The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1904, Page 24

21 TAKES FUNDS 0F THE HOTEL One of the Proprietors of the Madrona at Mill Val- ley Is Reported Missing Be Placed in Promi ‘While the dullest part of the season is at hand In the San Francisco realty market, the prices for properties sold BOOKS IN BAD SHAPE ! are satisfactory, and In some instances more than satisfactory. Building goes on very well. The contracts awarded | for building improvements during the ! last week have not involved large val- | ues in individual cases, but the total | amount represented, $442,807, has been Pockets All the Money in Strong Box Before Leav- ing for Parts Unknown ST respectable. Frame bulldings are far Special Dispatch to The Call. | outstripping the brick .structures in | COttage, on the north side of Castilla o e o e “bencral ratio of about |avenue, off of Douglass street; 22:11x MILL VALLEY, July 9%.—M. V. | 160 feet, on the northwest line of Fol- | three to one. Lewls, one of the proprietors of the ! ™, p, 0 ue larger improvements pro- Hotel Madrona, disappeared last Tues- | jocteq for the immediate future may be day morning and his partner, Fred noted the enlargement of the Hibernia Schuter, is mourning the loss of a Bank, which will. be made to occupy Fast Filling Area of City of San Francisco considerable sum of money. Schuter had absolute confidence in his partner and never thought to books. Schuter is now of the opinion that Lewis did not pay blils they owed, but instead pocketed the money. Very little is known of Lewis. He first came to Mill Valley about three | a cost of about $50,000; a seven-story | years ago and succeeded In getting employment at the Hotel Madrona. Schuter liked him from the start and | Agate alley for Willlam Tracy, at a | few months later tock him into rship. Lewis had no money at e time, but borrowed $300 and had huter indorse his note. It is pre- i that Lewis took the money last v night. He was seen by the head walter at about 9 o’clock leaning the safe. The room was dimly hted at the time, but nothing was a ig He opened the safe and dis- ed that all the money was gone. t amount taken by Lewis vet known. Schuter has an ex- ng the books, but they 3 gled. ———— al loss from the burning of the United States is about not including cost of insur- ance and the appliances for fire protec- T B has become of the old-fash- ngy man of whom it was said A skin a flea for its hide and What JNO. J. FULTON CO. ONE DAY'S _the entire lot at McAllister and Jones | streets with the exception of a strip examine the | Sixteen feet wide on the west; the erec-| tion of a seven-story and basement structure for Henry E. Bothin on the | north line of California street, on the f site of the present Hotel de France, be- tween Kearny and Dupont streets, at end basement brick structure on the northeast corner of Post street and cost of about $100,000; the addition of two stories to the Hobart Estate Com- pany buflding at 233 Post street, to cost | $40,000; an elght-story and basement structure for the estate of Isabella Cowell on the east line of Sansome street, between Clay and Washington streets, at an estimated cost of $100,000; | two three-story residences on of Washington street, 165:6 feet west of Spruce, to*cost about §21,000. Flats remain popular as a means of | | investing money judging by the con- tracts awarded. f LEASES ARE NEGOTIATED. Several leases of good size have just been negotiated. Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. have leased for Scott & Van Ars- dale the lot on the westerly line of | Stockton street, north of Sutter, 37:6x | 137:6 feet, for ten years. The owners have agreed to erect a handsome seven- story brick and stone building, to be occupied as a fashionable lodging- house. The building will contain one hundred rooms and sixty bathrooms, and two stores on the ground floor. This is the northerly portion of the fifty vara on the northwest corner of | Sutter and Stockton streets, which | Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. recently sold the | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1901. PRICES ARE SATISFACTORY IN REALTY'S DULL SEASON Several Costly Improvements Are Projected to nent Central Sections of of Carl; a cottage and 25x180 feet on the west side of Eureka street, 