The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1904, Page 41

THE "SAN FRANCISCO CALL, : § DAY, MARCH 20, 1904 STUBENTS WANT [REGENTS WOULD [JURY OF PEERS PR . | ck Up a Project to Secure Bigger Home for Agricul-| tural College at Bcrlivlv_\'l‘ FACULTY HELPS SCHEME Pamphlets to Be Published | and Vigorous Campaign of Education of People Begun | i n Francisco Call, | March 19. | of B eley 2148 Center Street For the first time he history the Universit California the stu- dents of the stitution have begun a campaign for a nmew building. The building that now Khouses the college of agriculture at the university has be- | come tot inadequate, and now the g this, have taken the s toward securing another to of aign was sent away from | the mark to-day by the Agricultural the students’ organization. T students met in the lecture-room of thi agricultural building, listened to speeches and appointed committees President Wheeler was there, and so were professors E. W. Hilgard and E. J. Wickson, and they all gave valuable advice. President Wheeler told the agricul- turists that he was glad the students had taken the Initiative in working up | a sentiment in favor of a new agricul- 1 building. Heretofore, he said, the ving and educating had been done by the facuity and friends of the uni- versity. Now the legisiators seem td| ng weary of the demands of the| officers, and it is well that| ew requests come from the stu-; more than anybody | required for their educa-| ort. OVERCROWDED. Hilgard and Wickson t the increasing activities cuitural department and how building is being fast over- | the growing demands upon from the agricultural in-| State, but the ever-in- mber of students. Andrew E. Roadhouse and M. | t of the cub, spoke from side of the question. letter of a member of the last was read, the writer de- that it is not lmpossible that re will vote an ap-| f 000 or $300,000 for a The agricultural depart- | to so many people of | e by season of its intimate con- | with zgricultural, horticultural, | d other interests that if the | r work is done be next January an appro- | be secured. of it all was the appoint- mmittee of five to put the ign on a practical basis. This| ee is composed of S. M. Stow, Roadhouse, A. R. Traphagen, F.| Kellogg and R. M. Filcher. It will | this committee’s first duty to com- a pamphlet in which the shortcom- | of the present agricultural build- | s, who know what i n and com BUILDING rs will be compared with those of | Eastern colleges. TO EDUCATE PEOPLE. | other things this pamphlet | that the building is greatly | ¢ that every available| m basement to roof is ogcupied | that ramshackle barns and out-| ses have been utllized to cover vari- | . For instgnce, one de- | | 1t is on the top fio@ of the bot- uilding, another occupies a horse ed that was fitted up, and still an- other works under a shed that hangs over Strawberry Creek. Only recently the rooms in the attic of the building cleared of many valuable records i turned into offices for instructors. ectures are given in office rooms for lack of enough lecture-rooms to go around. A new building would concentrate, to the great advantage of the students, the departments that are now spread over creation. It would provide suffi- cient room for laboratories, lecture- rooms, farming implements and a mu- seum, such as a college that now ac- commodates 250 students really needs. With this pamphlet the students of the Agricultural Club purpose to edu- cate the people of the State. They will be distributed everywhere. Not only this, but the students will talk to the farmers &t farmers’ Institutes and use their in- fluence with legislators in behalf of this | big project. It is hoped through all this literature and talk to have the leg- islators of the State in such a frame of mind by next January that they will vote for almost anything the univer-| sity asks. P < v THE “BOOSTERS ARE | BOOSTING.” | If you contemplate buying a | SUBURBAN HOME—do it now. | | Our REAL ESTATE columns | contain some snaps to-day. s | + Concert at Congregational Church. OAKLAND, March 19.—The choir of the First Congregational Church will give its ninth oratorio concert to- morrow evening and will prme( Mo- zart'’s celebrated “Requiem.”