The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1903, Page 33

THE SAN. FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE WATER REPORT 15 CONGIDERED Fitzgerald Goes Home to Prepare the Document. | Inspects Niles Supply and Those of Contra Costa | and the Sierra. A Oakland Office S8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 6. t will be two months before the special of the City Council, which 2 bond prop- covering a municipal w: osttio er plant for Oakland, will be able to secure the report of Desmond Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitz- | #eraid is the Boston engineer, whose ser- vices were secured by Mayor Olney and John L. Howard, the chairman of the Speclal Water Committee, for the purpose 6f inepecting and reporting upon all avall- 4ble sources of water supply for the city of Oakland. Mr. Fitzgerald has returned home and will make his report to the Oakland officials from there. The investigations made by Mr. Fitz gerald have been very secret. He has been securing his information in his own has been a very qulet | one. He has gone 1 person and has made ch he could base an endent report, if necessary. number of reports in exist- ave been made from time to water agitation swept over ¢ been placed at his s chosen also to make ations. of Nites Cone has been »m of the Contra v has been inspected plies have been looked | d that his report will | points and that the be based upon it. ———————— BIGH SCHOOL GIRLS GIVE EXCELLENT CONCERT Win High Praise for Musical Even- ing in Aid of Lunchroom investigate« ta Water Comps Fund. AKLAND, J 6.—The High School aculty and students were justly proud f their companions in the girls' choral kst night, for the musical programme hat was rendered at the Unitarlan urch was pleasing from beginning to nd. Some unusually good voices were 1 among the singers, the solo work Miss Nana Swain being espectally de- The trio by Misses Armstrong, and Neall was received with ved enthusiasm. excellent work of the giris in was a surprise to those who short time they have been Miss Grace Fisher, the | 15t be given much praise. | < Ruth Salinger's violin solo and | Mise Elsie Cahiil's cornet soio were both Miss Salinger's work talent and great much enjoyed considerable rm was tastef: decorated | potted palms and made a or the giris in thelr udience met the ef- to please with well- Gaelic League Entertainment. | OAKLAN . Gae June 6.—The members of will give an entertain- evening, June 22, at St. | 1 for the benefit of their booth | ching Catholic fair. It will 'orm of a refined vaudeville con- isting of typical Several sweet | and well-known jig dancers have signified their willingness to par- | D. ticipate The committe in charge is composed of | 3.'F. Kenney, chalrman; T. F. Marshall, Miss Bessie McEIlli- ¥, Mrs. Callahan and Stéphen O'Maho gott, Miss M. F Miss Ma Applies for Retirement. OAKLAND, June 6.—Thomas B. Coon who for ten years has been a regular po- | lice officer in this city, applied yesterday | for retirement on a pension. His petition is accompauied by certificates from Dr. | von Adelung, heaith officer, and Dr. V §1. Blood stating that he is physically | Atsabled. The application was referred to the Chief of Police, City Attorney and City Health Officer for investigation. ————— i Marriage Licenses. | OAKLAND, June 6.—The following mar- | riage licenses were issued by the County | Clérk to-day: Reuben E. Smith, 22, and Heksie M. Foster, both of Berkeley; An- tone A. Bettencourt, over 21, and Mamie | Digs, over 18, both of Centerville; Wel- | cbme E. Fitz, 22, S8an Francisco, and Lu- | oife Gauit, 19, Indiana; Cornelius Van | Prooyen, 26, Pinole, and Clara H. Wool- cott, 2, Martinez. ——————— WILL ESTABLISH POST- OFFICE IN FAR NORTH | Point Barrow, Alaska, Will Have Two Annual Deliveries by | Revenue Cutters. Postoffice Department has just ciosed a contract for the delivery of mail at Point Barrow, Alaska, the most north- ern point on this continent. By the térms of the agreement the residents of that far-off settlement, will get thelr létters regularly twice during the winter months. In the past they got one or two deliv- cries a year, and they were at irregular tervals, dcpending on the sailings of veesels of the revenue cutter service. Un- dér the old conditions one of these vessels would arrive at Point Barrow in the mid- dle summer and probably another late in the fall. §. R. Bpriggs, a white man and a teach- cr-in thé sciool at Point Barrow, nas agreed 1o deltver mails at that point tw during the winter months. He is to make 2 round trip from Kotzebue, on the east coast of Alaska, and some 700 miles dis- | 1ant from Point Barrow. He is to leave! Point Barrow about the 1st of November and about February 15. He will arrive at Kotzebue about December 15 and April 1, taking about