The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-03
SUNBEdMS.

~ have occasion now and them" said man Of
| moderate MEANS ITO have my overcoat repsirsd,
When was younger used to put OF tho repairing Of
tho overcoat until cold weather had actually set in,
| then found that by a very singular coincidence
seventeen other had done the same thing at the
| same shop. and SOL had to wait Rut now I get my
overcoat out along in the latter part OF August and
II into tho shop then when business is dull Then the
tailor give plenty of time to it, and yet my
coat when want it. think that we learn wisdom a.
we grow older. about overcoas, anyhow"
| Tho indux of great numbers of tramps and unsm-
| pioyed workmen into California continues. and the
| problem of what to do with them 10 yet unsoivsd.
Hundreds of tramps gathering from all parts of the
IRENE Northwest pass weekly from Oregon into Cali
forna San Antonio and New Orleans TO be cities
notably threatened with visitation from the insvi.
tnbls California overflow. party OF 100 men left the
Salvation Army camp Of ployed at San Francisco
last week secured free ferriaee OAKLAND and started
south declaring their intention to force their way
tho Sunset railroad route to New oreans whero already
tho advance guard OF tramps has appeared
Tho term boot leg applied to = very tall beer
glass commonly out to regular customers in long
saloons ay It's origin mis- enson,
or pretended Misrepresentation. Of the French touch
ing old En- glish drinking vessel Tho black jack.
leather bottle sometimes lined with silver com
mon drinking vessel In England two or three centuries
ago. and earlier and. indeed. It stu survives
According to curious old book Of the seventeenth
century. when Frepchmen hrst saw these veRses in
at the English court they took back to France the
| story that the English drank out Of their boots.
A committee OF coored lawyers has been hard At
work In Washington for several days past trying to
obtain the support of Congressman and Senators for
scheme to take all tho negroes out OF this country and
colonize them somewhere in South America Mexico.
The committee deleEates from big Convention Of
coored lawyers held in Chattanoo last month called
to consider the status OF the in this country
The committee claims that II tho prevailing
of the negroes of tho country and has the
| support of the most prominent c1ss among them.
They want as starter. An appropriation Of billion
| dollars
Round ups Of contraband or'-ess are aiordins an
citing diversion for American o. along the British
| Columbia border Gangs Of ten 'hozen coolies con-
| voyed by white men attempting to smugge them into
this country have recently been tho object Of e1ot
ing chases by citizens officers in the border counties
of Washington. A company Of thirteen Chinese and
two white men was discovered near Sumas last week
Citizens gave chase. tho two white opened IRE.
and in the melee that ensusd ono Chnaman was badly
wounded and six were captured Several captures Of
| parties Of three four Cinnamon from such bands
| have been made within a week or ten days
Tho San Francisco Mdwinter Fair project 10 boom.
ing right along Large forces Of men. landscape gar.
deners builders artists. aud laborers Of every kind
have for several weeks been busy in Golden Cato Park
laying out the grounds and putting tho buildings.
The dve main buildings W ell under way. and II 10
expected they Will be practically completed and in the
hands OF the decorators by the end Of this month ALI
California Is enthusiastic over tho fair cash support is
coming in literally and the promoters are con ndent Of
tho complete success OF the undertaking Tho pres.
of many of the special attractions now at CHI
cago. the Mid way and elsewhere in the White City
| is assured and the scope OF the fair 10 widening
-warburton Pike. a hunter and explorer who
turned to Nanaitno b. c.. last week from . nftssn
months trip to the interior of Alaska brought poor
opinion and account of tho country he passed through
lie followed the Deaso River to Its junction with the
Willard. tributary of tho Mackenzie. explored the
Pely River country, folio wing tho river to its
padded down tho Lewis River to tho Yukon and finally
| went down tho Kuskokum River to the coast. near
| Fort Alexander He had very hne hunting. but says
OF the country he travsrsed ia worthless except
for hunting and much OF it is of value at all He
found great many mining camps that were aban-
| doned except by men too poor to leave
1t currently stated In California that . young
woman student of Oakland. Miss Ray Frank s to
| be ordained rabbi She has studied At the Hebrew
Union College at Cincinnati and at the State University
of California with that object in view and atery has
taught in the Jewish sabbath school at Oakland She
delivered address at tho Congress of Religions in
Chicago II the report prove true she will be the nrst
| OF sex to hold such place. "such ordination
| would be a remarkable and entirely unprecedented
| event" said a Jew in discussing this statement
Woman has no standing whatever in tho orthodox
Jewish Church She ie not allowed in the body of
the synagogue but occupies place in the gallery of
the church. aside for her sole and shut oil by
screen. 1t would be accounted Dissertation for hor
to have any part in the ceremonies OF worship II
Miss Frank 10 to be ordained to any sacred Jewish
office 1t be In ultra-reformed congregation
and 1t will Think. be a notable innovation"
Lieut. Robertson L. S. A., has Just returned to Los
Angeles after making trip with three companions
q small boat down the Colorado River from Yuma to
the Gulf OF California to ascertain tho channel could
be made navigabe for commerce. The river he says.
changes its in many places every year At the
time OF the June rise shifting Its bed often much
six eight miles to left right and 1t would be I'm
possible to impound the water rs to secure
lar navigabe channel The tides too about the mouth
OF the river of its features the
great bore. which. tho full OF tho moon every
month. sweeps in solid wall OF water several feet
high. the upper part of tho Gulf and twenty miles
into tho mouth OF tho Colorado An attempt TO float
any boat IN tho rivers mouth at that time would be
fatal Al the mouth Of tho river the party found the
ruins pyard and the decayinR hulks of nvs
steamerh half Sunken in the mud tho rslics Of an
attempt made some twentythree years ago to ostab-
lish line ply up tho river to Fort Yuma
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