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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
MYR|ADS OF LANTERNS,
Market Street Ablaze With
Oriental Illumina.
tion.
The Merchants Discuss Decorations
With the Fourth of July
Committee.

Pursuant to the call of the Fourth of
July committee, there was meeting of
the merchants in the assembly-room of
the Mills building last evening to discuss
the question of suitably decorating the
business streets.
A. S. Hallidie was unanimously elected
chairman of the meeting.
Opening the business he stated the OBJ
iect of the meeting was to enlist the mer-
chants to illuminate and decorate their
places of business. Second to discuss the
suitability of concentrating the most i'm
portant illumination, decoration and
pyrotechnics to the central part of the
City where the conveyance of car lines
made aIocality most accessible to all the
people.
c. b. Perkins said that he believed in
the idea of sending up fireworks from
every part of the City-north, east, south
and west.
1.-THE greatest celebration, as Mr.. HaIli-
die suggests, may be in the central part
of the City," he said, land besides this
every one of the City squares should be
utilized for the same purpose"
A representative from firm of decora-
tors informed the meeting that fifty lines
of Chinese lanterns could be strung on
Market street, distance of five blocks,
making ten lines to block. On each line
could be attached thirty lanterns, and all
this would cost $500 for the three nights.
This, he explained, would make very
attractive display.
1t was suggested that the lantern propo-
sition be discussed further and that ever
green's be garlanded about and between
the lanterns, as has been done IN the car
nival cities. The decorator said that ever
green's could be furnished for cents a
yard.
A committee of seven was finally ap-
pointed to confer further with the mer-
chants with view to having them pledg e
themselves 10 decorate the facades of
their buildings and to have them suggest
and assist in the street decoration. This
committee consists of @. B. Perkins, Percy
Beamish, William McIntire, O. Wiseman, /,
w. H. Nolan, William D. Nolan and
George Raphael.
To this committee were also added Mrs.
John Knell, Mrs. II. A. Arvidson, Mrs.
NJ. J. Vidaver and Achille Roos.
The Native Sons held meeting last
night with regard to the parade on the
Fourth. The following parlors were rep
Eldorado, Sequoia and Precinto; N. d.
G. W.-Buena Vista, Minerva, Orinda and
Orofni.
II. D. Lansing acted as chairman and
Miss May McCrae as secretary. Resolu-
tiops were passed that the entire City
representation take part in the parade
the Native Sons to march and the Native
Daughters to ride in carriages.
Frank G. Wisker suggested that here
after the birthday of the Nation be recog
nized also as the birthday of the Native
Sons and Daughters organization.
Nothing, however, definite was decided
on this. Circulars will be sent to all the
parlors for a meeting next Wednesday,
during which all the matters pertaining to
the details of the parade will be settled.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
THIS CHURCH IS
NON-SECTAR|AN,
Belvedere Has the Only
One of the Kind in
California.
A Benefit on Saturday Next to
Raise Money for Fur.
Dishings.
Any Pastor Who Is Invited by the
Members of His Greed May
Preach There.

Sleepy Hollow, as the Inhabitants of
fair Belvedere are wont to call the garden
spot of their suburban island home, will
be the scene on Saturday afternoon next
of an entertainment in the form of gar
den and lawn party for the purpose of fur
nishing the new church that has just been
completed there.
This church is in its way the most
unique institution of its kind in Califor-
MIA, having been built by private parties
for the benefit OF the entire community.
1t is entirely non-sectarian and will re-
main so for all time.
Belvedere numbers Jews and Gentiles
as well as other sects among its Inhabit-
ants. none of them being strong enough,
however, to afford the building of church
for their own particular use. Thus it was
that those who desired to attend divine
services on Sunday were compelled to go
to neighboring towns or to this City for
that purpose.
As many of the residents are business
men who spend the week in San Francisco,
only having their Sundays at home, it was
somewhat Of hardship to be compelled
to travel on the Sabbath. To remedy the
matter, the company tnat OWNS the larger
portion of the island, built handsome
little edifice of stone, stipulating only that
the residents should furnish the interior in
fitting manner.
There will be no resident pastor, but
ministers, priests or rabbis will be well
come to preach under the one roof as they
are called there by those of their religion.
The Bevedereans, regardless of creed,
have united to make the entertainment a
success. Several hundred tickets have
already been sold, and big crowd is ex-
dected to attends
The programme will be varied and
carefully selected one, and the committee
of arrangements has one number in view
which, if they are successful in arranging
for it. will surprise the musical visitors.
1t is hoped to persuade Mrs. DR.. Whit
ney of Boston, who is now in this City, to
sing. Mrs. Whitney was formerly Miss
Louise Elliott of San Francisco, whose
magnificent voice aroused the enthusiasm
of the musically inclined to remarkable
degree, and for whom brilliant career as
a singer was predicted. The wealthy
Bostonian won her heart, however, and
since her marriage she has not sung in
public.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
DOLLAR SIDE AND SHILLING SIDE
Commercial Tradition Which Has
Lost Its Force in New York.

