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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
SAW THE COL|MA SINK
Mr.. Mcclellan Witnessed the
Wreck of the llI-Fated
Steamer.
WAS FIFTEEN MILES DISTANT
The Captain and Mates Refused to
Allow Passengers Life-Pre-
servers.

A. D. Mcclellan, florist on Washing
ton street, near Van Ness avenue, is just in
receipt of letter from his brother, w. G.
Mcclellan, who has a large ranch in the
State of Michoacan, Mexico. A portion of
this ranch runs for several miles along the
coast. and within half mile of the shore
Mr. Mcclellan has erected handsome
residence. From his home to Manzanilo,
the last port touched by the Inflated
Colima before she went to the bottom, the
distance is probably sixty miles.
BY means of powerful glass Mr.. Nc
Lellan is able to scan the ocean for prob
ably twenty-five miles out, though in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
PHI GAMMA DELTA.
A College Greek Letter Society Holds
Banquet and Forms an Alumni
AEsOciatiOn.

Members of the Phi Gamma Delta, col
lege Greek letter fraternity, which has
chapters in the University of California,
Stanford University and some thirty-five
other American colleges, formed an alumni
chapter last evening in this City at the Cal
ifornia Hotel. About twenty-five college
men from different universities sat down
to dinner, and after the toasts and college
songs, business meeting was held.
The following officers were elected: H.
M. Wright of the Lowell High School,
president; Edward w. Hill, secretary; J.
Brooks Palmer. treasurer, and w. H. Ham
mon OF the Weather Bureau, Franklin v
Brooks, ]. Brooks Palmer, E. w. Hill and
G. s. Young, executive committee.
Among those present were: w. II.
Harmon, c. S. Young, J. Brooks Palmer,
Percy L. King, Edward w. Hill, e. n.
Henderson, E. G. Edison, J. Alfred Marsh,
Seymour Waterhouse, Albert tombstone,
William R. Dorr, A. A. Moore Jr., George
Gibbs, s. c. Phipps, f. V. Brooks, I. I.
Brown, Arthur Bachman, John H. Schultz,
Fred B. Sutherland, H. M. Wright, W. L.
Rodgers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18

testimony in regard to the lumber piled on
the hurricane deck. All the employees Oh
the Mail Company swear that the shingles
and scantling were not as high as the ship
rail. while the passengers assert that they
were higher and that they could sit on the
pile and rest their feet on the rail-
Louis Zangere, the United States sailor
who testified last week, was recalled.
Chow nigh was the lumber piled?' he
was asked.
"About 4 feet 6 inches"
'Do you know if it fetched away before
the lashings were cut?
81 do not think it did"
"Do Won think if a good main spencer
had been set and a drag had been over
board the ship could have been saved?"
'She would have had nine chances out
of ten of being saved if the cargo had been
properly slowed / don't think she could
have lived through the second squall
though
@Did the ship have any tendency to be
cranky before leaving Manzanillo?"
mo, sir"
Samuel w. Hawxhurst, superintendent
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
request of Inspector Talbot to make a
statement in regard to the repairs on
the Colima:
"Her old boilers were taken out in 1887
and the ships bottom put in thorough re-
pair The old frames were taken out, and
the cement cleaned off. The angle irons
were carried up the ships sides above the
head was made good, as was also the bulk
head between the engines and the after
hold After the new frames were put in
the floor was cemented and layer o.
bricks was laid on the cement. New coal.
bunker bulkheads were put in all the way
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
BERKELEY.

