The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1903, Page 14

Designs That Are Personal Are in Dery Bad Taste. of Mr. good, substantial on the fivleat was e inside he cover: d one of two things name doom or d the b Zither the ck of ay might search the £ the British Isles - . find a man who pre- is a 1 . = et \__{“ “,au( J e o SRR L. 240 L, ‘ , leord lieepeer I 7 J A orniecte CAirtegpecters tends to be a gentleman without his farc- 1ly bo 211 labeled in this fashion-gen- erelly in the form of the fa To him it is just as essential an essary as our calling cards are to us. is a possession aat was bequea him and to his father before him and is not looked at as triv othing to be y and cast aside to-morrow. used to According to Americanisms a bookplate s just what one pleases. If one has a crest and it makes a pleasing design frequently used and is often quits done in colors and is always f a fair size. Yet when one lacks a cres: ails to appreciate it almost anyt be chosen that one takes a fancy to. r instance, a chap who loves the wa- ter would admire and probably want some that nature, while a landsman’s elaborately o design of Jome Uses for the Forty Miles of .fltmosphere Around the Globe. great of talk about but there is more ma- be f i in most modern bel- ywhere el deal moderately inteiligent appear to have small s hygiene in their oc- on of a at- d ays Horace Mann, 3 e iere is forty miles globe, it is a uscless " 1o breathe it more than Yet nine mothers out of ten will windows, ‘“for fear nd leave two or sicep in a stifling at- no connection between cat troubles they have air she compels them to t after night ning alr a lds and night alr d sunshine into ssible after oc- if there 4 no ot raining, let in the > beds too £oon afier You may get vour v tid rooner, but it iz neither . or healtiful to snugly pack up be thing an had been three min- he would bave secured a 325,000,000 diamond mine in South If it had not been for a bit of faulty track just outside Chicago it would have been Haydon Bennett who would have made a fortune by organizing the steel corporation and not J. Pierpont Morgan. It Buricn Neville’s horse had not found- ered in the last mile of a race for a land register’s office he would have won one of the richest California gold mine claims. If Arncld Bryand's salvage steamer had started an hour sooner from Rio he wouid have been able to secure the treasure of a fabled Spanish galleon at Trinidad. Those were four golden opportunities which could not wait. It was heartbreak- ing for the men who saw untold wealth within their grasp and then saw it dieap- pear just as they were about to clutch it. It was heartbreakin but there was nothing to do but philosophize. Salgman was surveying in Griqualand when He missed his great opportunity. The farm which he was tempted to buy at first sight was as dismal a piece of South African ground as ever man looked upon, but there was that in its appear- ance which made the surveyor believe it was valuable. ~ FABULOUS FORTUNES De Beers, the owner of the farm, was so tired of hopeless and frultless toil that he offered to sell it for a change of cloth- ing. Salzman looked at it agaln and re- fused. A suit of clothes secmed to be too great a price to pay for a heap of rocks in a land where rocks were plentiful. He went back to Cape Town, but kept thinking about that farm which he could have bought for a suit of clothes. Final- 1v he decided to go back and purchase it. He had been hearing strange tales of the finding of enormous wealth in diamonds on just such rocky land, and it was worth a try, anvhow. He made the trek in a hurry, but just as he got to De Beers’' gate a stranger drove up ahead of him and entered. When Salzman entered the house he found that the man who had arrived three minutes before him had just complieted the deal for the purchase. Three weeks later it was learned that the De Beers farm had proved itself an inexhaustible mine of diamonds. A few minutes’ breakdown caused the missing of a fortune so large that, though another man has it now, nobody knows quite how big it is. It was missed by Haydon Bennett. He was Mr. Morgan's competitor - for the formation ‘of the United States Steel Corporation, and it was only by a matter of minutes that he did not get the control of that most gigan- tic of all fortunes. He was competing with Mr. Morgan and was a little in advance of him in the ne- gotiations. When the great project was all but ripe he took a spectal train from San Francisco for New York, and came near creating a record. There fs not much doubt that he would have brought off the big stroke and gained the mastery, though nobody knows what Mr. Morgan may have had up his sleeve. However, a stretch of faulty track outside Chicago brought the- special train to a standstill by derailing it though without any fa- tality. It was half an hour before the journey could be continued; the trip into Chicago was finighed by a single engine, which took the financier in the cab. But Mr. Morgan, who was already at Chicago, made his arrangements by telegraph—he never seems to be in breakdowns of any kind—and won the coup. He is said to have acknowledged afterward that only his rival's breakdown gave him time. One of the biggest fortunes missed, and by minutes—almost seconds—only, was in the great race for the new concessions in California. When new and valuable land which has been partially prospected is to be allotted in large *‘claims,” those who want to get hold of them have to “peg out” their portions, and then deposit their | (X7 i ) ’.’