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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-15
COST OF THIRTY MILLION GALLONS 4 DAY.

the anticipated and certain growth of the
City.
Twenty million gallons daily is now con-
sumed, but for the future we must count
on consumption of 30,00O0 900.
If, therefore, the park works, pumping
l,500, 600 gallons daily, cost $4,000 what
would it cost for the construction of works
gallons daily? About 81, 100000.
According to the statement of the Spring
Valley Water Works municipal Reports
1884, appendix p. 1922 the amount col
lected from private consumers and from
the City for the year ending January l.,
1894, was $1,617, ia is.
So that less than the cost of one year S
water would construct works capable of
supplying the entire City.
But this is simply the cost of supply
and to it must be added the expense of
distribution pipes and reservoirs.
But the cost of reservoirs must not be
calculated upon the scale of those now in
use. These are storage reservoirs, which
must be filled during the rainy season with
a sufficient supply to last the whole year.
Indeed it is stated that there is now q
three years supply on hand.
And when we consider that this water,
charged with decomposed vegetable mat
ter. lies stagnating in the sunshine year in
and year out, the wonder ceases that it
smells badly when left over night in close
room.
The reservoirs required for an artesian
system are simply those for distribution,
and many consumers could be supplied
directly from the pipes leading from the
pumping point to the reservoir.
Or stand pipes could be used as in Phila-
delphia, Chicago and other cities, dis
pensing entirely with reservoirs in many
instances. These stand pipes could be
made highly ornamental, and could be
placed upon City property, as the center Of
Union square, for instance, where they
would also serve for electric light stations
AS to the cost of distribution pipes-that
is, a fixed quantity, easily ascertainable,
or it might be possible to purchase at fair
price those now in use, or even to condemn
them at an appraised value.
But there is certainly margin enough be-
tween the amount of capital represented
by the annual charges now paid and the
estimated cost of the new works to buy all
the needed water pipes and still reduce the
present rates at least rs per cent, con-
summation most devoutly to be wished by
all ratepayers.
Let us hope that what has been said
may draw attention to the subject and
lead to official inquiry how best to utilize
the inexhaustible supply of water lying
under our feet. JAMES ]. ROBBINS.
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of James Godfrey, who stood by with a
wan, sickly smile of disapproval on his
flushed face. Godfrey had had his turn on
the witnesses stand and had devoted most of
his time to describing the umbrella, watch
and chain and prize parrot that she had
cheat me out of when she pretended that
she was going to marry me-"
1t was a lively courtship, according to
Godfrey. First he had loaned Miss NJ
gent $425 with which to buy out lodging
house. Then he had turned over the UNI
brella, the parrot and other fayors of his
love till at last he had offered her himself.
"Sne coaxed me on" he explained, ''till
l went one day and got out the marriage
license"
"But 1 never knew a thing about it, !"
protested Miss Nugent, with flaming
checks and blazing eyes, from her corner
of the court.
''Sshl Keep still! Orderp' interjected
half dozen voices. Somebody pulled the
excited Godfrey back into his seat and the
case went on.
"Well," continued Godfrey, wiping his
perspiring brow and glancing at his
attorney for help. "I went to the house
and-and l was attacked, basely and
brutally attacked"
"You mean you got what you deserved"
sneered the attorney for Miss Nugent.
what happened?" inquired the court"
curiously.
81 went there to marry her." said God
frey, "and some OF the other men she was
leading on the same as me under promise
of marriage set upon me and broke three
of my ribs and an arm and-and-'
"Beat you up-all up interjected his
attorney, coming to his assistance.
Godfrey nodded vigorously. Half a
dozen arrests followed and the courts were
kept busy for a month trying to grind out
Justice to the belligerents. Later on Miss
Nugent returned Godfrey his $425 and an
opinion of him that made his ear tingle.
She got receipt from him, but in the war
that followed the receipt disappeared. 1t
was this missing receipt that led to the
present suit, because Miss Nugent had
nothing to show that Godfrey had re-
ceived everything sin full.
She admitted having had the umbrella
and the parrot, but denied ever having
seen his watch and chain, SO the court
tackled the dispute over the parrot and
the umb rella.
81 refused to give up the parrot till he
paid the SIS board bill on it" explained
Miss Nugent.
''She fed it cream waters instead of soda
crackers 70 run up its board bill on me-"
protested Godfrey.
"And truties and nightingales' tongues,
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MECHANICS FAIR CLOSES.
1t Yielded a Net Profit of
About Twelve Thousand
Dollars.
Fifteen Thousand People Crowded
the Pavilion During the Clos
Ing Hours.

