community. re, we have to look for the basis of our | 1 nor will we look in vain. Statistics a Fruit-grower in its annual he harvests of the State abundantly show he flourishi e Californi; g condition of o arms, orchards, meyards, hopfields and pastures. ments of California 1t, vegetable and v products for the C idar year 1808 were 8078 ten-ton carloads in ex- cess of those of the previous year, and while the ship- | ments of this year cannot be exactly estimated, yet it 1s certain they will far exceed those of last year. In fact, the fresh fruit shipments which were made up to October 31 show an increase over those of the corresponding period of last year of 1344 carlouds, 1 up to that date of 6464 carloads and reason to believe that by the end of the year hipments alone will amouns making a t givi the fresh deciduous fruit about 8000 car When ds to these sl ments are added those of citrus of dried and canned frnits and raisins and nuts and wine, it will be seen that the grand total will be N Last year the t, 4521 cars of f marvelous richness nts were 6078 cars of f 1870 cars of dried her than prunes, f canned fruits and 1d walnuts, 44,500 of oranges vegetables o of 36,180,000 28,063,240 pounds, a wine and 1a gold s of 1808, the vear of what When the sum » the record will be suffi 1 drought. is made 1 ourage even the least nine, and, to be ren with the abun- ect of cred that the coming is seen in the In the last two .000,000, showing that the flowing the t have e ot o 1 farmers and others to pay off 1 to their sur- rtgages but t s material there h ve come intellectual be T'he discontents and of the bad years have vanished. aind united in the ic than ever be- is clearly approaching when Califor. k together with as much zeal and har wellers in the older States, and when the for the general good ice of success. r education in the State has been ing the year. he munificent lized into a for- wor! brighter tt the we people, with the 1ss any fortune advanced from good lfare of 1 tend to the wi man. We her than ever before, but our asy er. Our horizon has widened before ce, a busier industry, a higher ¢ a m than we have yet | are ours Along the v Anot nd before us every prospect is hole horizon there is no cloud vear of prosperity awaits , and we would be 1 our acking in gs that are ours s to-day in every form of poor and rejoicing le which is due to the Two legal luminaries whose light has been shed tage over the local bar have quarreled to the of patience over wine. This is not the first | the last where the cup that | eers has been made the scapegoat for something Perhaps it was the purchase price that it tance nor probably ch more fiery was at fault. HEN in obtaining reports of the yacht race |IOFFICIAL REPORT ON WIRELESS [ s by means of the Marconi system of wireless TELEGRAPHY. 'Wldcnmplu The Call, in alliance with the New { York Herald, achieved one of the most remarkable ilriumphx in history of journalism the Examiner | endeavored to break the force of the feat by declaring { it to be impossib! It even had the audacity to ac- | cuse The Call of faking and to declare that Marconi could not send by his system above fifty words an hour. | In a great freak display on October R it said: “The possibilities of wireless telegraphy as demonstrafed by Signor Marconi, the skillful Italian electrician, have not exceeded under the most favorable circumstances | i v words an hour, or an extreme transmission of {275 words in five and a haif hours. To pretend to receive more than such a number is therefore an im- After giving what purported to be a re- view Marconi’s work by an expert it added: “In | view of these facts it is sheer faking-on the part of any one to pretend to have received anything over 300 words in six hours by wireless telegraphy.” | Later on the miner, growing bolder in its im- | pudence and think position of ng perhaps that the truth could | be baified by persistence in lying, alluded to Marconi | {as “Macaroni,” and applied to him other epithets de- | | signed to belittle him. » | Now comes the official verification of all the claims of The Call and the confirmation of the splendid tri- {umph of Marconi. Among those who watched the | operation of the wireless telegraph during the yacht race were a number of officers of the United States {navy, who have just made a report to Rear Admiral | Bradiord. In the course of this report it is said a | stock