forty-five days for eaeh journey. For making these two trips per | Véar he is to recelve a compensation of | 51500, or $750 for each trip. Spriggs wili employ reindeer on these urneys. There are only about fifty or xty perron: who will be served on th's route. Some of them reside at Point Hope, which the carrier is also required t h. OAtrml‘folm Barrow there is a fishing sta- tion and a mission school. The few peo- o served makes this the most expensive postal route that the Government main- tains. There was some doubt at the de- ;értment as to the wisdom of making tils comperatively heavy outlay of mdmey in \iew of the fact that only a few persons vwould be benefited. The thing that decid- | «d in its favor was the isolated condition of the brave Americans who teach in the neission school at Point Barrow.—Brook- Iyn Eagle. e The best laundered people are the Amer- fcans. The i ! th | plunge. { meteoric flight, striking the water with such force that a fountain of spray shoots | STOP THE TRAIN INNICK OF TIE Accident Is Narrowly Averted at East Berke- ley Station. Negligent Crew Runs Cars Upon a Main Line | Track. | T | Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, Junc . Not a moment too soon the engineer of the San Francisco-bound loeal stopped his train at 7 o'cleck this afternoon and pre- | vented it from running into the freight | train that was switching cars about Berkeley station. The engineer whistled | d put on the brakes so hard that his train bumped over the tracks for a hun- cred feet or so and then came to a stop | with'n a hundred feet of the freight train. | The passengers, of whom there were many, were jostled from their seats and | badly scared. it mas a tight pinch that was due to ccrelessness of the freight crew, un- der the direction of Conductor Haw: The ght engine was switching cars and the men completely forgot about the local train at Berryman chundering on the dcwn grade toward the station. The ergine ard two cars were on the main line when the freight crew heard the whistle of the passenger engine. The men hustled to get back to a siding and Lad only partially succceded when the passenger train was brought to a stand- still. The trainmen refused to give their names and there was a general disposi- tion on the-part of all concerned to shield “the men responsible for the scare. HOW VARIOUSBIADS 00 THEIR FSHING Each Spec’es Adopts Its Own Method of Strik- ing. Very many species of birds feed entire- ly or almost entirely on fish, and among them they-have as many ways of captur- | ing their prey as human fishermen have. | Bome, with more patience than most men possess, stand sliently on the shores, wait. | ing for the fish to approach them; others put out to sea and capture their prey in deep water. Of these feathered fishermen, none more familiar than the belted kingfisher, which may be seen in the Eastern States at almost any time between March and December. His favorite fishing grounds are wooded streams and ponds, though he may often ‘be seen in the vicinity of salt water. The kingfisher spends ‘much of his time watching for fish from some fa- vorite perch, such as a stake in the river or an overhanging branch. From such a point he makes short journevs out over | the water, sometimes returning at once, | 2t other times flying to some other near- | by perch. It is while on these little trips that he does his fishing. As he catches sight of a fish near the surface of the wa- ter, he hangs fluttering for a moment above it and then pitches down into the river or lake, often disappearing from view in a jet of flylng spray. If success- ful, he soon arises with the struggling fish held =afe in his stout two-inch blii. | shakes the water from his plumage and rattling proudly, flles to some convenient place to eat his prey. Somewhat similar are the methods of the osprey. As he swings In wide cir- cles through the clotds, his wonderful ey searches the water for some sign which may betray the presence of a fish. As he receives the sign he stops salling and with flapping wings he steadles himself for a Then downward he speeds, in upward from the place where he disap- pears. For a moment he is lost, then he rises in labored flight, lifting a shining captive, which he grapples in his eight black talons and which he bears away to some dead tree, where he tears it to pleces with his hooked bill. OTHER BIRDS’ METHODS. Quite different are the fishing methods ' adopted by the herons. With heads drawn in between their shoulders and often upon one leg bank o the fish to come within striking distance of their spearlike bills. At other times they wade cautiously out into the water. lifting and placing their feet with extra- ordinary care, lest they alarm the fish | they are approaching. When near enough | the long neck shoots out and it is sud- denly