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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-16

IL ND SOincllIIleS as
if the world were
all wrong Seems
as if all the things
we like disagree with
us, and all the things
We don't like, agree
with us. Dyspepsia
Turks in most of the
good things we eat,
and indigestion fol-
lows the gratihca.
ton of appetite. OF
course, it isn't Ma
tlirc's fault Nature
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-16
NORFOLK.
SCORE BY INNINGS.

portsmouth .................0 0 o o =
Nortoik .......t............2 | 02 o. r
HBurke on third base in NTH inning.
and no one out when game terminated.
Summary: Earned Runs-Norfolk. /.
Three-base Hits-Corbett Armstrong.
Base on Bnl:s-Off ,Corbett. /. Struck
Out-By Leach .. Stolen Bascs-Butke.
2: Shaffer. Left on Bases-Portsmou:h
?: Norfolk. 2. Sacrifice Hlts-Wentz.
Umpires-Leach Gilroy and Mcnamara
NOTES OF THE GAME.
Bowerman's awful wing and his cata-
Marr's braves.
Umpire Cline says that Providence per-
hitting. he ,will certainly he present to
oiiiciate in the game between folk
and Portsmouth this aftcwnoon.
The Atlantic City defeated the Berkeley
team yesterday by score of 1910 IL
Batteries: Montague and Mansfield ;
Lloyd and Rudd. sfLfiE!
Owing to n mishap to one of the ma :
chimes In this Office II was Impossible to
give more than a skeleton form Of the
National League games The defect will
be remedied in time for the next issue.
and the same full reports will be given
as heretofore.
For the benefit of the rooters who can
not understand how errors are scored
1t may be- succinctly stated that the
rule is: Give base hit on a ball too
hard to handle properly" This rule was
applicable yesterday in the case of
Ramp in handling Rciman's hit in the
first inning and in the case Of IIeiman
IN handling Ballantyne's dinky hit In the
seventh.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-16

for frugal housewives. When You're oui
prospecting for proper grocery prices
come and see what we have for our pat-
for so little money as we do
II YOU spent as much with us as you do
elsewhere you VIII have to get an addition
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-16

portsmouth .................0 0 o 0 = 0
Norfolk 020- r
ABurke on third base In fifth inning
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-16
Totals
VIRGINIA
SCORE BY INNINGS.

Georgetown ........l0 I l o 5 4 4 81
Virginia ........ 81 3lOO2 ill
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-16
NOTES OF THE GAME.

Bowerman's awful wing and his cata
putt throw to second had no terrors fo
Marrs braves
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
A NARROW ESCAPE.

The fact that the steamship City of Rio
Janeiro has not been lost is subject for
rejoicing, but the Pacific Mail Company de-
serves none of the credit. The story is SIM
ply this: The ship was supplied with coal
sufficient only for run in fine weather,
and her sailing power was inadequate to
make headway against adverse winds
When she had covered 2000 of the 3000miles
between Honolulu and Yokohama her coal.
under the stress of severe head storms, was
exhausted, and it was impossible to pro-
ceed 1000 miles further to her destination.
She was compelled to put back 1000 miles
to Honolulu, flying before the storm, to Sc
cure coal. Even there she had great diff
Guilty by reason of the fact that her owners
have no supply station on the island. Her
master managed to borrow coal and then
proceeded on his way. In time the ship
will reach Yokohama in safety.
Meanwhile the passengers were sub
jected to a terrible strain of fear and
anxiety, their business suffered, and their
friends on shore were in great distress.
Every life on board was in peril. to say
nothing of the valuable cargo, including a
million in treasure. Had the steamer been
coaled properly before leaving San Fran
cisco all of these sufferings, losses and
anxieties would have been avoided. But
there was very heavy demand for space
on the vessel, and an adequate supply of
coal could have been taken only at the sac
riice OF considerable money ready to be
paid for freight. The company was we'll
aware of the possibility of such storm as
that encountered, but it proceeded on the
chance that none would occur and that the
trip would be made without accident
1t was just such policy as this that
caused the wreck of the Colima on the
southern coast some months ago. That
steamer also belonged to the Pacific Mail
Company. The deck was loaded with
lumber. Everything would have gone
smoothly had not violent storm been
encountered, but when it came the top
heavy ship was unable to live, and she
foundered, drowning many persons and
destroying much property. In all prob
ability the Colinia would have ridden the
storm safely had she not been made top
heavy.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
THE SUNDAY GALL"