quotation from Navesink Light to the Grand Duchess containing 223 words was received in seven minutes by the system of counting used on land lines. | with apparent faci ty, | departments and the | to represent them—but over all | emptiness of result, a poverty | sound and fury, which will make the board a for- { midable rival of the Iroquois Club. | kindergarten, and there is certain to be a greater {ist of no mean order. He believes that in the treaty |ing, China ought to be in on the deal. He has prob- | funeral even if he had to ride in the hearse. i1In the second trial thirty-one words of a newspaper | paragraph were received in one minute and fikyl seconds, equal to seventeen words a minute. The maximum distance across which messages were sent was twenty-four knots. Messages were sent to and received from the station at Navesink with facility and accuracy, the estimated speed being about twelve Vfords per minute. There was a short hitch at one time in sending messages owing to the interrupting device failing, which caused a delay of a minute or so. It was,stated that over 2000 words were sent and over 300 received by Marconi during the day. Lieutenant (_'mn:mndcr Qualtrough on October 5 took the sta- tion at Navesink. During the day, he states, all the messages sent out from the Ponce appeared to come accurate On October 7 he went to sea on the Grand Duchess and witnessed the working of Mr. lark’s apparatus. He sent and received messages exchanging with the Mackay- Bennett for one hour, when Marconi took up the work on board the Ponce. ~ At the time the Examiner was trying to ridicule Marconi’s triumph The Call predicted it would even- tually have to recant its words and publish the truth Or cease even to pretend to be a newspaper. That time has about come. Even a faker must tell its readers what are the official reports of one of the greatest scientific achievements of the time, though the Examiner, it must be added, has not yet done so. It is said Ahat discontented Cuban generals are already taking to the woods. While the condition of affairs on the island does not seem to warrant such tactics so early in the game, it is very evident that the Cuban generals studied in the same military school as Aguinaldo. E A SUPERVISORIAL ECLIPSE. VER since the enactment of the consolidation act in 1836 the Board of Supervisors has been the sepulcher of local politicians. Hundreds of cere and ambitious men have entered its chamber with high expectations, convinced that they were destined to become famous as statesmen and politi- cians, but with rare exceptions every one has emerged branded with ineffaceable marks of corruption, broken in degraded and disgraced. True, an occasional Supervisor has saved his name, but it has rarely happened that the antagonisms created by following an upright course in the board have not resulted in failure to secure from either the people or the parties further political advancement. The e of this has long been apparent to the most observers. reputation, cursor The Board of Supervisors has 1 graveyard for forty ye the plan upon which it originally organized | ed execut legislative and judicial powers. Wherever this is done political looseness, malvers: been a politic , becaus was | | These elements | tion and corruption always ensue. intermixed make a cast out of which rise all sorts mong others being the political | boodler and the whisky saloon boss. But there will be an end of the disgraceful history which has been made b; of stra Boards of Supervisors in this city during the past four decades under the new charter | That famous instrument not only strips the Board of nearly all the powers now exercised under the consolidation act, but it so tangles up its func- tions with vetoes, restrictions and prohibitive rules | that it is certain to become an insignificant arm of | e government. The board elected on the 7th inst. forbidden to pass any resolution or ordinance over the Mayor's veto except with: the concurrence t of fourteen members—more than a two-thirds majority. It is given no patronage, and, except its clerks, will make no appointments. All power to initiate and carry on street work is taken from it and lodged in Board of Public Works. It can no longer grant iwchises, lease or sell public lands or utilities or privileges. All ordinances providing spe | { PR R [ 1 [ S THE SITUATION IN A NUTSHELL. e e e e e e aaasd (01 IBE (YT ST ot 6/ 14 gy, ‘}//7 g ! e / 1 I ® i )i N * + % 3 . 