The Mechanics Institute closed its
twenty-eighth exhibition last evening at
the Pavilion. Fifteen thousand people at
tended and packed the four acres of stand
ing room like sardine-box. Between 9
and 10 o'clock it was utterly impossible to
get in the galleries at all and standing
room in any part of the big building was
at premium during the whole evening.
The day attendance climbed to 10000. Ex-
hibitors will commence to pack up to-
morrow, and on Monday the exhibits will
be moved.
The fair has been success in every re-
spect, and the directors are more than
pleased with the result. Like all exhibit
tons it was a speculation, and with the
example of the last fair before them,
which closed with loss of $3.50, the direc-
tors launched their scheme with some
trepidation. A conservative estimate
places the net proceeds of the exhibition
at $4,000
The door receipts amounted to $4,000
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-15
Snake Poison in India.

The annual death roll in India due to
snake bite is of such serious dimensions
that the government has for many years
done what it could to arrest the scource
The reward for snakes heads may be said
to have failed, for there is more than a
suspicion that the willy natives have been
breeding snakes for the sole purpose of de-
capitation. Antidotes have also failed.
although the virtues of one or the other
remedy have been from time to time be-
ieved in and extoiled.
Among the more recent of these have
been strychnine, permanganate of potash
and gold chloride. These remedies have
recently formed the subject of experiments
by chemists acting for the Government of
India, with almost negative results. 1t is
true that both the potash and the gold salt
IN attenuated solutions, when mingled
with snake venom previous to injection
INTO an animal, render the poison inert,
6nt neither remedy has any effect when in
lected after the entrance of the venom.
Neither OF them can, therefore be regarded
as an antidote.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-15
COMING OF KIER HARD|E,
Arrangements to Be Made for
1t at the Earliest
Day.
The Socialist Leader Will Be Asked
to Speak in This City and
Oakland.

James Keir Hardie, the world-known So
cialist leader and lecturer and member OF
the English Parliament, is to appear and
lecture on his fayorite subject in San
Francisco, Oakland and, perhaps, other of
the important cities of the Pacific Coast.
Mr.. Keir Hardie of England has just come to
Chicago. He is by all odds the purest and no
blest of English labor leaders, and especially
the foremost English socialist He is by no
means the demagogue the partisan press pic
lures him to be. His is one of the sweetest and
gentlest spirits You must make every posi-
BILE effort to get him to San Francisco to address
the various Institutes and labor organizations
on both sides of the bay. Mr.. Hardie would be
OF vast service to you and TO our whole move
ment. / have asked him to send you his adj
dress SO that you can write him by the time
you have seen those interested.
This is the substance of letter adj
dressed to the Rev. DR.. ]. E. Scott, editor
of the Socialist, by Professor Heron. But,
although it has been in the possession of
Rev. DR.. Scott for week he has not yet
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passing, and took particular note of his
dress and general appearance. Later, when
Durrant was charged with the murder, and
his picture and description of dress were
published, he remembered the incident
and talked of it with his friends, but only of
late decided to come forward and testify.
Detective Seymour recently went to San
Rafael and took Mr.. Phillips statement,
and he will be called as witness for the
State at the proper time.
Captain Lees. was occupied yesterday
morning in photographing and taking
measurements at the corner of Powell and
California streets, for the purpose of being
able to establish beyond doubt the ac-
curacy of the testimony of the witnesses
who claim to have seen Durrant at that
point.
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received the address of the gentleman re-
ferred to. AS soon as he does he will take
immediate measures to carry out the sug-
gestion contained in Professor Heron s
communication. That great interest is
taken in the coming of Hardie is shown by
the numerous inquiries made of Rev. DIR.
Scott for particulars of the great socialists
programme during his sojourn here.
None of these, however, can be answered at
present, for not even the whereabouts of
Hardie is known Just now to DR.. Scott.
Keir Hardie, as described by London
writer, is small man, with curly red
beard, big brown eyes and heavy eye
brows, and invariably wears Tam
OShanter cap. He has been the propa-
gandist of trade unionism in England, and
publishes the Labor Leader, which is adj
mitted to be a great power among the
large number among whom IL clrculates.
He predicts a bloody revolution to arise
from the existing relations OF capital and
labor. While his views are ridiculed and
he is scoffed at by his fellow-members in
Parliament, no one has ever charged that
he led the labor movement for "what there
was in it." He Is poor man, yet he con-
sJantly gives from his own small store to
the cause of united labor. Speaking of the
independent Labor party OF England,
which he represents, he is reported as say
ing:
The party is socialistic. We shall he satified
with nothing but socialism, municipal social
ism, industrial socialism. We do not want to
fight for it; but if we cannot get 1t in any
other way we will fight for 1t, and when we
fight we shall fight with determination. The
avowed object of the party is to bring about
an industrial commonwealth founded ON the
socialism of land and industrial capital.
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VIEWS OF AN EXPERT.
and Figures On Cost and
Expense.

