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The morning call., 1891-05-05
SUPERVISORS.
The Electric improvement Com.
pany Ruled Out.

The Board of Supervisors was occupied
principally last night with routine business.
Supervisor Taber was in his accustomed
place again, after several weeks absence.
The order granting to the Electric I'm
provement Company franchise to main
tain poles, wires, ETC., to furnish electricity
for illumination and power, was voted down.
Burling, who proposed it, was the only one
who voted for it.
Ebert opposed the order He said no one
had ever asked for any such franchise
Furthermore, he wanted to know what the
city would gain by it. The board had re-
fused one franchise, because it proposed to
erect poles and overhead wires. Now comes
a proposition TO grant almost the s anne priv
ilege to another company.
NO PROMISE OF RETURNS.
'Tam opposed to theorder." said Mr.. Ebert
In conclusion, because in the first place it
comes before us in an irregular manner,
and in the next place / don't think 1t right
to give away the city's privileges in this
indlscriminate manner without knowing
whether IL is to get any returns or not"
Buriing argued that a petition is not
needed The parties desiring the franchise
are good responsible business men and
would be the means of greatly reducing the
present cost of illumination.
Taber opposed the measure. because he
wanted to see everything in the way of
wires underground.
The resolution appointing George H.
Mendell and harsden Manson engineers to
examine into the wisdom of constructing a
reservoir on the site OF the Seventh avenue
water pond by the Spring Valley Water
Company was finally passed, the water
company to pay the cost
The City Surveyor was instructed to pre-
pare map. describing the property that
will have TO be taken for the extension of
Seventeenth street to Stanyan, also the
district to be assessed tor benefits and
damages
A resolution was passed to print instruct
Ing the City Surveyor TO prepare four sewer
maps. embracing the entire city, for the use
of the Street Department, not to exceed
$500 in cost.
EIGHTH-STREET BRIDGE.
Bids for the construction of the Eighth
street bridge were received as follows and
referred to the Street Committee: BigelOw
q Little, S24, 800; Healy 81 1ibbitts, $23, 800,
Offering $500 for the material in the old
bridge; Doe, Hunt & Co ON tive plans.
S24. 492 and S27,120, $3.50 for old material;
terial; b. McManon IL Son, $50, 500; San
Francisco Bridge Company, S21,56O or
S21,960 The last mentioned bid contained
six other conditions besides the two
bids named, providing for a slight increase
or decrease according to the condition
accepted.
The board decided not to lease to any per-
son or society the city property on Fran
cisco street until recently occupied as the
Old Peoples Home.
John |. Sabin, President of the Board of
Education, was granted leave of absence
from the State for sixty days from May 1st.
George Lilly was appointed janit0r of the
Street Department and Police Station, vice
Edward McElaiu removed, and George Nc
Donald guard at the House of Correction,
vice Harry Beasley resigned,
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halt there in order to visit the strange desert
in the interior. where the nitrate is extracted
and manufactured and if the traveller have
eyes TO see withal and intelligence to under
stand. lie Will not repent his visit.
The vast desert between the Camarones
and COpiapo has been aDtly compared to an
immense chemical laboratory, so great is its
richness in salts Of various kinds The re-
pion which produces raw nitrate Of soda,
called caliche," extends from tie CANA
rones in latitude 1872 10 south, as far as Tai
tai. latitude 25o As, covering a longitudinal
distance Of 50 So, or 1913 geographical miles
from north to south, with an average width
Of say three kilOmeters from east to west.
On the eastern gentle slopes of the coast
CoTdileTa, the nitrate beds occur at a dis
lance from the sea of between twenty-five
and fifty miles and at height Of from 5000
TO $3.50 feet above the level of the sea. The
"saiitreras Of IQuique and Pisagua are the
nearest to the sea, ard their height above
the sea level varies between 5000 and 1000
feet in round numbers. With slight varia-
ton in The qualification the nitrate beds Of
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owners appearing to state their objections.
The board decided not to place any ins1r-
anee on the new engine-houses.
Berkeley.


