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FOREIGN LEGISLATORS.
Lawmaking Is Not a Lucrative Pro.
fession i'm France or Germany.
London Daily News,

W
In Germany the members of The Reichstag
receive no payment, but are provided with free
passes on the German railways. The same
practice obtains in the case OF members of the
"Herrenhaus," or upper house of the Prussiau
Legislature, but those of the lower house re.
ceiye an allowance-Diaten or Tagegelder-of
10 shillings day during the session. as we'll as
travelling expenses. France pays each of her
Senators aud Deputies $500 year, miAns a
deduction OF 81 a month for Refreshments
pour la buvette. Moreover, the members of
both assemblies travel first class and gratis
on all the State railway lines, and monthly
substitution of 50 enables them to travel first
class throughout the year on every line.
Clearly there must be less lucrative professions
in france than that OF Senator or DEPUTY. In
Austria members OF the lower House OF Parlia-
ment receive 81 day and travelling expenses
and In Hungary $3.50 year, including an al
lowance for rent. II. however, we would at
ain the full realization of the radical ideal i'm
this matter we must cross the Atlantic and con-
template the system which prevails in the
United States. where each Senator, Representa-
tive and delegate in Congress receives a salary
OF Soooo per annum Washington NAV yerily
p0llticiaus
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MEDICAL,


A SURE SAFE AND SPEEDY CURE FOR ALL
n monthly irregularities from whatever cause:
no instruments used; home in confinement with
best possible care and comforts of home; with the
skill and attention OF a physician having had a
long and successful practice: can safely guaran-
tee every case; consultation free and confiden-
ta; all ladies that In trouble. sick and dis
couraged should call on the doctor and state their
case; save time and money by consulting her be-
fore being treated elsewhere; all female COM
plants treated with unexceleu success and salts
faction guaranteed. MRS. DR.. GWYRR. 31lI2
Hyde ST., near Ellis. S. f.. Cal. pc2l If
LII LADIES RELIEVED INSTANTLY OF
II monthly Irregularities: any cause: pills 81: {:
call or write DR.. and Mrs. Strassman 81 Post tt
I AIDES CAN PLACE THE UTMOST CONFI
IL dsnce in D0CTRESS RUBEN; guarantees a
sure cure for ladies who childleSs: also cures
all Irregularities; strictly private homo before and
during confinement, with best of care: adopts in
fants; terms moderate. 1406 Geary st. SEQ 6m
pRIVATE HOME IN CONFINEME 1909
L Mission St; ladies who desire to GO into con-
fnement with every care and attendance OF Ger.
man physician OR. HERWIG) and graduated
midwife (MRS. wEGENER) will find same at
the above address: private diseases OF ladies q
specially; cures guaranteed; babies adopted
Telephone No 1888. ~ 3m
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DELINoUENT SALE NOTICES.

OnUNS wIUh UUN. GOLD MIMI q COMPANY
d Location of principal place Of business san
Francisco Cal location of works. Grass Valley
Mining District. Nevada County. Cal.
NOTICE-There are delinquent upon the follow
ing described stock. on account of assessments
(No 81, levied on the 4th day of September, 1898
the several am SET opposite the names of the
respectiye shareholders, as follows:
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An in accordance with law, and m order from
the Board of Directors. made on the Attn day OF
september, 1888 SO many shares OF each parcel OF
such stock as may be necessary will be sold at
public auction at the ofhce of the company, room
so, No. 500 Montgomery street. San Francisco,
1898, at the hour of O'Clock NJ OF said day, to
pay said delinquent assessment thereon. together
with costs of advertising and expenses OF sale
j. STADTFELD JR.. Secretary.
onice-Room 56, No. 500 Montgomery street.
San Francisco, California.
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DELINQUENT SALE NOTICES.

nyERMAN SILVER MINING CoMPANY-Lo-
" cation OF principal place Of business San
Francisco, California: location of works, Gold
Hill, Storey County, Nevada.
NOTICE.-Thers are delinquent upon the fol.
lowing described stock on account OF assessment
No. 6s, levied on the 1st day Of September. 1923.
the several amounts set opposite the names OF the
respective shareholders as follows:
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And in accordance with law. and an order from
tho Board OF Directors, made the first day of
September, 1898 SO many shares OF each parcel
OF such stock may be necessary Will be sold at
public auction at the ofice of the company, No
Ala California st.. san Francisco Cal. on
THURSDAY, the 26th day of October, 1898, at
the hour of o'clock r NJ of said day. &c pay said
delinquent assessment thereon. together wit b
costs OF advertising and expenses OF sale.
GEO d. EDWARDS, Secretary
Ofhce-No. ala California ST., San Francis o
Cal ace I'd
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DISAPPOINTMENT

