The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1903, Page 42

42 ELECTRICITY FROM COML THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE MANY PEOPLE (GARRYING WATER _[GAONING WLLE DT ENTERS| TO A Dr. Jacques, Backed by|Clay Prepared for Food Rockefeller, to Try to Solve | Great Economic Problem of; Our Day—Confident of Success. One pound of carbon perfectly burned | vields enough energy to operate eighty- four ordinary incandescent lamps during one hour. Few electric stations are able to furnish more than five such lamps for each pound of carbon in the form of coal hourly consumed. If all the energy developed could be delivered in the form | £ electricity the amount of light obtained | from & pov f coal might thus be mul- tiplied sixteen mes. { Much of the loss at electric stations is | the nature of their operations. | st the energy of the coal must be ob-| teined in the form of heat to make steam, | and & part of this heat escapes in the chimney gases. Next the heat is trans- formed into (he mechanical motion of the | greater loss occurs in | . exhaust steam. Another change and | ical work of the engine ap-| peers in part as electricity at the dyna- | mos, the remainder being Jost in friction. | can be obtained direct from | transformations and | If a battery sup- plied with coal can be made to yield elec- ir st as a bofler now yields heat, amos allke may sses may be avoided engines & find a place in the ap heap. The prize such r s has long been inventors | Rockefeller Interested. and apparently best ns along this line ar lliam W. Jacques, an elec- Boston, a graduate of Institute of Technol- Hopkins University n added to the experi- ques by the recent an- e dally press that John Rockefeller has offered to suppl 1 further prosecution. vears since Dr investigations and remarkable results rning them. In| e for December, 189, Dr Y how, while sit- ire, he had often energy of coal | ten his he her secret and dis- | which we may aban heat itself, TZY Jacques hi process by which the oxygen | e with a mass s Required. paratus required to includes an iron pot | otash, a rod of car- in the potash, an pipe through which air ash at a point be- e carbon rod a furnace in or 1 the iron pot is heated. When ash is kept in a moiten state by ace fire and air is forced through lower end of the current may be ob- point on the pot | carbon rod that sticks ng this process ash is consumed. consumption with oxygen carbon by i the air forced through the iron pipe is | the sou ¢ h ical energy ob- 1aine One t apparatus de- current this apparatus e distinct purposes. scribed It sho; consumes fuel First th e fire to keep the potash i uid. Then steam | or some other power must be applied 1o operate air pump. Lastly there is tl consumptic to the gquestion 1 of the carbon source of the the most Anteresting relation&o this pro- | How much carbon t fuel must be S given | point tc cess is rod and ergy ? eft us in doubt on | stated that a test of | batteries of two | had shown a con-! 2 pound of carbon | 3% of a pound rbon nace for each electrical | oped. About 5 per cent power developed was used | motor to drive the air pump | through the iron pipe lead- molten potash. From the is not clear whether the electricity necessary to operate the air pump was included in the figures given for the cc carbon and coal. sumption « Taking the vi tery the weights o one elec the elect air pump, or 0. er work. ble to the bat- fuel named generated rsepower hour, including €y used to operate the horsepower hour for oth- | Energy Gained. One pound of pure carbon, when it en-| ters into chemical union with the largest | amount of oxygen that will combine with | it, liberates an t of heat measured | by 14.500 beat units power hour is the eq these units. The 0.22 rod consumed per o nt of 25648 of pound of carbon electric horsepower hour in the test reported by Dr. Jacques was thus capable of generating 3223 units | of heat. If, as Dr. Jacques contends, the | electrical horsepower hour said 1o be de- | livered by the battery was developed by | union of oxygen with the carbon rod, the | efficiency of the process was 79 per cent, i no account is taken of the power used by the air pump or of the coal consumed | in the furnace. Anthragite coal of the | best quality contains about 9 per cent of pure carbon, and on this basis the 0.33 | of a pound of coal consumed in the fur- *nace per electrical horsepower hour de- veloped had a heating capacity of 428 heat units. Considering the heating power of both | the carbon consumed in the pot and of the coal burned in the furnace, also the loss in driving the air pump, the complete ap- paratus delivered for outside work is 32 per cent of the energy of the fuel con- sumed, according to the figures given by Dr. Jacques. This efficlency of 32 per cent is about five times that attained at electric_lighting stations of the better class.