The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1901, Page 6

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THE SHIPPING BILL 3 s and timid Repub e joined to prevent ac re our merchant marine. he name has been made against nate or the opposition press. 1g has been done by parties wledge of the features or inten- | to deep water ships the ction which has so our lake and coast shipping. American. No ship flying n the coastw trade. cost of building and n American ship ce the cheaper built and re not permitted to ente- | ver, we have to meet that | r competitors have the ships get the trade and we pay yea: for carrying our t d to our own people. has been called on to make a state- Y ate debate, giving the purpose and effect of the bill. From his analysis of the meas- ure it is seen that its advantages are open to any American hat is in first-class condition; it does not exclusively favor zny type of ship or route; slow ps may under it compete with fast ships, and sin- gle ships with lines of ships; compensation is based on size of ship and distance sailed, with extra for nships exceeding twelve knots. For every Amer- | built ship now in commission its owner must a new tonnage equal to 25 per cent of the exist- ing ship within ten years. For every foreign built | ship admitted to American register equal new ton- nage must be built in the United States for its owner | within ten years. Foreign built ships admitted to | erican register receive but half the compensation ‘ en to American built ships. Not a dollar is paid | to any American citizen until he has constructed new tonnage and put it in operation in deep water. As foreign ship-owners now carry 92 per cent of our foreign commerce it is only natural that they op- pose this measure, which will make us independent of | them in a few years. No one expects that they will per the passage of the bill if they can prevent it. 1eir American allies an excuse equally innocent cannot be given. These American friends of the foreign ship builder and owner pretend to believe that our merchant marine pay be revived free ships—that is to say, by permitting American citizens to buy cheaply buiit foreign ships, put them under the American flag and register and compete for deep water trade. This is a vain scheme. The cost of running an American ship due to our higher wage scale.is 35 per cemt more than the cost of running a foreign ship. That shuts us out of the competition unless we reduce the pay of American sailors to the foreign standard, or equalize the cost of operating ships by the plan proposed in this bill The nations with which we must compete to re- cover the right to carry our own merchandise pay. their ships in bounties and: subsidies more than $20,000,000 a year, which they get in addition to the advantage of cheaper construction and operation. So Americans who attack this bill because it pays a bounty are the stanch friends of a foreign bounty sys- tem which has effectually driven us off the seas as 've could have been swept therefrom by the great guns of a hostile fleet directed against our unarmed mer- chantmen. 1e Se: e The local Civil Service Commission and the Boa-d of Public Works have 4gain been tearing the repu- tations of one another to tatters. They have the ad- | it costs t | non | tem for division of the | vantage or us of a pri | of goods of all classes originating vantage not enjoyed by the public of knowing one another intimately enough not to violate the truth, THE COST CF BAD ROADS. HE many road bills introduced into the Legis- T lature at this session, while perhaps not credit~ able to the local enterprise of the sections from which they come, are evidences of a feeling that bet- ter country roads are necessary. The users of country roads, who must haul over them to and from market and ride over them on.busi- ness or pleasure, do not need to have pointed outtd them the inconvenieace and annoyance. of bad roads, but they are strangely oblivious to the waste and loss which such roads cause. Eastern engineers have taken up this subject and, in conjunction with the Agricultural Department, have developed the economy of good roads. As a result oi these investigations we have very accurate estimates of the pulling power of a horse on different kinds of roads. A horse will pull at a force of 100 pounds &n his traces all day, but the amount of load he ¢an drag after him by that steady exertion of force depends on the kind of road he pulls it over. The load that one horse can move on a level road of iron rails requires a horse and a half on asphalt, three and a half on best Belgian blocks, seven on good cobtlestone, twenty on' ordinary earth: road, and forty on sand. . A carefully made map of transportation in all sec- tions of the country gives the average wagon-haul for produce to a market—that is to say, to a railroad or navigable water. This haul is, in the— 4 Eastern States . 5.9 miles Northern State 6.9 miles Southern State: . 88 miles Cotton States . 12.6 miles Pralrie States .