Atameeting of the directors held October o,
1898 the day of sale or the above assessm emit was
postponed until Friday, ovember 3, 1893, at
O'CLOCK PM j. STADTFELD JR., Sec.
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CMALL LADvERrISEMENTS AND SUBSCRIP-
~ lions taken at Call Branch Offices, 603 arkin
It, 33s Hayes ST. aud 25lS Mission ST.; open till
9;3Q1,x.
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Terms: Only one,fifth cash. balance at your OWL
terms at z per cent.
Must be sold by October 20 to settle partner
Bhip account
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SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR CASH.

Without any doubt the finest subdivision OF
property in the frutvale district. All avenues
graded: Oakland City water mains on every
Street: every lot large size. 401l32; fronting d.
rectly on main avenues so feet wide; Oakland.
San Leandro and Haywards electric cars pass
directly by this property.
All taxes paid by the present owner until lot is
paid for Title absolutely perfect. We have al
ready sold over 500 lots to Oakland and San Fran
cisco purchasers. over so elegant cottages. 2
story and Queen Anne style homes already built
in the last twelve months. Branch postofice.
stores, school and church facilities all within a
few minutes walk. Only rs lots remain unsold.
Call at our office and be shown this property.
Write for information and maps.
NJ j. LAYMANCE CO., 466 9Th ST.. Oak.
land oc22 81
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n. B.-we VIII forfsit $500 in coin If the above
bargain lots not listed for at least per
cent lower than any surrounding lots or viii also
forfeit S. 90 should fail to resell any lot sold
st this partnership sale from 500 to S400 profit
within 80 days froin date of purchase.
Take Haightst- cable cars to Clayton ST, and
examine them to-day.
Taxes tor 1898 and 1894 paid.
Streets severed graded and macadamiZed and
ready for building.
y. II. LANG & CO.,
oc2 II 36 Montgomery St, cor Sutter.
Q.J n A MONTH WILL BUY A HOME IN SAU-
lr 1V saIiUo e D. SPARROW. $40 Market ap1 tf
7 OF, COR. CALIFORNIA AVE. AND FRAN
u coma ave. for sale cheau. Address Bargain,
box 81. Call ONCE. se26 II
CHEAPEST AND BEST IN AMERICA-THE
- WEEKLY CALL, sent TO any address in the
United States or Canada year for 81, postage
# G
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Building lots, all sizes, including two choice
corners situate on Frederick. Fremont and CLAY
ton streets, ranging in price from $1,000 and up
ward.
Frederick.st. cable now laid. Market-st system
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WEEKS NEWS FOR CENTS THE
- WEEKLY CALL, in Wgappeg, for mailing,
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STORAGE.


L,IRST-CLASS STORAGE; ADVANCES N A TSs
Il 642-644 Mission st. CHAS, L. TAYLOR. ie13ff
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OAKLAND REAL ESTATE.
5000 $3.50 AND $500 EACH.
MOSS TRACT Lots
EASY TERMS. EASY TERMS.

See this elegant piece OF property if you have q
small amount OF money TO invest
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OAKLAND HOU ES TO LET
HOUSE TO LET: PRICE $21; ROOMS AND
IL bath. 1866 East Fifteenth ST.. blocks from
Tweuty-third avenue station East Oakland. 81 So
Q.0n FOR RENT-7-RooM FLAT, BATH.
ID ~. electric bells. stoves and water: 954
Uuion ST.. near AdeIlre-st station, Oakland.
KOENIG q KROLL 600 Broadwsv oc19 I'm
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SJ0NFY on FIRST AND SECOND MORT
Nj CAGES MURPHY. 623 Market st. ocS I'm
CREATEST SALE ON EARTH.
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oA KLAND ROOMS AND BOARDING.
G10 STORE. WITH REAR LIVI SG-ROOMS:
ID 1O. fine location MY ERS, 1902 Broadway. % If
A FAMILY HOME HANDSOME SUNNY
II rooms in main building and cottages; large
playground: table ana every appointment FIRST
class. KELSEY HOUSE. Teleg. and 2 4th ST
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BERKELEY REAL ESTATE.


