The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1904. CALIFORNIA’S STATE BOARD OF TRADE AND MILLERS ARE TO HE Pledging Ready Coin for Experiments in Gluten. Re%ch Decision That Seed Grain Is Required. oard of Trade Horace Davis California have to enable Pro- University of Cal- by experiment a wheat can not be a greater percentage process of selection. of Trade has decided in sums of money to wheat from countries rain has much gluten, the ng to distribute the seed rs to see what results can The experiments in se- ion to be carried on by the Univer- of California will take several years of work. In the meantime im- ate good results may be brought t by the use of fresh seed. These w facts in a matter of great to California, involving the ning in this State iliforria State Bc nformed where t purpose ¢ abc Trade has de- recently to looking of California flour y are compelled to im- tities of wheat from ruth Dakota to blend wheat to make strong anded by a large ady been reported conference took place Board of Trade and subject last week. tment a committee of en was authorized to in- ding this investigation which is headed man, has met attach to all T dings. Horace b Board of Trade ) ¥ and quality of ¥ iuced in California is, from s ¥ f view, falling off. oblems of engrossing sidered Some of ted at the recent con- about by the State Ca n the State n th The importance of rants the publication, g ny of the statements Horace Davis. s N to all farmers row wheat for the lers. Not less will tention of all per- trying to promote the this MONEY. the « r the millers e $500, Horace Davis says: from the University > to see me about this He said that the Uni- wanted experiment g the wheat by selection. fied that to improve the on of the seed would the problem. They that the wheat would ge a percentage of mall a percentage streng flour that is they believe that it by the careful selec- to find a strong wheat n in this State and will roduce itself strongly. irbank produces his Professor Shaw ted a little money to € iment in selection and that if ¥ ild get $500 the first year f xt four years, he experiments. -neral Chipman. 00 among the of at 1as been received by General Chip- wing statements nd bre z it has been pos- ugar in the beet cent to an average of per cent. By similar been possible to increase and albumenoir percent- as demonstrated in the t the Illinois Experiment view of these accomplish- rease the s Ir e % PYTHIAN ENIGHTS WILL ADVERTISE THE STATE McKinley Company of the Uniform Rank Will Enter the Contest for Trophies at Louisville. hts of Pythias of California to do something next August in the matter of advertising the State &t Louisville, Ky., during the session of the Supreme Lodge of the order in that city. The Knights expect to make & showing of many of the products of e State and will distribute literature g attegtjon to the empire of the West, its resources, its possi- 4 opportunities for those who a change of locality. In uniform rank of the order will turn out 1500 strong The K propose in this St in the parade that will be held in the Bouthe 3 The company, MeKinley No. 3, that is eoing frc Franeisco wiil not only shine in th but it will enter the competition for trophies that have been offered. In order to win one or more of the prizes it is drilling continu- ally under the mmand of Captain J. K. Ritter, who the reputation of heing the most proficient drill master of fraternal semi-military associations in the United States. The company ex- pects to be perfect when it enters the contest. The various lodges of this city, as well as individual Sir Knights, have contributed company to travel apd, while in Louis- ville, maintain the reputation of the Knights of the metropolis of the Pa- cific Coast. P —_—— WATERMELON FEAST FOR ISOLATED CABLE STAFF Transport Sherman Takes Shipment of Fruit From Honolulu to Mid- way Island. HONOLULU, July 17.—The trans. port Sherman, which has gone to Ma- via Midway and Guam, has among her cargo a quantity of water- lons, the first ever sent to Mid- way. They are for the cable staff and others on the island. em of rational | California farmers the home millers’ and bakers’ use and flour trade. The flour millers of ute $500 toward cxperiments to be California, on the lines of natural may permancntly pos flonr. These are the first recorded the crop in this State, this vear, is ! the ordinary average of California four years Minneapolis flow: into California for sale. Eastern to Los Angeles for the use of flour brought in for the flour mills at all leading mill centers north of the { | Tehachapi pass. ments there would appear no reason | why results