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The herald., 1896-09-27

or 6-room cottage; location not over 20
blocks from court house: will pay S25 to
$50 per month; give location and price:
best bank and other references. Address
F. s., box So Herald. 27
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FOR SALE - SQUARE PIANO. FINN
tone, case not marred: very cheap noom
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We can sell you in lots to suit II 900
acres adjoining the 10000 acre Chino
ranch lately purchased by an English
syndicate: one share water to each acre;
price $40 to $50 per acre; finest of land;
the great Salt River Valley, Arizona, and
for fertility 1t is the western wonder.
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FOUND, AT SANTA MONICA; A
watch. Owner call at Cal. Voice office,
cor. Temple and New High, and prove
property. q
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WANTED-A GOOD LOT BETWEEN
Seventh st. and Tenth and Union ave
and Alvarado st. l have a buyer who
has the cash and wants to buy lot in
above territory. WIN. f. BOSBYSHELL
107 s. Broadway. 27
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WANTED-A OR GROOM COTTAGE
with large barn and yard; no children.
Address 1919 s. Hope ST. 27
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wANTED-ADvERTI IN THE SILL
yer Sparrow: Uncle Sans silver dollar
the best in the world, good enough for
us. utf 27
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WANTED-A RESPONSIBLE AND RE.
liable man would like to take charge or
or rent a furnished rooming house; A9o 90
dress p. o, box 4S9. VIM. p. MARTIN. 20
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FOR SALE-REsTAURAN GOOD LO-
cR1tty, nice business, fine range, every
thing complete, low rent. 705 Upper Main
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WANTED-SITUATIO BY YOUNG
man driving order or delivery wagon;
wages no object; references given: a 11s,i Au
street. -
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SITUATIONS WANTED-EEMALE

wANTED-SITUATIO S;CARPENTER,
man and wife. tailor, salesman. waitor.
d PEOPLES FREE BUREAU. S1319 s.
Broadway. III
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LOST AND FOUND

star on forehead white hind feet. Own
er can have same by paying charges.
1917 Z. Twelfth st.
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FOR SALE-FOR LAUNDRY OR DYE
pumps, large extractor, washer, pulleys.
shafting. betting, / Cooper cylinder, 2
steam boxes and steam pipes. Apply I09
San Pedro st. 27
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WANTED-LADIES TO CALL ON MISS
M. NORDBY, AT w. Fourth ST., room
II, who gives Swedish massage. face
steaming and hair shampooing. 1910
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WANTED YOUNG NAN
wishes any work; trade, drauentsm1a1IC =
assistant; ambition for further stuny. ~
SMITH, Prospect Park, Los Ahseies'
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PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING 4
specially A. z. GAhDNEn' ltNas 10 winston
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WANTED-LADY FOR DOCTORS Of
flee, travelling saleslady companion.
chambermaid, nurse, housekeeper. ED
WARD NlTTINGER, 31319 8. Broadway.
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FOR sALE-OR TRADE FOR HAY; 8
span work horses, one driving horse. 3
wagons and harness; cheap for cash.
407 Turner st. 1913
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WANTED-A PARTNER; EITHER La
this is rare opportunity for either
business man or woman. If you have
the money and mean business call or
write, No. 301A w. Seventh st. q
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Dentists

ADAMS BROS.-DENTAL PARLORS.
23y1s S. Spring ST.. painless extracting and
filling. plate $6 $8 $40; all work guaran-
days. 1912.
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PERSONAL---VERY. CLIMAX SOLAR
Water Heater is all the talk about town.
A. w. WORM, 113 S. Broadway. 27
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DIR. KENNEDY. DENTIST, 10sh 3.
Spring street. rooms Q 6 and q; painless
extraction.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05
Levi, the Medicine Chief of 10000
Natives, and His Queer
WhimS.
YARDS OF SHELLS IN HIS EARS.
He Boasts That He introduced the
Missionaries, and Says He Will
Drive Them Out.