withdrawn, and behold, the suc- cessful heron has a fish. If it is a small one he gives it a shake and swallows it head first: if a large one he may have to pound it a little on the bank to make it more willing to be swallowed quietly. He will then resume fishing as patiently as before. Different again is the method of the white pelican, who catches his prey while swimming. A flock of pelicans will sur- round a school of small fish and by beat- ing the wdter with their long wings drive their victims toward the shore. As they proceed each pelican is busy scooping up the fish into the big pouch with which his lower mandible is provided. After a sufficient number have been ‘“netted” the birds go ashore for a fish dinner. Jaegers and skuas are sea plrates, and | obtain their fish by robbing the gulls and terns. When one of the latter birds has captured a fish one of these pirates will pursue him and force him to disgorge his prey. This form of piracy is practiced by many other fish-eating birds, most of which are skillful enough to catch the disgorged plunder in midair. . Gulls obtain their fish by taking it neatly from the surface of the water; terns plunge into the sen, remaining out of sight for several seconds before arising with their prey. The skimmer has still another method. He files rapidly along close to the water, with his knifelike lower mandible carried just beneath the surface, ready to catch up any prey which may cross his path. Gannets alternately fly and sail above the water, and secure their fish by dropping from the air. Darters and cormorants dive from a low perch or from the sur- face, and pursue their fish under water. The serrated bills of the former and the hooked bills of the latter are well adapt- ed for holding such slippery prey. Shel- drakes also capture their fish by pursu- ing them under water, and hold them easily in their saw-edged bills. The man-o'-war bird does his fishing while on the wing, and in several differ- ent ways. He is extremely active, and sometimes catches his prey at the sur- face, sometimes as it leaps out of the wa- ter, and sometimes he pursues syccess- ful gulls and terns and forces them to disgorge the fish they have captured for their own use.—Hartford (Conn.) Times, —— Grease will cause the:rubber in an a tomoblle tire to crumble, is | like statues tbey stand on the | a pond or stream, waiting for | ROBBER TAKES MONEY, BUT RETURNS TIMEPIECE Alameda Footpad Who Has 4 Nice Discrimination in Regard to Jewelry His Money but Disdains to Retain His Watch e ey Relieves A. J. Forbes of LAMEDA, June 6.—Alexander J. Forbes encountered a particular footpad shortly after midnight, who robbed him of all the money he had, but who disdained to steal Forbes' watch because the time- plece was not of the make that suited the highwayman. After Forbes had handed | over every cent he had in his clothes, { amounting to $2, the midnight thief re- | moved his victim's watch from his vest pocket with his left hand, while he held |a revolver in his right hand. Looking | the timepiece over carefully, the highway- | man said: “That's too cheap a make for | me; I-gu you had better keep it. Skip | along now.” Forbes says he took a last look at the robber in the moonlight and skipped | along until he reached the City Prison, | where he related his meeting with the | footpad to Officer Dennis Welch and gave | & description of the man. A search was | made in the vicinity of Buena Vista ave- nue and Wiilow street, where the hold- | up occurred, but no trace of the robber was found. Forbes tells the following | story of the hold-up: | “It was a little after 12 o'clock, when I was returning to Park street along Buena | Vista avenue after escorting a lady friend | to her home. As I ncared Wiilow street a man approached me from behind and remarked, ‘I say, young fellow." and we"were then face to face and close together. He then sald: ‘Well, what have |.you got.’ Not catching his meaning, I B e o e e e ) 3 FLAMES DAMAGE -~ BUSINES BLOCK | Expensive Blaze Visits ! the Store Section of | Livermore. ;Explcding Lamp the Cause | and Fire Spreads ’ { Rapidly. LIVERMORE, June 6.—An exploding coal ofl lamp caused a fire this evening about 7 o'clock, which gutted the business | section of town at the southwest corner of Main and J streets and caused damage | and loss to the estimated extent of $20,- 000. The places visited by the blaze were Marshal Mack’s grocery and shoe store, Johnson & Eppinger's dry goods store, John Vakoto's restaurant and Chris Schmidt's saloon. 