The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 52

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1905. California Safe Deposit and Trust Company... Interest paid on deposits, subject to % check, at the rate®of two per cent per Interest pald on savings deposits at the rate of three and six-tenths per cent PEraniuup. . s ol e, e Trusts executed We are author- ized to act 2s the guardian of estates and the executor of wills . . : P X Safe deposit boxes rented at $5.00 per & aibpm antopward © .- Ll T ¢ Capital and Surplus - - $3,055,840.60 ¢ Total Assets - - - - 8I0,345,016.81 s OFFICES: i Cor. California & Montgomery Sts. SAFE DEPOSIT BLDG., SAN FRANCISCO. % ST LOLELE00Y: 2550 /A A A i s The San Francisco Coke and Gas Co. Business Offices at 421 Powell Street We have been doing a large amount of construction k during the past year. In districts where mains are laid ve been supplying gas to a constantly increasing num- ber of customers. We are legitimate competitors for business and were the first company to voluntarily lower the price of gas to 75 cents per 1000 cubic feet. This company is in no way connected with the San Francisco Gas and Electric Co. or the recent combine. We have a uniform rate of 75 cents per 1000 cubic feet, which rate will never be exceeded. We guarantee good ser- vice and courteous treatment, and also to furnish a su- perior gas. woe DEERE IMPLEMENT CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. OFFICE WAREHOUSE 25 to 31 Bluxome St. 318-324 Townsend. ’ Exporters and Dealers in : Agricyltyral Implements Buggies and Wagons ? \\ Fooan FRANCISCG- g DEERE VEHICLES ARE ALL RIGHT : A Complete Stock of John Deere Plows Schuttler Wi § Deere Disc Harrows Deering Mowers and 8 Buckeye Drills Deere All Right Vehicles® 8 Empire Cream Separaters R. & V. Gos Engines :‘ CARRIED IN SAN FRANCISCO. # CABLE ADDRESS TELEPHONE ? Deere, San Frasecisco. Private Ex. 286. - e - kit o B dotad A W F.Wilsmln {{ | FUmBER PLUMBING ] : ¢ ig Railroad Ties, % ; Sawn Redwood Poles. Fine Plumbing Material A FULL LINE OF MOLDINGS AND INSIDE FINISH OON- STANTLY ON HAND. Latest Samitary &ppliances SPECIAL PATTERNS RUN TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE., Steam Heating and Ventilation Telephone Private Exchange 624, 328-330 Stockton St. == City Office — SAN FRANCISCO. i Crocker Bldg. S S B G B G S S P e S L O B D I B BB e e DUCHESS OF SOMERSET TAKES) STAND AGAINST FAIRY TALES. WOULD HAVE CRESAR READ TO TOTS ON SEA WATER USED AS A OURE IN FRANCEH resting Discoverles Made by Rene | Quinton, a Young Bac- PARIS, Deg. 18.—The popular belief in the curative and constructive efil- tacy of sea water is confirmed by the researches of the young bacteriologist, Rene Quinton, who has discovered that in all superior forms 0f animal life, { | man included, the liquid in which all the internal organs are perpetually bathed is chemically l'entlcal with sea water slightly diluted. 'He deduces from this that animal life was first formed in the sea. Bven animals habituated to fresh water contain as a necessity of life sea water from which they are first nourished and vitalized. The pecullar power of sea water is derived from the fact that it practi- cally contains every chemical element known, from gold to potassium. The animal organism is a sort of sea water aquarium in motion, and disorder or feebleness in the organs may mean simply that the aquarium liquld is be- neath the proper strength or improp- erly proportioned. Children are espe- felally susceptible, and at the Maternity HoSpital the premature or weakly are soon brought to sturdy health by treat- ment with sea water, administered either ag a draught or by cutaneous in- jection. WELLS FARGO NEVADA NATIONAL BANK AS- SETS FORTY MILLIONS| [C0mbined Institutions Make | One of the Strongest Fi- nancial Conceras in the World. tertologist. I When two of the largest and most prosperous banks of a great commer- cial city combine and become one insti- tution, the result is a concern of finan- clal size and solidity that commands the | attention and confidence of the business world, and particularly of all of the people that do