The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1903, Page 37

THE AN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1903. C 37 FOUR FALL INTD PLANTS POSTS N EACAVATION. 7O SAVE RIGHTS Street Light Goes Out|University Takes Steps wnd People Meet to Prevent Acquiring a | | % Trouble. | of Easement. . o | Prank of Miscreant Begets|Closes Gateways Leading Into the Grounds for a Few Days. LS A Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, June 27. v of California is just now | a peculiar formality that, | attracting attention, is annoying to a good many people. | nothing more nor less than a of posts at the wagonway en-| es cn Anatomies of Riders. Berkeley Office San Francisco Cell, | Street J The Unix uick the | going throug while reroft aven ot any As luck w to-da3 - planti g trances to the university grounds, so that tez it does not see and vehicles of all kinds are| pped from going through the grounds. h could any greater ms entrances are not blocked in this | manner at once, as one or two are lelt open for egress and Ingr The posts were put down at the Oxford street en- trances to-day, where they will remain three or four days and then be withdrawn and plan somewhere else. burning | All this is being done to sati: the pe- of the law and to pr quisition of an easement some evil-disposed person. It'is a formal- ity t is rehearsed every five vears. If it were not don citizen would have the bottom of the The | the right to that the, streets 3us hurled h!m againet a pile of | through the grounds be de- he bojtom of where he | clared open s By closing them at belplessly. Ja a pedes- | these interva t before the five years triafl kaw the 2 and rushed to - The victim was i t was able to go to a physicia Patched up. In thé interval James Dol for' P. R. Boone. cam bugky. There Was nc course, and bole £0 hard ¢ ad, | ve | I3 1T 2 \EVENTS'IN SOCIETY 5 warn him, | OAELAND, June 2.—Mrs. C. W. Fore \k into the has returned from a visit to her daugh- pitched ta | ter, Mrs. Conde Jones, in Bakersfield. It wasn't a very . . wever, and bar- is visiting her daughter, Holland, at Woodside, tk p in San Mateo Count; . . Marion Goodfellow leaves in the ure for a trip to the Orient. She 1 go first to Japan. | Senator George C. Perkins and Miss Perkins wiil leave for the East and | ope in a few days. They will remain broad some time. Charles Houghton and Miss Ruth kit BT in Marin County, where MRS. ¥AY FINK FILES Rl P ey NOTICE OF AN APPEAL T. C. Coogan and family i : summer at Macrea's, In So- Dissatisfied With Court’s Division of | Prope i Suit, She orce ward Walsh and fami for Hotel Rowardennan, several weeks of > summer. and M Charles Lovell will leave ir few days for a visit to Yosemite Valley. H Mr. and Mre. Charles Minor Goodall and children are spending the summer at E a Island P e Miss Isabel Kendall is visiting friends at the Hotel Rafael. S . Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Baker left for the East last Tuesday eveni > Ethel Carrie Wall, . daughter of Mr. and | e decree and Mrs. A. C 11 of 1738 Alcatraz avenue, Supreme Court. Berkeley, e a delightful lawn party to the suit |last afternoon in honor of the s for years ry of her birthday. The ! known | @fternoon was very pleasan: s and other amusements. > present were Afleen Coomb Ella ¥ Dorothy Biven, Verna Bessie ey, Helen Sittig, Es- Gray, Alta Donovan, elle Clark, May Dows, Alice Gray, Mabel Coombs, | nd Annie Gra —_———— | CURIOUS VAGARIES OF ALPINE AVALANCHES W eta Himes, h reme Court . al of the case, intimat- k was itled to a de- cast was disposed of a short time a ithin a week nk married - = | Niss Francisco | Slide of Snow and Rock Which Swept R e — | Down One and Up An- other Hill. The tremendous force and strange va- garies of the Alpine avalanches are fllus- SHOT MAKES CHINESE ! _ ROBBER DROP PLUNDER Policeman Fires at Fleeing Thief, 1 trated in an article in The Wide World Who Drops Box With $650 Magazine, by John Swaffham. The av- in Gold lanche to which particular reference is 3 ps chot | ™ade by Swaffham was seen by him in LAND . the valley of the Dischmathal in the En- early . gadine a vear ago. The Dischmathal is 2 fleeing Ch fairly broad valley, with well wooded m to drop