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The morning call., 1892-07-22
DEATH OF PALO ALTO.
Ahe champion Stallion Succumbed to
neumonia-Racing Gossip.

Pneumonia-Racing G.ssip.
AS had been anticipated the famous
stalli on Palo Alto, holder Of the champion
trottlDg record OF the WORLD :OS3l-has
suecumbed to the attack of pleuro pneu-
monia. He died at 2:35 o'clock yeste rday
afternoon, and his loss will be deeply re-
GREETED not only by Senator Stanford, his
owner, but all hOrsemen who had ever seen
or read Of this grand animal.
The horse had been suffering from pleu-
risy for some weeks and was on the high
road to recovery. when he was attacked a
few days ago with the more serious dis
order, which finally caused his death He
was bay horse, 10 hands high, foaled Feb
ruary 10. 1882, and bred at the Palo Alto
ranch. BE was by the famous Eelectioneer
125 out of Dame Winnie, thoroughbred
dam of Gertrude Russell 2:23J5 and Big
Jim 2:2315). by Planet, own brother to Ex-
chequer. sire of Lucille 2:2I and Rigoletto
2:22. Second dam Liz Mardis. by imported
Glencoe. Third dam Fannie G (grandam OF
Alma Mater), by imported Margravc. Fourth
dam Lances, by Lance, son of American
Eclipse.
Palo Alto was one OF the finest looking
stations ever seen, anc was natural trnt-
ter. AS two-year-9ld he showed a public
trial in 2:23%; as four-year-o!d lie started
nine times against aged horses, won eight
races, ana took record of 2:2OH and in
1889 lowered his record to 2:12H, starting in
five races and winning them all In 1890 he
troited through the Eastern circuit as far
as Philadelphia, Pa, his races against Jack
and others being the most sensational OF the
year. AT Chicago he defeated Jack IN
straight order in 2:1SA, 2:15 and 2:13, which
gave him the fastest race record up to that
time. and the fastest three consecutive
heats won In race by any trotter. All
RENE mber his sensation al performance at
Stockton on November II. last year, when,
driven By Marvin, lie gained the worlds
stallion record of 2:0S% and equaled Maud
IS record, which STOOD against all corners
for so long time, until beaten by Sunol
{2:0S4). III Palo Alto had kept well great
things were expected of him this fall His
VIII be long time before his equal will be
seen.
Several other fine horses on the Stanford
ranch are also down with pneumonia. and
the disorder Is assuming the nature of a
epidemic.
John W. Mackay and w. Jonathan were
both In town yesterday. The latter has a
fine stable of trotters, PAGERS aud runners
in good trim for the fall circuit. Billy will
start in with the Breeders meeting and 20
right through the campaign.
As anticipated, local horsemen will be
glad to see that the California harness
brigade are doing we'll in the East Gold
smith drove Hazel Wilkes and took second
money nj Detroit yesterday in the II trOt
while Captain Millen Grifiths' great PAGER
Flying Jib, captured the 2:l6 PACE in the
best time of 2:14 To-day Goldsmith will
start Una Wilkes in the 2:I9 trOt and Mon
roe Salisbury Steve Whippie.
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Heating, said his client, who had prote ste,,
against her assessment, would avail her self
of her legal rights and seek further relief
from the courts.
Adolph Sutro and Mrs. Emily F. Pope,
who had filed protests, withdrew their OBJ
1eetions Oh the condition that the assess
ments for improvements and awards for
damages In their cases should be made equal
The number of property-owners affected
by this Improvement is SIT, of whom 40
protested. Tie total assessments levied for
damages amounted to S37, 600 OF this sum
MRS. rope pays SIPS. Mr.. Sutro S3l02
and the remaining 5l5 property-owners the
balance.
The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
was Instructed TO report at the next meet
Ing OF the board the necessary resolution
showing the pro rata assessments after the
deduction of the $500, at which time the
report of the Commissioners viii be con-
firmed.
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Myrtle Grove.