might not be accomplished in the case of wheat.” | Some liberal extracts are given here- with of the statements that Horace | Davis hag made to the California State | Board of Trade, that all in interest | may understand the requirements as they are set forth. Concerning the im- portation of wheat from other States into California Mr. Davis said: IMPORTATION OF WHEAT. | The flour millers are Importing wheat from | Kansas and South Dakota in very considerable zantities to blend with our flour and for- | v 1t_and give strength to its glutinous qual- We pay & good deal more for it than e State. s white is etronger. much as being ‘a wrong o The wheat from new land When I first went into th ss here forty-odd years ago the wheat | was then mainly obtained | ralia and what we ralsed was mainiy wheat and was of pretty fair | Then as time W on we got to | e wheat and then more club wheat and the quality of the seed of the Kind raised teadily decreased. Gentlemen of farming in- terests know why they raise club wheat. i It is stiffer and it the drought pretty | well, not as well as e Australian, and the chaff holds the berry in the head stronger, 5o | that when it is thrashed it doesn't thrash onto the ground as other grains do, and on the | whole the farmer thinks he gets a better VieW from club wheat than from Australian. | it has reached a polat where club wheat has | come be common and poor. Let me say | he crop of this State this year is | o be large enough to supply our and od and we have to import wheat to make the ordinary average quantity of flour we make in this State. gan to feel the effects of this three four years ago in the importation of Bast- nd that rp flour, and you see it here and there along the streets, *‘Minneapolis flour” or ‘‘South Da- kota flour,” and as a sure sign that some- | thing was needed to improve our flour it did mot come in until three or four years ago. When I went down to Los Angeles I found they were freely importing it there to mix | with California_wheat. We took the hint | from that and began fo import flour to mix with our flour. We didn't like that, so we imported the wheat and made our flour out of the wheat and made better flour than we could out of California wheat straight and | improved the quality of our food. | WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. i In the foregoing Davis gives the prin- cipal facts to explain the present situa- | tion and provide a basis for under- | standing and good work in behalf of | the State. When he addressed the State Board of Trade many questions were asked by members of the board | that tended to elicit facts more effectu- ally than they ordinarily could be ! brought out in a formal essay or con- | versation. Davis told the board what | has been done experimentally since it | was discovered that there was need for | importing wheat to make flour having the required strength to suit market | cenditions. In this connection Davis said: Ic ley to led the attention of the men at Berke- | these conditions some five or six years 2go and they said were experimenting | with wheats in their experimental grounds. T sent East and got Kansas wheat and d! tributed it in our different mille. We asked cur agents to distribute it to the farmers and they try to get them to sow it, which they have done in many instances. Wheat acts dif- ferently on_the same soil. Some will stand Some will send One has drought and some will not. out surface roots and some will not. to_study the eoil and glimate. I wrote this year Qo the university and | said that if they would pick out for us.al | half dozen or dozen different varieties of wheat that were strong and they thought would stane transportation to this State, 1 would send them: | | out, and we have sent out ‘such ssmples, some | to the farmers and in some cases hired men | to it, and In some places planted it our- | #elves, s0 we shall have in a good many | | samples this year and know something about | the handling of it. But I want to say to you that all these wheats bleach out in this | country; the quality changes. All these strong | | wheats ‘become starchy in California. | We should educate the farmers to getting a new seed. One great difficulty e they don't | #hift the seed. Sometimes they take the seed | | from their next-door neighbor, whereas if they | got it from some other part of the State they | would do better. The Oregon wheats do very well here. They are stronger than our wheats. Most of the wheat raised around Chico i club | t. T should think about 80 per cent of it club wheat. USES OF FERTILIZERS. C. Friedlander, secretary of the o was T NEWSBOY IS DROWNED IN SONOMA COUNTY Eleven-Year-Old Joseph Brown Falls Into the Creek While at Play. Joseph Brown, an eleven-year-old boy, who has sold papers around The Call building and who was well known by all the newspaper men and well loved by the newsboys, was drowned vesterday afternoon at El Verano, near Glen Ellen, Sonoma County. 