a|and not very steep sides. It lies, how- £0ld belorging to | €ver, between mountains, on many of | ¥ | which there are large glaclers, and it | was from one of these that the immense ' mass of snow which caused such rui originally fell. Gathering impetus as it went, the avalanche projected its thou- | sands of tons of snow on the pine wocds, through which it cut a road as clean as though every tree had béen felled flush with the ground by the axe of a miracu- | lous woodman. B 2l Tan wony. The chief glacler above the woods is the cries of | the famous one called the Scaletta, but it \§ man, took | Was from a smaller field on the Jatzhorn | ser cried out and | that the trouble came. It had been snow- ound on | ing for about a week, and the depth of | was slightly [ 7w snow in the valley was about ten or | it he made his escape. twelve feet, much more on the high peaks | g — Next came a warm spell of true April | = weather. The new snow settled, i. e., CBAUNCEYH:AYLgSOBPOM“ | grew compressed by its own weight and | the softening influence of the sun. You Company ‘Is Formed, Capitalized at | are to remember that this Hew snow did not lle upon the earth mor yet upon a $250,000, ahd Nearly All Bhares Are Taken. ¢ bed. It lay as it had fallen, | mass superimposed upon the OAKLAND, June 27.—The helrs of the jete Chauncey Taylor have incorporated, hard frozen crust of the last wintcr's les of incorporation h d seeing the flee The rc Bloo falls. As it contracted from above it naturally began to expand slightly on its unstable base. The movement begun con- .. “ompany were filed | tinued, and the whole mass commenced . The capi- | 10 shift. Finally it came clean away, leaving a gash of over a mile long on the s 3% E: S s, ] ise of the Jatzhorn where it had parted - | from the main mass. This gash was up- g “1‘{'::3';" ward of fifteen feet deep and was Ploan- a2 ble miles away from the bottom of mount of stock o a8 follows: Sarah fal' was on such a scale that it $140,000: William 31 |SWPt everything before it down the vai- ; By B sides. Acres cf pines of unknown age te, | Went down as easily as skittles, and the | 450 shares, $45,000; Chauncey T. Foote, y shares, $6000; Victor H, Metcalf, ten | $1ant moved down the valley with a roar 100 Bertba I son, twenty |heard for miles away, and under a cloud res, $2000 of snowdust so thick as to become a ver- R AR s itable fog, through which nothing could : be seen for many minutes. For Marriage Licenses. after every tree and rock within 11:3:: NB, June 2I.—The following |radius was shrouded with a dirty covei- icenses were issued to-day: Ivy |ing of wet snow mingled with all mann of dust taken up by the flerce draught of 3 'i;}kjan«i, Harry J. Murr: the fall. Now, an ordinary well behaved ie l‘!]\a,'] £ of Oakland; | avalanche is content to roll its troubled Reynolds, 23, and Alwillda J. | masses down into the bed of a valley, both of Wauseon, Ohio; Al- siphi, 24, and Anna J. Ryd- both of Oakland; Willard B/ .nd Annie E. Lawrence, 41, both Angeles; Joseph Denwel, 27, and u Himes, 2, both of Oakland. there to stay untll the sun has effaced !its last relics from the summer land- scape. Not so this one, the force and weight of which carried it right across the valley so tha# it partly mounted the | opposite hillside—a thing almost unpre- e T | cedented in the history of avalanches in Resigns From Fire Department. |the Alps or anywhere else. LAMEDA, June 27.—E. G. Finley, for | This same impetus and weight, acting ght ¢ in the Fire Depari- | on snow already packing under the heat nis resignation with Chief of a week of spring sun, compressed the to take effect on the first | moving masses into a consistency little Finley resigns to engage | short of the familiar asphalt. Moreover, Oakland. His retirement | the masses naturally split up, and it was the promotion ,of several | the side pressure of the latter parts iwhich threw up the extraordinary bevels | filed Krauth, t month, in 1 result in €rivers of the Fire Department | A | the SPIELERS GIVE OUT AT THE CARNIVAL AND SOCIETY GIRLS FILL THE BREACH {Plucky Young Women Shout Merits of Wares With Surprising Suc- cess, While Gay Crowds Lounge on Sward or Indulge in Confetti Battles in