1t was in the back of Mack's store where the lamp exploded. The clerk was sitting out on the sidewalk at the time and the blaze gained considerable head- way before it was discovered. Vakoto's restaurant and Johnson & Eppinger's | store were in the same building, which was recently bought by Hans Anderson | from 8. Levy and extensively improved. | Johnson & Eppinger carried a large stock, Wwhich was extensively damaged by fire, smoke and water. Thelr loss is figured to be upward of $000. Mack's store and stock was almost wiped out. His loss may reach $3000. Schmidt's loss is es- timated at $1500, and Vakoto's at $1000. These estimates do not include the value of the buildings. The loss {s well covered by insurance. | ITEMS OF INTEREST. The tight-fitting British uniform is al- leged to be the cause of much heart dis- ease among soldiers. The Jews have a greater number of re- ligious papers, proportionately, than any Christian denomination, and their papers | are the best supported. The consumption of mineral waters in the United States has been increased enormously until it now aggregates $18,- 000,000 worth per annum. Marriages average 3000 a day in the whole world. Of 1000 men who marry, 332 marry younger women, 570 marry women of the same age, and ninety-eight older women. The necessity for special asylums for those addicted to the use of cocaine is being considered in British India. One hundred dollars’ worth of butter bears off from the soil less of its valuable elements than 5 cents’ worth of hay. One of the most regular riders with the South Berks foxhounds is a small boy, who bestrides a black donkey bareback.* { That wheat was grown in Alaska a cen- tury ago is proved by the discovery of two old flour mills, built by the subjects of the Czar, in the southern part of the Terri- tory. \ Electric motor power, which fs gradu- ally to be applied to all the Alpine rail- ways, is about to be used on the Austrian Arlberg line between Landeck and Blu- denz. : \ Cruelty to children is obviously not a serious affair in Austria. A g:!hcr who kiiled his child by ill treatment the other day punished by eight days' im- prisonment. — s Major General Baden-Powell, who made the famous defense of Mafeking during the Boer war, has been appointed in- pector general of cavalry of the British rmy. . 1 turned | | i 1 -_ ALAMEDA MAN WHO WAS HELD UP AND ROBBED BY A FOOTPAD. et i hesitated and the footpad went on, “You had better yield up what you have.” He | had a pistol in his right hand I did not | delay yielding what I had. The Tobber took my cash and went along Willow | street toward Railroad avenue. He was! a tall, spare fellow, with smooth-shaven face. He wore a gray sult of clothes ana | looked to me like a dope fiend.” Forbes conducts a eyclery on Santa| Clara avenue, near Park street, and is well | known in Alameda. The police believe that the footpad is a member of the gang that has been operating in Oakland lately. YOUTH DROWNS NEAR PONTOON Jumps From Craft Into Water That Is Over His Head. Lester Giles Loses His Life Because He Could Not . Swim. | | —_—— ! ALAMEDA, June 6—Lester Giles, 14| years of age, lost hig life by drowning | this afternoon in the bay near the Encinal Yacht Club house, off the south end of Grand street, because he could not swim. With, a number of other lads young Giles was disporting himself in the water not far from the shore. Several of the youngsters more venturesome than their companions waded out to an anchored pontoon and climbed upon it. Giles was | one of the party. When his companions, who could swim, began diving from the | pontoon young ‘Giles did likewise. The action of the tides against the pontoon had worked a deep hole near it, and it was into this basin the lad plunged. He came to the surface once, but as the water was over his head he could not | wade back, and being unable to swim a stroke disappeared before his companions realized what had happened. The basin near the pontoon was dragged but no trace of the body was found. As the tide was ebbing rapidly at the time it is thought that the remalns were carried out into the bay. Young Giles made his home with his sister, Mrs. Willilam B. Foster, at 1614 | Raflroad avenue. His mother died some | time ago. His father is employed in San | Francisco. | A CHANCE TO SMILE. | Mrs. Kidder—And then I thought there is no use quarreling with a milkman. Mr. Kidder—That's right. He'll make %‘;‘e‘ take water every time.—Detroit Free The summer cars are ou‘ again, Ahead of the summer heat. Why does man smile? ’Cause now he won't his seat! Have to give “r —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Groundown—It's too bad New Year's doesn’t come before Christmas, Ascum—Why ? Groundown—Well, you see, then we could all resolve not to buy ' Christmas presents.—Philadelphia Press. “Mr. Bixler has become quite a society man. He goes out every evening.” “Indeed! And what has brought about the change?” “He says it s=aves coal.”"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Could Wait.