A GREAT BAkGAIN-whY BUY A SINGLE
"a lot when you can purchase an acre for less
money; only 1915 per acre; $50 down and $40
monthly: this property Is In the suburbs OF erke-
ley, having frontage on the famous san Pablo ave.
GEORGE SCHMIDT. 2ll6 Shattuek ave. Berke-
ley station, Berkeley, Cal, or w. A. CALDWE ELL,
AIS Montgomery ST., s. F. oc21 II
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ANGLo-NEvADA
ASSURANCE CORPORATION "a COR.
PORATIoN) UPON IT'S APPLICATION FOR
AJUDGMENT OF DISSOLUTION.
Notice Is hereby given that the Anglo Nevada
Assurance Corporation a corporation organized
and existing under and by virtue OF the laws of
the State of California and having its office and
principal place of business in the City and County
OF San Francisco state OF California has made an
application to the Superior Court OF the State of
California in and for the City aid County of San
Francisco for its solution and disincorp rporation
and that the Presiding Judge of this Court has an.
pointed THURSDAY, the ninth day of November
A. ID. 1898, at ten (l0) O'Clock ia the forenoon OF
that day and the courtroom of this Court Dept
No. / thereof at the New City Hail. in said
City and County of san Francisco as the day
time and place for the hearing OF said application
BY order of our Superior Court at the New CITY
Hall in the said City and County OF San Fran
CISCO this ift b day of October. A. ID. 1898
Attest my hand and the seal of said Superior
Court at the said City and County of San Fran
cisco, the day ana year last above written.
tSeal of Superior Court.
M. c. HALEY, Clerk.
BY w. j. HENEY. Deputy Clerk
X. II. CoUNTRYMAN, Attorney for Applicant
oct ID
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COUNTRY REAL ESTATE.

THEAP HOMES N KERN COUNTY: $50.
~ acre locations railroad station in arte-
sian belt; level and free OF alkalI; $50 to 500
per claim. Call or address q. C. Watson, room As,
"A Sansome st San Francisco. oclS IT.
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DIG BARGAIN; 40 ACRES HILL FRUIT AND
ID chicken ranch; springs; 10 acres vines; 120
fruit trees; dozen chickens; , horses ana wagon
cabin, stable and outhouSes; $3.50. ANDREW
PRICE. Headsburg, Cal. ocl2 ] 2t
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ALAMEDA REAL ESTATE.
II ROCERY-STORE TO LET ON PARK ST.. ALA
" media, with all the fixtures complete; fine 10
cation; viii rent cheap for term of years. Apply
TO THOMAS A. SMITH & CO.. real estate agents
1909 Park st oc2O lot
o. : MONTHLY BUYS A s425 LOT IN ALA
n y media f. ID SPARROW $40 Market anil If
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ALAMEDA ROOMS AND HOUSES.
. OR MORE SUNNY HOUSEKEEPING ROOMS:
y in Alameda. Apply 639 Central ave-. Webster
station: cheap rent oc20 7t*
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HORSES.

EAUTIFUL WAGONS; Al WAGONS; Al
kinds: must be sold at q sacrifice. RASMUs
SEN S7O Howard St oc22 pts
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TRAINS FOR SHENANDOAH

