The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1903, Page 31

i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. MISCELLANEOUS. We know the completeness of our stock. We want you to know it. We have forty different patterns of Dining Room Tables, some round, some square, some in golden oak, Some in weathered oak, includ- ing the old Mission styles, and also solid Mahogany. We have hundreds of different styles of Chairs to match any of these Tables. We have put on exhibition in our Show Windows eight Dining Room Sets selected from this immense stock. The Chairs and Tables and Sideboards are selected in such a way as we would choose them for our own homes, but of course you may make your own combination from all of the different styles to suit your own taste. FIRST MISSION STREET WINDOW a massive round pedestal table with carved legs. A set of highly polished box-seat chairs with le cks and seats match this table to perfection. In this window we have a leather couch and leather-seated Morris chair, as well as an imposing sideboard and chir Here we show 1 )} OUR CORNER WINDOW isplay of dining-room furniture in the old “Mis ion” style. The ive dining chairs, upholstered in genuine Spanish leather ic appearance. The loose-cushioned couch with a s to the simple beauty of this set. r different d ble with a FIRST 16th STREET WINDOW ble of golden oak with a pretty little buffet, worth $33.50. irs sell for $3.50 each. This is an attractive set. SECOND 16th STREET WINDOW n the way of an octagonal dining table, finished in fumed oak, after the old The leather-seated chairs match the design of the table with a pleasing repe- is also a product of our own factory. THIRD 16th STREET WINDOW o-room set of a distinctly FRENCH design. The highly polished square table has v carved French legs with claw feet, while the chairs are patterned to match this deco- eauty. The (dwarf) combination buffet and china closet is likewise well chosen. FOURTH 16th STREET WINDOW 1l buy the beautiful round pedestal table of weathered oak finish shown in this win- e gracefully designed box-seat chairs, with leather coverings, sell for $4.50 each, t $16.50 will strike you as an exceptional bargain. FIFTH 16th STREET WINDOW In this window a round table, though of a little more massi\-e construction, claims attention It is of quarter-sawed oak, 48 inches in diameter. The fine box-seat dining lec The accom- $26.50 w dow. T while the buffet for its grace. chairs closely woven cane seats, while the grain of the backs matches the natural design of the table top. A combination china closet and buffet shown in this window is exceptionally attractive. SIXTH 16th STREET WINDOW One of our cheaper dining-room sets is shown in the sixth window. It shows what can be bought for a low price—a Pattosien price. The $14.50 table has a highly polished top, heavy legs and claw feet. leather-seated chairs for $13.50 and a decidedly pretty sideboard for S22 make the entire set $50. Credit may be all right, but cash is better—that is why we al- ways sell for cash. Our big corner window alone justifies an evening trip to the Mission, There are lots of windows, but every single piece in this window was made in our own factory, right here. We save you 25c on every dollar you spend here. WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE---IT’S FREE. PATTOSIEN’S Sixteenth and Mission. ; Hats on or Off. frequented by ladies would remove his CAPITALISTS PREPARE mmw_~ The old debate on elevator etiquette has been revived again. There are those who insist that every gentleman should take off his hat in an elevator if ladies are present, while others say that rules observed in street cars and other publie conveyances apply. No question is involved in more complica- tions, Removing the hat is, generally speaking, & sign of respect, but in many cases custom has made its removal ab- In this particular case the ques- seems to be almost wholly one of tances. In a hotel, for exam- ple, where a gentleman using corridors hat, the elevator certainly comes within the same rule. In an office building, on the contrary., where hats are worn in the corridors, it seems like an affec- tation to remove the hat on entering the elevator. Yet even In this case lo- cal conditions may properly modify the general rule. A courtesy which seems exaggerated may border dangerously on impertinence.