Among those who arrived here q few
days ago on the steamer Australia from
different parts of the Pacific was Miss E.
l.. Crosby, who for the past ten years has
been missionary in the Caroline, Gilbert
and Marshall islands. Miss Crosby has
had many singular experiences and wit
messed many remarkable scenes during
the long period since she first went among
the queer Pacific islanders.
The lady has been making her head.
quarters at kusaIe, in the Caroline group.
the central station of the missionaries of
the American Board of Foreign Missions
OF the Congregational church, which she
represents. The island of Kusaie is about
twenty-five miles in circumference and has
mountains reaching to a height of about
1000 feet. kusaie is in the easternmost
group OF the Caroline Islands
There is training school there for
the young men of the Gilbert group,
and also one for the young men of the
Marshall Islands. Besides these there is
training-schooI there for the girls of the
two aforesaid groups. These schools are to
tram the young natives to become mis-
slonarles. A missionary family has charge
of the Marshall Island training-schooI
another missionary family and an assist
ant has charge of the Gilbert Island school.
and two young ladies have charge of the
girls school.
According to Miss Crosby the mission
work is progressing pretty we'll in the
main, but there are some hard problems
to solve. Just now the natives all over
the islands have been overcome by a fit of
dancing. The dance is infectious and has
spread everywhere. 1t is worse than the
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05

cloth thrown over the shoulders and
caught together at the back and front. 1t
was profusely ornamented with broad
bands of native beadwoIk. The remainder
OF his body was entirely nude, except for
It's coating of yellow paint done in oils. A
more repulsive-looking creature 1 have
never seen.
"He is the ruling spirit of the island and
al! the people stand In awe of him. He is
a formidable opponent to Christianity on
the island of Ruk, because the people there
are afraid of him and because he uses his
power in the line of their inclinations.
There are few rays of light on Ruk
Island, however, Notwithstanding what 1
have told you. There is school there in
charge OF two missionary women, attended
by twelve native girls. There is also a
training-school for boys, which was started
by Mr.. Logan. Besides the schools there
are few native Christians here and there
which With the new missionaries who went
there last year promise in time to redeem
this strange island of the Pacific. We need
some new missionaries, and I hope we
shall have them before long.
II suppose. there are about 10, 600 people
on Ruk Island. 1t is properly made up OF
six small islands which circle round
lagoon. The curious clay which the
natives use as paint is brought by them
from Mortlock Island, between Ponape
and Ruk. Levi, the medicine man, who
rules Ruk, is between 80 and 40 years old.
1t is hard matter to tell the exact age Of
these people.
"The Ruks speak language of their
own. 1t is very different from that of the
Gilbert or Marshall Island natives, but
more of a language. The hair of the
Ruks is very straight, black, coarse and
long. / have seen a half-dozen yards of
strings of cocoanut shells dangling from
the ears of the natives. These people tat
too themselves in blue in fantastic way.
They tattoo the lower part of their faces
and extremities. The chiefs tattoo only
the upper part of their face and forehead. -
Miss Crosby's home is in Massachusetts.
Her health has been poor in the islands
lately, and after remaining in California
awhile she will go East.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05

Clay. In the same year Troyon & Hurl-
burk opened an exchange on Clay street,
between Montgomery and Sansome.
Neither of these institutions made much
of an effort to get news, they simply
"posted" it when it came to them and fur
nished meeting place for business men
where they could discuss the arrival or
non arrival of q vessel in which they were
interested. The fate of Troyon & Hurl-
burk's Exchange is a matter of doubt, as
there is no record of its failure, and the
memories of old residents vary on the sub
ject. 1t is known that Sweeney & Baugh
established an exchange in the same To-
cality on Clay street in 1851, and it is
thought by some that they bought out the
old firm. Several men, however insist
that Troyon e. Hurlburk failed and that
Sweeney & Baugh simply took the same
building.
In any event Sweeney & Baugh began
to make things "hot" for Wills & Cover.
They made an attempt to get news before
the other firm and generally succeeded.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05