1 s : ® . ’ i : } b : z e e o o e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e ol THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY—*Sam, This Philippine (Filopceena) Is a Hard Nut to Crack.” B R B S e e o S I S I S L T S SR SO i o e 3 ARQUND THE CORRIDORS at the California. Julius L. H . a prominent merchant of Portland, is at the Lick. Governor Gage and wife were among the late arrivals at the Palace. . Leland, a prominent lumber mer- sons, is at the Grand. Frank A. Short, a well-known mining man of Carson, is a guest at the Palace. W. P. Shaw, a commercial traveler of Loutsville, is registered at the Occldental. James Adams, well known in mining circles in the Northwest, is at the Occi- dental. F. A. Bradley, a well-known business man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. H. A. Towne of Minneapolis !s regies- tered at the Palace with his wife and daughter. Captain C. 8. Cotton of the recelving ship Independence and wife are at the California. chant and mining man of Dos Palmas, 1s registered at the Lick. J. A. Chanslor, who has extensive oll claims in the southern part of California, is a guest at the Palace. nt i for these things must be submitted to a vote of the people. Control of the hospitals, jails, Almshouse, | public parks, public buildings, the Police and Fire | streets and sewers have all | been taken from it and lodged in other hands. In short, the Board of Supervisors created by the new charter will resemble a Thanksgiving turkey at the conclusion of the repast—it will be a wreck of | its former self, a skeleton which will bear some re- | semblance to the powerful structure that formerly existed, but of which nothing will remain but a | The future history of the board is bound | to be in a measure serio-comic. There will be a great deal of resolving and much speech-making in the chamber—the walls of the place will, as it were, resound with the the young spell- binders whom the people will send to the City Hall | there will be an of everything save memory. eloquence of But if herctofors the chamber of the Supervisors has been a sepulcher for the ambitions of local poli- ticians, hereafter it is certain to become a nursery politicians. Nothing is so conducive to the manufacture of “good politics” as an irresponsible legiclative position. When the gallery player can fulminate paper blockades without danger of damaging anybody he is apt, like Napo- | leon in his last war, to become exceedingly prodigal in issuing them. In fact, it is easy for a man to make | a reputation for political integrity in a position in which his fiery mouthings mean nothing and his resolutions and ordinances are printed and forgotten. In the Board of Supervisors under the new char- ter, therefore, we may look for our future Mayors, Congressmen, department officials and legislators. The law provides for making out of it a political for reformers, statesmen and number of Websters and Clays among eighteen Su- pervisors than would have been had the number been left at twelve. e ———— If present indications are verified by results and Congressman Roberts is expelled from the House of Representatives for having many wives he will enjoy one consolation at least. He will know that the Sul- tan of the Sulu Islands has become a member of Uncle Sam’s happy family and is being paid $250 a month with which to support his four official wives. The Chinese Minister at Washington is a humor- of partition, which the Occidental nations are discuss- ably heard of that fellow who wanted to go to a Superior Judge Coffey is hot—in fact he is boiling over with indignation—at the methods of certain probate practitioners who make a practice of delaying the settlement of estates in order that they may pile up fees. Judge Coffey seems to have good grounds for his outbreak. Recent dispatches are authority for the announce- F. W. Wilmans of Sonora registered last night at the k. in the old Bonanza mine. W. W. Douglas, Deputy State troller, arrived from Sacramento yester- duy and registered at the Grand. Louis Kahn and wife and Dr. J. Good- win Thompson of Oakdale are stopping at the Palace. Mr. Kahn is a banker of Oakdale and has extensive grain interests Hugh C. Wallace of Tacoma is a gu'eq at the Palace for a few days. Mr. Wal- lace is & brother-in-law of Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court