+ 8.8 miles Pacific ‘States . . 23.3 miles To get a ton of freight to market, to railroad boat, by wagon, costs-in the— Eastern - States Northern State: Southern States. Cotton States Prairie States, Pacific States. or 89 5 53 g o o1 g 2 12 The difference in cost per ton per mile is due to the | difference in the quality of the roads, and therefore in the hauling power of the horse. . The cost in the Pa- cific States is 21 cents per ton per miile, while the rail road charge is less than half a cent per ton per mile. The average cost of the wagon-haul all over the United States is 25 cents per ton per mile. Now it would be hard to convince the rural pro- ducers that it costs them more to haul their produce to the railroad than it does to ship it by rail. the face of the facts that is the tase. chief of the road bureau of the Agricultural Depart- ment, estimates the cost of hauling products over rural highway ment to be $046,000,000 per year. That sum is greater than the operating expenses of all the railroads in the United States. Itiss at the common answer of farmers is that nothing to haul their produce to market. That idea stands in the way of a general movement in favor of better roads. As well might a farmer say that it costs him nothing to raise his crops. Until*that wrong idea is overcome, and men generall only the superior convenience of good roads and the greater pleasure in their use but also their great eco- we will not have a disposition of local districts te secure good road metal and put it down in the most approved way. The rural land-owner will per- Laps see tic benefit to him of good roads if put in another way. They directly increase the value of his land for precisely the same reasons that land’values are advanced by the building of a new railroad to which the lands have access. General Stone estigates this increase in value on the 640,000,000 acres of farm land in the United States to be $3,120,000,000, which would build the best roads to be had to serve every farm and economize the mar- keting of its cr % When the legislators can devise an equitable s cost between the farm lands, the county and the State, we will probably begin road improvement. The State and county should share the cost because they get benefit in the increase of tax- English merchants zre organizing, it is said, to op- pose what they fear zre the aggressions of American trade in their country. They evidently still believe that curious notion of antiquated political economy that in a bargain either the buyer or the seller mus: lose.” They should not deprive themselves of an ad- lege. OUR TRADE WITH RUSSsI@A. IGURES which have just been compiled by the [::L'ni(cd States Bureau of Statistics show that the evil of the tariff war which Russia has precipi- tated is by no means o serious as the general public has feared. The exports of manufactured goods from this country, so far from reaching the value of $30,000,000, as has been asserted, have never reached one-fourth of that sum. That much is made clear by the official statistics rnot only of the United States but of Russia. According to the report of the bureau the Ameri- can exports of manufactures to Russia range in value from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 annually. showing of figures obtained in this country. The Russian official statistics show that our manufactured exports to that country have averaged in value a little over $4,000,000 a year since 1895, the earliest date at which detailed figures of Russian imports are obtain- | able. | The report of the Bureau of Statistics goes on to point out that the Russian statements of total imports in the United States have never, save in two exceptional years, shown as much as $30,000,000, and have averaged since 1895 less than $25,000,000 per annum, and of this sum more than three-quarters represents raw cot- ton, which is not affected by the recent order of the Russian Government. Much of the American cot- ton irhported into Russia is bought in the markets cf Europe, and thus, while represented in the Russian importations as of American origin, does not show in the export statements from the United States be- cause it is sent from this country direct to the great cotton markets of Europe, Liverpool and Bremen, and thence is distributed to Russia and other interior states of Europe. - Owing to the fact that Russia obtains a large por- tion of her American cotton imports through other countries tliere is a discrepancy in the showing of her trade statistics when compared with our own. Our statistics show exports of only about $10,000,000 in value to Russia, while the Russian figures show imports of American goods to the value of $25,000,- 000. The dificrencg is due to the cotton shipped by us to Great Britain or Germany, and thence taken to Russia, where it is cradited to the United States. Taking the whole subject into consideration, and after a review of the official statistics of both coun- tries, the report says the value of the