—Brooklyn Eagle. ————— ‘When Miss Amelia Bingham is required by an author to picture the homes of wealth and fashion she immediately be- takes herself to the dealers in house dec- orations, so that she can secure the latest “smart wrinkles.” The furniture used by her in a stage drawing-room would grace any residence, as would the hangings and bric-a-brac. In “The Frisky Mrs. John- son” she introduces a coffee service of a ! the aborigines of America. | mains. {n | flannel dragged | tween the perch and the bass in shape Wiaely Sold in the Tropics. Yellow Races Are More Especially Given to Eating It. | ———— Chemists of Copenhagen have just been analyzing two specimens of the earth that is eaten by natives in a district on the Upper Congo River. One specimen, of tne color of yellow ochre and easily re- duced to a fine powder between the fin- gers, contained silicic acid, oxide of alu- minum, soda, traces of iron and a small quantity of organic matter. The second specimen, gray in color and resembling ordinary clay, was composed of materigls much like those in the other, except that it contained no soda and more organic matter. Grains of fine sand were found in the vellow, but not in the grey specimens. A search for bacteria gave no results. Only the fron and the soda could be as-| similated by the eaters of these sub- stances. The yellow earth came from the coffee plantations at Bangala, but the ori- gin of the gray earth is not known. Not a few of the Congo tribes eat considerable quantities of earth. The habit of earth-eating prevails in most tropical lands and is particularly widespread among the blacks of Africa and the natives of the East Indies. Where it occurs among civilized natlons it is re- garded as a symptom of a vitiated appe- tite. Humboldt studled the practice among It is occa- sionally observed in Europe. Leash says that German quarrymen spread clay on i slices of bread and eat it with evident relish; also that among the barbarous peoples, women are especially addicted to the habit of eating clay. A RELIGIOUS ACT. The practice in Guatemala is allied with religious superstition. During some of the religious ceremonies the falthful devour statuettes made of clay. In Persia a cer- ain kind of earth is considered a delicacy and an eplcurean relish. In the Malay Archipelago ampoh earth | is sold at the stores. The practice is wide- ly spread in China, New Caledonia and New Guinea. Those who are habitually | addicted to it are said to be more llable than others to consumption, inflammation oi the liver and anaemia. The testimony of many travelers in the Orient is that the yellow races are pecially addicted to the harmful practice. In Java and Sumatra the clay used under- goes a prellminary preparation for con- umption. According to Mr. Hekmeyer, who is fally in charge of the distribution of drugs throughout the Dutch East Indies, the clay is mixed with water to reduce it to a paste and the sand and other hard substances are removed. The clay is then formed into small cakes or tabiets about {as thick as a lead pencil and baked in an fron saucepan. When the tablet emer- ges from this process It resembies a plece of dried poFk. The Japanese frequently eat small fig- | which | ures roughly modeled from clay resemble animals or little men turned out in our pastry shops. The earth which is most in favor in China for eating pur- poses is a white clay containing minute bits of silica, but without organic re- The Annamese consider the sticky and savorless earth which they eat as a | great delicacy. LITTLE NUTRITIVE VALUE. It may be said, on the whole, that there is no nutritive principle In any appre- ciable quantity in the Ingigestible earth- cakes consumed by Asian or other earth eaters. Once in a while a clay eater turns ip among the negroes of the Southern State: Three years ago a scrubwoman employes the Capitol at Atlanta was taken to the Police Court on the charge ~f devour- ing some of the finestsspectmens of kaolin on exhibition in the State Geological De- partment. The geologist discovered one day imprint of teeth on some of tiie speci- mens, and five blocks of clay which were particularly valued because of their puri- ty were missing. The colored scrubwo- man was caught with traces of the clay still on her lips, and she