The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1902, Page 6

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N the output-of gold for the last year the United l States leads the world, with a total of $78,666,- 700. Australasia is a close second with $76,880,- 200. Our joint gold and silver output, the silyer being rated at its commercial value, was $111,795,100. The world’s output of both metals being $368,373,800, produced by thirty-seven different countries, it will be seen that we produce nearly one-third of it all The war in South Africa limited the gold output of that field to less than ten millions, but had it been up to the maximum we would still be in the lead. It is estimated that the world’s annual consumption of gold is'$80,000,000, so that we can mearly supply that whole consumption from our own mines. The heaviest importer of gold during the year was Great | Britain. She required over one hundred millions to replenish her warchest. The world’s consumption of silver is $57,000,000 2 year. Of this we supplied ower three-fifths, and we could supply it all with all ogr silver mines in action. It is evident that with an output of $263,374,700 in gold and a current demand for only. $80,000,000 there is 2 stock accumulating somewhere. Of this stock we have the largest part. The United States gained in the stock of gold $63,800,000, while Great Britain gained only $17,000,000. Germany ranked next to us in accumulation, her store being increased by $41,700,- 000. Of the smaller countries Italy, Japan, The Neth- erlands, Portugal, Roumania, Sweden and Switzer- land 21l gained, and Russia and Norway were losers. With gold and silver on hand in excess of current demand amounting to $231,373,800 the world seems *to be quite well fixed. The large surplus of gold over consumption makes it a favorable time for the silver and paper nations to-get on the gold standard, as the metal is easier to get while there is a large surplus. 1t is probable that Mexico will take advantage of the opportunity and change her financial system to a gold basis. As a gold producer she ranks fiith, being led only by the United States, Australasia, Canada and Russia. She has adhered to a silver standard on the theory that it supports the price of that metal, of which she is the world’s largest producer. But her devotion in that respect has borne no fruits, for sil- wver during the year touched about the lowest point in the history of its downward career, being quoted 2t less than 49 cents an ounce. With an excess of gold so largely sbove the world’s coinage needs there is surely no prospect that-silver will soon re- cover from its low estate. Rather than any signifi- cant gain a2 further depreciation may be expected. The nations are using but little new silver for coin- age, and the principal silver worked at the mints was full legal tender coins worked over into sub- sidiary currency. Unpleasant as it may be in the estimation of our free silver people, that is the final ‘destiny of our ex- isting standard dollar. With a gold product capable of standing any demand upon it as a basis of cur- rency the standard silver dollar is fated to follow into disuse its predecessor, the much respected “dollar of our daddies.” L B — A gentleman condemned for life to suffer under the name of Damn was the most active agent in seeking to prevent the acquisition of the Danish West Indies. He is now striving to retrieve himself, but his name is on too many lips for success. An Oakland young man who was sent to San Quen- tin a few days ago says he wants to wake up-and find that it is all 2 hideous nightmare. He will find his wish gratified after he has been in San Quen- tin a very short time. Now that the German Princes and their brokers are revealing in court their methods ofcapturing American heiresses it is to be hoped the girls will have sense enough to catch on to the game and re- fuse to be caught. —_— 1t is announced that the Empress Dowager of China is going to build 4 railroad, so she is evidently grow- ing up with the new era all right and keeping even with the world. A woman of this city wants a divorce because her husband insisted upon standing on her chest. Per- haps the lady objects to being taken for a lay figure in a gymnasium. TR s And now it is Bolivia which is having trouble with | its neighbors. Whata blessing the invention of gun- | powder has been to our South American friends. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, NO EUBONIC PLAGUE. NEW HAVEN (Conn.) paper says that the A conference of State and provincial boards = of health passed a resolution to the effect that bu- bonic pla/gue exists in San Francisco and is neglected by the local authorities, and the delegates from this country, Canada and Cuba voted unanimously that the various State boards should call upon the Sur- geon General of the United States and the Marine Hospital service to bring about the eradication of the plague by arranging for a joint conference for that purpose. The paper then goes on to say that there i have been thirty cases of plague here since July 1, and mare than 2000 since March 6, 1901, and says: that Surgeon General Wyman is prepared to act at once. The further statement is made that the disease has been confined entirely to Chinese. It is of notoriety that the Federal health authori- ties, inspired by the same spirit which actuated Dr. Kinyoun, have persistently sought to make it appear that plague is here, while no reputable physician con- versant with the facts believes that there has ever | been a case in this city. No doubt we have incurred the vicious enmity of Dr. Kinyoun, whose adminis- tration of the Federal quarantine here was erratic and nagging to the last degree. No doubt, too, relying upon the esprit de corps of the Federal health ser- vice, he has made the most of it to our injury. No one has ever seen a case of plague in a living patient, @nd the reports of its existence have de- pended upon microscopic tests assumed to have been made upon the cadaver. Much has been said about the secretive habits of the Chinese in respect to con- ‘Ctaling their sick as an excuse for the utter want of a living case as ¢vidence. But no one has pretended that the Chinese can conceal, or have any disposition to conceal, the dead. Under the Confucian system, to which they rigidly adhere, the dust of their dead must be returned to China to rest in the family tombs. The Six Companies regulate this matter and it is also under legal supervision, so that the roster of the dead is exactly kept. * An examination of the Chinese death statistics shows that last month (October) there were thirty- seven deaths of Chinese. There were also eight deaths of negroes. As we have about fifty Chinese to one negro in our population it will be seen that if the plague is killing Chinese some more serious epideric must be at work among the negroes. But ‘there is no epidemic nor any plague among either. The Chinese death rate is normal. The disease among them called by Kinyoun’s associates the bubonic plague is recognized by our most skillful white phy- sicians as a variation of a malarial form that has al- ways been among them. The indications, the symp- toms, vary in the case of Asiatics, and this racial variation is seized upon by men whose zeal is out of iproportion to their judgment to make a foundation for the charge that this is a plague-infested city. The Chinese themselves identify and recognize the bubonic plague, and as our Chinese population is readily mobilized if there had been a case of that dis- case in Chinatown it would now be depopulated by the flight of its inhabitants. They need no micro- scope, nor culture jellies, no white rats nor blue mon- keys, to try germs. They recognize the disease as we | do cholera or smallpox, and stand not upon the order of their flight from its presence. The state of Eastern knowledge about us is fairly represented by the statement of the New Haven paper that: “Chinatown was quarantined for sixty hours aiter the second death on March 7, 1901. Then the quarantine was raised by action of the Mayor of | Chinatown. On March 11 and March 19 there were deaths from plague and the white citizens began to protest.” Evidently they think that our Chinatown has a sep- arate Chinese municipal government and a Chinese Mayor, and that is on a par with the statement that Chinatown is ravaged by the plague. It is evident that zeal and malice have joined hands in the present renewal of these reports of plague. The harsh Eastern winter is driving people to the shelter of our clement climate, and we have rivals on the South Atlantic seaboard and in Cuba for the profits of entertaining that winter travel. If the East can be scared into believing the skull and crossbones stories about the plague others will profit at our ex- pense. Something should be done to put a stop to this attempt to smirch our State. Our citizens and the transportation companies should act together in the matter. F has been issued a monograph on the subject of coal production of the United States in com- parison with the rest of the world which affords a striking illustration of our increasing predominance as an industrial nation. Incidentally it also reyeals the extraordinary increase of late years in the demand for coal and implies that while this has been called “the iron age” or “the steel age” it would with more fitness be called the “coal age,” since every advance in in- dustry calls for more coal. In 1001 the coal production of the world was 866,- 165,000 short tons. Until as late a period as 1888 the world’s production had never been half so great. In 1872 the production was only one-third so large as now, while in 1864 it amounted to ‘but 174,000,000 metric tons, or less than 23 per cent of the production of the past year. The monograph then goes on to say: “The statis- tics of the world’s production for still earlier periods cannot be determined with any pretense of accuracy, but on the basis of the British statistics from 1854 and of estimates for earlier periods, and from such statis- tics as are obtainable from France, Germany, Bel- gium and