J. J. Robbins, who has given the question
of San Francisco's water supply much
thought and attention, has communicated
the following on the subject:
1t being now generally understood,
upon authority believed to be competent,
that sufficient supply of pure water ex-
lists underneath the peninsula of San
Francisco to supply all our wants leaves
the question of cost only to be considered.
Before entering upon that, however, the
purity of the water sought to be supplied
by an artesian system is worth a few
words. The emblem of purity is pure
spring water-that is, water from a sub
terranean source which reaches the sur
face through a natural outlet. Nature
makes the hole through which it escapes,
and an artesian well is simply a straighter
hole ma de by art. Artesian water is only
pure spring water.
Having disposed of the question of pur-
ity. let us proceed to that of cost.
The report of the Park Commissioners
(Municipal Reports 1928, page GID says /:
"New water-works system, including
power-house, digging wells, well casing,
etc., extension of distribution-pip system,
including pipe, labor, etc., architects fees,
And in the Park Commissions report
of receipts and disbursements from July,
1893, to July, 1894 (Municipal Reports
1898 "a page 272), we find the following:
New water works system, including
fiEal payments on power-house, etc.,
S30,951."
Bringing the total cost of the park
water works, supplying a little less than
100000 gallons daily, to $40, Ala 40.
The same report gives the following:
Labor in repairing water-pipe, main
tenance of water works, engineer, coal,
etc., labor and material, $7363 95.''
cult to form an estimate of the cost of a
water works adequate to the requirements
Of San Francisco, with due allowance for
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too, suppose, interjected Miss Nugent's
attorney, with a sneer.
"Wheres the parrot now?" suddenly
asked the court.
Dead" said Miss Nugent.
"Gout-overfed, I suppose" ironically
interposed the other attorney in his turn.
"That settles the parrot question, any
way" concluded the court. in relieved
ooh, no; there was anOther-an edu-
Gated parrot reioined Miss Nugent.
Then both sides tugged and strained for
possession of the educated parrot, but Miss
Nugent triumphantly carried it OFF on
showing that she had paid Godfrey $6 30
at time when his love had not passed
beyond the dollars and cents stage.
Then the wearied court turned to settle
the hot dispute over the umbrella. Miss
Nugent flung ii down scornfuIly in court.
1t was very frayed and very tattered cot
ton affair and evidently needed deal OF
shelter and protection in an ordinary rain
storm.
THAT my umbrella!" was all the in
dignant Godfrey could say.
"'Tis the one you left at my house, any
way" answered Miss Nugent, in her most
dignified way. Having won the parrot
she felt herself above petty disputing over
such an umbrella.
"Ill not take it, announced. Godfrey,
in resolute tones. III want my rights, my
umbrella or its equivalent in money"
"That same wanting is an old COM
plant of yours, Mr.. Godfrey" sneered
Miss Nugent.
Miss Nugent's supporters stepped sud-
denly forward as Godfrey stood up to say
something. Further interchange of hos
tilities was cut short by the court announc-
ing judgment in favor of Miss Nugent.
Each side left the courtroom glowering
defiantly at the other.
Here, take your umbrella" called by
stander to Godfrey.
Take" but what Godfrey said was lost
in the growl he gave in reply.
Whatever it was it made Miss Nugent
smile. But it was smile OF victory and
jolted Godfrey temper more than all the
belligerent looks she had cast at him.
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Osgood,s Big Estate.

