The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-05
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

NJ. J. Ashton, Toronto electrician who has
been spending some time in this city and st te,
was at the Palace yesterday. and in discussing
the recent trouble between the authorities and
the street railway company relative 10 the
establishment of an electric line on Kearny
street, lie SAID: Il see that the city officials
lay much stress unon The danger Of electrOy sis
or injury TO gas and water pipes ana lead
covered telephone cables from the current. In
my city We believe we have found very simple
remedy for any difficulty Of this character AT
different points along the railway copper wires
are connected from the water mains TO the rails
and are carried back overhead TO the dynamos
In III DoweT-houSe. Al this latter point con-
nection Is made between a large waller man
and The negative side OF The dynamos by copper
wires, and the plan is said TO efeetuaily do
away with ali injurious effects from the current.
The railway l refer 10 has been operated for
more than TWO years by electricity, and although
numerous excavations have been made by both
the gas company and the wdteT-works depart
ment so far no electrolytc action upon the
pipes of either has been discovered, nor have
the underground wires of The telephone com
paDy suffered In The least"
j. T. Stapdish OF Helena, Mont, who was at
the Palace yesterday Tells very pretty little
story about Montana new paper man and a
millionaire, recently deceased, which shows
that rich men are MOI always ungratefuI
There died recently in ST. Paul wealthy man
named A. II. Wilder" said Mr.. StaGdish "who
accumulated the most of his wealth In Montana.
In 1869 Wilder W Ut into the Indian country
with TWO companions 10 establish a trading
station, but was unfortunate In mourning the
anger of The Indians, who killed his TWO COM
panions and were in close pursuit OF Wilder,
who was fleeing on horseback, when Sam
Gordon, then tenderfoot but now editor OF the
Yellowstone Journal, appeared on the scene
and Valianty charged The sayages. who,
frightened at his enormous size. mistook him
for a medicine man and fed from the field.
Wilder never forgot the occurrence, and when
his Will was opened il was discovered that he
had bequeathed legacy Of $4,000 to the
journal SCI ibe.'
o. 81. Butler, a passenger on the last Sunset
limited train from New Orleans, says that the
citizens there have recently been confronted
wi n serious problem. There has been no
rain there TO speak OF for a couple of MONTHS"
said he. land, as you probably know, New Or
leans depends almost entirely for its drinking
water upon the cisteTns, there being 10 wells.
The water OF the river is unfit for use unless
filtered, and ven then 1t Is decidedly poor
article. Many of the cisterns, which stand
above ground. are in danger OF falling to pieces,
owing to their standing In the hot sun for so
long a time in an empty condition. The dust
i'll the city is almost unbearable, and vegetables
are rapidly becoming quite scarce, owing to the
truck farms In the neighborbood having been
pretty well burned up. A similar condition of
affairs prevails in the suburban country"
1.-The BARRIERS up in Tacoma have recently
bad a successful tussle with the Sunday-closng
law" said NJ. G. Holmes of that city at the
Lick yesterday. Zone of their number was
recently arrested, tried and convicted of q
violation of that statute, ana the case was APP
pealed to the Supr' me Court. That body a few
days ago hanoed down decision in which 1t
is declares that, so long as a barber sticks to
his trade and does not embark In any mercen-
tile transactions on The side, be may keep open
and do business on the day OF rest"