—Providence Journal. —_—————————— Of 400 natives belonging to the Ameri- can mission at Rahuri, Bombay, India, who were inoculated against plague only one girl caught the disease, and she re- covered. ADVERTISEMENTS. oAl ‘*RPL"PLK Each one of the above three lines of figures spel $1000~GOLD FREE T o/ o1 | | Tt al[o[1 1[4/ DOOCEE R e lis the name of a great city In the United States. This is & brand new purzie and can be solved with a little study, as follows: There are twenty- letters in the alphaber, and we have used figires in s) out BOE THESE T RET CIETES YU MAY & 8% %s1 wxcfm EIVING AWAY "'Efi you can ‘his and ‘most. in less than one hour of your time. This and other into OF YOU! nly 00 8 poscal card TO Do ot dela e iins i S Vot G RS TR advertisement ROBINSON PUBLISHING CO., 24 ling the cities instead of letters, Letter e cotire aiphabet. 1F YOU GAN SPELL & little work fl us. This offers are made to introduce g, e you bars sads out the 5 F ot B - nd send it to us, and you will hear the three i 10 every- take an TO OPERATE FOR OIL Portion of the Rincon Rancho, East of Santa Barbara, Leased. % SANTA BARBARA, Nov. 21.—A num- ber of San Francisco capitalists have Jjust concluded a deal with Alfonso L. Den for the lease of his property, a por- tion of the Rincon Rancho, consisting of several hundred acres situated on the coast, ten miles west of this city. It is proposed to commence qjl de- velopment work on a large scale at once, The deal is an important one and will open a territory of Santa Barbara Coun- ty upon which no development work has been attempted. The property is near the largest asphalt mine in the world, which was closed down by the trust some time ago. ——————— Stand for Progress. The result has been an uprising against Bogota control, inspired partly by a regard for the interests of Pan- ama and partly by the hope of securing $10,000,000 from the United States. It is evidently for the interest of the world's commerce and of the people of Panama that the revolt shall be suc- cessful. This Government cannot af- ford to go to war over the canal, but if its moral support will give the vic- tory to the side of progress there can be no reason for withholding it out of a sentimental regard for the patriots for revenue only who are in control of Bogota.—Kansas City Star. —_——— A dispatch from Vladivostock states that in the near future a Russian news- paper will be published in Nagasaki. IRRIGATION bllEs JOY T0 MANTEGA Celebration Over Canal Completion in San Joaquin. it Governor Pardee and Prom- inent Educators Among Speakers. =t Rt Permanent Development of Southern Part of the County Assured by the Fruition of Hopes of Years. AN ST Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Nov. 2L—Manteca, a thriving little town in the southern part of the county, to-day celebrated in great style the completion of the big irrigation canal which is to insure the permanent development of the section. A special train from this city took a large crowd from here, and there were fully 1500 people present at the celebra- tion, which included a barbecue and a bull’s head dinner under a huge tent. In’ the town hall several speeches were made by notable visitors, the first being by Lieutenant Governor Ander- son. He was followed by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the State University. Both spoke regarding the importance of irrigation in general and the future in store for the district about Manteca by reason of the com- pletion of the canal. Professor Fortier of the State Uni- versity made a speech upon irrigation, and Professor Wickson also made a very entertaining address, which was full of good advice to the farmers. ADDRESSES TO CITIZENS. Leroy Anderson of the San Luis Obis- po Polytechnic School made a very en- tertaining talk, as did also Prn!’essnr‘ Majors of the dairying department of the State University. dress was particularly instructive and interesting, as the district about Man- teca is especially adapted to the dairy interests and the raising of blooded stock. Governor Pardee made a very inter- esting address and won the regard of the people by his lively interest in their great improvement. Among other things he said: “Our brethren of the south, forced by sheer necessity, have taught us lessons that we would do well to follow. The lands whereupon stand Pasadena, Red- lards, Los Angeles, Riverside and all the towns and cities south of Tehacha- pi. were but a few years ago dry and scareely able to support the wild ani- | that | mals and the half-wild cattle roamed over them. But her wedded the water of the people irrigation ditch to the lands of the hot and sterile | desert, and the result is that hundreds of thousands of people now live in com- fort and luxury where, easily within the recollection of him who now stands before you, only hundreds lived be- fore.” NEW ERA FOR MANTECA. It is believed that the district about Manteca (Spanish for butter), with the advent of a bountiful supply of water for irrigation purposes, is destined to | be the central milk and butter pfoduc- ing section of California, and already there is much fine blooded stock raised | there. The construction of the canal was be- | gun in 1888 by H. W. Cowell, the first ditch being constructed by the firm of Shippee, Morris & Cowell. There were many setbacks, owing to the lack of | funds, but the projectors never gave up, and when Mr. Cowell saw the frui- tion of his hopes and witnessed the cel- ebration to-day he cried for very joy. The celebration marks an era in the | history of Menteca which, not so very long ago, was but a small settlement in a barren waste. —_—— Robbers Blow Open Bank Vault. SEDALIA, Mo., Nov. 21.