The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-15
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.


coveries sometimes" said E. w. Clew OF the big
publishing house OF Lippincott & Co. last night.
"Readers almost generally suppose thai the
authors name on the title page of book Is
proof positive that he wrote it, while in reality
such isafar from being the case. have In mind
an instance of this kind where a minister
mas gained some celebrity as an author,
whereas he would find it an imposs.
bility to write book which we would
undertake to place upon the market, al
though he Is an Interesting speaker. Another
man does the writing and the reputation which
the minister has gained as an orator gives The
book prestige. One OF our highest humorists.
whose name 1 DO not care TO mention, once
loaned his name to friend whose work he had
specifically examined, and was compelled
afterward. through the failure of the work and
in order 10 protect his own fame, to declare
that the book was the product OF his youth and
had been put into print against his wishes"
II heard pretty good story the other day
about little Jack Ferris, the boy actor. who
was recently here with the Span of Life CON-
pany," said Day Clerk Burke of the Occidental
yesterday. "Whle in this city Jack had a
tooth filled by dentist While he was In the
chair he noticed bicycle picture on the wall
and asked what II was. The dentist said
he was member of a bicycle club
There was also a large picture of mando-
lin players. and the dentist owned that he
was member of mandolin club After eav-
| ing this city the tooth continued to pain little
JACK, and In Denver a dentist took out the fill.
ing and saw that the nerve was exposed He
killed the nerve and started to fill the tooth.
when JACK said: Hold on; l want TO know
whether you belong TO a bicycle club?' The
answer was In the negative. Are you men,
Der OF mandolin club?' When the doctor
said no. little Jack leaned back In the chair,
and said. Go ahead, then; dentists who belong
to these clubs have no time TO fill teeth"
1.-THE stokehOlds of the big ocean steamers
have In great measures lost their terrors to the
stOkers within the past few years." said L. A.
Merritt. an old engineer yesterday. Twenty
years ago the boilers of the fastest ships would
| only sustain seventy pounds of steam
pressure TO the inch while now thew
Will easily bear leo pounds. This means,
OF course, more coal and more stocking,
but IL also means a greater proportionate gain
OF steam. Sokeholds are now ventilated as
well as possible, and although the temperature
Is still above 100 degrees fresh air is constantly
poured into the place and exhaustion seldom
affects the workers Zach stoker now has two
watches Of four hours each in the twenty-four
and their lot Is not such bad one"
M. Z. Wendell OF Troy. N. Y. is at the Palace.
| He is one Of the head officials of the Troy
Laundry Company, an institution of great mag
ntude. 1t was started some years ago In a
small room in the above city, but to-day
branch establishments are scattered all
over the Eastern States, while agencies
are located in all the outlying little
| towns surrounding these different branch
houses. These agencie, are numbered by the
hundred. and laundry WORK is collected and
sent by express TO and from the branch houses.
The employees would form a small army, and
the contracts MADE by the firm include work
for some of the largest hotels and business
houses In the country.
Judge Thomas A. Rucker of Aspen, Colo. is
in The city. He is a cousin Of l.. G. Rucker, the
popular Palace Hotel clerk. and is here simply
on a pleasure trip. He moved from Missouri 10
Colorado many years ago. and has been the
Judge In his present district, comprising
four counties. for over ten years. He is
looked upon as one OF the authorize.
In mining law, and has tried some of
the biggest cases of that kind In the history of
the State. His vigorous manner of dealing
with criminals has gained him much celebrity
| in Colorado, aud when Denver suffers from one
of its periodical epidemics OF crime the Judge
is usually sent for TO dispose of the catch in the
criminal net.
''Some newspapers seem 70 have but little
| inent man or woman In parting with their life
| companion" said General T. o. Holmes of
| Boston yesterday. First came The report tha
| ex-President Harrison was about TO marry
Mrs. Leland Stanford of your city, and now
another equally ridiculous story has been set
a1oat to the effect that Cnauncey Depew and
Mrs. Elliot Shepard were also engaged. Ii is
| TO be regretted that In the hunger for senSa-
ttonal matter the press OF the country will per
sst in publishing such manifest absurdlties
which cannot but be very painful to the ones
| most concerned"
W. T. Burgess OF Eureka is in this city on
business connected with the large firm of sgd
ney g. Redmond. native wood designers at the
| Humboldt town. He lie looking about for 7
| suitable site here for the location of tn,
factory, which Will probably be removed
within the coming month. Ii is alst
their Intention to enlarge the present capacity
OF tue workshops. and by so doing will prob
ably give work to loo mechanics. Mr. Burgess:
he recently turned out, and which is one of th,
most elegant specimens of Calfornias chile
natural productions.
A theatrical man at the Baldwin told q goot
one yesterday on Eddie Foy. the popular acto
with the Sinbad Company. and who helped tn,
| Press Club boys out In their last "jinks." Fo,
OF murderer George III. Painter In New Yorl
short time ago. He was introduced to the
condemned man by the jailer, and. it is said
| being at loss for all appropriate remark unde
the circumstances, he resorted to that old pro
fessional standby query, and said to Painter
where do you 60 from here, cull?"
DR.. w. Lewis Tallman, husband OF "Teress
Dean," the noted correspondent Of the Chicag
Inter Ocean, who is now in this city, arrived a
| the Palace yesterday. The marriage OF DR.. ant
Mrs. Tallman is said to have been quite 10
mantle. their acquaintance having been broueb
about by bright piece OF newspaper worl
done oy the latter aud which Inspired the doc
tor with q curiosity 10 know It's author. He 4
one Of Chicago's most prominent physicians.
nava! officer from Mare Island, at the Cali
| fornia yesterday. stated that there are no
| enough men enlisted in the navy TO properl,
| man the United States ships which Will 90 int
commission before the LIST OF May, and moro
over, that the limit allowed by law will not per
init The enlistment Of a sufficient number The
big cruisers 10 be manned require, about 1900
men, while only about half that number art
available.