and an ex-member of the Demo- cratic National Committee from the State of Washington. —_————————— Known by the Way He Eats. Washington Star. “You may not belieye me, but 1t is nev- ertheless a fact thatla great many hotel and rest: oceupation by his manner of eating, said recently. “Of coursé the walter must be a close observer of humag nature to deter- mine with accuracy whether a customer is a scissors grinder or a banker. But if a the opportunities his position affords him for the field of study he will soon find that a customer, while eating, has ac- some habit that will show it<elf. For instance, a banker may come in, seat himself and call for an oyster stew. 1f he does, as soon as the order is served he is apt to begin a search with his spoon for the oysters that are not visible, just to see if there is a miscount. “A gambler will look around to see if any one is watching and then palm a slice of bread. 1f he orders pancakes he is sure to slip them one by one from the bot- tom: as he eats them. he clothing sales- man will ¥81d his pancakes up to the light and feel the texture, whiie the keen ob- server will notice that the jeweler upon ordering pie will hoid it to his ear, shake off the top crust with the point of his knife and examine the inside.” “Have you ever made a mistake in judg- fng a_man's occupation?” “Only once. And that could hardly be called a mistake, for I made no decision as to the man's business. The fellow came in and ordered his dinner. Of course I gave him a glass of water. He looked at it with some surprise and sald: ‘I didn't order that!’ * It costs you nothing,’ says 1, ‘and you don’t need to drink it unless you want to." He thanked me, and what do you think? He broke his bread into it and then ate it with a spoon. I didn’t know what to make of it, and for the life of me I couldn’t de- termine what his business was. When he | was leaving 1 tapped him on the shoulder | and asked him outright what he did for says he. ‘I'm a milkman.’ ** — e eee ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PICKLING RIPE OLIVES—J. K., Niles, Cal. Mr. Lelong, secretary of the Calif-r- nia State Board of Horticulture, who has devoted' many years in experimenting in the line of pickling ripe olives, says: In the first place the olives must be ripe and perfect. They must be carefully picked and handled. Knocking them off the tree bruises them, and when in the liquid and bottled a spot develops and the fruit gets soft. Do not pick all the fruit at one time: pick only the ripe olives. which im- mediately place in water and take to the house where they are to be nrngnrcd to extract the bitterness by means of the lye process. The olives are placed in vats not over thirty inces in height, so as not to have too much fruft in a vat. The vats are half filled with the lye solution made of one pound of Green- bank powdered potash, %8 per cent strength, to ten gallons of water.' The olives are put in ment that Richard Croker has assured the nomina- tion of William Jennings Bryan for President. Tam- many's chief was judiciously silent in reference to any assurance of an election, this solution, rising to within four to six inches of the top. Do not put the olives in first, be- cause they will sh ‘The liquid must be kept in motion: that is, every little while draw off a bucketfu! of the liquid and throw It back on the olives. This is to prevent the lye from &notting the frult, which must be kept in the H. M. Grant, a merchant of Portland, is | a waliter in a restaurant to a Star reporter | it and then listen, after which he will lift | | Sotution. for tour nours. Draw off the 1y | fil1 the vat with water, which as comes colored must be water added lea; clear 1 moved. open sl Place the fruit in brine—four me gallon o shr are tra tank by mes Ar week draw is B0 more such seum. of fourteen ounces of salt to the gallon of ffty gallons of prepared brine ind of alum to elarify the liguid ol 11 strainer to prevent floatin rticle - tering the bott bt oy b et and after the hottl | o He is & heavy owner | one | aurant waiters can tell a diner’s | man is intelligent and avails himself of | quired in the daily pursuance of his cali- | THE FARALLONES-§ Farallones are, by law, attached to and | made a part of the City Ba, on the Islands and are entitied to vot m Di NOT PREMIUM COINS—A. | There is no premium on a dime of 1835 on one of 1584, unless the