200 feet south of Twentieth; 25x75 feet and cottage on the north line of Ringgold street, 100 feet east of Ninth; four | flats and 27:6x132:7% on the south | side of Sacramento street, 137:6 west of Spruce; the southeast corner of Noe and Ford streets, 28x110 feet, with an eleven-room house, a stable and barn; 27x120 feet and four flats at 760, 762 and 764 Sixth avenue; 25x104:5, with 275 som street, feet northwest of Fifth; 25x100 feet and a cottage on the north side of Greenwich street, §1 feet | } west of Laguna; two lots on the south | side of M street, 82 feet east of Thir- teenth avenue, 25x100 feet each. The realty holdings of the late Al- yvinza Hayward will be sold to the highest bidders by William J. Dingee, administrator of the Hayward estate, on and after Monday, July 21. Among the properties is the Hayward building | on the northeast corner of California and Montgomery streets, the adjoining | property on Montgomery street and | the southeast corner of California and Leidesdorff streets. There are more | than twenty parcels to be sold. PR e R R SOME QUEER LAKES i EXIST IN THE WORLD One of Pitch, Another Rose Colored, | a Third Covercd With a | Salty Crust. | spreads over an area of 99 acres, and its surface is composed of one grc-ati floating mass of asphaltum, seamed | with veins of clear water. From it and | a similar lake asphalt Is drawn. The Pitch Lake is a hideous place as far as smells are concerned, for the air all about it i{s heavy with noxious | vapors, and from the center of the lake | gushes a fountaip of liquid asphaltum, in which there float and break bubbles | | containing most horrible gases. l The workmen go out on the surface | | of this lake and cut great slabs of as- | phaltum, which are carried away. But | | the next morning the hole they left | is filled up again with the pitch which | has risen during the night, so that the supply seems inexhaustible. | This curious lake was discovered by | Sir Walter Raleigh when he landed in | Trinidad in 1595, on his way to the mouth of the Orinoco in search of El ADVERTISEMENTS. o - Round about San Francisco Bay it is estimated there are 73,000 houses, and into two-thirds of these houses we have put the furniture that has changed them into homes. WE ARE THE REAL HOME-BUILDERS, THE BUILDERS OF COMFORT AND CONTENTMEN’I". There are an average of 7 homes a day going up about the bay, and to every family struggling to own its own furniture and ultimately its own home we have this offer to make: WE WILL FURNISH THAT HOME UPON THE SMALLEST DEPOSIT ASKED BY ANY HOUSE IN THE CITY, ACCEPT THE LIGHTEST PAYMENT AND CHARGE THE LOWEST PRICES. Try us and see if we do not keep our word. GOLDEN OAK EXTENSION TABLE— Heavy rope twist cable legs, § ft., reg. 3-piece Hardwood Birch Mahogany | Reclining Go-Carts. Rub- hought of the incident. Tuesday | southeast corner of Pacific avenueand | One of the most singular lakes in the 3};,?‘;{5‘#“‘- 88. 8 1t., reg. 315; spe Finish Bedroom Set. Full size double | ber tire steel wheels, pat- ning Lewis did not put in an np-“ Laguna street and adjoining, for J. D.| world is the celebrated Pitch Lake of | bed. Dresser with double curved top ent foot brake. Reg. $8.50 ce and Schuter became suspi- | Spreckels; a residence on the north line | the Island of Trinidad. This lake | drawers. Large French bevel plate value. Special this week $4.75 Parasols extra, from $1.00 up. mirror. Regular $45.00 3-pcs. Special this week $32.50 Golden oak hanging plate, cup and saucer rack. Special.. 650 Onyx and Brass Tables. Sideboard. - . Sotid ] Jucsd oak. French plate mirror. Curved cut- lery and linen draw- ers, $25.50 value. Spe- T o | cANVAS RECLINING close out what JU! we have all re- from $2.50 up. $7.00 reduced $4.00 $6.00 reduced to AND AD- STABLE SLEBPY HOLLOW CHAIR—Can be used for the deck, veranda or for camping out. buy placed us in po: ceral hundred below cost acture. _Positively sold el The Ajax Sanitary Metal Couch. Can be made single, three-quarter or double size bed. used as a couch recial to Weathered Oak China Closet. Glass mirror and leaded work on _top (like cut). Reg. ular $33.00 Special this week, Pretty and dainty Par- lor or Bed- room Recep- tion Chair, m an dam- $550 Rattan Rocker Basket weave, gives to the of the body ures €O Covered assortment colors of asks, tape 83.25 5 reduced to 83.00 | to Scott & Van Arsdale, and this part| !of the lot has never been improved.