Austria-Hungary, an approximation may be made of the actual production. In 1860 the world’s production of coal was about 144,000,000 metric tons, or less than one-fith of the Ten years earlier the world’s production amounted to cnly about 83,000,000 metric,tons, about one-tenth of the present world’s production and considerably less than the present output of the single State of Penn- sylvania. In 1840 the production was much smaller still, amounting to little over 45,000,000 metric tons, or about one-seventeenth of the present output; while during the three-quarters of a century since 1820, when the output was about 17,000,000 tons, the pro- duction has increased about 4,500 per cent.” The production of coal is mainly in the hands of the United States, Great Britain and Germany. Those three nations average from year to year about five- sixths of the coal output of the world. For many years Great Britain led the world in coal production, COAL PRODUCTION, ROM the Treasury Bureau of Statistics there and as late as 1868 produced 52 per cent of all the coal of the world, while the United States produced but ! 14% per cent and Germany 16 per cent. Recently America has forged ahead. The report says: “In 1899, for the first time, the coal production iof the United States exceeded in quantity that of | him. roduction of 1g0r. Great Britain. This superiority been maintained for two successive years. During 1001 the United States production was greater tfi:n the amount of coal produced in Great Britain and all her colonies. Dur- ing that year the shares of the leading coal-producing countries were as follows: United States, 34 per cept; United Kingdom, 28 per cent; and Germany, 19.2 per cent. Nor is there any prospect that the leading posi- tion of the United States may be lost in favor of an- other country within any calculable future time.” ———— Some surprise has been expressed at the fact that the election officers in several local booths counted more votes than were cast. If reports be true the gentlemen were notoriously in-a condition to see things double every time they-were able to open their eyes. C——— IM/MIGRATIO_N RESTRICTION. NE of the things which‘Cong‘ress may. rea- O sonably be expected to-deal with during the /, coming session is that of providing for a better system of restricting undesirable immigration. The recently published report of the Commissioner of Immigration shows how necessary it is to have a bet- ter law on the subject. With the revival of prosperity in the United States alien - immigration increased enormously, and is likely to continue increasing so long as cur prosperity attracts the workers and the idlers of foreign lands. Among the defects noted in the working of the law are two of serious import. One of them permits the immigration of contract labor through various forms ‘of evasion. Another permits diseased persons to enter, also by evasive methods. In the summary | given by telegram of the Commissioner’s report it is stated that on the first of these points he says: “Al- though immigration has been largely increased, the number refused admission during the year as alien contract laborers: has decreased as compared - with those barred upon similar ground last Fear from 327 to 275. The assumption which might naturally arise from these figures that the successful administration of the law had checked attempts to gain access to the United States in disregard of its provisions is in- admissible in view of the frequency of the complaints which have reached the bureau upon this subject dur- ing the year under consideration.” ¢ On the second point the summary says: “Mr, Sar< gent finds that the sanguine view: expressed ‘in the last annual report of the bureau as to the effect of careful examination by the United States Marine Hospital surgeons upon the transportation ' lines bringing diseased aliens to American ports has not been confirmed by the experience of the last’year. He adds: ‘The increase of alien immigration has been not quite one-third over that of 1901, but the comparative increase of diseased aliens for the same period has been more than two to one. The same races which exhibited the largest number of diseased persons last year maintain their pre-eminence in this respect for the year under consideration.’” the law ought to stir Congress to action. If the pres- ent act is defective in such important particulars that it cannot or does not prevent the immigration " of contract laborers or of diseased persons it should be remedied at once. Concerning the total immigration the report shows that 648,743 immigrants arrived in the United States in the last fiscal year, of whom 466,360 were males and 182,374 females. Italy supplied 178,375, an in- crease of 42,379 over the number for 1901; Austria- Hungary 171,080, an increase of 58,509, and Russia 107,347, an increase of 22,090. The figures concerning Asiatic immigration show a decrease from China of 810, the total being 1649, and an increase from Japan of goor, the total being 14,270, or 170 per cent. Of the entire number arriving 162,138 were unable to read or write, while only 74,063 were under. 