5 The boy had left his home, at 225 Third street, yesterday morning, to spend a vacation with the family of Thomas Gosland, of 232 Third street, and at noon the father received word that his boy was drowned. Gosland left immediately with an undertaker and the body will be brought back to the city for burial. The father, Joseph Brown, is employed at the Pa- cific Mail Dock. § HE California State Board of Trade has practically decided to import seed wheat as an immediate means to give back to ss the prope known as gluten, which is . indespe home industry its own field as against importations from Kansas and South Dakota. The situation has become sufficiently serious {o lead a conservative man, Horace Davis, who is entirely conversant with wheat growing and with flour making in California, to declare that supply our seed and food and that wheat must be imported to make and South Dakota flour has been coming { bow the farmers will go across the fence and et | year by | and zluten, and the percentages vary. There | point she ; pends upon the percentage of gliadin. The child was playing on the bank of the creek when he slipped and fell into a pool of water nine feet in depth. Louis Mouz was an eye-witness to the drowning. Mouz was standing on the bridge which spans the stream, when he saw the child struggling in the water. Realizing at ence its perilous position he plunged into the creek with his clothes on and made every effort to rescue the drowning boy, but be- fore he reached him the lad had gone down for the third time. Mouz re- covered the body and brought it to shore. Medical aid was summoned but life was pronounced extinct. —_————— MONTANA MAN HAS AN AIRSHIP AT ST. LOUIS Declares That Within a Few Days He ‘Will Sail His Crafg Into Fair Grounds. ST. LOUIS, July 17.—T. C. “Ben- bow of Montana has an airship in a canvas shed at Delmar Garden, just outside the World's Fair grounds, and declares that he will within the next few days make a flight to the fair grounds, landing in the aeronautic concourse. ~ * market for wheat raised for also to provide for the Oriental California have agreed to contrib- conducted at the University of sclection, that Califgrnia wheat percentage of thel constituent able for the making of stronz moves toward holding for-a great not going to be large enough to flour. During the past three or i wheat has been freely imported millers, and it has also been g ) Merchants’ Exchange, added some light to the situation that all farmers will new consider. In part Mr. Friedlander great question is whether thers is a commercial fertilizer that will assist In pro- ducing gluten, but there is another question | affecting the wheat crop of California that I very important and which I think this board could take up, the question of using the proper seed. Mr. Davis has told you before his neighbor's seed and thinks he has chanked his seed. If his neighbor has had a soor crop he will plant the poor seed and then expect & good crop to come from the poor seed. Take the corn crop of the United States, for instance. That crop Is increasing in quality year because the farmer has exer- cised a great deal of care in the selection of the secd he plants for the next yi increased the yield and the quality. farmer of California never thinks of that. The thing to do is to take a small portion of the fleld and plant seed for the next year, cultivate it, fertilize it, if necessary Irrigate iz, and then he will get the proper wheat crop. Our wheat crop is deteriorating not only in its gluten. but in the yield per acre. As to the office that the gluten per- forms in the manufacturer and uses of flour Mr. Davis gave practical infor- mation: Flour is composed of two substances, starch is probably about one-eighth gluten and seven- elghths starch. The starch forms the fat which keeps the fire burning; gluten forms muscle and is a strength giving element. Gluten is necessary for the raistmg of the loaf. Thus grains like rice and. corn that have gluten don’t stick together. In making bread You mix into the dough something that pro- duces gas, it may be some chemicals, but whatever it is it produces gas inside of the mass of dough and the gas gets entangled in the inside of the gluten, which is all through | the mixture and forms a bubble. You take a loaf of bread and cut it open