™ The quiet devotional character of the music of this masterpiece is very ap- propriate to the spirit of the Lenten | season and it was for this reason it was chosen for presentation. at this time. The work will be sung by the full chorus choir of the church under the direction of Alexander Stewart and with the following soloisis: Mrs. Grace Davis Northrup, so- prano; Mrs. Carroll Nicholson, con- tralto; Arthur Macurda, tenor; Harry Perry, bass. Mr. King, the organist will play two lpec‘lal numbers from Mozart. —_—— Mme. Tel Sono, a Jamanese lawyer, said to be the only woman member of the bar in the land of the Mikado, was _educated in England. | lecture by T. O. Crawford’ RECOVER MONEY = An Effort Is to Be Made to Hold Banks for Funds Squandered by McKowen SUIT FOR $1000 Claim Made That Institu- tions Which Cashed Checks for Secretary Are Liable —_— Oakland Office San Francisco éall.! 1118 Broadway, March 19. The Regents of the University of Cal- ifornia are going to try to see if some the $50,000 squandered out of th university funds Ly their late secretary W. A. McKowen, cannot be recovered | from the checks. banks which cashed his To this end a suit was begun this afternoon Ly Attorney Charles E. | Snook, legal adviser of the board, against the First National Bank of Oakland, the First National Bank of Berkeley, the First National Bank of San Francieco, the Central Bank of Berkeley and W. A. McKowen to re- cover $1600 paid to McKowen in March, 1902, on a check made payable to the Itegents by Bernard P. Miller. The allegations made are that Miller made his check payable to the Regents and that the check was cashed by the banks upon its presentation by Mc- Kowen, who, it is claimed, had no au- thority to indorse the signature of the| Board of Regents. The check was cashed by the Central Bank of Berke- ley and passed through the other banks before reaching the First ational Bank of Oakland, where Miller's de- posit was and from which the money was paid. McKowen indorsed the check by sign- ing “Regents of the University of Cali- fornia, per W. A. McKowen, sec'y.” The complaint sets up the allegation | that he had no right to do this, and | that it was the bank’s busines to find out whether he had before paying the money. —————— ALAMEDA TEACHERS' INSTITUTE PROGRAMME Annual Session of School Principals to Meet the Last Week in March. OAKLAND, March 19.—The Ala- | meda County Teachers' Institute has been called to meet the last week of March, beginning March 28. The fol- lowing programme has been given out by Superintendent of Schools T. O. Crawford: Monday—Opening address of wel- come by Mayor Warren Olney; “The Old Regime and New pines,” a decture by Professor Ber- nard Moses; “Teachers’' Salaries,” an address by Governor George C. Par- dee; “Teachers’ Tenure” will be the subject of an address by Professor A. L. Mann of the Denman Grammar School of San Francisco; President David Starr Jordan of Stanford Uni- versity will talk on a “Full Heart” and in the evening will give an il- lustrated lecture on “The Hopes of Japan.” Tuesday session—Half-hour discus- sion by superintendents; an address on “The Broad Mind” Jordan; In the ternoon the institute will meet in the Oakland High School building, the programme to be in charge of the High School Teachers’ Club. In the evening Professor A. D. Augshurg, Miss L. V. Sweesy and W. A. Tenny will address the assembly. Wednesday session—C. P. Leet will explain the objects of the Alameda County Teachers’ Club. Professor Moses will give a lecture entitled “The Philippine Islands and Their Pros- pects.” u Entertainment of a social char- acter will be provided for the teachers during their stay in the city, —— O —— Certificates Granted. OAKLAND, March 19.—The fol- lowing certificates were granted by the County Board of Education this afternoon: High School—A. N. Shel- don, R. B, Lathrop. Grammar grade —Carrie L. Stevenson, Anna Felman. Permanent grammar grade—Grace S. Sherwood, Flora E. Preble, C. J. Gramboni, Isabel F. Morison. Gram- mar grade renewals—Helen M. Leach. Recommended to State board for life diplomas—Wellyn B. Clark, Morris C. James, Mary E. Moore, Donna M. Whitaker, For university document —Annie W. Brewer. —————— Marriage Licenses, OAKLAND, March 19.