The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL/| COMPLIMENTARY JOHN D. SPRECKEIS..... 5 cessasssesassssessasssss - PrODICIOR ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOTIN McNAUGHT.. A PUBLICATION OFFICE .Manager SATURDAY.. vvvven.. JAPRIL 29, 1005 CALIFORNIA IRON. | WAHRENDER has been wonder- prompted him to say to the Sawyers that he knew Martha Blakely, in re-| sponse to their question concerning THE SAN | . PING-PONG. - ing ever since what rash impulse of half truth and hailf falsehood the girl. It was true that they had been in the same Fine une was opened there. for the g a smelting fuel shaot down vein mine the pinched. Iting fuel smelting ciation with coal would own 1se loved in sits acquire value throug our manufacturing activities. be without a smelting fuel. ) effic 1 0il here ha distillates the e of one sank as 4 manufacturing State. do with a_smelting fuel. do the duty of heat. lete, but eretofore all ne. sse It takes wood a long time to grow. fuel and no iron industry can be permanently pendent upon its use. The State of Washington has | o iai kina who for smelting and limestone for flux. acking coal it is of no value. nufactures would be greatly stimulated if we could 'render, should be It is the king of the hase metals. iron and steel is mow a necessity in the building o n, discovered that buildings with a metal skeleton wake proof and that style of construction is in almost | er girl? A local iron industry would effect economies in a f matters and would locate here the skilled labor that the Fast in furnishing the supply we need. res were brought into action a large increase in the i our mining industry would follow. and a new da Transcript laments the lack of a California iron declaring that while we have plenty of iron ore ! yarsty, ot enter into competition with Eastern iron produc- the railroads will not let us. » not think this is a full statement of the reason. t we have abundant iron ore in forty-one counties in| jng .each and probably there are many other undiscovered de-|since no one had iron was found at Clipper Gap, in Placer County, The Central Pacific Railway made | igiron for use in its shops that was very lucra- ne owners, and the ledge was opened, using wood dents who attend-H \fter quite extended and profitable operation, One reason given was the lack of fuel, [\ 5" (s pe the Whatever the reason was sed while the railway kept its part of the contract. not necessary to seek in overland freight rates the rea- we make no iron, though the ore is abundant. Richly endowed with everything else, California peen the rule and It is the We have It is at best a We have the The If Our limestone de- feature would appear the ore in the cupola, the heat and flux are properly nd the ore yields its value in pig. substitute has been found. made coal unnecessary in steam plants. | a great impulse to manufacturing and to agricultuce, ments that Warrender had paid her. furnish a cheap power for pump irrigation. by the conversion of hydraulic power into électric | ypon has put the State in po t of transmi own iron this cheap power would immediately advance our | Railroad rates have nothing to!ghe thought it incumbent on her to | If inventive genius can make crude oil coal in a smelting cupola the problem would bc | been tried, but the devices used It forms a cone within which the smelting there is no effect beyond that. The discovery ssion of the cheapest powcr | thought that it would be very rude of | ion. If we smelted did not secure efforts have been directed to diffusion in the which the Sawyers furnished the net. No one seems to have inquired if the cupola is the only which fuel, ore and flux can be properly co-ordinated in The cupola has been accepted as the end of invention veriest strangers to each other. | So, the principle of the flail for threshing grain and of ‘the scythe for cutting it were long accepted as the end of ention in those processes, and much ingenuity was wasted in - effort to apply power to the scythe and flail. the concave and cylinder for threshing and the toothed sickle and bar for cutting grain, the problem was solved. May we not enter tt n cupola into another form? existing form should not be abandoned as impossible. of combustion may accomplish it. the iron age of California by changing the principle of the 1ake in January: A study As a practical matter, if our iron manufacturing industry would an and it will undoubtedly be solved. well join in this effort. dustries. late invention by offering a cash prize, and a large one, for | on that will practically apply oil to smelting, men of genius in that line will go at the problem all over the country | Our crude oil producers may | A new use for oil as valuable as this will | raise that industry out of the depression of which complaint is | made, and a line of light and cheer will come upon all related in- | G GOUI:D STRIPS FOR WORK. to be a director