A Commercial Tradition Which Has
Lost Its Force in New York.
For the purpose of retail business, the
two sides of every thoroughfare were for
merly thus divided: The left-hand side
going north or the right-hand side going
south along any broad street or avenue of
New York was the dollar" or more prof
liable side; and the right hand going north
or the left hand going east was the shilling
side, devoted to less productive business
matters and depending chiefly upon the
patronage of persons OF more modest in
comes and slender purses. In the early
commercial Lie of New York city the west
side of Broadway was considered to be the
more desirable for retail business. The
stores upon it paid much larger rent than
those on the side opposite, and notonly was
this the case, but, as the New Workers of q
generation ago remember, the west or
''doliar" side was the more popular for
pedestrians, especially during the prom
enade on fair afternoons. An iconoelast of
mercantile customs and traditions was
the late A. 7. Stewart, and it was his con-
stantly avowed belief that rule of busi-
ness or affairs which had no other backing
but that of usage or precedent did not
amount to much, and c6uld usually be
overridden to the advantage of a pioneer
against it, The present Stewart building
at the corner of Broadway and Chambers
street is on what was called the shilling
side of that thoroughfare, and when Mr.
Stewart determined to move his dry goods
establishment up town he chose by
preference the location at Broadway and
Tenth street, also on the shilling side, and
built there, contrary to the views OF his
rivals in the dry goods business.
But Mr.. Stewards departure from the
unwritten business rule of many years did
not abrogate it in the drygoods trade, and
the preference for the dollar side and the
prejudice against the shilling side sur
vived by many years the use of shillings
as a measure of purchase in the drygoods
stores. Little by little, however, the once
unwritten law of retail trade has fallen
into disuse and now the right-hand side of
the public thoroughfares in New York de-
voted to store purposes, if not quite as
good as the left-hand side of the same
street, is, among real estate men and re-
tail dealers, considered to be nearly as
good.-NeW York Sun,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
HOW's THIS FOR HIGH +?
Specimen Of Oats From the Cotati
Ranch That Is Over Eight
Feet in Height.

Oats feet 4 inch tall. Just think of it!
This is something pretty high, even for
California. In fact, the owners of the
specimen think it good enough for presen-
tation to the Academy of Sciences, and so
that is what they are going to do with 1T.
This extraordinary specimen is the prop
erty of k. o. Gates and H. r. Babb and
was grown near the station of Cotati, mid
way between Santa Rosa and Petaluma,
on what is known as the Page ranch.
The ranch formerly consisted of 10000
acres, but has lately been suDdivided and
sold in sections.
The owners say that, though the speci-
men they have just brought down with
them is as good as could be found in the
field, yet there is no place that man could
stand therein and not be hidden from view.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
BUNKER HILL DAY.

A Grand Excursion to Glen Ellen,
Sonoma County, To-day.
Great preparations have been made for
the celebration of the one hundred and
twenty-irst anniversary of the Battle of
Bunker Hill to-day. One of the principal
features of the occasion will be the excur-
sion to Glen Ellen, Sonoma County. The
excursionists viii leave this City by the
Tiburon ferry at 9 o'clock this morning,
and tickets can be obtained at the ferry
landing. The exercises will take place at
the Glen Ellen pavilion at / O'Clock, and
following is the programme:
Overture, medley patriotic airs, Blum's
band; prayer, Chaplain of the Day Rev. g. E.
Walk rector Trinity church; opening remarks,
President OF the Day William G. Badger; song,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
FOOLED BY THE DARK.
This Worthy Couple Arose and Retired
With the Sun.