Leave New York via Philadelphia, week days
Loo a. m, lS0, 400, 7.SO p. m, H. 10 night. Sun
lay, 500 p. M, l2.l5 night.
Leave New York via Mauch Chunk, week days,
400, 845 a. m, LOO, 49O p. N. Sunday, 7.15 a. m
Leave Philadelphia Market street Station,
week days, Az 835, 1000 q. m. and 400,
800, l1.8O p. sunday 400, 905 a. m, ll.30
b. IN.
leave Reading, week days, lS5, ,7.lO, 1905, ti.5U
=. rn., 5.55, 7.0 p m Sunday, 1876, 10.4s a. m.
leave Pottsvllle, week days, 240 740 q. m.
1880 GIL p. % Sunday, 240 700 q. m, 205 p. m.
Leave Tamaqua, week days, 800, SAB, l1.23 D.
m, l.21, 7i5 92S p. %. Sunday, 3.20, 7.43 a. No.
4.50 p. m
Leave Mahanoy City, week days, s.45 s,1s,
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a. M, $50 p. m.
Leave Mahanoy Plane, week da Us, 2.4O, 400
B309 35 10 40 59a. n. ~ 55 200 $40 757 l0l0
D. . Sunday, $40, 400 s.27 a. M, 8.37, Sol p. M.
leave Girardville, QRappahannock Staton)
weeks days, 247, 4O7 636, p.4i 1916 a. M, i2.0b,
212, LOl, 5.28, 632 s.OS, l0t6 p m. Sunday, 2.47,
4.07. 9.33, q. M, BAL 5.W p. m.
Leave Wllliarnsport, week days, 500, 9.35, 1900
a. M, 3.35, Ills p. N. Sunday Ills p. M.
For Baltimore, Washington and the West via
b. 4 o. K. r., through trains leave Girard
Avenue station, Philadelphia, (P. & Il. r. r. at
So s01, ll.27 a. M, 356, 5.42 7.16 p. m. Sunday
SO, 500, l1.27 a. M, 556, 5.4S, 7.16 p. m.
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institutions for the blind in this coun-
try and in Europe.
The proficiency attained by some Of
the pupils in the art of printing and
writing in the Illinois institution is
something wonderful One Of the most
remarkable pupils in this institution is
Master Bernard Owen.
He was born in Paris, Edgar county,
H., March 80, 1888. He lost his sight
soon after birth, probably from ophthat
mia neoRdtorum. His father, William
II. Owen, was in comfortable circun-
stances, and while he was not over
indulgent, as is often the case In the
treatment of blind children, he pro-
vided the boy with all that was neces-
sary to make his life pleasant and
took more than usual pains in his phys
ical development. Bernie did not at
tend school until he entered the Illi-
nois institution January Z, 1899. AL
though he was at that time nearly nine
years of age, he would have passed for
a boy of seven 1t must be remem-
bered that the number of perceptions
obtained by blind child are neces-
sarily but a small fraction of the num-
ber obtained by the child blessed with
the almost miraculous faculty of sight
Moreover, the muscular exercise of the
boy with sight is much more vigorous
and continuous than that of the blind
boy. Therefore both the mental and
physical development of the sightless
child are apt TO be, especially in early
life, somewhat retarded AS a rule, in
deed, blind children seem younger than
their years Indicate. When Bernie en-
tered school he had never "seen" an
embossed letter of any kind From
hearing his brothers spell he had mem
orized the letters of perhaps a dozen
words. There was piano at his home
and he had learned to play few
chords.
He has been in the institution a school
year and two months; that is eleven
months in all. He is reading in the
sixth point reader" corresponding in
grade to an ordinary fourth or fifth
reader) and has completed the FIRST
line reader" (ordinary raised letters)
and reads new matter readily; he writes
the New York point; indeed, he wrote
letters to his parents in this system be-
fore he had been In school three months;
he reads and writes the American
Braille, using the Braille writer with
ease; he recognizes the pitch of tones
from a piano and readily names the
keys that are struck, even when two,
three, four, five or six keys are struck
simultaneously and this whether the
tones produced are harmonious or dis
cordant; he plays nearly one hundred
pieces of music on the piano and near
ly fifty on the violin; he learns some Of
his music by hearing it played few
times and he has learned several
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TEACHING THE BLIND.
Descrip zion of the Modern Meth.
DDS Of Instruction.
che Noble work Performed by Prof. Frank
Y Hall-Typewriters and storeotypers
for Sightiess students-Refuses TO
Have Ills Inventions Patented.