—“Here's the devil to pay!” exclalmed the old man, coming in with a handful of holiday bills. “Don’t worry about him,” said his wife. “He knows vou'll settle with him here- after!"—Atlanta Constitution. 5 “Did you enjoy the musicale?” inquired the friend. “In a way,” answered Mr. Camrox. “It was a great deal better than listening to the conversation that would have occur- red if there hadn’t been any music."— ‘Washington Star. - | ed was about $203,000. - 7, 1903 HOODLUMS KILL C EXCESSINE HEAT - GHINESE COOK| ~ KILLS LABORER Attack and Beat Him So Severely That Death Ensues. Assault Takes Place in Heart of City and Police Ar- rest Four. e g Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 6. Four hoodlums beat a Chinese cook, named Ah Lin, at Tenth street and Broadway about 10 o’clock last night and he succumbed to his injuries at 6 o'clock this evening. Chief of Police Hodgkins expresses himself of the opinion that it was nothing short of cold-blooded murder | and stated from what he could learn that the assault was entirely unprovoked. Ah Lin was employed by Miss May A. Peters, who resides at 913 Webster street. He had been spending the evening in Clipatown and was returning home. As he was about to cross the principal street of the city he was attacked, knocked | down and kicked until he was insensible. The injured cook was taken to his home, where he lay all night suffering from con- cussion of the brain. To-day he was re- mcved to the Recelving Hospital, where he died. The police have four young men in cus- tody and have had a number of people come to the jail to see if they could iden- tify any of them as the ones implicated in the assault. The fight attracted a crowd of people and it is hoped some of them may have taken sufficient notice of the men to furnish an identification. So far nothing of a definite character has Leen found against the men in custody. ——————— FOUR MORE BODIES FOUND. New Names Are Added to the List of Topeka’s Dead. TOPEKA, Kans., June 6.—The bodies of four more flood victims were found this evening. Besides these, the seven bodles found in the house in the 1500 block on Harrison street, reported yesterday, were removed. An elderly woman and a child were found in a house at 1356 Madison strect. The body of a colored woman wds found this morning imbedded in the sand near the intersection of the Union Pacific and the Rock Island tracks. It was identified as that of Minnie Puryear. The seven bodles found on North Har- rison street were identified as those of Mis. Jessie Marple Stout, her five children and thelr grandmother, Mrs. Shonweller. Policeman Hall to-day found the body of a colored man at Crane and Monroe streets. Money continues to come in from out- side in amounts sufficient to keep up with the demand and to lay a little aside for the expenditures which will pile up as time goes on. To-night the total collect- It is estimated that there have been 1000 subscriptions, %0 of which have been raised without solicita- tion. The railroads are gradually getting into better shape. 1 —_————————— Dr. Julius A. Crane. SANTA ANA, June 6.—Dr. Julius A. Crane, well known throughout the State as the superintendent of the Agnews State Asylum for the Insane, died at his home in this city suddenly at noon to- day from heart disease. from which he had suffered for a number of years. He was resting on a couch just before sup- per and presumably passed away In the course of sleep, as his wife found him dead when she went to call him to his meal. Dr. Crane was born in Portage Coun- ty, Ohio, in 1845. He came to Santa Ana Valley in 1875. Governor Henry T. Gage appointed him superintendent of Agnews State Hospital for the Insane at San Jose in 1900. He came back to Santa Ana a few months ago. A widow survives him, a cousin, Mrs. M. E. Denison, lives at Oakland, and two brothers and a sis- ter live in Towa. Henry Van Sycle. SAN JOSE, June 6.—Henry Van Sycle, a ploncer resident of this county, died at his home on the Almaden road last night. He was 73 years of age and a native of New York. He had been en- gaged in farming In this county thirty- twd years. A widow and several grown children survive him. ——————— Long Distance Photography. According to the London Express a sys- tem of electric photography has been de- vised by which clear photographs can be taken of persons or scenes at a distance of twenty miles. Examples of this photography are said to be on view at an observatory near Rome.