of a competing line. Pacific directory was supposed to mean the primacy of the Gould interest in that road, and to imply the final ousting of Mr. Harriman. It is not thinkable that Gould would parallel a line which he | § already controlled, so he must have represented a minority holding,§ which he will doubtless let go. This last move seems to make sure the construction of the | OULD’S resignation of directorship in the Harriman roads \ r is accounted for by himself on the ground that he is going | to build the Western Pacific and it is not proper for him | His presence in the Union Western Pacific, and in that expectation an ambitious schemsz appears in Oakland for tunneling the bay, to give the new line direct access to San Francisco. time. As to that we are of the opinion | both cities will have to be content with another ferry for a long | The Western Pacific is the most ambitious piece of new con- struction ever undertaken by the Goulds. The founder of the family was in the habit of buying disabled roads cheap, equipping them, giving them important connections, putting them on the stock mar- ket and selling them dear. In that way, stock jobbing in railways, the foundation of the family fortune was made. The sons, however, | treat the running of railroads as a business and the Gould system is an important part of the railway mileage of the country. If they build the Western Pacific and give us the first through | service from ocean to ocean without change of cars, they wiil render an essential service to California. They will only pioneer in that line, for the other roads will be forced by such competition te make Eastern connections, at Chicago or' St. Louis, or by the et cutoff, that will enable them to give a through service also. When that is done the time from San Francisco to New York rapid traveler. be less than four days, and that is fast enough to suit the most THE PRESS OF THE NATION. The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in regard to the New York law making ten hours a day's work and sixty hours a week’s work in bakenies is of the utmost importance to em; loyers and to employes, securing | to both free exercise of the right of contract.—Baltimore Sun. g People of unimpeachable faith are believing that the Bibie is net an accurate account of the dealings of God, but a record of men's attempts to find out the Almighty.—Kansas City Star. ——— A new Bwiss hotel is to be built two thousand feet in the air. Seems high, but no doubt the prices will harmonize with the situation.—New York Herald, — Seven hundred Democrats attended the New They go to the food much better than to the polis.- e s oshasthnesto Dr. Osler suggests ar export tax on girls. medicos?—New York World. —— Som: men pray for their friends and some others prey Chicago News York Jefferson banquet. ‘Washington Times. Why not an export bounty on upon them,— | classes at the uni- | code /had prevented | their ever address- It : v .| rupt ‘situation p scyth n When' invention | But Martha Blakely was the prim- |then walked to another, stall, whence t entirely away from those primitive instruments and adopted 'mest of proper maidens and would no but the}§ university of etiquette strict other, introduced them. The Sawyers were of the opin- fon that all stu- same weref ed the schools best of friends; the Sawyer women had all attended boarding schools. where this had acquaintances h i p the exception. The men were of the made a friend out limestone, but we have no coal. Some of the me;‘est re, like that at Clipper Gap, is of the finest «,.;T”'\' With :_')’:;‘;‘fewok’“‘;f‘ ;‘S‘; eld a fine profit and there is plenty of grantea that their old friend, War- acquainted with their old friend, a Blakely. t she a clev- demand- ed Gertrude Saw- ver of Warrender. ‘Warrender had heard Miss Blake-, ly's recitations for “Is: | sTrRanGERs. | several quarters and was qualified™” = * to talk of her intellectual ability. | But none of this can | There being no other topic of conver- Coal and coke rule the iron industry. sation on the mental horizon at the . We never boiled the crystal stream time, he talked upon the topic en-| thusiastically. When Martha Blakely paid her next ! weekly visit to the Sawyers she was ' told at once of the glowing compli- | Martha was too surprised to state that she had never met her fellow student. consideration, however, she her to deny the acquaintanceship as long as Warrender had seen fit to say such pleasant things of her. In fact, return the compliment. Her remarks having been repeated to Warrender, he added a few more compliments to his original state- ments, thus starting a game of ping- pong between the girl and himself of i Ang all the time they passed each ' other every day on the campus with- out pretending to be aught but the Had either of them been endowed ' with a vivid sense of humor they | would have terminated such an ab- long before they did. | more