Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-09
THE METROPOLIS.
Matters and Things at San Fran
cisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. November stb.-At a
meeting held by the Trades Assembly. dele.
gates from the white shoemakars reportsd
that Chinese shoe manufacturers were en-
ploying white designers aud cutters, paving
them as high as $3.50 per month.
THE PRISON REFORM CONVENTION.
This evening the Prison Convention held a
preliminary meeting at the hall Of the Young
Mems Christian Association. Ira 2. Ran
kin, President OF the Convention, presided,
and addressed the Convention at some length.
Rev. DR.. Woodwosth read paper on
" Prison Reform" The speaker described
many of the horrors OF prisons of the past
centuries.
Rev. Dr. Eliot, of Portland, Or, called at
tention TO the necessity of practical work. 1t
was no time for idea'ism. The question Of
system was secondary to administration.
Drs. Linforth. Leverson, Curnmins, Wood
bridge and Woodworth were appointed
Committee on Credentials and Organization.
The Convention adjourned until to morrow
morning.
The attendance was large. the delegates
embracing members of the bar, clergy and
prominent representative men. Much in
terest was felt and manifested in the proceed
ings.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE Immigration COMMITTEES of the Board
of Ttade has resolved TO incorporate as an
immigration association.
A Is L. r
has prepared report advising the removal of
Superintendent Preycss Of the House of Cor
rection, and Of certain guards also. The re-
port is withheld to enable the Superintend-
ent to offer testimony in his def5nie.
It is now known that Giieon M. Berry,
Sheriff humans bookkeeper, vino absconded
a yesr aud a hall ago, died in Sydney, Aus
tralis, December 80, 1880. He carried away
between $40, $50 and $50 coo of the city s
money, for which Nunan was responsible.
Two persons having in possession part of
the eight per cent. Hawaiian bonds, al
legged to have been stolen ct Honolulu last
February, have been arrested in Sat Fran
cisco, but cannot be held, there being no ex-
tradition treaty with the Hawaiian Govern
ment and there not being sufficient evidence
as yet that the bones were stolen. The men
| assert their innocence, and leave the bonds
| lulu can be heard from. They hold that they
| got the bonds from the very man who alleges
| that they were stolen from him. John C..
| Allardyce is the chief OF the two who were
arrested. The other was young man in his
| employment in the effort to sell the bolds,
| and which brought about the discovery and
arrest. The facls seem to point to the limo.
| cence OF the parties, who have been set free.
The Fire Commissioners have adopted a
novel plan to prevent the improper storage of
| coal oil, by adopting this rule: Certain
| orders of the city and county of San Fran
! cisco, providing for the safety of life and
F, property, being continually violated under
| alleged permits from the Board of Super
yiscrs, and some such violations of the law
| having been pronounced by competent and
! disinterested experts, and by the Fire War.
| dens, al extremely hazardous to life ard
property, it is ordered that al officers and
members of the Fire Department, in case of
| conhagration in the immediate vicinity of
! places used for the storage of crude petro-
/! leum in quantities exceeding 100 gallons, be
i prohibited from approaching such place or
1 places within radius OF 100 feet thereof.
| That copies of this order be posted 10 the
! several engine, hose and track houses Of the
! Department, and that the Chief and Assist.
ant Engineers designate thereon the location
/ Of the places referred to.
/ Further news is at hand justiiying tht
! statement that the Rodgers made the com
! piete circuit of Wrapseli Land yr0virg it &c
/ be an island. Il was also explored by tive
siedga parties going in opposite directions.
| The cain erected by Captain Hooper, Of the
| Corwin, WAS found, ana proved Of great value
| to the Rodgers. The currents all show th.t
( there IS an open sea 10 the northwcrd of the
! island. The Rodgers reached 739 4 latitude
III rt,-rA 49, .
! The theories heretofore advanced that the
/ Jeannette entered the northeast current aud
/ was carried forward in ihe psek-ice TO an un-
( known landing, is presumably exploded The
! Rodgers returned from the highest latitude
! southwest. and when spoken by the Beivi-
/ dere it WAS the intention OF her commander
! to make the winter anchorage in S.. Law
renee Bay, B4hIing Sea, or in Kotzebue
Sound, on the Alaska coast, north of the
| Strait. What her future movements may be,
| either in following the course Of the jean
nette OF otherwise, would be determined by
instructions or circumstances. The informa-
ton thus far received is very valuable to
geographical scientists, settling, as it does,
the point that Wrangell is an island, and that
an opening toward the pole in a northwest
! direction, hitherto problematical, is now an
established fact. The land expeditions, d.
rected by Lieutenant Berry, were attended
! with great trial of human endurance, though
the sufferings were more exhaustive than 9TH
erwise.
Hydraulic miners and hydraulic mining
engineers with United States Engineer
/ Colonel Mendell, have been on a trip around
San Pablo bay to see if they could fed any
| sliclsens deposits. They went up Petaluma
| creek to Donahue. In that creek only dark
blue and black mud was found. Samples of
! the bay'5 bottom wsre taken at various points
! between the creeks ard entrance of San
! Pablo into Sen Francisco bay. There was
J very little difference apparent. all of the
/. samples being dark soil. It is the intention
i Of the Miners Association to make a thor
| ough examination of the bays, ship channels
! ard tributaries by means OF dredging and
| soundings, and they expect to prove thereby
that there is no evidence Of mining debris in
any of the channels and that the surface
| washiugs from the agricultural lands around
| San Francisco ard San Pablo bays have filed
| in more acres Of swamp land than the mining
! debris has in Suisun bay, possibly deposited
more sediment in the bay altogether than
have the miners, and that the effect has been
| injurious to navigation in no respect so far as
! the bay itself is concerned; that ths tide cur
I rents in the bay channels take care of all the
1 sediment carried into it, and that in various
other ways than by mining can the waters OF
rivers and bays be muddied. Hamilton
! Smith, Colonel Lewis and P. NJ Randall,
civil engineers Judge Dibble and J. K.
| Bryne, mining lawyers; James Smith, j. B.
Hickey and NJ. r G. Puliam, mining Super.
intendents; Charles Hendell, mining engi.
neer; Hamilton Smith, Jr., and w. A. Skid.
more, of the Miners Association; Henry
Pichcir, Secretary Of the North Bloomfield,
and Professor Ashburner, were among those
on board the steamer carrying the party.
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! Day.,aoin1 n Eenutrt;ou