The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1900, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL. 7 Jueer Happenings in the Oldgst Artists’ Studio in Sap F By Jarah Comstock. : F b i a v ¢ -] sponsi- he front 1 Peters and Hall painted the floor, not all way, was skylight in advance payment for a month’s lodging, for® there are times when/) the painting of aj landscape brings) S0 he set tol less. ¥ work, and as the last stroke of his{ brush completed lhfif skylight he Indis-() creetly fell throughy it and used up his)) month’s lodging In recovering. He was Robinson, know—Charlie gRob-(/ inson, who @i nndi‘ still does landscapes) and has left they ramshackle old place ) behind now and ls” There Joullinsojourning, as I, . hear, in Furope. Has Lain and gne by one they an® Dreamed ofgraduated before) s him from “611,” and k POH’)tlng tbe some are in swell) Sand Dunes.studios _now and § some are dead. ) 1 followed Arriola. They r panel and then they ace thereof knew them Denny went elsewhere to make ™ r marine views. Then fol-/ s and Poole in the same year, ¥ “Charlie' you’ nd Kia sible with water. contenty disAppointed, they pretended to share his wrath that an end must be put to the tres- passes of outcasts who were forever In- ave dampened partition the spirits beyond the Mr. Latimer himself is respon- for the story of their emptying 3rooks’ champagne bottle which he had ought to paint, and of their filllng it And then they accepted his nvitation to share its contents, when its iays of posing were over. and, when the QLD FISH BRCoK S WeULD SPME TIMES HAVE T° EAT RIS MPDELS instead, and declared painted. If report be VAQing “61L” *Poor old Brooks—he never true, he agreed to Would have forgiven us if he had known paint both floor and We did it,”” Mr. Latimer sald to me. “But he was so dignified we couldn’t help play- Ing jokes on him. He was a great old TE DS A SA DA TA A TTAATA AT AT A ASAS kS kS Regarding the Coming Census.} In thirteen actual working days the twelfth census of the United States Is to be taken. The law provides that the work shall be done between June 1 and June 15, and as there are two Sundays in that pe- )riod this year there will be just thirteen days to devote to the task The vastness of this work is something hard to realize. There are some 70,000,000 people to be counted and asked all sorts of questions as tp birth, dncestry, nativity, age, education, work, social position, con- nubial condition and all that. One would think that the simple counting of 70,000,000 people in thirteen days would be a huge enough task, to say nothing of doing the other work that census taking in these days entails. The questions that the enumerators will ask will be numerous, but they will not include some of those which were consid- ered most objectionable in 18%0. These are ¥ abolished, not because the people objected to answering them, but because they proved to be utterly worthless as a basis for statistics on chronic diseases, for which they were designed. The questions d Loomis and Deakin belonged to '7L () this year will be: and en the dates are vague down to *77,% when Wolfe had the place. The Latimer-() Btanton regime came next, and this ap- pears to have been the heyday of the' o's gayety. Mr. Brooks, the aigni- fied, was at work upon fishes and fruit in is back room, but that seems not to 1. 'Surname, Christian name, initial. 2. Residence, street, number of house. 3. Relationship of each member to the head of family 4. Color or race. 5. Bex. 6. Age at last birthday. 7. Dey, month and year when born. Brooks, though, and we were glad enough to have him for a neighbor.” In spite of the fact that Mr. Brooks’ still life studles were bringing him $500 to 3600 in days when still life had a Dbetter chance than it has now, nevertheless there was a streak of economy in his make-up. For the story runs that the 8. Are you single, married, widow, wid- ower or divorced? 9. Number of years married. 10. How many children? 11. Number of children living. 12. Sex of these children. 13. Where were you born? If fin the United States, give State or Territory; it of foreign birth, give name of the country only. 14. Where was your father born? Your mother? (Same conditions as the forego- ing.) 15. If of foreign birth, when aid you come to the United States? .16, How many years have you resided in the United States? 17. Have you been naturalized? = How many years since you became a citizen? 18. What is your occupation, trade or profession? (This question applies to per- sons 10 years of age of over.) 15. How many months during the yen.ro are you employed? 20. How many months have you attend- ed school? 21. Can you read? 22. Can you write? 23. Give the main facts eoncerning your education. 24. Do you own the house in which you lve? Iy 25. Do you rent the house in which you lve? F ORISR TSR TOR-SRT TR SN SNV ANE 2 26. If you own the house, is it free or) Soclety Belles of Early Days Had Their Portraits Done. mortgaged? (The same questions apply to farms.) [ ] B e PRESENT 3 Oty mackerel and the shad, which he boughto #to paint, were fried afterward for his own¥ cozy little dinner. to so good a *Mr. Brooks'. time that re Rodr During the Stanton were Latimer and 1ez came and went, leaving his name on the door and probably some of his art on the wall Walls to the right and walls to the left bear the vaga past occu- pants, the chalk ar ketches so elosely crowddd, so wedged and over- lapped that the w: look like a prize puzzle where one is to “find the lady” or “find ‘two dogs.” Latimer and Stanton were known as good fellows, and their studio was a re- sort for idle people and busy ones, too, for the matter of that. Dr. Hughes used to drop in, I hear, and Mr. Tobin and a lot of E Surely fish never dledo Rapid melting of iron is one of the ac- purpose as those models ofi complishments performed by a modern in- vention of a certain chemical compound ¥ whose component acids its inventors re- fuse to divulge. Recently experiments in the rapid dissolution of jron were tried successfully in the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison. The experiments in the presence of the electrical genius of America were con- ducted by Louis Dreyfus of Frankfort-on- othe-Maln‘ who was able to demonstrate to x R S e Edison the possibility of the production of an almost