Crowded Avenues of Oakland’s Fair AI e e N e ot AKLAND, June —The biggest crowd of the week attended the street fair this evening, fully 25,000 people enjoying the brilliant spec- tacle. Disposed about comfort- ably on the grass or filing past the booths in endless procession the crowd was al- | ways good-natured, even the discomfort of an occasional poke in the eye with a | tiny feather duster or a mouthful of well- aimed confetti being as a rule laughingiy received. -~ The men who have acted as “spielers” | for the varipus booths during the week gave out this evening, and several young society women plyckily came forward to the breach, with surprising success. Miss Helen Dornin kept the crowd in front of Fabiola’s ““doughnut factory” in convulsions of laughter, while at the neishboring East End Social Settlement a o al ““Sis Hopkins” Invited everybody to “come right up and have some real or moldings of snow. At the same time five successive falls occurred from the same mountain on its other side in the Zuge gorge, which is on the coach road from Davos to the Upper Engadine. The noise of these joined forces with that of Dischmathal, and the combined re- sult was very curious. First, there arose a loud, dull roar, which soon changed into a deafening thunder of everincreas- ing volume, which again rose in a weird sort of chromatic scale, mingled at last with a wild sighing, almost a moan, as of a thousand storm wraiths wailing for some dread disaster. This cyrious phe- nomenon was doubtless due to the great | displacement of atmosphere caused in two valleys, the air from which rushed up- ward only to meet a similar wall of ejected - alr. As the great avalanche rushed down the vailey it flung up walls or ramparts on either side to a height of over thirty feet. e Revival in Clocks in England. Signs are beginning to be manifest that the clock Is to be an item of much greater decorative importance than it has been during the past generation or so, when its utilitarian purpose rather than its decorative possibilities have been first considered. This has' not always been the case, as may be seen in the state apartments at Windsor Castle, or in the Wallace collection, and in many other directions where artistic taste and rich and beautiful substances have been united to render the timepleces of by-gone days among the most covetable of collectors’ treasures. There is no lack of good models to follow as soon as public taste demands the same improvements in its clocks as it has done In its silverware or furniture of the past decade or so, and in view of coming developments the Goldsmiths’ and Silversmiths’ Company, 112 Regent street, have added to their already extensive premises a spacious gallery In which to display side by side | examples from all schools of clockmak- ing. The typical English clock is set in wood, and may range from the daintiest framing after Sheraton o _Chippendale, with delicate inlaying for boudoir or drawing room, to the handsome time- plece for the hall in substantial carved oak or mahogany with mountings of brass, or the massive tall “grandfather” variety) of which the dial-olate is often beautifully ornamented.—London Tele- graph. lemonade.” The crowd had come to buy, and buy they did, and the various charities rep- | resented at the fair are the richer by | many dimes. W. H. J. Matthews and his megaphone did some excellent work for | the West Oakland Home, while Carlin | Smith spieled himself hoarse in the in- terests of the Marionettes. g WOMEN AT THE FAIR. | German Ladies’ Aid Society Has an Attractive Booth. OAKLAND, June 27.