| The total amount of rental involved for | the term of ten years is more than| $120,000. | Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. have also | leased to James H. Fannin & Co. the easterly half of the second story of the | new Wilcox building, on Mission street, | near Third, for the term of five years |at a total rental of $12,000. Another | lease by the same agents is a building CALIFORNIA WOOL BLANKETS. 11-4 size, a fine soft pure wool, wover are bound with silk. Dorado. { Another strange lake is situated on a | peninsula which juts out into the Cas- | plan Sea. The whole surface of this lake is covered with a crust of salt so thick and strong that a man can ride across it on horseback with safety. | In Central Asia, near the Caspian Sea, is a lake of beautiful rose color, | while the banks are covered with salt | crystals as white as snow. From the | Ve $14.80 One immense floor de- voted to Dining Room pieces varm blanket, choice of pir on i into a heavy, Regular $6.50 Facts So Hard to Believe That They Are Certified Before Pre- sentation. PORTIERES AND COUCH COVERS— Handsome Orfental styles, beautiful Sen Francisco, July 7, 1904. occurrences are being daily 3 ngton St that in view ? ng the people that 1 Diabetes are incurabie, John J. Fulton Co. asked rrespondence and certify noes of Tuesday of this ence on that ent which from same you last winter rel- Bright's disease, for ur compound last cured 1 have it that 1 am ite g0 an & Co. the larg- ates, who wri and handle Fulton m a gentieman con- e Insurance Co. in writes that e Compound on sleeping better he night than “In fact, after ul I believe this ogress toward suc- etter was from George G. Smith Cal. He says: ‘The doctors uble Diabetes and 1 had wasted skeleton. Was weak and knew had but a few A lady heard of my case and d your Compound. 1 am now on s m comparatively well, a ng like a new that I e treatment until disease have dis- ) you and the next was from . G. W. Crooks ne, lowa, who says she is just starfing mpound, due 1o the fact that claims that the use of your ound has in a large measure re- the disease of Diabetes, and ir name and address, thinking that C.. Sheller, lock box imore, Ohlo, who is at the end first thi u} dayr of the Fulton treatment » inbetes. ie writes x B sreatly pleased. The specific gravity has dropped from 1040 to 1050 and the urine and sugar has reduced nearly one-half.”” _The next was a report from A. P. Forbes, the mining expert of 337 Pine St., this eity. h several properties in Oregon—one in e charge of his nephew, Robert Forbes, to whom he is much attached. His nephew's health failing, he was moch distressed to learn that it was Bright's Disease. He interviewed e of those who had recovered in this city r the Fulton Compounds. Among others be knew personally the late N. W, Spsulding, ex-U. €. Sub-Treasurer, of this cily, and ;‘ es Engelke, editor of one of the Gi rman satisfied him of the genuineness s, Mr. Spaulding telling him of plete Tecovery of his daughter after ysicians sald she was beyond help with DBright's Disease, and Engelke had also recov. i from the same disease under the same tment. This decided Mr. Forbes and he sent Fulton's Compound without delay t his mephew at Pursel, and he Vas soon about his dutics and finally rerovered was in December, 1602 Mr. Forbes re. on the above date. July 6 1904 when ,_v,‘k-.l how his nephew was now, said he was all right, “T was so delighted wt bis recovery that I told a great mamy Among others T 10ld & lady who took interest in it. &8 she had two friends o hat time with Bright's Disease. fhe tnterest. #d them both, particularly as one of them knew me. I did not see her for a long time. but met her recently and was delighted to have her thank me. She gave me the pleasing information that both had recovered. Such occurrences as the above are in the nature of miracles and almost unbelievable, hence the request of the parties interested to have me certify and attest the above facts— in evidence of which I bereby attach my name and official seal with the original correspond. ence before me. (Seal) THOS. 8. BURNE, San Francisco, Cal. Notary Publie. July 7. 