—Chicago Tribune. —— COSTUMES WORN IN OLDEN DAYS Garments to Be Seen in Musical Comedy of War Times. When one looks at the old-fashioned daguerreotypes or the prints showing styles of fifty years ago it seems impos- sible that the women of that time could have looked pretty in the voluminous skirts and the queer poke bonnets. But when you look at the “Johnny” girls over in McVicker's Theater where as the Southern belles in ‘““When Johnny Comes Marching Home™ they wear crinolines and turbans and little mantles you realize that there never was a more becoming dress than those same hoop sKirts. As the girls—they are pretty girls of course, or they wouldn't stand a show of Queer ! looking well in any sort of gown—glide about the stage in their dances, and in accord with the action of the play they make the most attractive and graceful picture one would wish to see. Mr. Whit- ney has been generous in staging “Johnny” and his “Johnny” girls are the cream of the stage market and they are dressed in the quaintest, most fascinating folderols imaginabld. The balloon skirts billow and float and swing about as they move and give one an altogether new idea of the graces of lovely woman. The girls do not seem to walk; It is rather a flying, floating movement that greets the spectator’s eye. ‘“The poetry of motion” is this same glide of the *“Johnny” girls in truth and reality. There is almost endless variety about these gowns; they are every color and hue and their gay trimmings of ribbons and velvet and bows are a constant study, and whether the girls are gowned for the dance In the first act or for the prom- enade In the second they are equally charming and make one long for the days when crinolines were the universal style and bandeaux and curls and poke bon- nets and turbans were the proper thing. The pictures of that half century old time are very lovely to look upon and certainly lend atmosphere and attractive- ness_to the Stange-Edwards opera.—Chi- cago Chronicle. Quite recently a French scientist suc- ceeded In making the ruby in the labora- tory, but microscropical tests showed that it fell short of being perfect In having lines of separation; in other words, it ‘was not amorphous.. ‘Worid. Carl Benson Overcome at Work Dies at Re- ceiving Hospital Had Complained of Stomach Trouble for About a Week Past. —_—— QOakland Office San Francisco Call, “ 1118 Broadway, June 6. Carl Benson, a laborer, employed in the excavation for the foundations of the new Bacon block, on Washington street, was overcome by the heat this afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock. He fell to the . ground unconscious and was removed to | the Receiving Hospital, where he died at 8 o’clock this evening. Benson was 52 years of age and a na- tive of Sweden and had lived in Oakland about two years. His only relative in Cclifornia is his son, Hjalmar Benson, wio lived with him at 613 Ninth street. The dead man was a widower, the father | of seven children, six of whom are living | | in Sweden. Hjalmar Benson says that his father | Lad always been well up to a week ago, | when he complained of violent pains in the stomach and back. The Coroner has charge of the case. —————— Disgrace to the Ark. England is a good fifteen years behind America 1In respect to typography and typefounding. This is even more true—a great deal more true—of the continent of | { Europe, which, indeed, doesn't contain a good jobbing office or a single solitary newspaper whose outfit of type wouldn't | be a disgrace to the ark.—Printers’ Ink. WILL BE HEAD ~ OF NEW" 3CHOOL John Galen Howard to Fill Chair of Ar- chitecture. pla & -0 BERKELEY, June 6.—The founding of | a School of Architecture at the Univer- sity of California and the election of John ! Galen Howard, superintending architect for the Hearst-Benard plans, which was { done by the Board of Regents at their, last meeting, is one of the most important steps recently taken in behalf of the uni- versity. Instruction In architecture has been offered at the university, but there never was a regularly organized school. | Now it is proposed to give students a ! four-year course and send them out into the world as fully ordained architects. | For the present the department will be housed in the new stone building erected as the president’s house. Professor How- | ard will direct its equipment and name his assistants. He brings to his task pro- | fesstonal talents of the highest order, ' gained from his American scientific train- ing at the Massachuetts Institute of Tech- nology, his study of the Beaux Arts and his many years of successful practice in New York. The students will have the in- spiration of instruction from a man of broad training, of wide experience on a large scale and of high artistic ideals. The proximity of the university to San Francisco will give the students ample opportunity for the inspection of exten- sive bullding operations, besides which they will have valuable practical training in connection with the erection of build- ings already begun or hereafter to rise upon the campus under the direction of | Professor Howard. Professor Howard is now overwhelmed“ with professional engagements. In addi- tion to directing the revision of the Hearst-Benard