The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1905, Page 6

MAY 22, 1905. THE SANFRANCISCO CALL |WORLD WITNESSES REMARKABLE o e SRR BRS LA S n s s s s s 2s SIRIODINSIEN ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT. . SAN FRANCISCO T MAY 22, 1805 TRADE STILL EXPANDING. ts of the country exhibited no pronounced changes except in Wall street stocks, which were very un- with uncertain and irregular quotations. The general tone of stocks was weak, owing to the crop damage reports from the Southwestern wheat sections, the Chicago strike and the less favorable reports from the iron and steel industry. This latter was wee tled, the prime factor in weakening prices, and during the middle and 5 m 5 latter part of the week a heavy selling movement in steel shares ren- L» I dered the whole stock list weak and carried both railroads and indus- — trials down with it. This was in the face of good reports from the CRCHTN G GRAIA textile mills and the continued increase in railroad earnings, those 7o BRELD. thus far in May showing a gain of 8 per cent over May, 1904. It seems rather singular that one industrial line should affect all | the other industrials when the showing of the latter is excellent as | a rule, but such is the case at present, and it shows what an influence the great steel corporation has upon the American people and the American speculative markets. [t was only about a week or ten days ago that the president of the corporation went to Europe with the smiling remark that the corporation was never in such fine condi- tion as at present, but before he had hardly arrived across the ocean unfavorable reports regarding the outlook in this line sprang up and caused general selling, not only of the steel shares, but of everything else on the li But, as has been the gratifying rule for some time, the money market was not disturbed by this heavy liquidation, and funds continued very plentiful, with the usual low rates of interest. The current decline in stocks is thus aptly stated by®a well- known Wall-street brokerage house: “Crop damage reports and con- tinued heavy selling of steels, and new low records, caused heavy sell- ing. We are getting our first crop scares, and it is likely these fac- tors will be well discounted now and the usual May declines in the securities market will be witnessed. Sensational reports about rain in the West and stories of shutting down mills and plants of steel corporations are coming thick and fast, but you can rest assured they are not true. The steel trade is getting a.natural setback or dullness from the recent rapid pace of six months, but orders on hand will be forthcoming for a long period to keep all the mills busy, and a week of cloudless weather will make crops finer than ever. It seems | as if all these unfavorable features are being crowded into this week.” The same wet and backward weather which has caused the damage to the wheat crop in the Southwest and some sections of the West has been interfering with the jobbing and retail trade and cut- ting down the regular movement of staple goods to the detriment of general business: But the diminution in the distributive movement | is not serious, if we may judge by the clearing-house returns, which show a gain for the past week of 31.9 per cent over the correspond- | ing week last year, with every one of the forty most important cities and towns on the list exhibiting an increase except Buffalo, which all loss of 8 per cent. The aggregate clearings were 0,000, a2 good showing. hese returns are confirmatory of the statement frequently made of late that the general business of the country is not contracting but steadily expanding, not only naturally in consequence of the normal JRN i J——— | { a TS e ( S RAN A MILE JOAMINUTES | REMINTIES TN « BOMZNUZTES TO TR - FEATS IN THE-ART OF HUSTLING | Some of the Wonderful Achisvemsnts of Recent Years. ! HIS is an age of hustle. Here at a glance one may see how some of the recent most remarkable feats in the art of hustling compared one with another in respect to the time occupied in com- pleting them, the black column in each instance being drawn in length in pro- portion to the time taken. Some of the feats recorded were ‘performed by a single brain, others were the acts of groups of men. Some represent instances of unpremeditated bustle, while upon others long and earnest thought had pro- ided beforehand for any. contingency increase in population, but actually beyond it, showing that large as production is, it ha era of trade