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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10

| fruit merchants, who wished to sell to the
| peddlerS and not to compete with them IN
the auctlon-room; second. the auction
| houses not selected, and third, and most
powerful, the Eastern railroads not leading
| to the auction-rooms chosen
In view OF the practically unanimous
feeling of growers in favor of the new de-
parture, it would be evidently easier for
commission shippers not represented at
the meeting to obtain shipments BY falling
into the same plan and joining the associ-
alton, and it was presumed they would do
so. Pressure, however, was evidently
brought to bear by the sighted auction
houses ana railroads upon a number OF
the commission shippers, of whom some
at least had participated in the prelimi-
nary work of organizing the association.
1t is claimed by some that this pressure
was in the form of rebates on freights and
auction commissions, which would not go
to the growers but would aid the opposi-
ton to maintain the fight against the
association: At any rate there is fight
on in California fruit at the East the ex-
penses of which, as always, are borne by
the California producer.
The following letter from the president
of the California Fruit Growers and Ship
pers' Association. inclosing circular from
firm of Chicago fruit-buyers, explains
itself 1t must be noted that the circular
ID duuIcSSeu w Teldll buyers near CllcdgO,
and was never intended for Californians.
AS will be seen, the opposition fruit, in
Chicago at least, is sold at closed auction:
To the Editor of the "Calp'-sfR: If there was
any further evidence needed to show how seri-
ously the California fruit-grower is being in
jured by the support of two auction-rooms in
one city, this evidence is furnished by the Chi
cago fruit buyers themselves, as will be seen by
the inclosed copy OF a circular issued by
Peycke, Bleekman & Co., Chicago fruit-brokers.
Their statement makes it as clear as crystal
that two auction-houses in one city mean the
killing of prices, which doubtless is in the in
terest of the Eastern buyer, but means death
to the interest of the California grower
Thus we see that the minority of growers
who are helping the California Green and
Dried Fruit Company, the National Fruit AS
ISOLATION and Pattee & Lett to support
rival auctioh-rooms in New York, Chicago and
elsewhere are not alone injuring themselves
but are 1njuring every other grower in this
State; and are making it impossible to place
the fruit industry of California upon that
profitable basis it should enjoy. Yours truly,
II. WEINsToCK,
President c. f. G. and S. Association.
CIRCULAR.
CHICAGO, August 27, 1895.
Dear Sirs: Buy California fruit at Chicago.
Both auction sales are now taking place at the
same time. Buyers are divided and slack at
tendance is killing prices. The "Fruit-buyers'
"dress suits" las the California papers indicate)
and the ''afraid-of-water" (peddlers) are at the
Union. We remain neutral and buy wherever
We can do the best. Yours truly,
PEYCKE, BLEEKMAN q Co.
Fruit-brokers,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10
WILL HOLD A FIELD DAY.
The Young Mems Christian Association
Will Call Out It's Athletes
Next October.

All the athletes of the Young Mems
Christian Association are in active train
ing for the coming State field day, which
will be held in Los Angeles on October II.
The field day will be for the champion
ship of the State. Teams of three will be
entered in the championship events from
each of the State associations. The work
of these teams will be estimated by sys-
tenn of points in way very similar to that
in use at the intercollegiate field days, and
the team securing the highest number of
points will secure the championship trophy
for its association.
The championship events will be the 100
yard run. throwing the 12-pound hammer,
the running high jump, the pole vault and
the mile run. There will also be other
events in which those not on teams may
enter.
There will also be two-mile bicycle
race, in which it is expected there will be
a great many entries. The first prize for
the bicycle race will be silver cup. The
trophy for the winning team in the field
day will be silk banner valued at $50.
English convicts earn from $40 to Sis
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10