14 years old. % It will be seen from the figures of illiteracy that the reading test proposed in one of the immigration bills now before Congress would go far toward re- lieving the country of much of the undesirable alien element that seeks admission to our country, our la- bor market and our citizenship. One of the chief causes of immigration of an unworthy class is the eagerness of steamship companies to bring them. Mr. Sargent notes also that an obstruction to the en- forcement of the law arises “from the unscrupulous character of some American citizens and others who find a large profit in smuggling Chinese of the ex- cluded class across our land boundaries.” With such men the next immigration law should deal drastically. It is time to have on this subject a good law—one that will not only keep out undesirable immigrants but punish those who try to bring them in. E——— S the belief that we have passed the age of steam and reached the age of electricity will find a shock to their fond imaginings by reading the cen- sus returns on the motive power of our manufactur- ing establishments. It appears from the figures that electric motors in the census year furnished less than 3 per cent of the motive force of our factories. The statistics reveal the fact that in 1900 we em- ployed to carry on our manufacturing an energy equal to 11,300,081 horsepower. The return for 1890 was 5,954,055, for 1880 3,410,837 horsepower. More than three-fourths of the power employed in 1900 was furnished by steam engines, and about 15 per cent by water wheels. Electric motors are credited with but 2.7 per cent of the entire power employed in Ameri- can manufacturing industries. Of course the horsepower employed in manufac- tures is far short of the total motive force employed in American industry. For the operation of railroads alone there is required an immense addition to the factory energy, and the street railways add another vast sum of energy to the total. It is in street rail- ways that electricity would have made its best show- ing as motive power, though it would also display a large amount of energy in statistics of horsepower employed in various services in office buildings, laboratories and even in the homes of the people. ‘While steam continues to hold by a long distance the foremost place in our motive power it may be said to have attained the climax of -its supremacy. From this time on electricity is very sure to gain upon it, and in many parts of the United States the gain will probably be rapid. Improved methods of converting water power into electrical energy with means for its transmission across great distances with small loss will enlarge the use of electrical motors in factories as well as in railways. We are then in the dawn of the electrical age even if we have not yet attained the full day. Steam has been a glorious servant to mankind, but despite his power and his utility electricity will eventually be able to su:piss OUR MOTIVE POWER. ANGUINE persons who have been indulging Reports of that nature concerning the operation of | 1902. MAINTAINS THAT FORESTS MUST “Has the Secretary of the Interior, in his superintendence of forest reserva- tions, the power to make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will insure the objects of such reserva- tions, namely, to regulate their occupancy. and use and to preserve the forests there- on from destruction? Is the classification of ‘sheep, apart from- livestock, a reason- .able classification? Was sufficient show- ing made to justify an injunction, pen- dente lite? Is the bill multifarious?” The foregoing questions were discussed yesterday by United \States Attorney Woucdworth before Judges Gilbert, Ross and Hawley, sitting as the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, in the appeal of August Dastervignes and others from the injunction issued by the Circuit Court 1estraining them from pasturing their sheep on the Federal forest reserve. Peter Camou, Dastervignes and other sheéep-owners were arrested last summer on indictments charging them with violat- ing the rules and regulations of the Sec- retary of the Interior prohibiting the pas- turing of sheep on Government reserves. In the trial United States District Judge de Haven held that there is no law of Corgress making it an offense to pasture sheep upon forest reservations and that the provision in the act of June 4; 1867, which makes it an offense to violate such rules and regulations as might thereafter be made by the Secretary of the Interior for the protection against fire and depre- dations upon forest reservations is, in substance, an attempt to delegate legisla- tive power to an'administrative officer, and, for that reason, void. The criminal charges were thereupon dismissed. Mr. Woodworth thereupon went before United States District Judge Beatty in the Circuit Court and obtained a restrain- ing order prohibiting the defendants from pasturing sheep on the reserves, and it was against this injunction that the de- fendants took an