articles exported from this country to Russia which have been made subject to maximum duties by the recent decree But on | General Stone, | to a railroad or point of water ship- | That is the | amounted in the year of our largest export to less than $6,000,000. It will be seen that the Russian blow at our trade has been by no means so heavy as many people feared. e A3 2 WILLIAM M. EVARTS. ILLIAM: M. EVARTS has been out of poli- W tics, -out of business.and out of public life of any ‘sort for so long a time that the announce- |} meng of his death ‘will come to many. people as a sur- prise. Doubtless many intelligent- Americans - have not been aware for several years that Evarts was’still alive, for his retirement from the world was almost as | complete as if ‘he hed been out of the world alto- gether. Now that he is dead the people will gratefully re- call the story of his great services to the nation and do justice to:his career at the bar. - He was unigiies | tionably ‘one of the most. eminent lawyers ‘this cotn- try has ever produced; and ranks amorg the few mea | who have attained the foremost tank in both profes- | sional and political life: Strong as were his political convictions and ‘fully as_he understood the necessity of party organization hor the s<pport of political measures undgr our form of government, his legal training and his judicial tem- | perament prevented him from ever becoming an in- | tense partisan, or even a great party leader. Never- theless his political work was of a high order and ex- | tended over a‘long period of time, dutiug which he served as Attorney General in the administration of Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State in the administra- tion of Hayes, and afterward in the United States Senate. As a forensic orator Mr. Evarts during his practice at the New York bar had no rival ‘except Charles O’Conor.. - There “were others who perhaps were more eloquent speakers, but none-except his one great rival who combined ‘an equal knowledge of ‘the law with an equal ability to expound it by every art of argument, satire, invective anid appeal known to great advocates. His most notable speech was that made in defenss of President Johnson when impeached before the Sen- ate. The occasion was one of the greatest in mod- | ‘ern history and commanded the attention of the civil- ized world. Mr. Evarts was fully able to mieet the re- | quirements ‘of ‘such a trial, and even by those ~who | were most certain that Johnson should have been con- | victed the speech of Evarts in his behalf was. recog- nized as a masterpiece of oratory. It may be noted as an illustration of the versatility | of the man that he was as skilled in ‘making after- | dinner speeches as in pleading great causes at the bar or in the Senate. In those lighter moods he did not have to rely upon teling good stories for the enter- tainment of his audiences. His wit was bright and facile. It never offended nor was it ever lacking, an:d he was as ready with the polished and light repartee and jest of the banquet-hall as with the learning or the arguments required to meet opponents in court or in the Senate. In his later years he developed a strange belief that exercise is unnecessary for the continuance of health aiter reaching maturity. He frequently boasted that he never took exercise, and it appears the boast was justified by the facts. The result was that during his later years he was virtually dead to the world while men equally old and -having no stronger constitution to begin with continued to be active and vigorous, doing useful work in the world. His life, therefore, while full of noble lessons for all, contains one notable warning. It is in vain that even the most robust frame can neglect altogether the law of nature which demands work for the body as well as for the mind. When the history of the United States for the period | that followed the close of the Civil War down to the end of the reconstruction of the Southern States comes to be written Mr. Evarts will occupy a promi- nent place in its pages. He was a great lawyer, a pure statesman and an unswerving patriot. His retirement from public life at an age when his powers should have been still useful to his country was a loss to the | nation, and now that hie has gone the people may weil | mourn his death. | THE ANTI-SUFFRAGIST. ANY a periodical has been started in the i /\/\ United States for no other purpose than that | of supporting some particular movement. Indeed some of them have been designed to advance | what should be termed a “wiggle” rasher than a | movement. Rarely, however, has any one thought | it worth while to launch a new publication merely ‘i for the purpose of opposing something. It is there- | fore worth noting that there has now been established in New York City a neat little four-paged periodical bearing the title “Anti-Suffragist,” which has for | its sole object a refutation of the arguments of the | advocates of the enfranchisement of women. } The paper