produced a small box in which she was husbanding all of it that she had not consumed, It was found that she had been indulging her strange appetite for a considerable time. ————————————— | GOOD HINTS FOR FISHING SEASON Devices That Tempt Capricious Ap- petites When Other Lures Fail. There come days in languorous June when neither bass nor pickerel nor pike | will bite at any of the accepted lures and | the angler is forced to use his ingenuity | or go to camp fishless. It is too early | !in the year for that standard resource, the grasshopper; it is eut of season for frogs or crawfish. { Perhaps a helgramite or two may bei found by overturning rocks on the edge | of the water and they may tempt a strike, ! but the chances are against them. Naked spoon and strips of pork will alike fail of | their object. | It is on such days that the experience of the angler of years comes into servic He knows that there are two or thre times in a season when fish will not bite at anything at all, but his life has taught him that fishing must not be given up in disgust until everything has been tried, and it sometimes happens that a lure’ will prove successful for no other reason | than that it is novel. Of this class is the simple strip of red | along the top of the! water, or the white rag with a plece of | red tail sewed to It, and”this device bhas been known to take half a dozen fish when they would not look at the most tempting natural and artificial baits ever thrown at them. In most of the northern lakes swims a fish called a perch, though it is not real- ly a perch but a swimmer, halfway be- body and a mouth much llke the mouth of the bass and its ventral fins are of a beautiful scarlet. The skin before and | behind these fins is of snowy whiteness. Now, these perch will bite at any time and all of the time if they are awake. The man who has exhausted the re- sources of his tackle box can not do bet- | ter than dig into a rotten log with his| knife and get out a fat grub or two. ‘With these he will be able to take three or four of the scarlet-finned perch. First killing them by sticking the knife into their backs just where the head joins the body, he will cut off the fins, leaving attached to each fin a strip of white skin two inches long and half an inch | wide. Taking the &poon from his line and | substituting a plain hook therefor, with a small sinker threé inches above it, he will place one of the fins on the hook, sinking the barb jn at the juncture of fin and skin, lea the skin to float out- ward like a snowy tail. % Casting with this dnd reeling in slowly, the bait traveling &t a depth of two feet, and character. This perch has a round‘ i new gold ware that has set every woman who aims to be In the mode ransacking e shops. he will find that the odds are that some ' scornful pirate which has disdained all of its other temptations will go for the fins . the | | an excitant because of their color or be- BIE DESERT Pipe Line Over Three Hundred Miles Long Being Built. . Supply for Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia. ——ns Western Australia is now one of the | targest gola producers in the world. Twenty years ago the great desert east | of the fringe of fertile grain lands and timber -along the sea was not supposed to be worth a cent a square mile. The | a few explorers had made thelr toflsome way over this immense expanse of sand; | a few others less fortunate had perished |in these forbidding wastes. NO WATER, BUT MUCE GOLD. of these sands has made the gold prod- uct of Western Australia equal to that of all the other states in the common- wealth. Gold has helped this division of Australla to become one of the lustiest members of the British colonial empire. Argund the great mining center in the deseft 50,000 people are living. It is nat- ural to ask how they get water to sup- ply their needs. The fact is, water is an extremely rce commodity there. It probably does not bring so high a price in any other part of the world. [ | densing it to procure fresh water is so used. There is an occasional shower, and every house and tent in the mining district is sunplied with tanks to catch the rain water, but it source of supply. The result every drop of water must banded. We have no idea here, where water seems almost as free as air, how careful they are in the mining region of Western | Australla to put every drop to the best use. It is not comfortable to be com- pelled to use water as though you never | expected to have another pafiful. The | inconventence and discomfort due to this cause are a terrible drawback to that