John Delaney, formerly head landscape
gardener at Golden Gate Park. has been
engaged to lay out the grounds in Peralta
Park.
A petition to the Board Of Trustees 60 call
an election for the annexation Of Newbury
to Berkeley is being circulated In this end
of town and is being signed generally.
The meddling with the hagpole by fresh
men one night recently has been deprecated
by the Associated Students in the following
resolutions passed at their meeting on
Wednesday:
WHEREAS, The University fiagpole, which
bears the United States flag, has been several
times tempered with this term; and whereas
we, as loyal citizens, deprecats and condemn
the slightest disrespect 10 The flag OF our country
be IL
Resolved, That any such tampering with the
fiagp0le Is opposed to the desire and sentiment
Of the student body, and that In case OF any such
action In the future the names OF the offenders
will be found out and published aud the faculty
will be requested 20 suspend them; and further
more be 1T
ResoIred, That IL is the duty of the officers OF
the Associated Students TO carry out the sense
Of these resolutions.
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the provinces Of Antofagasta and Atacama
resemble those of Tarapaca. The nitrate
deposits are found along the edge Of the
pampa on the east slope Of the coast Cor
dilera.
The nitrate band is not absolutely contin-
nous; the distribution of the satire" is
not uniform and considerable stretches of
land are found without it. But wherever
the "Saiitre" does occur it is along the
western edge Of the pampa and on the
slopes Of,the foothills Of the coast Cordil-
lera. The nearer we get to the level of the
pampa the greater the proportion Of other
salts found in the "salitre," which cOnse-
quently becomes less suitable for the econ
nmical manufacture of the nitrate of soda.
The salifreras" of the Province Of Tara
paca are the richest and most interesting,
from both the physical and the commercial
point Of view, and description of soma of
the best establishments, or 'ofeinas," as
they. are called. will give an idea of the
processes of the extraction and manufac-
ture Of this product. which is of vital i'm
portance to Chile and almost Of equal
Importance to modern agriculture.
Trains do not start from the pampa every
day, but when they do 90 the Nitrate Rail-
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National educational Association,

The annual convention of the National
Educational Association of the United States
for the preseat year will be held at Toronto,
Canada, July 14th to 18th, and as it will on
this occasion be of an international charac-
ter, it promises to be the most successful
meeting OF the series. The Canadians are
making great preparations to welcome and
entertain the visiting teachers, and numer-
Gus cheap excursions are being arranged to
all important points ON the great lakes, the
ST. Lawrence and the seaside after the con-
vention. The official bulletin, containing
programme for the meeting. railway arrange
ments and all other particulars, is ready,
on their dropping post card to Mr. j. H.
Hill, Secretary Local Committee, Toronto.
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Alameda.