—The proceeds of | the booth conducted by the | Ladies’ Relief Society will be devoted to the comfort of the aged people at “Al- * the beautiful German home at Fruitvale. Helpless old age is even more pitiful than helpless infancy, be- cause it does not appeal so strongly to the masses, and the commendable work |of the German Relief should be encour- WAGON VANISHES INTO OLD SEWER Drain Gives Way Under Heavy Dray, Which Is Buried. —— Oakland Office S8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 27. ‘What is known as the main lake sewer caved in to-day as a heavy dray was passing over it at Peralta and Twenty- second streets, and the wagon went near- 1y out of sight into the hole made by the collapse of the big pipe. The sewer is ¢f the old box type, six by eight feet, and built of wood. It was put in years ago and the wood had rotted and gave way under the heavy pressure. Men were at work all the afternoon with jackscrews and norses in an endeav- or to get the dray out of the hole, which was finally accomplished. Twenty-five feet of the sewer caved in before the work gwas finished, however, and it is thought that a hundred feet will have to be rebuilt to repair the damage done. ————— Edward a Silver King. The fall in the price of silver still leaves the King the possessor of an enormous fortune in the plate he has inherited from his mother, both at Buckingham Palace and at Windsor Castle. The late Queen had the great preponderance of her plate at Windsor, whereas during the present reign Buckingham Palace will probably be the more plentifully supplied. No val- uation has had to be made for probate duty, for the King does not pay the King's taxes any more than the speaker of the third estate speaks. Not long ago, however, an inventory was made at ‘Windsor Castle, with the result that the late, most ot it silver, some of it gold, and a portion of it, such as a metal pea- 1 cock and other ornaments set with gems, German | OAKLAND CARNIVAL SCENES AND PRESIDENT GERMAN LADIES' RELIEF SOCIETY. ! aged and aided In every possible way. Mrs. A. M. Werum, president of the So- | clety, is daily at the booth, assisted by | other members of the society. Probably one of the most popular con- | cessions on the grounds is the “Country | Store,” where a number of society men of Alameda are working tirelessly for the various charities of the encinal city. Every imaginable article is for sale there and what is not for sale, one stands a chance of winning later. The two baby pigs, which have been such a source of | amusement ever since the fair opened, were disposed of last night. ! The necessity for attracting attention | to the country store has unvelled an un- suspected fund of wit and humor among the “speilers” at that concession which | has kept the crowd amused every night and, better still, has lured dimes and dol- lars into their till. Among the fascinat- | ing “clerks” at the store are George | Ellsworth Bew, Arthur Tarpey, Frank | Fabens, Bert Fisher, Harold Ward, Gus | Smiley, Frank Halley, Herbert Stieger, | James Magulre, Senator Jos. < land, James Shanley, Fred Henkennius, | Fred Cone, Louls Newbell and Dick | Wall. | Miss Marion Horton was chairman to-{ day of the Oakland Club booth and had | a bevy of pretty girls assisting her in making the icecream parlors even un- usually attractive. Her assistants were Mise Hiuzel Horton, Miss Harriet Davis, Miss Hazel Ish, Miss E. Madison, Miss Jessie Spangler, Miss Gage, Miss Relle | Henderson, Miss Shreve, Miss Etta Eiben | and the Misses Grandjean. was appraised at a sum far in excess of a million pounds. Edward VII, who has made considerable additions to the col- lection by the transfer of his own plate from Marlborough House, may well be alluded to among connolsseurs as the “silver King."—London Chronicle. —_——————— Moscow to Pacific on Sleeper. The Russian Ministry of Transportatio: has made a contract for twelve years with the International Sleeping Car Com- pany by which from April 1 of this year that company is to dispatch five fast trains each way weekly between Moscow and the eastern terminus of the Stberian Railroad; seven weekly after*April 1, 1904, and after January 1-1%5, special limited trains (trains de luxe) through over the Chinese Eastern Railroad to the Pacific. For its accommodations the sleeping cay company is authorized to collect from the passenger at the rate of 5 kopeks per verst first-class and 4 kopeks second- class, which is a little more than % cent per mile first-class and .6 cent second- clags. It is about 5200 miles from Moscow to the Paclfic, so a first-class sleeping car ticket will cost about $39.