The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-28

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| POUND LIu1s-N. H., City. The poundmaster
is still an official in the flesh. His Jurisdiction
extends on that territory between the Mission
and Bernal Heights Ii he does not perform
his duty party who desires 10 complain can
do so before the Supervisors.
EIGHT O'CLOCK oRDER-A. T. L., City There
| is City ordinance that prohibits minors from
| congregating on the public streets after 8
o'clock at night. If the officers in the vicinity
OF your home do not disperse boys who annoy
| you, you have right to make Complaint be-
| fore the Police Commissioners.
| THE BLUE BooK-D, City Answers to CORE
| spondents cannot inform you why the Secre-
tary of State did not supply you with copy of
! the Blue-Book of the State. He is authorized
| to print limited number only, and it may be
| that before you filed your application for one
| the applications prior to yours absorbed the
edition.
tides. ]. NJ, Hart Shasta County, Cal. No
measurement of the tides at Battery Park, N. "
are taken, but the register at Governors Island
shows that the mean rise is feet a of an inch
| g OF an inch. At Liverpool, Eng, the regis
| ter shows 81 feet at neap tide and 81 feet at
| spring tide.
CHANGE A DAY-A. H., City. Masters of
vessels, in sailing from San Francisco to
either Australia or China, do not actually lose
a day in transit, but after crossing the one
hundred and eighteth parallel they change a
day in order to keep their reckoning straight
| master of vessel can lose q day only in
making the circuit of the world.
| THE ART ScHooL-E. e., City. The following
! are the tuition fees in the school of design in
| the Hopkins Institute of Art: Six dollars
month or $24 for the course from January to
May Is, or $48 for the full term in the antique
| life class nude modeD, portrait class (draped
mode) aud modelling class. The fee in the
painting class tsti.l life and Portraits So $50
| and $50. The school opens on the 18th of
August and closes on the 18th of May.
IMMTGRATIoN-S., Saratoga, Cal. Since 1920
| the years in which there has been the greatest
immigration to the United States were: 1882
| 7SS, 1892; 1881, $50 ,431; 1892, 623 ,OS4; 1883,
603 1922; 1891, $50, 319; 1888, SAG, $50; 1854,
51S 1872; 1893, 502,917. The other years show
under the last given figures. The immigration
in 1895 was 279.948. During the decade end
| ing 1890 the greatest number as to national
| ity was: England, 649,O52: Ireland, $685.
Norway and Sweden, 500, 493; China, SO, $685.
In China the year 1890 is not included. In the
preceding decade the immigration from China
was ,122, 436. The total in ten years, ending
1890, was 6,704. s45, of which the United
| Kingdom furnished ,466, 426; Europe, 4,725-
| S14; Asia, 63,932; Africa. 375; America
Az, s48, and all other countries 25,759.
CARNEs' ExPREss-J. D. W., San Jose, Cal.
Carnes' express was private company estab-
lished in this City in 1864, for the purpose of
delivering letters TO all parts of the City, prior
| to the free delivery system by the postal au-
| thorities. The price of delivery was cents,
| inside of Larkin street, and special rates out
| side. The managers sold stamps, which were
| affixed to letters and dropped in boxes in va
rious parts of the City. 1t was located at 423
| Washington street, was operated by g. A.
Carnes, then by Dennis Gahagan and after.
ward by w. 3. LOOMS, who changed the name