The leading feature of to-morrow's CALL
will be an exhaustive discussion of the
Salvation Army, giving something of its
history, its general scheme, its work, pur-
poses and discipline and the desertion of
Ballington Booth. 1t will be found an
interesting review of one of the greatest
religious movements of history.
Adeline Knapp, in "Our Busy Streets"
gives graphic picture of one of the most
interesting charms that San Francisco
possesses.
1.-THE San Bruno Light" is another of
the series of articles which have appeared
in THE SUNDAY CALL describing the light
houses of California. and it will be found
as readable as its predecessors.
An instructive chapter from history will
be devoted to "Farragut in California" as
it will be remembered that at one time he
was in command at Mare Island.
Marriage in JAPAN by Euphemia Bur-
ton, is a delightfully."- written account of
the quaint customs of that country in q
matter which has an untiring human in
terest.
Those who have bewailed the extinction
of the buffalo will be pleased to learn that
here in California there has grown up a
considerable industry in the breeding of
this noble animal. The description OF a
Buckingham in this part of the State will
be read with considerable interest.
These are only few of the special arti-
cles that have been prepared for to.mor-
rows issue, and besides these are the regu-
lar Sunday departments devoted to novel
ties in the realm of science. literature, the
drama, society, children, and all the 9TH
ers. THE SUNDAY CALL is entirely an origi-
nal production, is unlike any other Sunday
paper, and is particularly welcome to East
ern people who want to know something
about California.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
REPUBLICAN PLATFORMS.

The Examiner of yesterday, in entertain
ing its readers with criticisms on the plat
forms adopted by the Republicans OF Iowa
and Ohio, declared the utterances OF the
first to be vague on the tariff and those OF
the second to be vague on the currency
issue. The Iowa idea on the tariff, 1t
thought, would suit Democrats as well as
Republicans, while the Ohio idea on the
money question, it declared. would SUIT
nobody at all. From the Judgment thus
pronounced it drewno conclusion In e4-
press terms, but evidently intended the
reader to infer that Democrats have
fighting chance against Republicans this
year, and that to find exercise for their
energies are not of necessity compelled 10
resort to fighting one another.
The hope which our contemporary has
thus held out to the warning factions of
the party whose State committee meets to-
day has, b owever, no foundation to rest
upon. The Iowa platform on the tariff is
an Endorsement of the record of Senator
Allison on the subject, and there is no
vagueness in that record. He has taken
part in the making of three tariffs for this
country, and in every one of them his
handiwork has been shown in the upbuild-
ing of protection in the broadest and full
est sense. He was also the man who
brought about in the Senate the adoption
of Blaine's great plan of reciprocity in con-
nection with the McKin ley tariff. His
record, therefore, includes protection and
reciprocity, and is as definite, distinct,
clear and luminous as that of any states
man who ever served the American peo-
pie in the halls of Congress.
Equally unfounded is the charge of
vagueness made against the Ohio declara-
ton on the currency question and most
futile is the assertion that it will please
nobody. The declaration is the same that
has been made by the Republican party
on the subject since the controversy be-
gan, and is the one which the people have
repeatedly indorsed by overwhelming ma
iorities. The essential part of it IS en-
bodied in the phrase "We favor bimetal-
lism and demand the use of both gold and
silver as standard money" On that plat
form in Ohio Mckinley was raised to Of
flee and Bushell after him, by maiorities
so large that Democracy was well nigh
swept from the State, nor can there be any
question that the people of the Union, as a
whole. will give an equally strong support
TO whatever Presidential candidate stands
on that platform in the coming campaign.
On the same day the Republican conven-
tions were held in Iowa and Ohio there
was q Democratic convention in Rhode
Island. The Examiner would do well to
study the declarations made by that con-
vention before it again undertakes to critI-
cize Republican platforms. The dispatches
of the day stated that the platform adopted
by the Rhode Islanders ignored National
issues altogether. That is the Democratic
platform so far as it has been made-a
platform of nothing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
PERSONAL.