\\ o | | i ) \Q’ W\ W ) fancy would run in an entirely Qu....at vein. Yet it has been decreed by Dame Tashion that anything personal is very bad taste and always avoided as the pest by those who are sticklers for good form. And it is quite as essential that they con- form to the accepted ideas as anything eise used in the fashionable world. The greatest change In this fashion is that they have nearly always been made in black and white, conservative and plain colors, but they have been fashioned lately in quaint patterns, the product of an artistic pen, and colored with many and vivid hues, Now and then the paper is unglazed and of fine texture; again it is rough and coarse, while sometimes it is regular LOST BY A SCRATCH g papers at a register’s office. The result is a magnificently exciting race, m which good horses, fine horse- manship and endurance win. 1.0se who peg out and register first win their claims. The best of all these claims—now the big “Los Patos” mine—worth over $400,00 a year, was first discovered by Burton Neville, who got an inkling of the value of the claim from a hasty inspection. Several others became aware of the value of the place, however, though neith- er the finder nor any one else had any idea how rich it really was. On the ap- pointed day, when thirty claims were to be allotted, over forty riders appeared for the forty-mile and back race. Any num- ber could compete for the same claim after marking it out, and the race, as usual, was to the swiftest. Mr. Neviile, who was as fine a horseman as any, be- ing an old “cow puncher,” was first on the new grounds, marked his claim and raced back. His horse foundered, and came down when only a mile from the registry office on the return journey, and though hg started to run the rest of the Jjourney a young Californian named Da- vis, who had been *“‘crowded out” of the other claims and had remarked Neville's, came past him on a horse that stiil held out and registered the claim, while his rival was running up in the distance than two minutes too late. The only real chance of a fortune among all the sunken *‘treasure” searches that so much has been heard about was missed by less than an hour, when it lay in plain view, promising certainly many thousands of pounds. This was the Spanish galleon at Trinidad, which was discovered cldent six years ago in a sheltered bay of the island. Tt was Iying on the bot- tom, partly broken up, in two or three fathoms of water, and a small case of gold pieces and sliver ingots was grap- pled up and proved worth about 32500. The rest of the treasure was more difficuit to get up, and the finder, an Englishman named Bryand, the owner of the trading brig Barmecide, went at once to Rio and fitted out a small steamer with proper ap- paratus and diving dresses. Tils took a couple of months, and on the way back to the spot where the galleon lay the stcamer encountered a terrific storm from the east and northeast—a rare quarter in the latitude to get a hurricane from. The vessel nearly foundered, but when the storm cleared away and the island was réached it was found that the sunken wreck had disappeared, all but a few remnafts, the hurricane and resulting tidal wave having dragzed it out into deep water, and it was never found. A single case of precious metal was recov- ered worth ahout $1500. K FLATES FRR.OM AMEOBEETSON ;;Z/ Quaint Patierns and Divid Hues Are Quite the Dogue. uzed more black old Er the. first bein ent. elaboration is naturally commands i which, by the way, run fnto a neat sum. It you, Mr. Man, are inwardly wonder- ing what to give in the gi this hobby and be at peace mendously popular a fail to please even th acting. D TR Princess With 4000 Godfathers. Princess Irene, the good wifs of Prince Henry of Prussia, enjors the unique dis- tinction of having more godfathers than any other woman in the world—namely, 4000. Born in the course of the her father, Prince Ienry of Hesse, re- quested the officers and men of the Hes- sian regiments forming part of the cav- brigade under his command to stand sponsors to his christening, and at h took place on the baby _ girl, te: i from each reg in orders to express in the * respective corps the readin the customary spiritus rial obligations t tter to ass » moral and ima mate- hild of the war. Whenever You Feel Like a King, Read This.and See Just What You Feel Like. We are apt t hink Riag - time of , it the life of t ermany is to be taken as a e ald that us workers in frequently at 5 o' and partakes of a The children come in to bid then he g a mass of "o r his at- tention. est men of - world have so letters t read as the K e a- communie tions he ticularly youth. “Later he must listen to the bu comes a meeting witt reasons for an multitude of details re ernment demand hi cupy much time. many hours navy. In spite of of heavier cares the Kalser finds time to cuitivate mustc and literature, 8 senses of the word his life 1 Is a3 stronwe ous as that of any business man.