John F. Osgood, who died in this City re-
Gently, left an estate of $172, OS5, as shown by
the appraisal filed yesterday He owned 16O
shares Metchants' Exchange Bank stock, worth
$1,000; real estate at Fifth and Bryant streets,
valued at 10000; real estate at South Park,
valued at $4,000; real estate at California and
Front streets, valued at 200. and real es-
tate at Wayland and Hamilton streets, valued
at $4,000. The remainder of the estate is in
So1ano property.
The estate of Esther Steiner has been ap.
praised at SSH o.
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Fortunes of Confederate Newspaper.

Major Franc M. Paul of Nashville, Tenn,
and Public Printer of that State, is in the
city. Major Paul had unique newspaper
experiences during the late war, and is
period. When the fight was hottest, he
started the Chattanooga Rebel, and con-
tinued its publication under the most
exciting and adverse circumstances. Prac-
tically, during most OF its existence, the
paper had no local habitation, but was
issued on the march and under the pro-
lection of the rebel guns OF the Army OF
Tennessee while successfully commanded
by Generals Bragg, Joe Johnson and Hood.
Major Paul began the publication of the
Rebel in Chattanooga in 1852, and there
after issued it sometimes in front and
sometimes in the rear of the army, accord
ing as the latter was advancing or on the
retreat. In 1868 he had an Office for
while at Marietta, Ga, and in 1864 at
Griffin, Ga, until the fall of Atlanta.
When that place was captured he moved
the Rebel in haste and crossed over to
Selma, Ala, where he continued its publi-
cation until General Wilson made his
great raid from Pittsburg Landing with
his famous column of 10000 cavalry and
mounted infantry. When Selma was
burned the Office of the Rebel was part OF
the ruins.
The Rebel, when started, was four
page 1OuI-COiuuu paper Uut ~ W"S SUN
forced to adopt the style of nearly all Con-
federate journals in those days, and was
issued on half sheet, printed on both
sides.
Its final number was issued on q sheet
about the size of ordinary letter paper, en-
bracing three columns, and was printed
from type picked up in the streets after
the fire at Selma. When started the price
OF the Rebel was 81 month, or 10 cents
copy. Copies of the last number were
readily sold at SIS copy, which was, at the
time, the price of a drink OF whisky or
pound of pork. Generally the edition OF
the peripatetic journal was limited By the
quantity OF paper that could be secured,
and that on which the last issue was
printed cost 50 so pound.
Henry Watterson was the editor of the
Rebel when started and continued with it
until near its close. No better or more
brilliant work was ever done b. Mr.. Wat
terson than on the Rebel, says Major Paul.
Albert Roberts, poet and humorist, who
died about two weeks ago at Nashville, was
also connected with the Rebel.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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HAD A LIVELY COURTSH|P,
Suit to Recover a Parrot That
Entered in a Love
Affair.
Troubles of a Man Who Went to
Wed and Had His Ribs Broken
by Rival.

Il wouldn't marry him if he was the last
man on earth, :" stoutly declared Miss Cath
crime Nugent to Justice of the Peace Groe-
Finger yesterday.
Miss Nugent was expressing her opinion
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and privileges to the amount of $4,000 were
sold, making the expenses $4,000. There
was much disappointment. but an extern
sion OLA week was not granted, as re-
quested by the exhibitors, and but for the
objection of two or three there would have
been another week to the benefit of all.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1895-07-02
SHERIFFS SALE.