—The Citizens' Bank at Clarksburg, Mo., was broken into last night and the safe blown open. All the money in the bank was taken, but the officers decline to state how much. A reward of $300 is offered for the arrest and convittion of the robbers, who es- caped. ————— f It's sometimes easler for a girl to think she is pretty than it is for her to make other girls think so.—Chicago News. ADVERTISEMENTS. l Ruth McEnery Stuart’s New Book | GEORGE WASHINGTON JONES A Christmas 6ift That Went a-Begg'ng Cloth, Ornamental, lllustrated. $1.00 This book has the rare and precious quality that made the ap- peal of Charles Dickens’ Christmas storigs irresistible, and will surely find a warm spot in the heart of every reader. Neither is it hazard- ous to predict that it will be one of the most: popular Christmas stories ever published. At all bookstores, or sent postpald by HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY PHILADELPHIA SUNDAY., NOVEMBER 22, 1903, 31 NERRLY THD SEIAE AOIST N A G Fire Steals on Railroad| Laborers in Their Slumber. Twenty - Eight Perish and Many Are Injured in the Panic. | ke s ket After Escaping Many Fight to Re- enter the Building for Their Money, and All Are Lost. R S JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 21.—Twen- | ty-eight bodles, charred and blackened | | beyond all possibility of identification, lie to-night in the ruins of what was | once an Itallan lodging shanty, located | on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road twenty miles east of this city and | three-fourths of a mile west of Lilly. | 'Tn adaition to the list of dead there are | thirty-two men who have been re-| moved to hospitals and several that| cannot recover. The fire started early this morning, | while the men were still in bed. The | men who escaped from the shanty alive | are very reticent about the matter, re- | The latter's ad- | fusing to give any notification as to the | | origin of the blaze. According to the | story of one man who escaped, the fire | started from an overheated stove. The stove became redhot, it is said, and the | interior of the shanty, which was lined | with inflammable tarpaper, caught fire. | The shanty was 93 feet long and about 24 feet wide. It was occupied by sixty- five men, mostly Italians employed on | the Pennsylvania Railroad improve- | ments between Lilly and Portage. On | each side of an aisle which ran down the | center of the structure was a row of | bunks three high. In these bunks were piles of straw. { FIRE STARTLES INMATES. One of.the water-boys employed on | the work said that he was awakened by hearing a man cry out, “Fire!” At this time the fire was in the upper end of the shanty only, where a strugsling mass of men were fighting to escape from the building. Awakened suddenly and confused by the sudden alarm, the occupants of the shanty were unable to control themselves. Some of the men escaped, but a few remained asleep in the bunks. All at once the foreigners on the outside remembered that they had left their trunks in the blazing building. Then followed a rush of men into the building through the lower door. The majority of those who entered never {again saw the outside world. Those who strove for the door were in the wildest sort of panic. When one man | got ahead of another the other pulled | him back. They fought, bit and ! kicked, and among those who escaped | | there are many who bear marks of the l‘ fierce struggle. One of the witnesses says he did not believe that a single man of those who | went back for his trunk succeeded in | getting out again. DIE BY THEIR GOLD. In the ruins this morning some of the corpses were close beside the hoop | iron bands of the trunks and melted | | gold and silver which had been kept in | these receptacles indicated that the | owners had fallen and died with their | treasures in their arms. The bodies | were all practically burned to a crisp. | Peter Consavi, the superintendent of the commissary, said: “It will be impossible for anybody to | tell for some days the names of all| those who were burned. The bosses | know them only by numbers. I hadi their names and numbers in my books | in the commissary, but they were all | destroyed. There is not the least doubpt | that several thousand dollars were | burned up in the trunks of the men. They kept their savings there and I would say there was some $4000 or $5000 anyhow. Many of them had enough’m go back to their homes and families in | Italy, and would soon have sailed.” —————— RAILROAD WILL START NEW SERVICE NEXT MONTH Los Gatos and San Jose Electric Line Soon to Be in Op- eration. SAN JOSE, Nov. 21.