An old couple who lived in the High
lands once had rather amusing expert
ence. They lived in a house that was only
one story high and one wet night when
they mad retired to bed as usual band of
loafers came on the lane. In very few
minutes they had plastered the window
up with mud in such way that it was inn
possible for the sun to penetrate through
it. Then they retired from the scene,
chuckling to themselves as to. the conse-
quences. At about the usual time the
next morning Jock and Betty awoke, but
there was no day light, so they lay in bed
all day. At sunset Jock got up, leaving
Betty still slumberlng, and upon going
into the livingroom he perceived the trick
that had been played on them, and, OPEN
ing the door. he shouted to Betty: 'Get
up, lass. Here's such sight as you've
never seen in your life before. The suns
risin' at the other side of the house !n-
Weekly Telegraph.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

'Star-Spangled Banner" Orpheus Quartet;
ing; song, Sword of Bunker HILL" Alfred Will
kie; Grafton, Hon. r. B. Carpenter ivice-presi-
dent of the Vermonters' Associarion); song,
tee; remarks, Rev. George E. Walk; ''Americs"
Qed by Professor j. McKenzie), audience; bene-
diction, chaplain.
Boats leave Tiburon ferry at A. NJ Adults,
round-trip ticket, 81; children under u years,
so cents.
Following are the committee of arrange
ments:
Bunker Hill Associatfon-William G. Badger,
A. H. Wheaton, H. s. Foote Jr, Hugh Clark,
William T. Muhlner.
Vermonters-F. Dillingham;, Robert Wander
cook, S. G. Cheever, NJ. I. Ellinwood, DR.. s. II.
Roberts.
Floor manager-Robert Vandercook.
Transportation and grounds-George W. Cas-
well.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
GENERAL DIMOND SINKING.
Messages From New York Give Little
Hope of His Recovery.

Hope of His Recovery.
Several kilograms were received from
New York yesterday by Edwin R. Dimond
and A. Chesehrough reporting that Gen.
eral w. 81. Dimond was still unconscious
and growing weaker.
The general in the past has shown such
wonderful recuperative powers in rally
ing from very severe attacks, that the
mem bers of his family entertained hopes
that he would again rally.
This last hope very nearly vanished in
consequence of two messages received last
evening from the old family physician.
now residing in New York. 1idings of
the generals death may be received any
hour.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
AN INSURANCE QUESTION.
Milwaukee Mechanics and Pa1atine
Companies at Loggerheads.

Companies at Loggerheads.
The Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance
Company yesterday sued the Palatine In
surance Company for $3.50, paid by the
former to the Seattle Consolidated Street
Railway Company for losses incurred by a
fire on June 20, 1895.
1t seems that the Seattle company was
insured by the Mechanics Insurance Com
pany for $500. one-half of which amount
was laid off with the Palatine. The policy
of the railway company read from June 20,
1894 to June 20, 1895, and on June 25 the
fire occurred. However, in reinsuring
with the Palatine, clerical error made the
policy read from June 10, 1894, to June 10,
1895. On this account payment is refused,
the contention being that the policy had
expired. The Milwaukee company bases
its suit on the intention of the policy.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
Rernal Hefrhts Blaze,

A fire early yesterday morning caused dam
age to the extent of three or four hundred dol
dollars to a saloon on the corner of Mission
street and Fair avenue, at .he foot of Bernal
Heights. The building, which was owned by
J. w. Pfeiffer, was damaged to the extent of
three or 1ouT IN nunqreo dollars' Iully covered py
fixtures and contents, owned by J. w. Tufts
amounted to about 500. The cause of the
fire is unknown.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
AUCTION SALES.

By S. BAscH-This day (Wethesday) Tailor
Shop at salesroom, 31S Sutter street.
EY A, L. CREsswELL-This day "wednesday,
Furniture, at 537 Guerrero street, at IL O'Clock.
BY l. VINCENT-This day "wednesday, Fur
niture, at 20 Metealf place, at o'clock.
BY FRANK ". BUTTERFIEIp - This day
"wednesday, Groceries, at 1855 Howard street, at
IL o'clock.
BY EAsToN & EEDRIDGE-Saturday, June 81
Real Estate, at Murphy Station, at i o'clock.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
For the Big Ratification.

At meeting of the Forty-fourth District
Republican Club, held at their clubrooms on
Monday, it was unanimously resolved that the
club participate in the ratification meeting to
be held on Saturday night, June 20. The club
appointed J. c. Kimball, S. C. Jones, Il. Seth
man, a. Sjograu and Z. Mosbachera committee
on finance. j. Z. Jarrett, w. D. Clark, w. w.
Cross, James Mearns and Robert Mimch were
appointed a committee on arrangements. The
club appoin ted Captain A. Hanson marshal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
Mcneil Held to Answer.