activity is surprising. not yet overtaken consumption. This current It has continued now some seven years, and shows no signs of ceasing. It must of course come to an end some time, and nobody thought that it would last as long as it but it is still with us, as bright and lively as ever, and, what is cially gratifying, without fever or undue speculative activity. The staples as a rule are firm. Lumber, hides and leather, wool and woolen goods, cotton, the different cereals, most groceries, foot- ear and general clothing, dairy products, iron structural material, car-building, land-purchasing, house construction, farming imple- nts, railway freight and passenger traffic, foreign exports and im- ports, and, in fact, almost everything readily perceptible to the:in- quiring eye, are more than normally active, while prices are gener- ally higher than the normal of recent years. All this is simply the exhibit of a prosperity which is apparently endless, though, as just observed, it must end some time or other. The volume of trade is well illustrated by the recent statement in the woolen trade, which says that all the mills of the American Woolen Company have their entire product sold at prices which assure the company the largest business and profits in its history. And this is only one of many similar statements which are appearing every few days. : The outlook on this coast continues bright, as usual. Our crop prospects, while not as brilliant as two months ago, are still excellent, our local and export trade are active, our banks report more funds than they really care to have on hand, our building is on a large and apparently unending scale, our labor is fully employed, with wages far above the normal of recent years, a stream of home-seekers is pouring into the State from the West, and our merchants, wholesale and retail, are reporting business good and collections at least up to the average, with no more than the usual run of failures. . What better commercial conditions could we ask? V out into educational forms, and the school garden far children is one of the lines in which the famous Pingree plan is making practical development. The system as worked in Philadelphia has achieved a notable success and may instill into many of the children who get the advantage of it such a taste for the industry and keen- ness to acquire skill in gardening as will give them a. profitable trade in later years. : Seven gardens were cultivated and a thousand children had instruction in the art of producing vegetables and flowers. To pro- mote this good work three institutions co-operated—the Vacant Lots Cultivation Association; the Public Education Association and the Board of Public Education. The Civic Club of Philadelphia also conducted one of the gardens. The report of the Vacant Lots Asso- ciation says that the children’s gardens “were successful in every sense of the word, and were a joy and benefit to thousands of chii- dren and their parents.” A remarkable feattse of the happy success of it all is that although at the beginning thete was much fear en- tertained for the plan because it was thought the. children, mis- chievous and bad, might pluck, steal or injure the product growing in the unguarded and openly exposed lots, not a flower or vegetable was touched until the teachers said they were ready for use. There were not nearly enough gardens to supply all the children who wanted them, but those who had none refrained from touching the flowers of the fortunate ones who had little plots to tend. The educational benefit that is coming to adults from the reg- ular philanthropic work of the Vacant Lots Association is some- thing of which Philadelphia may be proud. Perhaps it may be deemed more important than the direct support it gives by supplying work to the unemployed. A large percentage of those who get the train- ing of self-help in these gardens develop into capable gardeners who soon go out to operate places on their own account. Thus the system becomes a training school for workers in that greatest of all industries, agriculture. SCHOOL GARDENS. ACANT Iot cultivation as a philanthropic scheme has branched When a girl tells a young man that she doesn’t eat any more than a bird he should remember before inviting her to lunch that an ostrich is a bird— Chicago News. —_— The uncomfortable fact about the demand of the women school teachers for equal pay with the men is that it is absolutely a just one.—New York Weorld. e e A new island is to be built in New York bay. York will be harder to civilize than An isldnd so near to New one of the Philippines.