have ‘Warrender thought of addressing withopt an introduetion than she would of jumping into the ‘Warrender, for his' Of course diffusion of heat in the part, was reserved and shy, and sut- fered agonies of rémorse for his rash | words concerning Miss Blakely. His Puritanic conscience kept -assuring him that he would, have to pay the| price for that pre- | varication, and he expected the price to be some partic- | ularly embarrass- | ing situation. He paid the price, The Sawyers, with mistaken hos- pitality, invited Martha Blakely and himself to a dinner. There were | to have been oth- er guests, but: something or oth- er prevented their ! coming and the two unfortunate | victims of their own rashness were left to their de-| struction without even a chance to] escape. Gertrude | Sawyer began it at the door. “We thought! that Martha and you would come | together,” she said | to Warre nder, while he tried to mumble out some excuse about not having seen Miss Blakely. “Why, here she is now."} she continued. | “Harold was just | saying that he had | not seen you all| week. That is a| #—*——————F Jong time for peo- AT THE DOOR. | people who are| M such friends.” ‘Warrender was relieved to see that Miss Blakely was | as nervous as Ywas he himself. It | would have seemed that the entire | | Sawyer family had conspired to add to their discomfiture. They related | and repeated all the agreeable re-| marks that each had made of the other, Gertrude Sawyer fancied that | she. detected in their embarrassment ! some symptoms of an incipient ro- mance and set about some systematic | teasing. It was the unhappiest evening that either of the students had ever spent. It was a lesson in practical ethics. They dared not look at each other, and all the time the Sawvers smiled |under the delusion that the dinner was a great success, Of course there was no way out of it. They had to go home together. Gertrude Sawyer thought the arrange- ment ideal. The two who had been o devoted to mutual praises never 'SECRET OF HUMAN MAGNETISM Study of the “N’ Rays Throws Some New Light on “Falling in Love.” BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. : HE attraction of personality to personality, that physioal element of ‘electricity which some critics of love are disposed tc regard as the baser side of affinity, has been put upon a new scientific basis within the last year or two by discovery and study of the “N" rays by Professor Blondlot of France. We seem to have a clew at last to the secret of human magnetism and to the phenomenun of love's polarity. Every now and then we hear of well authenticated instances of “love at first sight,” that baffiing mystery of human experience. We are told, for example, of a man who has always shown marked indifference toward wo- men, yet who surrenders uncondition- ally on meeting a girl who is neither especlally beautiful nor talented, but whom he recognizes at-once as the wo- man that nature meant nim to marry. How can we explain an occurrence so strange, and so at variance with what we know of the laws that gov- ern other human relationships?. Let us | review briefly the experiments which may light us out of our perplexity—" provided all that has been claimed for them is true: If one takes a small rectangular piece of cardboard, spread on one end with phosphorescent sulphate of cal- cilum—a substance which is made lu- minous by rays of the “N” deserip- tion—and passes it slowly over the hu- man head, he is able, by watching the variation of luminosity, to study the various sense centers in activity, since AN IDLE WISH. Oh, give me back the good old days; T want the simple life, The care-free times before we knew Bacteria’ were rife. The oaken bucket drew, And if our mud pies reeked with germs At least we never kmew. But now we boil and bake and steam And disinfect and burn, < ‘We wash,and spray and shake and air And fume and scrape and churn. ‘We think it will prolong our days, No nook or cranny shirk, And just as every microbe flees ‘We die of overwork. ~—Puck. BABY SHOPLIFTER. An apparently respectable matron, carrying an ostensible -baby in long clothes, was observed fumbling at a stall in one of the big shops of the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. The observers of her movements were two detec- tives, who had followed her into the shop, thinking that they had seen her before. The men were correct in their sur- mise, for the matronly person is a professional thief, with many previous convictions. She was seen lifting sev- eral articles of cheap jewelry, and she abstracted ;some .pieces of velvet and silk. As she was leaving the shop the woman was arrested. At the po- lice station she protested that she was the wrong person and began to cry. The ostensible baby also cried and the police superintendent, being evidently a father, lifted the veil of the in- fant's face and spoke soothing words to the child. Looking more closely