San Francisco July 81, 1876, in command
of Captain Atkins. The first warship of
winch there is any record is the English
frigate Herald. She was here in August,
1S46. The first American frigate men
toned is the Portsmouth that arrived
September 21, 1916. The Independence
arrived March 10, 1S47. Mr.. Coolidge's
records show that the first steamer in San
francisco was the Rainbow, built in Sitka
Alaska, by an American. She was brought
down here on ship and put into service
on the rivers.
ment in the records. 1t is that on April
II, 1o49, there were only thirty-three ves-
sells IN the harbor, and that on April II
there were 800!
Mr.. Coolidge thinks that the success Of
the Merchants Exchange was due to orig;-
nality. In all the fight of three years Swee-
ney d Baugh never sprang new thing.
Whatever the new exchange did they were
content to follow, until the pace got too
fast for them and they had to give up.
''The races on the water were always
mighty exciting" SAID Mr.. Coolidge when
speaking of the matter, "but they were
nothing to the horseraces through the
streets. The pavements then were not
what they are now, and dozens of horses
were rendered useless by falling. Riders
were often hurt, but generally they man
aged to look out for themselves. But we
have the telegraph now, and there would
be no need for such things ever happening
again even if there were dozen rival ex-
changes"
When Sweeney & Baugh sold out they
turned all their books and records over to
the Merchants Exchange. These are COM
plete as far back as 1851, and the records in
the possession of Mr.. Coolidge give COM
plete list of all arrivals and departures Of
vessels in this port since California has
been part of the United States.
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sure to have the other fellows near us
somewhere. When ship came in sight,
it was race I can tell you. We pulled as
hard as we could, and the man who got
there first got the news. The worst of all
was the efforts of the second man to catch
up with the other on the way home.
Sometimes he would, but more often he
wouldn't, for we were we'll matched.
u don 't.rem ember the name of the man
who pulled the boat for the Merchants
Exchange then, but he's dead, anyhow"
continued Billy, after a reminiscent pause.
80 are all the other boys, I think. It
used to be fair race as long as it was con-
hned to rowing all the way home, and l
tell you we made some record breaking
time. But after awhile the Merchants
Exchange got to sending horseback riders
out along shore and as soon as their man
got the news he pulled to the nearest land
and handed it over to the man. who GAL
loped to town with it. Our people tried
the same thing, but, of course, both got
the papers at nearly the same place and
the race back to town was killing one on
the horses. The riders were nearly all old
cowboys and they galloped through the
streets like lightning. Sometimes they
Knocked people over, and few months of
this work used up band of horses''
According to Billy's story there was
some excitement every day and all the
people in town were interested in the out
come OF the fight. During the three years
that the fight lasted Billy and Bob Martin
were lost in fog outside on several differ
ent occasions. Once. they got caught in
gale and did not get home for days They
were Kept on the Jump and had scarcely
time to eat or sleep. It was their business
to always be on the lookout for ships and
as soon as they had reported one to 60 and
look for another.
The awful strain and excitement were
telling on every ybody. and Billy Ellison
was about to give up his Job when he was
told one morning in May. 1869. that
Sweeney & Baugh had quit the fight and
sold out to the Merchants Exchange.
Since then he worked at his old business
until he became too feeble, but says he
never had as much fun as be did when the
rival exchanges were running.
Mr.. Joseph Coolidge is one of the few
survivors of the days of the rival ex-
changes. He is now in his eighty-second
year, but is still able to attend to business.
MIR. Coolidge is '49er, and spent the first
years of his residence here in the United
States Custom-house. It is to his fore
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05
A GREAT BOULEVARD.
It Will Lead Out Of New York u
Cost Twenty Million.