re- gion, and nothing less than the greed | for gold would induce any one to submit | to the incessant deprivation. | To-day Western Australia is hard at | work to remedy this great need and to | supply the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie | mining districts with a good supply of | water, the total cost of the work will | be not less than $15,000,000, but it will | solve the water problem. | About twenty-five miles northwest of | Perth, near the sea and the capital of | Westérn Australla, is the Green Mount | Range. The Helena River crosses this | range through a deep valley. A dam | is that be hus- 100 feet high has been built across the river, and the reservoir thus formed is seven miles in length and will hold 4,000,- 000,000 gallons. It is necessary to lift the | water 2700 feet to the top of the moun- tains in order to give it sufficlent head- | way to reach the gold camps out in the | desert. The distance to Kalgoorlie, the farthest camp to be supplied, is 328 miles. | The water is to be raized to the moun- | tain top by means of eight pumping sta- tions, the machinery for which has been purchased at a cost of $1,600,000. At the summit of the mountains the pipe line begins. It is thirty inches in di- | ameter and is laid a little under the sur- {face along the railroad track, except | that in crossing varlous salt lakes on | the route it is supported by piers. It is hoped to deliver from the reservoir to the | mining camps 5,000,000 gallons of fresh | water dafly. Even with this amount of water it is not expected that the mining population will have a drop to waste. |it. The charge to the miners, for ex- ample, will be $150 to 31 7 per thousand gallons at wholesale rates. We should probably have little street sprinkling, and garden hose in the back yards of Brook- | Iyn would become obsolete if we had to pay so high a price as this for the pre- ! clous fluid. STATE WILL OWN PLANT. | It is not expected that the preject will | | become self-supporting for some time. The plant is to be owned by the State, | “aml the deficit must be paid out of the | general taxes. Even if the 50,000 persons | to be supplied should require the works { to run at their fullest capacity the DID? | line would hardly meet expenses. | It is belleved, however, that an in- | creased production of gold will be | made possible by a good supply of water, |and that the entire State will thus be ["benefited, for more miners will be re- quired in the field, and practically all their supplies, except machinery, come from the farmers and merchants of West- ern Australia.—New York Sun. ———————— A Screen of Stamps. A most interesting screen composed of about 40,000 jpostage stamps is on the point of completion by a Philadelphian. | It is of four panels. The handsome frame, with ledge or shelf top, is of quartered | oak, the dark, English weathered variety. | This is in rich contrast with the panels, | which are composed entirely of canceled | postage stamps of every denomination, | from $0 to something like a tenth of a | cent. Not only is every nation repre- sented, but there is a good variety for each nation, and old as weil as new issues are arranged in wonderful variety. The pecullar colors used in postage stamps | Jend themselves a¥mirably and grow still | more mellow in a few years, C. E. Scher- merhorn, who is having it made, says the stamps are stuck on compo board, which is both light and strong. It is alike on both sides, seven feet in height, each of the inserted panels measuring six feet by two feet and a half. In spite of the fact that very many of the stamps were col- lected by friends, the screen has cost about $100. And $00 wouldn't buy it.— Philadelphia Record. - & as if there were nothing else to eat in the world. It is not known whether the fins act as \ cauge of the strip of white skin behind them, or because the fish know that they are parts of a perch which they could not catch if it were alive. At any rate, itisa | lure which is always a good one, and will | sometimes prove effective when all else | has failed. Bass, pickerel and pike will take it with | equal avidity according to the manner in which it is handled. For pickerel, which are close to bank early in the spring, it must be skittered lightly along the surface, as if it were living and skip- ping from wavelet to wavelet. For pike it must be sunk deeply and reeled in slowly; the pike is a logy fish and does | not much care whether its food is alive | or dead. This is a bait to be resorted to early in the year, when frogs, grasshoppers, but- terflies, moths and other insects are not to be had easily, and knowledge of its | efficlency has saved more than one de- serving angler from being whitewashed. ———— s, Between Two Fires.