DR.. J. n. Cutter of Portland is in the City.
G. H Barnhart of Tucson, Ariz., is on a visit
here.
Judge Harris of Sacramento is at the Cali
fornia.
J.Q. Adams of Spencer, Iowa, arrived here
yesterday.
John r. Armstrong, electrical engineer, of
Stockton is in town.
NJ. A. Plaisted. proprietor of the Riverside
Enterprise, is at the California.
John D. Cougar and Mrs. Cougar of Lafay-
ette, Ind, arrived here yesterday.
B. T. Lacy leaves this evening for an e1-
tended business visit to Eastern cities.
s. s. Badger of Chicago, who is interested In
gold mining in California, is at the Baldwin.
George Carrothers of Findlay, Ohio, is a
guest at the Cosmopolitan, accompanied by his
daughter.
Joseph Brown, the Democratic politician of
San Bernardino, formerly banker there, is at
the Baldwin.
H. A. Martin, a wealthy British manu-
facturer OF woolen goods, is among the arrivals
at the Palace
Judson. C. Brusie, the attorney, playwright
and politician, of Sacramento is among nu-
Eerous visitors here.
Attorney John W. Mitchell of Los Angeles, a
member of the Democratic State Cen trail Com
mittee, is at the Palace.
sW. J. Deater editor of the MADEIRA Tribune,
is among those who have come to attend the
convention. He is at the Lick.
John Vance, one of the owners in the Eel
River Valley Railroad and also in hotel and
other enterprises at Eureka, is at the Grand.
William Cline, the grocer, leaves this even
ing, in company with his brother, Martin, for
Los Angeles, wnere he will establish a branch
store.
James B. Olcott OF the Department of Apri-
culture is here, en- route home from Australia.
where be has been collecting botanical speci-
mems.
John L. Shelter, wealthy resident of Frank.
fort. Ind, is at the Palace, accompanied by
Mrs Shelter and Misses Blanche B. and Mabel
D. Shelter.
George Cochran Browne, a wealthy young
man of Brooklyn, N. Y, has arrived here, after
a tour of Europe, India. China and Japan. He
| is at the Palace.
Thomas Fox, the new Postmaster of Sacra-
mento, who has just received his appointment
after hot fight for the place. is on visit here
He is at the Lick.
Tom D. Lane, superintendent of the great
Utica gold mine, the product of which has
been enormously heavy for the past two or
three years, is In town.
A prominent party OF New York people, con-
sisting of ]. B. butcher, j. G. butcher and
Samuel and Edward w. Hetts, arrived here yes
terday. They are at the Palace.
w. E. Hall, formerly chief clerk to the Chief
of Police here, who has for some time been on
his vineyard near Fresno, is in the City. He
has became interested in mining in Northern
California and also in Alaska
James Brennan, a mining man Of Australia,
arrived on the Alameda yesterday, accom-
panied by his wife, and they are staying at the
Cosmopolitan. Mr.. Brennan is brother of the
Rev. Father Brennan Of the Mission Dolores
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
PROGRESSIVE ARIZONA.