1904 : o!?.ll Montgomery St. About 87 per cen cases of t's he Pt Discase and Diabetes are curable by Titerature and list of agents, gno. J. Fulton Co., 400 Washington ton's Compounds. Send for street, San Francisco. sol E TWhen to suspect Bright's Disease: Pufty ankles or hanfls: weakness without eause; kidney trouble after third month: fre- quent urination (may show sediment or cloudy on standing): fasling vision; one or more of | to be erected on City Hall avenue for the City Abstract Company. Thomas Magee & Sons have sold for the estate of M. E. Luchsinger the southwest corner of Mission and Tenth streets, 146:6x102 feet, the larger front- age being on Missibn street, with two three-story buildings, for about $60,000. Gustav Marshall has sold 34:435x60 feet on the south line of Bush street, 103:10 feet east of Grant avenue, for £47,000. The improvements consist of a four-story brick building renting for $275 a month. The purchaser is not named by the broker. G. H. Umbsen & Co. report through their country department the sale of 540 acres at Sunol for W. C. Stone of San Francisco to the Rupert brothers of Santa Clara County for $26,000; ten acres at Belmont for the Mezes estate to C. W. Willard for $2000; 240 acres of timber land in Mendocino County for Mrs. Annie Martin to L. W. Schoofey for $2400; also lots in New.Monterey. RESIDENCE PROPERTIES. Lyon & Hoag, among other sales, have made the following: Greenwood Estate Company to Mary G. Ryan, 41:3x120 feet and four flats, with rear house, on the south line of Fell street, 178:9 feet west of Octavia, for $13,000; | Charles J. Keenan to E. E. Gullixon, 36:6x87:6 feet and six flats on the west line of Lyon st :6 feet south of Clay, $19,000; feet and three new s on the east line of Noe street, 175 feet south of Fifteenth, for Thomas H. McCarthy to Moses Fisher, for about $10,000; two flats on the south line of Frederick street, 105:7% feet east from Cole, with lot 25x112:6 feet, for about $7000, for Dr. J. W. Hamilton to W. B. Dowling; also lots in the Richmond block bounded by Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth avenues and Point Lobos avenue and Clement street. Baldwin & Howell have sold for Albert Meyer to Frederic A. Gardner 32x125 feet on the north line Valleja street, 50 feet east of Baker, for $5000. . Thorne & Kilpatrick have sold fo Andrew B. Knox to John Carroil the southeast corner of Guerrero and Elizabeth streets, 25:6x70 feet, for $7000. Sol Getz & Son report that the build- ings to be erected in the Oceanside and boulevard district this season will far surpass the improvements made in the same section within the last two years. The following sales are reported by Sol Getz & Son: Lot 32:6x100 on the northeast corner of Forty-seventh ave- | nue and I street, to W. C. Cavitt; 25x 120 on the west line of Forty-sixth avenue, 250 feet south of H street, to C. Carlsen; 100x100 on the northeast orner of Forty-sixth avenue and B street, to F. T. Faircloth; 25x100 on the north line of I street, 107:6 feet | east of Forty-seventh avenue, to G. A. | Spencer; 25x120 on the east line of | Forty-third avenue, 175 feet south of | T street, to B. M. Berry; 25x120 on the | west line of Forty-seventh avenue, 125 feet south of L street, to C. J. Eldracher. v OFFERED AT AUCTION. Easton, Eldridge & Co. will auction realty next Tuesday. The list of prop- erties to be sold includes the northeast corner of Jones and Greenwich streets, with four two-story and basement houses of ten rooms and bath each; 25x100 feet and three flats on the east line of Willard street, 100 feet north ot | waters of this lake there arises a flow- | er-like odor. “The color and the odor | are supposed to be caused by the veg-[ etable matter. in the depths. | There used to be a curious lake on | the top of the Volcano de Agua, in | Guatemala, 14,000 feet above the level | of the sea. It was not fed by springe nor by rivers, but was caused by lhe: accumulations of snow and rain—in fact, was an immense reservoir. It lasted for centuries. Then, one day, the sides of the lake gave way, and down the waters rolled, dealing death and destruction and digging a great barranca, or ravine, in the mountain- | | side, . which Is still visible.