appeal. In the course of his argument yesterday Mr. Wood- worth said: Indeed it might well here be urged that as Congress has seen fit to create these forest reserves the Government as the soverelgn power has the paramount right, regardless ot aay rules o regulations of the Secretary oft the Interfor, to resort to a court of - cquity to prevent by injunction trespasses and depreda- tions upon these forest reserves. * * * The Secretary of the Interior. having found that sheep are destructive to the preservation of the timber an the forest reserve lands the implied permission to pasture such sheep there- upof! is withdrawn and the right can no longer be urged against the Government. Mr. Woodworth filed an elaborate brief, giving numerous citations sustaining the position of the Government on the points involved, and the court took the matter under advisement. e MIND READER TYNDALL MYSTIFIES AUDIENCE Discovers Hidden Articles While Blindfolded Before Throng at Fischer’s Theater. The fashionable fad of thought trans- ference and its kindred phenomena has been given an \nmuslng turn by Tyndall in his performance at Fischer's Theater. The cozy little house was crowded to its i limits yesterday afternoon by seekers af- | ter the marvelous, who certainly got their money's worth in the eerie programme Mr. Tyndall presents. A representative committee of well known citizens under- took the duties of investigation and sub- scribed handsomely to the gefiuineness of the mind reader’s claims at the close cf the performance. One experiment, that by which Washington Bishop, the mind reader, lost his life so sensationally some years ago, may Serve as an examiple of the kind of thing Mr. Tyndall does. A book is given to a lady in the audience by a member of the committee, with di- rections to open it anywhere, note a page, a particular word, and then hide the book, Mr. Tyndall to find the book, page and word. A lady in the audience gra- ciously undertook to lend her aid, and while the hypnotist was behind the scenes chose a word and page from a book handed to her and then hid the book at the foot of the platform leading from the stage to the house. The demonstra- tor was then called to the front,- ana with one of his lightning dives down the platform, seized the lady’s hand and pull- ed her to the book’s hiding-place. In a short space it was discovered and taken upon the stage, where Tyndall, aftsr some delay, found both page and word. To-morrow _afternoon = Mr. Samuels’ | challenge to Mr. Tyndall to discover the contents of a safe willabe taken up. If the hypnotist succeeds Mr. Samuels will be out $100, the amount of the wager he has made against Tyndall's success in the experiment. e EXCURSION IS PLANNED FROM OHIO TO m Crocker-Huffman Company Announ- ces Trip From East to Califor- nia in Midwinter. An excursion will be run to California by the Crocker-Huffman Land and Water Company for the benefit of homeseekers from Ohio. The start will be made from Bellefontaine, Logan County, on Thurs- day, January 15, 1903. The purpose is to give homeseekers an ogportunity to in- spect the lands of the company at Merced and also adjoining properties. \ The intention is to conduct the party, after Merced has been visited, down through the San Joaquin Valley. The California Promotion Committee has fur- nished the Crocker-Huffman Company | with the names of more than 600 citizens of Ohio who have written to the com- mittee making inquiries concerning Cali- fornia. ——e IDEALS ARE SELECTED FOR THEIR DISCUSSION Unitarians Invite Governor-Elect Pardee and Others to Address Them After Dinner. Next Monday evening the Unitarian Club, after dinner at the Merchants’ Club rooms, will consider the subject of “ldeals.” Governor-elect Pardee has been invited to address the club on “Ideal Government and the Special Needs of California.” Judge Frank J. Murasky will discuss the ideal administration of the laws. Professor Elmer E. Brown is on the programme to speax about ideals of education and the maximum of man- hcod. Rev. George W. Stone, field secre- tary of the American Unitarian Associa- tion, will have the closing address, his | theme being “Ideal Religion.” Dinner will be served at 6:30. —_—— POPULAR BASSO WILL SING IN CHURCH CHOIR S sl Signor Dado of Tivoli Opera Com- pany to Assist Choir at Sacred -Heart Church. ' Lovers of grand music will receive a rare treat next Sunday at Sacred Heart Church, Fell and Fillmore streets. Father Byrne, pastor of the church, has secured Lie services of Signor Dado, the popular basso of the Tivoli Grand Opera Com- pany, to sing at the 11 o'clock mass. Signor Dado has a worldwide reputa- tion as an accomplished artist. He has sung at St. Peter's in Rome and many other celebrated churches throughout Europe. He will render “Confitatis Male- dictis,” from Verd’s requiem. Miss Ger- trude Hopkins, the talented organist of sum‘x;ed Heart Church, will conduct the oir. E BE PROTECTED SUPERVISORS PLAN TO OPEN ISLAIS CREEK The Supervisors’ Street Committee yes- terday requested an opinion from the City Attorney as to whether Islais