asserts that the woman suffrage move- ment received its first.impulse from what it calls “the extravagant teachings” of Jean Jacques Rousseau, | and goes on to say: ‘It stands to-day at its first real turning point. Its old leaders are reverting to some of its earlier utterances and conduct. They have pub- lished a Bible that reveals the soul and intelligence of the movement. Law and religion are attacked, and man is denominated woman’s enemy. Another leader in reverting to the early type is organizing a crusade ';against a country that grants woman far more legal | privileges than man. The new leaders, meantime, have thrown aside the old arguments and ceased to utter the ringing war cries that confused the battle and misled the unwary.” It is to meet the crisis of this turning point that the new publication has entered the field of combat. It gives fair notice that if a woman “believes in suffrage it should receive her zid in the hour of its trial. If she does not believe ir. suffrage she should give help | to those who are striving to lay to rest the haunting presence of a figure that has loomed athwart the path of woman's progress, lo, these many years.” Such is the aim and object of the new champion of woman’s cause, and from the brightness and direct- ness with which the attack upon the suffragists is made in the first number it is evident the editors of with vim and vigo: A bill designed to make the occupants of public of- fice the logical candidates to succeed themselves has been introduced at Sacramento. It is honestly to be hoped for this city’s welfare that the measure will not become operative until the existing administration has passed into history. ¢ The administration of Chinese justice has at least tion, but the disagreeable fact remains that it is a deli- cate task to choose between strangulation and de- capitation. 3 3 Colombian rebels have broken out again and are using the firebrand as well as the sword. It would seem that nothing less than an earthquake will be necessary to quiet these little southern spitfires, the periodical intend to support their side of the issue one advagtage over our own. Offenders condemned. to death may have their choice of modes of extinc- | PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. i SR Interesting Story of the Finery and Frills Which Delighted Women When the Nation Was Young. By Alice Morse Earle. UTHOR OF “COSTUME-IN COLONIAL TIMES,” “HOME LIFE IN COLONIAL > &= DAYg," “CHINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA.” » i N ‘. (COPYRIGHT, 1%01.) . II.—WOMEN’S COSTUMES. A’ compléte history of the costumes of the nineteenth sentury may be obtained not only ‘from -discarded and . obsolete fashion plates of the day, which show us what - tailors, mantua malkers and milli- ners wished men and women to wear, but from' contemporary portraits which re- veal to us what was actually worn. For- tunately. the first half of the century was a day of portrait-painting, hence we have preserved for us in. color all the detal}s of authentic costume which the portrait’s dull successors—the ~daguerreotype, am- brotype and photograph—reveal only in outline in dull black and white. The nineteenth century opened in France upon a time of confusion and revolution. In America the new order of things in the new republic was running smoothly, with no marked events of his- tory save the death of Washington, which had tempomrllf' dressed American women in mourning ribbons, lockets, gloves and even gowns, for as iong a time as court mourning is worn in royal circles. Ladies’ Modes for 1801. An attempt at revulsion of feeling | against the costly stuffs and extravagance of the eighteenth century made simpler materials proper for wear even in full dress. Mantua-makers adhered also to simple lines, and less material was used in the manufacture of gowns. The skirt was short, reaching in meager, clinging folds only to the feet, with but _slight flouncing” at the lower edge. It was stretched as tightly as possible across the | front of the figure, sometimes held across with whalebones placed horizontally. A short bodice had ‘ru sleeves of mod- crate size with detached long sleeves which could be worn if preferred, or long mitténs of nankeen or linen. Often a col- lar of embroidered net or a muslin tippet surrounded the neck. Through the ab- 01d PrintFrom Child’s Book,1820. o e 1 sence of pressure on any part of the fig- ure the dress was far more conducive to health in its shape than in its warmth or weight. The bonnets were varied in shape from a simple infant’s cap to a huge, pro- Jecting *‘cabriolet.” The empire dress of January, 1301, was certainly graceful on a person of slender figure, having well-shaped arms, well-set head and good carriage. It was inexpres- sibly unbecoming to fat, thick-set, clum- sy-built women—but ne more so, possibly, than other wodes have been and ever will be to such unfortunates. Dame Fashion provides no “unco’ fat.” The best known name in the history of fashion of this date