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IHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1900. ADVERTISEMENTS. CLEARANCE SALE FOR THIS WEEK. ‘$1.00 f1.50 - c £1.00 £1.25 For Next 30 Days. LADIES’ SHOES. L coln toe, hand sewed € K e 2 % Sux . four shades $ E piain Yoo, b rds, broken sizes ring A B and GENTS’ SHOES. §7 00 Patent Leather, ecloth top, button shoee, pointed toes; best makes; nearly $2.50 re $2.25 $1.50 Ladies we . sole, round or squas Lace or Congress siz. [ Ehoes, calf, button, broken . . £1.25 * and CHILDREN'S SHOES. 95¢ y as advertised 839-832-83¢ MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. AMUSEMENTS. < Tf vl movse HE A\JAAC\B A AN UNCON REMEM BOSTONIANS rt Success, “THE VICEROY » 5. 19—Last Week of THE BOSTONIANS Monday and Thursday, “THE SERENADE” Tuesday and Friday, “THE VICEROY.” rday Nights and Saturday Her est S “ROBIN HOOD.” SEATS W READY. EVERY ACT OF THE NEW BILL | A WINNER! | )| PAPINTA. GRAND OPERA-HOLSE TELEPHONE MAIN 532 and S MATINEE TO-MORREOW. THE CRY 1S STILL THEY COME! D EDITION LADD g7, Branch Ticket Office—Emporium. ALCAZAR THEATER. L TH E NIGHTS | W AND SUNDAY. y e Madison Square The- York, eptith | Susanna 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢. ' +%%% ' THE PRODIGAL FATHER " | | | RESERVED SLATS. PRIZE MASQUERADE ~— OF THE — VEREIN EINTRACHT MECHANICS® PAVILION, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY (7, 1900. ADMISSION, ONE DOLLA Beserved Seats 50 cents extra. SLZNOM EVERY EVENING AT 8:(5. TEAMER COPTIC HOM HONGKONG IN QUARANTINE Stopped at Honolulu on the Way. THE PLAGUE IS STILL RAGING — g STRANGE FUNERAL ON TEE SHIP SHENANDOAH. LR Ashes of the Deceased Scattered From the Masthead—Clever Steve- doring Work on the Trans- port Sherman. vay here und there had plague belween did not waste any on to San Fran- Quarantine Officer as soon a3 lcatraz, and as » case of slck- 1 of e ay ORE GRIPS New Line Now Open to the Public. Take the C. C. C. Route to Certain Relisf Without a Grip o> Gripe—Fare 10c. Get Passage at Any Lrug Store. C gle 1 C C before at the tab| let and beware of frau tions and substitutes. Latest Styles. Tailor Suits Jackets Fur Garments Capss, Ete. Lowest prices No extra charge for credit. Chicago Tailoring Co., MATY Thousands U: EF able to G Perfor THE RITAL JEFFRIES-SHARKEY CONTEST PICTURES. TON—The public is war: s from speculators. fice of this theater. made for visitors from DAILY 15¢. Even- . ings (reserved) TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. “Hoot ¥on, Nothing's Safe {round Him FIFTH WEEK | Of the Enormous Triumph, the Comic Opera, ‘THE IDOL’S EYE. Every Eveniag at 8. Matinee Saturday at 2. Apd Fusiness Is Larger Than Ever. POPULAR PRICES 2 and 50 cents. Teiephone—Bush 9, ;ESTERN TURF ASSOCIATION. , begianing at 1.3 p. m. racetrack of America. Pa- d. xlass-enciosed, where, Camforiabiy housed Ui bad weather, they cad 4oy an unobstructed view of the races. Trains leave Taird and Townsend streets at 10:0 znd i1:30 2. m., and 12:15, 12:%5, 13:5 % p. m., returning immediately after g m. Seats in rear cars re ». m. leave San Bruno at 4:00 ™, San Francisco to Tanforan and re ding admission to track, $125, W. J. MARTIN. President. Secretary 4nd Manager. CHUTES AND Z00.Zim I LTA and PICKAN. NINY; W AIRE SLOAN; PAL'L\ LA CROIX: NEW MOVINY PICTURES. TOMORROW NIGHT, CAKE-WALKING CONTEST. EAN JOSEYS SAN FRANCISCO, Phone {§ Seats—PARK 2. m the rallroad cars into | 1 | | [ 2 ® * 4 . ® + ® - L 4 R4 @ + . R T P D S R e — DU DD PP I P A e e e o o o e e ] LR R e R e R o S S o PUREPS DI b S DU PG AP U LARGEST FORE AND AFT SCHOONER IN THE WORLD. six mas weight more. topm: 00 pounds. This six-master will have her spars made of Oregon pine. The lower masts will be 26 inches In diameter, in the partners, except the foremast, which will be 20 inches. The fore- will be 20 inches in the cap and the other: i S hip house 16 feet, after-house 35 feet and a large wheelhouse. h a double set of pumps and with engines and steam winches fore and aft, and will carry two anchors, each welghing 1 have a forward house 26 feet long, mids 17 The bowsprit will be . HERE is now almost ready for launching in Camden, Me., the largest schooner the world has ever seen. She will have will be 2750 tons net register, 335 feet over all, 46 feet beam, 26 feet deep and will carry loaded 5500 tons dead Each mast will be 116 feet long, With topmasts 38 feet 3 feet long and jibboom 75 feet. She She will be fitted ng the strictest kind of quarantine and e is allowed alongside the Coptic. :r Caroline, that generally teerage 'passengers and | from the Oriental steam- :arantine steamer, broke | she was in the Carquinez | Straits. Luckily there was nothing for her to do and Captain Leale was able repair damages before his ship was to required eward Eddy on the American ship enandoah had a _peculiar