—Casey — Now, phwat wud ye do in a case'lolka thot?. Clancy—Loike phwat? Casey—Th' walkin' diligate tills me to sthrolke an’ me ould woman ordérs me to ka-ape on wur-rkin’.—~Woman’s Home Companion. : i desert wa¥, wholly unknown, except that | is an unreliable ! They will have to pay a good price for | | Then it was found that this Sahara | was really to be the treasure house of the colony. The precious metal dug out ; | the output of cotton seed ofl is doubled. | | { Salt water is obtained without much dif- | the cotton fields or at the nearby mar- ficulty by digging, but the cost of con- ! costly that every pint must be carefully | ! {is worth 320 a barrel. | seed oil makes excellent lard, good butter | other $5 per cent is the cake and it is j of his store from the late Mr. Padwick, | men who will always be remembered in OF GOTTON SEED Oil Alone Yields Yearly About Forty Million Dollars. Hundred New Mills Erected Annually and Output Increasing. . . There are persons who profess to whift ! an unpleasant odor from cotton seed nll.i I but really there is nothing to it—abso- lutely none to the pure oil. With some also there is plebeian sound to cotton seed oll when Tead in the same column with olive oil, butter and pure lard—an- other grave error. Cotton is king and cotton seed oil is queen, with a domaln of usefulness steadily increasing in dimen- sions. About $100,000,00 a vear is the revenue derived from cotton seed and its products; | and until about fifteen years ago cotton seed was used as a fertilizer, almost thrown away. Now it is manufactured into a number ‘of edible products, known, | however, under some other name, but; fully as good. And yet only 64 per cent of the cotton seed produced in this coun- try is being utilized, because of lack of mills. Probably a hundred new mills are being erected annually in the cotton grow- ing States and it will not be long before It Is being increased at the rate of 100,000 barrels a year. The cotton gins and oil mills are all in kets. The process of removing the oil from the seed is simple; the residue s the seed cake. The ofl in its crue state is| quite black. Refining removes the soap stock and leaves the oil a vellowish hue. Oil made from poor seed is possessed of a bad odor, but the best oil is odorless and tasteless. By refining 11 per cent of the volume of the oil i{s lost. 1nat will leave the year's product about 2.000,000 barrels. It Eighty-five per cent of this year's crop is prime. Cotton and fine olive oil, not to mention soap. Six hundred thousand barrels will be used in lard this year. It is combined with 20 })er cent of oleostearine, or the best beef at. The lard is white and the equal of the old-fashioned product. There is a pro- cess by which cotton seed oil is bleached. Therefore the lard is perfectly colorless. In butter 150,000 barrels of cotton seed of] are used. The same quantity 1s used in the manufacture of olive oil in this country. For other purposes 300,000 bar- rels are used here, for soap principally. Thus our home consumption is 1,200,000 barrels. (In the Commercial’s Preferred List of Merchants and Manufacturers the names of firms handling cotton szed oil appear.) ‘We export 800,000 barrels of' cotion seed oil annually. Two hundred thousand bar- rels go to Marseilles, where it enters hto the famous olive oil of commerce. A lit- tle peanut ofl gives it that greenish tinge. There {sn't much “manufacturing” to do | with it. Olive oil is a good, healthful product of fruit; cotton seed oll is a good, healthful vegetable product—and a rose is just as sweet under any other name. ‘We reimport much of our cotton seed oil from Marsellles and llke it better when it gets home. The real olive oil has a peculiar and not agreeable flavor and foreigners have al- ways been accustomed to combine it with! some other ofl, handling It as the “abso- lutely pure” olive oil. They do that still, though cotton seed oil is a good mixture, safe and healthful. ‘We send to Rotterdam, the great but- ter-making town of Holland 200,000 bar- rels of good cotton seed oil every year for their oleomargarine. Europe likes it. To Trieste, Austria, goes another 100,000 barrels for their justly famous olive oil. Germany and Italy use about 100,000 bar- rels each for varfous purposes and 200,000 barrels more go to England, Soutn Amer- fca, Africa and Scandinavia. Only 15 per cent of the cotton seed is oil, the of about ecual value with the oil.