The report made by Charles F. Hoff in
CALL interview concerning affairs in Ari-
Zona is highly encouraging. Under the
stimulus of a prosperous year for cattle,
an extension of irrigation and the develop
ment of numerous gold mines, the cities
of Tucson. Phoenix and Prescott are eager
to make Improvements which shall put
them abreast of modern cities, and for this
purpose are appealing to Congress for per-
mission to issue bonds each to the amount
of 100000. Naturally these progressive
people chafe under the cum bersome Terri
torial regulations which require them to
seek authorization from Congress for the
performance of acts, the value of which
they alone are competent to Judge, and
accordingly are moved to secure laws
which will permit them the exercise of
wider liberty of action.
The interests of California are so closely
identified with those of Arizona that
nearer relation than has heretofore existed
should be established, and the influence of
California IS delegation in Congress should
be thrown into the scale with Arizona's
needs. Unlike every other State or Terri
tory of the great West not bordering on the
ocean. Arizona has no mountain barrier
separating it from the coast. 1t is natur-
ally part of California, being very similar
in climatic and other conditions to South
ern California. Under a higher state OF
development it would be in a position to
command the commercial facilities of the
Pacific both by land across California and
down the lower reaches of the Colorado
River to the Gulf OF California.
The development of Arizona would mean
draft upon California for some of our
most valuable products, including lumber
and bituminous rock. 1t would have the
further effect of creating a local rail traffic
which would tend to reduce the overland
transportation charges with which Califor-
MIA is burdened. Being convenient to
Mexico the Territory is in a position to
establish commercial relations with that
republic which would be valuable to our
entire Nation.
California and Arizona present the best
opportunities in America for the invest
ment of capital in the development of rich
native resources. While our State is much
better known Arizona, with all its vast
wealth of soil and minerals, is practically
an undiscovered country, its development,
rapid as it has been in recent years, not
nearly approaching the volume of its
native wealth. 1t can produce many of
the fine products which have given Cali
fornia its fame, its climate is wonderfully
healthful and it lies convenient to the
markets of Mexico and the Southern States.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
AN OLD CITY NURSERY.

The oldest nursery in San Francisco and,
possibly, in California occupies plat of land
near the corner of Battery and Oregon streets
1t is not the first nursery started In the City,
but those that were started before it have long
ago been removed to make room for improve
ments. One would not look for a garden of
flowers and young trees in this locality. as the
immediate surroundings are old tumble-down
scaroaiy iasva Snnara yarS of Iand hsteo 90 ~
them.
The garden is quaint old place that some
how makes one feel as if it did not belong
there. Everything about it is old-fashioned
and so cramped for room as to make the plants
seem to be gasping for air. The garden does
not occupy much more than 125 square yards,
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
AN AVOIDABLE DANGER.

A study of the list of those who have
been killed by cable and electric cars would
show that a very large number were
crushed by the meeting of cars. The case
in Oakland, in which two little girls lost
their lives. is illustrative of the prevalent
danger. They had waited for a car to pass
and not observing one approaching from
the opposite direction and unable to see it
by reason of the intervention of the car
which they had avoided stepped in front of
it and were run down and killed. 1t will
be found that many children thus lose
their lives, as they cannot be expected to
be so careful as adults; but the list of such
casualties by no means concerns them
alone.
While the victim is unable to see the car
concealed by the one which he has avoided,
the gripman or motorman of that car
likewise cannot see the victim. The rem
edy for this would be the requirement that
when cars meet one of them should be re-
quired to stop until the other has passed
on and left the view clear, and should pro-
ceed very slowly until it is entirely clear of
the other 1t should further be required
that when two cars meet and one of them
stops to discharge a passenger the
other car also should stop, and remain still
until the other car has passed on.
1t has been suggested that the teachers
of the public schools urge these rules con.
stantly upon the pupils: 81. Look both
ways when crossing street or aighting
from G car. 2. Never try to cross the street
when a car or team is near. 3. Do not
board or leave moving car. a. Always
leave a car from the right-hand side" The
first of these admonitions covers the danger
here mentioned, but not sufficiently, and
perhaps an ordinance regulating the speed
at which cars may pass one another may
be necessary to eliminate it altogether.
OF course, any such requirement would
not reduce the obligation of the companies
to furnish their cars with efficient tenders.
Those on some of the electric cars could
not have been more ingeniouslY devised to
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14

mangle the unfortunates after tripping
them. The subject of tenders seems to
have been lost sight of lately, and doubtless
the companies hope, by the employment
of careful operatives, to prevent the fre-
quent sacrifice of lives and an ensuing agi-
tation, which would require an expendi-
ture OF a large amount of money in
equipping the cars for the protection Of
lie.
Even the best fender that can be devised,
however, is not pleasant thing to encoun-
ter, and tenders are not the only safeguards
that might be employed. The unfortunate
phase of the matter is that the cruelty of
some of the tenders in use causes them to
be charged with all the evils that the pres
ent system of operation embodies. The
question is larger than that of tenders.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
NEW PROPERTY.

