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The morning call., 1892-06-27
VOYAGE OF THE RUsTLER.
Wary MOngOlians Inspected by tn
Dennty Commits sIoners.

Wary MongoIians Inspected by the
Deputy Commits sIoners.
The little naphtha launch Rustler carried
Deputy Fish Commissioners Tunstead aud
Babcoek and two CALL representatives to
the Chinese fishing camps of San Pablo
Bay Thursday morning.
The start was made al daybreak, and be-
fore noon half a dozen Chinese jCnks had
been overhauled and several camps visited.
Nothing Of an Illicit nature was discov-
cred. 1t was much too early for that.
Only few days ago several arrests were
made al San Pedro and Redwood slough,
and the wary Mongolians have for the
present almost entirely stopped operations,
waiting till the San Pedro and Redwood
cases shall have been decided.
Everywhere there was not lacking evil
dences that Illicit fishing had been going on,
but no young fish were found and only a
few shrimps.
The fact that but few shrimps are now
being taken by the Chinese. though to-day
that succulent little moTsel is a scarcity in
the local market, indicates plainly that the
profit Of the fishing camps Is found In the
illegal catching Of small fish.
The big drying grounds on the hills Of
San Pedro are bare and the boiling, Smelling
anu DdChiuS NtIhS NJ TIC various cam
are silent and almost deserted.
There is no embargo on shrimp catching.
They may be taken at all seasons, In any
method possible aud wherever found. OF
course, this is all wrong. but 1t is true, yet
there no shrimp in the market to-day and
the camps are no longer little hives Of in
dustTy. Their inhabitants are loating a bout
waiting till the word comes that they may
operate in their own peculiar way with In
punity.
Only few junks were found at work in
San Pablo Bay. They were all boarded
and their scant cargOes thoroughly in
spected.
Nothing illegal was found. Only few
white bait - small fsh that is fully
matured At an inch to an inch aud a half in
iength-and now and then small sole or
founder. But the latter were very scarce.
Even the white bait was not plentiful and
IN all the holds examined a cleaner catch Of
shrimps could not be found.t
One thing was noticeable. Fully one
third Of all the shrimp examined were with
spawn.
There is DO law against catching these
and sending them over to China 10 feed the
native highbinders, but undoubtedly there
should be-
With view TO catching John Chinaman
on the hip, were such thing possible, the
Rustler kept her nose behind Red Rock on
the up trip. Thus she was hidden from the
view Of the MOng0lians, who, when fishing
illegally, have l0OkOuts stationed on the
hilltops to sound the alarm at the approach
OF any strange craft
The Rustler made good time Thursday
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Ga, the twenty-eighth annual convention
of the brotherhood again reelected him for
three years more and granted him leave
OF absence for good visit TO Scotland, the
land of his forefathers
In the eighteen years the order has grown
to a total of 10000 members, with 485 sub
divisions, covering every railroad in the
United States and Canada. lll-feeling has
been rare, and Chief Arthur's principle of
the arbitration Of differences has not only
been applied with success in the settlement
Of difficulties between the brotherhood and
railway managers, but in notable way
within the order itself.
In all this thrift Chief Peter M. Arthur
has been a leading factor, and TO it his clear
Judgment and moderate cOunsels have con-
tributed much The same sagacity which
has been manifested in directing the affairs
of the order has enabled him to accumulate
a fortune. Sixteen years ago his Total saw
ings were little more than $1,000. To-day
good local judges estimate his wealth at
$500, 000 About u years ago he bought a
small block OF unimprOved real estate on
Wilson avenue, one OF the finest residence
streets in the city, and made considerable
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THE CENTRAL TABERNACLE.

Rev. Mr.. Smith Thinks Cranks Should
Not Be Given Too Much Prominence.
AT the Central Presbyterian Tabernacle
Rev. w. L. Smith in the evening took for
his text the following sentence from the
eighth verse Of the the twentieth chapter of
Judges: And all the people arose as Que
man." His theme was The Sabbath after
noon mass-meeting in Metropolitan Hall
for the suppression Of the dives"
Mr.. Smith gave the press the credit and
honor of inaugurating the popular move
ment against the moral debauchery going
on in this city. The Metropolitan Hail
gatherings proved, he said, that the people
are In touch with the great moral issues of
the day. IL would be a great calamity If
the presentation of startling facts in regard
TO the dives failed to stir the city to
It's depths, and It was TO the credit
of the city that these meetings could be
kept up both in attendance and enthusiasm
also that in the hour of need the people are
ready to forget their political shibboleths
aud ecclesiastical needs and unite in the
best interests OF the municipality in which
they live. The present Board Of Super
Vis0rs may dodge the issue, but the issue
will ultimate in the extinction of the dives
The hand of God was in the movement.
and therefore IL must be successful The
danger was IN the tendency to branch out
toward SIDE issues. "A man who went out
loaded for bear would be foolish to waste his
ammunition upon chippies and jack-rabbits
on the road. for the bear could then attack
him and he would be defenseess So the
meetings, if kept close toits oneissue, would
avoid danger.
The long-haired men and the short
haired women should not be allowed 10
come too prominently to the front. They
generally have more to say in such move
ments than the men VINO gave them birth.
When these men get the upper hand we
may say good-by to our reforms. 1t was.
however. the duty Of everyone 10 identify
himself with the movement
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OFFICERS BOARDING ONE OF THE JUNKs.