and he was certainly visited by his friend
Spenser in this his Irish home I'm this
spot" writes Mrs. S. c. Hall Of the garden
at Myrtle Grove, beyond question have
been read PORTIONS of the 'Faerie Queene,
long before the world became familiar with
the divine conception.
At whose approach the soul OF Petrarch wept
For here, certainly. the immortal bard held
communion with his 'deare friend and
brother poet, whom he described as tie
somer Nightingale
Himself as skillful in that art as any.
In the garden there is a group of four
aged yew trees, which tradition states to
have been planted by Raleigh. There he
has many a time sat, read and talked or
lolled in the summer time. dreaming of FL
Dorado, in the vain search of which he
sacrificed his fortune. and ultimately his
life"
The grounds appear to be remarkable for
the luxurious growth of myrtles, bays.
arbutns and other exotics. Some of the
myrtles, from which the place received its
name, exceed 20 feet in height. Here the
first potatoes ever planted in Ireland were
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aroused and public spirit has been created
by the results of the investigation that
aroused interest has led TO. The corpora
ton is wealthy and powerful; Ii is publicly
asserted that it and not the people who elect
them is the master of the officials of the city.
If this shameful and humilating condition OF
affairs exists it will result only IN delay. 1 ne
handwriting Is on the wall and the time is
coming when the Chinese wall against which
the waves of commerce have so FAR broken
in vain Will be thrown down, and Oakland
will sit by her wave-lapped shores welcOm-
ing through her gates the mariner from the
sea, who shall unhampered make his barter
and exchange with the farmer aud the man
ufaeturer. who bring TO these shores the re-
suits OF their labOrs over lines OF competing
railways radiating TO every point OIL the
compass
There are many phases of this subject,
and have not the time to touch more than
one of them in an interview, but l cannot
refrain from adding the regret feel that
the waterfront company could not have
pursued progressive policy in the use and
improvement Of this great estate. Years
have been lost in q profitless idleness that
can never be restored-prOsperty has been
denied adeservng and willing community.
IL Is true that the injury is not irreparable
except in toe sense that loss of time can
never be restored, out commercial suprem-
acy has been needleSsly delayed and posi-
tons have gone 10 the north and the south
that could have been retained here. Had
the waterfront company opened this land
sale unhampered by prohibtiye provisions
and at reasonable prices, and put 1t to the
uses of commerce and industrial arts. there
would be no such feeling of hostility as eX-
lists in this community, which may lead to
results unanticipated to-day"
A reporter of The CALL made n careful
observation yesterday OF the INSTRUCTED
streets leading down to the water front.
jefferson street is blocked by a high
board fence, shutting off everybody but
those whom the Oakland Waterfront Com
pany and the Oakland Gaslight Company
will permit behind it.
South Of the fence. toward the water,
there is a waste of sand and dumpings
Along the waters edge there is an old
wooden buikhead.
Beyond this. running out into the water
TO the south ana for several blocks to the
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WALTER RALEIGH'S HOUSE.
Fine Old Structure Which Is Now In
Ia

A Fine Old Structure Which Is Now In
the Market.
fine old Elizabethan house of great his
toric interest can be bought by any man
with fancy for antiquities who has enough
ready money in his pocket. There is moth
Ing ordinary or prosaic about the house in
question. 1t is nothing more nor less than
the residence in Ireland of Sir Walter
Raleigh.
1t was built by the great navigator in
1858 upon part OF large allotment of land
granted to him for services in putting down
the Desmond revolt. The house is situated
in Youghal, in the County of Cork.
1t is impossible to tell how long the rest
less adventurer settled in this quiet retreat.
lie was Mayor of Youghal for TWO years,
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OF Carpenter. and how he was looked upon
by early settlers, Oscar L. Shuck tells the
following story:
"a settler in a southern county who OBJ
talned Government patent said he was not
Yet satisfied, but would perfect his title
Coming TO San Francisco he called on Car
pentier. and offered him 500 for his deed
Of the same land.
L don't own it, said Carpenter. 4
have no land ia that county
But you may have claim to 1t some
day. said the settler, and / am willing to
pay you 500 for your bargain-aud-sale deed
now
Carpenter took the money and executed
the desired conveyance
Thank YOU said the settler, now l am
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the Board Of Trade should adopt form of
petition to be presented to all its members
and to the other leading citizens of Oak
land. requesting the City Council to grant
tbe HarTiSon-strset electric-rOad franchise
TO J. L. Davie, for the reason that Ii would
break the ferry monopoly.
This has made the railroad people very
anxious.
They have felt that their monopoly was
really In danger at last
And so they have been interviewing the
officers Of the Board Of Trade to see what
might be done.
Yesterdays conference was the first Off
eial meeting held. but the chances are that
there Will be others.
1t will be we'll for the people Of Oakland
TO remind their Board of Trade that soft
speech comes easy when It can be used to
ward OF attack, but that it will not efface
great wrongs such as those done by the
railroad In Oakland.
Z. B. POmroy. one of Oakland's best
known citizens, who has looked very closely
into The waterfront question, said yester-
day:
lyon ask me for my opinion of the con-
troVeTSy WagDg over OaklanQ's water front.
l reply that whatever may be the immedi-
ate results of the agitation the fact re-
mains that the right TO use the harbOr and
the immediate and natural approaches
thereto belongs 10 tho people and there is
~ pOM6t VI authority F6SteQ anywhere
that can deprive them of that right. The
attempt TO create an exclusive franchise In
favor of an individual was void act and
the attempts which have beef made By the
company into whose possession it subse-
Qucntly passed TO legally strengthen and
perpetuate their claim were equally void
and vain.
That this is q true statement of the case
no che knows better than the waterfront
company.
In face OF the able opinions!which have
been rendered in favor of their title from
time TO time by eminent lawyers they have
Invariably declined a controversy when op-
poTtunlty therefor has been offered them,
IL was within a limited time of the render
Ing OF an elaborate opinion in their favor
by Messrs. Wilson and Crittenden that the
Southern Pacific Company paid Mr.. Fair
and ms associates millions for their
POSSESSIONS on the water front and
elsewhere, and when the engineers
OF the United States Government proposed
to Locate the training walls within which TO
confne the flow of the tide in the progress
OF the work of improving the harbor the
Southern Pacific Company, the Pacific In
pToFement Company or tie Water Front
company they are Synonymous terms) pro-
tested most vigorously against their being
placed at more than 400 feet apart They
based their protest on the claim that thew
were the owners Of the harbor About this
time Mr.. Vrooman, who was the attorney
OF The city, at the request of the Council
wrote an opinion on the subject in which he
eoiiated enough Of the law of the case-al-
though he by no means collected 1t ALTO
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FENCE BLOCKING JEFFERSON STREET.