The Board of Trustees is contemplating
Encouragement of the electric lighting
system, owing to the many complaints
from different sections of Berkeley con-
corning the lack of necessary lights.
Removal of st. Marks Church.
st. Marks Episcopal Church is being re-
moved to a lot two blocks east of its pres
ent site, where it will be remodeled and an
addition erected. Rev. G.. a. castor, rec
tor of the church, has announced that
there will be no more services until their
newly retitted edifice shall have been COM
pleted, which, it is expected, will be in
August.
Death Roll for May.
Health Officer Rowell has reported to
the State Board of Health that ten deaths
took place in Berkeley during the month
of May from the following causes: Con
sumption, /; bronchitis, L; typhoid fever,
Il; cancer, 1; disease of the heart, l other
causes, 5.
Funeral of Miss Rideout.
The funeral of Miss Adelaide Rideout
took place yesterday afternoon from her
late residence at 1923 College way. The
services were conducted by Rev. c. J.
Mason of st. Marks Episcopal Church.
Sunday-Schoo1 Outing.
The Sunday-school of the First Presby-
terrain Church will hold its annual picnic
tomorrow at Wildcat Canyon.
Personal Mention.
The family of Professor Albin Putzker
has gone to st. Helena for the summer.
Captain Demoro and family will leave
tomorrow for their ranch in the Santa
Cruz Mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Gushee are spend
ing few days at Santa Cruz.
P. A. Wagner, Winfield Schmidt and /.
Sadler left yesterday for Plumas County
on hunting expedition.
Mrs. T. NJ. Hustled and children will
leave to-day for their ranch at Saratoga to
be gone for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Rhoror will leave
in few days for Angels Camp, where they
Will locate permanently.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
Obtaining a Hearing.

The new Canon of Westminster is cred
tied with ready wit. A story is told of
his having once been terribly interrupted
by the incessant coughing of his congrega-
ton. Wherein he suddenly paused in his
sermon and interjected the remarked,
Last night was dining with the Prince
of Wales" The effect was miraculous.
and deathly silence reigned as the
preacher continued, ''As matter of fact,
/ was not dining with the Prince OF Wales
last night, but with my own family. | am
glad, however, to find that have at last
secured your attention. Tit Bits.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18

They do not think anything of an egg in
China, it seems, until it is about 100 Years
of age. old eggs being worth as much in
that country as old wine is elsewhere
They have way of burying the eggs, and
it takes about thirty days to render a
picked egg fit to eat. Some of the old eggs
have become as black as ink and one oi
the favorite Chinese dishes for invalids is
made up of eggs, which are preserved in
jars of red clay and salt water.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
Druggists Cases Ended.

T. B. Lynch of San Leandro, S. D. Water
man OF Berkeley and ]. ii. Eickhoff of
Alameda.
Druggists Cases Ended.
Druggist H. D. Kellogg, F. S. Osgood
and V. Z. Cragin, who were convicted of
selling liquor without a license, were SEN
fenced by Judge Wood yesterday to pay a
fine of $50 or to spend ten days in the City
Prison. They chose the former punish
ment.
Arrested at Hanford.
Constable Koch returned from Hanford
yesterday with Ed Steward, alias Wick
ham, who disappeared from Oakland sew
eral days ago with a horse and buggy
belonging to Baker & Brown of the City
Hall Stables. He was arrested on a war
rant charging him with grand larceny.
Lakeside Tennis Officers.
Officers OF the Lakeside Tennis Club
have been elected as follows: President,
Wallace Alexander; secretary
Sam Hardy; directors in addition to the
foregoing (ex-offieio), Walter Magee, Sum
ner Hardy and Jackson Hatch.
VIII of w. Il. Barron.
The will of w. r. Barron, filed yester-
day, leaves all of his property to his wife,
who is the petitioner for the probate of the
same. The three children are not men
| toned in the document. The estate is
valued at $4,000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
LUMBER ON THE COLIMA,
Passengers the Lost Ship Say II
Was Above the Ships
Rail.

The investigation into the loss of the
steamer Colima did not develop many new
facts yesterday Charles H. Cushing, one
of the passengers, was subpenaed last Sat-
urday, but failed to put in an appearance
He is now liable to a fine of 500, and I'M
less he can prove sickness or give valid
excuse the penalty will be enforced.
There has been considerable conflict of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18

The wonderful sale of the Royal Baking
Powder-greater than that of all other
baking powders combined-is perhaps the
highest evidence of the superiority OF this
article and of its indispensableness to mod
ern cookery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
GEO. p. SMELL, Manager.
CAMP TAYLOR RESORT

NOW OPEN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.
IN Best accommodations for families and private
parties; terms, from SO TO $1z per week.
Tents and cottages for rent, with or without
at the hotel; splendid orive connecting with Toca-
Iona and Bear Valley.
BERTRAND & KRAUSS.
City Office for Tocaloma and Camp Taylor, 327
Bush street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
B0arders Taken During the Sumner

A RANCH IN THE COUNTRY; FINE Or
IA chard, house; modern improvements; home
comforts; terms moderate. Address W. o. j. Law
renee Station, Santa Clara County, Cal.
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CYPRESS LAWN FRUIT FARM.

