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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
THE MECHANICS FAIR.
Certificates of Superiority Instead of
Cheap Medals to Be Awarded
as Premiums.

At the monthly meeting of the Me-
chanics' Institute directors last evening
the principal business was the considera-
ton of matters pertaining to the coming
industrial fair.
1t was proposed that an exhibition of fish
should be made. The last time such an
exhibit was made it cost the institute $500,
and the matter was laid over for further
consideration.
1t was decided to depart from the usual
custom of issuing cheap medals for
premiums At the next fair beautifully
engraved certificates or diplomas for merit
and superiority will be given in accordance
with the judgment of the examining judges.
The matter of music was laid oyer by
the committee on music for further con-
sideration. Trustees Fisher and Doolan
urged that there should be poultry show
in connection with the fair. This was
tried at previous fair, and the experience
was then that every time musical part
was being performed the ROSTERS would
crow.
The majority of the board are against a
poultry show with the fair.
W. H. Smyth, who is making arrange
ments for the exhibition, reported that he
had arranged the following plan for attrac-
tons: Indigenous races of the coast, their
arts, manufactured articles and customs
American settlers, relics and curiosities
educational, the progress of the child from
the kindergarten to the university. This
feature will be important. Professor Kel-
logg of the University of California will
try to induce the board of regents to make
fine exhibition. Special attention will be
given to the sciences, physical develop
ment and sports. 1t is intended that the
manufacturing industries and the arts
81 III I,f Y,lI 4n1 hi
scientific tests will be made of devices and
materials. There will be a fine display OF
military and naval war implements from
the time of the savage to the present. Mr..
Smyth proposes to make a curious display
under the head of ''crime, in which will
be exhibited objects of interest and curl
osity, appliances and methods for protec-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
FUN WITH THE CAMERA
Several Outings With Exceptional
Opportunities for Snap Shots
on the Programme.

Weather permitting-of which there Il
little doubt-the members of the California
Camera Club will be given rare oppor
tunity on Saturday next to take "snaI
shots" all around the bay.
Through the kindness of Captain Lealt
of the steamer Caroline, all who desire vii
be taken about the bay on her. She vii
leave Jackson-street wharf at P. NJ. an6
will skirt the San Francisco shore as fal
south as the Union Iron Works, and Their
go over to Oakland up the little-prospected
estuary and then to Sausalito.
About $50 of the members will probably
take advantage of the occasion, as an I'M
usual chance will be afforded for taking
pictures of the shipping, of shore scenes
and of the yachts at anchor off Sausalito
as the steamer will move slowly to facili.
tate the work of the kodak gunners.
1t is expected that many fine pictures
suitable for lantern slides will be secured.
The members are also given the privilege
of inviting friend to the outing. The re-
turn will be made about shutdown.
On May 80 there will be a special outing
to Sausalito for kodak cruise among the
yachts of the Corinthian feet, which will
then be anchored at that place.
A proposition is also being considered by
the club for repetition Of the highly sue
cessful cruise of a year ago up the Russian
River, in which some seventy members
participated. This will probably be under
taken early in June. The jaunt will cover
three days from Saturday morning to the
Monday evening following.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
Total amount of lease for 20 years 1886, 100
By the terms of the same bill a COM
mission was created composei Of the May

By the terms of the same bill a COM
mission was created composed of the May
or, Auditor and Treasurer, which COM
mission was authorized to issue bonds in
the sum of $20O,0 bearing interest at the
rate of per cent, the money to be used for
the purchase of sites and the erection of
school buildings. The bonds were dis
posed of and the money expended as pro-
vided. The leases began Septem Der L, 1875,
and win expire September 1, 1895. at which
time the Board OF Education will assume
control.
Realizing the necessity of outlining a
policy relative to its new charge the sub
feet has been under discussion by the
board since its February meeting. 1t was
not until April 10 that the matter took
definite form. AT this time the Finance
Committee submitted the following report:
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 1895.
To the Honorable Board Of observation-disclosures
MEN: Your committee on finance respect
fully reports that it has considered the
communication from Ryland B. Wallace, ask
ing on behalf of the owners of the leasehold
interests in the property situated on the cor
ner of Ryland and Fifth streets that action be
taken by this board with regard to leasing said
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
SHIPOWNERS AND SAILORS
Many Vessels Are Lying In the
Stream Waiting for
Crews.
The Association Claims That Men
Can Be Supplied at Short
Notice.