—December 1 is the date set for beginning the city service on the Los Gatos-San Jose Interurban Elec- tric Railway. The line inside the city is completed with the exception of stringing the wires, and this will be taken up at once. Rails are laid bet¥een | | ADVERTISEMENTS. HEWHITE HOUSE CRUSH BELTS In all colors. $2.25, METAL GIRDLES With or without stones. $6.00 to $20.00 Each HOLIDAY NOVELTIES SOFT LEATHER PLEATED and $2.50 to $4.50 Each | Large collection of BELT CLASPS For Front and Back. Gun Metal, etc., etc. In Cut Steel, Oxidized; Latest Novelties in LORGNETTE and I'MUFF CHAINS In Gun Metal, and French Gilt. From $2.00 to $15.00 REAL TORTOISE SHELL COMBS The latest shapes in Plain Shell or with Pearl, Rhinestone or Solid Gold Mountings. $2.25 to $25.00 Special Values match. Very Large Assortment of FEATHER BOAS Inall colors, 1%, 2, 2% and 3 yard lengths. $15,00, $18.00 and $20.00 Ostrich and Marabout Stoles with Muffs to In choice variety. HAIR ORNAMENTS and AIGRETTES $1.25 to $6.00 Each 50c, RHINESTONE NOVELTIES Hearts, Horseshoes, Brooches, Bar Pins and other unique designs. EXTRA WIDE FANCY RIBBONS For making opera bags and for fancy work. IMPORTED HAT PINS A choice selection of the newest popular de- signs at all prices. Special values at 75¢ and $1.00 Each $1.25 to $3.00 a Yard GLOVE SPECIALS Ladies’ 2-clasp Gilace (good value) Ladies’ 3-clasp Glace (extra quality) Ladies’ 2-clasp Derby (White House) $1.25 Pr. $1.50 Pr. $1.50 Pr. Woill # Go Sae COR.PosT % KEARNY Sts. 'Tween Wealth and Poverty. Since wit and humor were so long associated with the Speaker’s office Speaker-to-be Cannon will be expected to say many funny things. His humor is not of the same sort that caused thousands of stories to be told of Thomas B. Reed, but Cannon already has a fine record as the author of “dry™ sayings. The latest is about his hous —for Speaker Cannon will occupy a private residence this winter. body remarked to him the other day that it was a good thing to live in one's own house. “Wal, yes, it is,”” was the reply, in a Some- | drawl not unlike that of the late Mr. |Reed. “It isn't such a fine house, | though. It's up here on Vermont aw | nue, balf way between wealth | poverty.” Mr. Cannon’s description of the io- | cality was strictly correct. He will live |in a neighborhood that is neither as ! plebeian as Northeast Washington nor as ultra-fashionable as Connecticut and sachusetts avenues and Washing- n Heights.—New York Commercial. ————— Some splendid specimens of turquoise stones are being found in the mines on the Upper King River, Victoria, Austra- la. ADVERTISEMENTS. here and Saratoga, and the last of the rails are being laid between that place and Los Gatos. A seven-minute system will be inaugurated between the broad- gauge ‘depot in this city and a point on the Meridian road for the city system. Tt is claimed that the line to Saratoga and Los Gatos will be running by Jan- uary 1. . As soon as the full line of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Interurban Railway is in running order work on a short line from Los Gatos to San Jose, by way of Camp- bell, will be commenced. A freight and passenger depot is being fitted up op- posite the postoffice, where also will be located the general offices of the road. A number of the cars to be used are al- ready here. STORM MAKES A RUIN OF A WRECKED VESSEL Schooner Ocean Spray Cannot Be Saved and Is Sold for One Hun- dred and Dollars. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 21.—The schooner Ocean Spray, which ran ashore at the mouth of the Suislaw, is a total wreck. Heavy seas beat her upon the sands so that she is full of water and it is im- possible.to get her off. Lighters have been taken alongside and the freight has been removed. Most of it is damaged so that it will be almost a total loss. The captain sold the vessel for §150. —_—————— 2 Fire Destroys Roller Mills. WOODLAND, Nov. 21.—The Woodland | Roller Mills' buillding was destroyed by fire this evening. Half an hour'after the mill closed down fire was discovered in the second story. The origin is un- known. The loss is between $30,000 and $40,000, partly covered by insurance. No composition too difficult for it to execute. Let us place one in yoyr home. Yoy will never allow it to leave. It will make your piano your most valyed article. We are agents for the BEHR BROS. & BAUMEISTER : PIANOS, celebrated for tone and action. ENOMAUVAIS MuUSIC CO.