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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Commissioners Will Build a
Shop and fire a Blacksmith.

dHa q DfSASNShhNA'
The Fire Departments bill for horse
shoeing and other work done by black
smiths amounts to about $3.50 month.
The Commissioners at their meeting last
night decided that al least One-half OF this
amount would be saved if they built
shop and hired smith and helper for the
department. They accordingly voted to
build the house and hire The help.
The Chief recOmmendedltha the Super
visors sell the old and unsafe house occu-
piad by engine on Sixteenth street.
Leave of absence was granted to j. X.
Mitchell of engine s, James Matthews of
hose 2 and Theodore Brown of truck 2.
The designations Of G. FL. Lovett, engine
16. and William Cooper and James Nc
Gowan Of engine were presented and &C
cepted. The following were transferred:
William Balinger from engine To engine
IT, James Mitchell from engine II to
engine 4, Thomas McKinnon from engine
II to engine 6. Frank Page from engine
to engine 8 and Stephen Bach from engine
to engine s.
Phillip Dugan was appointed h0senian
of engine II, William Durham hOseman of
engine l and Phillip Mclaughlin hoseman
OF engine 16. The Chief reported that he
had suspended five drivers for falling to
keep their engines clean.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15
FOR CLEAN STREETS.
Work Already Accomplished by the
Merchants Association.

The Merchants Association is enjoying
now the transformation that its crusade
for clean streets has already brought
about in some of the leading business
thoroughfares of the city.
The Market-street end Of Kearny street
and few blocks OF Post street. for instance,
are rapidly becoming strangers to flying
bits of paper, dust and dirt generally, and
the object lesson has had the effect of
bringing to the support of the movement a
large number of merchants who at first
hesitated about Joining the crusade Tor
clean streets.
The cost of the work inaugurated by the
Merchants Associa ton has been found TO
amount to 10 cents per day for each
twenty-five feet store frontage. This is
slightly more than was anticipated at the
outset but it also proves that it would not
require so very much more than the city is
now paying for the cleaning of the city at
night to secure really clean thOroughfares,
which would not only add to the attractive
appearance of San Francisco but would
also greatly improve its sanitary condition.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15

Since the day on which the first settler
pitched his tent on the sunny breast of
Russian Hill no such conlagration as that
which Yesterday ragged for hours on the
southeastern slope of the eminence has
been recorded. 1t started in the last hour
of the morning while busy maids and
housewives were preparing the midday
meal, and swept on its way until the aft
ernoon was half spent, leaving death and
desolaiion, ruined homes and breaking
hearts behind.
II was one Of the faiTest days of the sea-
son and the sun beamed brightly, while
the swift breezes from the Golden Gate
drove the flames from dwelling to dwell
ing, and passing on over the city, laden
with glowing sparks and feathery embers,
died away on the scented waters beyond.
Like the little cloud that the prophet
saw-no bigger than a mans hand-the
first puff of smoke was seen from the sum
nit of the nil. 1t arose from the corner
of Leavenworth end Glover streets and
was caught and carried onward by the
wind. A wavering column of dull gray
mingled with fiery sparks followed it and
spread out like a great fan toward the
southeast.
Bright tongues of fame sprang up after
the column of smoke and spread TO
the east and south. Old walls and roofs
began to crackle and smoke, and long be-
fore the city knew that a great confagra-
ton was raging on the hill dozen houses
were blazing furiously.
EFrem Leaven worth toward Jones the
flames advanced. and dwellings that repre-
scented years Of patient industry and saving
went down before them like grass before
the reaper's scythe. A path. several
hundred feet in width was burned across
the block from Glover street to Broadway,
and the rear end, overhanging roofs and
back kitchens of the houses that front on
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15
The SChafer Family,

Lille Schafer, the young woman who
walked into the Central police station on
Friday night and announced herself as the
murderess of Samuel Jacobson, was Wis
tied at the Receiving Hospital yesterday
morning by her mother. The old lady
became so wild that a warrant was imme-
dately sworn out for her arrest on
charge of insanity, and she was also locked
up in padded cell. Mother and daughter
will tomorrow he examined before Judge
Levy.
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
girls statement is nothing but the rawlings
of a diseased brain. Detective Bowen.
who worked on the jacobson case. said
last night that the girl who was with
JacO bson' last was Ida Kirchner, a mil
liner on Market street, between Taylor
and Mason They had been at the Tyoli
on the night he was shot and he left her
at her home about II o'clock.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15
PERSONAL NOTES.

