The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1905, Page 43

A O PATCH COES ML IN 158 and a Quarter Off the For- mer Mark at Memphis CONDITIONS ARE IDEAL Driver Hersey Sends the Peerless Horse Over the Ground Without Effort et st MEMPHIS Nov. 11 Dan Patch, the pa mpion, in an ex- hibit mile y on the track of the Me & Assoclation lowered record without a and a quarter sec- ng ring e mile in 1:38 flar. record of 1:58% was held made several years lle track. track conditions were the attempt. Hersey, the the black pacer away at mpt. The first quarter 30 seconds, the half e three-quarters in 1:28 e was reached In 1:58. Two panied the pacer. He y tired at the finish. e sogms Al rachosrt i - Scottish Bowlers in Competition. tournament matches were ed by the Scottish bowlers yester- on the Golden Gate Park green. J. nd G. C. Patterson scored tories, making ten in all, defeats. The matches re- d as follows: nd G. C. Patterson (8) and A. Foreman (5), amilton and J. C. Mof- es Gray and Rev. 21 to 6; A. Mec- Irving (13) beat Joseph (scratch), 21 to (6) beat T. (7). 21 to 20; (scratch) beat Dun- n (5). 21 to 7; McLach- (3) beat J. Cochran 21 to 15; Judge Shaw ch) beat J. 21 to 7. — e EARTH SHAKES FORTY SECONDS of Elko in Ne- vada Given a Seare by an Early Morning Temblor - % (5) Residents e town of Elko was the part of its was ¢ by ch sh sed )k the ci Buildin, ows in sev- the shock. breakfast tables were over- nhabitants, fearing the de- ¥y was at hand, fled eir fears had ecent volcano of Lovelock ible for the severe e ——— Dog a vernment. ector s a dog on his sirous of ge ¢ the 3 6, and immediately COURSING STOPS WITH DARKNESS Sport at Union Park Comes to an End Before Fourth Round Is Entered Upon FOUR FAST ONES LEFT i)liss Brummell, Sangerman, Queen’s Beauty and Lady Leeds to Hook Up To-Day Only were four rounds of the open stake reeled off at Ingleside Coursing Park, darkness setting in before the last two could be reached. The sport was lively throughout and some good races resulted. Miss Brummell, Sangerman, Queen’s Beauty and Lady Leeds are left to battle to-day for final honors. In addition the Champion and Reserve stakes and two other events left over from last Sunday will be run off. Fol- lowing are the results with Judge Sut- ton’s official scores: Open stake, first round—Nickel beat For Gold 144, The Mist beat L. R. 5-0, Prome- theus beat Commercial Traveler 5-0, Fair- mont Lass beat Gallant Friend §-5, Royal Friend beat Creole Sue Jack Short beat Fair Warning 7 < beat Real American 8-5, Fiery Eye beat Sweetness 7-2, Clyde beat Yellow Tail 4-1, Icellus beat Ouida 12-4, Tom Hurlick beat Rock Roller 7-6, The Limit beat Big Boy, 10-1, R. W. beat Reckless Rose 11-T, Sangerman beat Bedelia 15-6, John L. Sullivan beat Flower Girl 159, Young Rosie R beat Idleness 6-5, Little Plunger beat Miss Green 4-1,.In Time beat Daisy | Rocket -1, Queen's Beauty beat Odd { Tippecanoe beat Lady Field- Lupin beat Fenil 6-4, Arthur 8 beat Young Tommy R 12-4, Miss Lucille beat Peddler Baum 9-3, Pasha King beat | Fiddler 8-3, Free From Flaw beat Annie Gill 14-1, Young Kerry Pippin beat | Maid of the Hill 10-1, Pure Pearl beat Alice Dunn 7-5, Wedgewood beat D R. Mollie Mac beat Josepha 9-4, Mary Patton beat Curry Fire Maid beat Moonbeam 12-4, Lady Leeds beat Little Freestone 8-1. Second round—The Mist a bye, Nickel withdrawn, Prometheus beat Fairmount Lass 5-2, Jack Short a bye, Royal Friend withdrawn, Miss Brummell beat Fiery 3, Clyde beat Icellus 5-1, The Limit 'om Hurlick 10-5, Sangerman a bye, ¢ withdrawn, Young Rosie R beat 1 L. Sullivan $-3, In Time beat Little Plunger 5-2, Queen’'s Beauty beat Tippe- canoe 4-2," Lupin beat Arthur § 7-2, Pasha King beat Miss Lucille 4-3, Free From Flaw beat Young Kerry Pippin 9-2, Wedgewood beat Pure Pearl 65, Mary Patton beat Mollie Mac 7 Lady Leeds Fire Maid $-0. i round—The Mist beat Prometheus Miss Brummell beat Jack Short 13-5, de 7-4, The Limit beat bea Thi 125 Sangerman beat C Young Rosie R, 12-4, Queen’s Beauty beat In Time $-4, Pasha King beat Lupin 13-6, Wedgewood beat Free From Flaw - Leeds beat Mary Patton 8-5. Fourth round—Miss Brummell beat The Mist 9-7, Sangerman beat The Limit 9-7, Queen's Beauty beat Pasha King 10-2, Lady Leeds beat Wedgewood 5-0. WILL SEE TOT BEFORE HE DIES Police Aid Brings Happiness to Dying Man by Restor- ing to Him His Children Special Dispatch to The Call. 1 the h y of the its owner failed to put| e and claim canine. a mont he dog has e Hevemer's Hoboken expense to e