—Denver Republican. BN K e Probably there were microbes in our forefathers' days, only they didn't eep them gtirred up all the time.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal likely to oceur in the rush for the record, says a writer In the Detroit Tribune. In the engineering world locomotive building was once very popular among hustlers, until the Great Eastern Railway turned out an engine in nine hours forty- seven minutes in 1891 and set up a seem- ingly unapproachable record. Now the most popular phase of hustling has taken the form of a Titanic game of ‘“bridge” that culminated in a structure, %06 feet long, crossing the Raritan River and the Delaware and Raritan Canal, being moved by the Pennsylvania Rallroad Company on to new abutments in tne brief time of eight and a half minutes. The actual time taken for the removal of the struc- ture, weighirg 2400 tons, through fourteen feet six inches, was 1¢3 seconds, the bal- ance of the time being occupied in re- moving the bolts and making the discon- nections and in making fresh connections at the ends when the bridge was in its new position. REMOVING BRIDGES, In England a few days ago the Midland Railway removed a bridge near Attercliffe Road Station, Sheflield, and substituted a steel structure in five hours ten minutes; while a 420-ton bridge on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, in the neigh- borhood of Bow, was last summer placed in position between 12:40 on the Saturday night and 10:30 on the Sunday morning, notwithstanding the fact that the old bridge was not got out of the way before 4 a. m. and the new bridge had to travel thirty feet. The West London Extension Railway Company succeeded in moving au old fifty-ton bridge in the neighbor- hood of Battersea Station in 192 and sub- stituting a new structure of double the weight in forty-two minutes. Expeditious as these feats undoubtedly were they can scarcely be said to have eclipsed those of the world’s two cham- pion butchers. In one instance a Ballarat butcher backed himself in 1900 for $50 to place chops on a gridiron in ten minutes from the time he took the sheep In hand to shear, kill and dress it. He won. American meat dressers hearing of this Englishman’s fame, journeyed across the Atlantic with the idea of, figurately Speaking, wiping the foor with the Brit- ish champion. The English representa- tive in this line of hustling is Stanley ‘Warth, ‘a foreman butcher of Ipswich, who in 190 performed the remarkable feat of dressing a bullock and a sheep and running a mile, all within half an hour. Warth dressed the bullock in thir- teen minutes, the sheep in six minutes and then, throwing aside his apron, ran the measured mile in five minutes, there- by winning his wager with five minutes to spare. MAKING SHOES. There has been a certain amount of competition in rapid shoe production of fate years. In Lynn, Mass., a pair of lady’s boots were made in the presence of a notary public, who timed the per- formance, in thirteen minutes by utilizing the services of fifty-seven different oper- ators and forty-two machines that pro- ceeded to convert twenty-six pleces of leather, fourteen pieces of cloth, twenty- four buttons, twenty-four buttonholes, eighty tacks, twenty nails, two box toes, two steel shanks and twenty yards of thread into a dainty pair of lady’s foot- gear in the timc mentioned. The genjus who is assisted by inspira- tion is capable of some feats of hustling that the ordinary individual 1s unable to ! perform, even when time is no object. Lord Tennyson, for example, is reported to have told Dr. Butler of Cambridge:that he knocked off “Crossing the Bar” in ten minutes. Sir F. C. Burnand is believed to have written his m:u burlesque of ~Diplomaey” in fi Captain Basil Hood, when interviewed some few months ago, put on record the fact that the play- let “Ib and eLittle Christina” was the his famous Academy portrait of 1. Zangwill in five hours, and the late Sir Arthur Sullivan, who composed and scored the elaborate overture to “The Yeoman of “the whose father boarded the ship herring | am — clad in the dernier cri of fashionable mourning. But the most popular form of hustiing, so far as tailors are concerned, is over the “sheep to coat” course. This feat in the art of hurrying received a great impetus in 1811, when Sir John Throgmorton made a bet of $5000 that at 8§ o'clock on a certain evening he would sit down to dine in a suit, the wool of Wwhich had been shorn