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The San Francisco call., 1897-04-25
PICNIC At FL CAMPO.
st. Peters Parish Preparing
for a May Day
Outing.
Energetic Committees Working to
Insur the II Hippiness of All
Who Would B, Merry.

st. Peters parish is to have picnic at
Ell Campo next Saturday, Mayday, which
those interested declare is to be an occa-
sion of unusual enjoyment. Boats leave
Tiburon ferry, foot of Clay street, at 9:3O
and 1850 A. NJ. The returning boat will
leave Ell Campo at $50 P. NJ.
FL Campo is one OF the most delightful spots
on the bay for an outing, beautifully sheltered
and always warm and pleasant Fogs are un-
known there, so it is said. The committee of
arrangements announce that there will be no
liquors sold or permitted, either on the boat
or on the grounds.
The committee on games has arranged a
schedule OF twenty races, giving every one an
opportunity for lots of fun and of securing a.
valuable prize. Valuable gate prizes will also
be given.
The obiec. of these annual excursions is to
get all the members of the parish IN touch
with one another and also to perform little
works OF Charity. The following are the com
mittees:
Committee of arrangements james B.
Hughes, chairman; ]. C. O'Donnel secretary;
Anthony Quill, treasurer; Captain C. D. Doug
lass, p J. Curtis, D. j. Drew, P. Tormey.
Committee on music-Johu Kenny (chair-
man., Thomas P. Curtis, p J. Sullivan; COM
mittee on prizes-L. C. Gull chairman, John
O'Brien. S: BIinchat, Martin Connolly, P. Big
gems. NJ. McCann. NJ. Lartin Thomas Ken
drick. p. DugGn. E. Fennesy. DR.. II. Lagan. II.
+. Wynne, ]. G. Flood A. McKeany, P. Cassidy,
W. w. GuDpen. P. J. Whalen, C. d. Doug sss
l. NauSWOrtn, JOnn Kenny, L. j. 1Ormey, Il.
G. Mcguire, James p. Slaven, Senator L. j.
Dwyer, Phil Sheridan Council, Y. NJ. l.
Committee on games-Captain e. d. Doug
lass (chailman), Morris Barrett, James Burke
James B. Hughes, H. Pinkham, Patrick Big
gems, D. J. Drew, John 'Brien, E. D. Sullivan,
Frank McAleer, John Cumming, J. c. O'Don-
NELL p. J. Tormey, Andrew McKeany, Edward
Finney, P. J. Doyle, Joseph l. Twohig, P. J..
Curtis.
Floor committee Thomas wadsworth,
chairman; P. J. Whelan, floor manager, H.
Pinkham and James Bailey, assistants; Z. p
Barry, Frank Mitchell, John Cosgrove, Peter
j. Haggerty, John Welch, Z. d. Sullivan, Ed
ward Brown, James Sullivan, James Grace,
Daniel Wren.
Committee on order-John Kenny chair
| man; It. L. Healy, NJ. Larkin, A. Quill, James
| Burke, NJ. McCann, Richard Curtis.
Schedule OF games-Altar boys race of st.
| Peters Church; race for boys under 10 years
race for girls under 10 years; race for boys
| under 10 years; race for girls under 15 years
| race Tor single men, open 10 all except profes.
sionals; race for single ladies, open 10 all race
! Tor married men, open to all except profes-
| sionas S; race for married ladies, open to all
1 cadet race; egg race for ladies'; race for ia
men; race for fat women; three-legged race
candle race for young ladies; potato race foi
gentlemen. open TO al; pack race for gentle.
men. Hop, skip and jump, running jump
! putting the shot. open TO all except profes
sionals. Best lady jig and reel dancer, best
| gentleman jig and reel dancer.
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constructed. The wriIer explained that
he required the information for the benefit
Of Eastern communities which might de.
sire to follow the example of San Fran
cisco.
Heretofore the unemployed in other
States have been set to work at repairing
roads, but the experiment of making per-
manent roads has never been tried.
Three hundred and fifty men were en-
gagged yesterday on the boulevard. The
work OF macadamiZing the roadway to the
full width was begun yesterday and if the
good people who have not yet subscribed
will now step to the front and assist in the
undertaking the beautiful driveway will
be completed to the Ingleslde.
Mr.. Bunker, speaking of the $50 un-
employed men under Leffingwell, who
made a raid upon the town of Lodi
last Friday, said:
This committee has never recognized
those people in any way. They organized
simply for the purpose of bulldozing the
community. We organized this boulevard
committee to furnish relief to the genuine
unem ployed, who are willing to work on
the boulevard. Those Leffingwell people
came to US at the outset and said, we de-
mand recognition as a BODY AID they
were told that they were recognized, and
for that reason we didn't want them.
They refused to leave the City IN detach-
ments or to accept positions offered TO
squads of three and four, but insisted that
the whole gang should be employed as a
body. Their leader, Leffingwell, said
that if they were 10 accept employ men t
as individuals, the organization would
fall to pieces. and that they proposed to
hold together"
Supervisors Devaney and Delaney pro-
pose to introduce resolution at next
Mondays meeting of the Board of Super
visors to turn over to the boulevard fund
the $4,000 usually appropriated for Fourth
of July fireworks.
1t is estimated that $40, 09O more will be
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NO HOPE FOR THE
SHIP SAMAR|A
The Wreckage From Her
Washed Ashore Along
the Coast.
Fishermen Looking for Bodies,
but None Have Come
Ashore.
The Schooner Albion Had to Put Back
in Distress-Lost Her
Mainsail.