San Francisco mint mark. A BRIDESMAID—"Black Eyes,” City. There is no rule of etiquette that prohibi a married woman from being the brides- | maid of her sister. Martin Christian, a well-known mer- | ]H;h: hf‘" a st two Gays. ght bitterness ivel the fruft A D . ter the ter, and ¥ o8 are n bott therein, ution vee me: trom sp n Franciseo. ISt regis: strict. T This must be Tepeated for at eave the fruit in the water from four to The water is then drawn off, and a application of lye as prepared for the first Is put on the ruit, hours, in motion as befors for four hours; then the Iye Is drawn changing often until all trace of the lye is re- The olives are kept In water for two or three days and then tested by cutting one with a knife. . which will d_treatment, water ves have t off and add brine made of eight ounces of salt to the gallon of wate the frult In this from a week to ten d the brine off and cover with a brine fourteen ounces of salt to the gallon in which leave the fruit. ately in cold water. | be only hot enough to generate a gas that cop qQuires patience and experience, e and oon as it be- drawn off and fresh When the liquid has become health is sald to be ept in golution for four off and fresh water added. There will be found a leave the fruit brine. Then comes which requires patience, unces of salt to ore salt at first will This brine s made by bolling ing the water to the tank rred from the vat to the brine »{ wooden perforated shove been in this brine a | good “The Sporting Duchess” continues to sport, and many there be who are 80 its managers say. The play is reported to be lively and of many pictures, there- fore the public rejoice. Next week there “Shenandoah,” at the Columbia. from dead even this season. Jacob is_responsible for the gorgeousness of it. and Sinners,” is at the Aleazar. The mel- odrama sr;um has followed the farce spasm at local theaters from “The Masked Hall” last evening. The audience did not wear a pretty face at_the evening's end. HEATRICAL turned away from the California’'s doors, will be a change of bill The old Lyceum melodrama, “Saints Salassa's great fourth act was omitted Camille @'Arville continues to fill the The brine must be changed after it becomes colored by the pulp | Orpheum. of the fruit while standing. to prevent the | “Evangeline” closes this week at the | ollves from secoming rancid. There will be | Grand. produced a thin scum from the crude part of “Old Kentucky” and the pickaninnies the fruit. which must be skimmed till thers | are at the Alhambra. To bottle, make brine Thanksgiving matinees are announced at all the houses, and to-night the Berke ley boys will take possesston of th Grand,” while Stanfordites go to the Tivoll. SARAH COMSTOCK —_———— Cal. glace fruit §c per Ib at Townsend's * ————— fertectly pickled put the brine les, after having piaced the a funnel with a cloth ing Or the solution may be hot, s are corked down pl The solution sl Thanksgiving extra mince ple. %06 Larkin st.® 1 poiling. To pickle olives re- Special information. suppited dally to business houses and public men by th | Press Clipping Bu! 31, {ton eau (Allen 8., City. hene M T The | gomery stre ol b il In the Divorce Court. Annie G. Swabel has be ce from Wilford C. Swabel on round of fallure to provide and County of Those citizens who live in the Fortieth Assembly farston_has red a divorce from J 8., City. | sephine Marston on the ground of wilif nor | desertion. Kate Bigham has sued ham for a di as cause of ———— There are many Imitations of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters—most of them dangerous. The genuine is & household remedy. Byron V. Big- latter bears the | , alleging intemperance g D e e R R R S R R e R R S R e e R R N RS AR AR SR R e e e Rl SR R R SRS .. b4 : ‘ i $ ; | : $ $ % J [ R e e e *Peteteisisieteisteteg Junday Call December 3, 1899, Givivioiovivivince The Story of a Man Who Has Been Held Fourteen Years in Jail for Trial. THE TRICHINA CASE The Remarkable Discovery by Two San Francisco Physicians— Rachael Ash and Miss Wightman. THE DEPRAVITY OF FRENCH SPORTS. HOW SOLDIERS ARE TRAINED FOR THE BRITISH ARMWY. THE LATEST WONDER—COMPRESSED AIR THE LATEST IN THE BOOK WORLD. By PROF. H B. LATHROP of Stanford, MY EXPERIENCE AS AN AMATEUR AT THE CHUTES AND OLYMPIA FICTION, FASHIONS, DRAMATIC STARS, AND MANY OTHER INTERESTING FEATURES, ALL BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.