The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22
SOME VERY RICH ORE,
A California Production Pre-
scented to the Golden Gate
Park Museum.

1esterQay was the longest DAY III Tue
year, and many people concluded TO make
a day Of it by going out of town. Great
crowds went by train to San Jose and TO
the Santa Cruz Mountains, while still
greater crowds went to points on eastern
and northern sides of the bay. conse-
quently visitors TO the park and ocean
beach were not numerically as large as
they have been in the past.
Among the many contributions to the
park museum during the past week is one
that will attract considerable attention.
1t is a piece OF iron ore sent by c. l..
Hubs of Daggett. San Bernardino. 1t is
about IA inches long, and 6xS inches wide,
and its weight is a little more than seventy
pounds. Mr.. Wilcomb' the curator OF the
museum, who is mineralogist, states
that it is a wonderfully rich specimen4
containing at least sc per cent of iron. In
a letter accompanying the donation Mr..
Hubbs writes:
This is from q group of seven iron
claims covering parallel veins or ledSes
from 100 to $50 feet in width each. The
ore from each is as solid as the specimen"
Curator Wilcomb has also received from
NJ. Brayerman of Tulare a discovery that
Is new in this State. 1t is piece of milk
| white quartz, which the curator declares
scription ever before exhibited. He pro-
poses TO have a piece of it cut off ana
| polls and will then exhibit the rough
| and the finished side by side. He has
also come into possession of a piece of
| rock from Tulare County which has been
polished 1t is of various colors, which
blend and present the appearance OF
| small slab OF opal.
| At the time the Worlds Fair at Chicago
was opened Superintendent McLaren of
| the park was requested 10 send on some
! OF the hardy outdoor shrubs for the pur-
pose of decorating the upper gallery of
the California building. The collection he
sent on attracted great deal of attention
and was different from any displayed in
| the other State buildings.
The directors of the fair were SO pleased
with the San Francisco collection that at
| the close OF tie exposition they had it
| transferred to one OF the parks. Last
week the Golden Gate Park Commission
ers as token of appreciation of this col
| lection received from the com missioners
| handsome bronze medal bearing on one
sidee a figure representing the landing
| of Columbus and On the diverse "W ORD
| Colum bian Exposition in commemoration
Of the four hundredth anniversary of
| the landing of Columbus. MDCCCXCII-I
| MDCCCXCIII, to Golden Gate Park"
| Among the many bicycle riders seen on
! the park road is a one-armed boy named
| Paul Mccarthy. He handles his wheel
with all the facility of one possessed of
| two hands. As pedalist he is in it with
| the most speedy, and some of the mas
| tiers of the art OF cycling have declared
that he will in a short time take rank with
| the best known scorchers, il he does not
! beat them.
Superintendent McLaren stated yester-
day that there was not much work on
| hand, as the funds would not permit of
| Int hot hich ahenlntalV
sary was being done. The work on the
| bicycle track has been continued and will
| be until it is finished. What may be done
| in the future IS uncertain. as there is no
certainty as to what the appropriation will
| be. The Auditor has cut down the estimate
| for the park, making it $50, 900 less than it
was for the preceding fiscal year.
The two steps upon which is to rest the
| granite pedestal of General Grant is all
| that has been put in position since the
removal of the convict-dressed stone which
was placed some time ago. 1t was
announced that if the obnoxious stone was
removed it would be immediately replaced
| by another monument. Several weeks
! have passed since the convict-dressed stone
| was quietly carted away, and there is moth
| ing to replace it but the two steps, which
| have been in position about two weeks.
| J. L. Bardwell of this City has donated
| to the museum curious cane made from
|
| of this City has contributed $1,000 Con-
| federate bond and some Confederate notes.
! M. Braverman of Tulare, has sent in
curiously carved wooden bowl used by In
dians of the northwestern portion OF the
Queen Charlotte Islands.
One of the large seals turned up its fins
! last Saturday night and was cast upon the
beach near the Olympic pier yesterday,
| where ii was reviewed by those who went
| to Sutroville by the sea.
The attractions in the baths were many
and they amused the crowds who were
under the large dome. Dana Thompson
essayed the feat of swimming under the
water from one end of the big tank to the
other, having accomplished the feat the
day before, but he made a mistake in
| direction and was forced to come up after
! being beneath the surface a little over
| four minutes and having swum three
| quarters the distance. The race between
lively ducks and expert swimmers was
| rare sport. The ducks swan rapidly and
when the swimmers attempted to catch
| them the willy ducks went under and like
Thompson, swan far away out of sight.
| A number of young men have for several
| days past been swimming in the surf be-
tween IT, baths and the Seal Rocks with
| a view OF swimming around the rocks at
some future time-in about two weeks, so
| says Colonel Robinson, the manager OF
| the baths.
Miss Essie Viola, having recovered from
| the effects of bruises received by being
| dashed against the third-story window of
| house at the Mission a week ago last
| Saturday while coming down with her
parachute, took another fight from the
| Haight-street grounds yesterday after
| noon. The ascent was pretty one, and
when the baloonist cut loose, the para
| chute opened gracefully, but before she
reached the ground the cloth that sup
ported her collapsed, and she came down
with run. Fortunately she came down
on soft ground near the German Hospital
and escaped injury.