the same morning. It is now a matter of history that the various processes were completed in thir- { teen hours and that Sir John won the wager with an hour to spare. That mod- ern methods have improved upon those of almost a hundred years ugo was made clear a few years ago when Americans accomplished the same feat in the mar- velous time of six hours and four min- utes, of which period six tailors were engaged for two and a half hours in completing the tailoring portion of the work. “EAR TO LOAF.” The “ear to loaf” record is at present held by Messre. Taylor & Sons, of the Sheaf House Farm, Blockley, England. These gentlemen started operations at 8:30 a. m.; as fast as the shcaves were cut they were carried to the granary and there thrashed and winnowed—time, six and a half minutes. The grain was then conveyed to the mill and there ground and dressed—time, five ana@ a half min- utes. To the adjacent bakehouse the floyr was then transported, and at 9 a. m. seven small loaves were taken from the oven, and ten minutes later four of greater proportions, one of which was dispatched to the king. From ‘“ear to loaf” occupied thirty minutes on this oc- casion, or nearly two hours short of the time representing the ‘‘tree to news- paper” record (two hours. twenty-five minutes) held by a paper and wood pulp manufactory at Eisenthal. Some few weeks ago, in the course of legal proceedings instituted at New York, it transpired that a certain George Lehay met a girl at the theater for the first time during the performance of “The For- lorn Hope,” and during the third act he proposed to and actually married her the same evening. This was a smart per- formance, and apparently the bride- groom duly smarted, for he speedily ob- tained a divorce on the ground that the lady already possessed a husband who was living. Nowadays those who marry in haste do not even repent at leisure; this is an age of hustle, and repentance is hurried through at express speed. An iron church, seating 200 persons, was built near Philadelphia in three hours fifty-eight minutes. TRICK OF IMAGINATION. There’s a little mental science trick that will teach imaginative persons to acquire a perfect, graceful poise, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. One says “im- aginative” with reason, for you have to have an imagination to do it. You must imagine that you bear a scintil- lating star on your breast and a basket of eggs on your head. The first fancy will unconsciously in- fluence you to carry your shoulders like a military man bent on exhibiting his gold buttons. The second will teach you to sink into your chair gently and gracefully instead of bouncing into it. Also it will train you to climb stairs erect. You can’t twist or bend over as women usually do in going up stairs if you have a basket of eggs on your head—even an imaginary one—can mj Sé put on the flashing gold star, whigh is worn to be seen, and set the basket of eggs on your head and see what the combined fancy will do for your carriage. —————————— 'DRAPES NUDE STATUES. Library Hall here is filled with nude statuary, mostly the gift of Edward ‘Wilder, secretary and tre r of the ‘Atchison Railway, says the Topeka ‘Kan.) correspondent of the New York Sun. When some good women went to the hall to arrange a meeting they were shocked at the appearance of S0 much marbie and plaster nakedness, and they worked all the afternoon putting aprons and other draperies on the statues. Before the meeting took place Mr. ‘Wilder happened along. When he saw what the women had G\ifi!he became indignant and tore away me‘u “They made those statues y indecent,” declared Mr. Wilder. *“I never saw anything so suggesfive in all my life."” Sure He Would Whistle. She, with an arm around his neck: “It makes y? ltb.'% tdé ‘k:;?.w that T “And m'—an % when you | | they may mean nothing. | | who line the deck with their steamer {CUPID ON AN OCEAN LINER. Plirfations at Sea May Mean Mueh, but Are Usnaily “Attention With- ont Intention.” BY DOROTHY FERIHORE. Dorothy Fenimore is now in Paris, having gone abroad for The Call to make a special study in foreign lands of sentimental top- ics. She will give readers much “expert testimony.” Below is the first of a series of studies in love on shipboard. A which lovers’ lames in shady wood- | lands cannot begin to compete. At sea one lives from day to day, from hour |to hour, drifting along with the current of circumstance. The air is as full of romance as it is | of salt; a tonic to the nerves, likewise it | stimulates the