show that the claims of the Water Front
Company were idle vaporings Intellectual
Tor any purpose except to blow down totter-
ing Councimen ready to fall at breath
from that quarter. The Government engi-
neers located the walls 800 fe-t apart. as
they originally proposed, but the Water
Front Company did not 60 into the courts
10 enforce their protest. These engineers
were acting under instructions from men
who know beyond peradventure that no
power exists by which monopoly can be
erected upon the high seas and the nayiga-
ole approaches thereto.
This 10 fundamental doctrine aeauIesced
In by all nations during all time, and no
court In Chrisiendom or in pagan lands has
ever attempted TO set up another.
ms being the case, IL is only question
oil TIME when the possession of shis great
property Will come back to the people where
IL belongs, and to the uses OF an opulent
commerce for which it is by nature and by
law intended. This policy of okstructIon
may delay Ii, but no power on earth ca n
stay 1t permanently. The tide is setting in
that direction now. Public interest has been
The morning call., 1892-07-22
SEVENTEENTH-STREET EXTENSION
The Commissioners' Bill OF Expenses Cu,
Down by the Supervisors

The CommissIoners' BIZ OF Expenses Cut
Down by the Supervisors
The Board OF Supervisors held special
session last evening to hear objections TO
the report of the Commissioners for the ex-
tension Of Seventeenth street from Clara
avenue to Stanyan street. There was unite
large attendance Of interested property.
owners. Attorney Campbell appeared ON
behalf Of the professors aud Reuben Fl
Lloyd and Major McKinne represented the
Commissioners. After hearing all the oh.
]ections motion was adopted ordering a
reduction from the bills of the Commission
ers OF $500. To make this cut the item Of
surveyor was reduced from $3.50 to $1,000.
the charges of the expert, $500, were
stricken out and S150 deducted from the
clerks salary. In seeonding Mr.. Taber's
motion to make these reductions Mr.. Bur-
ling complimented the Commissioners and
their secretary. Mr.. Thompson, upon the
celebrity aud completeness with which thew
had performed their onerous task.
Robert ID. Pentland, attorney for Mrs.
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Remark abl" Experiences.
New York Tribune.

