The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22

manner of restaurant The board of direc-
tors viii buy all of the provisions, select the
cook and have full charge of the feeding of
the combination family. Servants for the care
of the apartments will also be employed, and
in the end the lady members will ind the ar
rangements to be one with all the conven;ences
of a hotel and without any household duties
devolving upon them. The projectors have
been figuring and estimate that the institution
will cost less than half ordinary living eX.
penses.
'The people interested in the scheme are
going into IL for comfort and economy and not
in a desire to advance any idea af altrurianism
or socialism. They say they are merely tired
OF boarding house life and paying rents and
maintaining households at an unnecessary ex-
pense. II it proves a success it will not be the
first instance, as similar institution is in op-
Grafton in San Diego"
Progressive Santa Barbara Will soon have an
electric street railway. Ell Bdrbareno tells us
that the wire for the line is already there; the
rails viii be on hand in few days, and the en-
CINE and other machinery will arrive as soon
as there is house room for it. "Itis the expecta-
ton of the company that its cars will be run
ming by the LIST OF September; in fact, the
contract for the cars calls for their delivery
not later tnan that date"
Antioch is furnishing good example of
wealth-begetting enterprise for other towns of
the State. From the Redlands Citrogrdph we
learn than Antioch 'has goodly sized paper
mill, big pottery and distillery. The paper
mill uses up the straw of the county, the pot
terry digs its clay out of the countys soil, and
the distillery makes market for the county's
grain. The raw materials are converted into
disable articles before leaving the county"
The Summerland oil fields are pushing ahead
rapidly, and the Summerland Aduance says
that it now clocks as if the dreams of our most
optimistic Well-wishers were about TO be real
lied. Mr.. Knapp is making preparations to
start up an extensive oil-producing plant on
the beach front at the point where expert
opinion declares the largest oil deposit should
be, and nearly every oil firm in the field has
added or is adding to its machinery. Many OF
our oil men are casting their eyes seward,
and 1t will not be long now before the process
sion of derricks will begin delving in the bot
tom of the channel IN search of the precious
fluid The fact has long been known that the
oil stratum runs under the channel, and oil
may be seen rising to the top several miles off
shore. Men of experience claim that it would
not only be feasible but that q well could be
sunk off platform of piling as cheap, if not
cheaper, than on land"
A capitalist OF st. Louis, Mo-, is thinking of
locating in Stockton and erecting there the
largest cracker factory in California. He is
represented by J. J. OFarrell, the man who, in
conjunction with Oullahan & Adams, has
bonded the Weber property in Stockton. The
information comes from the Stockton MAIL
which speaks thus: "The various cracker
factories of this State constitute strong COM
bine, and up to the present time they have
haap abl 10 Gn6t da,ur1 oil 10
st. Louis man, however, who is just now en-
gagged in the cracker business there. or was
until quite recently, is backed by very large
amount of capital, and it is said to be his in
tenton to start a factory on such large scale
that it will be independent of the trust
Various circumstances combine to direct his
attention to Stockton as desirable site for the
proposed factory, chief among them being the
central location of the city as distributing
point, the presence of cheap fuel as soon as the
coal road is completed, and the fact that Stock
ton is the greatest -four city in the State
''The st. Louis man has not definitely de-
cided to build here, but he has about made up
his mind"