plans for the greater uni- versity, the bullding of the Hearst Me- moral Mining building, and the planning of California Hall, he is engaged upon plans for the new Southern Pacific depot for Berkeley, a new City Hall for Oak- land, a new home for Professor Jacques Loeb, a new schoolhouse for Berkeley and a new depot for the Santa Fe Rallway at Berkeley. - SOIL EXHAUSTION AND THE REASONS FOR IT Professor Whitney, chief of division of soll, United States Department of Agri-| culture, makes the following statement: “I have never in my experience seen a case In which one could say with any de- gree of certainty, or even probability, that exhaustion was due to the actual removal | of plant food. It is perfectly safe to say | that the condition of the so-called worn | out sofls in the South is due not to an actual extraction of plant food, but to the | chemical condition in which it now is, in which it is unavalilable to plants, and that the restoration of the fertility of that| land must be not necessarily in the addi- | tion of plant food to the soll, but in bring- ing about such changes in the physical | conditions or in the chemical combina- | tions as will encourage that natural | weathering of the sofl which brings the plant food into a condition in which the plant can get its support.” Commenting on the foregoing Farm and | Fireside says that the authority is a high | cne and his words have welght. FHe| knows of no sofl once fertfle that has| teen cropped down to such a point that | chemical analysis would not show the | presence of great quantities of plant food. An unproductive condition of a field once | fertile does not signify that plant food has been removed by cropping to the point of exhaustion, but that the physical condftion of that field has been permitted to become bad, or that the plant food in the soil is permitted to rest in such chemical combinations that plants cannot use it. . A clear conception of this fact af- fects our farm methods—if fertility were gone we should add all required to pro- duce crops, whereas if it is present we should seek to release it.—California Fruit Grower. | —_————— Looked Like a “Cinch.” As he worked his way up a long line to the window of the payirg teller of a downtown bank, a porter with a leather bag stood immediately in front of him and passed a check for $2000. “How will you have it?” inquired tlu] teller. “Five hundred in tens, seven hundred and fifty in fives, five ndred in twos, two hundred in ones and fifty in silver.” The packages of bills and rolls of silver were promptly passed out and deposited and locked In the-bag, which hung from the neck of the porter by a chain, when a messenger boy, with bulging eyes, ex- claimed: “Gee whiz! Mister, do you mind telling me what horses you're goin’ to play?” —_——————— From facts gathered in the last six | months .the remarkable condition is re- vealed of “the existence of more child la- bor in New York City than in all the | States of the South combined. " & | q__—"_-—r——‘—-‘_———'——'—'—" FATALLY HORT BY LOGAL TRAIN Schoolboy Is at Hospi- tal With Fractured Skull. I Leo Essich Is Struck Upon the Head by Steps of a Passenger Coach. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 6. Leo Essich, a ld-year-old schoolboy living at 241 Etta street, was struck by the step of a Berkeley local train this afternoon and it is feared he is fatally }Injured, He received a blow on the top | of his head and the skull was badly frac- tured. He was removed to the Receiving | Hospital in the police patrol and the op- eration of trephining was performed by | Drs. Stratfon, Hamlin and Dodge. Essich, with a number of companions, | was playing near the new subway being constructed at Emeryville. A local traia came by and after it had passed Essich was found lying beside the track. His head was bleeding and he was unable to tell anything about how he was injured. It is supposed that he must have tried to jump on the train or-got too close to it and a protruding step struck him. Ne one saw the accident occur. MINING ENGINEER TELLS OF EXPERIENCES Hard Work and Little Com- pensation the Lot of the Beginner. Very few mining engineers are “borm great.” They usually have to work hard and for a long time before their services receive that substantial recognition which in these days is considered commensurate compensation for technical training and years of practical experifence. - An “en- gineer of my acquaintance who to-day oc- cuples an enviable position in the mining world tells this experience of the early days of his career: “It was back in the early '80's, J— was operating and endeavoring to nego- tlate some ‘bum’ claims. He engaged me for 350 to make surveys and plans of the claims—both surface and underground. I turned in my ‘work, and old J— sald: “ ‘But where's the report? “What report? says I. “Your report on the min ays he. “I had dome all sorts of ‘scrub’ work, assaying, drafting, surveying, etc., but no one so far had even hinted that my opin- fon of any mine was worth anything. My chest bulged out a few inches, but I man- aged to explain calmly that ‘surveying” was one thing and ‘mine examining’ quite another. Evidently I convinced J—, for he told me to make the report and he would pay me ‘whatever it was worth.’ That was the report of my life. The mines did not admit of much, but I start- ed in and curled up a little earth from a nebulous toss-off of the solar system. I precipitated earth-making material and washed it with ages of rain. I stratified it, upheaved*it, faulted and fissured it. 1 mineralized the fissures and finally T got down to local conditions—the mountain backbone of the American continent— thence by gradations to the State under consideration, where I described the great mining districts of the State, finally reaching E——; here I described it in de- tail; at last I crept up the trail to P—- Mountain, had my say about J—'s prop- erties in about three paragraphs, and the brain fag was over. Then came a day or two of corrections; finally a fair copy was made and handed to J—. T fancy there must have been fifty pages at least. J— read it over attentively and wrote out a check for $55—$0 for the survey and § for the report. I did not appreciate the joke at the time, and only thought that J—— did not know any better. It did net dawn upon me that It was a fair estimate of ‘what it was worth.”” i A A company bought a good prospect and, after developing it somewhat, decided that the mine justified reduction works of some kind; but it was a question what kind was most desirable. One director wanted a stamp mill; another had heard that rolls were superior to stamps; a third would listen to neither, but insisted on a smelter, urging that it copt less than a mill of equal capacity, required less wa- ter (and water was not abundant) and, as he was a man of force, he carried the day and all the members of the board agreed that, after all, a smelter would be best, as it would turn out a high grade of product in quantity. A smelter was bought and set up and a man engaged to run it. This last party was an old smel- ter hand—had pushed slag pots, helped around a converter and knew the business from alpha to omega. The ore was white quartz with iron sul- phide and a little zinc or copper occasion- ally. The sulphides did not exceed 10, per cent, but the values were fair. An'ex- perienced man would have recommended a stamp mill and concentrators as proba- bly best suited to the conditions. The smelter man could not manage the melter, and finally admitted he was a copper smelter, anyhow,” and, on the advice of some friends, an experienced smelter superintendent was engaged. He visited the mine, examined the ore and sald at once that a mill and not a smelter was wanted. The owners insisted on his trying the furnace. There was neither limestone nor Iron within fifty miles of the place, and coke was high—about $25 per ton—and he did mot even consent to attempt to run the furnace. After more discussion and getting advice (for which they paid), the loss of a year's time and with a second-hand smelter on hand, these mining men agreed, as they knew nothing of mining, to retire from the | management and place a competent man in charge of the property. He promptly asked for $30,000, which was placed in bank. A modern mill now stands on the mine and a steady stream of bullion is coming from the mili—all because of com- petent management.—Correspondent in Mining and Scientific Press. B — Quicksands have a horrible fascination for writers and readers of fiction and the reality is every bit as bad as fancy paints it. One of the most remarkable quicksand accidents occurred years ago in New Zea- land. Two prospectors were wading across the mouth of a small stream run- ning into the sea in the north island of New Zealand. Both stepped into a quick- sand. One who merely touched the edge of it got loose. The other sank rapidly and, in spite of his companion’s efforts, was sucked under. When an attempt was made to recover the body, it was found that the sand was enormously rich in zold. From a single ton of it £300 of gold was washed.—Mining and Engiucering Review. —— Halite, sodium chloride or common salt, is found at times crystallized, the crys- tals being cuble in shape. These crystals when attached in numbers to the salt matrix form a most attractive E but because of their susceptibility to evaporate when exposed to air or light they do not last. Halite comes in a num- ber of colors—-white, grayish. rose red, yellow and amethyst tints. No crystal- lzed specimens are found in the United States, Europe furnishing all found.—Mig. ing World