It Will Lead Out Of New York and
Cost Twenty Million.
Gotham will some day-and not a very
far-off day. either-possess one of the most
famous thoroughfares in the world.
Quietly and irresistibly as the operation of
the tides and other forces of nature, New
York has proceeded toward the realization
of one of its inevitable improvements-a
grand concourse or boulevard extending
from the Harlem River to Mosholu park
way. 1t will be grand drive and prone
made connecting the park systems of the
metropolis. This enterprise, when real
lied, will surpass even the famous boule-
Yards of Paris.
1t is to run for four and half miles
along the river, dividing the Hudson River
and Long Island Sound, beginning at the
intersection of One Hundred and Sixtv-hrst
street and Mott avenue, its northern ter
minus being Moshoiu parkway, just east
of Jerome avenue. No streets will cross it
at grade, but all will go beneath it, result
that is particularly practicable by the nat
urally elevated situation of this unique
highway. Its cost is to be about $40 ,O0O,-
600, $3000,000 of which, it is estimated,
will be required for the acquisition of right
of way. The time allowed for its construc-
ton is three years. Within year, accord
ing to the engineers in charge, the work
will be well under way. The last Legisla-
lure gave tue ClLy duIuOTltIcS III CQarSo OF
such improvements all the law needed to
condemn property, make preliminary sur
veys and perfect arrangements for prose-
cutting the work, which is to be unique
among the famous streets of the earth.
A glance at the plans prepared shows
that the width of the concourse will be 1872
feet and every inch of this space Will be
utilized so as to make the thorougfare at
tractive. In the rough sketches which
have been made the engineer has pro-
vided for a sidewalk on either side. Next
to each sidewalk will be an ordinary drive
way. The speedways will be in the mid.
die, fanked on either side by promenade. e.
1t is likely that this plan will be altered
SO as to provide two bridle- paths skirt
ing the speedways. Mosholu parkway,
into which the concourse will run,
is 600 feet wide. It connects Van Cort-
landt and Bronx parks. Another wide
streets connects Bronx Park and Pelham
Manor Park. Il will thus be seen that
from the new bridge over the Harlem the
concourse will provide splendid means
of communication with the great parks in
North New York. There will be at least
five rows of trees the entire length of the
thorOughfare. The fifteen streets which
will run beneath the concourse will also
connect with it, but will not cross the
main street. This magnificent highway
will be paradise for bicyclists, the poss-
esscrs of high steppers and those folks
who still stick to the good old-fashioned
constitutional. And its relations, logical
and material, to the further development
of uptown New York cannot well be over
estimated.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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ghost dance, which ragged among the
American Indians some years ago. The
natives have been dancing for nearly eight
weeks. They dance eli night and in the
daytime. too, till they fall down from
sheer prostration and WEAKNESS. No one
knows how to account for the singular
dancing which has spread for thousands
of miles through the queer archipelagos
along the equator.
81 had a strange experience in the
island of Ruk, one of the Caroiines," said
Miss Crosby. This is the scene of the
farthest station occupied by the American
Board of Foreign Missions. Ruk is a
mountainous island, or rather group of
islands, around lagoon. The mission
work there is carried on in the same way
as in the other islands, but the difference
in the people is enormous.
'The Rukites are people with clear-cut
features, bright intelligent faces end
slender 1.-THE figures. Their every move
ment is full of grace. Altogether they are
of a higher type of manhood than l found
in any of the other groups.
However, their heathenism and de-
pravity surpass everything with which
l had previously come in contact.
thought the Marshall Island people were
bad enough. The Gilbert people were
wilder and more lawless, but the Ruk
people of the Caroline Islands surpass i'm
VI tucu Al NiChcuucSS.
Their heathenism is indescribable. The
Ruk people are the only ones in any of
the islands who use paint. | saw little
Child, scarcely 4 years old, whose little
body was reeking with dirt and cocoanut
oil. Its bright eyes looked up at me from
a face made hideous by the yellow paint,
or tax, as it is called.
Around the child were many of the
savages, all daubed with paint. It was
remarkable sight.
THE ruler of these savages is powerful
witch doctor named Levi. 1t seems that
when Mr.. Logan, the earliest missionary,
arrived there Levi was very friendly to
him and gave him land for the mission at
Wala. He afterward professed to be con-
verted, but 1t appears that his ideas of
what was to come were far-fetched. He
expected that when the missionaries were
settled he would live with them and they
would have everything in common. When
he found out this was not to be he threw
up his professions of Christianity and
friendship. Now he goes around Dragging
that he introduced the missionaries and
their religion to the island and says he
will drive them out.
This witch doctor / found was tall,
slender man with masses of coarse, tangled
hair, caught up by skewer at the top of
his head. His thin, cadaverous face was
fearfully daubed with The yellow paint.
There were immense apertures in his
ears, and they were filled with strings of
heavy ornaments cut from the cocoanut
shell and dangling to his shoulders. His
clothing consisted of two strips of native
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05
NO SAFE REALLY BURGLAR PROOF

