The San Francisco call., 1897-10-05
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WADE's OPERA-HoUsE-A. B., City. Wade's
Opera-house, now the Grand Opera-house' was
opened January II, 1876
A SILVER D!ME-N A. b., oakland Cal. A
dime OF 1894 does not command premium
unless it is one that has upon It the I'M PRINT
OF the San Francisco Branch Mint
AMsTERDA RDAM-Reader, City. II you desire In
forhla lion about rel ative residing in Amster-
dam yOu should direct communication 10
the UNITED States Consul, Amsterdam
NEW YORK ADDREss-Subscriber. City. II
you wish to ascertain the address of person
living in New York City go to the San Fran
cisco Free Library and consult the New York
CITY directory there. II that is not OF GATE
sufficiently late you might write to the office
OF the publishers OF the directory.
MARRIAGE L1cENsE-An Old Subscriber, City
Two persons in California can go into county
other than the one in which they reside and
obi ain marriage license. provided there are
no legal objections 10 the granting of such
license. marriage is recorded in the county
IL which II is soemn1zed A license to marry
is valid only in the county in which it is
issued.
RABBIT DRI E-Subscriber. Alameda, Cal.
A. d. Furgeson, Fish and Game Warden of
Fresno County, in reply to the question, How
many abb1ts have been killed in one weeks
drive in Fresno County ?" writes: 81 do not
know of a weeks drive As high as 10000
have been killed in single drive occupying
four or five hours. thoroughly successful
drive was that OF March 10, 1892, when 90 600
were killed"
LARGE COFFEE PLANTATIoE-M. N, City. The
largest coffee plantation in Brazil is that OF
the Compania Agricola Fszenda Dumont, IN
the district Pieto and Parapa Pariacea,
which was recently sold to English
syndicate. The freehold is 10000 acres of
land, 13, 600 OF which is in coffee, 10000
acres are available for coffee culture ana the
rest is set out IN tobacco, sugar, maize, etc.
On the plantation there are $500 laborers,
who are divided into twenty-five colonies OF
twenty-five dwellings each. The expenses for
carrying on the plantation are $500 600
yearly. There are growing on the plantation
2 4765 500 trees that yield an annual average
OF 5000. 600 pounds of coffee. The next
largest is that of Senior Don Carlos Schmidt,
who has resided in Brazil for thirty five years.
1t EN- braces 97S5 acres, with 100000 trees.
1t gives employment to 1900 laborers. There
are number of plantations in Brazil that
have 100000 bearing coffee trees.
s1GNs-F. H, City. Section OF order 1855
OF the Board of Supervisors regulates the
placing of signs in this city and county. 1t is
follows:
No person owning or occupying any building
premises renting upon public street shau:
Place, or cause 10 be placed, maintain, or
suffer, upon the sidewalk front of such
building or premises, any sign advertisement,
except such occupy space.
Pace, or cause to be placed maintain or suffer,
upon the front OF any building premises any
sign or advertisement which shall project over or
upon the sidewalk, and all signs shall be securely
fastened 10 the wall of such building fer their
who.e length in such manner shall be sats-
factory to the Superintendent of Public Streets.
suspend & b suspended maintain or
sufer over the street or sldewa IN front of the
6ul ding or premises, any sign. advertisement
hsg. eXcep. upon holidays election days and DAYS
of public parade display. and then only when
the same shall be secured in manner satisfactory
O
All persons maintaining or having a sign adj y
vertlsement upon or above the FROM of any /
portion Of any building premises of which he is
the owner or occupant, or over which he has con-
troll shall, upon notice from the superintendent OF
Streets. cause such sign advertisement to be
placed, secured and fastened in such N a .ner as
said Superintendent of SIreets may direct And
failing 10 comply with the notification and direc-
tlon of said superintendent it shall be duty of
that officer the removal forthwith of
such sign or advertisement as being dangerous TO
life anu limb.
Ii the sign you placed in front of your place
OF business was there in violation of the oldi-
nance quoted it was your duty to remove the
same and pace it in position to comply with
the law. The TACT that some one else in your
Vicinity was violating the law is no excuse for
your violation thereof Ii the officers who
toTcibly removed your sign after having noti-
ned you to do 50 nave failed to perform their
duty as 10 other violators of the ordinance
you can file complaint against them for neg
Ieet OF duty.
B. I. WAsHINGToN-J. A. City Taliaferro
Booker Washington, the coIored educator was
born slave at Hales Ford, Va, April IS,
1898. After the emancipation his mother re-
moved him to MAIDEN, w. Va, where he worked
In the coal and salt mines, attending school
In the winter months, after which he spent
several weeks in service in New England. In
1871 he went to General s. c. Armstrong;
school for colored boys at Hampton, Va,
where, after much hardship by the way he
arrived with fifty cents in his pocket He
graduated there with the highest honors of
his class IN 1879; went thence TO Wayland
seminary, Washington, d. c.: in 1879 he began
TO teach at Hnmpton in 1881 he was placed
III charge OF Tuskegee Institute, which then
consisted OF small church and shanty with
thirty students, to which the State OF Aeha-
ma made an annual appropriation of $1,000
There, in the heart OF the 'fBlack BeIt y he
modelled the institution after the plans OF the
hampton school, and in 1897 the institution
comprised SbI students from nineteen States
seventy-ulne instructors 2460 acres OF land
ana thlTtv-seven buildings, all valued at
$30o0,0O Twenty-Five industries are car b
RED ON by the students, at an annual cost OF
$4,000. Two-fifths OF the annual income
goes into the permanent plant; $50 acres are
cultivated by the students; all out three of
the buildings were built by the students even
10 the brlekmaking and woodsawlng While
all mechanical branches taught special
emphasis is laid upon the various branches Of
tarm life. Female students are also trained in
tion for the cotton States, September IS 1895
Mr.. ashlngton made memorable speech on
the solution OF the race question in thn
South. which attracted attention in yarious
parts OF the country.
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