can always get trained animals and hunters
to go along, and the danger is nominal.
"No, [ can't say whether or not she will
do much more hunting. At the present
time she is en- route to New York with Mr..
Clifford Halle and myself, where, assisted
by Mr.. Halle, she will complete her mu-
steal education. She is very fond of it.
and has appeared in all the cities of England
and other parts of the world. She has
never lost her love for the jungle, but she
hopes some day to become as good singer
as she is a hunter, but, as matter of fact,
think she is better right now" concluded
the father with an air of satisfaction.
Miss Ribbentrop is as much at home in
a big city as she is in the jungle, but her
heart often goes back to Lahore and her
500 Riley Express, with which she has
kept herself in furs and amusement for two
exciting seasons.
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from the sounds that the striped creature
was coming toward us. 1t had smelled
the buffalo. We both remained very quiet,
and In a little while were rewarded with
the sight of the long, 1.-THE body, which
moved along carelessly. The tiger
ence until within about thirty yards OF
us. Then it looked up and gave me a
chance for beautiful shot. wasn't
DIT nervous. Perhaps it was because father
was with me. / finally got a sight on the
white spot on his throat and sent the lead
home without further parley. He gave
great bound and rolled over. In few
seconds the blood gushed from his fierce
mouth, and l knew | was the winner OF
beautiful skin on that shot He measured
nine feet seven inches from tip to tip. My,
but he was beauty, wasn't he, father?'
Father nodded his approval, and looked
admlringly at his daughter.
Let me tell you something she did on
one occasion. We were crossing a swamp
on elephants, and had about reached the
edge of the woods when magnificent
swamp stag bounded out and started to run
by us. Three different hunters fired at him
and missed. When he came jumping past
Marguerite she dropped him with one shot.
That's the time | was proud OF her. 1t
takes skill to tumble a running stag. That
year she got seven shots at big game and
killed tive animals-one tiger, two leopards
and two panthers. We were walking along
one afternoon and she spied a sleeping
panther about forty yards away. She
wanted to shoot it with her rifle, but told
her that it would be dangerous thing to
miss. We'll, let me take your double
barrel gun loaded with buckshot, and I'll
not miss him. she said. So | handed it to
her and she just filled him full. It's not
good plan to fool with such animals on
foot, and wouldn't advise it as a regular
thing. Elephant hunting is the safest,
and is generally in vogue in India. One
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10
THE NATIONAL PARK.
Warren English Will
Represent California at the Chatta-
nooga Battlefields.

Colonel Warren B. English, whose term
in Congress expired on the 4th of last
March, has just returned from a pro-
longed visit to Alaska, and will leave
Oakland next Thursday for Chattanooga.
He was appointed at the last session OF
Congress member of the Congressional
committee to attend the ceremonies of
dedicating the Chattanooga and Chicka-
manga battlefelds as a National park.
The dedication will take place September
10 to 81.
The legal boundaries of the park as
authorized by Congress and ratified by the
States of Tennessee and Georgia contain
fifteen square miles, of which eleven have
already been acquired. Eight square miles
are forest. Besides the main body of the
park, Orchard Knob, a tract OF eight acres,
is included. The knob was the head
quarters of Grant and Thomas when Mis-
sionary Ridge was carried by assault.
The field where Sherman fought on the
north end of Mission Ridge has been ac-
CURED, and monument sites have been
secured on Lookout Mountain where
Hooker fought. Standing upon the point
of Lookout Mountain the eye plainly fol-
lows twelve miles of battle line. The
central drive of the park extends twenty
miles.
Congress has appropriated $4,000 and
the States have added 100000. Twenty
five States, including all the. Southern
States, have commissions at work assisting
the National commission in locating the
fighting line of their troops. One hundred
monuments and as many more granite
markers are now in place.
1t is expected that Daniel S. Lamont,
Secretary OF War, will make the speech of
his life on the dedication of the park.
There will surely be an immense assembly
OF Union and Confederate veterans.
Colonel English, who will attend from
this State, served under General Robert e.
Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia. 1t
is probable that Acknowledgement assett,
who served under General Grant, will be
present. Congress invited the Governor of
California to attend, but the Legislature
last winter made no provision to defray
the expenses of the journey.
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Free This Week.

l2 BIG PRESENTs-ONE GIVEN WITH
Each Pound of Our
EXTRA VALUE b0-CENT TEAS.
GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S.
52-5S Market street, S. F.. Headquarters
BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10

Kilmuir, in the north of the Isle of Syke,
the domain of DC, 900 acres on which Flora
Macdonald lived and is buried, is to be
sold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10
YOU
WANT
A BANK ACCOUNT?