Give Burglars Time and They Can Get
Into Any Safe, Says Maker.
A reporter of the New York Sun asked
the manager of one of the biggest safe
building concerns in the world whether a
safe had ever been built that was abso-
lutely burglar proof?
'There never was" he replied. "Most
big safes are called burglar proof but they
are not No man can build a thing that
some other man cannot unbuild. Now,
there's SAFE" he said, leading the re-
porter to the back of the store, "that is as
near burglar proof as any made"
The safe he pointed to looked like a
solid block of steel, with two enormous
hin ges in front and steel lever that ran
across the block diagonally. The door
was round.
"That safe" said the manager, "is all
most what 1t appears to be, solid block,
but properly equipped burglar could get
into it nevertheless, provided he had time.
1t is this question of time that makes it
possible for US to be more or less truthful
when we speak OF the safe as burglar proof.
1t requires so much to get one of them
open that before the work can be done
it is almost certain that somebody will
come around and then the Jig is up.
By the way, it is mistake TO talk about
blowing a safe open. Most people
have an idea that q burglar comes along,
punches hole in the safe, and throws in
lot of dynamite, which he touches off.
What the burglars do is to drill hole in
the door near the combination, and then,
by exploding a small quantity of powder,
or sometimes only cartridge. smash the
continuation. This enables them to work
at it with their fingers, and the opening of
the safe is not so difficult job, though ex-
plosions of this kind have been known to
lock safes tighter than they were locked
before; so tight, in fact, that they could
not be opened without second explosion
and the use of largely increased amount
of powder. Burglars will not, as rule.
take chances on that, for, 1 don't care how
nervy they are, the noise of the first ex-
plosion never fails to frighten them half to
deathn
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05
An OId-Time MinatraI.

An old man with white beard walking
with difficulty and supporting himself
on oane, was seen on lower Broadway
the other day. He was "Billy" Birch, the
old-time minstrel, and he had gone out to
look for the store which now occupies the
building in which the San Francisco Min
strels appeared first as an organization.
Somebody had told him that the ring
which marked off the parquet seats was
still to be seen there, and he had gone
down to look up this scene of his
earlier successes in New York. Birch
is old and disabled from the effects
of stroke of apoplexy, but he man
ages to get around to the variety
theaters, and he takes the interest Of
philosopher in observing the differences
in the performances of to-day and those of
q time in which he was active. He is the
one surviving founder of the old company.
and he has no means to show as a result
of so many years of work. He lives mod
estly on Seventh avenue, at times kept in
the house for several days. He is rarely
seen outside of his home, unless it be at
the theaters, without the society of faith
full dog. which keeps close to him indoors
and out. Many years ago Birch was a
figure in very different phase of New
York life. He owned fast horses, and no
body drove them on sthe road" in those
days with keener enjoyment or apprecia-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05

They engaged a boatman named Billy
Ellison and erected a wharf at the foot of
Dupont street, just in front of where the
Eureka House now stands. They kept a
man out at Bakers Beach to watch for
vessels and ride to town with his report as
soon as he saw one and made out what it
was. They started correspondence with
other parts of the world so that they al
ways received some important shipping
news with every vessel that came to port.
Nor were they content with simply get
ting the fact of the vessels arrival. Their
boatman at once started in his ''whitehalp
and often rowed half way out to the Far
allones and got the ships papers and all
the news. The exchanges frequently had
this couple of days before the vessel
came to anchor as 1T was difficult work get
ting across the bar when the wind was ad-
verse.
Sweeney & Baugh pleased their patrons
so much that in two years they were able
to move into the new exchange building
on Battery street. How Wills & Cover
managed to keep afioat is mystery, bu,
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05
Coins in Letters.

When it is necessary to inclose stamps
in letter, cut two parallel Sits in the top
margin of the sheet and slip the stamps
through them. They will thus be held in
cipient hunt for them after they have
slipped through the miscellany on the
desk or dropped on the floor.
Small coins may be sent with compara-
tive safety in letters if first wrapped in
tissue paper to prevent slipping about and
wearing a hole II the envelope. Or,
touch of mucilage will secure the coin to
the inside mage OF your paper. if it is not
convenient to obtain the coin cards which
come ready, with holes of the right size to
take in the coin, and sealing over before
placing in the letter.