DR.. G. H. Kriechbaum OF Mexico is at
the Grand.
j. E. Cate. capitalist of Chicago, Is at
the Baldwin.
John Bradbury, Los Angeles capitalist,
is at the Palace.
Mrs. NJ. de Forest has returned to this
city from long visit to Santa Cruz.
William Beckman. the Railroad Commits
sioner, of Sacramento. is at the Grand.
j. Talbot Clifton, the English rider who
was recently ruled off the track at the Bay
District course. returned yesterday from
Mexico and S registered at the Palace.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15

dry excelsior which lay in a corner, below
high stoop leading from the back door of
his parents apartments to the ground.
While he dragged the dipper along, his
brother set fire TO the excelsior, and to-
gether they poured the water upon the
tiny blaze. Some time ago the little boys
playing in the same way set the house on
fire. They were scoIded and promised so
long as they lived never to play with fire
again. The memory of their exploit and
the Gliding that folio wed passed quickly
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15

the east side of Leavenworth. street were
turned into cinders.
There was wholesale exodus from the
dwellings on the block. Furniture aud
bedding, bric-a-brac and curios were
hurled out of the windows and gathered
in, heaps on the safe side OF the street. 1t
looked as if the Sheriff had been busy in
the neghborLood.
In several instances the furniture van
ished with the house that contained 1t.
Workingmen lived in the burned district,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15

Hebbit and c. OReilly. was totally destroyed
Loss. $500.
7. J. Walsh owned a two-story frame build
ing, 1928 and 1889 Broadway. 1t was &C.
cupied by f. j. Marshall ana L. Brannan, ana
was totally destroyed. Loss $500.
j. Nolan's One-story house, 1126 broao"ay'
was partially destroyed. Loss. $500.
P Harrigan's house, 1924 Broadway, was
nartiallY DESTROYED. Loss $500.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15
Too Much Morphine.

Mary Flynn, q woman who lives on
Harrison and Sixth streets. swallowed too
much morphine and whisky in the New
York saloon last night. She was take Ell to
the Receiving Hospital and was relieved
of the overdose. She SAID she would be
IN ore careful in future
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15
SAVED THE PRESIDENT.
How Newspaper Correspondent
Was of Use to Mr.. Cleveland.

Down on Hog Island year or 50 aso l
was the cause of delirium on the pal1 Va
native Perhaps he will never uisoofoi
that he was deceived and VIII go uo"n W
his grave boasting of the gallant way III
which he saved the President or the uni
ted states from the ierrors Of night in
the wilderness.
In company with the correspondent OF
Philadelpnia paper [ undertook TO walk
from the stand store to the boat landing
one dark and stormy night. President
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THROUGH July

Through July
Inc panorama of Yosemite Valley at Market
and Tenth streets will be open from 8 A. NJ. to
f:oo P. NJ. Admission 20 cents.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15

50 Country orders receive prompt attention.
delivered free San Rafael Sausaito Blithedae
Mill Valley Oakland. Alameda and Berkeley.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-15
RUINEDHOMES.

A Disastrous Blaze on
Russian Hill.
IN A FIERY FURNACE.
Two Bright Little Boys
Burned to Death.
THEY CAUSED THE FIRE.
Eight Houses Destroyed and
Several Damaged.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT $4,000.
Empty Water Mains and Useless
Hydrants-A Long Search for
the ChiIdren's Bodies.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04