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Joseph M. Smith, over 21 years of age, and Emma E. Friebel, over 18, both of Oakland; Mark G. Curtis, 33, Alameda, and Elsie M. Boyd, 23, Oakland; Charles Burns, 40, :nd Hilda Maclen, 31, both of Oakland; Henry E. Marvin, 31, and Gertrude E. Hallingsworth, 25, both of Sacramento; Jose Duarte, 30, and Emilia Luiz, 18, both of Mission San Jose; Joseph Var- gas, 21, and Mary G. Costa, 29, both of Ozkland. e e Adelphian Club Election. ALAMEDA, March 19.—Candidates for the board of directors of the Adel- phian Club, to be voted for April 17, have been nominated as follows: Mrs. A. J. Samuels, Mrs. H. M. Pond, Mrs. E. J. Holt, Mrs. J. E. Higgins, Mrs. H. M. Dana, Mrs. L. N, Chapman, Mrs. W. A. Bissell, Mrs. H. L. Eastman, Mrs. Henry Rosenthal~Mrs. J. J. Searle and Mrs. E. Gelderman. —_———— ‘Will Speak on Sanitation. OAKLAND, March 19.—~The next regular meeting of the Women’s Civic Improvement Club will be held . i Chabot Observatory Hall on Monday afternoon, March 21, at 2:30 o'clock, at which time Dr. von Adelung, City Health Officer, will address the club on sanitation. The public is cordially Invited. —_———— The work of installing the exhibits in the great World's Fair exhibit pal- aces has begun. in the Philip- by Profegsor “A School in New Yark{ | SEIS HIM FREE Twelve Men Purge Boeddikerv of Theft of Fish From Box | FLAWS IN PROSECUTION Witnesses for People Are Unable to Conneet Man With the Midnight Crime — Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, March 19. A jury in Justice Edgar's court set | George Boeddiker free this afternoon because the witnesses for the people could not absolutely connect him with | the theft of fish he was accused of tak- | ing from the Liberty market one night two weeks ago. | George Thompson, the arresting of- | ficer, testified that he had seen Boed- diker abstract twenty pounds of fish | from boxes on the sidewalk in front of the Liberty market and then walk off with them in a sack. Thompson said he gave chase, but when he came up with | Boeddiker the man was empty-handed. Afterward he found the sack of fish in a gutter. The inability of the prosecution to connect the man seen in front of the market and the man arrested was the weak noint in the case. R. S. Cameron, near the scene of the theft just before the arrest, also failed to positively | 1dentify Boeddiker as the man. | In his own behalf Boeddiker said that he was on his way to West Berkeley to get some whisky for his sick wife when arrested. His testimony was sup- ported by his wife and daughter, who declared that he had arisen at 11:30 o'clock on the night of his arrest to go on the errand. ————— SOPHOMORES WILL RUSH IF THE FRESHMEN DO Committees of Students Will Meet and Try to Effcct Some Amicable Understanding. BERKELEY, March 19.—The sopho- more students at the University of | California appointed a committee | to-day to wait upon a committee of | freshmen for the purpose of arriving at ‘some understanding regarding Charter |day. This committee is composed of | W. H. Hopkins, W. R. Jewett, R. H. Elliott, R. P. Newcomb, B. §. Norton | and W. H. Boynton. It was appointed | upon the advice of John W. Geary, Max Thelen, Philip M. Carey, Monte ! Cooley and Scott Hendricks of the se- nior class, Who told them that the edict | of the faculty forbidding a *‘rush” on Charter day should be obeyed. It will {be the endeavor of the committee to secure a promise from the freshmen not to attempt to plant thelr class num. ber on Charter Hill on Charter day. Otherwise there will be a “rush” and consequent dismissal from the univer- sity, according to the promise of the committee on student affairs. —_———— RUMOR .OF CONTEST OVER WILL OF HENRY PIERCE Report Denied by Family, Who State There Is No Foundation for Talk. OAKLAND, March 19.—A power of attorney placed on record to-day by Josephine Pierce giving Henrietta Pierce Watkinson the right to defend any contest of the will of Henry Pierce, deceased, caused the rumor that trou- ble over the probating of the estate of the late capitalist was probable. Sam Bell McKee, brother of Mrs. Pierce, stated this evening that . there was nothing in the rumor, saying: My sister has gone on a visit to the East and gave a general power of at- torney to her sister to act for her in any matter that might come up. The reference to a will contest in the power of attorney was the general wording used in such documents, and had no reference to her case in particular. A year has elapsed since the will was ad- mitted to probate, and such a thing as a contest is hardly possible at this time.” —_—— Death of Pioneer Woman. OAKLAND, March 19.