square to tempt the ng canine are doggle to do in ulate who his red tape had to be un- e collector was in a posi- he animal will be to be held mext ty. Storey will ranahan and see that the a good master and home. ym-house papers describe aimed perishable mer- be sold to the highest >mmercial. Disastrous Experiment. telling of & Jackson County tar who found an auto horn in the road one day and took it home and ught his chickens to recognize its as their feed call. Instead of ing them in the old-fashioned way farmer or his wife would blow the horn. One day an automobilist passed the farm going about fifteen les an hour and tooting his horn. chickens near the house took out the auto and fourteen hens and ece roosters ran themselves to death the machine—Kansas City —————————— Prevented from seeing the stage at the Rarah Bernhardt Theater by a woman's a Parisian went into a better seat sued Mile. Bernhardt for the 4if- rce in price. But he lost his case. [« 4 other girl's choice. SAN JOSE, Nov. 11.—The three chil- ' | dren of Hugh Herel, who were spirited | away some days ago from San Fran- | cisco by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Sadie Herel, were located here to-day by W. D. & tt of the Boys’ and Girls’ Aid So- clety. Herel, who is a car builder, | is Iying at the point of death in a San | Francisco Hospital and the efforts made to recover the little ones were made gt his request, as he wished to see them before he died. In 1801 Herel was divorced from his | wife, Nina Herel, and was awarded the cumstances keep them and two of them, Alice and Sadie, now aged 13 and 11 years, were | placed with Mrs. Sadie Herel, his sis- | ter-in-law. The boy, aged 8 years, was | boarded with a woman in San Fran- | cisco. Some three months ago Mrs. Sadie Herelycalled at the house where the boy, Henry, was boarded and asked | permission to take him for a walk. She never brought the boy back. Herel, who cannot llve much longer, a few days ago agreed to let his former wife have the custody of the children and the court made such an order. A search was at once made for them. Mrs. Sadie Herel had taken the children to Oak- land and four days ago they were brought here. To-day Detective Scott and the children’s mother located the | children at the residence of T. Buck- man, 180 East San Carlos street, and with the ald of the police secured pos- session of them. They were taken to San Francisco this afternoon. 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S. cures Rheuma- tism, Catarrh, Skin Diseases, Sores and Ulcers, and all troubles arising from diseased blood. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.;, ATLANTA, GA- custody of the three children. His cir- | would not allow- him to | SEALS” BINCLES BHNG N RUNS Siwashes Do Just as Well | With the Timber, Though They Never See the Pan |WILLIAMS AT HIS BEST With a Little Luck and an Fasy Team to Go Against, He Has a Good Afternoon STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. Pet. 142 540 ...50 45 .526 |Tacoma . RESULTS OF GAMES. San Francisco, 5; Seattle, 0. Oakland, 3; Portland, 1. Los Angeles, 3; Tacoma, 1. GAMES TO-DAY. Seattle at San Francisco, morning and afternoon. Portland at Oakland, afternoon. - % Tacoma at Los Angeles. The baseball game at Recreation Park vesterday fully demonstrated the value of base hits. The Seals gleaned four from the offerings of Shields’ left mitt and turned them into five runs. The Siwashes did just as well with the ones Williams twisted over the oyster, but they never had a look at that pan and they never seemed to have a chance. Some clever work on the bases, coupled with some errors and dummy throws by the north- ern tossers, helped a great-deal. The Seals began to gather some in the third, when Shea looked at four bad ones. Waldron sent him along with a safe drive. Shields thought he saw a chance to nail Shea at second, -but his peg was ‘wide, and as the center flelder gave chase to the ball both men moved up. Hilde- brand ripped one at Blankenship, who did a couple of flipfiops and a double shuffle with the ball and then let it fall into a gopher hole. While this stunt was taking place both runners were wander- ing leisurely homeward. Nothing else happened till the sixth. Then the Seals put three more over. Wal- dron again bingled and Mohler bunted one at Shields. His throw to second was too late and both men pulled up safe. Hilde dumped a sacrifice at the plate and Wheeler sent Waldron through with a hit. A double steal was quickly pulled off and an error that happened opportuntely let Wheeler come in with the last one. Willlams pitched another pretty game of ball. He had control all the time and made the Siwashes cakewalk away from that_old cross-fire of his, which was breaking at all sides of the plate. A thick | smoke covered the field and it was nearly | impossible to see the balls that were hit | into the outfield. The score: SEATTLE. | | AB.R. BH. SB. PO. A. E. | Burnett, 2b Fome iy 1 | Kane, db . .