The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-16

| sought wealth in many chimes. Yesterday,
while sitting in the Grand, he gave several
| gentlemen a short account of the life OF a
undergraduates in the Amazon fields, section
of country visited by him about four years ago.
s'The tapping season." said he, ''extends over
q period of twelve weeks on an average, and
! this part OF the work is done in the morning
1t requires good deal of Skill as deep incisiOns
| will kill tree, while if they are too shallow
the sap will not flow. The sap runs about five
| hours and it takes about three pounds OF it to
make one pound of rubber Little cups are
used to catch the sap, and the principle is
much the same as that employed in an Eastern
sugar camp. rubber tree however, differs
| from sugar in that the latter is seldom tapped
! in over three or four places, while the former
is literally covered with missions at the end OF
| the season. A thousand pounds of rubber is s.
pretty good seasons work, but at the present
| price of rubber not many American working
men would care to follow this vocation"
ga first-class newspaper man was spoilt when
Professor Kennedy of the Franklin Grammar
School became pedagogue,' said Thomas
Mayne to a number of friends at the Baldwin
Hotel last night az used to know Professor
Kennedy in Santa Clara County, when for a
| time he edited the Santa Clara Tribune for
John Sullivan. One of the burning questions
at that time was whether the county should
donate to the Southern Pacific Company about
$500, 900 worth OF bonds that had been sub
scribed for by the county in aid OF the railroad.
Professor Kennedy wrote vigorous article in
| the Tribune against the donation to the rail
road company. Sullivan was under the weather
at the time, but managed to hop around to the
| office and said:
"'See here Kennedy, I don't want you to go
| too far on that, because may have to flop, you
know
KENNEDY replied: ooh, that's all right the
paper can flop easily enough when the time
| comes
"The next week another stirring article was
| printed in the Tribune against giving the
bonds to the company.
"a day or two afterward Sullivan sent for his
editorial writer and said: It's all right, Ken
nedy, give the paper the flop. The railroad
has fixed it with me satisfactorily
"The next issue of the paper contained the
following;
"We have been paid our price and therefore
we flop and have nothing further to say against
! giving the bonds to the railroad company. We
believe that is the best thing to be done
'fKennedy was discharged, ana from that day
to this he has said that Sullivan's lack of ap-
| probation of his ability as newspaper writer
shunted him out of the journalistic profess
| sion"
A. J. Goodrich, an Eastern excursion agent
who is in the city, in conversation yesterday
regarding the possibilities for securing emigra-
ton to California in the future, told some
plain truths. He said that there were many
| farmers in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Mis-
| souri, who would willingly sell out their hold
| ings in those States and come to California il
| they would be assured that land could be
! secured here at a reasonable figure. f'What is
necessary" said Mr.. Goodrich, sis to disabuse
| their minds OF the idea that land out here is
worth $4,000 an acre, which many of them
| believe to be fact. Los Angeles has succeeded
| in having the land in that part OF the State cut
| up into small holdings and thus vastly in
| creasing the population tributary to that CITY,
and San Fran cisco has an ample field in which
| to do the same. ii the territory lying between
the Siskiyou and Tehachapi mountains was
| filed up with producing and consuming farm
ers this city would have taken long step
toward rendering hard times q thing of the
! past"
! An excursion party from the Alma SAM
! tarium In Michigan will arrive here to-day
and rooms have been secured at the Palace for
the members. They travel in the private car
"Alma," which is specially fitted up for just
such outings, which are one of the features of
the institution. The itinerary includes visit
to Fresno and other points in the southern
portion of the State, after which the East will
receive atten ton.
The large dining hall OF the Palace was
thrown open to guests yesterday for the first
| time this season. This is looked upon as ami
indication that the expected flow of travel from
I, the southern portion OF the State has begun
to materialiZe.
Raymond excursion party, comprising
seventy people, arrived from the south last
evening and registered at the Palace. All the
members of the party reside in Boston and that
vicinity.