—New York Commercial. ————— SUCCESS OF OLD RACE CARD COLLECTORS Some Sets That Date Back Far and Are Held at Fabulous Prices. There are in this country many collec- tors of old race cards; and one gentle- man at Brighton, who inherited the basis orce so celebrated, had upwards of 500 of these cards, dating back for quite forty vears and including every classic event during that period. The late Marquis of Zetland had the cards of every race he had ever attended during a very long career as an owner of horses. In general, the cards that are of ‘the greatest value to the collector are those which have been handled by celebrated persons and which have their pencil notes in the margin. Thus, the gem of the Brighton collection spoken of as a Derby day card marked by the young and luckless Marquis of Has- tings, who came to such fearful ruin on the very day of the date of the card itself. This specimen cost its present owner 20 guineas. Only lately at the Travelers’ Club in London a collection of cards marked by the history of the turf was sold to a Yorkshire brewer much interested in rac- ing matters for £300. This same gentle- man not long ago bought a collection of betting books that had belonged to celeb- ritles, these including Lord George Ben- tinck, Admiral Rous and Lord Falmouth. A card that relates to a classic race which some horse of the century won, and that | ix more than thirty years old, is generally | worth a five-pound note if it be in good condition, even though no other interest attaches to it. It is worth stating that one collector of these cards sadly alludes to the fact that the specimens in his pos- session have, in reality, cost him over £40,000, that being the sum total of his losses on the races that are represented in the card collection.—Tit-Bits. Daughters of Liberty. ALIFORNIA COUNCIL No. 1, Daughters of Liberty, gave a pleas- ing entertainment, followed by a dance, in the Laurel Hall of the Shiels building June 2 under the direction of the fellowing named committee: Miss Minnie M. Sproul, chairman; Miss Laura Cantus, secretary; A. Stelger, treasurer; Mrs. H. McSusan, Miss Ruby Hamberger and Miss Isabelle Beach. The programme wgs t“il:sde up of songs, recitations and special- American Council No. 6 of Oakland held an open meeting on the last Friday in May and a large number of persons en- joyed the -programme. This council is advancing, and if it continues to grow as it has during the past few months it will be in the front rank in a short time. —_————— “And now,” said Professor un;lmnn:-,' as he greeted Mr, Henry Peck, “what Ul we make of your little boy—a lec- turer? He has a sincere taste for it.” “I know he has,” replied the male par- ent; “he inherits it from his mother.”"— Schoolmaster. { - 7, 1903, A MASTERPIECE Free with the SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL June 14, r=m=orrom Z=— NEXT SUNDAY “THE PILOTS,” by Haquette. 1903 FPEIdI=F 1 The next in the Series of Oil Printings, in colors, on canvas paper, which will be distributed with next Sunday’s Call is Haquette's painting, “The Pilots.” This picture depicts a scene of thrilling human interest. imperiling their lives in the performance of their duty. That Haquette is thoroughly acquainted with the sea and the men who toil upon it is evident to any one who studies this picture carefully. It is so vividly truthful in every detail that one feels that he has passed through similar experiences himself. He has, in fact, a studio on the cliffs at Pol- let, a suburb at Dieppe, and a boat in which he makes frequent excursions on the sea. In order that he may come in closer sympathy with the simple sea-faring people among whom he lives he has adapted himself to their manners, wears the same costumes, and in every way tries to look at life through their eyes. It shows men struggling against two of the great forces of nature and \ Haquette was born in Paris, if the Salon catalogue is not in error. According to Eugene Montrosier he came when quite young to Paris from some small French provincial town. He first studied sculpture ander Aime Millet, who saw that he had a greater aptitude for painting, and sent him to Cabanel, with whom he underwent six years of strict academic training. He first exhibited in 1875 a portrait of the mother of Got, the actor. subjects. 