- 0" 5p; (95 1170 | Walters, r. B50%0 051 0 0 Blankenship, £ T 01507 Strieb, 1b 4.0 108 00 Frary, c. 3074 08 30 Lauterborn, i 01038 4 0 Hall, c. 4 000 1 0 0 Skieids, p. . 8 400407503, 1 Totils ov'annguns SBOLTD. - B 5720 20507 L SAN FRANCISCO. AB. R. BH. SB. PO. A. E. Waldron, c. f £352,50118:10.50 | Mohter, ‘2b LGSR e | Bildebrand, 100 035 0 0 | Wheeler, 1b 4. 131 .3 10 0.0 Householder, T. D TR e B R | 20D 0 g, i G 00 0 0 4 1 | 1.0 0 4 10 0.9 004 0 57 anm B 2 | BY INNINGS. Sesttle 00000000 | _ Base hi 0 2 g ((\ g 13 (‘; g 14 San Framcisco o ) “Base nits .- 200200 4 | ARY. Two-base_hits—Mohler, Blankenship. Sacri- fice hits- Frary, Kane, Mohler, Hildebrand. First base on | First_base on errors—Seattle 2. | called balls—Off Shields 6, oft Williams 2. | Left on base—Seattle 8, San Francisco 3. Struck out—By Shields 4, by Williams 2. Double play—Willlams to Shea to Mohler. | Wild pitch—Shields. Time of game—One hour and twenty minutes. Umpire—McCarthy. Hakiacei R i BUSHER SMITH THERE AGAIN. | Little Southpaw Lands in -Spite of | Dummy Base Running. OAKLAND, Nov. 11.—Despite the poor base running of the Commuters, which was perhaps the worst of the season, they took a game from Port- land this afternoon by a score of 3 to 1. The feature of the game outside the base running was the remarkable pitching of Young Smith, who also won last Tuesday’s game for Oakland. Smith allowed only three hits, two of which were bunched in the first in- nning before his arm had really got in working order. In the seventh he al- lowed another hit, when McCreedie beat a slow one out to first. Oakland had several good chances early in the game, but it was not till the seventh that the Commuters | warmed up. Francks walked to first, | went to third on Devereaux's hit and scored on Byrnes' hit. Then Devereaux, who had gone to third on Byrnes’ hit, took second on Smith's sacrifice and scored on Van Haltren’s long fly out. Dunleavy started the eighth with a hit and stole second. Kelly hit and Dunleavy went to third, where he stopped for no apparent reason. That left Kelly between first and second, and while he was dodging a majority of the Portland men Dunleavy man- aged to reach home, making the score 3 to 1. The score: PORTLAND. AB. R. BH. SB. PO. A. B. Ven Buren, L f......& 0 0 0 2 0 0 McHale, c, I 000 3 2 0 Mitchell, 8b 1 0.2 3 o0 30050, 71 0 012 3 0 1.9 1711 -0 % ¢ 0 0.0 21,0 00 0 2 0 Totals ..........20 1 8 0 24 22 2 OAKLAND. AB. R. BH. SB. PO. A. E. & 0D D9 O 40102 0 0 S 1s 33 120 4§ 01 012 0 0 L7971 0% 50 & L 0058060 3511 0l Ve 202 038 00 2.0 1°0.% 1 0 28 3 9 22714 0 ITS BY INNINGS. 0000000 01 000001 0 035 6000021 x38 10111122zx9 5 SUMMARY. Sacrifice Hit—Smith. First- base on' error— Oakiand 1. First base on called tllfl—o. Ferry 3, oft Smith 2. Left on: bases—Portland 4, Oekland 6. Struck out—By Ferry 1, by Smith 1. Hit by pitcher—Dunleavy, Suess. Double pl to vy Byrnes; Schiafl Sweeney to McLean; Miteneti: Schlafley to P | grown firm and rates have advanced JNILED AFTER L A ey to Suess. Time of hou 7=y pire—Perrine. r and 20 minutes. Um- B fir % b ANGELS TAKE ANOTHER GAME. Nagle Continues to Pitch Winning Ball LOS' ANGELES, Nov. 1l.—Another fast, errorless game resulted in a vic- tory for the locals to-day by the score STOCK MARKET 15 UNSETTLED Slight Rallying Tendency Is Noted at Close, Nothwith- standing Orders to Sell LOW RESERVE IN BANKS While the Rates for Loans Have Advanced There Is No Evidence of Stringency NEW YORK, Nov. §.