and every bubble is lined h something like the balls the children play with, which looks like India rubber. That iz gluten. The little bubbles of gas come together and get caught and are held by this gluten and raise the loaf up. This s the process of raising, bread. When the housewife finds it at the proper puts it in the oven and the oven | keeps all that gas inside. You close the oven door and it stops the gas from escaping. You brown it and then the heat penetrates the Joaf and hardens it, and then you put it on the table and cut it open and you have it all full of these bubbles of gas, each of which is in a bag of gluten. LACKING IN GLUTEN. You take club wheat flour without the proper amount of gluten, the bubbles are very #mall and it does not rise. That's because the gluten in club wheat is not sufficient to hold the big bubbles, £00d strong g in_your bread. Club wheat bread ised properly is just as wholesome as the other. Experiments have been made at aif- ferent times and in different places, at Min- neapolis, in Washington, In Germany, as to the value of white flour bread and graham flour bread. They tried the experiment on four young men and ascertained the fact be- yond ‘question, as far as investigation could make if, that a far greater perceftage of white flour bread was absorbed into the system and went in as nutriment, while a larger percentage of the graham flour bread | was thrown off. s0 we may regard that ex- | periment as being finally settled. The greater nutriment is with the white flour bread, but these same things that are thrown off of the human system the cow can digest. Davis said that there is a difference in gluten. From the commercial point of view gluten is composed of two sub- stances, called gliadin and glutenin. “Glutenin,” he said, “is the stiff end and gliadin is the sticky end of it. The } ability of gluten to hold together de- i If there is too much it will not stand | up, but runs. Irrigated wheat is what | we call ‘punky.” Millers do not buy it. Wheat in the imperial is very hand- some, but it does not make flour. The percentage of gluten in wheat that is ample. for the housewife will not do for the baker. The baker wants a high percentage of gluten so that he can use more water. The wife does not want too much because it takes too much muscle to mix it Mr. Kelly, also connegted with' the flour milling industry of this State, sald that wheat must go through a sweat- ing process. ‘“The baker makes a flour. The gluten stretches and he cuts it and throws it but he never breaks it. That is what he wants the gluten in FRIENDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF BURBANK SOMERS | the flour for. Impressive Services Are Held at the Residence and Interment Fol- lows in Cypress Lawn. Impressive services were held over the remains of Burbank Somers yester- day afternoon at the home of his pa- rents, 1034 Mission street. Interment followed at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. The Rev. George G. Eldredge, pastor of St. John’s Presbyterian Church, deliv- ered the funeral sermon. Music was rendered by the Wilkie-Neilson quartet, Mrs. Lathrop assisting with her clear soprano voice. Handsome floral offer- ings surrounded the casket as tributes of loving friendship. The remains were conveyed to Cypress Lawn by special train. A sad feature of the trip was the arrival of ‘the funeral train at the cemetery at the same time the body of Miss Bertha M. Dolbeer was being conveyed to its last resting place. Miss Dolbeer and Mr. Somers had been friends for years. Representatives from the Bohemian and Family clubs, as well as several minor organizations to which Mr. Somers had been a member, were in at- tendance and accompanied the remains to the grave. The following friends of the young man acted as pallbearers: Messrs. McNutt, McNair. Stringham, ‘Whipple, Peterson, McClaughry, Deed- er, Bakewell, Haff, Parsons. —_—— Hemorrhage ¥From Tooth Drawing. The rupturing of an artery in the low- er jaw of Frank Mathyas of 908 Fol- #om street on Saturday afternoon came near ending in his death. The hem- orrhage was so great that after the resources of the dentist who pulled a tooth had been exhausted in his at- tempt to stop the flow of blood Math- yas applied to the Emergency Hospital, where the services of Dr. Carl Wii- son were required to save his life. He no sooner reached his home, however, than the hemorrhage again started and he was compelled to make a second trip to the hospital. Dr. Kusick, after an hour’s labor, succeeded in closing the artery. Practical Men Tell Facts of Great Importance. —_—— Demands for Strong Flour Will Be