—Mrs. Anna M. Liese, a ploneer woman of Alameda County, aged 69 years, died last night at her home, 1113 Twelfth avenue. De- ceased was well known in East Oak- land, where she has lived for the last forty years. She was a member of Brooklyn Rebekah Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F.; Veteran Rebekahs, East Oakland Temple No. 7, Rathbone Sisters and the Society of Assistant Pioneer Women of California. g —_——————————— + Asks $20,000 for Foot. OAKLAND, March 19.4Suit for $20,000 damages for the crushing by a push car of the foot of Sumner Cahill, a 12-year- old child, was begun to-day against the E. B. & A. L. Stone Company and the Santa Fe Railway Company by the boy's father. He claims the car was negligently left on an incline by em- ployes of the companies and that it started down the grade and ran over the child. The foot had to be ampu- tated. T B Funeral of Mrs. Harriet E. Cooke. OAKLAND, March 19.—The funera] of Mrs. Harriet E. Cooke was held to- day from the late home of the deceased on Linden street, the services being conducted by Rev. Charles R. Brown, pastor of the First Congregational Church, assisted by Rev. Dr. J. K. Mc- Lean. 3 —— e River Elbe Shipping Trust. The Elbe boat companies and pri- ate individuals engaged in the ship- ping business on the river have just formed themselves into a “cartel” or trust, which will go into effect on the first of January, 1904. The cartel has been formed in order to maintain a uniform freight rate, to prevent Eibe shippers from practicing disastrous cutthroat competition.—Xew York Commercial. in Front of Meat Market| OAKLAND YOUTH WINS FAME AS A PLAYWRIGHT —— who observed a man acting suspiciously | ¥ ESS IN GERMANY WITH NEW PLAY. B T Tragedy Written by Elmer B. Harris to Be Given in Hamburg. l YQUNG MAN WHO HAS WON SUC- OAKLAND, March 19.—While English and Continental playwrights have for a century past invaded the American stage with thousands of dramatic pleces of varying and often questionable ex- cellence, it has come to pass at last that a native Oaklander has made the first breach in the conservative ranks of German critics and has won the un- qualified and enthusiastic praise of the German literati. Elmer B. Har- ris and the German version of his play, “The Crucifixion,” are now in the pub- lic eye in the old city of Hamburg. His play has been accepted and is soon to be produced by Baron ‘von Berger in the first theater of Hamburg. Harris is the son of Mrs. E. A. Har- ris of 1175 Market street, this city. He is a graduate of the Oakland High School and of the University of Cali- fornia. From the latter institution he graduated with the class of 1900, and shortly afterward went into business in San Francisco. After a year of com- mercial life he threw up his position and went to New York, where he went on the stage for the purpose of study- ing the drama from its purely mechan- ical side. He toured the East and Can- ada, revised a number of plays and had a curtain-raiser produced in New York. d He then sailed for England with El- len Terry and has been made much of by her, by the great London critic, Wil- liam Archeir, and others prominent in English theatrical circles. He spent a year in Paris, being per- sonally directed in his French studies by M. Coquelin, the elder, who did so much for Rostand. He has since been studying the German drama in Dres- den, Berlin and Hamburg. The Harris play which is now inter- esting Hamburg is a two-act tragedy somewhat after the Ibsen type. The problem of “The Crucifixion” is based upon a question of heredity, and the piece is philosophical, dramatic and thoroughly practical from the stage point of view. London and English critics who have seen the English ver- sion declare it to be good literature and marked by dramatic power. Baron von Bergen, the autocrat of the German theatrical world and director of the theater at Hamburg, left lying unread on his shelves some 1200 plays by German writers to take up the work of Harris. The play will be staged in Hamburg in October. Harris will re- turn to spend the summer at his home in this eity. UNIVERSITY EVENTS BERKELEY, March 10.