at the baby the police official noticed that its eyes were quite dry and its face bereft of a trace of life. visage he found that it was made of | cardboard. The bogus baby was a| receptacle for stolen property. On its body was a contrivance which, when pressed, made the dummy in- fant evolve cries. The receptacle had inside it a stolen bracelet and the| pieces of velvet and silk abstracted from the shop. —— s i o Signatures of Business Men. There is a well-founded complaint that many business men attach illegi- ble signatures to their letters, says the New York Herald. ‘Where documents or checks are con- cerned the obscure but characteristic signature is well enough, but in letters to comparative strangers the name of the writer should certainly be legible. It is unfair to strain the eves and tem- per of the recipient with hieroglyphics. ————— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits. In ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st. and new store now open, 767 Market st. * —_—e———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ i invisible sunshine Tapping the infantine | | activity of any one of them causes an outflow of “N" rays. One of the peculiar properties of these particular rays is that not only the nerves give them out, but the muscles do likewise when under tension. Ap- parently the human body stores them up, and It is the same way with the lower animals, as experiments upon dogs, rabbits and frogs have demon- strated,, One great gource of the rays is the sun; and they, in their turn, sat- urate some of the objects upon which they fall, while upon other objects i they have absolutely no effect, 1 that it in true, as has been claimed, the “N'" rays form part of the which constitutes one's “aura’; if they account for tele- pathy or thought transference; If they actually do Increase In some mysteri- ous way the perceptions of him who s subjected to thelr Influence, we have in them, perhups, an explanation of that physical attraction which has so much to do with “falling in love. Whether it is true or flot, however, it offers a chance for an interesting spec- ulation. Notice how it fits in with that theory of our genial professor concern- ing feminine magnetism: “All excitements run to love in wo- men of a certain—let us not say age, but youth. An electrical current pass- ing through a coil of wire makes a magnet of a bar of iron lying within it, but not touching it. So a woman is turned into a love-magnet by a tin- gling current of life running round her. I should like to see one of them bal- anced -on a pivot properly adjusted, and watch if she did not turn so as to point north and south, &s she would if the love currents are like those of the earth, our mother.” —_— . < THE SMART SET X 3Y SALL Miss na Frances Briggs and C. P. NellsonA’re having a very attractive exhibit of oils and water colors at the Sequoia Club, 584 Sutter street. The rooms will be open from 10 to 5 daily | until next Wednesday evening. Miss Briggs leaves soon for Europe to con- tinue her art work. Mr. Neilson will entertain to-morrow afternoon at the club. PR e The musical tea for the benefit of the Old Ladies’ Home takes place to- day at the spaclous home of Mrs. Wil- llam Tevis on Taylor street, near Washington. The event is to be most important, artistically, and for the pur- pose of raising funds for the home. The programme Includes some of very best talent in the city, among the participants being Mrs. Richard Bayne, songs; Mrs. Casserly, Miss Ames, plano and 'cello; Miss Grace Ewing, songs; Otis Carrington, songs; Miss Millle Flynn, songs. The young ladies who “will gerve tea are Miss Louise Redington, Miss Cora Smedberg, Miss Carol Moore, the Misses Powers, the Misses Sabin, Miss Christine Pomeroy, Miss Emily Wilson, Miss Charlotte Wilson, Miss Helene Irwin, Miss Lucie | Coleman, Miss Mary Langhorne, Miss Edna Davis, Miss Harriet M. Miss Eliza Kline, Miss Helen Gibbs, Miss Margaret Newhall, Miss Newell Drowne, Miss Claire Nichols, Miss Newlands. The attractive new home of Mrs. Walter Scott Hale on Washington street was the scene of a brilllant gathering yesterday. Several hundred guests were received between 3 and 5 at a tea that brought together all the beauty and fashion of San Francisco's o MIRROR OF DAME FASHION | g ing free above the waist. full shirt pattern. bon belt. it X o o2 + spokeé one word to each other on the journey. They bow to each other for- mally now on the campus. But their reticence is decidedly noticeable, ‘M. K. 8. WOMANLIKE. ““There were two men in love ot v The. om who Eueseca e'd m; [ 'h nearest to her age.” ~“Did she?" - “No; she married the one who Miss Millyuns—Well, apology is offered -acecept it. if an to me, I'll SHIRT WAIST S#IT IN SILK-W ARP HENRIETTA. A pretty shade of Dresden blue is used in this smart shirt waist suit that is plain enough for morning wear and yet dressy enough for afternoons. The shirt waist