—Baltimore | | American. | —_——————— | Married Women as Wage-Earners. | The American prejudice against | | wage-earning by married women ap- | pears in the effort occasionally made to make the employment of teachers in the public schools terminate with marriage. But thousands of Ameri-| can married women do earn wages, thousands more would gladly do so if they could, and other thousands would be happier and better off if they did. | The prejudice against it seems disad- vantageous. American men, as a rule, prefer to support their wives, if they can. If an American married woman works for pay it is either because it gives her pleasure or because her hus- |band’s income is insufiicient. She | does not do it as a matter of course. Iow long she can keep it up depends upon what the work is and upon other circumstances. If she has children {that, of course, interferes with her | wage-earning if it does not stop it al- | together, and general a: ~ptance of | the custom which would restrict or discourage child Bearing is not to the public advantage. Marriage tends, and should tend, to withdraw women from wage-earning, but it need mot stop it per se and abruptly. To make marriage a bar to future wage‘earn- a woman operates in restriction riage, and that is at least as much against public policy as re- striction as child bearing.—Harper's Weekly. ———————————— Cultivation of Sponges. An interesting investigation now be- ing carried on in Florida by the bureau of fisheries has for its object the dis- covery and development of methods by which the valuable sheepswool sponge may be cultivated artificially. The method which promises the most satisfactory results is that of using cuttings. Large sheepswool sponges are cut into small pieces, which are ) fastened to an insulated wire fixed in the water, so that the sponges are sup- ported a few inches above the bottom. These small bits, placea at close in- tervals along the wire, soon heal and form an organic attachment to it and very soon begin to grow. It is too soon to predict just what the results will be, but the indications are so far very en- couraging and it is believed that the time is not far distant when the sponge fisheries of Florida will be vastly in- creased in productiveness and value.— Geographic Magazine. —————————— In the famous Bohemian glass fac- tory regions glass blowers receive $5 to $8 a week, working by the piece; cullers get $3 to $3 50 per week; en- gravers §4 to $6; skilied painters and gilders $6 to $8. > No need for bare floors, With Carpet for sale At These Prices: Tapestry Cerpets,yd 85¢ Velvet Carpets, new yard 93e Axminster Carpets. A .yard “THE CREDIT HOUSE” color effects, woven effective: 50 in. wide and 3 yards long, ends are fringed; actual value $4.50; we will offer them at $3.00 pr., or, each ..... o either side is $1.50 233-235-237 POST ST. “The Biggest Furniture Housec on the Pacific Coast.” ‘ $3.85 Cable Net Curtains 31 yds.long. er, with dainty and border side and New Theory of Radium. In a lecture on radium at the Royal Institution last month, Professor Ruth- erford of Montreal said that if it were | possible to collect a cubic inch of ra- dium emanation the tube containing it would probably melt, while a few |plosion in the radium, by which parti- pounds would supply enough energy to | cles were shot off at great velocities. drive a ship across the Atlantic. It | Regarding the question as to whether interior stores of radium could account would, however, require upward of 70 tons of radium to supply these few [for the increase of heat as we go pounds. He suggested that the eman- | deeper into the earth he made an af- ation was produced by an atomic ex- | firmative answer and said that if this I“"e true the date of the final freezing of things terrestrial and the disappear- | ance of life from the earth could prob- ably be postponed for a few million years more than the geologists and physicists had hitherto believed.—New York Commercial. ADVERTISEMENTS. h € most But the beer must be And the beer must be aged. the world for you. alcohol—only 3y pure. Schlitz beer 1s absolutely pure; ‘1t can’t harm you. the Brewery Bottlifig. - Los Angeles—SHERWOOD & SHERWOOD--San Freacisco Wholesate Distributers The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous. everage of Health Pure beer—Schiitz beer—is the best drink n The malt 1s a food; the hops a tonic. 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