From now until November we will
give with each purchase of 50 so or over a
metal souvenir. To that boy under 16
years who brings US the largest number of
these souvenirs within that time we will
present bank account of 500, deposited
in the Hibernia Bank. For the second
largest number bank hook for $75, and
for the third largest, one for $50.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10

The cost of St. Peters, Rome, was over
$40, 600 900.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10

English convicts earn from $40 to SIS
yearly.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-26

as its past. 1t is no secret that the re-
form element, always in dread of the
tiger, views the ascendancy of Smyth
and his policy with more alarm than
any development has yet occasioned.
Tammany, at least" said the new
grand sachem, in reply to questions as
to the future of the great organization
can now offer a practical test of the
truth of the chief charge brought
against 1t. You know the organization
has been pronounced a mere combina-
ton of Office holders and patronage
seekers, the strength of which was
wholly due to control over the public
treasury. Well, Tammany is out of
office, and certainly owes nothing to
the powers that be. If the organization
holds it own our friends. the enemy,
must find a new reason for the exist
ence of Tammany strength
do you expect Tammany to return
to power very soon?"
Really. predictions are so easy to
make and are nothing but ones opin-
ions stated as facts. Tammany's OBJ
Ject is to be as much In touch with the
people as possible-the popular mouth
piece. II Tammany has made mis-
takes, let II take the consequences. If,
on the contrary, the organization
makes itself recognized as an instru-
ment of popular government. If 1t
gives a welcome to all worthy elements
for good, do not see how it is pos
sible for Tammany to fail to return to
power"
What do Tammany men think of
the reform government?
II can't speak for all of them. Mr..
Strong, himself is, think, looked upon
as a very fair-minded man. He may
have made mistakes, but then it is hui
man to err. / think the great trouble
with the element now in possession of
the city government is its inevitable
tendency to get above the people. The
class called reformers forget, in their
eagerness to put experiments in opera
ton, that they must get the peoples
Endorsement first. Now, the people
usually are conservative. Our reform
ing friends seem to think, for some rea-
son or other, that they are above the
people, better than the people. They
are thus apt to get out of sympathy
with their constituents"
The new grand sachem is by no
means likely to let the grass grow I'M
der his feet Already the rank and
file of Tammany have been quickened
with new life. The torpidity immedi-
ately following the election has been
succeeded with positivel enthusiasm
Recent developments in municipal gov
eminent have slightly alarmed the
present rulers of the city. Mayor
Strong is fully as astute as his enemies,
and he has already taken measures to
prevent a repetition of recent mistakes.
He is fond of saying that in the old
Tammany they had tiger to deal with
and that now they have a sphynx.
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remembered, wrote
a letter to the committee in charge of.
the entertainment given by a kinder
garten charity, in which she severely
criticised some tableaux vivants. Miss
Gould also has an aversion to studies
of the nude and to certain plays deal
ing with the question of sex. There
have been indications that she will be-
fore long go actively into work con-
nected with social purity, somewhat
new thing for her. Her brother George
is said to be displeased by her indif-
ference to social affairs. The fact is
that the relations between the two are
far from cordial. The conviviality of
her brother Howard is likewise dis
tasteful to her, and she objected to the
bottles, decanters and cigarettes he
had about him on the occasion of his
recent visit to the Irvington country
seat But Howard Gould is conviv-
ial soul, and takes his bottles and ci-
CARS with him wherever he goes, re-
gardless of his sister.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-26
Making Wall Paper.