81 MILES WEST OF NAPA; MAIN BUILD
C2 ing stories; neat cottages; IS acres bearing
orchard: fresh milk, eggs, vegetables and best Of
cold mountain water; free rides to Napa; good
table: home comforts. For particulars address box
1856, Napa, Cal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
MADRONE SPRINGS
Santa Clara County.

A MOUNTAIN RESORT; ELEVATION 22O0
~ feet; inner coast range 10 miles south of Lick
Observatory; best mineral water in United States
forsure of Indigestion and urinary troubles; special
RATS to school teachers: stage leaves Madrone
Mon, Wed. and Sat. arrival of morning train from
s. F.; good hunting and Excellent fishing; write for
SeScriptive pamphlet. g. S. d \ Err, Manager.
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HOTEL Den LoMOND AND COTTAGES

DEOPENED MAY /; SITUATED IN THE
LII heart OF the Santa Cruz Mountains: climate
perfect: good hunting and fishing; croquet: tennis
and clubhouse: campers round-trip ticket So. For
terms apply to ]. j. C. LEONARD, Proprietor.
TOR RENT AT BEN LOMOND-NEW COT
Il tage, 6 rooms, bath, sorerooms: unfurnshed or
win furnish for tenant for the season. Address or
apply to BENZ. LLOYD station agent FELTON, CAL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
JOHN DAYS RESORT,

ON THE BANKS OF EEL RIVER, THE
" finest trout stream in the State, 5 miles from
Potter Valley, Mendocino Co.; round trip SO rs
from S. F.; terms So to ST per week; plenty milk,
fresh butter and eggs the hunting in this locality
is the best in the State. For further particulars
address JOHN DAY, Potter Valley.
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NOW OPEN.

CISCO, SUMMER RESORT AND TOURISTS
~ home, in the heart of the Sierras: altitude $500
feet pure air; delightful scenery: best in the
mountains; fine trout-fshing: terms appica-
ton. HERSEY & FREEMAN, Propretors,
Cisco Placer County, Cal.
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f. B. Lynch of San Leandro, S. D. Water
man of Berkeley and ]. ii. Eickhoff of
Alameda
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
"LAUREL DELL" HOTEL.

T AUREL DELL LAKE (FORMERLY LOWER
IL Blue Lake.: handsome new hotel nearly COM
pleted to meet requirements OF coming season:
fine bathing, boating, fishing and hunting. Address
FL. WAMBOLD, Laurel Dell, Bertha P. o.. Lake Co.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
EIcKINNEY'S LAKE TAHOE

NOW OPEN. ROUND TRIP FROM SAN
IN Francisco, S16. Best fishing. fine groves, free
boats; fine table: milk and cream from our own
dairy $40 to $12 per week.
MURPHY BROS, Proprietors.
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Lots of schoolteaohers.

The semi-annual examinations for teach
ers' certificates began yesterday in the
i've applicants, the largest ever known in
the history of the county. The examining
board consists of County Superintendent T.
P. Garlick, ex-County Superintendent w.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18

MILL VALLEY-FURNISHE ROOMS IN A
" private family resort at Mill Valley, with or
without table board; also camping grounds and
tents, with or without board; bathing fishing, etc.
Apply to PETER GARDNER, Mill Valley, Marin
County.
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HOTEL DE REDWOOD

DIGIT IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT
III redwoods Of Santa Cruz County. First-class
accommodations. Board 30 and $40 per week.
Send for circular. Address
MYRON 5. cox, Laurel, Cal.
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IVY LODGE.
SARATOGA SPRINGS. LAKE COUNTY. CAT

THE HEALING POWERS OF THESE
L waters are something wonderful; sulphur, soda,
iron, magnesia; good fishing and hunting; accom-
modations first class; rates So per week and up
ward; large hard-inish rooms en- suite. Address j.
CONNER, Bachelor P. o., Lake County, Cal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18
HOTEL DEL MAR.
CYPRESS VILLA HOTEL.