"The Shipowners' Association wants fifty
men to-day and they can't get them" said
a out for non-union sailors yesterday.
They can get them if they want to put up
bonus for them, but for going and pick
ing non-union men up out of boarding
houses it will be pretty hard matter
The ship King Cyrus got away on Mon
day morning with full non-union crew.
The B. P. Cheney went into the stream on
Monday morning, and up to last night she
had only secured six of her crew. The
ships Guardian and Invincible have been
in the stream since last Friday, unable to
get crews, and how long they will remain
in port depends on the ability of their
shipping masters to get their complement
of men. The scnooners Sparrow, Viking,
Lily and Guide and the barkentine Amelia
also went out in the stream, waiting for
crews to get away.
''There is nothing in the stream" said
Shipping Reickoff of the Ship
owners Association yesterday afternoon,
'thatwe cannot supply with crews as soon
as they are ready. There are any number
of sailors on the beach and no vessel ship
ping through the association has been de-
tanned more than twenty-four hours. As
soon as any vessel is ready to sail we will
supply her with men if we are given sutfi-
cient notice"
The warfare between the union and the
scouts OF the shipowners is an interesting
one. Any non-union men who are caught
in the neighborhood of the water front
have a very poor show of going aboard
ship. The union patrolmen use their gen.
tie powers of persuasion on the non-union
men, and as general thing the latter give
up the fight and go over to the union.
Now the scouts of the shipowners catch
their men on Steuart street and stake them
out somewhere uptown for final arrange
ments:,> The new scheme, thus far, has
worked very we'll
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
LINCOLN SCHOOL LOTS,
A Question Relative to the
TWenty-Year Lease Which
Will Soon Expire.
POSSIBILITY OF LITIGATION
The Board of Education Outlining a
Policy for the Management Of
Its New Charge.

Under the terms of the consolidation
act the Board of Education will, on Sep
TENDER 1, assume control of the Lincoln
School property, situated on the southeast
corner of Market and Fifth streets, leased
in 1875 by the Board of Supervisors for a
period Of twenty years for the purpose OF
raising school funds. The transfer of this
valuable property which has yielded to the
School Department revenue of $536, 100
will in all probability be accompanied by
litigation, which will assume bitter con.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
COUNCIL OF WISE WOMEN.
The Annual Gathering of the
Episcopal Church
Auxiliary.
BISHOP NICHOLS ADDRESS.
Children to Be Educated to Con-
tribute to the Missionary
Fund.
BISHOP NICHOLS
ADDRESS.

The fifteenth annual meeting of the Cali
fornia branch of the Womens Auxiliary of
the Episcopal Church was held yesterday
in the Church of St. John, on Fifteenth
street between Valencia and Mission.
At 10 o'clock there was an officers meet
ing, and at II O'clock the meeting, which
was one of the largest the auxiliary has
ever held, representatives from all the City
and many of the interior churches being
present, was addressed by the Right Rev.
Bishop Nichols upon the missionary work
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
DIR. SHAPIRO CONVICTED.
He Paid Twenty Dollars for Using yuI-
gar Language.

DIR. Lazarus Shapiro, 1905 Market street,
appeared in Judge Campbell's court yes
terday to answer charge of using vulgar
language to w. H. Brewster, conductor on
the Castro-street line, last Sunday after
noon.
After hearing the evidence the Judge
found the defendant guilty and sentenced
him to pay fine of $50 or be imprisoned
for twenty days. "There was no excuse
for your conduct" said the Judge, land if
there had been ladies in the car at the
time l would have fined you 500. You
should have paid your fare, and if you
thought you had grievance you could
the company" The fine was paid.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
DAYLIGHT BURGLARIEs.