morning, and before o'clock had rounded
Red Rock and come in full view Of the Chi
nese camps and junks in San Pablo Bay.
lunks are quite picturesque looking OBJ
Jects. with their sheets dropping almost to
the water, and their fantastic rigging SEEM
ingly fashioned after no method at ali.
But seen nearer, while at anchor, they
look even queeTer yet, aud with their
strange and oddly dressed crew resemble
nothing so much as the pictures of the
bloody pirates painted in the old dime
novels and serials.
But they are harmless enough. When the
Rustler signaled one Of them she hove to
at once, and conscious of her own present
recttude, waited patiently till the little
launch was made fast beside her.
No. 20 was the first junk boarded. The
number Is given by the license commits
sloner and corresponds TO the number on
the little pink slip of paper that zee
Chong, the owner of this particular Junk,
tlshed from the bottom Of an old oyster can
| Tor tbs edfcRtion of the invaders.
Nee alice light" he said, as he brought
forth bis license.
But to test his truthfulness the cargo was
| examined. 1t was scant enough-only a
few pounds OF squirming shrimp in the
hold of the boat.
The percentage Of small fish was not one
in hundred, but many Of the shrimp were
with spawn. Had they remained in the
water few hours longer this would have
been deposited in the mud and myriads 81
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Slough the Chinese fishermen have thelr
camps. The largest of these is at San Pedro
Point, where dozen boats rendezvous and
the most extensive drying ground on the
coast is established. All along San Pedro
Bay the coast is dotted with the black and
dirty huts of the Monaghan shrimp-f fishers.
In all there are about 20 boats In this bay,
each worked by from four TO nine Chinese
The big nets are stationary and are kept
In the water during the full running Of a
tide, that is six hours at a time. Unlike
those In the southern part Of the bav, the
nets at San Pablo are fastened to stationary
buOys
The catch from a single net is in itself
enormous. They are huge, black, closely
woven seines, about 80 feet in diameter at
the mouth, and running to a very small
point, in the shape Of long-Decked bottle.
Under ordinary circumstances, when they
have not been visited recently by the FISH
inspectors, these huge nets are stretched
clear across San Pablo Bay.
OF course, to catch shrimps the nets must
be sunken near the bottom. Here, too, are
the young fish. The small founder and sole
and the miniature Of every edible species
tnhabiting these waters are shared in these
shrimp nets. There is no escape for them.
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sHRImPs FOR CHINA.
A Million Pounds "A Year Sent From San
Francisco to Hong Kong.

A Million Pounds "A Year Sent From San
Francisco to Hong-Konc.
For the payment of q paltTy $500 year
the Chinese are permitted to ship out Of
this country over !, 600. coo pounds Of shrimps
and not less than half that amount of small
dried fish ev " Y months.
These fish are taken from San Francisco
Bay.
The shrimps, aside from being a valuable
article Of food and profit to man. also form
q very important part Of the food Of fishes,
the supply of which is now very nearly ex-
hausted in this bay.
The small dried fish exported sTe the
young founders and soles and the young
OF various other valuable species which,
If allowed TO mature ard spawn, would
increase more rapidly than the mature fish
could lie caught by lawful means within
the prescTi bed seasons.
At present there are about $50 Chinese
shrimp fishermen, each of which pays q
license OF 81 80 Der year.
Shrimp-fshing is free the year round and
the Chinese nets are seldom, If ever, out Of
the water. But the shrimp they catch is
the least Of their sins. Enormous quaint
ties OF young fish are caught in the nets
ostensibiy set only for shTimps
From the Sacramento River to Redwood
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An Attack on the Wrong House.