Satisfied. # U e, LP WHEAT FARMERS HOLD HOME MARKET Then after it has gone through = fermentation he works it | again and keeps turning the loaf and throws it down and lets it stretch. Gluten stretches it and that is what they want it for.” DISCUSSING DETAILS. Incidental to the discussion before the State Board of Trade relating to what can be done to promote the interests of wheat in California the following conversation took place: Mr. Mills—What proportion of Eastern wheat is necessary to make the proper blend? Mr, Davis—That depends _on the kind of Calitornia_wheat you use. You take common club wheat; it contains over 6 or 8 per cent ried gluten in it, while that from the East Fas 14, 15 or 16 per cent. Mr. Kelly—Thirty-five per cent wet gluten would be about 12 per cent dried gluten; 12 | per cent is pretty good. Mr. Davis—Now then we take that and we put in, i it 18 very strong flour, 25 or 30 per cent of Bastern wheat and that would make very high flour. Five or 10 per cent is used in many cases. General Chipman—By Australlan wheat you mean wheat from that variety of seed? Mr. Davis—Yes. Mr. Mills—What the Agricultural College is trying to do is to develop, by cultivation, a varlety of wheat in which the gluten will exist in this climate. 1 think this board might do something towards securing a legislative ap- propriation in favor of developing a variety of Wheat that would contain sufficlent gluten and Would mot lose it by continuous cultivation here. Mr. Mills—Will fertilization of any kind add ten in wheat? e Byl There 15 undoubtedly something that s due to the soil, because certain sec- tions of the State produce glutenous wheat. Wheat grown on light sofl is starchy, and that grown on new land is stronger than wheat grown on old land. Wheat grown on red land i strong wheat. Mr MillThe the character of the soil has eversthing to do with the production of Something. Fertilization would have something to do with it. Chemically speaking, tho starch is the last thing nature makes. 1f you cut the wheat green you al- ways have a stronger berry than if it is rip>. The longer it is in the fleld the more starch you have, Starch is the last thing that is produced in the berry. When the wheat is nearly ripe it has more gluten in percentage than at the end of the process. In m- opinion, the wheats of Oregon are stronger because the season is shorter. Mr. Sharp—I want to say that when I was in the miliing busi s in the East we cut the wheat green because it made better flour; better than when it was ripe, Mr. Mills—It i{s the absence of storms in the harvest season that makes our season longer. 1 have seen wheat stand in October, so that your statement that the starch is pro- duced later would give us a starchy wh Mr. Davis—If we could mix in, say per cent of good strong wheat, it would help the flovr very much. Mr. Mills—What we want to do to prevent Eastern importation is to raise wheat contain- ing the proper amount of gluten, Then we can make flour without the importation of for- Robles now that was brought from Kansas and planted hy a farmer. It will be harvested this year and make a beautiful wheat. Mr, Turner—I think the matter has been covered by Mr. Davis. However, I think that the selection of seed has a lrclt'dell to do with the quality of the wheat. We have Im- ported seed from Oregon two or three times, and from Washington. REVIEWED BY CHIPMAN. Prior to the adoption of resolutions introduced by Manager Briggs, calling for the appointmient of a committee by the State Board of Trade to investigate as to what can be accomplished in the premises, some general statements | of interest were made by General N. P. Chipman. He said in part: Preliminary to inviting Mr. Davis to address the board some time ago, my attention was called to the fact that we were importing | wheat from Kansas and South Dakota and poseibly other States east of the Rocky Moun- tains to California for the purpose of blending it with the California grown wheat to make & flour acceptable to the bakers and consumers in this State, and that it had been found to be a necessity to put themselves at additional ex- pense in order to produce a satisfactory grade of flour. Mr, Davis has said that in the earlier d: when our land was stronger our wheat w stronger. Mr. Friedlander has called atten- tion to the gradual diminution of the amount of wheat as well the inferiority of the quality. T know that on land in Tehama Coun- ty in the earller days they used to get thirty to forty sacks to the acre; now that same land produces eight to ten sacks to the acre, and the wheat is not as Now, the poifit is this: If in the early days