incredible degree of heat by the use of the Ggrman chemical com- pound In combinfition with powdered aluminum. Dreyfus placed half a cupful of his chemieal in a small crucible and covered it with a small quantity of the powdered C\nlumlnum and then placed a wrench, about half an inch thick and six inches long, in the crucible. Touching a match to the compound, Dreyfus stepped back and the mixture blazed up furiously. In five seconds the wrench was melted. It is estimated that the heat involved in the process was 3000 degrees centigrade, hith- erto considered impossible. While experiments in the use of the chemicals patented by German speclalists are but of comparatively recent trial in ‘America, the powerful compound itself is scarcely of very recent origin. It was dis- ©covered three years ago and was patented AT A AT 0 4 T ATAT AT AT AT A AT AT AT A A AR kS kk ° Melt Jron in Five JSeconds. raneisco ] RISTORY Anderson, New Y the portrait painter Francisco’s smart se its most cherish while cha where behi have been p hue and Mr: was Mrs.Va for that m: was only was quité as mu trait as if she he am told that s an hour deciding i aggrieved, and sald way that she had. proposed beginning and the nice, 1 turn and turn others did, but were same. Bes these were not so welcome, because of a way they had of stopping Informally over night. They would gather there by the many during the evening, and by the time night—real Latin quarter night—had set in there were several to be found in rolly eaps in floor corners. Then, I have it on good authority, the owners of that same floor space took drastic measures, For if a man refuses to respond to both gentle and ungentle hints, who wouldn't welcome all were p ides a them had and a pe with refer admitted 1 it was a ma vietim to s down the st rk, 159 1 beaw dainty skirts and climb: e took tk betweer sprinkled gown and the blue one when somebody afterward decided for her that it should be white she was mightily she suddenly bethought her of a d friend she had and w: ed him Introduc into the picture, and upon its being « saw hard tists, THRT 13 RS UNIQUE RS 1T 1S INTERESTING. 7 ey were wver San that up v stairs, nted some- s sald to 1 Mrs. D a t rose- and that in an emphatic Also that when the painting was within a day of completion tended that room was lacking she blandly over again on a canvas large enough to take in the dog: tall coachman, too, might as well be Inclucea while they wers about it. Mr. Sutro was another patron of the studio. Mr. Lloyd Tevis feil in line, and all the Flood f posed e had be- ark halls of ., and it was the o n 3 times. It some of but He was and then moments for his burn paper near—well, rather near—his teq him with a face and shriek *Fire!” has just gone out’ Book agents were another of their trou- possible to contradict. bles. Just why they chose to tlimb those Prosperous agd poor have both worked three stair flights is not easy to guess, but there. Some have lived in comfortable climb they i no rejoici : and they ag at the top. were met with If they were per- and have gone to CI sistent it was easy to develop a case of hours onmly. Th gho in the next room. There were in town, they white visions to be seen by the agent, and whose there were weird sounds that the ld of the oil stove had more to do with than he guessed. Deakin must have returned to, the studio in '85, to be followed by J. Stanton, E. H. Peters and George Hall a year later. The last inscriptions on the door are “A. L Colitns, Boston, A. D. 1886, and “A. A. lived there, meals over meager fuel, or have drop- ped in at 10-cent restaurants when 10 cents eould be found. Some were experienced and es- tablished, some just starting out. At any rate, they appear to W have been Jjolly, by Dr. Hans Goldschmidt and commnea’fl'om the man of 65 by a company organized at Essen-Ruhr.O @own - to Stanley in Germany. ¥ Armstrong and Les- “The chemical compound patented byO“e Hunter of 1900. Dr. Goldschmidt,” sald Dr. Alexander¥ Those who have Smith of the chemical laboratory of the() Sone there to jinks University of Chicago, 1s undoubtedly a% 'TOUSh all these mixture of oxide of firon, the ordinary/)’°2r® SaY that they » . V' have o ¢ c a s jonally powdered hemAtite, with a mixture offear fn real chairs, powdered aluminum. Qbut more often in “We have trled several experiments Infimprovised ones—a the solution of iron out here and with the ) soap box, for in- service of these compounds have been ablel stance, or the stove, to melt very large iron nails in an incred- » cushioned and drap- fbly short space of time. The compoundsY ed. The rooms are produce a violent chemical action, a sort®Xlighted for such oc- rooms in a more pleas will tell you, top floor was built for a photo- graph gallery in the first place. have not only worked but have likewise and have of town, street for busy e is not a better light than at 611, Some cooked meages of fireworks explosion. The mass is placed(/ casions by JapaneseCharlie Robin- lanterns that jiggle in a crucible, which is heated at one point sayly in time to the and quickly spreads throughout the whole. The German patent is able to% Music—a zither or a make fron, while at the same time it() 2200 does the twanging. Men melts that already formed. One of itsg chief services is the formation of chrom-() o 5, And sing. and the future doesn't son Painted the Skylight and Then Fell Through fum and manganese. Pure chromium can count—nor the past. To-day it !s “Hello, be produced by means of the German)ma baby, hello, ma honey, hello, ma rag- compound. It was formerly made in anygtime gal.” electric furnace and, fashioned in this manner, was allled with carbon. Now it —_—————— Though the Mohammedans in London can be made in a pure state by munlsnnmber no more than 200, they are build- of the Iron oxide mixed with aluminum." ing a mosque, at a cost of $50,000, to ac- The German company hopes to see n.’ commodate from 300 to 400 worshipers, patent supplant many an older method ofV repairing breaks in fron machinery, rafls, ) o5y, Wil be provided. in addition to the women, for whom a gal- It is expected that when once the mosque {s established in ete. One of the services they clalm for 1t the metropoits Mohammedans, students in is the mending of broken rails on raliroad ) particular, will flock there from all parts lines. of the world.