—The position of graduate manager of the Associated Student activities is being sought by FEzra e the incumbent, and A. J. Woolsey. Decoto has served In the office three years, and wishes o0 be re-elected for another two-year term. He is a member of the Gol nity —and Woolsey h: ant gradu; Bear Seclety. There are two candidates for the office of president of the Associated Students next year—Leo D. Bishop and Harry Dehm. A. C. Keane and Anthony Meany are aspirants for the office of vice president. The annual_dinner and Initiation of _the Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Call- fornta will be held in the Town aand Gown Club Hall on Tuesday evening, March 22, at 7 o'clock. The committee In charge consists of Miss Evelyn Mary Ratcliff, Ivan Mortimer Linforth and Professor Mellen W, Haskell. The band concert in the Greek Theater next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock will consist of tho _following numbers: Selection, ‘Mari- tana’’; quartet, *“To God on High''; selectlon, *; Largo (Handel): “The Lost Chord": march; _‘Star-Spangled ming’ ; Banner.” public will be welcomed. Homer enport, the cartoonist, will de- liver a I e ¥ilay evenlug, '}.mn 1. at it ., une Epices of th - fix"chg:fl ‘His subject will be --n.'pf:f,, e 0on."* O fom Cambridge, Mass. comes the news of the death of W. J. Baxter, a member of the class of '08, Who died of typhold fever. He was a student at the Harvard Law School when he was taken fIl. Was a member ¢ the Alpha Tau ternity. ?un;rlll will be held at the young m-;"- lol:: at Tur! ————— Peath Overtakes Man at Work, BERKELEY, March 19.—Paul My- wald, a German, 35 years old, was over- come by a hemorrhage while working in L. E. Melinheit's garden, on Addison street, this afternoon and died before medical assistance could be procured. In falll the man struck against a picket fence and received some slight bruises. The Coroner will hold an in- quest. The Glornale of Rome complains that the trolleys of that city are far | those cn....& citiss and that wfiw are often slower than omnibuses. o % 41 SAYS RUFFIANS [IRISH LEADER ATTACKED HIM| HAS John A. Massie Complains to the Police: That He Was Beaten by Three Men e Oakland Office San Francigco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 19. John A. Massie, editor of a weekly political paper called The Arrow, com- plained to the police to-day that he had been set upen by three men near his home this morning and beaten. He stated that he was waiting for a car near his home at 1015 Linden street, when three men approached him from different directions. He paid no atten- tion to them until one man, he says, struck at him. Another hit him with a brick, he thinks, and knocked him down. When he’ got up the men ran away. Massie was very much frightened at | the incident and claims to know of no reason for the alleged attack. He showed the police an umbrella which has an initial marked upon it, which Massie says one of the men dropped. In his statement to the police Massie said that they were young men with whom he had the trouble and that he did not believe he had ever seen them before and did not know that he would recognize them again. He was unable to state whether they took him for some one eise or whether it was a prearranged plan. Chief of Po- lice Hodgkins says that the matter will be looked into. —————— WHEN DECLARATION ° OF WAR IS MADE What the Immediate Action of Mar- kets Usually Is—1899, 1898, 1870. Recent discussions had made it pretty plain, to most people, that finan- cial markets frequently ‘“discount” in allvance, and very thoroughly such events as a declaration of war. For this reason’ during the recent excitement, the %-point drop in consols, and the 4 to § per cent fall in Russian and Jap- anese bonds, and the crash in all other foreign investment issues, caused a good deal of surprise. But “discounting’ is not always com- pleted beforehand. In our Spanish War of 1898 it was. The Maine was blown up on Februar; but the President did not send his “intervention message” to Congress until April 11. This mes- sage was really the declaration of war; yet stocks advanced 1 to 2 points on the news of it. The market had been “over- sold.” Before President Kruger, on October 10, 1899, gent to Great Britain the ulti- matum which made the Transvaal War inevitable, consols had fallen 2 points within a month, and Transvaal mine shares had been wholly demoralized. But on the day of the Boer manifesto consols rose from 103% to 103%, and went