business with banking institutions. One of the principal finan- cial events of the last year in this city | and one of the most important banking | events of the West was the consolidation | of the Wells, Fargo & Co. Bank and the | Nevada National Bank under the title of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank of San Francisco. The consolidation was | commented on in financial circles all over the country. Both banks have had a _long prosperous history, that of Wells, g0 & Co. dating from 1852 and that of he Nevada from the bonanza times of 1875, when it was organized by Messrs. | Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien in ( order to handle with facility and safety | the vast wealth that was flowing in from .the mines of the Comstock lode. Isaias W. Hellman, the president of the Nevada National, arranged the con- solidation and is the president of Wells | Fargo Nevada National Bank. Mr. Hellman is so well known in financial circles here and throughout the United States that his name is a tower of strength. He is recognized all over the country as one of its ablest and K most successful financiers. Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank has a capital paid up of $6,000,000 and |a surplus of $3,500.000. The total as- sets: reach the enormous amount of | $40,072,870 32, as shown by its_last statement to the Comptroller, dated November 9, 18 und and progres- | sive In its methods, it is abreast of the | times in all requiréments of the bank- ing business. While particularly iden- tified with the upbuilding of the indus- and Far- S Coast its foreign business ge. Well a National Bank is now al gomery and Pine streets, in ‘the quarters occupied by évada Bank before the consoli- The directors and officers are: Hellman, president; John F. Bigelow, vice president; I. W. Hellman Jr., vice president; F. L. Lipman, cash- fer; George Grant, assistant cashler; Frank B. King, assistant cashier; McGavin, assistant cashier; John Miles, assistant cashier; F F. de Guigne, Dudl difference who says a thing. If In the days when the Duchess of Somerset was plain Miss Susan Mackinnon. she hall expressed the opinion that fairy | tales are undesirable reading for juvenile minds nobody would have at- | tached any weight to her views on the subject. But when recently as ‘“her grace,” she walked into the parish| | school at Maiden Bradley, in Wiltshire, near her own stately residence, and find- | ing one of the teachers reading “Beauty | and the Beast” to a class of children, expressed the opinion that they could | get no good from such stories, and that | the blography of Jullus Caesar would constitute a far better mental diet for | them, all England heard of it next day. | It started a blg pow-wow and several | | titled dames with literary reputations | have entered the lists on behalf of | “Cinderella,” “Jack and the | Btalk,” “Puss in Boots,” and similar | | myths beloved of ohildhood. Con- | splcuous among them have been the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos. | the Duchess of Sutherland and the Countess of Warwick. The last named maintains that fairy tales like the “Sleeping Beauty” are not nonsense but convey moral lessons of great value in training youngsters | to appreclate virtue and heroism and to | @esplee vice and villainy. 8o far the | fairies have had by far the best of the | battle and there seems to be no danger | | that the children will have Julius| | Caesar's sanguinary exploits crammed | | down their throats in llen of the | | doughty deeds of “Jack the Giant]| Killer,” despite the fact that the Duchess of Somerset has laid her in- | dictment of the fairies before the Boarl | of Managers. | | "It seems strange that of all people she | | should have broken a lance against the fairy folk. In her veins runs the ro-| | mantic blood of the chiefs of the ‘Western | | Isles, the very bulwark and fringe of | fairyland. - Her ancestor, Lachlan Mor | (big - Lachlan),s chief of Mackinnon, the| redoubtable enemy of the lord of the isles, when at last overcome in the field retired to one of his Skye fastnesses, where he devoted himself to