to a tree further down the hill, hoping
to secure position from which he
could fire as the bear passed. The dogs
stopped the bear twenty feet from the
tree, however, and Drake was COM
PEELED to fire again. He did so, and the
great animal rolled into the canyon.
As he rolled Drake kept firing.
The dogs were getting much the
worst of the fight Three of them
We're under the bear, and at any mo-
ment it seemed as if some of them
would be killed. Drake had used all
his cartridges. but he drew his knife
and rushed in TO save his dogs. The
bear could bite. and the dogs kept him
| busy protecting himself from their at
tacks. Drake succeeded in burying
his knife twice in the great breast and
the fight was over. The bear literally
beloved, and the hunter sat down I'M
til the animal died. Drake has had
many exciting experiences. In peri
cd of six weeks he killed TWENTY-FIVE
bears and five lions.
On the following day he and Stone
were out again. Two more bears and
cub We're caught and killed. During
the trip fifteen deer were shot, and
for those who are Interested in such
hunting it may be said that from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred big
bucks We're seen in droves of fr ON three
to six. Two fawns were taken alive,
and are now at Mr.. Stones home in this
city. He carried them both over ten
miles.
An attempt was made to trail
panther. but the dogs had constantly
to be taken off bear trail. and the
chase was abandoned. Stone intends
to return to the mountains of Trinity
for panther and bear hunt next fall.
He will again be the guest of Col
| Drake.
During the trip SO recently ended
fishing was not neglected. Stone took
his rod to the south fork of the Trim
ity, and with Col. Watson tried his
| luck. He went into the stream to his
waist, and at distance of five or six
hundred yards from the head of the
rifle caught eighty-seven splendid
| trout, the smallest being seven and
eight inches in length. The next day
he caught three salmon trout, weigh
ing four pounds three ounces, five
pounds eight ounces and six pounds
two ounces. That ended hunting ex-
petition which will not soon be for
gotten. even in a region which is ia
nous to the hunters of the world
San Francisco Chronicle.
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jumped and vowled, but TO no bur
pose.
The hunt was nearly over. AsS,he
guest of Col. Drake, Stone was alloNed
to take the first shot For few On
utes he stood and watched the crol)h-
ing bear. Then he raised his s,te,
took aim and fired. The ball st1fck
the bear in che jaw. which was broken.
The bleeding flesh was torn, but The
great animal simply drew his paw
over the wound. He began to descend
the tree to fight his pursuers. With
remarkable cunning, he tried to de-
scend on the side opposite to thatfTom
which the shot had come Stone dis
mounted and ran around the tree un-
til the bear was again in full view
Again the hunter fired and the ip
bone of the hunted animal was broken.
The enraged beast rushed up the Tree
to escape. The dogs became unmsn-
agea Bile. Their cries could have been
heard for miles. They would rush
away from the tree, then dash toward
it and go up the perpendicular defs
for ten feet, only to fall in heal ON
the ground.
The bear had again taken its plak ofn
the limb, and once more Stone frdl.
The ball passed through the anilahs
body. The bear left its perch arid
chung with all its paws to the tree lit
was sixty feet above the groWd.
Quickly the final shot was fired The
bear clutched conyulsively at the -Fee,
Its claws sunk into the bark, and for
ten seconds it remained. Then it fell
backward, dead. Its body crashed to
the ground. The houn DIS bounced upon
it savagely, but were driven off. The
hunt was over
The great animal was strapped to
packhorSe and taken slowly into camp.
1t was brown bear, weighing three
hundred and fifty pounds. Its feet
measured six inches in width and ten
inches in length.
The next day Col. Drake was on the
hunt alone Early in the morning the
dogs struck trail. The bear was run
three-quarters of a mile. when the
dogs surrounded him on the ground.
The animal was fierce and fought saw
agely. Drake fired his first shot, but
aimed too low and simply broke the
bears lower jaw. He kept fighting as he
moved. The shot had simply angered
him, and the dogs were tossed about
as if they weighed nothing
The bear looked up from his tor
mentors and saw Drake on the side of
the hill below him. The nimal rushed
for the hunter. who was afraid to fire.
as he might kill his dogs Drake ran
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house was to be found but they were
from seven to ten miles apart on the
road, and leaving it one would not find
a habitation for twenty or thirty miles.
Tehama county was soon left behind
and the hunter was in Trinity The
way became more difficult and danger
GUS as the country became more noun
famous. Wildwood was reached and
IL was learned that Col. Drake was
still thirty-ive miles away in the
very heart of the mountains. The re-
gion was wild one. Huge powders
and fallen trees blocked the road
Swiftly running mountain streams had
10 be crossed. The forest was swept
by the wind. The prospect was moth
ing but that of mountains. In all the
journey there was but single valley,
and that was not longer than ten
miles.
Stone was making the journey in
cart drawn by a single horse. As he
was going down a steep grade the ami
NAL baked, swung his head and lunged
down the bank into the creek, in
which the water bounded and splashed
over heavy rocks. Stone fell heavily
into the stream. his heels up, his head
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04
THE OLD BALL PLAY.
Developments in the Game Since Older
Times.