is Mme. Recamier. An English lady describes the dress she wore in the Kensington gardens, London* “She appeared a l'antique, her muslin dress clinging to her form like the folds | of drapery on a statue, her hair in a plait in the back and falling in small ringlets over her face and greasy with huile an- tique, a large veil thrown over her head.” Seen through the haze of the century the huile antique zeems a little too classical and not overalluring. Muslin and Dimity for January Wear. I have just examined with much inter- est the winter numbers of La Belle As- semblee and the Lady's Magazine of tha early years of the nineteenth century and the chief emotion is that any of oar 50 grandmothers survived those years shapes or styles for the | lightly were they dressed. In January, 1807, the walking dresses were of whiie jaconet musiin or cambric, with brown velvet or ‘“‘orange bicssom” shoes. The “chemise shape’’ gown was deemed the most elegant. The hat was of straw or tiger fur. Another favorite was a “‘Chi- nese robe” of India twili or French dimit trimmed with a border of tambour, wit loose back or scalloped at the bottom. White kid and rose-colored silk low shoes were worn, with_ silver rosettes. Mufts of white down and variegated sarsnet silk “cottage cloaks” gave scant warmth. Ia the spring pink muslin mantles afl)efired and sarsnet tippets trimmed with Malines lace; lilac and pea green were fashionable colors. With ball gowns were worn whits satin shoes spotted with gold and gloves trimmed with gold lace, Sleeves were trimmed with ribbons put on corkscrew fashion "o give an air of senteel con; finement. ecklaces and bracelets of white carneilan were very fashionable. The neck and portions of the arms were éften left bare, even for outdoor wear, hence a scarf or long shawl in winter be- came a grateful adjunct to the scanty oilet. Freezing for Fashion’s Sake. One old ladv tells me she often went to church in winter {n a French cambric gown with a shawl but a yard square as the only outdoor covering. The wife of Governor Joseph Trumbull remembered riding from Middletown, Conn., to Berlin [ in an open sleigh one bitter winter’s night {in an organdy gown, low necked and sleeveless, her only extra covering a cloth cape without lining. That fell curse of | New England—consumption—was nour- | ished and Increased by this scanty dress. | A rhyme of the day begins: Plump and rosy was my face And graceful was my form; Till fashion deemed it a disgrace To keep my body warm. Very little underclothing was worn; no flannel save a rare flannel petticoat by older women. Girls would rather die than look stout. The scanty gowns were easily made, A good dressmaker could make | three slips a day and the gowns were | cheap. The wife of a commodore of tha | United States navy had a gown that cost | $50, and a friend wrote that she could not see how Abby (Mrs. Commodore) could “justify such extravagance to her con- sclence.” & wedding outfit could be bought for §100, if it had no lace or shawls. The opening and vast prosperity of our East India trade had brought these shawls and scarfs to our market, as it had brought the beautiful muslins, cali- coes, dimities and lawns which still show theirf place of birth in their names. ‘When Our Grandmothers Went Shop- ping. From newspaper advertisements of that day_ we learn exactly what goods and stuffs were imported and sold. In the | Columbian Centinel in February, 1801, we find frequent notice of the sales in Boston | of muslins, muslinets, muslin garments of | various colors; jaconet, tamboured, open- | worked, fancy and sprigged; cambrics, | printed patches, China ribbons and tastes; | platillas, ginghams, Madras longcloths, | lappet muslins, gauzes, cypress—all these were thin stuffs and what would now be | unseasonable goods for winter wear. | There were sold in the offices of mer- chants and un_the wharves hundreds of different East Indian stuffs. Nearly all trace of the signification of the names or of the quality of these stuifs is now lost with the death of the old India merchants who imported and sold them. We know that among white cottons were Tandisan- | fas, Allebad, Cossas, Tanda Mamoodies, | Gadjapoor Cossas, Chadpore Cossas, Baf- Boran Coossahs, tas, Altonah Sannas, Mow Sannahs, Cudor Cossahs. colored stuffs, presumably of cotton, were Custers, Sooty Romalls, Blue Gillas, Blue | Guinees. _Other stuffs_ advertised in { 1800 were Tanda Baftas, Jallapoor Sannas, | Dungree " Stripes, Jallapoor Mamoodies, | Albad Baftas, Janna Cossahs, Omeitys, | Tockoys, Gude Cossahs, Barboom Gur- | ras, Muchan Gungees, Adhungee Sannas, | Oudes, Chitabilly Baftas, Toolpore Cos- sas, Selinas, Janna Sulquachis, Kerboam Surrahs, Sistersoys, Tookettys, Gugger- nauts, Penasorys, Jugedahs, Carlapahatys, Seeisackers. The last named we still have—seersuckers—the others are lost in the dust of past decades. Other femi- nine fancies were musin shawls, tambour- ed and open-worked; purple chintz and Rutland net gauze shawls, pagoda-top parasols with honeycomb fringes; elastic wire and horse hair glove ties. ese glove ties or glove tighteners were a de- vice to hold the long gloves up at the el- OWS. A pelisse was the warmest outer gar- ment. If it were of dark cloth it was brightened with gold clasps and lace. Pellsses of scarlet, g‘l’nk. flame color and green wera worn. Vhen cloth was an- nounced for gowns in 1528 a writer in the Lady’s Mazagine urges the readers never to wear them indoors, as they ““were not a fireside costume.