above 104 the ensuing week. This was the general tendency, until the Britich army learned at Ladysmith, on October 30, the reality of their prob- lem. What followed later every one knows. There had been ample warning of the Franco-Prussian var of 1870. In the fortnight prior to actuzl declaration of war British consols had fallen one and a half points, and even English rail- way shares two to flve .oints apiece. The shock was, however, as severe as if wholly unexpected. War was de- clared on July 15, when consols stood at 913%; they fell by the 20th to 88% and with them the whole Inglish mar- ket gave way. Outside of France, how- ever, this depression spent itself within a week, and by August the markets were recovering. These three precedents constitute three very different serles of phenom- ena; in 1899, a market which failed to break when war began, but went to pieces considerably later; in 1898, a market which did all its “discounting” before hostilitles; in 1870, a market which broke on declaration of war and recovered steadily thereafter. If last week's market belongs to either of the three above named classes it must be ranged under the third. But it may occupy a class of its own.—New York Evening Post. —_——————— ‘What Is o Billion. A correspondent, “A. R. B.,” com- plains that in a recent editorial on “The Debts of Nations” we fell into a com- mon error in calling a thousand mil- 1lions—1,000,000,000—a billion. In his let- ter, which we printed on Sunday, he says: “It is common in the journalism of this country to designate roughly a thousand millions as a billion. The practice is based on ignorance, how- ever, and theré is no authority for it.” “A. R. B.” writes from “New York City.” We do not knew where he got his ideas of the system of numera- tion in vogue in the United States. If he is an American, we fail to under- stand how he can argue that there is *no authority” for “designating a thou- sand millions as a billion.” There is every American authority for the usage he disputes. ‘Worcester's and Wgbster's diction- aries agree absolutely in their definition of a “billion.” They say: “According to the French method of enumeration, in use on the continent of Europe and in the United States, a thousand mil- lions; according to the English meth- od, used in Great Britain and the Brit- ish provinces, a million millions.” “A. R. B.” may contend that etymologically a billion should mean a million raised to the second power. But usage often defies and overrules etymology. We have deliberately chosen in the United States to call a thousand millioas 2 bil- lion; and ‘for us it means a thousand millions and nothing else. “A. R. B.” errs in charging the usage W'w. of to journalistic license. LA GRIPPE Michael Davitt Is Confined to His Oakland Home by a Serious Indisposition RESTS EASILY PATIENT Comes to California to Shake Off Illness, but Is Strick- en With a Severe Cold! Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 19. Michael Davitt, the Irish leader, is il with a severe attack of la grippe at his temporary home, 573 Telegraph avenue, in this city. He came here from New York a week ago and at that time was complaining of not feel- ing well. He made the trip to Cali- fornia in hope that the change of cli- | mate would be beneficial to him. In- stead of this his malady seems to have taken a firmer hold upon him and for the last two days he has been unable to leave the house, He came to Oakland from New York at the request of his wife, who as nlece of the late Mary Canning was left half of her fortune, valued at about $78,000. Mrs. Davitt's two brothers have threat- ened a contest over the will of their aunt and Mrs. Davitt, finding herself beset with difficulties, appealed to her husband for advice. Upon the arrival of Mr. Davitt in this city he stated to a Call reporter that he did not expect to remain here more than a week, but that his health had been so poor that, at the urgent request of Mrs. Davitt, he had come to California in hopes that he would get well. This evening he retired early and could not be seen, but Mrs. Davitt said: “My husband is suffering from a severe cold which has settled upon his lungs, which has prevented him from leaving the house or attempting to make any of the addresses expected of him on St Patrick’s day. He Is asleep this evening and I am in hopes that he