when the land was virgin it produced a satisfactory wheat of sufficlent strength, there is no reason In the world why the chemical elements which were In the soil at that time can not be put back by artificfal fertilization. So that with fertilization and the principles of selection suggested it would seem to me this question should be further investigated and if possible some recommendations be made. SAN FRANCISCO ARTIST 1S HONORED IN FRANCE Latest Production of the Well Known Young Painter Is Purchased by Government for Its Salon. ‘Word was received here yesterday from Paris announcing that Jules Pages, the well-known California ar- tist, has again been honored by the French Government, which has pur- chased his latest Salon exhibit, the subject of which is a Holland tavern. This latest honor is a particularly dis- tinctive one in that it is the first pur- chase by the French Government of a painting from the brush of a San Franciscan. Jules Pages is one of the best known young artists in this city, where he was reared. He has been studying in Paris for a number of years and first received special recog- nition for his work in France a num- ber of years ago, when he was honor- ably mentioned in the annual Parisian competition. Four years ago he re- ceived the gold medal and now his achievement in art has been rewarded by the Government buying his exhibit. Pages’ former painting, for which he received a medal, is now among the collection of the Mark Hopkins Insti- tute of Art. ——— S — Has Millions at Her Disposal. Mrs. Anne Lippe, who lives at 989 Buchanan - street, the woman who sought to outdo the “sweet pea girl® by offering a bunch of sweet peas to Judge Mogan in the Police Court, was yesterday placed behind locked doo;&n the detention hospital for the insane at the City Hall. She had been sent to St. Luke's Hospital, where her dis- ordered mind was found to justify her remoVal to the more secure detention hospital. There it was deemed neces- sary to strap her to a bed. The woman will be examined by medical experts to- day. In her raving mood she claims to have millions of doflars at her disposal, and one of these millions is to be given :: Captain Anderson of the Mission sta- on. BLOW CAUSES MAN'S DEATH} W. Gloster Fatally Injures J. A. Funk in Drunken Row on Kearny Street WITNESSES PRESENT ZR P W. H. Clark Follows Assail- ant While Wife Watches Beside the Fallen Man A blow from the fist of Welford Glos- ter sent J. A. Funk reeling to the pave- ment at Post and Kearny streets early yesterday morning. Funk's head struck the curbstone with such force that his skull was fractured. He died at 11:40 a. m. at the Harbor Emergency Hospital. Funk left a saloon at Geary and Mar- ket streets, where he had been linger- ing since midnight, and proceeded along Kearny street with Welford Gloster and Harry Keppler. The three were bound for their lodgings at a lodging house on Bush street. As the trio neared Post street W. H. Clark and his wife, who were on the opposite side of Kearny street, saw Gloster suddenly strike Funk, who reeled backward. The man’s head crashed against the granite curb. Gloster hurried along Kearny street toward Bush street and Keppler took the opposite direction. Clark and his wife hurried across to the injured man. Seeing that he was badly hurt Clark started in pursuit of Gloster, while Mrs. Clark remained with Funk. Nearing Sutter street Clark met Policeman Dougherty, to whom he gave an account of the occurrence. The policeman arrested Gloster just as he turned down Sutter street. He was taken to the City Prison. Funk was.taken to the Harbor Hos- vital. He recovered consciousness only long enough to tell his name. His skull was badly fractured at the base and he died just before noon. At the City Prison Gloster denied that he struck Funk or that he was with him when he was injured. He admitted having spent some time, just before the as- sault was committed, in company with Funk, Keppler and a telegraph operator whose name he does not know. He says that he and Keppler together left a saloon at Geary and Kearny streets, leaving Funk at the bar. Clark positively identified Gloster as the man who sent Funk to his death by a blow. Funk was about 40 years of age and unmarried. He was em- ployed by the Wrenn Commercial Com- pany. Gloster is a compositor for the Hayden Printing Company. All of the men concerned in the affair had been dpinking rather heavily. Gloster denies that he had any serious quarrel with Funk. “Come, give us a tasteof your qnality.” Wiener Blats—the embodiment of honest components and consummate skill in the art of Wholesals Deaters, 212 Babtery St. Tel. Main 5859. i San Francisco. Coughs Sore Throat Bronchitis Positively cured with Dr. Hal- pruner’s Wonderful Medicine, or your money returned, Price, / 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. For sale by all dealers and at office of Halpruner Medical Mfg. Co., 28 California St., S. F., sent by mail or express. People cured free of charge from 1to 4 p. m. Outfits, Guns, Ammunt- tion, Fishing and Outing Goods. Tents and guns to Rent. CATALOG FREE. SHREVE & BARBER CO. 739 Market st. 521 Kearny s F. 