—Railway Ga- zette. ——————— Women Workers on Austrian Roads. The women employes of the Austrian |- State Railroads recently held a conven- tion in Vienna and formulated their claims as follows: The scale of wages and provision for pensions should be re- vised and placed on a uniform basis. The women employes of corresponding train- ing, duties and hours of service should be embodled in the regular corps of per- manent employes, and after two years’ probationary service should receive def- inite appointments with $240 pay yearly and a 30 per cent allowance for house rent. They should be entitled to promo- tion for the same service and qualifica- tions as entitle the men employes to pro-| motion. They should have every Sunday to themselves. (Many are ticket sellers, and at many stations twice as many tickets are sold on Sunday as on other days.) They should be permitted to marry.—Railway Gazette. Fully 9,000,000 Indian subjects are now more or less acquainted with the English language. The language miost spoken in India is Hindustani, by 52,000,000 people. Bengali is the tongue of 39,000,000, | gash on her chin and her | cific ! on the ground with a shotgun by his s | Price. who died on the 23d inst. THROWS HERSELF BEFORE A WAGON Caught by Pole, Woman Clings to Horses in Her Fright. Mrs. L. Fones, Temporarily Insane, Tries to Take Her Own Life. R A Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 27. | In a fit of temporary insanity this morn- ing Mrs. L. Fones, wife of.a local labor leader and orator, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a farmer's wagon near her home on Peralta Heights. The tongue of the wagon caught the woman's dress, and she fought with such strength when an attempt was made to take her out of her dangerous position that she had to be choked into insensibli- ity before she could be removed. The woman was taken to the insane ward at the Receiving Hospital. She was badly bruised and had received a bad wrist was sprained. The wagon was going at such speed that it could not be stopped at once, and had it not been for the fact that Mrs. Fones was carried along on the pole of the wagon she would surely have | been run over. Permission was obtained from Judge j Ogden to have the woman removed to a private sanitarium at Livermore, as it is believed her madness is only temporary and that she will shortly recover. UNIVERSITY EVENTS | BERKELEY, June 2T.—Professor J. C. Merriam, professor of paleontology, Iis | interested in the bones of a prehistorie animal that have just been discovered at the Garden residence, a mile south of Car- son, Nev. The bones were unearthed sixteen feet below the surface and are well preservd. The tracks of a very large | animal were also found. Professor Mer- | riam would visit the ground to examine the relics personally, only a large amount of work demands his presence in Berke- ley. 5 The biological department of the Sum- mer School #t San, Diego has just made a remarkable discovery in the cladorena radiata, a gpecies of European jelly fish, which has never before been found in Pa- waters. The turritopsis, a \fish that inhabits the waters of Maryland and North Carolina, but which has never been found in the Pacific, has also been taken. The minor planets discovered at the Lick Observatory by Dr. . Codding- ton and since urately observed for the purpose of determining their true orbits around the sun are discussed in the last bulletin. Dr. Coddington gives his own determination of four positions for each of the two planets by Prof These positions were obtained from Croesley negatives by measurement the large measuring engine of the Lick Gbservatory. Youth Shoots Himself. OAKLAND, June ,2l.—Paul Rossi, 19 years of age and a laborer, committed suicide late to-night(by blowing the top of his head off with a shotgun. The boy lived with his parents at 1873 Fifth street. About 10:30 o’clock the report of a gun | was heard at the rear of the house, and upon investigation Rossi was’ found I one barrel of which had been discharged. He evidently had placed the muzzle of the gun In his mouth and fired it off. His | parents can assign no reason for the act. e e b Grants Absolute Decree. | OAKLAND, June 27.