The case of Frank Mcneil, painter, charged
with assault to murder upon Frank Rankin in
Mrs. O'Grady's saloon, Mary and Natoma
streets, was finally disposed of by Judge
Campbell yesterday. The Judge decided to
reduce the charge to assault with a deadly
weapon, and held Mcneil to answer before the
Superior Court in $4,000 bonds
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
ADJUSTMENTS.

BALDWIN rHEATER.-"A GiIded Fool"
CALIFORNIA THEATER.-''The Home Secretary"
COLUMBIA THEATER-"The Charity Ball"
MoRoscos oPERA-HoUsE-"New York Day By
Day"
TIvoLI oPEFA-HeUsE.-aLor
ORPHEUN-High-Class Vaudeville.
GRovEBs ALCAzAR.--'The Little Detective" /"
PARK rHEATER-Grove street, between Polk
and Van Ness avenue" Cruiskeen Lawn Sat
urday evening, June 20.
The TMPoRIUM.-Concert tonight by the EN-
porium Orchestra
sUTRo CoNEY IsLASD-Bsthing and Perform
ances.
,sHooT THE CHurEs-Daily at HaIght street, one
Llock asst Of the Park.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
The Book on the Lawyers Table.

Before the Hon. John s. Lambert be-
came Justice of the Supreme Court of
the State of New York, and while he was
yet a humble practitioner in quiet Chau-
tauqua County village, he had client
With religious bent. One day the client
called at the lawyers office, and noticing
a small leather bound volume on his
see such books lying on your desk. If you
follow its teachings you will surely go to
the right place. "And if DON'T" broke
in the jurist, "I'll go to jail" The parson
had mistaken the Criminal Code for the
Bible.-Buffalo Courier.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

Certain scientists say that M ars is like
Holland. Its inhabitants appear to have
drained the whole of its surface as meas
ure of protection against encroaching
waters, which threaten an invasion when
summers heat melts the polar ice and
snow.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
Tho DAVIDSON Estate.

Sarah Davidson and Jacob Davidson were
yesterday appointed executors of the es tate of
Jacob Davidson, who left property exceeding
in value $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

Frawley, John T. Sullivan, Winona Shan
non, Margaret Craven and others.
Seats for the general public are now
readv at the box Office OF the Baldwin
Theater Mr.. Goodwin leaves for his Aus
tralian tour on the 25th inst.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

The estate of Vaturino the old histori-
the Ukraine Cossacks in the Government
OF Kieff, once famous for its beauty and
splendor. has now fallen into ruin and
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

When Baby was sick, we gave her castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss. she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children. she gave them Castoria
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
Cordona Acquitted.

Lee D. Cordona was acquitted OF the charge
of forging warrants upon the City Treasury by
a jury from Judge Belcher's court on Monday
evening.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
PIcNcs AND EXCURSIONS.

EXCURSION AND PlcNIc-To Glen Ellen, We'd
nesdEy, June II.
ExCURsIoN-To Mt. Shasta, Saturday, June 20.
E1CuBsIoN-To Bohemia Grove, Sunday,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

The excitement over the discovery of
rich tin ore in the Big Horn Mountains,
near Sheridan, Wyo., continues. Assays
made at Sheridan and in Omaha show an
average return of twenty-four pounds of
pure tin to the ton.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

Herbert Kelcey, Frank Worthing, Effie
Shannon, Olive Oliver, Blanche Bates, l..
r. Stockwell, William Beach. T. Daniel
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
The Oldest British Trees.

The oldest tree in this country is the
yew-tree at Braburn in Kent, which is
said to be 5000 years old; while at Fort
ingal, in Perthshire, is one nearly as
old At Ankerwyke house, near Staines,
is a yew-tree which was famous at the
date of the signing of Magma Charta,
1215. aAd later was the trysting place
of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn. The
three yews at Fountains abbey are at
the founders Of the abbey sat in 1892.
There are no famous oaks that rival
any yew in age, 1000 years being the
greatest age attained. Damorey's oak,
in Devonshire, which was blown down in
17O3, had this distinction. Cowthorpe
oak, near Wetherby, Yorkshire. is said
to be 1000 wears old-London Star
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
HOW TO TREAT BURNS.