An attorney has been engaged to contest
the returns of the recent municipal election,
and a recount will be had with a view OF
seating William Hammond in the place of
j. T. Forderer as Trustee.
A judgment for the plaintiff has been rem
dered by Justice Byler in the suit of J.
Alexander Forbes against Antoine Sousa to
recover possession of satcheI and its con-
tents, which Mexican woman named Silva
gave to Sousa shortly before her death.
Among the contents was an unpaid promis-
sorry note, which she held against Forbes
The latter testified that she gave him the
satchel aud Its contents upon his promise TO
give her decent burial.
The California Improvement Company,
which is practically doing all the maeadam-
iZing now under way in this city, declines
to put in a bid for the work on Railroad
avenue because Of the doubt whether the
avenue is an open and public tbOroughfare.
The company endeayored to secure an
agreement from the property-owners not to
take any advantage OF the status Of the
avenue, but large number refused to sign,
maintaining that the agreement exaeted too
much, and now the prospects OF the ave-
nue's improvement were never SO gloomy
Charles S. Neal presided at the meeting of
the City Trustees last evening Ia the ab-
sence of Chairman Mastick. A petition
was received from john Gillian, asking that
Oak street, from Railroad to Banding ave-
nue., be graded, curbed and macad anized
referred 10 the Street Committee to ascer-
tain the feeling of the other property-own-
eTs on the matter. An application was re-
eeiyed from James Timothy, asking to be
appointed PoundmaSter. He charged the
present PoundmaSter with cruelty to AMI
mails, IN that he does not feed the i'm
pounded dogs, and kills them by striking
them on the head with an AK. Timothy was
recommended to the position by large
number of residents, but as there is no va
cancy no action was taken. The two new
engine houses, one on Webster street and
tho other on Chestnut street, were ordered
TO be turned over to the chief engineer and
occupied by hose companies.
Mr.. Randolph Introduced an ordinance re-
pealing the ordinance changing the names
OF the cross-streetS to numbers. The Ordi-
nance will cUme up for adoption on Mon
day evening. A resolution of intention
was adopted to lay a sewer in Caroline
street. The matter Of improving Park ave-
nue. was considered, and number of prop
erty-Owners requested the board to order
the work to be done. The City Attorney
and Engineer were instructed to prepare
the necessary resolution of intention.
petition was received from Albert Arents.
Michael Kane, e. X. Miller aud other prop
erty-owners asking that Railroad avenue be
extended from Fifth TO Fourth street; re-
ferred to the City Attorney. The protest
OF pr0perty-owners against paying their as
se5sment for the macadamiZing of st.
Charles street was oyerruled. no property
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ground OBJ over a space of five or six
meters, and not TO blow it up and scatter
the fragments right and left Hence the
broadening Of the hole at the base, and the
use Of weak guhpowder.
The 'caliche" is seldom found lying on
the soil, hut is usually at depth Of from
one and half to ten feet or more below
the surface. The first layer (AA) is gener-
ally one of sand and dust. Then comes a
rocky eonglomeration Obj of clay, gravel
and fragments of felspar, pOrphyry and
greensboro connected together with sui
plate OF calcium. potassium. sodium, mag
nesium and d little common salt This
layer is called "castra" and Jumps of it are
often used for building walls, which are
solid enough so long as water does not
touch them, in which event they crumble
and dissolve. Below this (CC) is the
''caliehe," looking like moist gravel which
had been frozen. This contains common
salt, chloride Of magnesium. sulphates ana
only small percentage of the nitrate of
soda. Below this ODD is a pale, reddish,
brown, loose clay, sometimes mealy, some
times sandy, with many gIittering crystals
Of anhydrite. It contains no nitrate
The layer Of ''caliehe" varies in thickness
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California Drill Corps, No. 2, N. S. G. W.,
gave complimentary ball at Odd Fellows
Hall last night. The hall was tastefully
decorated with flags, and native sons and
daughters turned out in full force. The
affair was most enjoyable and its success
was due to the efforts of the following CON-
mittees: Arrangements-H. Mayer, j. +.
Lindstrom, S. Adler, M. J. Chaplin and p
j. Conley; eception-Lieutenan Charles
Boldeman,. ID. J. Tobin, e. j. Quillinan, j.
jenkins, j. j. MeElroy and L. B. Feigen-
baum. Captain B. +. Hanion was floor
manager, and Lieutenant r. Wiclane his
assistant. Their aids were II. p Umbsen,
K. DYER, p. J. ConIey, A. Silverberg, A. +
Cordes and r. Saulsberg
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THEY LIVED HIGH.
superintendent Hea1y's Discovery
Ward Eleven.