The toughest trade made this summer
was entered into by woman who owns
rea! estate here, says the Lewiston (Me.)
Journal Among her property are two
houses exactly alike, one of them occupied
by Objectionable people whom she could
not GUST by any legal methods. In an in
spired moment she hired some boys with
baseball bats to call at this house and break
out the glass and drive the tenants out,
aware that they would for sufficient reasons
make no legal fight. The boys passed the
word that some "slashin' good glass smash
in could be had aud that they were will
Ing to do the job cheap. In the evening
they made the raid, and. according TO the Ill
luck that has pursued the landlady, they
had thu misfortune to attack the wrong
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inRly primitive and cats and ducks are the
only live companions Of the Chinese.
There Is Chinese woman or two in each
village and half dozen little yellow babies.
The woman is slave and her earnings from
consorting with the hired fishermen GO to
enrich the company that owns the camp.
The shrimps and small fish are just boiled.
The boiling tank is ont in the open air. made
of brick and lined with pieces OF old boiler
iron. Beneath the tank hole Is dug for
the fire and an old piece Of stovepipe showed
into the earth at the further end of the tank
carries off the smoke and gives drausht to
the flames.
When the shrimps have been dried big
wooden roller is pushed over them TO loosen
the shells. The operation is much like that
of using lawn mower. In the absence Of
the roller the Chinese tread the shells off
with their bare feet.
Then the shrimDS 90 to the grist mill, or
a clumsy wooden cOntrivanee that looks
like one. You put in the shrimps, turn the
crank and out comes the meat at one end
and the husks at the other.
The dried fish are ready for Shipment as
soon as they come from the drying ground.
The shells, the shrimp and the fish are
put up in big sacks weighing, when filled,
about 200 pounds.
When in full operation each camp will
turn out fifty sacks day or more.
The camps are inaccessible except by
small boats and at low tide many of them
cannot be reached at all without wading
through unknown depths Of mud and slime
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Mothers of Great Men.
Pail Mail Gazette.


A great deal has been written about
THE Mothers OF Great Men" Weimagine,
however, that the folk of Leonberg, in
Nuremberg. have started a precedent by
erecting memorials to series of mothers of
great men. This little township of about
2000 Inhabitants was the birthplace of
Paulus, the famous Nationalist theologican.
of Smelling, the equally famous philosopher,
and Of Hochstetter, the naturalist. 1t was
also the dwelling place of the mother of the
poet Schiller from 1896 to 1901, and OF the
mother of the astronomer Kepler two GEN.
turtles earlier, though three villages in the
neighb0rhoGd contend for the honor of
having been Kepler's birthplace. The
town council of the Town of Mothers" as
1t proudly calls itself, has affixed tablets 10
the walls of the old castle of Duke Ulrich
the Well-beloved, where tho Magma Charta
Of Wurtemberg liberties was signed by the
Duke in honor of the mothers of the poet
and the astronomer. We presume that the
patriotic town councillors will not stop
short at these two honorable women, but
will extend similar tokens of respect to the
other mothers of whom they are so justly
proud.
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Everything that swims with the tide at
the required depth Is shared IN one or the
other Of these nets.
When the tides are stationary then the
nets are hauled in by windlass and their
contents dumped 10 the bottom of the
qneer-looking Chinese junks.
st San Pedro the licensed boats and their
owners are as follows: Tong Wo and four
men, Sen Lee and four men, Hop Lee and
nIne men, Tong Chung Lung and four men,
Yee Wo and nine men, Sin Yo Lung and
nine men. You Lee. Wing Lee. I on ChOug.
ian To Lee and Cnong Sun with four men
eaeh. Ouang Tsne and three men. Long Lee
and two men and Sun Hop Wah and four
o on.
Red Rock has the next largest Chinese
eamn Here the boats belonging TO Lou
.Yuen. Yee Wah and zee Sam have four
men each. and those Of On Woand sam Hop
Wo three men each.
At San BrunO the boats OF Wo Hop. zee
Chong. Leong On. Ger Sang Lee and PIong
Lee Kee have each four men.
Al Black Point there is but one licensed
boat with eight men. 1t belongs to Quong
There are 10 men in two boats at Hunters
Point. owned by Hung Hop and Quong Lee.
Ouopg Hing Lee aud four men WORK at
Newark In one boat.
At Redwood City there Is put one BOAT,
that ~ Ouong Mn Lee, and nine men.
At San Mateo Quong Sou Lees boat with
four men operates. $50, ~,
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CHIEF ARTHUR'S THRIFT.
The Unique Record of Successful
Labor Leader.