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. COUNTING IN CRIB—H. F. B, City. In crib two kings, queen and jack and king turned up count 15. ANDREW CARNEGIBE—L. A.{ ‘l:.dl.nd Subscriber, City. The address of Andrew C‘;rne e s 5 West Fifty-first street, New York City. ON THE TRANSPORTS—A. B. City. For information as to the examination re- quired for those who seek employment in the transport service of the United States application should be made at the office og the trunlgort service In the United States army building, on New Montgom- ery street, near Mission. NOMINATION—B. H. H., Oakland, Cal. In a fraternal organization it is cu;ca;:- but not necessary, to second the ovination of a member for ah ofice. All that is requisite is to place a member in nomination so that the others may know that he is a candidate. The seconding of a nomination is merely complimentary. THERMOBAROMETER-—E., Oakland, Cal. measuring altitudes according to the boil- ing point of water. It is called thermo- barometer and consists of a metallic ves- sel for bolling water, fitted with very deli- cate thermometers, uated only from 80 to 100 degrees centigrade (176-212 F.), so that each degree occupying considerable space on the scale, even hundredths of a degree may be noted; thus it is ible to determine the altitude of a place within about ten feet. TRANSPIRE AND PERSPIRE—A. H,, City. There is the same deflnition for “transpire” as there is for “perspire,” 'ven namely, “to emit through the pores of the skin.””” In the ordinary use of the Englis] Il the word “perspire” is “in speaking of sweat, and “transpire” {s used to de te ‘‘come out’ or “become known." definition of “‘transpira- tion’ is given as ‘““the process of passing oft through the pores of the skin in the form of vapor,’ and that of perspira- tion”” as “evacuation of moisture through the pores of the skin. MONTE CARLO-C. B., City. Monte Carlo 1s a part of Monaco, the swallest of the ln&apentdhe‘nlu mndp&l“lei of BEu- . It is on terran, fom ‘miles northcast of Nice. It ie sar rounded by French territory. It consists of three towns, Monaco, the capital; Con- amine and Monte Carlo. At tha o blbca is. the Dusing o tooy ot . Eroup bulldings situated in a park, also hotel: :flmfl p mlo: the mnc;m':fiaaum; of lh: rs to gam| Jocated in the' Casino. o Which are SUNKEN ISLAND—J. W., City. At- lantis, according to ancient trl'dmon. ‘was a vast island in the Atlantic Ocean. It There is an instrument used for| was first mentioned by Plato, who repre- sented an Egyptian priest describing it to Solom, but, of course, according to Plato’s views of the matter. In that description Atlantis was made to appear as an island larger than Lybia and Asia combined and lying off the Pillars of Hercules in the Atlantie. =~ Plato drew a beautiful word picture of the interior of this i nary island and enriched it with a fabulous his- tory. Some early writers supposed that the Canaries were the remains of Atlan- tis, for Plato had stated that at the close of the long contest which its {nhabitants malmilnre ng’uz;?fi the h:(henluu for 9000 years before his time the sea - goifed the isiand. Ty - A NAME—J., City. If you came t: country from a forelgn land ma.:y l;ret::: ago, and Instead of using your correct name, say ‘“Joseph” F. Smith, called yourself “John” F. Smith, married ac- quired real éstate, engaged in business un- der that name, have been known to all as “John" F. Smith, were naturalized under the name of John and have since then voted as John, that comes pretty near be- ing your name, and there should not be any ‘occasion t5 mak, a court to be allowed to be pamication to Court for permission to resume 01 :auu name&lo that there be no qm::gl entity. You would have to employ an attorney to prepare a petition for you. LIQUEFIED AIR—E, ‘W. B., Sacramen- Cal. Alr was first liquefled by Pm{:- sor James Dewar of Cambridge Univer- sity in 1883. The process as follows: L 2 geperal 2 pressure of about 2000 l.nth‘ and at the samo fa issue from e _orifice, as Arwt ot The' air {ssuing from this second o iy temperature lowered partly by its own expansion ly by the intense cold im- parted to the coll by the air e around i !me::l.lflmn:rlhl.flntmldur the s si used second coll imilarly used to cool a third alir b before. product which issues from this thirq cotl is no longer '{."',‘,h"' liquid air in a stream as large as the . Its temperature i3 3 Fahrenheit The apparatus is run 10 Be within the commercial Itmit. cost is 1s of a light mmlw.