—With a deficit of $2,428,800 below the 25 per cent legal re- serve of the banks, some liquidation came upon the stock market to-day, after the bank statement appeared of the tape. But the selling showed no signs of pre- cipitancy and was conducted in an ordi- nary manner. In the late dealings some rallying tendency was perceptible. The closing tone, however, was unsettled and irregular. Early in the day the market gave evi- dence of support, and some of the stocks and specialties were pushed upward. The loan contraction of $13,984,600 was said to represent only partly the lquidation which has occurred in the stock market during the week, bankers asserting loans have been called to a large extent also for account of out-of-town institutions, which had placed loans in this market, but which recalled credits for use in their own localities. The decrease of nearly $11,000,000 in cash holding was rather larger than the preliminary estimates. The last previous deficit In the legal re- serves shown by the clearing-house banks was in December, 1902. Both the money and exchange mar- kets were nominal to-day, but loans were reported to have been made at rates much below yesterday’s high level. The forelgn exchange market was called steady. There was a shad- ing of discount rates both at Parls and Berlin, but no change was reported in London. The continued disturbances in | Russia affect the foreign markets and requirements to be met by the English money market early in December are to be reckoned with. No abatement appears in the unpre- cedented activity in the coumtry’s trade and industry. Congestion of railroad freight in spite of the utmost efforts to take care of the volume offering is reported to be increasing. Bonds have been finally somewhat af- fected by the needs of the money mar- ket and have weakened in sympathy with stocks. » United States seconds advanced one- eighth per cent and the new fours de- clined a fourth per cent on call on the week. While the tone of the time market and for commercial loans money | has | moderately, there is no evidence ot stringency in these departments, A LONG CHASE Woman Suspected of Many Thefts Arrested at Boulder Creek by Constable Gillen Special Dispatch to The Call. BOULDER CREEK, Nov. 1l.—Emma Waggenheinsack, a domestic in the em- ploy of J. Marah, was arrested here to- day by Constable Gillen of Santa Cruz. Numerous complaints have been made by people for whom she has worked about mysterious losses of jewelry and cloth- ing. She owns five huge Saratoga trunks, which, when searched, revealed twenty- six pairs of ladies’ shoes, eight dozen white silk stockings, half a dozen fur coats ranging in value from $50 to $150, twenty full suits of ladies’ silk underwear, three complete wedding trousseaus, six pattern hats of the latest and most ex- pensive kind, and a dozen reception gowns of the richest materfal. A satchel filled with jewelry of ‘every description, from a gold candle-stick to a diamond ring, was found suspended from the inside lining of her skirt. She was traced from St. Paul across the continent and her arrest puts behind the bars one of the cleverest oper- ators of her kind. — of 3 to 1. The teams played three gates during the week, a total of thirty-six innings, and Tacoma has scored but two runs. Nagle and Fitz- gerald were on the hill to-day and both pitched great ball Nagle got out of a hole in the eighth that threat- ened to break his unbroken record of victories. In this inning three Tacoma base runners were put out at the plate. Flood and Sheehan did spectacular fielding stunts. Hogan batted for Fitz- gerald in the eighth and Keefe took his place and finished the game. Score: AB. R. BH. SB. PO. A. E. 5 0 ccormmRoo| LTS - occoo0000! E - ) Totals +.ee w Ll SSoesecassl Doyle, r. f. Sheehan, 8b . Nordyke, 1b - Eagan, &s.... McLaughiin. c. oomHNHOONES) cocoscsccsl o o wooo K ® HITS Z @ ceocZ o cmmo @ s rooo SUMMARY. Hits mads off Fitzgerald 5. Two-base hits— Brashear 2. Left on bases—Los Angeles B, Tacoma 2. on balls—Oft Fii 4 6, 1. _Struck out—By Nagle 5, by Fitz- gerald 2. Double p Nagle to Eager to Smith; Bm."‘“fl o & lood to 1%““"‘ gv:g pitch—Nagle. Time game—1 hour an minufes. Umpire—Davis. - Presidio Nine Wins an Easy Game. 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Knapp, left navy yard this afternoon for the lower bay, from where she will start on her long 15,000 mile voyage around the Horn to join the Atlantic squadron as a supply ship. The Celtic goes heavily laden with coal. Only two stops will be made by the ship before she again reaches American waters —at Callao and Montevideo—where she will take aboard coal. She will also have aboard a large num- ber of old Spanish guns captured by Dewey at Manila, and which since the war have been stored at Mare Island. These old pleces of ordnance will be used to adorn the parks of many Eastern cities. Commander Richard T. Mulligan has relieved Captain Frank H. Holmes, re- tired, as the commanding officer of the United States cruiser