1t is very interesting to go through
a wall paper fs~fory and follow the
process of manufa rture. The designs
are the first things observed. Formerly
there was a scarcity of these, but now
there is a food, ami a manufactures
must exercise much artistic taste and
business ability in making selections.
one was submitted TO a New England
manufacturer recently by a woman.
who stated that IL was dictated by
spirits. The least that can be said of
il is that il was not desirable.
Various designers have offered spe-
cialties-some flowers, others architec-
tural ideas. etc.-and of recent years
architects have devoted many of their
spare moments TO originating wall pa
per designs.
4 complete design consists of three
pieces-side wall. border and ceiling.
The general width of patterns of the
side wall and ceiling as used in the
trade and manufactured by American
machinery is Is inches. and the length
of the repeat in the pattern is either
lis. or las. inches, as suggested by the
character Of the design, the shorter
repeats being the most satisfactory 10
the trade in general.
Many Of the best effects are produced
in papers containing only four 10 six
sometimes used. Each color and shade
in a design means a separate roller 10
the manufacturer.-Bost Herald.
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His Observing Mind.

The other day a boy employed in a
West Side factory fell four stories
down the shaft of a freight elevator.
BY some interposition of fate or Pro-
violence he landed on his feet after
turning over a couple of times, and
crawled out of the bottom door with a
silly and mortified look on his face.
Except for an inward jolting and a
few bruises he was not injured.
The men who had seen him fall rush.
ed to the bottom of the shaft, expect
ing to find him lying there crushed
and lifeless.
But he was on his feet outside the
shaft, catching his breath in an excit-
ed. nervous giggle, and awakwardly
brushing the dust off his clothes.
Are you hurt?" they asked, taking
hold of him.
"N-n-no, I'm all right"
did you light on your feet?"
II don't know. Leave me alone I'm
all right"
In a few minutes he had Gained
down, and one of the men asked him:
What did you think of while you were
falling?"
"AIl / remember is that the feather
cleanin' place on the second floor was
shut down"
rs that ALP
81 could see as 1 went by that there
wasn't any one workin' in there.
That's every blamed thing l can re-
member"
He stuck to II. In an awful mo-
ment, when his past life should have
come TO him in a flash, he was taking
observations of the Misunderstanding
place."-Chicago Record.
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ders were done by a sailor who went
on a long voyage after he finished his
first series, and will come back before
long 10 begin a second. She hailed
the news Of the recent Butler street
murder with a kind Of glee, assuming
instantly that her prophecy has come
true But after she had gone post
haste to the scene OF the crime and
examined its greusome details. she sor-
rowfuny announced that she was
wrong. and that the crime had been
done by less skillful hands that Jacks.
Mag is one Of the characters OF White
chapel-horribly in keeping with the
place. She followed us when we visited
one or two Of the murder rooms. and
her explanations could not be suppress
ed She is probably right in one the
DRY which the police cry out against,
viz, that one Of the murders was actu-
ally witnessed by a constable, who was
too badly frightened TO interfere with
its commission or TO attempt to cap
ture the murderer after he had finish
ed. The crime was done in room
opening off a small court yard at the
end Of a blind alley. This court is no
more than 12x16 feet in size. and a
constable was surely standing in IL
while the murder and its following
horrors We're going on. Add TO this
fact the others that the man could not
have done the work without a light,
and that the window Of the room was
curtainless, and the proof that the
crime was actually witnessed by that
cowardly constable seems complete.
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.,,.0, district. which was once prob
shIy The most thoroughly vicious ara
aoiy 'ns III, ma as n is still probably the
IN s,ie ! o,,y.,,eS I,eman street and Com
merciai road meet whit .sarI, n r0 r.a
together, and the three thorou lsr,aiiSs
make a junction th .non ~ nd wTetehed
III roam the district. and these
corners corners are its most prominent spot.
JscK the Ripper probably loitered In
s,aoi,. S,hareabouts as he selected his
victims from the miserable procession r ron
that is ever passing them. Ihat ms
example made its impress on me heien-
borhood in a way other lhah .,s ~.
ing the women, is shown by the iact
that two women have been killed in
Somewhat similar ways not far from
his old haunts since ] have been in
London. This was told 10 me by re-
liable persons. and / visited the scene
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any event he will not be here until the
spring of next year. But there can be
no doubt that the presidents brother is
rising man in the Presbyterian
church. His prominence as a theolo-
gian led to his election to the Presby-
terrain general assembly, and his re-
cent record there confirmed the favor
able impression already formed of his
character and ability. Men do not win
fame in the church at a bound, and Mr..
Cleveland has undoubtedly been over
Swallowed by his brother Grover. Yet
in recent years he has made a decided
stir in the church, and has been in
vited to numerous pulpits all over the
country. Offers of this kind. however,
the pastor invariably declines, being of
n decidedly retiring nature, and little
likely TO care for a sensational fame.
1t will occasion rejoicing to the Presby-
terians of New York, however to learn
that he will soon be among their met
ropoiitan pastors 1t was William
Cleveland, by the way, and not Grover
who achieved some fame in early
youth by writing fanciful tales for the
magazines, some of which attracted at
tention, although written anonymously.
The tales were Poe-like in some re-
spects, dealing with dragons among the
stars that fed on the tears of the Maui
titus, and similar fancies. But, in spite
of all indications, the one brother be-
came a president and the other a pas
tor.
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A First Telegram.