Developments IN the tame SINCE piuen
Times.
InaSmuch as the Improvement of the
Instruments used in all exercises has
played the most important part in eff
fecting these Developments. let us take
a retrospective glance at the stock in
trade of ball players in olden times, 1t
is beyond our scope to trace the affinity
of tennis with exercises in the Sphaer
isterium, or to the games chronicled by
Suetonius. Pliny and other classic
writer's: nor need we speculate II the
kampe described by Johannes CHINA
mus in ! 1853 as an implement with a
broad curved end furnished with net
work of catgut, and which was used in
a game which may have resemhled polo
or lacrosse. was the prototype Of the
modern implement.
We can form no opinion on the nature
of the racket alluded to by CHANGER
about 1850 in 'Troylus and Cryseyde, -
or of the reticulum mentioned in the
"Collouuies" of Erasmus, which were
published in 1921. But we have abun-
dant evidence to show that in the four
teenth century game OF handball
which had been played in France, Spain
and Italy, in open spaces in the coun-
try. became popular in thu towns of
France, and that the difficulty of find
ing adequate space suggested the ntili-
cation of inclosed courts or the erection
of buildings suitable for the purpose.
The courts We're called tripots, but
this word has fallen into disuse. all
tennis courts in France being now
termed 'ieuX." In this archaic game
the ball was probably struck with the
palm of the hand. but early in the IF
teenth century attempts were made to
augment propelling power by mechan-
zeal agencies. The Italians used "a
'bracciale." or wooden gauntlet, i'll
their game 'pallone.' and a network
gut applied at first to a strong glove
and subsequently attached to d handle.
probably foreshadowed the implement
which became known as 'raqueta' in
Spain. ''racchetta' in Italy. ''raquette'
in France. - National Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04
The Little King of NepauI.

If his dashing, prancing Ghoorka war
riOrs made perpetual circus for our
little king so also his forests and jun
giles and rivers afforded him a tremen
dous and varied menagerie, compared
with which our great Barnum's great
est show on earth was but a dime
museum; for here were bear and wolf
and leopard, tiger, hyena and jackal,
elephant rhinoceros and wild buffalo,
wild goats, vultures, and falcons, and
eagles, golden pheasants and jungle
fowl. From his palace perch, in the
cold season. he could spy the Bhootiyau
herdsmen leading in great tlocks of
sheep and goats over the mountains
from Tibet, every little creature carry
ing its pack of small sacks filed with
boraX, salt and saltpetre; and behind
these came trains of sturdy, pluclly
ponies, and fierce, shaggy dogs from
the northern highlands. Sometimes he
could see great troops or long trains Of
carriers coming into the city, bringing
tea and musk, paper-plant and yaks
tails honey and wax, beads, precious
stones and coral, spice and betcl nuts,
indigo and vermillion. st. Nicholas
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the mountains of Trinity county.
With him as his guest is Col. Clark
Drake, a hunter whose reputation for
daring in the pursuit of big game ex-
tends far beyond the borders OF the
state. Both have stories to relate of
chase full of excitement and danger.
Both tell of dangerous trip into re-
gion which in rugged grandeur Of
scenery is not eXcelled in the state.
perhaps not in the world.
Each tells of the excitement of the
chase, of the trailing Of the noble
game, the roar of the hunted animal,
the wild baying of the dogs. Now the
hunters are climbing the sides of the
mountain, again their horses dash
through mountain streams and down
into canyons. There is an element of
danger in it all. In the chase in which
Col. Drake took part his only weapon
against the wounded, enraged beast
was knife.
Stone left this city on June 30 last,
his purpose being to go to Del Norte
for a hunting expedition with Judge
j. E. Murphy. His expedition was to
hunt deer, bear and panther. Stone
had the usual trappings of the hunter.
The rifle he carried, it is safe to say, has
no duplicate. 1t was presented to him
by Col. Arthur W. Hooper, a college
chum and old-time friend of the at
torney. The rife weighs no more than
eight pounds. 1t is patterned after
the modern rapidfring guns, and is
beautifully engraved with the figures
of grizzly bear, wild turkey and a
stays head. The stock is made of
burl.
The strike played sad havoc with the
attorneys plans. He was stopped at
Red Bluffs and after dreary wait of
three days determined to push on into
Trinity county in search of the same
game he had expected to find in Del
Norte county. He hired a team. bought
provisions, engaged a half-breed Indian
and started on a journey of sixty-tive
miles to Camp Wildwood,
HIS purpose was to meet Col. Drake,
who for fifteen years had lived in the
county as its most daring hunter of
big game. AS the attorney continued
on his trip he was informed that he
was sure to strike the trail of a bear
before his journey was over, The re-
gion through which he was passing
was rugged one. Once in awhile a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04
She Meant Business.