—Judge Melvin to- day vacated the judgment rendered in the divorce suit of Mrs. Elizabeth Ellmer | against her husband, Edwin Ellmer, a short time ago, and substituted in the place of the interlocutory decree, enteréd { at that time, an absolute separation from her husband. This is in line with the de-| cision recently reached by both Judges | Melvin and Greene as to the unconstitu- | tionality of the new divorce law passed | by the last Legislature. | —_—————————— Dies Suddenly. | BERKELEY, June 27.—James Reed, 64 years of age, and living at 1727 Addison Street, was found dead on the stairs of his home this evening. He had been called to his dinner, and not responding, search ~as made for him, when he was found | by his son Frank half way down the stairs, dead. It is thought death was due to heart failure. Coroner Mehrmann has been notified and will hold an autopsy on the remains. —_—————— Would Probate Price Will. | OAKLAND, June 27.—A petition was| filed to-day by Charles J. Kaighin for the probating of the will of the late James B. | His es- tate is valued at $10,370 and consists of money in bank. The heirs are Richard A., Merton S. and Mattie Kaighin, Pearl | 0. Hellwig and Lester M. Price. ——————— Labouchere of London Truth. Labouchere, in short, is a complete | paradox. Rich, he despises the wealthy, clever without judgment, unsentimental vet wrong-headedly emotional, thoroughly in earnest, yet always regarded as a trifler. He used to give out that he had | really no time to get married, and yet| he espoused Miss Henrietta Hodson, an actress of some note in her day, and has managed a theater, from which he gained a good many amusing experiences with- out any monetary profit. He has played many parts, but has never achieved suc- cess in any particular one. “Father,” sald a child, when Labouchere | was standing for Northampten, “did God | make Labby?” “Yes, my dear,” parent. “What for, father?” The question was not and probably | never will be answered.—The Bookman. ——————— The Garrison Flag. The army regulations provide that the flag at every post shall be rzised at reveille each morning and lowercd each | evening at sunset, while the soldiers stand at salute and the band piays “The | Star-Spangled Banner.” It is not “left out” over night for any reason except | perhaps one. When a fort or miiltary post is actually under fire from the enemy | the flag may wave deflantly unil hostili- | ties are over. A banner torn by the shot and shell of battle is honorable in its rags, but one which has fallen Into di- lapidation through the carelessness or neglect of its owners is a pitiful and ac- cusing sight. At all army posts, moreover, there is a | special “storm” flag, half as large as the regular post flag, which is flown mi answered the smiling i stormy and windy weather.—The Garrison | Flag. ———— came in you've hardly stopped raining long enough to take your meals, ac!u-‘ ally!” Jupiter Pluvius, thus addressed, affected | to laugh, but inwardly he was aflicted with much disquietude by reason of the jealous watchfulness of his beautiful wife. —Detroit Jownak ! - | your money in the right slot and KNELL SOUNDS FOR APPLE MOTH University Men Score a Triumph Against the Insect. Thirty Acres of Fruit Trees Saved From Ravages of Destroyer. —_— Berkeley Office S8an Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, June I7. The entomologists of the College of Agriculture of the University of Cali- fornia have triumphed over the codlin moth, that pest of an insect that de- stroyed $0.0% worth of Califcrnia apples lest year and countless dollars’ worth in the years before. The fruit in the orchards has progressed far enough in its growth for Professor C. W. Woodworth and Warren T. Clark, who fought the | moth at Watsonville, to know that it has been practically obliterated. The codlin moth destroyed from one to five bushe.s of apples on every tree at Watsonville last year. This year thsie will ot Le tbat much of a loss in thirty acres of trees The applcs are now about half ard there is no sign of a worm these tha: have been examined. proof that the first brood of the was destroyed by the timely cff the entomologists. The only thing on guard against now Is a second brood. which, if unchecked, may bore its way into the zppies iatives used to grown within This is The entomologists have taught the farmers ome very valuable lesson—that the trees should not be sprayed in the winter time. as