Marblehead, now undergoing repairs at Mare Island. - The first of next month will see the commencement of the first work on the $60,000 worth of repairs on the monitor Wyoming at Mare Island. The principal job will be the repairs to the big turret, which has been very unsatisfactory ever since the monitor went into commission. The work on the torpedo-boat destroy- ers Preble and Paul Jones, which has been under way for some time, will be completed this week. It is planned to have the little vessels sail for Honolulu next Thursday. Both of thess fast little boats have been fitted with towing appar- atus, a new equipment which is the re- sult of the observations of the American naval officers in the recent far Eastern war. With this device the torpedo boat will be able to render assistance to an- other torpedo\boat in case of an accident. It is a matter of considerable interest to many people to know that for the first time in history the Government will for- ward free to its far Eastern stations Christmas boxes for the officers and en- listed men of the navy. The boxes should be marked “Christmas Boxes” and sent to the Commandant, Mare Island, or to the depot quartermaster, San Francisco. All charges to these two offices must be paid by the senders or the packages Will not be recel.v.d. ————————— Crape Pullers Do Well. “Crape pullers get a 20 per cent com- ‘mission,” sald the conservative florist. “That commission comes off the flowers, though,” he added, sneering. “What is a crape puller?” “A crape puller is a man who, watch- 1 the death notices in the newspapers, | cfill on all the bereaved families and so- | licits orders for flowers for the funeral. ‘We call such a man a crape puller con- temptuously, pretending that he gets in- doors by yanking the crape which hangs trom the doorbell. A good many florists encourage crape pulling—in fact, live on it. They have booklets, illustrated with photographs, that tell all about the vari- ous designs they make. With these book- lets the crape puller can solicit orders in an intelligible way. “We conservatives don’t encourage ‘crape pulling. We consider it unseemly and indecorous In .t.‘l:!e flr:!: pmhca. and in the second place, ce the big oorm].— sion to the puller comes not out of mi pocket of the florist, but off the order of the pul er, we consider it a little dis- honest. t death is always with us. Florists must live. The new guild of the crape pullers grows by hundreds weekly.” —New York Press. —_———————— ‘The Japanese Emperor's dally fare is His breakfast consists first inning showed It was no match | strictly Japanese. for the players of the Presidio nine, who took the lead at the start and kept it throughout the game, winning by a score of 13 to 2. Score: R. H E Presidio <13 8 2 Oakland 2 8 .3 A girl is not necessarily happy when she smiles—any more. a melon is eatable when it cracks open. cot of bean soup and a few other dishes, but his dinner is an elaborate one of twen courses. His banquets are European an ve. Z Jean Jacques Elisee Reclus, the famous geographer who died recently in Brussels, was a great friend n great sympathy in France for the aroused Linceln administration, 5 of America, and his | fire. BODIES OF DEAD 0 T0 VULTURES Strange Custom Prevailing Among the Parsees, Who Live in India and Persia Bpecial Dispatch to The Call BOMBAY, Nov. 11.—Among the Par- sees, the recent agitation to induce them to dispose of their dead by cre- mation instead of exposing them to be devoured by vultures on their “towers of silence” has awakened only indigna- tion. They are not prepared to aban- don a custom which is hallowed to them by hoary antiquity and associ- ated with their most hallowed religious rites. Though in European minds the thought of allowing feathered scaven- gers to feast on the bodies of their be- loved dead would excite the deepest feelings of repugnance and disgust, as practiced by the Parsees this method of getting rid of the fleshly tenement is far from being so horrible as is gen- erally imagined. Indeed, to the Parsees themselves—and they are the most cul- tivated and intelligent of all the sects found in India—it seems far preferable to burying the dead as practiced by Christians. “Your people,” said a Parsee, “put your dead underground, where they pro- vide a banquet for worms. We put ours above ground, where their flesh is eaten by vultures. The ultimate re- sult is the same. The bones alone are left. “But there is a great difference in what takes place