experience st Monday night. Just as he was about retire two women closely veiled came to him asked that he scatter the an urn from the masthead of contents ¢ the ship. Eddy consented to do the job and going aloft scattered the ashes to | the four points of the compass. The wo- | men below wept in concert while the | s being performed, and when | back with the empty urn one | i it and threw it into the were the remains of i nchard, who died In Ala- | = Sth inst. | ddy says the women came the four winds from largest American ship | es of the dead man were nd all that remains to the memory. eamer Robert Dollar is now on Francisco with the larg- rbor in one bottom. Hith- lumber was constdered | ad for a_vessel to take across | out the Dollar has crossed out | h 1,005,000 feet, much to the W and delight of lumber men in George Smith, sailmaker on the British | ship Barbermere, had a narrow escape | from death vesterday. He had a quarrel | with Charles White, the ship's cook, ard | the latter struck him over the lefi eve with a cleaver. The wound, while serious, was not dangerous, and after Dr. Arm' ted had dressed it at the Harbor Hospital s v: able to go back to his ship. ort Sherman will sail for at noon. Some of the | etting of this transport | a aptain Bennett of ihe | ng firm of Bennett & Goodall put of coal into her in sixteen hour while from 1 p. m. Wednesday until noon of yesterday the transport force, under Captain Dunn, put 2000 tons of freight aboa The coaling feat is one of the best efforts ever made on this coast. as the fuel had to be hoisted aboard fr lighters. Captain Bennett remained at his personally superintending the job un- yesterd: and only went home e his clothes after the’Sherman | d and ready for sea. It was a clever plece of stevedoring and Captain Bennett deserves all the credit he recefved { flicers of the transport service. Sherman will take away about 0 freight, 40 casuals and several | A FORTUNATE BEGINNING. The client in Portland, Oregon, who sent one- or §1 ticket No. 18,293, winning *2500 00, )0 to one of the leading banks in made a very good beginning for | The ticket of the January 35, | y of the Beneficencia of Mexico, was pre- | by the bank's messenger, Mr. John | who recetved the money for same. previous T of this company s an book, and the prompt pavment of prizes | is acknowledged by all. The great popularity | of the Lottery of the Beneficencla Publica Com- peny, City of Mexico, on this coast is due to the fact that many of the capital prizes have been won here and were promptly paid. of the above named Lottery n public, under the supervision tficers of the Mexican Govern- appointing Antonio Perez for the Treas- ; Department and Apolinar Castillo, Inter- r. therefore assuring everybody of the hon- esty of the old reliable Lottery of the Bene- ficenela Publica Company, City of Mexico This Lottery is the oniy one guarantesd by the Mexican National Government, U. Bassett! | being President and Manager. . e PASSED A BOGUS CHECK. | The Preliminary Examination of Dr. | John H. Decker, Dentist, | Commenced. | The preliminary examination of Dr. John H. Decker, dentist, on the felony charge of passing a fictitious check ‘for $40 signed “S. W. Leake” was begun be- fore Judge Conlan yesterday. The de- fendant had no attorney and the court asked Attorney Caldwell to represent him. John C. Currier, cashier of the Columbia ! Bank, identified the check and testified | that no such person as S. W. Leake had an account at the bank. He Identificd | W. A. Sullivan, saloon-keeper, as the man | who presented the check for payment. Sullivan testified that he knew the de- fendant and_ had cashed the check for ! him. He took the check to the bank and was told no such person had an account there. Decker had repaid him $30 and he had no desire to prosecute him. In cross- examination he said he had known Decker for about a year. He could not say if the signature “'S. W. Leake” was fictitious. At the request of the defendant’s attor- | ney a continuance was granted till Mon- day mext. quarter, ——e—————— | Loans to salaried men. No collateral or in. | dorser, §. F. Discount Agency, 43 Phelan bld. * —— s | Mrs. Foote's Remains on the Coptic. The remains of Mrs. W. W. Foote came ! over from China on the Coptic. Mr. Faote and a number of his friends went out on 2 tug to meet the mail Steamer, but were Tefused permission to board. Shouid the | quarantine be raised to-day the remalns of Mrs, Foote will be Fu( aboard a tug and taken direct to Oakland, where a spe- | cial train will take them to the family res- { 1aeace- ——,———————— | Division Ten, Hibernians. To-morrow night Division No. 10, CORGE BYRD; VOLKYRA and | ancient Order of Hibernians, will cele- brate its fifth anniversary br a social in Teutonic Hall. The committee of ar- rangements has decided that it shall be a ladies’ night, so that the families and Judy friends o members may enjoy the divis- jon’s hospitality. {Why She Ran Out of| ¢ them lost her hus- | | fore it can judge of what | drank, taking his bill as a b | a description of the methods of clearing | | run was not reported to the engineer. McDONALD SAYS THE MANAUENSE IAS TOU LIGHT Coal. { McDonald of ? Chief Engineer Willlam the Manauense was the only witness b ore the consular naval c rt yesterday. It was expected that Inspector Bulger would testify as to the condition of the engi and boilers of the vessel, but when court opened in the morning it was annou ed that he would not be allowed to give evidence befare the naval court, and if the court wanted what testimony | he could giv could call for the report made by Inspector Bulger and now on file | in the Custom-ho court stopped him McDonald's voted to his experience | He told how he had vessels, among them he Oregon during their | trial trips, and also how _he had served | as chiet engineer of the Panama. When | he got that far the court announced that so far it was concerned the fact that | he was chief engineer of the Panama was | suffici>nt for the purposes of the court | and there was no nead of any further | testimony. Then the witness turned to | vents of the voyage to and from Ma- ald was pamticularly emphatic in | r that he had never been drunk | going or coming on the trip. He | 0 said he had not been drunk at Yoko- | yther pla . too, | d never ordere from the shore during the The court is already in po: his bill at the ship’'s bar ie sa a drop of 1 and there- the engineer | A good part of the day was devoted to | the bilges of the vessel and why it was | that they were allowed to go“so long in a | foul condition. The vessel was very deep | in her biiges, the engineer said, and so a very little water would make a big show- ing’ far as the soundings were con- rned. He said, too, that duringithe trip | out and in there were no soundings post- | ed on the sounding board, and for a good | part of the time the distance the ship had | The engineer had no great llking for Filipinos as men to work on a vessel, for he said the best men he could get in Manila were not competent and would not and could not work in the fireroom. He | referred to the men he hired to help clean | out the bilges. Referring to the ton :mdi a half of dirt the chief officer had said | he saw taken from the bilges. the chief engineer said it was no more than should be expected from such a vessel. The fire- room plates were warped and the ashes were constantly sifting down into the bilges. Why he did not clean the bilges anyway he did not say, except to reiter- | ate that the engine-room force kept good | care of the bilge under the fireroom and | whenever the men could they tried to clean the bilges under the boilers. It was under the boilers that all the dirt was| found. The coal got thmugh the warped fireroom plates, he said, when it was be- ing shoveled from the forward bunkers into the fireroom plates. the | Regarding the water reported in ship's hold, the engineer said the depth was much increased by the unsteadiness of the vessel. She wax light anyway, he said, and whenever the sea picked up she rolled badly. When they were coming back he said the afterhold was filled with coal, and when they got off Honolulu it wag decided that to remove the coal from the afterhold would leave the vessel in bad trim, so it was decided to put into Honolulu and fill the bunkers without dis- turbing the coal in the afterhold. This was why, he said, the ship put into Ho- noiulu. In concluding. the chief engineer said that he had never had any talk witn the captain or any one else as to the number of days required to reach San Francisco, or the amount of coal that would be needed. The report of Inspector Bulger will probably read to-day. IN THE DIVORCE COURT. Mrs. Price Pressing Her Suit—De- crees Granted and Suits Filed. The action for divorce instituted by Mrs. Birdie Price against her husband, A. G. Price, in which Mrs. Cordelia Bot- kin appeared as the star witness Wednes- day, was on again before Judge Dainger- fleld yesterd: Nothing of importance was develo] and a continuance was taken until a week from Monday. De- crees of divorce have been granted Su- san Lindsay from Arville A. Lindsay for desertion, Clara M. Lew against Robert C. Lew for cruelty, Mary R. Bussey from Arthur, Bussey for intemperance and James D. Hanson from Mabel W. Han- Son for intemperance. Suits for divorce on the ound of desertion have been filed by Edwin N. Gagnon against’Elia Gagnon, Ethel Anderson against Lilburn Ansenon and Mary Murphy against John J. Murphy. [ e sssascss s aassssaansad The Great Kentucky Political : Feud. + 4 You have undoubtedly been fol- lowing with interest the daily ac- counts of the political situation in Kentucky, prior