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MARIPOSA, for Tahiti, August 9, 11 A M 1.D.SPRECKELS & BROS.CO., Agts., Ticket Office 643 Mar- Ket. Freight Offics 329 Market St., Pier 7, Pacifc St COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE. DIRECT LINE TO HAVRE-PARIS, North River, foot of Morton class to Havre, $45 and upward. GEN- ERAL AGENCY FOR UNITED STATES AND | Salling every Thursday instead of First class to Havre, $70 and upward. Second CANADA, 52 Broadway (Hudson building). New York. J. F. FUGAZI & CO., Pacific Coast Agents, 5 Montgomery avenue, San Francisco. Tickets sold by all Rallroad Ticket Agents. To U. S. Navy Yard and Vallejo. Stmr, H. J. Corcoran—Leaves S. F., fcot of north end ferry bldg.—Week days, P. M.; Sundays, 9 v eck days, Suadays, § P. M. Fare, Sundays to Vallejo. 50c round trip. PIPER, CO.. phone Main 641 and Martinez, ADEN, GOODALL turday excepted. To U. S. Navy Yard and Vallejo. Stmrs. General Frisbie, Monticello and Arrow, 9:45 a. m., 12 5, 6, $:30 p. m. (ex. Sun.): . 8:30 p. m. Leave Vallejo 5, 6 p. m. (ex. Sun.); Sun- . m., 4:15 p. m. Pier 2, foot Mis- plione Main 1508. HATCH BROS, STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS oF T3’ ONITED FIRENENS INSURANGE COMPANY F PHILADELPHIA, IN THE STATE OF Pennsylvania, on the 31st day of Decem- ber, A. D. 1503, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commis- sioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank fur- nished by the Commissioner: CAPITAL. Amournt of Cavoital Stock, paid up in Cash . ... $300,000 00 ASBETS. Real Estate owned by Company.. $202,03400 Loans on Bonds and Mortgages.. 354,861 00 Cash Market Valus of all Stocks and Bonds o)'ned by Company. 898,678 00 Amount of Loans secured ‘hy pledge ockatg:;h. stoclix x:;: other marketable securities collateral ... i 15:::23 Cash in Compuny's 3 G Cash ‘n Banks. 54,067 01 Interest duve ans Stocks and Loans.. Interest due and aceru and Mortgages Premiums In due Course o 2,348 65 7,467 96 tion ..... .- 46,274 53 Rents due and accrus ;s 425 00 Perpetual Deposits in course of collection ... 3,939 14 All other Assets 197 95 Total Assets ..... ceseenn . LIABILFTIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid.... Leses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense . 15,085 29 Losses resisted, including expe: 2,300 00 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ese, - ning__one or Sl Gross premiums on Fire Risks run: ning more than one vear, 650 82; reinsurance pro —-+a..... 188,251 04 i v o tneured —grs 105 07 D‘l":nl‘s-,ndelc rued for ok a a0 i e 8,968 56 Total Liabilities 008 04 INCOME. Net cash actually received for Fire cpremlun'll z $409,672 74 or flehcitn"vte"; 19,129 57 R&celvad‘;::' interest and dividends wn Bonde, Stocks, and from all other source Recelved for Rents... } Total Income ... EXPENDITURES. Net amount pald for Fire Losses (inclnding $29,313 08 losses of previous years) ... .. $230.150 23 Dividends to Stockholders.. .. 30,000 00 Paid or allowed for Commission o Brokerage ... 102,753 30 Paid for Salaries, Fees and other charges for °‘§°'J" cllerk;, elc..l 30,974 05 Atate, National and Local Paid for State, i | 3554570 Fire. Losses Incurred during the year... $222,483 00 Rieks and Premiums.| Fi sks. | Premtums. Net lmmlndl :1( m::l U g R $13,080,787] $516,987 71 year Net amount of d durh ;’:::’m- . 40,600,356 486,033 11 NS earmber 81, 1503 61,777,849] 664,500 60 ROBT. B. BEATH, President. DENNIS J. SWEENY, Secretary. Subscribed .Ml;fl':?m to ble,“{l‘ )n&nu&u 30th s WM. c] A day of January, Ne Pn;lla STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE GERMAN FIRE INSURANGE COMPANY (QF PEORIA, IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, on the 31st day of December, A. D. 1003, and for the year ending on that day, as mdde to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Caltfornia, pursuant to the provisions of sec- tions 610 and 611 of the Political Code, con- densed as per blank furnished by the Com- missioner: CAPITAL Amount of Capital Stock, pala up in cash 3 $200,000 00 ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company..... $7,000 00 Loans ¢n Bonds and Mortgages.... 