Under and by virtue of an execution issued out of
and under the seal of the Circuit Court in and for
Elizabeth Y. Iompkins is plaintiff and IL. l.. An
derson assignee of the late firm of Iompkins
Tompkins, defendants, | have levied upon and
will on "Wednesday, the sd day of July, 1895, sell
Mellon, in the town OF Dunnellon. Marion county,
Fla, the same being the leased premises upon
which said property IS located, the following de
scrlbed personal property. to wit:
Four pieces OF pants cloth; three pieces of cam
brio; two pieces of lining; pieces OF Hannel one
lot ladies hose; "a pieces OF gingham; pieces
check homfesPnm; II pieces Ct Yellow homespu3n
FL pieces of calcoes; I35 pairs pants % coats and
vests; lot ladies vests lot men undershirtS; lot
ladies waists; lot Corsets 90; lot trling: lot ID
dies belts; lot albums (S; lot lace; ot mems
scarfs; two mems overcoats; four alTaCa coats ,
doz. napkins; lot collars: lot handkel chiefs; lot
gloves; lot picture frames lot paper box ncte
paper; lot suspenders; lot memorandum books and
pads lot towels; lot hardware: lot drugs: dozen
axes; key powder doz. bottles OF extracts; dozen
lamp wick~: three neat dishes: dozen dish pans:
pound boxes; lot of pillow castings: lot of sal olio
(22); doz cans corn: Is cans cherries: Is cans ID
tomatoes; 50 boxes diamond dust: pounds of
North Carolina tobacco; dozen bottles catsup;
dozen plates; two cans; and tea in said cans: lot
case and contents: lot of cheap shoes; lot of cheap
chidrens shoes; lot Of cheap ehildrens Nh. es lz7
shoeS 8SP Pafs of dd S6o P7
hats; lot straw hats; lot mems hats lot of embrod-
ery white vests; alpapa coats and vests: 5 boys
suits; white coats; 10 light suits. 20 umbrellas;
show case and contents; thread case and contents
showcase and contents; II AK handles; pair iron
names; pair scales coffee mill; box potash lot
stove pipe and elbows; spiders; roll wire netting;
oil tank; lbs; of bail twine; 2 snathes; heater
and lot pipe; s valises; showcase and contents;
thread case and lot buttons ? hanging lamps COM
Plete B. L.; macintosh coat 5
Ter Safe & Lock Coz; office stool; wood
desk; 2 pairs trace chains; lot of crockery; pillow
stock; IS cases Id. tomatoes; cases ID. tOma-
toes; barrel fuses; II joints stove pipe lot lamp
chimneys SO much thereof as will satisfy said
execution and costs. Is. DUPRE HODGE,
Sheriff Marion county, Fla.
ALBERT WRIGHT. Plaintiffs Attorney.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1895-07-02
EFFECTS OF iNEBRIETY.
When Figured Up They Make a Sad Con-
ditiOn of Human Affairs.

When Figured Up They Make a Sad Con-
ditiOn of Human Affairs.
The man and woman of Incorporate
habits cannot realize their pitiable con-
dition as it really exists. The evil habit
begins by an Indifferent effort to protect
their natures from the evil which at
first the victim falsely imagines to pos
sess charms, for we even know that his
satanic majesty is said to have possessed
his own peculiar charms, but the evil
habit grows from day to day beyond the
first temporary exhilaration. Physiology
truly teaches us that an organ or set of
organs overexcited by any stimulant be-
comes weak and deranged. Therefore if
the brain be overstimulated by alcoholic
spirits it becomes weak, and the possess
or of such brain is devoid of the vital
courage to resist the temptation or habit
OF indulging in what at first was thought
only to be i seductive pleasure. but
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which now has its fiendish letters thor
oughly riveted about him.
Not only does the braiR suffer, but al
the other organs of the body, both &c
voluntary and the involuntary, but the
brain is the origin and center both Of
the mental and physical powers of tie
body. We can understand what the eI-
feet will be if we constantly keep the
brain matter or nerve centers continual
ly bathed in alcohol, for it is carried to
the brain through the poisonous fer
blood. It is true that great per cent Il
the system by the lungs and other e1cre-
tive organs before it reaches the brain,
but enough is left to disarrange tie
equilibrium Of its functions. Ii habituaI
drunkards we find organic arrangement.
The constant stimulation starts an un-
natural growth Of a fbrous nature,
crowding and pressing upon the ana
tomical structure Of the brain tissue cells,
thereby displacing them. Wessee the
effects upon the cerebellum by the unre-
liable exertions of the muscular" system
in the trembling and unsteady gait. We
see the effects upon the cerebrum by the
loss of memory and a distaste for mental
energy. We have figured up few of the
effects of inebriety and find them to
make a 1a2entable condition of human
affairs. DIR. ". G.. McNeal in Denver
Golden Age.