and subsequent to the assassiration of Senator Wil- liam Goebel. Next Sunday's Call will contain an interesting pen pic- ture of the life and character of this remarkable man. P amascssssssssssssssassy ) Aaa s e R S e R e + + + + + & THEATER ENDS I\ BROKEN RIBS Marie Wood and Max' Haas Principals. g d, billed as the “Califor- at the Olympia Theater, Marie D. Wo nia Nightingale did not appear on the stage of that play- | An altercation with the | house last night. | tlon of | | struction to | aifrerent assistant manager, Max Haas, a pair of | broken ribs and internal injuries recelved on Wednesday evening put out of the question any participation in the Olympia | programme by Miss Wood. There can be no doubt that Marie D. Wood, who was formerly a Miss Dohr- mann of Stockton, is suffering intense! from some bodily injury. When seen last night at her rooms, 223 Powell street, she told the following story: “I was leaving the rvoms at the back of the stage when Mr. Haas came up to me and we had words over something that had just happened. He caught me by the arms, pressed me against the wall and after that I can’t remember anything that happened. How I dragged myself home I can't say, for 1 as in fearful pain and suffering intensely Miss Wooa's sister was attending her last nignt, and she was outspoken in d claring tnat the singer had been violently handled by Max Haas. ed that some against him. She also insinuat- action would be Dr. brougnt calied Rosecrantz was ted the pa- and v atedly during the day. as” story does not tally with that of Miss Wood. "He says that the “California | Nigntingale”” was using obscene language, refiecting upon the visitors of the nouse. 0 stop her diatribe short he went back of the stage. Seeing him approach she at- tempted to strike him and he then pirme foned her arms to her sides. Haas says she left the Olympia perfectly sound and well and in no way disabled or injurea by anything which he had done. WILL INSURE EMPLOYES. Huntington’s Grand Scheme to Make Each Man His Own Bene- factor. On the 1st of next month the Southern Pacific Company will establish a relief department. It will be plachl under the charge of A. F. Hess, and its object will be to establish a fund out of which the company’s employes will be succored when they are disabled Lecause of illness, accident or other cause or when they are entitled to compensation because of the death of some relatiye or other beneficlary named in their applications. In other words, C. P. Huntington is to add insur- ance to_the other business in which he is engaged. This relief fund from whicl benefits are to flow will be formed by vol- untary contributions from employes, in- come and profit derived from investment of money in the fund and by the payment of $36,000 per annum by the Southern Pa- cific Company. The membership and contributions to this new scheme will be voluntary with thoser who are already in the employ of the company, but membership will be compulsory for these who enter the em- ploy of the Southern Paci: = Srlarch e acific after the 1st CHILDREN'S TRAINING SCHOOL. Sisters of the 73011; ]'lml]y Inaugu- rate a New Work. The Sisters of the Hoiy Family hava ex- tended their work in this city. Recently they purchased a piece of property on Sixth street, between Harrison and Pry- ant, which was dedicated Tuesday aftor- noon by Rev. Father J. J. Prenfierga’s: Vicar General. Father Prendergast made a short address, in which he commended the missionary labors of the sisters, say- ing that they had devoted their lives t, the amelioration of distress and the up- llf_‘l.ll;lg r;( the forr}:)vllng. € sisters in their new instit have kindergarten classes for Ht‘l‘l‘e‘o:e:p‘i}el and training classes for the older ones. The institution was dedicated under the title and patronage of the Holy Family. It is the second building which the sis- ters have secured for their work south of Market street. A limited number of the fiatmns of the work conducted by the oly Family Sisters were present. ——————— CELEBRATED ANTHONY DAY. Pleasant Entertainment in Honor of the Suffragist’s Eightieth Anniversary. The eightieth anniversary of the birth- day of Miss Susan B. Anthony was fitting- 1y celebrated last evening by the club that bears the noble lady's name. Cent Club Hall was chosen for the Dlflce"‘l;yf celebration_and was filled with not only the Susan B. Anthony Club members but all admirers of the noted suffragist. An unusually fine programme, in which music and speech-making were agreeably mingled, preceded the social meeting of the guests. h the proposed Police Court Grafters. Frank Poalorf, who has been frequent- ing the police courts and, it is alleged, representing himself as the Italian in- terpreter and able to “fix" cases, was ar- re:?ed vesterday in the Larkin-stree ridor by Policeman Rainsbury and book- ed at the City Prison on a charge of vagrancy. There are a few others whose actions around the courts are being watched by the police. | tographers COURSE IN PHOTOGRAPHY FOR AMATEURS. Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. PHOTOGRAPHY I—INTRODUCTORY STUDY. ! BY GEORGE W. GILSON. It Is hardly necessary at this date to begin a series of articles of practical in- the amateur photographer with the detailed history of the birth and wonderful growth of this science. We shall, therefore, give but a brief history | of photography before proceeding to the | more instructive chapters. The actual discovery of the darkehing or coloring effect of the sun's rays on substances was made 100 ears ago, but the discovery of photos- | raphy as we think of it and know it to- { day is sald to have been made by Da- guerre in August of 1339, He then gave us—or, rather, the French Government, which afterward gave it to the world— the process by which a direct picture could be taken by photography. This pro- cess was called the daguerreotyping pro- cess and is the old daguerreotype with which most of us are familiar. While | the daguerreotype was a portrait or pic- ture by photography, and very beautiful of its kind, stiil the process differed The re- was a positive, in place of a nega- the picture being made direct on a Each picture was an orig- greatly from that now in use. ult s t copper plate. inal. If a person required six pictures six sittings were necessary, and the time of exposure differed from thirty to forty minutes. With our rapid dry plates of the present day, coated with their sen- sitive salts, the exposure is but a frac- a moment. To Daguerre alone JOSEPH NIEPCE. is not due all the credit for the discov- ery of photography, for another French- man, by name Joseph Nicephore Niepce, experimenting at the s as Daguerre, discovered ma eres ing details that added to Daguerre's di covery v materially in the perfectin of the proce: Again, there are many who stanchly claim that Fox Talbot the true originator of photography, consider that to_him should be accorded the title of the “father of photography. a mantle _so long worn Daguerre. Apropos of thi the article lately pub- lished in an glish journal, which speaks of Talbot's claims as follows: On February 11, exactly one hundred > ' clapsed since the birth Fox Talbot. To many ph s name is possibly unfamiliar by many more his contributions are, without doubt, vaguely apprehended. No permanent recognition of them exists. and even the ature of the craft of which he was the virtual founder often misrepresents and underrates his labor. The centenary of his birth comes, there- fore. as a fittirg cccasion on which to direct the attention of the photographic world to the part which Fox Talbot played in fhe evol of photography, ard his relations to his con- temporaries in these pregnant years of the third and fourth decades of this century. The inventors of the art science ;‘vfl:e treading pretty closely on one another's heels, but those who have studied the early history of photography will acqui- esce in the opinion that even so far as priority of publication is concerned Fox Talbot is entitled to the premier place among the fathers of photography. But this is not his most indisputable claim. Talbot's process contained the possibilities of indefinite modification. The multipli- cation of positive proofs from a negative originated with him and has proved the only practicable principle in photography ever since. | For his share, too, in the development of the sister art of photo-engraving Fox Tal- vears will bot likewise deserves a full measure of credit. He was one of the earliest pio- neers In that afterward fruitful field of discovery—the production of printing sur- faces by photographic means. He was one of the first experimenters with bichro- mated gelatin and perfected and also patented a process for the reproduction of an intaglio plate to which he gave the name “photoglyphic engraving.” This brief outline will serve to call to mind the position of Fox Talbot in pho- tographic history, a_ position hitherto scarcely recognized. In France a statue of Joseph Nicephore Niepce stands in the town of Chalons-sur-Saone. and the res- | toration of the church of his native Bry- { sur-Marne has been carried out as one memorial to Daguerre. The only proposal to perpetuate in any way the memory of Henry Fox Talbot has curiously enough taken the same form as that last men- | TALBOT. | tioned. Soon after his death in 1577 pre- | liminary Steps were taken to restore, or rather remodel, the chancel of Lacock Church, Wiltshire, with which Fox Tal- bot was intimately connected as lay rec- tor, and where many of his ancestors lle buried. The scheme lapsed for some years, but latterly a local committee taken the matter in hand and a portion of the requisite sum