Creek, for ‘the purposé of navigation, is under the control and jurisdiction of the Board | of Supervisors or under that of the| State Board of Harbor Commissioners. | The City Attorney was also asked to ad- vise as to the_legality of the acts of the Legislature of 1578 and 1S5 transferring the jurisdiction over the creek, as far as | the tide ebbs and flows, from the Super- visors tg the Harbor Commissioners. J. E. Foulds of the Southern Pacific Com- pany held that under these acts the Su- pervisors had no power to open the creek. This action was taken after a discus- sion over the report of the Board of Pub- lic Works recommending the opening of Islais Creek to navigation. Replyis to the proposition of the United tes - Government assuming Jurisdiction over the creek, Congressman Loud stated that should it do so the pre- liminary examination could not be made prior to 1304 by the engineers. The re- ports would be made in 1908 and in 1908 the creek might be placed under govern- mental control. To accomplish this ap- propriations must be made to cover ex- | pénses and the matter prosecuted with | vigor. i A ¢ommunication from California Har- bor No. 15, Ameritan Association of Mas- ters and Pflots of Steam Vessels, was} read, stating that the organization in | open session decided that the opening of | Islais Creek would bé a valuable addition | to the water front and would greatly re- | duce the cost of transportation of freight | needed by a growing community by | avolding the necessity of transshipment. The petition of the Southern Pacific Company for a franchise along the bay | shore went over until November 23, 1902, | when the engineering problem will be | considered. Protestants against the pro- | posed privilege will be heard later. PERSONAL ‘MENTION, R. D. Hatch, a rancher of Novato, is at the Lick. ‘W. W. Giddings, a druggist of Newman, is at the Lick. T. J. Savage, a grocer of San Rafael, iz i at the California. K. W. Browné, an ofl man of Fresno, is a guest at the Palace. R. A. Cornellus, a business man of Chi- cago, is at the Occidental. C. L. Chandlér, a mining man of Den- ver, is registered at the Palace. General Chaffee and his staff left last evening for Chicago in a private car. A. C. Irwin of Marysville, recently elected Railroad Commissioner, is at the Lick. H. S. Blood, a mining man who makes his headquarters at Los Angeles, is at the Lick. E. D. Baker, a well-known business man of Yreka, is registered at the Oc- cidental. Major 8. B. Abbott, a retired army offi- cer residing at Los Angeles, is at the California. - Ross C. Cline, Pacific Coast representa- tive of the Wabash road, with headquar- ters at Los Angeles, is at the Grand. F. R. Culbertson, a well-known mining man, has engaged apartments at the Oc- cidental for the winter for himself and family. B> Fonta e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. M. Born, at the Sturte- vant; J. B. Kidd, at the Albert; G: Stall- man, C. H. Dunton and H. P. Umbsen, at the Hoffman; J. O'B. Gunn, at the Hol- land; T. J. Lamoureaux, at the St. Denis; | A. W. Pike, at the Gilsey; J. C. Rhodes, at the Continental; Miss F. A. Smith, Mrs. E. C. Smith and A. W. Levy, at the Grand Union; Mrs. Draper, at the Park Avenue; J. Grant, at the Broadway Cen- tral; Dr. M. Krotoszyner and M. Schwa- bacher, at the Savoy; C. M. Lund and wife, at the Negheriands; Mrs. W. P. Morgan and the Misses Morgan, at the Manhattan; Mrs. J. M. Shotwell and Mrs, H. Toupee, at the Imperial; W. H. Thom- as and wife, at the Everett. From Los Angeles—J. K. Flanders, at the Broadway Central, and W. E. Loodal, at the Imperial. i | 1 —_———— Company L Gives a Dance. Company L, League of the Cross Cadets, gave an entertainment and dance at Mis- slon Parlor Hall last night for the benefit of the building fund. Colopel James E. Power made a short address, F. Adams, Miss K. Barry, Will Crowley and Mrs. F. Murphy sang solos and Miss Julia Coffey gave a recitation. Captain F. J. Grunley was floor manager, with Lieutenant G. M. Sears as his assistant. The floor commit. tee consisted of H. J. Spring, T. McIn- tyre, J. Thiltgen, William Brann, Louis Keegan -and T. Sears. The reception committee was composed of C. Gaffney, H. Korn, L. McCarthy, H. Reilly, D. Grieves, E. Hubber, Fred McKnight and O. Crowley. l TO BUILD NEW SHELTER FOR THE INFANTS The Infants’ Shelter, a charitable instl~ tuticn, organized in this city more than thirty years ago, holds a unique place among the charities of San Franeisco. The ‘urninx to death of two small chil- dren, who had been locked in a room while their mother was at work, showed the necessity for organizing an institution where working mothers might bring their children to be cared for while they were away at work. The sad accident of the two small children burning to death aroused the sympathies of a band of young ladies of this city and the shelter, until lately called “the Little Sisters’ In- fant Shelter,” was started. The institution was incorporared in 1874 and since that time has grown steadily ! until now it accommodates 100 children, ranging from 