SAN RAFAEL, CAL.
A PLEASANT SUMMER RESORT FOR FAM
n lilies. II trains per day by Narrow Gauge
Railroad so minutes ride from San Francisco.
Rates, ST to So week. Special rates 10 families.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-06
LEGISLATIVE TOPICS.



Pittsburg Commercial-Gaze The act
creating a banking commissioner which
has passed the Legislature and Is now a
law, is generally regarded as an import
ant step forward in the regulation and
oversight of the banking corporations of
the commonwealth. The new law Gre
ates a department of banking with a COM
missioner at its head, and provides, for the
appointment of such assistants as are
deemed necessary to carry its provisions
into effect. 1t will he the duty of the
commissioner to see that the banking laws
of the state are fully executed and the
depositors afforded due protection. He
must personally or by deputy inspect at
least once year, and oftener II he deems
proper, the books, papers and affairs of
every bank, title insurance, safe deposit.
trust, savings bank and similar insttu-
tions chartered by the state. He may
question under oath any officer, agent or
employe. The corporations subject to his
control are required to make two reports
each year showing in detail their re-
sources and liabilities. Foreign banking
corporations are forbidden to receive de-
posts unless they make similar returns TO
the commissioner. unincorporated banks
are not subject to the law, seemingly on
the principle that as they receive no
franchise from the state they may be left
to regulate themselves, as other private
business concerns are permitted to do.
There IL provision for the appointment of
Il supervisor of state banks, with large
discretionary powers, and If filled by 4
competent and trustworthy person he will
exercise a very important and wholesome
influence over all the institutions subject
to his inspection. There is no fault found
with the law. The salary of the commits
sioner is regarded by many as too high,
having been fixed at $1,000 year. IL the
Office Is filed by "a first-class man, able
and willing to do the work required Of
him. the salary need not be criticised 100
closely. The averange bank president in
the larger cities Is paid about as literally.
and there IL no doubt that the position
will be one affording ample opportunity
for the incumbent to earn his salary. A
year or two will test the efficacy of the
new department, and II will prove great
disappointment II 1t does not show decd-
edly better results than the old law,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-06
Not the Right Method.

The Pittsburg Dispatch, commenting
on Representative Snively's bill appro-
priating s5,OOoOOO of state money to the
various counties and townships for the
construction of good roads, opportunely
points out fatal defect in the measure,
which consists of an omission to specify
the conditions which shall govern the
character of the roads to reconstructed.
The Dispatch accurately adds:
The trouble in the past has not been so
much that there was no money spent on
the roads, as that the methods of spend
ing 1t and working on the roads made II
IL dead waste. If the state funds 20 into
local hands without restriction or guar
antee as to what work is TO be done with
them. the probability is that the greater
share will be spent without securing what
Is needed-permpnent and solid roadways
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-06

only partially succeeded Yet it is
probable that he has advanced further
towards a wise solution than nine
tenths of his fellow-employers, which
is fact fully emitting him to generous
credit
At the twenty-siXth annual reunion
of his employees, recently held in Dodge
vile, N. Y, there was read an instruc-
tive report of the operations of the sys-
tenn Of labor insurance and pensions
which has been instituted among them
The system offers double benefits to
those who are loyal to the firm that
employs them. 1t offers a means of
sustennnce to those who are disabled
from work by accident or old age; and
1t provides support for the families of
those who die or are killed in the line
of duty. Last year S1,199.S0 was paid
to four superannuated workmen, and
the amount paid since the establish
ment of the fund was reported as $S,-
1926. From the beginning the contri-
buttons to the pension fund amount to
$50, 1Sl.07, and the interest is now large
enough to pay the present pensioners
without further contributions. In twen-
ty years $34 ,595.27 has been paid for life
insurance policies, and the employees
now hold policies on which the firm
pays premiums to the amount of Sl72,-
900, and it also makes arrangements
for those whom the insurance company
reject An endowment account is also
carried with $S,169.65 due employees at
maturity, but this last year nothing
was added to it because, as Mr.. Dodge
says, mo one could earn any more than
his wages
These funds are kept up by system
of bookkeeping which credits each man
in the Dolgeville shops with q percent
age of the profits gained on the arti-
giving to workmen specified annual
dividend, the firm takes out from the
surplus earnings of the men enough to
sustain the insurance and pension
funds and then distributes the remain
der. We do not recall whether since
this plan has been in operation, any
year has yet shown a net loss instead
of gain; but should such loss occur
the men would be expected to bear their
proportion of it in the form of a pro
rata reduction in wages, sufficient to
meet the loss without sacrificing the
| two funds.
a number of adverse arguments in
stantly suggest themselves relative to
| this system; such, for example, as that
it ties the men down to one employer,
under penalty, when changing, of sacri-
| ficing accumulated benefits. But apart
from the general unwisdom of frequent
| changes, it is practically impossible to
secure uniformity of benefits for wage
earners engaged in private business
enterprises. The plan pursued at
Dolgevile is generally acceptable to
the men employed there and it offers
the basis of similar plans elsewhere,
with notifications suited to the vary
ing requirements of each industry and
| each locality.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-06
Complete the Typographical Map.