276,656 19 Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company. Amount of Loans secured by ples of Bonds, Stocks and other ma: 150,295 00 ketable securities as collateral.... 71,088 99 Cash In Company's Office. . 3,368 10 Cash in Banks. . 96,259 27 Interest due and sccrued on all Stocks and Loans . 470 07 Interest due and accrued on Bonds and Mortgages . suse Premiums m due Course of Colleo- tion . LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid. Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense 10,000 00 Gross Premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $260,028 53; Teinsurance 50 per cent......... {130,014 26 Gross premiums on Fire Risks rlin- ning more than one year, $248,- 17 40; reinsurance pro rata..... 140,908 02 Total Habilities ......... . .$298,007 28 INCOME. Net cash actually recelved for Fire Premiums .....ceves St sy $371,885 76 Received for interest on Bonds and MOrtgages .....ccceccsncvcnes ... 18,072 01 Recelved for interest and dividends on nds, Stocks, Loans, and from all other sources. - 8166 00 Recetved for RentS......cc.ccceeee. 469 T8 Total INCOM® .....eveveveess...$396,503 55 EXPENDITURES, Net amount paid for Fire Losses (In- cluding $11,793 47, losses of pre- vious years).. . -$126,373 00 Dividends to Stockholders.......... 18,000 60 ‘Paid or allowed for Commission or Brokerage -.... 102,106 06 Paid for Salarles, Fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc.... 7,289 00 ald for and Local taxes - 504498 All other payments and expenditures 17,117 05 $276,530 16 Total expenditures ........... Fire. Losses incurred during the year....$126,373 09 Risks and Premiums.|Fire Risks.| Premiuma Net amount of Risks written during the| POOE svs o sosivsoniss $32,556,476| $435,008 60 Net amount of Risks| expired during the| 16,396,511 223,127 68 39,199,545| 508,207 63 BERNARD CREMER, President. CHAS. CREMER, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 9th day of January, 1904, WILLIAM F. VOGEL, Notary Public. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE AELIANCE INSURANCE CORPORATION, LIMITED, F BERLIN, GERMANY, ON THE 31T day of December, A. D. 1 and for the year ending on that day, as made to the In- surance Commissioner of the State of Call- fornia, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code. condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner: CAPITAL. . Amount of Capital Stock, paid up In Cash ASSETS. Reat Estate omned by Company. Cash in Cempany’s Otfice Cash in Banks. ... Interest due and a Stocks and Loans.............. Due from other Companies, Agents, . ete. Total ass LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted #nd unpaid. Losses in process of Adjustme or in Suspense . Losses $552,725 89 n . running one year or less, $— reinsurance 50 per cent.. Gross premiums on Firs Risks running more tkan onme year, $——; reinsurance pro rata Gross vremiums on Marine and| Inland Navigation Risks, $——: reinsurance 100 per cen: Gross premiums on Marine Time Risks, $——: reinsurance 30 Liability’ under other departments. Cash dividend remaining unpaid All other Liabilities. e 130,056 16 262,760 11 414391 38 0 Total labilities INCOME. Net cash actually recetved for Fire $408,006 69 468,033 70 5.850 00 cash actually received Marine premiums............... Received for interest on Bonds and Mortgages. . Received for interest and dividends and on Bonds, Stocks, Loans, from all other sources. Received for Rents... Fers received for transs Received from all other sources DITURES, EXPENDIT Net amount naid for Fire Losses losses of pre. (including $—, vious years)... £ Net amount paid for Losses (including $— Paid or allowed for or Brokerage. . Fees and Paid for Salaries, other charges for officers, clerks, losses of other branches, etc.... 105,246 64 Paid for State, National and Local 3.201 38 All other payments and expendi- tures Total expenditures Risks and Premiums. |Fire Riska.[Premiums. Net amount of Risks| [ written during the| YOS - 25 o 7 P $212,641,800(3307, 840 33 Net amount of Risks expired during the b= < R A 220,150,233| 408,908 60 Net amount in foree December 31, 190....| 80,739,157/ 150,056 14 Risks and Premiums|Marine Risks| Premiums. Net amount of Risks written during the ear .. $280,140,680 §2, 437,225 99 Net amount of Risks| expired during the year . | 241,404,084| 2,026,313 14 Net amount in force| December 31, 1903. 19, 187,760 11 PAUL SZELINSKI, President. MARGUS MAUEL, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 20th day of April, 1904. . JAMES H. NOUNAN, U. S. 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