All doubt as TO the fate of the overdue
collier Samaria seems to have been set at
rest. In private letter received by E. l..
Woods from Astoria yesterday, it is
learned that a ife-preserver, part of a
boat and a section of deckhouse, all
marked "Samaria," had all drifted ashore
off Cape Disappointment during the night.
The wreckage was hauled up on the beach
by some fishermen and search made for
bodies, but none were recovered.
Fire broke out on the collier Washtenaw
now being repaired at the Fulton Iron
Works yesterday, but was put out with
out much damage being done. The fire
started in tie galley and made great
smoke, bui bucket brigade" soon had
it under control.
The schooner Albion, which lett here a
week ago for Alaska, ran into heavy
norther on the 25th inst, and was so dam
aged that she had to put back here for re-
pairs. The mainsail was carried away
and took with it all the blocks and the
standing rigging from both sides of the
masts. She will have to 60 on the dry
dock for repairs.
The ship Occidental also put in. At
first it was thought she was in distress as
the Guide showed her as bound from De-
parture Bay for Acapulco. 1t was learned
on her arrival, however, that there was no
demand for coal in Central America, SO
the vessels destination was changed for
San Francisco.
There was a shakeup among the carpen.
ters, sweepers and dTedger hands OF the
water front yesterday. All Commits
sioner Coles appointments went out and
Commissioner Harney's men will fill their
places tomorrow.
Since the arrival of the United States
ship Camanche in the harpor for the
use of the Naval Battalion. that organiza-
ton has greatly felt the need of an engi-
neer corps TO have charge of and handle
the machinery on the vessel. During the
last Legislature the matter was actively
pushed before the Committee on Military
Affairs, with the result that bill was
passed providing for an engineer division,
to be composed of fifty or more men.
list has been opened at 22L East
street for applicants who may wish to en-
list as machinists, water tenders. boiler
makers, oilers, first, second and third fire.
men. The opportunities for promotion in
an organization of this kind just forming
are very bright, and the officers having
the matter in charge exLect 10 soon have
a division of frst-class men on their
hands, especially as the men when called
upon by the Government for their SER
vices will receive the same pay as those in
the corresponding ratings of the United
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OHAPPELLE ATTACHED.
The Private Detective and Turfms

The Private Detective and Turfman
Sued by a Collector.
A collector of bad debts took out an at
tachment yesterday against the racehorses
OF Z. 3. Chappelle. thhe private detective
and turiman. and deputy Sheriff served
1t at the Inglesde track. The attach
ment Is based on assigned claims for
$40 80.
"Curley" Shields, the well-known horse
man, was also attached in a suit brought
by n. s. Hall to recover S299. claimed to
De due for money loaned the defendant
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TEN THOUSAND
STILL NEEDED
Balboa Boulevard Macad-
amized One Hundred
Feet Wide.
United States Commissioner on
Roads Interested in the
Project.
He Will Probably Introduce Boule.
ward Building in the East on
the Same Plan.

Ten thousand dollars more will COM
plete the Balboa boulevard, which is at
tracing attention all over the codntry.
Roy Stone, United States Commissioner
on Roads, is taking much interest in tho
work on the Balboa boulevard. William
NJ. Bunker OF the boulevard committee
received letter from MIN yesterday in
quirng for full particulars concern ing the
manner in which the boulevard is being
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Fell Thirty Feet.

Charles Meyers, painter, living on Jessie
street. met with serious accident yesterday
morning. He was painting house at Fill
more street ana Golden Gate avenue and fell
from scaffold, distance of about thirty feet.
de was picked up in an unconscious condi ton
and taken TO the Receiving Hospital. There
was a lacerated wound on his forehead and il
was thought that his skull was fractured
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Row in a saloon.