A Gang OF Boys Operating In the west
ern Addition.
Within the past month about a dozen
daylight burgIaries in the Western Addi-
ton have been reported to the police. Po-
licemen Harry Reynolds and Donovan
were specially detailed to make an investi-
CATION.
They found that the burglaries were
committed by gang OF five boys, whose
ages ranged from Is to is years, and that
they sold the proceeds OF their crimes to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08

Jake Schneider, tailor on Tehama street,
between Fourth and Fifth.
Yesterday they arrested Schneider for
receiving stolen goods. They also arrested
John O'Keefe, Eddie McQuade and Sam
Schneider, three of the gang. They have
not yet been booked, as the officers expect
to have the other two under arrest at any
moment.
The same officers were successful in
breaking up gang about two months ago
that had been operating in the same local
tiles for months.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08

ing perversity strange IN one so young,
the girl ran away repeatedly; but until
her last escapade she did not incum-
Der her offenses by the addition of
theft. If found she will be sent to the
Magdalen Asylum until she attains her
majority,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08

MONEY makes the mare go and buys the AL
Observation-Disclosures.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08

THERE is an article on this market seldom
equaled and never exceiled-Jesse Moore Whis-
ky. Moore Hunt g. Co. guarantee its purity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08

ton against criminals and the punishment
of law-breakers in ancient and modern
times.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30
VENETIAN GLASS.

The glass mosaics are brought from
Murano into the workshops at Venice IN
the form of thin plates, and are cut up
into little cubes. or squares, in the latter
place. They are put away and classified
according to color, and this working
stock fills several large rooms. Against
aH four walls of these apartments stand
huge cabinets, divided up into what seem
TO be innumerable little drawers and
compartments, all numbered and cata-
logued like asveritable museum. Each of
the little compartments contains POSSIBLY
a thousand of these little glass dice, of a
particular shade.
My guide told me. and from what / saw
myself, l am ready to accept the state
Ynent as Enthusiastically true, that over
five thousand different shades and colors
for the glass lnOSaicS are made in Murafo,
tints to each color and shade. Think OF
i'll And then think Of having this enor-
NOUS collection so systematically ar
ranged that any one tint of any shade
can be found without a moments delay.
This statement may seem startling, blu
lists are able to reproduce in exact shad-
ings, colorings and tone, any painting, II
will be appreciated that this vast nunlbel
is hardly more than adequate. An artist
in oils or water colors, can put one color
or wash over. the other, depending upon
the opacity of one or the transparency OF
another, until the exact shade required
has been obtained. Then, by blending
several shades he can soften and tone
them down by almost impereepsible de
es,until actually, pexhaps, several y
one bit of the p-ainting-say that of a
hand or face.-Home and Country for
April.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30
LADY JOURNALISTS.
All Journalists A~ristocratic; But All
Aristocrats Are Not Journalists.

All journalists are aristocrats; but, for
~tunately for those who have a living to
earn, all aristocrats are not journalists.
OF those who are, Lady Colin Campbell
and Lady Violet Greville stand first
among the members of the weaker sex.
Lady Colin Campbell is now editing the
Realm and she is a constant contribu-
tor to the World" and several other
papers 11ady Violet is also we'll known
as a writer of periodical literature Her
style is excellent. 1t is light and versa
tile and refined, and her wide womanly
add to the charm of her work.
Some of the English princesses write
occasionally, although they only accept
an honorarium for charitable objects.
Princess Christian has done a good deal
of journalistic work in her time, and al
manner
The Countess of Aberdeen OCCASIONALLY
writes on political and social subjects,
and the Countesses of Jersey, Munster
and Mar all WELD the pen ably.
The Duchess of Sutherland is a really
Somerset is a weekly contributor to her
own paper, the "Woman's Signal"
Lady Meath and the Countess of War
wick have occasionally written articles,
and among other titled ladies who have
taken up JOURNALISTIC work may be men
less. Lady Lindsay. and in France the
Duchess D'Czes and the Countess de Mar
tel.
AS a younger woman Lady Salisbury
did a great deal Of writing for various
papers and critical work. for the "Satur-
day Review, while the Warehouses of
CRANKY provides illustrations for certain
favored periodicals..
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30
FUNERAL WAS A FUNCTION.
But Society Came Not, and TIA
Family Was So Mortified.