has a shallow chemisette of lace, and the vest of white pique is slit at intervals, and a plaid silk cravat that encircles the lace collar is threaded through these slits, the ends fly- The shoulder is broad and the sleeve of a A hint of a bolero is given in the arrangement of the lace on the blouse and the fullness is drawn smoothly into the rib- The skirt is in extremely full and rippled gores, close fitting at the hip and flaring widely at the hem. Lace defines each gore and { a princess haircloth is inserted in the hem for a depth of several inches to sustain the correct flare without undue stiffness. " THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE — Young, | Y SHARP. i e - LSRN t smart set. The gowning was in keep- ing with the Eastertide, the fairness of the day lending its favor. As Miss Hattie Currier, Mrs. Hale was a well- known maid of society’s group., and this. her first large affair since her marriage, was eagerly attended by all friends. The two large rooms, draw- ing-room and dining-room. were filled with lovely yellow blossoms, duffodils, iris and many others of golden hue mingling their shades happily and em- phasized by delicate candelabra up- holding the same color scheme. Re- ceiving with Mrs. Hale were Mrs. Frederick Funston, Mrs. Charles Fick- ert, Mrs. James B. Kent, Miss Kath- leen Kent, M Amy Gunn, Miss Al- lardt, Miss Nicholson, Miss Gertrude Palmer, Miss Eva Rountree, Miss Jane Barry, Miss Virginia Gibbs, Miss Helen Gibbs. s Mrs. Ira Pierce, assisted by her | daughter, Mrs. Earle Brownell, enter- tained in the beautiful home of Mrs. Talbot yesterday on Jackson street. Bridge was the attraction, which was enjoyed by nearly a hundred and fifty guests. D I The Rose Room of the St. Francis Wwas a very pretty scene yesterday aft- ernoon when Mrs. Harry Rice Mann entertained a large euchre party. Palms and potted plants added their attractiveness to that of the room, which was filled with the animation of | the players. Prizes were awarded and refreshments served in the White and Gold Room. LR Mrs. John Edward Medau entertain- ed a large number of callers at a tea yesterday in her pretty new home on Cherry street. From 4 to 6 the guests! enjoyed the freedom and inspection of the apartments, which are delightful and attractive in every way necessary to a home, s, a The Friday Night Club of Oakland, which mqt last night, included among its San Francisco guests Miss Elsa Draper, Miss Elsie Clifford, Miss Bea- trice Fife, Miss Roberta Deal, Miss Carol Moore, Miss Ertz. -y Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Ladd and their daughter, Helen, who have been spending the last week at Del Monte, expect to come up to town to-night. They will be at the St. Francis. Mr. Ladd belongs to the pioneer banking house of Ladd & Tilton, Portland, Oregon. Py Mrs. Henry W. Goode of Portland, Or., who has been spending the last week at Del Monte, returned yesterday and is at the St. Francis. She will re- main in town until next Thursday. Mr. Goode is the president and gen- eral manager of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Mrs. Goode is accompa- nied by her daughter, Miss Helen Goode, and her young son Henry. Ex-Mayor Oilney of Oakland, with his daughter, is spending a vacation at Seigler Springs. ANSWERS. LICENSE—H., City. A license is valid only in the county in which it is issued. TRIESTE—A. 8., City. Trieste is the principal seaport of the Austrian Em- pire; Fiume is a seaport of Austria- Hungary and Cattaro is a seaport of Dalmatia. CALIFORNIA—L. M., City. The Postoffice Department of the United States recognizes “Cal.” as the abbre- viation of California, but in its publi- cations suggests that the names of all States be written out in full to aveld possibility of mistakes being made. COINS—W. K., City. Questions as to the value of coins are not answered except by mail, when the correspond- ent incloses a self-addressed and stamped envelope. This department has no list of premiums offered for coins for distribution to those whe may ask for such. CITIZENSHIP—Subscriber, San An- selmo, Cal. Any alien under the age of 21 years who has resided In the United States three years next preced- ing his arriving at that age, and who has continued to reside therein to the time he may make application to be admitted a citizen thereof, may, after he arrives at the age of 21 years, and after he has resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a citizen; but he must make 4 declara- tion on oath and prove to the satisfac- tion of the court that for two years next preceding it has been his bona fide intention to become a citizen. Jack—Who is your favorite when she allowance A MADE HIM LOOSEN UP. Mr. Holdtite—No: I won't buy you that new dress. . __Mrs. Holdtite—All right, then,/ TNl go to all the temperancg meetings I hear of in old clot! and people will think the re: I don’t dress any better is 1 cause you are drinking.