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas j. Perkins OF Tai
lahassee, Fla, have had Jointly some re-
markable experience which, taken together,
are seldom taralieled. Each of them has
enjoyed five jubilees as follows: First.
when each of them reached the age of so
years; second, when each of them had re-
sided in Tallahassee 90 years; third, when
they had. as man and wife, lived happily
together for so years; fourth, when they had
lived in one house 30 years; and fifth, when,
on the I'd inst, they had been members OF
the Tallahassee Methodist Episcopal Church
South for 30 years. They are both enjoying
excellent health, and Mr.. Perkins carries
his six feet of stature ard 800 pounds OF
weight with alert yicor
The morning call., 1892-07-22

utBttCo VI iiEHt' Inc process Is as fol-
lows: A picture is taken on film
composed of geatine and blchromate of
potassium, or the picture may be taken
in the Ordinary manner aud transferred
to the sensitive stripping film from
the negative. The film is then exposed to
lukewarm water. The portions which have
not been exposed to the light are washed
away, while the other parts are left. For
example, the dark parts of a photograph
represent the portion of film in relief after
washing, and the light parts the parts washed
away. The film, therefore, has parts in
relief, while other parts are partialiv ar
entirely removed. The film is now stripped
from the glass and placed upon a drum
similar TO that used in the phonooranb
Bearing upon the cylinder is a needle or
tracing point The cylinder is set in mo-
ton. and the needle travels over the snr-
face, or rather the surface travels under the
needle. The needle or stylus rises and falls
as the various degrees of elevation in the
MIN pass under IL, aud by SO doing the
amount OF electric current transmitted to
the receiving istrument is regulated. W
The entire success Of the MACHINE do
pends upon the possibility OF VARYING the
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mile, it is expected that Kirkwood will be
famous in the near future for record break
Ing. The startaway and the homestretch
are both perfectly straight, and the middle
stretch is a curve. In the homestretch,
which is about 1900 feet long, there is
descent of Is inches.
The most novel feature about the track is
system OF sprinklers by which the course
can be freed from dust in 10 minutes There
are 200 of the sprlnklers, winch resemble
those used upon lawns. They are attached
to the ends of pipes that swing out from a
water main that follows the inner rail OF
the track from start to finish. When the
pipes are swung out upon the track the
sprin klers work, but swinging the pipes
back against the rail shuts off the water.
The Maple Valley Trotting Association
belongs TO both the National and American
Trottng associations, and its plant cost
$50 600.
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Sporting Notes,

The Country Club monthly pigeon-shoot
takes place at the Oakland track to- morrow.
The draw for the Puppy stake at Ocean
View ON Sunday takes place at Harry Cor
belts rooms tonight. Books will be opened
and pools sold.
Miss kuhne Beveridge, the young Cali
fornia sculptress. has completed her sketch
In plaster OF A. S. Henderson, the CHAM
position of set" The model will be on ex-
hibitioa at the clubrooms all day tomorrow
TO the general public.
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THEY MUST GIVE II Up.
The Waterfront GrabherS
Very Shaky.
AFTER THE BOARD OF TRADE.
They Sound Its Officers on an ImpOr-
tant Question.
4 Councilman Who Has Come Out Flat.
Footed Against the Shameless
Usurpers.

A Southern Pacific attorney and two
shorthand reporters made themselves very
busy In Oakland Yesterday.
The Southern Pacific wanted to put the
Board of Trade on record. A special and
private meeting was held for that purpose
in the morning, and the railroad now knows
how the Board Of Trade stand on the water
front question.
But nobody else does.
What was tie occasion for this conference
with the Board of Trade?
1t is easily explained.
Not long ago it was proposed by those in
terested in securing competing ferry line
between Oakland and San Francisco that
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grown. and also the first tobacco plant i'm
ported by Raleigh. Every one knows the
story OF the servant maid who emptjed a
pail OF water over her master, thinking him
to be on fire. Whatever truth there NAV be
I'D me tradition there can be no doubt that
the first pine OF toh Geo lit in Ireland vas
smoked here. The house will thus be seen
TO be of unique historic interest, and II is To
be hoped that it may fall into the hands of
an an owner who will deal carefully with it.
4 ne last proprietor was the late Sir John
Pope Hennessy, whose widow is the nres-
ent tenant
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west, there is a network of pile tiers, with
long, heavy striDgers on top of them.
They are there for a single puTpose-to
obsuuct navigation.
One tier of piles and a stringar atop
stretches clear across the foot of jefferson
street.
There are others at the foot of Grove and
Castro streets.
1t is maze Of stringers and piles.
Navigation on that side of the estuary
was practically blocked.
On the opposite side were MANY vessels.
At the foot of Grove street long, high
board fence was seen, running clear across
the street and down the block.
1t was a well-built fence, and was nearly
new.
In the pictures of the street distinctions
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success for some years
TO come. while a surface
electric railway seemed
a delicate experiment
in view of the heavy
snowfall.
As a compromise, tho
accompanying illustrn-
lions show a proposed
system less expensive
than the elevated road.
and yet having all the
advantages of surface
tracks. 1t Is intended
to insulate the rail and
carry { h Q current
through it, using the
metal structure itself TO
com plete the metallic
circuit An important
advantage claimed for
this design Of road is
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instrument recently de-
scribed In Electricity.
The process IS founded
upon the use of cleo
triclty of varying de-
grees of strength, as in
the telephone; or, in
other words, the move
ment of q certain lever
at one end Of the line
causes a corresponding
lever to take the same
motion at the other end.
similar to the telegraph
key. The telephone is
affected by varying
sound waves; the in
strumeht described is
affected by the varying
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A VERY FAST TRACK.

