The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-15

documents could be sent out to the City Hall
in minute and thus facilitate legal business,
which, hear from the attorneys, is very an
moving sometimes.
'There is another point worth considering.
Suppose you dropped letter in Station D,
which had for its point of delivery Station +.
it could be put in the tube and sent over there
in a few seconds, whereas now it is taken up
by the carrier, taken to the central postoffice,
and probably the next day finds its destina-
ton"
''will it ever take the place of any other
motive power?"
"Most certainly it will. On all hands we
hear of nothing but electricity, when, as mat
ter of fact compressed air is capable of many
things which electricity can never overcome.
The latter power has caused air to be over
looked, but engineers and inventors are max
ing such strides in the direction of pneumatic
machinery that even the electricians are look
ing on in amaZement.
"In Paris they deliver small packages, say up
to three or four pounds, twenty-five miles, and
aside from this they have compressed air fac
tories where they fill cylinders with air and
sell it all over the city for motive power. All
you have to do is to couple it onto your pipe
leading to your engine and turn on the cock.
Instantly its power is in action and the ex-
haust, being nothing but pure air, is not un-
healthy. 1t is perfectly dry and always cold.
1t has the advantage of being less dangerous
than steam and is portable. Consider all these
things and then you will see how easy it is for
thinking engineer to pause in his electrical
Trades and think of something which up to
within few years ago was lost in the shuttle"
Compressed air is used in Milwaukee for re-
frfgerating purposes" remarked a bystander.
"Well," answered Rix "there is a fellow in
Paris who has built refrigerator around the
exhaust of his engines and has placed his
mother-in-law there. Her body is preserved in
perfect state and his wife wants to be put be-
side her when she dies. This, however, is not
an argument in favor of compressed air."
Professor Oscar r. Gleason, the horse-trainer,
is staying at the Baldwin. This is his first
visit to California, but he has been all over the
rest OF the Union and has pretty thorough
knowledge of the horseflesh of the country. He
was talking last evening of the relative merits
OF different sections and said: 'I rode through
your park to-day to see what your horses were
like and was wonderfully surprised. From
what little have seen believe that this is GO
ing to be the best part of the whole country
for horses on account of the equability and
mildness OF your climate and that
is what counts for more than
anything else in breeding horsehesh The
poorest horses l have seen anywhere were up
IN Washington, Oregon and British Columbia
They are very small and have no breeding In
fact, half their stock is what you would call
cayuses. have seen more good horses in your
park to-day than have seen since l left New
York. All the best horses in the East come
from the South and West, from Kentucky, Hi
nois, Iowa and Nebraska mostly. OF course
they raise horses in New England and the Mid
die States, but they are nearly all underbred
workhorses and trotters. They have not the
climate for thoroughbreds. In Canada most of
the horses are cold-blooded animals-that is,
horses with no breeding
Frank 0'Neill of the South Coast Paper-mill
at Sequel, who is in town, in speaking
of the great decrease in the output
of paper in the past few years in this
State. attributed it to the fact that there had
been reduction of rates in freight on the
classes of paper made here, which enables
Eastern manufacturers to run into the State
their surplus stock and sell at low rates. Not
more than half as much paper is being manu-
featured now rs was a few years ago. The larg-
est mill in the State, the California of Stockton
has been dismantied and the machinery taken
to Oregon. An interesting fact stated by Mr..
O'Neill shows how the Southern Pacific makes
a direct attack on California industries, and
that was that the rate of freight on all classes
OF paper not manufactured here is much
higher than on paper of the kinds made in this
State