then the spray valie- less. The proper time to spray is wien the calyx lobes of the young fruit are spread and open, for it is then that the tiny worm begins burrowing into the ap- ple and the fruit is in this condition only late in the spring. A solution of paris green is found to be the most effective agency fur killing the moth —_——— Where Biddy Placed Fly-Trap. A well-known family in Germantown lately secured the services of an Irish girl as domestic. In every respect her mis- tress belfeves she will develop into a gem of a servant, though dt present she Is a3 green as the foliage of the trees. She arrived in this country thing is new to her. Flies are thick in Germantown. They are thickest in the kitchens. More than ig, they are'mo common house fly and as 'voracious as they are numerous, and large and possessed of such strength of Hmb that ordinary flypaper cannot hold them. The family, therefore, discarded the pa- per and had r to a cylindrical fly- trap. Everybody knows what they are, This worked admirably, and it was pla fn the kitchen. This before the domestl arrival. Onme day the aforesaid mistress descended into Y_IH" kitchen to 'e what progress her new servant was making in getting Americanized. The mistress missed the fiytrap and the following en- sued: ‘The fiytrap, Bridget? done with it?” Bridget had a brogue irse What have you as thick as a bride’s wedding cake. It must be heard to be appreciated “Sure, and I put it In the woodshed,™ she said. Oh, Bridget; and hought there.” It took the mistress a good quarter of an hour to explain to Bridget that the trap was solely for house use.—Philadel- phia Telegraph. ————— it would catch more files | A Railroad Which May Cause a War. The movements of Russia on the Korean frontier are exciting great uneasiness in Japan. The Japanese military attache at Seoul wires home that the Prefect of An- tung-bsien has notified the Korean au- thorities at Wiju that 2000 Russian sol- diers have arrived at Antung-hsien, and the local official¢ in Taitung-Kuang am= nounce that Russian soldiers are also ex- pected there shortly and that they have been told to get the town ready for thelr reception by cleaning the streets, roads and houses. At the same time it is an- nounced that the Russians are beginning | work on a branch line of the East Asiatic ailroad, starting from Liaoyang, near Mukden, and intended to run via Fengh- wang to a port on the Yalu opposite Wiju. They claim that they obtained a concession from China to buiid this line long ago, but it is very doubtful if Japan allows them, without fighting, which wilt enable them to throw as many men as they like into Korea at very short notice. —Engineer News. —_——————— Automatic Swiss Restaurants. Automatic bars have become so success- ful in Switzerland that a ‘company has been formed to supply the Swiss and their visitors with electric automatic restav ants, where, as If by magic, meals rang- ing from the modest chop and chips to the elaborate six course table d'hote will be served by electricity to all comers. The only thing necessary is to take your seat, glance over the bill of fare, place the machinery does the rest. Prices will be strictly moderate and a dainty dinner, with wine included, will only cost about 2 shillings.—London Express. The following tables give a comparative statement for two years of the estimated flo of certain California rivers in cubic feet p second, or second feet, one second foot equal- ing 50 California miner's Inches, or about 40 Colorado miner's inches. The figures for the last year may be revised by later measure- ments. The figures are by J. B. Lippincott, hydrographer. United States Geological Survey: SACRAMENTO RIVER AT IRON CANYON. Second Feet. DATE, 19 el June 14 . 7,060 June 15 . T.080 June 18 . 7.060 June 17 . 6.820 June 18 6.380 June 19 . 6,380 Juge 20 6.580 TUOLUMNE RIVER AT LA GRANGE. DATE. June 14 . June 15 June 16 . June June June June 5,500 | KINGS RIVER AT RED MOUNTAIN. Second Feet. DATE. Susiiany « 1902. 1908. June June June June June June June TULE RIVER NEAR PORTERVILLE. = Second Feet. 1902, | Yooa. June 14 . 204 193 June 15 . 198 183 June 16 _ 173 63 June 17 143 163 June 18 . 168 193 June 19 . 163 144 June 20 144 144