The Already Celebrated Kite at Kirk
wood, Del.
The kite track at Kirkwood, Del, over
which Belle Hamlin and Globe reduced the
team record to 2:12 last week, is IA miles
from Wilmington, and was opened July 4
by the Maple Valley Trotting Association.
AS the track is down grade almost from
start to finish, aud descends four feet to the
The morning call., 1892-07-22

Arizona Is coming forward as a fruit-pro-
auclng country. Recently r. Z. Earring
TON, hortlculturist of the Salt River VAL
ley. near Ph9nix. sent three carloads Of
"a titus irSh IneIe 10 chicago, where they
commanded quick sale. Trees and vines
90 well lii that section. An EXPERIMENTAL
vineyard of so acres has thriyed so we'll
that an additional 800 acres are now being
put into grapes.
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A J,s.ie-street FIGHT

Charles Ziegel. a night Waterman, had
some misunderstanding with Herman Pietri,
a sailor, on Jessie street, near First last
night, aad the result was a fight Officer
Stevens tried to stop the row, but Ziegel
would not have ii and assaulted the officer.
Both men were arrested and taken to the
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LITTLE DOWN
Are our prices at present. This is the
consequence of being OYerstOcked.
Truly our original prices were so low
that like the youth in the above pic
ture they d"n't need shaving.' But as
an extra inducement for bargain seek
erS we reduced the figures on eYery-
thing In sight, and the following Sam-
pie quotations will show you how to
save your meney:
LADIES' ELEGANT KID OXFORDS, Louis XIV
heel, patent leather tip, very dreSsy, reduced
to $3.50 per pair.
cESCACSO BROTHERS,
% kEARNY STREET.
Headquarters for Gents So. 90 Dress Shoes,
Iy22 FrSuWe
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is SO great that three
different styles of We
hicles are necessary in
order 10 enable the COM
pany TO carry on its
BUSH ess. Cars are used
when the streets are free
from snow, sleighs are
used during the winter,
and during the breakup
In the spring, when the
slush is too deep to make
clearing the cartrack
practicable, heavy omni-
buses are used. As the
\ :.
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A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

Pictures Can Now Be Forwarded by
Means of the Telegraph.
Among the most recent uses to which
electricity has been applied Is that of trans
hitting photographs and drawings by wire
The cut accompanying this article was repro
duced from the original made upon a new
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LATEST sHIrrING InTELLIGENCh.


THURSDAY. July 81.
Stmr Celia, Johnson. 28 hours from Eureka:
lumber, shingles ana shakes, to Higgins Collins
Movements of Transatlantic steamers.
NEW IORk-Arrived July 2l-Stmr Darmstadt,
FROM Bremen.
MISUNDERSTANDING July 2I-Stmr Nor
MAMMA, from New York.
BREMERhAVEN-Arrive July 21-stmr Spree,
from New YORK.
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that as the car is only few feet above the
ground an accident would not be attended
by any fatalities. while by using a letdown
step the car could be made as accessible as
an ordinary surface car, and still DO high
enough above the ground to clear any ordi-
nary obstacle
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Southern station. where Pietri, who evil
IDENTIFY was badly battered, was charged
with being drunk. but Zjegel will have to
answer charges OF battery and disturbing
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The abandoned children at the Girls d.
rectoIy are Josie Boyham, nged 8 years.
anu Mary Boyham, aged II years.
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BerkeIeY.

a number OF badly needed improvements
are at last being made in Berkeley by the
Sunset Telephone Company. Both tele-
phone and telegraph service In this town
have hitherto been execrabIe.
Principal Waterman says there will be
an increase Of so pupils in the High School
this year.
An electric semaphone has been placed at
the dangerous railroad crossing at Delaware
avenue.
man calling himself DR.. Hall has been
going from house TO house soliciting charity
for the Smith family" whom he said had
been left homeless by the powder explosion.
A number OF people were deluded into aid
ing him extensively.