Philadelphia Record: The legislators at
Harrisburg have n clear duty before them
in the bill introduced by Representative
j. L.. Mattox, of Venango, for state co.
operation with the federal government in
the completion of the Pennsylvania
Typographical map. The practical value
of this work is too well recognized to call
for an exposition of It's Importance In
great matters of public works. forestry
and geological problems, canal and rail-
road engineering, and innumerable cases
affecting deeply the general welfare OF the
corporate commonwealth and Its individ-
ual citizens. The United States geological
survey, under the intelligent guidance Of
Director Walcott, has already surveyed
$500 of the IS, 800 square miles of Pennsyl-
vania; but state aid means the shorten
ing of the half century of remaining work
under the existing resources to about ten
years. New York, Massachusetts, Con.
necticut and little Rhode Island have set
the Keystone state wise precedent. 1t
will cost Pennsylvania scarcely more than
$25, 600 annually for seven years, and by
this timely expenditure enormous sums
would be saved In the future.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-06
Where Does II Stand

One of the demands formulated by
the so-called labor combine at Harris
burg calls for the statutory prohibition
OF the employment of persons fifteen
years of age or under. The factory
law at present prohibits the employ
ment of persons under twelve years and
in some instances under thirteen years.
The mine laws pursue the same course
with reference to the employment of
children in and about the mines. 1T is
now proposed to raise the age limit at
least two and in some cases three years.
What has the Scranton Truth to say to
this? Does it favor the change, in the
same earnest manner that it favored
the enactment of the original laws?
We ask these questions because they
have an important bearing upon the
subject of compulsory education now
under discussion in this state. II the
law Is. to say with the esteemed Truths
approval. that no boy or girl who is
less than fifteen years old shall work
for living; that no such boy or girl
dare contribute to the support Cf
widowed mother or help to elSe out the
scant income of a father who has been
crippled in the mines: we shall feel i'm
PEELED to ask the Truth why it is so
violently opposed to requiring these
boys and girls, thus made idle by legal
compulsion, to go to school total of
sixteen weeks each year between the
ages of and 13 years, or to acquire the
same amount Of education by means of
home instruction. To be sure, the pro
posed compulsory education law would
not deprive either widowed mothers or
crippled fathers of the earnings of their
children during thrty-six weeks in the
year; and If such earnings We're really
necessary to the support of either
parent, 1t would not deprive such parent
Of them at ALL inasmuch as the law
would be waived in such extreme cases.
But the Truth has made this false cry
the basis of its opposition. and now we
want to hear what it has to say on
this other subject of the downright and
unqualified prohibition OF all child
labor under fifteen years of age. We
want to know whether or not il is pre-
pared this time to be consistent in this
matter
We should be pleased, in addition. If
our contemporary would have the
frankness to point out in what locality
in Pennsylvania there would exist the
possibility. under the provisions of the
Tarr bill should that moderate bill be-
come the law, of a repetition OF the
cruelty which it recently noted as hav-
ing occurred in an English city, during
the enforcement Of the compulsory edu-
cation law in vogue in that country.
If there is anything whatever in the
Farr bill likely to lead to such instances
of official barbarity, now IL the time to
call attention to 1t. If there IL not,
The TruthCin common fairness should
not insinuate that there Is: nor should
1t, unless 1t can make good it's claims.
harrow up the anxieties of It's readers
by raising mythical objections to a
measure the only purpose of which is
TO stimulate a better respect, among the
people, for the schools of our state
and for the rights of our growing up
children.