imagination. | A bachelor, therefore, unless he is a | woman-hater or devoted to bridge whist, illkel his life of freedom in his hands | when he sets out on a big ocean liner for ! a voyage across ‘“the pond”; he'is likely, before he gets to the other side, to offer 1 TRANS-ATLANTIC steamship of- fers opportunities for courtship with | it to some fdir lady as a souvenir of the | | | trip. On the other hand, a pretty girl whose { chaperon does not exercise due care may put her peace of mind in pawn ere port is reached. Flirtations at sea may mean much or Occasionally | they are entertaining first chapters to good old-fashioned love stories, which end in the marriage of the lovers and | their living happily ever afterward. Sometimes they preface real heart trage- dies. But usually, of course, they are | nothing more than ‘“attention without | intention,” a dainty for two. The gossips with ready-made little game virtues chairs always have enough to occupy their eyes and tongues. Even the stupid but gorgeous peacock squad, marching indefatigably two by two, may stir one’s curiosity by their sentimental air. | The girl who ‘‘does not care how she looks,” because she knows so well that she is doubly charming when the sea | breeze tosses her curly hair, and the handsome and indifferent young man who disturbs the feminine heart by his cool disregard of its proximity, are natural | magnets for romance. And the contrast between the joyous | maidens to whom cavaliers are declaring by word and deed an eternal love— which will last in all probability until the ship reaches Havre—and those sedate married ladies whose husbands love to | linger in the smoking-room brings to | mind that light cynicism of Honore de Balzac, “It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is easier to be witty every .ay than now and then.” In one week on shipboard one can be- come better acquainted with one’s neigh- bors than in a year on shore. There is so little to do and so little of general in- terest to talk about that one drifts in- evitably into companionship and person- alities. Besides, there is poetry to be had for the finding. 'Tis in the deep, mysterious voice of the loud-sounding sea, in the rainbow which the sunshine makes across the spray at the prow, in the fine ripples beyond, which spread out upon the waters exquisitely like a mermaid's floating hair; in the sunset, in the twi- light and in strange ilack depths of night. * In every way, indeed, circumstances play into the hand of Cupid, who is well P SR =D MIRROR OF DAME FASHION D+ FASHIONABLE COAT FOR SUMMER WEAR. * The long coat, built somewhat upon modified redingote lines, 18 what the fashionables are ordering for separate wraps for summer wear, these to be worn as well for a costume coat when occasion re- quires. The garment is fashioned in two pieces, the upper body part and the skirt; and the two are cleverly joined at the waist line by a stunning belt. The upper part is slightly pouched in front and drawn down snugly in the back. The sleeve is a half-length gigot, lengthened out with plisse frills of hemstitched linen, the upturned cuff decorated with braiding in white wash soutache. This same braiding is used down the front and for the flat collar as well. The skirts of this smart coat are cut full and circular, shirred slightly over the hips, and deeply pleated in double box pleats in the back. _ANSWERS T0 VARIOUS QUERIES. PATENTED ARTICLE—L., City. If — platium-bearing sand always also you have patented an article which you believe the United States Government would use, consult the Congressman of your district in which you live and he will advise you how to bring the mat- yields a certaln amount of gold, cop- per and in varying propertions a cer- tain class of other rare and valuable metals—iridium, rhodium, paliadium, osminium and ruthenium, most of which are found only in the neighborhood of ter to the attention of the proper of- et platinum. In rare instances platinum is found in masses, ranging from the size of a pigeon's egg to lumps weigh- ing ten pounds or more. The metal was first found in the gold mines of Darien, but its chief source of produc- tion is in the mines of the Ural Moun- TEST FOR DIAMONDS—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. Massimo Levi, an Italian chemist, gives-the following as a test for the purpose of ascertaining if a stone purporting to be a diamond is | genuine or not: “If you have a doubt- | tains, Russia. It is also found in ful stone put it into a leaden or | Brazil and Colombia, South