Il Berlin Physician Introduces n"
Remedy in the Application of IhfoL
According to "A Berlin physician, thioi
is highly approved as an application
in the treatment of turns III all de-
grees
The first step is to wash the surface
with q very weak solution of corrosive
sublilnate, then remove whatever cutlcle
hangs loose, taking care not to break
any blisters that are whole. The burn
is busted with powdered boric acid, then
fbe er3rirf. burned surface and q consid-
ernbie portion of the healthy skin around
If are painted with a solution OF equal
rarts Of thiol and water, then layer
of creased cotton is kept III place with
q band3ge.
This is undoubtedly q very scientific
way to handle q burn, but for the masses
Of people, many sof whom live some dis
ts3nce from drug stores and doctors, there
is nothing better than the old-time appil-
cation Of pure lard and -four. 1t is
we'll worth while for every housekeepcr
to buy some pounds of pure leaf lard,
render it with the utmost care and put it
while piping hot into pots or bottles
That may be Theoretically sealed. A cup
full of lard, mixed with flour, to form
q soft paste, may be applied to q burn
without loss of time The experience
Of wears has demons rated that if this
application is followed up there will be
neither scar nor irritation following the
healing Of the injured part.-Current Lit
pPafI1rn
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
Writers OF .Eiction.

Richard Henry Stoddard in the New
York Mail and Express speaks Of the in
dustry of the writer's of fiction of the
present day. Rudyard Kipling wrote
.'"Ehe Record of the Badalia Herodsfoot"
seven times over, and even then made
a .number of corrections on the proofs.
The late Prof. Huxley was another writ
er whose industry in perfecting his lit
erary expression was only rivaled by his
genius. Strikingly contfasted with this
necessity for industry have been the per-
sonal incIinations of some conspicuous
writer's. Thaokeray confessed that his
hesetting sin was laziness; he could never
write, he said, till the printers devil was
at his door. The story again is told of
Dickens how once in stationer's shop
he was startled by hearing a lady at the
counter inquire whether the next number
Of certain novel, then appearing in
monthly parts, was out yet. Little did
the customer guess that the next part of
the story WAS not yet in existence, and
that the gentleman at her elbow, in fact,
stood there for the purpose of buying the
paper upon which he intended to go home
and write the chapter asked for.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
Drinking Wafer at Sea.

The Italian battieship, Christofero
Colombo, has a curious arrangement
for furnishing her seamen with drinking
water. Experience proved that drinking
large quantities of cold water after
violent exercise, especially while cruis-
ing in the tropics, caused many deaths.
The water tanks on the battieship were
designed to prevent such indiscretion.
The water tanks on the vessel are com
nected with innumerable little rubber
hoses and on the end Of each hose is a
small rubber nipple. Whenever any sea-
man wants drinking water he must turn
stop-cock and then suck it through
the hose and nipple. It is slow work,
but it has been found that it preserves
many yalua bic .liYes-Exchanre
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
Delicate in Build.

According to cleveland Moffett, the
manufacture of the modern bicycle pre-
sents one of the most complex and deli
cate problems known in engineering
problem more difficult of solution than
the construction of a bridge, a locomo-
tive or a twenty-story building. The
reason is that what scientists call the
factor of safety is lower in bicycle
than in almost any other mechanical
product, and is growing still lower each
year as the machines are made lighter.
In high-pressure guns, the factor of
safety is often as great as 20, which
means that the guns are made twenty
times as strong as is theoretically neces-
sary for the strain they must bear. In
ordinary. guns, The factor Of safety
is II, in boilers it is about 6, in bridges
it is usually ) and in almost every con-
struction or machine it is at least 4.
1t is believed that in modern bicycles
LIB is now the reduced ''factor of safe
ty' The effect of this is that if any
joint. or screw, or bolt, or bit of wire
fails in strength by only SO much as 25
per cent. of what is expected of it, the
bicycle NAV be crippled.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
Was All Over.

AT Sedan Gen. Sherman, as military
commissioner from the United States,
was present on the summit of the little
hill where King William, Bismarck,
Moltke and a group of notable officers
were watching for the end. Moltke was
standing by large telescope mounted
on a tripod Spread upon the ground
at his feet lay maps of the region round
about, which at moments he studied at
tentiyely. 1t was Sherilan--quick of eye
and judgment-who first perceived with
whom the victory rested. When that
final charge lof the French) failed, the
German ring closed as with snap; and
Sheridan, as he shut his binocular, broke
the strained silence with the exclama-
ton: st is all over with the French
now! AT the words, Moltke left his
telescope, stalked aside, to where, Shcri-
the American soldier who had felt the
pulse of many battles