has been raf ‘While the suitability of the suggested memorial may ‘Pro\'e productive of discussion, it should be recollected that the idea Is one which would have been acceptable to Fox Talbot himself, and photographers would be honoring thelr craft if they provided the funds for this or auny other suitable memorial in the centenary year of the man who may most truly be called “the | father of photography.” | There is no faa or hobby. call it what | you will. that is at once so attractive and instructive and that gives such leasure as does photography. It carri ts followers afield. and while giving phys- ical exercise and mental pleasure it gives | instruction of the best kind and it induces | artistic conception and brings to the front all the better qualities of our nature. It is well said that one “who loves the green trees, the pearly brook, the mossy bank, the glad sunshine and the ever-cgnansln‘i beauties of nature cannot be vicious. The amateur photographer is ever in pur- | F4 | alway: | a matter. | forts with the | squaring the number by the use of fast FOR AMATEURS. the artis ture, the br nobler and the commer- alize of what h one branch only 1y capita its magnitude. and i more wonderful when it it is practically a young e a few years ago a traveler, en tov era in hand, attracted attention camera Is considered an indispens: dition to the well-regulatec This series of artic! written for t ner, and will of t ents who s are only now considering the taking photography and consequently hav or no knowledge of its my be our aim to d i of using the s tiful pictures tically and step by step knowledge for makiag pic p tography. Before an artist can paint bis picture he must first have and thoroughly stand the use 3o o that we first select the cam, the lens and the plate upon which our picture is in the making t lears d as the o kinds, the hana ipod camera. I the samewhat mistaken idea that the hand camera is tha easier to handle, and In a way it is not the easier for a be es with, and w recommend our class to camera {,1 style th may be divided into camera and the stand or tr ommend the g facturer over another. £ era to be sele dent, with th one of the sta rectilinear lens. long-drawn bel the front focusing style, as means of m front which the ened) is much hand- fer than moving back. ard spoken of above should The front g front, and the be what is ter: and th terms will be ful future chapters. r (holdl strong to be perf tion and holding made so as to fold small com- pass. Do not get one in which strength is DAGUERRE. ficed too much to the matter of fold- igr?griin:n small space. In selecting the first camera it is a good plan to consult some friend of experience. e Plate. e a number of different makes ortl:f?epl:ies the market, any of which Wwith proper handling will yleld good re- sults, and the best course for a beginner is to select one brand and stick to it until the working of it is thoroughly under- et plates are made In three grades of speed, usually termed slow. medium and fast or instantaneous. The beginner should choose the slow or medium speed Dlate for his first work, which i3 nearly an outdoor picture, as the medium plates admit of considerably more latitude in exposure than the fast plate and are besides easier to develop, or to contrel in v ent. O T ne Rreat percentage of fafiures at th commencement of the amateur photog- rapher’'s career is due to overexposue. With the fast plate overexposure of a few seconds only is fatal (without the experi- ence of a veteran to control it), while with the slow plate it is not nearly so serious The beginner will find that he will waste plates enough in his early ef- medium plate, without ones. Note—Photographic lenses will be the subject of the study for next week. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Spring Term, 1900. Mondays—American Political Par« ties. Tuesdays—Twenty Lessons in French Conversation and Recent Sci- entific Discoveries. Wednesdays and Thursdays— Golden Ages of Literature. Friday—Photography for Ama- teurs. Saturdays—Biographical Studies for Girls. These courses will continue until June 7, 1900. Examinations will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of certificates. Friedman Contest Dismissed. On motion of counsel for the plaintif® the contest to the will of the late Jullus Friedman, instituted a few weeks ago by 1. Friedman of Ore’nn. 2n alleged cousin of the qgccased milllonaire, was dismissed without prejudice yesterday. The nature of the dismissal o the contest does not reclude Mr. Friedman from renewing is contest at any time, and the cause of his action s occastoning some speculation. ——————— Filipino Actors Deported. The twenty-four Filipino actors apd aero- bats who exhibited at the Mechanles’ In- stitute last fall will leave for Manila to- morrow on the ‘eriunent transport