-m Among | PERSQNAL MENTION. G. A. Dougherty of Salinas is at the Grand. Dr. A. M. Gardner of Napa is at the California. James W. Abbott of Salt Lake City ls at the Grand. Paul F. Green, a Santa Rosa merchant, is at the Grand. Gus Holmes, a hotel man of Salt Lake, is at the Palace. E. W. Runyon of Red Bluff is a guest at the Occldental. D. L. Ewing, a Fresno ofl man, is & guest at the Lick. F. R. Lindsey, an oil man of Sanger, Is staying at the Lick. H. 8. Kirk, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the California. B. U. Steinman, ex-Mayor of Sacra- mento, is at the Palace. A. M. Allen, a merchant of Monterey, is staying at the Grand. A. J. Elmore, an ofl man of Fresno, reg- istered at the Lick yesterday. Wesley Clark, a real estate man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. F. M. Whitney and wife, of Santa Bar- bara, are guests at the Occidental. Ex-Senator H. V. Morehouse and wife of San Jose are registered at the Palace. J. A. Brent, a mining man, well known throughout the State, is registered for a few days at the Palace. . E. M. Hamilton and G. B. Bruce, ex- perts on forestry for the Government, ase registered at the Occidental. John W. Gunn, an insurance man of Portland, Or., accompanied by his wife, is a guest at the Occidental. A. B. Hammond, a raflroad man of New York, and E4 Chambers of the Santa Fe are both staying at the Palace. State Prison Director James H. Wilkins of San Rafael left yesterday for Mexico to look after his mining interests thera. Charles A. Bonfils and wife are at the Occidental. Mrs. Bonflls is better known to the public as the writer, “Annle Laurfe.” William H. Hibbard, special representa- tive of the New York Journal of Com- merce and Commercial Bulletin, is now visiting Callfornia in the interests of that paper. Mr. Hibbard will also spend some time in Portland and Seattle. —_— e — —— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 28—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—L. B. Feigenbaum, at the Cad- {llac; R. Gryce, at the Everett; W. Gates, at the Impertal; J. D. Heim, at the Hoft- man; J. N. Peterson, at the Marlborough: J. Whalhams, at the Rossmore; Miss Mantelll, at the Hoffman; C. J. Stovel, at the Imperfal; H. L. Close, at the Brod- way Central. From Los Angeles—H. W. Duncan, at the Astor; J. C. Hays, at the Grand Union. From San Jose—Miss C. M. Evans, at the Grand Union. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The following Californians are in Washington: Shore- man—L. B. Woodworth, California. Ar- lington—Mr. and Mrs. Mack, Miss Ger- stle and Miss Mack, San Francisco. ——————— CRAM’S ATLAS OF THE WORLD 1900 Census Edition Is offered as a premium to all Call read- ers. Several sample atlases are on exhi- bition at the business office of this paper and all persons desiring a first class atlas are invited to call and Inspect this splen~ did beok of reference. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Cublelgh—But, Henry, dear, In this photograph you have but one button on your coat. Mr. Cubleigh—Thank Leaven, you've no- ticed It at last! That's why 1 the pho- tograph taken.—Smart Set. “I am afrald,” sald the editor, after he had read the manuscriot of the new dra- matic critic’s first criticism, “that you do thej aptitude for speaking of . . protested the poor fellow, who really knew a good play when he saw one, “ do I not say that ‘Jangled Jangles' is a play of deep interest?” “You do, but you fall to say that it is -Harper' gllr of deep human interest.”—] a. Instead of “Twinkle, twinkle, little star™ Boston kindergarten wee ones are taught to_recite: “Secintillate, scintillate, globule vivific. Gazed on with rapture by girls scientific, Posed in ethe atmosphere high. A sparkler from 'way back hung up in the sky.” —Denver Evening Post. ‘It s a mistake,” sald Senator Sorghum, “to suppose that I have not a sensitive disposition. Why, I remember an occa- sion when just one littla word made ma feel blue for a week.” ““When was that?" “A long time ago. I went to a big capl. talist and asked him for a subscription ta my campaign fund. He sald ‘ne."— Washington Star. He—Well, what have you there? She—Two of your old letters, dear. He—Umph! What's the first forty-pager? She—One you sent me when I had slight cold before we were married. '!’hl: balf-page is the one you wrote last win- ter when I was very il with the influenza, That’s all, dear. t-Bits. Lady Sharp—Her seems to ba h?pler than the majority of that kind, ‘he Hon. Billy—Yes, and it's all owiny to the wisdom of her father. Instead of settling a fortune upon them, he gives his titled son-in-law an allowance that is to cease if they ever u[vara.te. tog & Trashasy for’ her me. bas semera ot ing a hus! or her he has secured on on a salary.—Modern Society. ¥ “And I want to say 0 my husband,” in an appropriate place,” said the widow, in conclusion, to Slab, the gravestons man. ““Yessum,” said Slab. And the inscrip- tion went on: “To my husband. 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