dealings so terrible and studies so weird that no man in the west dared so much as'to lift a finger against him. . For ten years subsequent to herhus- band’s succession. to the dukedom, in 1894, her Grace of Somerset held the proud position of prémier English Duchess and ranked as such in the coronation . year, 1902. The marriage of the widowed Duke of Norfolk to his cousin two years later of. course deprived the Duchess of Somer- set of that precedence, though she still ranks but two degrees below the ladies of | the blood royal of England. She and her husband were for the first seventeen years of ‘thelr married life merely Mr. and Mrs. Algernon St. Maur and lived a simple though rather adven- and out-of-the-way countrles, where they often had to rough it considerably. She recorded her experiences in an Interest- | ing book called “The Impressions of a Tenderfoot.” the wealthlest members of their order, but they do much hospitable and stately entertaining, both in the country and at their town house in Grosvenor square, where the Duchess’ musical patrties are Harriman, Willlam Ha : | ENGLISH PEERBPSS WHO BELL AT FAIRY TALES SHOULD NOT BE | Herrin, Herbert E. Law, James L. | READ TO CHILDREN AND Wi UBSTITUTE SUCH LITERATURE AS Flood, Clarence H. Mackay, Louis “CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES" IN THEIR PLACE Sloss, F. W. Van Sicklen and Robert | — —& | Watt. —_———————— Specinl Dispatch to The Call. | A custom-house officer at Yarmouth, | England, the other day saved the life of LONDON, Dec. 16.—It makes a big Scotch storfes in England. She is devoted ' a boy who had got off a quay ingo the Bean || turous life, traveling a great deal in wild | The Duke and Duchess are not among | to outdoor life and spends a portion of | sea, and found he was a boy whdse life each summer with her husband on their he had saved in a similar manner twice yacht, the Caprice. | before. Perhaps her heretical views concerning —————————— fairies may be in.a measurs attributed | The way to fnsure a good appetite in to the fact that she has no children of | very hot weather is, according to a Ger- her own. BShe is evarywhere acknowl- |man hyglenic authority, to wear as ugml edged to be a clever and charming woman. | clothing as possible. Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. Established 1863 Capital - - - - - - - $1,000,000 Cash assets, Dec. 1, 1905, $7,000,000 Fire Departments Are Not Always Reliable Fireproof Skyscrapers Are Not Always Fireproof THE FIREMAN’S FUND With 5000 agents in 5000 towns and cities, with liabilities so-distributed that the destruction of any one city or town can be met without passing a dividend, _ Is Fireproof and Reliable HOME OFFICE : 401 CALIFORNIA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. OFFICERS WILLIAM J. DUTTON, Presideat. GEO. H. MENDELL, Jr., Asst. Sec’y. BERNARD FAYMONVILLE, Vice-Pres. F. W. LOUGEE, Treasurer. . B. LEVISON, 2d V.-P. and Marine Sec. ROBERT P. FAB]. General Agent. OUIS WEINMANN, Secretary. WM. SEXTON, General Adjuster. Central Department ’ 171 La Salle St., Chicago, IIL MARSHALL & MELPHONE, Associate Managers Eastern Department Atlantic Marine Department Mason Buik Boston, Mass. 79-85 Wall Street, New York. CHAS. W. KELLOGG, Manager. F. HERRMANN, Manager. Southecastern Department Europcan Marine Agency Macon, Georgia. | Combill, E. C.. London. EDGAR S. WILSON, Manager. JOSEPH HADLEY, Agent. GENERAL AGENTS BISHOP & CO., Ter. Hawaii, Honoluls. CASTLE BROS.-WOLF & SONS, CHINA & JAPAN TRADING CO., Ltd, __ Philippines, Manila. ) ‘Shanghai, China. SHEWAN.TOMES & CO. Hong- kong, China. e 5 ‘California Gas and Electric Corporat.ion Light. : Heat, Power Offices: Sixth Floor Rialto Building, San Francisco. Tests for Strength - ONE DAY 395 Ibs. SEVEN DAYS 761 Ihs. TWENTY- EIGHT DAYS 816 Ibs. Ge neral Sales Agents always among the most interesting func- tions ‘of the season. She is an accom- plished linguist and—which seems sin- gular in view of her objections to fairies— unouquon_qu best tellers of 'WORKS: NAPA JUNCTION. WESTERN FUEL CO, ; 318 California Street Tests for Fineness 98.5°> Pass 100,000 Mesh Sieve 82.3°/> Pass