But Society Came Not, and the
Family Was So Mortified.
I am to have a complete suit of semi
mourning made, for, recently, it seems to
me as if 1 do nothing else but attend
funerals.
And here so much stress is laid on
funerals. Abroad we send our carriages.
That is sufficient. Here we must attend
N person.
1t is a bore, as well as extremely de-
pressing. People seem to know if you
are there, you know, and are actually
disappointed if you do not put in an
appearance.
Only recently a charming woman was
.elI4ng me of the funeral of a friend,
another very lovely person, whom I had
the honor of knowing. She said that the
name of the deceased was seldom men
Toned now, because it brought up such
painful recollections, not connected with
death itself-those were the bittersweet-
The dead lady was a society leader"
is, the family-to have a celebrated
very fashionable church, and they In
vited the smartest men In society to be
~pallbearers, arranged an attractive mus
ieal programme and ordered just the
hat = - sNu a.
Well, there were, Notwithstanding this
Tresparation' oqly about fifty people in
pad. but the family has never recovered
Certain people are struck. off their Wis
to me in reference to his event, that she
feared to look in the mirror for several
days afteTward-that she had actually
become green with notification
M0o11R.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30
LORD RosEBERY's VERSATILITY.

I first heard OF Lord Rosebery as a
brilliant a~fter-dinner speaker at liter
airy and theatrical banquets. He then
appeared to be a young man given ma
turally more to literature and the drama
than to the dry work of politics. He
was looked upon as one who had more
inclination for the pleasures than the
business of life. He was a racing man,
fond of the turf and all that belonged to
it. Now it is distinctly in avo of a
mans popularity in England that he
should be a votary of the turf. The
people do not desire that their leading
statesmen should be ascetics. 1t is an
additional attraction in a public man
that he should be q lover of sport in one
form or another. Many a sturdy Tory
softened towards John Bright because
he was known to be an ardent lover of
trout and saianon4fishing. Lord Rose
berry has Indeed a great NAM sides to
hts character. As Savage Landor's
words put 1t, he warmed both hands
before the fire of life. He stretched cut
eagerly for every Wholesome ~occupat-
ion and amusement that existence could
give hinfI Other men of his station
moved along zone groove and only one.
Tfie man OF the turf was q MAI sof@the
turf and nothing more. The politician
YVES a politician the scholar lived with
his bo3ks.S5 But Lord Rosebery seemed
to waat to grasp at everything and to
aceomplishS everything. This gave him
q great start at the beginning, for it
maze him known. in all circles.-April
Forum. eaf 4ss f%
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30
FREE LUNCHES 4ABOOBD.
Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's Provisions for its
Employees.

PHILADELPHIA, March 20, 1895.-Tne
Pennsylvania Railroad Company Is haVins
one of it's large rooms on the SIKH
floor of the general building converted
into a mammoth lunch room. The car
penters are now building a lunch counter
which goes completely around the room.
1t is expected that this new department
will be in operation by April l.
There are nearly 1850 people employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
in the general office. Out of this num-
Der only about 300 of them are entitled
to the privileges of the free lunch on
the second floor. The building is equip
ped with five elevators, three on the Mar
ket street entrance side and two on the
Hilbert street. The clerks in the othce
are allowed thirty minutes each day for
lunch, and as the majority of them are
employed in departments near the top OF
the building they lose considerable time
getting away from the office.
DANGERS OF THE FREE LUNCH.
1t is contended by the officers of the
| company that. owing to the limited tine
the clerks have to get their lunch, it IS
impossible for thtetm to be benefited by it
and in a great many cases a number
very often frequent saloons where free
lunches are used as an adv fbsf ! ma.
BESIDES lUlS, u Is COiIlSllQCd thot q H
jority of the clerks receive a small salary
which makes it onerous for them to ouy
some light stuff which results in more
harm than good.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Companys
new lunch room Is to be so conducted
that there will be no profit In It to the
company. as everything sold viii be at
piece Of pie vii be given for five cents;
while outside such a lunch would cost
room vii be a great benefit to the clerks,
as it will be easy of access, besides being
considerably cheaper than any such ar
~rangenent elsewhere. 1t is to be exclu-
sively for the clerks in the building.
The heads of the various departments
of the compan will give to each clerk an
order which VIII entitle him to purchase
a meal ticket. This ticket will be good
for twenty different items, each one being
of the value of five cents, the whole
ticket costing 81. All the Appliances, that
go with a quick lunch counter are being
placed in position. The goods served are
to be of the same kind as that given to
the officers in the free ~dining-room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30
PAJAMAs FOR NIGHTIES.
A Young woman of bsei " itson Pro
tests Against Them as NA.fesniEinc.