James Cooney, cook, went into Third.
street saloon yesterday morning and rails ed a
disturbance. He threw beer glass at the win
dow smashing ii, and when the bartender at
tempted TO eject him he showed fight. When
hostilities had ceased Cooney had a wound on
his forehead and his left wrist and right hand
were cut He was taken to the Receiving
Hospital, where his wounds were dressed. and
q charge of malicious mischief was entered
againt him at the City Prison.
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necessary to complete the work. Yesterday
afternoon the fund stood as follows:
Previously acknowledged, S26,9 ,913 Al; In
dfanapois Furniture Company. $25; Improved
Order Red Men, $95 95; cash. "Alvarado,"
through The CALL, 81; grand total S27 O36 10
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ADVANCES made on furniture and pianos with
or without removal. Noonan. 1017-1073 Mis- sion.
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DAMASK TOWELS, pure fax,
22x44 inches. 2 rows OF open
work, co ored borders, knottsd
fringe, as absoroe mt as a sponge.
At HalliS ..........
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DAMASK TOWELS, pure linen,
24xjU inches. knotted fringe,
colored orders, q big towel, a
good towel a cheap towel, were
25c Special
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HALES MAIL ORDER STORE

store within Our great mailing de-
partment busy with orders from hundreds of
country friends. New Zealand, Alaska, Homo.
lulu, south America, all contribute their or ers.
SEND for our 12Opage Fash on Book and Gaia
logue, 1909 illustrations free 10 the country Let
us be your agents here Write us for Iniormatfo
Call and see US when visiting here. Orier by mail
anything advertise.
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BLEA CHED COTTON KITCH-
EN- TOWELS. 15X2S inches, a
bargain All week .............
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HALE BROS.
Towel Talk
For Economy Seekers.

DAMAsK TOWELS, pure linen,
1Sx39 inches, Knotted fringe, Ia
coIorei border, towel that Is -
goon. Al HaIe's Fac
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HALE BROS.

CHANGEABLE TAFF f T A
SILKS-l9 inches, l0c yard
less han the regular price. Spe-
cial ---
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FROM DOMESTICS.

BLEACHED HEMSTITCHED SHEETS
Good, eavy, closely woven muslin,
yards wide. de.........,..45c each
IA yards wide each
212 yards wide de..............55c each
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HUCK TOWELS, hemstitched.
1895 inches, c.ose woven
2Oc towel, 10 Ce on sale all week
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CLOAK DEPARTMENT.

LADIES' BLACK FIGURED Dali
PACA Sk1RTS-F tilted to you OG.15
free, thoroughly well M ade. At tDZ-
Hale's. Observation-Disclosures. ... Each
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SEVENTY-FIVE CENT FANCY
SILkS-l9 inches wide. very
heavy. all the newest colors.
Snaoial
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(All Skirts thoroughly lined with perca-
line and bound with VeIvet).
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LADIES SERGE SKIRTS A
heavy serge skirt in black or Gn $50
navy, for outing, work or street, ID D
very serviceable. at Hale's... Each
Evening star., 1897-01-23

near his house and saw him standing on
his veranda and lashing himself to one of
the posts with a rope. sung out to him to
come with me If he valued his life. He
only said, in mighty cool and condescend-
ing way, L don't remember asking you for
any advice. my man.. That made me so
mad that l didn't waste any more time or
breath on him. but lifted the cover Off my
pit. jumped into it without stopping to use
the ladder. and pulled the cover on again.
BY this time the cyclone was making
itself heard First, there was low. rum
bling sort of sound. like a railroad train
makes when it is a good way Off 1t grew
louder and louder. till 1t got to be kind
of shrieking roar. like hundred big church
organs mixed up with a dozen or two steam
whistles. 1t was as black night in that
pit. except when the lightning flashed, for
there is always more or less lightning play
ing around the funnel of cyclone. 1t
seems If expense was spared in max
ing a cyclone various and entertaining
possible. Just when the roaring was at
its loudest there came awful crash that
made the earth shake. and then the sound
began to weaken. and in a few minutes 1t
had died away. and the place was as st!ll
as mans house when he comes back to it
from his wife's funeral
' So far. so good1 says to myself. Now
I'll Chamber out and see if there Is any
thing left of my house, and the mules. ard
Evening star., 1897-01-23
An ECCENTRIC PRINCE.
He Was "a MOnoma nfnc On the Subject
Of Horrible Decorations.