1 month to 12 years of age. The children may be left by their parents by the month or by the day. If the mother is able she pays $4 or $ a menth to the institution, if not, the child will be cared for without charge. The child- ren brought in by the day pay but § cents for their day's keeping. A nursery is established for the chil- dren under 3 years of age and a Kinder- garten for those ranging from 3 to 6 yvears. The children that are above 6§ are seat to the public schools to be educated. The shelter was organized for the pur- pose of caring for those children who could not be admitted to the State insti- tutions, which require that they be orphans, half-orphans or abandoned. The work of this society has been going on so quietly that but few people of San Francisco know of its existence there- | fore the society has received but little support from charitable people who make donations to societies of this kind. The cost of maintaining the institution amounts to about $6000 a year and the ladies at the head of the society, with the assistance of the small sums they collect for the care of the children, have met this expense in the past. The shelter has outgrown its present querters at 512 Minna street, they not be- ing large enough to accommodate the number of children who apply for admit- tance. For this reason the soclety has sold its present home and with the pro- ceeds has purchased a suitable lot, which adjoins the public play grounds at Colum- bia Square. The society is desirous of building & modern and suitable house upon the new property so it may continue its charitable work upon a more extensive scale. The society is making a general appealk to the public for assistance, with- cut which it will be unable to bufld a home adequate to its needs. The present directors of the institution are: Mrs. C. E. Coover, president; Mrs. ‘W. D. Fennimore, vice president; Mrs. J. H. Robertson, treasurer; Mrs. C. H. Wil- son, corresponding secretary; Mrs. R. L. Toplitz, recording secretary; Mrs. E. B. Cutter, Mrs. L. J. Hoiton, Mrs. A. Jack- son, Mrs. Morris Newton, Mrs. W. M. Pierson and Mrs. Thomas Taylor. RIVER STEAMERS MAY NOT GO ON THE OCEAN Licenses for Inland Waters Not Suf- ficient for Voyages to the Sea and Return. The United States Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels have addressed the follow- ing letter to W. J. Gray, superintendent of the Ship Owners’ Tugboat Company: It having come to our mnotice that certain licensed officers whose license reads ‘‘From San Francisco to sea and return” have been going beyond the limit laid down in the United States Revised Statutes for the dividing line between inlang waters and the ocean, you are hereby notified that you must not permit your employes to exceed the limit of their licenses, viz: an imaginary line drawn from Point Bu- nita Lighthouse, southeast % south to Point Lobcs., The law applies to all steamers hold- ing a bay and river license to sea and return. Wrenever any of your boats hoiding & lcense of this class desires to go beyond that limit you may make application for an extemsion calling for‘th-! galf of the I‘-;larslla:u‘a.‘ndnd. ble, your request will be granted. R JOHN K. BULGER. O. F. BOLLES, Captain Gray has given notice that he will take an appeal from the decision of the inspectors. i Grants Short Extension of Time. The Board of Works refused yesterday to grant the petition of Flinn & Tre: for an extension of ninety days on their centract to repave Church street, be- tween Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets. The board thought an extension of fifteen days was sufficient and the firm must_complete the work In that time or forfeit the coatract. ————————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —————————— Townsend's California glace fruit and fes, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched ;:22:?"& nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —_—ee———— Spectal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call« fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. i The Trail of the Railroad Juggernaut l novelist,” it has been pointed out Frank Norris’ great masterpiec.—a in “The Octopus” N explaining why the leading critics of the world have been almost unanimous in calling “The Octopus,” the long looked for, ‘““the great American novel,” and its author “the great American that “The Octopus” is not only truly remarkable work cZ fact and fiction woven into one tense, fascinating, all-powerful romance—but a good half dozen great novels rolled into onme. All his characters ere of such strength and force that - whole book might be written round any one of them—while the dramatic situations—the book is crammed full of them—are each of them strong enough to arnish the ;-adirg climax for a good round dozen of any other books that are being “The Octopus’ is not only distincti: ground out to order nowadays. Vely California, it is world wide in i*s scope and humanness, and over it all is the shadow of the rail- road juggernaut. 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