will be better in the morning.” _——— HOW YOU SHOULD FOLD A LETTER Only a Small Percentage of Appli- cants Know the Right ‘Way. “I see you have lots of applications,” said the advertising manager to the business manager, who had advertised for a typewriter and bookkeeper. “From all over New England,” said the busifess manager, jamming his pockets full. “But what some of the girls who answer are thinking of I can- not imagine. Here is one girl who will come fifty miles to take a place at §5 a week.” “Can you tell much as to their quali- fications from their letters?” “Can I? Well, rather. For instance, there is the writing; there is the spell- ing of the words; there is the way the letter is put together; there is even the way the letter is folded. Ever think that letters are folded so as to save time nowadays?"” “No,” said the advertising man. “It's all I can do to get the stamps to put on 'em. My stenographer folds 'em all right, I guess. How should it be done?" “Easy enough, simply enough, but folded wrong often enough,” said the business man sententiously. “If your typewriter knows her business she takes the sheet and folds it up from the bottom toward the top, leaving the proper width for the envelope, ‘then over from right to left and from left to right—sc. Then when your letter is opened it is right side up. See?” “I see,” murmured the advertising man. “And how many applicants fold their letters that way?” “Oh, three or four out of a dozen, perhaps. Quite a commentary on busi- ness as she is taught, eh?” remarked the business man as he strolled away. ————————— A Ghost Competition. Many of the negro residents of Princeton, Ind., are greatly worked up over a ghost scare. Recently Henry ‘Whittaker, a young colored man, was killed, his head being almost crushed off between two logs. His residence was one of a row of houses in the eastern part of the city, all of which were occupied by negro families. A few nights after the man’s death residents of the houses along the row were frightened out of their wits, so they claim, by strange mnoises and doors mysteriously opening. The next day several families moved out, and now only two of tpe hcuses are « ccu- pied, Whittaker was a fiddler, and the colored people of that part of the city are constantly on the alert after sun- down now to avoid a headless man with a fiddle under his arm. The white people take no, stock in the negro ghost, but have a “mysteri- ous man” of their own. He wears a long overcoat and a slouch hat, and prowls about residences, but when spoken to immediately glides off with- out a word. The police will probably take care of the “white ghost.”—In- dianapolis Journal. Outlook for Tan-Colored Shoes. Judging from the statements of shoe manufacturers, wholsalers and sales- men, the demand for tan-colored shoes and other light shades for the ap- proaching spring and summer season will not be phenomenal, enough advanced to give a fair indica- tion of what may be expected in the call for this class of goods. The opin- jon seems quite general that tans in i i copper factures. and naval stores. <« NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA w BRANCH OFFICES F THE CALL IN ALAMED_iA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1118 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY. } 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 77. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. Alameda County. SATURDAY, MARCH 19. Etha F. Garlick (wife of J. P.) and Hattte Brown Walsh (wife of Edward M.) to Re- becem C. Sproul (widow), lot on SW line of Clara (Moss) avenue, 120. NWaof Oak- avenue, SW 60, NW 121.35 to SE line of Walsworth avenue, NE along same to inter- section with SW line of Santa Clara avenue, E to begianing. lots 20 and 21 block G. map of resubdivision of blocks & and H. Flint Traet, portion of Oukland Heights (deed made subject to administration of estate of Andrew Sproul), Oakland; $10. Rebecca C. Sproul (widow) to Etha F. Gar- lek (wife of J. P.), same, Oakland; $10. Harry L and Nyda W, Holcomb to Leo L. Nichols, lot on S line of Thirty-seventh street, 620 W ‘of Telegraph avenue, W 40. S 102.60, E 40.14. N 103.95, lot 24, Rooseveit Terrace, Oakland; $10. Amelia G. and A, A. "Webber (husband) o Louise Steven, lot"on W line of Milvia street, 309 N of Cedar, N 40 by W 108:6, tion_of lots 9 and 10, block 