'How much is this here goods
worth?" asked the woman with the
business eye.
Eighteen cents yard" replied the
merchant.
Gimme ten yards
The merchant cut off the goods and
remarked to himself: Clear loss Of
six cents yard. l thought she was
only a shopper. Phi ladelphia In
Quirer.
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TIE WAY TO SLEEPYTOWN.

Which is the way TO Sleepytown;
Look i'll the blinking eyes of brown;
Or you may find the misty track
Hid in the h9lf-closed eyes of black
Winding about and in and through
The SlumberouS eyes of dreamy blue.
Or stealing across the eyes of gray
Oh, there you may find the drowsy way.
Follow along the crooked street,
Twisting about two tired feet
Feet that the whole day long have trod
Paths that lead to the Land of Nod;
Keep on going until you come
To weary fingers and weary thumb.
Or the lips within whose gates of pearl.
is the languid tongue OF a boy or girl.
The path you seek will leap, mayhap
Into the peace Of downy lap
Where angels have Sprinkled the dewS OF rest
In gracious cradle OF arms and breast.
Further along, and the way has led
TO the calm OF a prayer-encircled bed
Where mother is kissing the eyelids down.
And that is the way to Sleepytown.
Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04
THE HIGHEST AWARD.
Royal Baking Powder in Strength and
Value go Per Cent. Above Its Nearest

Royal Baking Powder in Strength and
Value 20 Per Cent. Above Its Nearest
Competitor.
The Royal Baking Powder has the en-
viable record of having received the
highest award for articles of its class
greatest strength, purest ingredients
most perfectly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES eX-
h:bited in competition with others. In
the exhibitions of former years, at the
Centennial, at Paris, Vienna and at the
various State and Industrial fairs, where
it has been exhibited, judges have in
variably awarded the Royal Baking
Powder the highest honors.
At the recent Worlds Fair the ex-
aminations for the baking powder
awards were made by the experts of
the chemical division of the Agricul-
tural Department of Washington. The
official report of the tests of the baking
powders which were made by this de-
partment for the specific purpose of as
certaining which was the best, and
which has been made public shows the
leavening strength of the Royal to be 100
cubic inches of carbonic gas per ounce
Of powder. OF the cream of tartar
baking powders exhibited at the Fair,
the next highest in strength thus tested
contained but 1873 cubic inches of leaven-
ing gas. The other powders gave an
average of Ill. The Royal, therefore,
was found of copper cent. greater lcaven-
ing strength than its nearest competi-
| tor, and A per cent. above the average
of all the other tests. Its superiority
in other respects, however, in the
quality of food it makes as to fineness,
| delicacy and wholesomeness, could not
be measured by figures.
1t is these high qualities, known and
| appreciated by the women of the coun-
| try for so many years, that have caused
the sales of the Royal Baking Powder,
as shown by statistics, to exceed the
sales of all other baking powders com
biued
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04

Bright Boy-The paper says there's
a doctor in the city who makes long
noses shorter. big ears smaller. ana ]
don't know what all
Father-Well?
Bright Boy guess you'd better send
me to him to have my legs shortened,
if you can't afford to buy me larger
bicycle News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04

Robbins-That fire at Higbee's house
was great blessing to him.
Mack-A blessing?
Robbins-Yes; his daughters piano
was destroyed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04
Matrimonial Item.

''So the marquis gave you those
,iowers?'
"Ye; and 0, Maud, he actually said
Life without me meant nothing
Yes dear: everybody says you are
bis last chance. Texas Siftings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-04

AwKwARDNEss is egotism in a state of in
toxication.- Young Mems Era.