Super1ntendent Healy'S discovery IN
Ward Eleven.
The high living that some of the inmates
Of the City and County Hospital enjoy from
time to time was abundaRtly demonstrated
by an amusing discovery DR.. Healy made
yesterday.
1t has long been the custom to allow yisi-
tors on Sundays, and there has never been
any objection TO their bringing delicaees tC
their friends who are inmates. But Super.
inteDdent Healy has had reason to suspect
of late that many of the delicacies brought
In were OF doubtful propriety, so he thought
he would keep an eve out.
He suspected Ward II, and yesterday
morning he swooped down on 1t like hawk
ON rat. Stored carefully away between
and in the mattresses and In every part OF
the room where IL was possible to hide small
objects, the Superintendent found upward oil
two dozen bottles of wine, whisky, beer
porter and other like delicacies that make
the heart glad. They were all taken to the
Health Office.
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two and a half miles from Iquique, COM
municating with some twenty establish
mems. There is one lot of 5000 acres. at
Lagunas. where in many places the deposits
are feet thick. The water is so impreg-
mated with lime and other salts that it has
10 be treated with carbonate of soda before
If can be used in the locomotives.
Leaving the Central Station by the north
ern line Montevideo is reached at a dis
lance of 36B miles from Iquique. and at an
elevation of 3Sl0 feet, and from thence de-
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from a few centimeters to 2 or 2B meters.
1t varies also in color, purity and quality.
The raw material contains from II to 90 per
cent Of nitrate Of soda, and even more in
very favored spots. Its chemical compost
ton is mixture of nitrate of soda and
chloride Of sodium in very variable proper
tions as principal elements, combined with
CLAY, sand, stones and other earthly matter
insoluble in water The accessory salts
found in it are chlorures Of potassium and
magnesium, nitrate of potassium, gypsum,
iodate and iodure of sodium "Caliche" is
crystalline in structure, slightly salt in
taste and very soluble in water. It's color
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ways Company Nimited) starts from the
1quiQue station, and begins to climb the
mountains At a distance of two miles a
reversing station is reached, aud then the
mount commences with gradients of from
go to 3.S5 per cent. Some of the curves
Molle, 1878 feet above the sea level, is
reached. From thence TO Santa Rosa, 2S72
feet high, the gradients are gentle. The
Central Station. twenty-nine miles from
IQuique. is 1928 feet high. Here the pampa
proper and the nitrate deposits begin The
road here branches off to the different de-
posits, respectively forty-SeYen and fifty
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Roots shuttle Suit.

The suit of Charles g. Root against
Charles Sonntag and other members Of the
State Board of Prison Directors for an in
junction restraining them from using in the
jute-w0rks shuttle, of which he claimed
TO be the inventor, was decided against him
yesterday in the United States Circuit
Court
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Judge Wallace yesterday reversed the
judgment of ex-Judge Lawler of the Police
Court finding L. l.. Ewing guilty of embez-
Element while acting as receiver of the
Market-street Railway Company. On four
other charges of a similar character Ewing
was discharged on writ of habeas corpus.
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Coal From Newcastle.
The American ship Mount Washington
came in last night from Newcastle, N. S.
W., with cargo of 1525 tons.
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scent is made 60 Pozo Almonte. 1871 feet
elevation. where the great northern pampa
of Tamarugal is entered, which is lined
with "ofclnas" for distance of nearly sixty
miles to the Nivel Station. 1t is hardly
necessary to carry the traveller any further
along the various routes leading to the
different nitrate works. We are now in the
heart of the nitrate section. and a descrip-
tiou of one portion is simply that of the re-
mainder The CONFORMATION Of the land is
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Section Of Chilean Nitrate Dfstrict-aa, the Andes !;
b. Pan,ya or Valley d. Region Of Nitrate De
posts; c. Crest Of The coast Corddlera declining TO
sea-EeVeL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05
CAUSED BY BAD ROADS.

Why So Many Borough Governments Are
in Demand-Crafton Decidedly in Line
With the Rest of Them-The Sidewalks
and Sewers.
The question of bad roads seems likely to
promote the crop of boroughs and all their
attendant discomforts. until they are as
thick in this county as stars in the sky
on clear frosty night, and the remain
ing township territory will become insigniti-
can't
Grafton people have concluded that town
ship government is a misfit, and they have
decIded-at least large majority of them
have-that their further continuance in
swaddling bands will be insuferable. A
largely attended meeting was held Friday
night at which George Armstrong presided
and p. A. Bonebrake was secretary. G. c.
Craft, John Rebman. Jr., the attorney, and
George Murphy were appointed a committee
to arrange programme to be discussed at
another meeting to be held next Thursday
evening.
The main trouble is the inability to get
the roads in the borough in such shape as to
be of use to the people. A considerable
portion of the season they are unfordable,
and the villagers think they do not get the
benefit of the road tax paid by them. But
few of them are directly interested
in good roads in the township,
where much of their road tax is spent
and not always wisely spent, either-at
least, that is the prevailing impression.
Then they cannot get board walks by taxa
tiou, except on such streets as are parts of
township roads, and citizens on these streets
exercise their own pleasure as to whether
they will make them in front of their prop
erty, and unless such walks are continuous
they are of no use; in fact, breaks only
make the situation more aggravatIng.
Mr.. Rebman states that Grafton is not
beset with the danger that continually con-
fronts some boroughs. He says the place is
and will be ruled by property holders, and
the sans culottes will not give any trouble,
so the appreh .nsion usually felt is lacking
in this case. A numbet of sewers are
needed, and these the township will not
build, and there is at present no authority
to assess tax to build them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05
NOT BRYANTS BROTHER.
A Prominent English Merchant Who Re-
sembles the Great Poet.