Wonderful progress has been made
In the last two or three years in the art
of devising practical systems to facili-
tate the operation of writing and print
ing for the blind. As Is well known
the blind are forced TO depend upon
the sense of touch for acquiring knowl-
edge of things external 60 themselves
They read by running the sensitive in
deX fingers over a series of raised
points or indentations In soft paper
each letter of the alphabet being repre-
sented by certain arrangement of
these points. Up Go the year 1891
these points or indentations, known
as Braille letters, for the reason that
they were invented by a Frenchman
by that name, were made by means of
the Crandell tablet and stylus, very
crude device with which the opera
tion of punching" the dots that con-
stitute q Braille letter Is tedious and
laborious.
The Crandcll tablet consists of two
plates of metal, the upper plate being
perforated with squares. A soft sheet
of paper is placed between the plates
and through the square perforations
the blind student, by means of a stylus,
punctures the paper forming the in
| dentations or points" of the Braille
letters Nothing could be more te-
dious than this process, and yet the
rapidity acquired by the practiced
hand was something remarkable. With
this crude device the blind have strug-
gled along, groping in the darkness,
transcribing their thoughts and the
thoughts of others with the sluggish
stolidity of helpless children.
1t remained for Prof. Frank H. Hall
a western genius, late superintendent
of the Illinois institution for the edu-
cation of the blind at Jacksonville, to
revolutionize the methods of writing
and printing by the invention of a
wonderful little machine known as the
Hall-Draille writer, by which it is pos
sible for the expert blind student to
write Braille letters almost as rapidly
as a modern operator can manipulate
Remington typewriter. With this
ingenious mechanism the possibilities
of mental acquisition for the blind
are almost beyond calculation. With
| it the blind can create an exhaustless
and varied literature for his fellow un
fortunates and transcribe for then
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the carriage is automatic, the releas-
ing of any one key that has been de-
pressed Tor Of all the keys or Of the
spacer) causing the carriage TO move
as far as the width Of the Braille cell
The paper passes beneath the roller
shown i'm the cut, between the tip of
the goose necls'' and the plate which
guides the styluses, and, when a line
has been written out. upon a small
horizontal surface, where IL can be
read. indeed, as the tip of the goose
neck" is only little wider than the
Braille cell, all the writing done may
be read at any time, except the last
letter written
As the six keys or any number Of
them can be depressed simultaneously,
any Braillc character can be written at
a single stroke AS now constructed
the size of letter and length of line are
the same as the "Crandell tablet"
Soon after this Prof. Hall began a
series of experiments in sterootyping
from a paper matrix made on a Braille
writer From 200 to 500 copies could
be printed from each of these plates
before the metal would "go down so
much as TO make the printing illegible.
But to cement the backs was an un-
pleasant and laborious task; and the
print, after the first fifty Impressions
was not as high as was desired. These
experiments led to the construction of
q machine by which heavy sheet of
copper was substituted for the tin-foil,
and this gradually led to the substitu-
tion of brass and tin sheets, all of
which receive the Braille indentations
and form printing blocks from which
thousands of impressions may be
taken.
The first successful stereotype-makei
was produced January 4, 1893. Since
that time the machine has been in daily
use at the Illinois institution for the
blind Nearly all the teachers and
several pupils have learned to operate
1t. Errors can be easily corrected, the
machine does not get out of order and
the amount of work that can be done
upon it is a pleasant surprise to all.
Prof. Hall refused TO have either of
these inventions patented, not wishing
to be placed in the attitude of attempt
ing to derive profit out of the mis-
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lelectation the choicest thoughts of
the ripest minds.
Prof Hall in October, 1891, turned
his attention to the invention of
machine for the use of the blind which
would take the place of the slow and
laborious stylus and tablet. He de-
sired to invent machine that would
enable the blind to write with the
same ease and rapidity with which one
can write on the most modern type
writer. 1t was obvious at the outset
that such a machine must be quite
simple and easy to manufacture, there
by placing the cost within the limited
means O. the poorest of the class it
was designed to benefit Next, 1t must
have power sufficient to emboss the
points of the Braille system in perfect
ly sharp relief, and yet the touch must
be easy, giving the greatest rapidity
without fatigue to the operator.
The general principles of the ma
chine were soon formulated, and with
the assistance of Mr.. Sieber, ma
chinist In Jacksonville, the first crude
model of the Braille writer was com
pleted May 27, 1899, and June it was
exhibited, substantially as it is now
built, to large audience in Jackson
Vile. Even then a number of pupils
in the institution had developed what
seemed to be an almost phenomenal
speed.
The machine has but six keys. Each
of these, by means of lever, operates
a stylus. The styluses are grouped to-
gether, making the'Braille cell. The
plate through which they pass upward
is horizontal, and is on the back and
upper part of the machine, just behind
the small roller shown in the cut. A
goose neck" is firmly fastened TO the
front casting, and passes over the
the roller, and ends in a small piece Of
metal in which are six cavities to re-
ceive the points of the styluses The
paper is coiled in the central part of
the apparatus and moves from right to
left with the carriage. The motion of
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accomplishment he acquired without
any instruction, and IL was some time
after It became known that he was
able TO do this before his teacher could
learn the mental process by which he
arrived at the desired result
Bernie is one of the twelve pupils se-
lectod TO attend and take part in the
exhibit of institution at the Worlds
Columbian exposition The Illinois
state commissioners, after sending a
committee to observe the exhibit which
the managers Of the institution pro-
posed TO make, set aside six thousand
dollars to be used for this purpose
The exhibit win be found in the Hi
nois state building, second floor, cast
and TRUMAN A. DE WEEsE
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ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.

Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street whar
and south street wharf, for Atlantic City.
Weekdays--Express, 8 10 q IN, 2 co. 3 90, 4 W
% p. m Accommodation, 90 m, 4b p m
, Sundays--Express, 300, 1000 m. Accom-
>modation, & 10 a m and 4 30 p m.
u Returning leave Atlantic City depot, Atlanti
ind Arkansas avenues. Weekdays-EXpress
u O0, Z As, 8 90 a m and 3 30 and 5 80 pm
~ Accommodation, 3 Is a N ana ~ M.
IA -ddndays 4 10, 8 O0p
Accommodation, Is a m and 80 p m.