The Unique Record of Successful
Labor Leader.
In a handsome brick mansion on Euclid
avenue. says Cleveland correspondent of
the Chicago Herald. with beautiful, spa
cious lawn before it, lives a man who has
long been recognized as one of the ablest
and most powerful labor leaders in Amer
lea. When Mr. Arthur was elected to his
present position. in 1874. it was promotion
from the footboard. For years he had been
locomotive engineer, running on the New
York Central and having his home in Utica.
He came to Cleveland Immediately upon his
election with scant savings indeed, and
made a humble home on the west side. In
short time he moved to the east side, TAX
ing an unpretentiOus house on a modest
street, and, with innate Scotch thrift. be-
ginning to lay by more and more for
rainy day from his salary of $4,000 year.
II is skill in plotting the order through
difficulties was mastery. and he won and
held the confidence of the thousands of
honest, capable men who came into the or
ganizatIOn. At the end of each three-year
period he was a candidate for reelection
and rarely has there been a word OF objec-
ton raised to him. Last month at Atlanta,
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A Comfortable Home.

money by building and selling several
houses. 1t was approximately at this time
that his salary was Increased to $4,000
year.
About five years ago Mr. Arthur concluded
to dispose of his Willson-avenue property,
and purchased an elegant home on Euclid,
few blocks beyond Euclid station and about
two miles and q half from the business cen
ter of the city, The pictGre shows the place
to fair advantage, It's value is about S25, 600.
His daughter ana two sons have married
well. the younger son being welded to the
daughter of prominent mmber-dealer but
a few months ago. he has set both boys up
In business, and they move in the best
society in the city. Without doubt he is the
only labor leader in the world who has been
able to accumulate a great fortune ia
less than twenty years without losing the
confidence Of his order and being forced TO
give up his position.
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Rather ParadoxtcaI.

DR.. r. w. St. Clair of Fort Wayne. Ind.,
tells how, few years since, he was riding
on an engine and caught a cinder in his eve
that caused the most excrucia ting pain. He
saws that he naturally began to rub the
afflicted organ, when the engineer called
out: "IeI that eye alone and rub the other
one." The doctor looked increduously at
his adviser, but the latter only continued
81 know you doctors think you know it all,
but if you let that eye alone and rub the
other one the cinder will be out in two
minutes" The doctor says that he began
t. rub the we'll eye vigorously, and soon
corner. He was preparing to take it out by
the aid of small mirror, when the engineer
again admonlshed him to keep rubbing the
we'll eye," which he did for minute longer,
and then found that the cinder had slipped
down onto his cheek. Who can give a
sensible explanation of this odd proceeding?
The morning call., 1892-06-27
QUEER PERFORMANCES.
Is This the Way the Baking Powder
Agents Deceive tho Public?

Is This the Way the Baking Powder
Agents Deceive tho Public?
IL has been presumed that there was some
trick In the performance OF the lady baking
powder testers, by which something besides the
actual quality OF the relative baking powders
was intended to be shown. writer In the
Chronicle shows the character OF this trick, as
she discovered It, as follows: Mrs. Page writes
that she was recently visited by the lady agents
OF a powder which she did not use. who at
tempted to show her by boiling and stewiDg il
that there was something wrong about the brand
she does use, the Royal. No amount OF manlpu-
RoyaI<went through all tests lriumphantly and
without a flaw, and the tester acknowledge her.
self beaten. Tue tester then took a can OF Royal
from her pocket and from that produced almost
ANYTHING she called for. She said that she had
made this test before many h0usekeepers, and
had by IL induced them TO throw away the
ROYAL. "My opinion IS" writes Mrs. Page,
that this testing Is fraud. Ii was evident 10
me that the sample OF Royal she drew from her
pocket had been doctored for the purpose OF
making these tests, ana cannot see bow any
believe also that where they can they slip some
substance into the tin in which they boil the
water and powder When they are watched too
closely aud cannot do II. then they produce the
small can expressly prepared Tor the purpose"
The women who are performing those alleged
tests says the Chronicle, are. perhaps, Innocent
OF the great fraud In which they are participants,
but no censure Is too severe for the employers
who thus use them TO 40 Illicit work which they
dae not themselves perform, and which has
| brought lhcm before the courts elsewhere.
The morning call., 1892-06-27
GROWLERS GALORE.
A Newspaper Man Takes a Big Contract
on His Hands.
Roston Herald