A Prominent English Merchant Who Re-
sembles the Great Poet.
Coming out OF the Yellowstone Park last
summer" said o Pittaburger yesterday, 81
met a man who closely resembled the poet,
William Cullen Bryant. If L had not
known that Bryant was dead would have
taken au oath it was he. He wore iauntv
straw hat with blue ribbon band around it
that reminded one of sailor who was off on
a lark or to see his best girl. We rode to-
gether in the same Pullman car to St. Paul,
and in the course OF a conversation l re-
marked that ne closely resembled Bryant.
and / asked frankly if he was a brother.
" No, be replied, 4 am an Englishman
and never saw Mr.. Bryant, but wherever I
go somebody is sure 10 speak to me of nv
likeness to the great poet. l can't write
poetry, bGt I wish 1 could. 1 am a tailor.
Nv name is Nicoll.
at was the English merchant who has
established numerous branch houses in
America, one being located in Pittsburg.
The old man has retired and his son is in
charge of the stores. He had been in Pitts
burg a number OF times and was familiar
with the city,"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05
DEATH OF DR.. H. H. H0FMANN.
The Oldest Homeopathic Physician in Pitts
burg and One of the Founders of the
Homeopathic HospitaI-A Long and
Successful Career in Medicine.

The oldest Homeopathic PHYSICIAN In Pitts
burg and One of the Founders of the
Homeopathic Hospital-A Long and
Successful Career in Medicine.
DR.. u. II. Holman, the oldest and best
known homeopathic physician of Pittsburg.
as we'll as one OF the founders Of the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, died last evening, at
o'clock, aged 20 years. DR.. Hoffman, was
born at Roetha, near Leipsic, Germany, in
1921, his father being a physician OF that
town. When he was II years old
his father died, leaving a large fam
lily in very moderate circumstances. OF this
family six were sons who all became physi-
clans. Herman, the fourth sou, after COM
pleting common school education, entered
the gymnasium of St. Thomas, an institu-
tion corresponding here to a literary col
lege.
After finishing there he received his medi-
cal Education at the University of Leipsc
and came to the United States in 1S49. AL
though he had seen the application OF the
principles of homeopathy in Leipsic he was
not convinced as to its merits. Alter COM
ing to Pittsburg he was induced to investi-
gate homeopathy by DR.. Reichhelm, sthe
first homeopathic physician West of the
Allegheny Mountains. The results of this
school of practice in treating cholera in 1S49
finally convinced him, and he became
firm adhereDt.
Appreciating the need of homeopathic
hospital he, with Dr.. M. Cote, now de-
ceased, and DR.. J. c. Burgher, in 1866,
purchased building, and soon alter the
Homeopathic Hospital of Plttsburg was in
corporated. The old building was, after
some years, replaced by the present fine
structure. DR.. Hoffman, had not for some
years been actively engaged in hospital
work, but was consulting member of the
obstetrical staff. He was married at Leipsic
in 1913 to Miss Mary Erdmann, and their
children are Eliza, wife of DR.. c. P. Seip;
William F., now deceased, of the firm OF
Heeren Bros. s. Co.; Adella, wife of Otto
Heeren, OF the same firm, and Charles H.,
who is a practicing physician. The latter
is member of the Homeopathic Medical
Society of Pennsylvania.
The funeral of DR.. Hoffman, will take
place on Tuesday afternoon, from the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, Otto Heeren, Center
and Millvale avenues.