Joseph jefferson says; Il received my
first telegram in Cumberland. Md I
could not believe it. but there il was
a reply 20 my letter of the day before.
l called at the Office to inquire IL IL
were really so. 4 small group of peo-
pie had collected about the operator.
all wearing a look of surprise and in
credulity. We began showing one an
other our dispatches. and looking with
respectful awe at the mysterious lit
tie machine that was ticking away as
if worked by some mysterious spirit
Of the other world. The whole town
was excited about il. IL / We're now to
receive a message from the planet
Mars. Offering me a star engagement.
1 could not be more astonished than
was on that day."-Boston Traveller.
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give up her work to marry any one.
She loves her cause far more ardently
than she loves love. There has been
much speculation as to her motive in
leaving this country so suddenly. She
explains it by abiding to the coming
Worlds Temperance congress in Lon
don. Miss Willard objects to the dime
museum methods of certain temper
ance workers in the metropolis. There
was a delirium tremens object lesson
given by one of the organizations she
visited. 1t consisted of representations
of snakes, serpents. monsters and va
rious crustaceous visible TO the victims
of drink. Not few topers had attacks
of the malady as a result of looking
al these exhibits. Miss Willard
frowned upon the enterprise, and was
rather disliked by its originators for
doing so. But all things considered.
This lady is the most popular temper
ance worker in the country.
DAVID WECHSLER.
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He never was a very strong man phy-
sically. and he caught quite cold IN
the clustering weeks OF March. from
,.-hieh he suffered a long time. The in
i,,ries he received at the time or the
bomb explosion in his office were also
OF a serious character, although not
ynuch has been said of them since, eX-
cent in connection with the man Laid
law. Mr.. Sage takes a great deal more
49, ~ himself than formerly. fire.
ouentlv STAYING at home and indulging
en- such unwonted luxuries as an easy
chair. a CHEEKY glass and visit from
his doctor. There Is talk. too, of some
religious interests aroused in the mind
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LODGING

food 70 eat are cooking II. Probably
a hundred people are in the place,
which u cIouaea by the output Of
many tobacco pipes. and feulad bv the
smell and smoke which come from a
bone which some clumsy fingers have
dropped irreclaimably into me bed Of
Goals. Combined with the rocking odor
Of burning flesh and bone T. he reeIx-
ing odor Of the hundred squaIid human
beings.
a hundred human being : and among
them not one hint o. youth or beauty;
person whose clothes are ofbar man in
the last stages Of dilapidstI0n and de-