tests Against The9 as Ulsfe snisinc.
ST declare said a young woman of
observation, this is carrying things a
1 nave just received from one of our
first trade houses saying that pajamas
are to be the fashionable night dress
for ladies'. Are they? Well, they'll never
be the fashionable retiring costume for
this one, at all events-the angraceful,
unwomanly things. Here are ~illustra-
tons, too, I see, showing how we VIII
to be of silk, of all shades and qualities,
and they are to be made distinctly feni-
nine by the addition of a row of lace
at the top and a ruf1e round the bot
tom, which can be drawn in with a gath
ering string. Charming, I must say.
that's all they are; No, I'll tell you what
wearing these pajama things, and we
women have got TO follow the masculine
craze, like so many sheep as we are.
Now, mark me, you'll hear heaps of stuff
Of attire and all of that fol de rol. But
it's only fol de rol, all the same, and it's
just sung to cover up our determined eff
forts to ape the men. Popular prejudice
has effectually barred women-for the
time, at least from wearing pants in
there somehow, and nov are going to
wear them nights.
IA We say up at the club meetings,
L nope the motion will not prevail and
if it does, l hope the laws will be SO
amended as to make the wearing of
pajamas by married women good and
sufficient ground for divorce."-Chicago
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-30
FIGURES ABOUT RAILROADS.

Statistics Concerning Mileage In VAR
ious OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES n IN the cad
Statistics just published show that the
mileage of the railways of the globe at
the end of 1892 was 406, AIS, or one mile of
railway to every 1876 inhabitants. The
Puerto Rico, which has only II miles; the
largest by the United States, which, with
ia, 784 miles at the close of 1892, were far
ahead of any other country. Next, but at
a great interval, comes Germany. with
q, 455 miles, followed by France, with "a
018 miles. The United Kingdom comes
fourth, with 20, 1926 miles, and Russia fifth,
with 1866 miles. There are in Europe
altogether 144,3s0 miles of railway; in
North and South America, 21S, $40 miles;
in Asia. only %. 299 miles, of which II, 1853
miles are in British India; in Australia.
2.685 miles, and ip Africa 1872 miles. The
Islands of Malta Jersey and Man have,
q, Hawaii So miles.
Belgium is far ahead of other countries
with regard to the length of railway lines
29.6 miles. The United Kingdom follows
with 16.7; then Holland, with IA; Ger
many. 1872; Switzerland, 10; France, 11.6,
square miles. The southern countries of
Europe are not well provided with rail-
a Italy has the most. TT miles per
tVV squGT9 IlllSS, anu is 3CilONeQ Dy AVIS
tria, with G.S miles. Spain HAS only "a;
European Turkey: II; Russia, l mile:
The 174,7S4 miles of railway in the United
States represent onlys6 miles for. every 100
square miles, and the 17.7SS miles of Brit
ish India IL mile. The lowest figures in
this respect are the 2 mile of South Aus
tralia, the T~ransvaal. Asia Minor. Ecuador
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Venezuela.
These countries are wide apart, but they
resemble each other for want of railway
enterprise.
The mileage of railways per 1O,0 900 in
habitants is given in The Railway News
as follows: WEST Astralia comes first
with Ills; Queensland next with $50. Yet
West Australia has only $50 miles of line,
while British India. with its 17.76S miles,
has only IL mile of railway for every 10
600 of population. The two countries worst
off for railways are apparently Japan
and the Dutch Indies, the mileage to every
0 1000 inhabitants being in either case only
4. his, of course, leaves out of the com
parison China, which, with its vast ter
eitory and hundreds of millions of pops
%lation. has only 124 miles of railway
Newark Evening News.