before she skeleton stage is reached, and that difference is all in favor of our method. Before con- signing the bodies of your dead to the earth, you inclose them in coffins. You dare not allow your imaginations to picture the horrible changes that there take place before nature recovers what she gave. We do not seek to retard the process. The vultures do their work expeditiously. There is no putrefaction. Christian burial grounds, 8o I have read, are often sources of dis- ease; Parsee dokhmas, or ‘towers of silence, as you practically call them, are never such. From a sanitary point of view, they are incomparably superior to your cemeteries and with us they are equally sacred.” “But,”” was suggested, “fire would do the work even better than vultures.” IMPOSING CEREMONY. “Or worms,” said the Parsee. “When you Christians take to cremation, we Parsees may possibly follow your ex- cellent example. There are far weight- fer reasons why cremation should take the place of burial than can be in favor of its substitution for our towers of silence.” The towers of silence crown the sum- mit of Malabar Hill, near Bombay, and are situated in the midst of a beauti- ful garden whose tropical trees swarm with vultures. They are bullt of stone and are about twenty-five feet high. A small door is provided for the entrance of the body. When a Parsee dies, after the performance of solemn and impos- ing funeral rites, the body is borne uponyan iron bler to the towers, fol- lowed by a procession of relatives and friends of the dead, headed by a num- ber of priests. Upon arrival at the gardens, the bier is laid down and prayers are said at the “sagri” or house of prayer near the entrance to the garden. The attendants then carry the body to the towers of silence, lay it on its stony bed and retire. Then the vultures gather about it and do their grewsome work unseen. The bones are soon denuded of flesh and fall through an iron grating into a pit beneath, from which they are afterward removed by a subterranean cavern. MEMORY KEPT GREEN. .On the third day after -the death, friends and relatives again assemble at the house where the dead man llived WAKES OFFER " OF FARMONT Mrs. Oelrichs Forwards a Propesal to St. Franeis Hotel Company to Lease There is a prospect that the Fair- mont Hotel will be leased to the St. Francis Hotel Company and be run in conjunction with the St. Francis. ‘A | committee of the Si. Francis Company, composed of M. L. Gerstle, A. B. C. Dohrmann, James Woods, manager of the hotel, and Thomas Magee, visited the Fairmont last Friday. They in- spected the beautiful building from top to bottom. It is understood that Mrs. Oelrichs has made a very reasonable offer to the St. Francis people to lease the building to them for a long term of years. The committes that visited the Fairmont, it is reported, think most favorably of the offer and the matter will soon be placed before the beard of directors of the St. Francis Company. The Fairmont is practically complet- ed so far as the building is concerned. Its cost is about $3.000,000. If the St. Francis people decide to take it they will furnish it lavishly. These fur- nishings and fittings will cost about $500,000. It will be complete in every detail and second to no hotel in tha | world. = other evening in a well-known Broadway hotel. “I used to be a drummer for a big Cin- cinnati wholesale shoe frm,” sald one, I could find was one I became interested in a conversation tween two brakemen. One was a green megro and the other was instructing him what to do. * ‘Now, you have got to of the stations, and call stop. So when the train stops, this door‘and listen to what I at the other end, and them repeat the instructor. ““ ‘Al right,’ was the reply. “Everything went fairly well for while, but finally the old-timer stuck his head in the door and called out: ‘Wapa- koneta! Wapakoneta!” The greenhorn listened attentively, with a puzsled ex- pression. At length his face brightened up, and he exclaimed: religious rites and obsequies to the dead. Friends and relatives then hand the priest a list of contributions to va- rious charities which have been sub- scribed as a memorial offering. This concludes the ceremony of “rising from ed, thus literally keeping the memory of the dead man green. Before these iron frames prayers are said two or three times a day. The Parsees are a small seet They number altogether about, 83,000, of whom 72,000 live In or near Bombay. remaining 10,000 are | Most of the in LE]