Rents 5000: $450C0; North Beach corner 'front.'
ing Montgomery ave-; very prominent corner; B
Magnificent Pacitc-ave residence and very large
lot; best portion; finest marine view out there and
best block inside Buchanan st.
Pacific Heights corner and fine new modern resi-
Cor. Lake sa st. and Twentyfourth ave.; 12ox xloo'
Twenty-fourth and Chattanooga SITS. corner;
Two-story and basement; lot 26:4xSO: house has
1S rooms only $3.50; very easy terms; Tehama
ST., bet First and Second.
Chenery ST.; lot 50x100; electricians pass;
$40.
INVESTMENTS.
Make offer; Ellisst. corner: rents 1914 so:
and fats; both streets in good order; must be
sold to close an estate. =
Ninth St, bet Market and Mission; sOx1oo:s;
frame buildings; cheap.
Ninth ST.. near Mission; good business block;
fats - and lot 26x70: store should be put there:
Page st. and Rose ave-, looking out to Market ST.,
bet: Franklin and Cough: 27:oIl2o, fronting both
rents s35; $3.50.
Howard ST., west side. bet. sixth and Seventh,
2sx90 and z-story double store and fat Of 10
rooms; rents about $7OO year; $3.50.
CHEAP LOTS.
S4OOO-vERY CHEAP: d ST., facing the Park
CHEAP; $1,000 only each: lots 27:6xlS7 :e,
on north side Sacramento, bet. Spruce and Maple:
:soo TERM cbe.p
west Of Central ave-, 26xi loo: cable cars pass.
Gough-st. lots; 25x112:6: $4,000 each; bet.
Grove and Fulton; street btuminized.
Very cheap lot, 81 :6x96:3, on Laguna St., near
Waller. one block from Market ST.; only $3.50.
Devisadero, near Washington; 25x110; reduced
to $3.50; street paved; electrc-ca pass fine lot
and neighborhood.
PACIFIC HEIGHTS RESIDENCE
LOTS.
Reduced to $4,000: make offer; NV. cor. Pacific
ave. and BrOderick st.; 35x127:S: a very slightly
lot, with view of bay and block from the cars.
Jackson ST., bet. Cough and Octavia; 125x
127 :S, or any size front.
Pacific ave-, north side; any size 25 so or rs feet
front; price reouced to $500 q foot fine marine
view.
Marine view: north side Broadway, between
Devisadero and Broderick; finest view on Pacific
Heights and cannot be shut off; 40x137 :6 only
$6400. or larger size.
Southwest corner Broadway and Steiner: 27:6x
Ito; $4,000; good view; street in order.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

.'Of all the places that l ever got into and
didn't want to get into again." said L. w.
Adams yesterday, at the Grand, "that place is
British Guiana.
when I went down there, about year ago,
to take charge of q number OF placer and
quartz mines for a New York syndicate, l
didn't know the siege had to run.
'If had suppose / wouldn't have gone.
Not because the mines are not good enough.
Tor they are. They are really about the richest
ever struck. The placers there averaged
somewhat near 16 cents a pan. so far as pros
pected, and average quartz was about $40 a
ton Ny company made money, and SO did
about all the others there.
''We were on the Barima River, quite long
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14

and yet over 5000 plants of different kinds are
growing there. There is scarcely room to walk
between the different beds, and hundreds of
plants in the first stages of termination are in
boxes ranged one above another on tier OF
shelves. Every inch of the garden is pictur-
esque and interesting, no matter from what
point it is seen.
When the nursery was first laid out it was in
the center of San Francisco. The Merchants
Exchange occupied the building just across
Oregon street, and the Postoffice opposite on
Battery street brought crowds down that way.
While the garden is now used mostly for grow
ing trees and vines, in the oldsdays thousands
of flowers were grown there. Most of the roses
for the first State ball in the Legislative hall
were grown in the same beds that are in use
to-day.
The nursery was started by Reed & Williams
in 1860, at the time when they attempted to
get q corner on the tree and plant business in
California. The first use of the garden was as
a supply depot. In 1858 the present proprie-
tor II. Meherin, bought them out. He made
few II any changes in the arrangement OF the
garden or greenhouse so that it looks to-day
much the same as when 1t was first laid out