America; platinum cup, with some powdered | in Santo Domingo, in Canada, in the goid mines of the island ot Bormeo, also in California and Oregon. The metal is used in the manufacture of apparatus for laboratory use, spatulas, crucibles, ete., its remarkable power of resisting the action of acids rendering it of pe- fluor-spar and a little oil of vitriol; warm the vessel over lighted charcoal, in a fireplace or wherever there is a| strong draught to carry off the-noxious vapors that will be copiously evolved. When these vapors have ceased rising | known to be in any case a sharper when he plays the game of hearts, —_——— HOCH SAIND LOOIE. (The suggestion has been made that the cruiser St. Louis be christened with beer.) Vake me early, if not earlier, mein lie- ber mudder. dear, Pecause our ship Saind Looie’s to pe grissened mit some beer. Dey're going to rig der poop-masts und der pig two-shilling deck. Der chib-sails und der taffrails mit pink sausages und shpeck; Und from der stern righd down to vhere der barkless bow shticks out Dere vill pe floating in der preeze long shtreams of sauerkraut; - Und on der deck vhere heaps off can- non balls dey alvays lays Dere vill pe heaps off balls dot's sim- ply made of leberglaese: Und from der port-holes vhere der great pig’ guns shtuck oud dere head I hear dot dey are goin' to put pig wie- nerwursts instead. Dey're goin’ to put new emblems on der flags dot from it flew— Designs of sauerbratten und some has- senpfeffer, too; Dey’re goin’ to fill her holts all oop mit fresh limburger cheese To kill dot horrid salty smell dot floats mit each sea preeze. So don’t forgot to vake me awful early, mudder dear, I vant to see Saind Looie’s ship get grissened mit der beer. —F. P. Pitzer in New York Press. EASILY CURED. Dr. William Osler of Johns Hopkins and Oxford tells this story: An old darky quack, well known in a certain section of the South, was passing the house of a planter whose wife was re- ported to be dangerously ill. Stopping at the gate, he called to ome of the say, Rastus, how's the missus?” “Well,” replied Rastus, “the doctah done say dis mawnin' dat she convel- “Humph! Dat ain't nothin’, chile,” said the old quack with an air of su- perior wisdom. “Why, I've done cured convalescence in twenty-foah hours.”— Cleveland Leader. FISH ATTACKS COW. The Journal of Agricultural Topics calls attention te a very curious fish, occurring in great numbers along the banks of the Amazon, which attack cattle. The frequent the shal- low waters during the heat of the day, and while thus exposed are attacked upon the legs and udders by the fish. The bites are quite an is reported to 0 cows from this a single season. a have lost over 40 cause in / e —— s 's Cala. Glace Fruits, In ar- tistic etched boxes. 10 Kearny st and new TOW Open, 767 Marketst. * culiar value for these purposes. As it is not acted apon by the atmosphere and is of vetry high melting power it is in great demand. It is also used in the photographic process of printing. It is the most infusible of all metals, melting only before the oxyhwdrogen blowpipe or in a very powarful biast furnace. Its fusing point is 35200 de- grees Fahrenheit. Its speeide gravity is 721.5. A cubic inch of hammered platinum in 10-1000 of a pound is .7356; of native platinum, .3737; of rolled platinum, .7982. It is the heavi- est of all metals known. let the whole cool and then stir the mixture with a glass rod to fish out the stome. If you find it intact it is a genuine stone, but if it is false it will be corroded by the hydrofluoric acid that has been generated around it. A paste diamond will disappear under the treatment.” PLATINUM—M., Auburn, Cal. Plati- num is found only in its native state, that is, not chemically combined with other elements, but always recognizable as platinum. It is usually found in small, glistening, steel-gray granules, and T i D> THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE -q=b> | A RUN FUR HIS MONEY. He wrote some fugitive verse, Pride tempted him to show it; The natural result is that He's now a fugitive poet. HE mhaW LABORERS. Teacher—If it took ome man seven days to do a piece of work, how long would it take seven men to do the same work? Tommy—Seven weeks. Teacher—How so? Tommy—The seven men would 80 on a strike. Jy THE LATEST. Mrs. Hoyle—She never speaks of him as her husband. Mr. Hoyle—What does she call him? ‘Mrs. Hoyle—Her flatmate. Tom—at the party” th ks e ey gave eve sin, man a little flatiron. e pcsd Tess—They did that so you'd press your suit.