6, Graves & Ta: lor Tract of 40 acres, portion of plat 85, Berke- ley: $10 Calvin D. Brown. Lottle L. and A. M. Ew- ing (husband) to Ada F. Brown (single), lot on N line of Channing wav, 175 W of Bils- worth street. W 30 by N i30. portion of lot 3. block 13, map of property of Coliege Home- stead Association, Berkeley; $10. Leah F. Mott (single) to D frey, lot on N line of Pacific avenue 37: of Fenton street, E 17:0. N 101.34. W 37.05, 86 being lot 3 in E half of lot 2. block -2 (widow) to Emma Elizabeth and Mary Lydia Younger (both single), lo: on S line of Fourtn street, 75 E of Harrison, y 8 100, lots 9 to 11. block 34, Kellersberger's map, Oak- Lland; gift. Mary Z_Chamberlain (widow) to Howard Stillman, lot on SW_corner of Haste street and Pledmont way, W 130, § 100, £ 130, N to beginning, portion of lot 32, block C, map of portion of Berkeley property, etc., Berke- ley: $100. Margery C, Fennessy (widow) to Lizsie Dorotky Schraut, lot 18, block B. map of Berkeley Homestead, Berkeley; $100. ———————— The Railway Scrap Pile. Many thousands of dollars are saved to the railroad companies each year by detailing men to look after and care for their scrap, the pieces of iron and steel that fall off moving cars, that come from abandoned machinery or from broken pieces of equipment. Almost all of the big transportation companies in the United States main- tain what they call scrap departments. At two or three points on the road. generally where there are any con- struction or extensive repair shops, this scrap is gathered from all parts of the system. One of the duties of the tradk walk- ers and repair gangs is to pick up and throw into little heaps along the track all hits of jron and steel that may be found along the right of way or that may be left whenever any plece of work is completed. At irregular in- tervals a scrap train is sent over the road for the purpose of gathering up .these odds and ends. They are taken to the gathering point and there care- fully sorted. Some ingenious mechanics have de- vised ‘machinery to separate and handle these scraps. After being run through a sort of hopper that divides the small and the large from the other different sizes, men are put to work to pick out from Whe various heaps what may again be utilized. Boits, nuts, bars, couplings and the like, which may be used again are worked over for further use. The refuse, amounting to thousands of pounds, is shi,ped to some iron works that has a contract with the company for using all this waste iron and steel. This plan of sy ‘ematically caring for the waste iror of railroads is of recent origin. It is one really of slow growth. Of course, pleces of iron and steel waste mwet Ti31 or the refuse of shops or wrecks have been taken care of for years, but only in a desultory and hzphazard way. It has remained for modern management, which is directed eternally to discovering little, new economics of operaticn, to unearth this novel idea of saving money.—New York Sun. —————— Blind Telephone Operator. Mrs. Emma Magoon Post of North England, Towa, Is totally blind, yet she successfully manages the telephone ex- change for the town and the surround- ing country and has over three hun- dred subscribers on the lines she operates. A striking feature of this remarkable exchange is its system of bell signals. Each line is provided with a special bell of a special tone and those bells are all mounted in a cab- inet a few feet from the switchboard. There are large bells, small bells, wire clock gongs, sleigh bells and high keyed bicycle bells. A fine bit of steel wire four inches long is soldered to each hammer, and a square sheet of paper attached to this wire bears the line, name or number. forming a visual signal for the assistant operator, who can see. The bell cabinet is so situated that the paper squares may be plainly seen from the operator’s seat. Mrs. Post is able to distinguish not only each one of the forty-five bells by its peculiar tone, but also t&e voices of hundreds of men, women and chil- dren whom she serves. She is a grad- uate of Jowa College for the Blind, and was noted at that institution for quick and retentlve memory.—New York Commercial. ——————— Tests of Structural Steel. The reports of tests of structural steel at the Boston insurance experi- ment station show that if struetural steel is incased in a sound covering of