The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

E. NJ Garrett, who trained the crew of the
University of California until their boathouse
was burned down lately, is Harvard man
and a great enthusiast in boating. Last
evening he was speaking at the Palace
OF the prospects for college boating
and said: "The university men are going to
build again right away, but on a cheaper plan
The old boathouse cost about $4,000 and was
fitted up with reading-rooms and all that sort
of thing. They propose to be more prac-
tical now and build what will be strictly
a boathouse for about $1,000 and put
more money in boats. There was $4,000
insurance on the old house, you
know. They will probably buy two new four
Dared racing gigs for class races and two-pair
oar tub gigs for coaching. They will begin &C.
tive preparations when the men come back
next term, and will probably row the Column
bia Club in the fall. What they hope to do
more than anything else is to inspire
Stanford with q little more aquatic en-
thusiasm, and eventually have an annual
eightoar race between the universities. Then
in time they would send crews East. Cali
fornia men should beat anything in the East,
for they have great advantage in having all
the year to practice in, and that makes a great
deal OF difference. Then California men seem
to have good endurance. That is shown by
what the members of the team that is East
have been doing in the field sports.''
J. S. Brown of the Lincoln Mill Company OF
Eureka, Humboldt County, says that there is a
great deal of railroad talk in his county now
since the organization of the San Francisco and
San joaquin Valley Railroad. Starting this
road has started everybody to thinking of our
getting q railroad into Humboldt. The Eureka
papers are full of it. To be sure, with water
communication we have cheap freights,
but the cost of reshipping for the
East is heavy. What we want is to get our
freight out by rail TO the East without reload
ing. The distance q road would have to be
built would be only about 100 miles to reach
Ukiah and join the San Francisco and North
Pacific there. There has been man in Eureka
for some time looking ups proposition to bring
in an overland road direct from Salt Lake to
Humboldt Bay, with branch down here.
Eureka Is within ten m lies of due west from
Salt Lake, and by the route he proposes the
trip from Salt Lake to Eureka and down the
coast to San Francisco could be made in nine
hours less time than is made by the Central
Pacific from Salt Lake here"
Colonel Alexander G. Halves, who has been
the leading representative of the New York
Life Insurance Company on the Pacific Coast
since 1870, goes from San Francisco to London
to represent the company's interests in Great
Britain The change is in the order of promo
ton, as the London agency is of high rank
in insurance circles, and, of course the com
pensation is commensurate with the RESPONSE
bility. Colonel Halves has been an active man
of affairs since 1856. He worked on an anti
slavery newspaper in Kansas and sided with
John Brown in several expeditions in that
State. At the beginning OF the war he was
editing newspaper in Illinois, near St. Louis,
Mo. He raised company and was promoted
to lieutenant colonel before the struggle
closed. In San Francisco he has made an ad-
mirable president of the Art Association, and
achieved distinction as commander of the
Loyal Legion and president of the Bohemian
Club. He was one of the founders of the club
and with D. P. Belknap and Edward Bosqui
pledged his private fortune" in 1873 to pacify
merchants who had trusted the club for goods