1 show has followed his strong predilection for this clasy of subjects. In 1876 and 1877 he exhibited genre The next year he showed his first picture of sailors, “A Quarrel at Pollet,” and since that date he ~Order Your Sunday Call in Advance ALL NEWSDEALERS SELL THE CALL AS TOLD IN THE ANTE-ROOMS HE high jinks and smoker given by Court Seal Rock of the Forest- ers of America on the last Thurs- day in May was attended by as many people as could crowd into the large hall the court occupies in the Pythian Castle. E. Burrows was the sire of the jinks and the programme included song, stories, in- strumental music, recitations and exhi- bitions of boxing by amateur pugilists. These were contributed by Professor Paul R. Godeska, James Malloy, E. W. Bur- rows, Lester Case, Luke's quartet, W. Taisen, M. O'Hea, J. C. Taisen, Perry Kewen, L. Jrackborn, A. Roberts, Messrs. Schwartz and Swesser, T. H. Kil- go, George H. O'Brien, George Randel, Dan Kemp, George Lyons, W. Ambruster, George Linder, E. R. Haven, George Re- no, T. McGovern, Charles Eagan, J. R. Simpson, J. Dunn and others. The com- mittee was made up of E. Jacobs, A. Beedenbach, H. Fruhstuck, N. G. Long, J. C. Taisen, J. Cusanowich, H. Lange, J. Gallagher, W. Taisen, L. Harris and B. Keith. The American Foresters of the city of Stockton and the members of the cir- cles of the Companions of the Forest, k. of A., of that city have arranged to go on a plenic to Black Diamond June 21 and the following named have been appointed to prepare for this affair: Mr. and Mrs. Thoman, Mrs. Brownley, M. Smith, J. N, Kulck, Ella Halley, Mrs. Lebeau, H. Hansen, J. Ford, P. Allegretti, J. Gianel- 1l and J. Wagne: Visiting Templars. a T an carly date California Com- mandery No. 1, Knights Tem- plar, will be honored by a visit from the commandery in San Jose, on which occasion the fraters from the Gar- den City will do the work incident to con- ferring the degree of the Order of the Temple. When the cpmmandery’s new officers conferred the Order of the Red Cross on a large class of eligibles a few evenings ago in the new robes, generously donated by Sir Knight Siminoff, the ceremony was conducted in a manner so impressive that a number of the old-time critics could find only words of commendation for those who took part. Phineas F. Ferguson, the new prelate, and R. L. Hathorn, the junior warden, came in for a great deal of praise, particuiarly the for- mer, for his clear enunciation. ——— Knights of Pythias. AY CITY Lodge No. 117, Knights of Pythias, on the last Wednesday in B May had an enjoyable jinks in Elks' Hall, at which 8. Mish presided as sire. The programme included the follow- ing numbers: Plano N.:l:;c-“oullfiq :}nbem; n; slelght-of-hand " s, e Géorge Barth, ‘musical . numbers, the Sahin Brothers; vocal solo, Fred Everett; ballads, M. Oltvi Instrumental number, Regal and Dris- coll; guitar solo, W. Herrick, and vocal solos bynDln ‘Ward, Willlam Brown and Eiton Lam- Ivanhoe Lodge conferred the knight rank in long form on a number of eligi- bles last week In a very creditable man- ner. California Lodge on the last Thursday in May conferred the knight rank in long form on five esquires and the work was done in the admirable manner for which this lodge has been so often praised. From the report of the supreme keeper of records and seal for the year 1902 It recitation, CEAR S 2O A appears that the number of lodges in the order is 6914, a gain of fifty during the year, and the total membership, not ig- cluding the domains of Indian Territory, the State of Oregon and Havana, was 553,~ 593. The gain during that period, as far as heard from at the close of the yeaT, was 20,508, All arrangements have been completed for the thirty-fourth anniversary enter- tainment to be given by Laurel Lodge in the Pythian Castle to-morrow night. The committee in charge has prepared a musical and literary programme, that will be followed by dancing. cisco cabinet of the National Union, held on the last Thursday in May, the principal matter that came up for discussion was the advisability of having the various councils establish a ladies’ auxiliary, with the idea of ex- National Union. T the meeting of the San Fran- tending the social feature of the organi- zation. The matter will be discussed by be named by President E. H. Hills. The members of San Jose Council and their friends on Memorial day went by spent the day under the shady trees in a beautiful canyon, where they enjoyed an excellent lunch. The only one from tion was Deputy J. N. Bunting. Knights of’Honor. Charles . Curry was unable to go to the session of the Supreme Lodge on account of the serious {llness of his thousand miles away from the place of meeting, attending the grand session of another body, Grand Dictator P. L. Areh- order to represent California, together with Maxwell L. Crowe, in the supreme body. the family