Boston Herald.
A Boston newspaper man opened saloon
recently and his Office mates went around
In body one evening last week to give him
a send-Off. They had a merry time, and ali
went we'll till an old woman in q Lattered
shawl came in TO get ''growler" filled.
One of the party saw her, jumped up,
and, laying the necessary coin on the bar,
said:
Fill up the GROWER on me. This is our
treat.
1t was done.
The old lady was profuse in her thanks.
and went out She must have given the tip
to the neighbOrs. for within half an hour
the rag-tag and bobtail thereabouts we're
fling into the saloon laden with every sort
Of receptacle that would hold a quart Of
beer.
The frst hRlf-dozen excited no particular
notice. but as the proee ssion heightened
look Of blank inquiry spread over the group
Of scribes. A council of war was held, and,
as a result the GROWERS" were filed all
right, but on a cooperative plan.
The original offender is quoted as saying,
however, that be will fill no more "growl-
ers' otfhand.
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Personal Property Assessment.

OFFICE OF The CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
" Supervisors Of the city and County OF San Fran
cisco, June l3 1892.
Public notice Is hereby given that in accordance
with the provisions Of an act OF the LEGISLATURE en-
titled An act in relation TO the assessment aud
collection OF taxes ON personal property In the city
and county Of San Francisco" approved March lS,
1874 the Board of Supervisors OF tais city and
county met the 18TH day o. June A. D.
1892, and examined the Assessment Book
Of Personal Property for the year 1892.
that said board VIII continue In session from time
TO time until MONDAY the 9th day june A. d,
1872, at II O'Clock noon 70 examine applicants for
the correction OF errors in tho said Assessment
Book OF Personal Property
SWORN APPLICATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY
LAW.
THE Assessment Book OF Personal Property has
been and Will be open TO public ms pection from
O'Clock A. NJ. until O'Clock p. N.
IeI4 I'd JNO. A. RUSSELL. Clerk.
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Berkeley.

Professor Hilgard and family have left
for the East.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Bancroft
took place Saturday from her late residence
on Francisco street. Her husband is i'm
proving and hopes are entertained of his
recovery.
S.. Waterman has gone to Stockton to
attend the alumni reunion and banquet of
the nigh school.
Miss S. Morse of North Berkeley has gone
to Santa Cruz
Burglars attempted to break into the
Parkhurst residence on Dana street the
other night, but were frightened away.
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MARRIED.

McCABE-RILEY-In this city, June 8. 1892. at
ST. James Church. by the Rev. Father Lynch,
Francis j. McCabe and Mamie A. Riley
CHESTER-DUNN-In this city. June IS. 1892 by
the Rev. John Gray. Walter J. Chester OF San
Francisco and Kate Dunn OF Windsor, England.
CHESM0RE-STONE-In this city. June 81, 1892.
by the Rev. J. ID. Hammond Clarence w. Ches-
more and Alice Stone OF San Francisco
WALKER-SINTON-In San Rafael. June 81. 1899,
by the Rev. 4. J. Lion. Henry d. Walker aud l. r.
xie T. Sinton OF san francisco.
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lector's figures. there are three boats Of five
men each and one boat Of three I1ien less in
operation in this bay than the previous year.
This fact in itself speaks volumes. II
shows that the depletion that has been going
on for years practically unobstructed has
been so deadly and th9rough in It's effects
that even the thrifty Chinese cannot make
a living from the few remaining fish and
shrimps
The fish devastation has been so complete
that some of the Chinese have been COM
PEELED to Quit their slaughter for sheer lack
OF fish.
The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, which
sailed from this port 10 China June 9. car
ried shrimps for Hong-Kong invoiced as
fo1lows.
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house. tie twin to this. which was unten-
anted. Tney broke out every SQUARE OF
glass and IuDtured the sash, while the
ladies to whom the landIady o jacted sat on
the doOrsteps If their hnuse next door and
urged ON the work of destruction. 1t was
finn for them and the hovs
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NOTICE.!
Internal Revenue Special Taxes
Now Due and Payable.

INTERNAL RENENUE SERVICE, FIRST DIsrRICT0
OF CALIFORNIA, COLLECTORS OFFICE,
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June I, 1892 J
Special tax stamps fhceRse) for year commencing
July !, 1892. and ending June 80, 1898. now
ready to issue.
whoesaIe and retail liquor dealers aud other tax
payers will please pay said without clay and
penalty.
1e7 I'd JOHN c. QUINN. Collector.
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CHINESE FISHING CAMPS.

How shrimps and Fish are Prepared FOR
China.
Bleak, barren and desOlate are the hills OF
San Pedro, which form the background Tor
the fishing camps of San Pablo Bay. Here
and there on the Shrub-coVered hills and
rocks are great white patches that gllsten in