The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-19


As soor as an enterprise becomes pros
porous and groups of capitalists become
milionaires they frequently refrain from
underseling or opposing one another and
form that modern form OF monopoly called
a trust. All through history we read Of
efforts to put down monopolies. and some
times they were suppressed CT abolished,
but apparently no et1ectual method has
been found by which trusts can be pre-
vented from cropping up like mushrooms
Nothing is TOO small or big for trust opera
tiOns. Pms and needles or shirts would
suit as well as cOaifelds or petroleum.
Railroad companies united in pool are
really form of trust. The public are con-
sidered fair game by the enterprisng gen.
tlemen who go into trusts, be result being
that they get none of the benefits which
should flow from competition.
Tds latest trust announcement affects
writing machines. Should the deal be con-
summated up will go the price of type
writer's, ana many thousands OF manpu-
lators will feel the difference between a
trust ami competition when they purchase
a machine.
To actually have smokeless coal for use
On steamers and in manufactures is a very
important advance on the pollution which
now results from using fuel. had London
such fuel in general use she would get rid
of those impenetrable fogs which make
MONDAY as midnight. Ii is announced that
the Berlin Smokeess Combustion Company
has entered into contracts with two Atlantic
steamship companies and also with an IRON
works company TO supply them with its
fuel, which is com posed OF coal dust in some
way mixed with air. The combustion
must be extraordinarily complete when
there is no smoke. As there is no injury to
| the boilers, and ashes are not formed, the
| gain OF method In getting up steam Is enor-
nous. Provided ii generates heat enough
such fuel would be perfect for the stoke
hole Of ships Of war and torpedo-boats.
The truth is now out about those San
| Juan placers. They are worthless. Some
scoundrel started the rumor that untold
wealth lay neglected on the ground, and
! thousands of people took him at his word.
packed uD blankets and provisions and
| primitive gravel-rockers and trudged or
| drove in wagons to the III Dorado. 1t was
| a severe joke upon them in an inclemen /
season. They are hurrving back to region s
| where little work is better than none. and
| they have enough of money left to offer a
| reward of $1,000 for the body, dead or alive,
OF the man who fooled them. This fakist,
| however, has no desire TO convert his CORPUS
into lead mine, and has doubtless hied
| him to regions where he can ruminate
| peacefully on the ioliies of life.
The new terror IN artillery is a gun which
Is said TO fire 1000 shots a minute Happily
! 1t is operated by electricity so that the
brave soldiers who play the hail of bullets
| on an enemy stand in no danger themselves
unless the other side is equally well equip
I ped. Dr. Calling is the inventor If the
! gun has the virtues described, it is an I'm
| prOvement on the Maxim weapon. which
| does not profess TO discharge more than 600
! bullets per minute. But one advantage Of
| the Maxim is that IL never fouls or Jams.
| and the Calling mitTaileur mas. aud noior-
ously so in the Soudan campaign. Ii is said
| that it takes 400 bullets to kill a man on
! the field Of battle. The new Calling should
dispose Of whole army 10 half second,
and nobody would be left TO bury the dead.
| Two hundred and fifty starving working
men from Ghent have made demonstra-
ton in a fashion that must impress not
only Belgium. but Europe. The feat is
hardly credible. but they are said 10 have
marched thirty-one miles through snow,
from Client to Brussels, in order to lay
their grievances before the Minister of
| Public Works and the Chamber of Depu-
| ties. They succeeded in getting an audience