reunion and games of the Knights of Honor to be given at Bl Campo on July 4 has completed many of to a number of gate prizes to be given de- cided to put up a twenty dollar plece as one of the prizes. ISSION CAMP of the Woodmen of the World has arranged for members oniy, with one exception, and that is David Oliver Jr., editor of the Pacific Woodman, who will represent the Mrs. M. E. Sehweinhard, past guardian neighbor of Redwood Circle, is one of those members of the Women of Wood- the membership of the circle, also the order at large, and has always been ready to assist when the good of the order has Redwood Circle of the Women of Wood- craft at its meeting of May 25 elected its officers for the ensuing term. They a committee of one from each council, to ‘bus and carryall to the water works and San Francisco who accepted the invita- T appearing that Secretary of State mother, and thag his alternate was a ibald left last Thursday for the East in The committee that is arranging for the details for that event and in addition Woodcraft. M a social event for July 15, for head camp. craft who have striven hard to upbuild been in"question. are to be installed this month. Golden Gate Circle at its last held meet- | ing, with the assistfnce of its drill team of sixteen members under command of Captain Allie Perrin, initiated one stran- ger 1o the presence of a large number of members and visitors. Among the lat- ter was Mrs. Bertha Bruce of the Ari- zona jurisdiction. The circle was address- ed by Mrs. Wilder, Mrs. Blangy, Mrs. Steineart of Redwood Circle, Dr. A. F. McMahon, Mrs. Bruce and others. Golden Gate Drill Corps and that of Tamalpais Camp of the Woodmen will jointly give an entertainment and dance in Harmony Hall, on Mission street, near Fourteenth, on the evening of June 18. It is probable that the team of each organ- ization will give an exhibition drill. Oakland Circle at its last held meeting had several candidates to Initiate, and after the ceremonies therd was a feast for the members, for the newly Initiated and for visitors from St. Helena., Acacia and Cypress circles. Forest Circle of North Oakland had a number of strangers to initlate May 30. s oy Garfield Corps. AMES A. GARFIELD CORPS, W. R. C., has arranged for a social to be given in the Assembly Fall of Alecazar building on the evening of June 9, on which occasion an exeellent programme Wwill be presented. At a re- cent meeting of the corps there was the presentation of a beautiful altar flag by Mrs. Coon, one of the members, and on the evening of May 28 several candldates were admitted to membership by initia- tion In the presence of a large delegation of visitors from the cropd in Oakland. After the meeting the members and visit- ors were delightfully entertained "and then followed a luncheon. ——— e e Late Shipping Intelligence. OUTSIDE—~BOUND IN. Schr Jennle Thelin. DOMESTIC PORTS. CASPAR—Salled June 6—Stmr South Coast, for San Franc ABERDEEN— Buhne, for San_Franciseo. SEATTLE—Arrived June 6-—-Stmr Spokane, from Skagway. 0—Stmr Santa Ana, from Val- des; stmr Aztec, from Sam Francisco. Sailed June 6—Stmr Indiana, for Nome. ASTORIA—Arrived June 6—Dktn Quickstep, from San_Francisco. Sailed June ¢—Bark General Faidherbe, for Cape Town. PORTLAND—Sailed June bia, for San Franeisco. » OCEAN STEAMERS. NEW YORK—Arrived off the port June 6— Stmr Lucanta, from Liverpool and Queenstown; stmr Carpathia, from Liverpool and Queens- town; Stmr St. Paul, from Southampton and prevented by fog from entering). 6—Stmr Kroonland, for Antwerp; for Liverpool; stmr Hohenzol- lern, for Genoa; stmr Minneapolis, for London; stmr Patricla, for Hamburg. BREME! Sailed June ¢—Stmr Frederich der Grosse, for New York via Cherbourg. QUEENSTOW N—Salled June 6—Stmr Cedric, from Liverpool for New York. YOKOHAMA—Arrived prior to June 6— Stmr Nippon Maru, from San Francisco, via Honolulu, for Shanghai and Hongkong: Tosa Maru, from Seattle for Hiogo, Shanghai and Hongkong. MANCHESTER—Salled June 6—Stmr Cale- . for Boston. 6—Stmr Pots- ROTTERDAM—Sailed June dam, for New York. 'A;rlvcd June 6—Stmr Staatendam, from New ork. HAVRESailed June 6—Stmr La Lorraine, O RTWERE. Satled June 6—Stmr m' for New Yotk et ERPOOL—Arrived. June 6—Stm: pania, from New York: stmr Ultonia, Cam- Sailed J une 6—Stmr Cedrle, s stmr Etruria, for New York: o ¥ York: Satled June 6—Stmr Mesaba, for 1a” iled June = 6—Schr Esther n Pedro; schr A B Johnson, for 6—Stmr Colum- New York: stmr Minnesota, for Phi PLYMOUTH—Arrived June 6-—Stmr for New York for and men. CHERBOURG—Sailed June 8—Stmr Augusta Victoria, from Hamburg for New York, P