Of Horrible Decoration
From the Iond,n Standard
The Sicilian Prince OF Nalguanera at the
beginning of this century was a monoma-
MAC of a rare description. He succeeded 10
one of the largest fortunes i'm Europe: his
habits were studious and economical: he
had no children: but I'm spite of these ad-
vanlages for saving money he contrived to
ruin himself. The prince had fancy for
grotesque statues with which he adorned
the stately mansion of his forefather
Many descriptions of the place are extant
for it vas renowned through Europe in its
day.
Brydone visited it and he has left us a
pleasant picture. Approaching by a noble
avenue one found the palace encircled by
an army of monsters. The abSurdity
of the uretched imagination which created
them Is not less astonishing Than lis won
Gerful fertility, says Brydone. Some
were compound of five or six animals
which have no resemblance I'm nature. In
one instance the head of a lion was set
upon the neck of goose. with the body OF
a lizard. the eye of goat and the tail of a
fox Upon the back of this object stood
another with five or six heads and grove
OF horns. There is no kind of horn in the
world that he che prince has not collected
and his pleasure is to see them all flourish
ing on The same skull
OF such horrors there were 600 in the ave-
nue. and the courtyard alone when Brydone
saw the collection The prince maint aimed
a regiment of sculptors. who We're reward
Ell proportionately to their success in de-
signing new and unparalleled combina tions.
The effect upon a superstitious peasantry
may be imagined. So serious was the agi-
tatlon that the government of Sicily threat
ened to demolsh the wondrous array sew
eral times. but Prince of Naguanera was
not TO be offended in those days without
the grayest cause.
Matrons of Palermo would not take their
drives i'm that direction. fearing dire re-
suits. The inside of the house was &C.
centric in another fashion. Here the mad
man diverted himself with columns and
arches and pyramids of cups and saucers.
teapots and the like, cemented together.
One column. for instance. started from a
great porcelain vase of shape familiar in
bed rooms, but not elsewhere: the shaft
was teapots, with the spouts protruding
graduated I'm size up to a capital of flower
pots.
The openings of windows were encrusted
in this manner. the chimney pieces We're
loaded up TO the ceiling and the magnfi-
cent rooms of the palace were divided by
fantastic arches of the same construction.
China was rare and fine in Sicily at that
cay, and most of the pieces thus treated had
great value. The princes bed room was a
chamber of supreme horror. Reptiles, aw-
ful beyond conception. had their home
there. ntermiXed with pleasing busts and
statues which, If turned, showed a skele-
ton or hideous representation of decrepi
tlde. We have never observed an allusion
to these things in a modern work of travel.
Perhaps the government destroyed them
at the princes death, beggared by his
mania.
Evening star., 1897-01-23
Is Cyclin9* HeRithy4
From the London Lancet.

From the London Lancet.
The lengthy correspondence which has re-
Gently appeared in the columns of a con-
temporary has, as might have been ex-
pected, elected a. wonderful diversity Of
opinions. Some have nothing but good to
say of the cycle; others record all sorts of
aches, pains and nervous affections coming
on after ride One rider attributes these
entirely to tte use of the bicycle as apart
from the tricycle., owing to the unconscious
strain involved in keeping the former up-
right. The plain truth seems to us to rest
upon very simple basis. Cycling is not
good for everybody, and If abused is good
for nobody Within the last two wears
people of all ages have rushed into cycling
in the most haphazard way. They have
regarded neither age nor previous habits
nor their physical condition. Small won
der. then, that many have found evil rather
than good come from an exercise which in
evitably demands heavy expenditure both
of nervous and muscular force. Probably
just the same outcry would have arisen if
the same class had suddenly taken to run
ming or rowing or mountain climbing with
out any previous preparation. IT IS easy
to preach moderation, but it must be re-
membered that moderation is a term vary
ing with the Individual, and every one finds
for himself how much he can do. With re-
gard to the strain involved In keeping I'D a
bicycle and keeping lookout it is prog
ably no more than that involved in walk
ing down the strand without .'cannoning''
against others. but many of US have done
the one from childhood, while the other is
but newly acquired accomplishment.
There is no need to make bicycle a very
wheel of Ixion, especially with safety
for 1t is easy to get off and equally easy to
remount: therefore the cry, You must go
on you will fall. seems to us to ignore
the fact that we are reasoning animals
Evening star., 1897-01-23

lot in the whole state. I never said any
thing to him. except to remark. also In
general sort Of way. that II any rascaiiy
old sailor should set foot on my land he
would have a hole bored through him SO
quick that he would never know what hurt
him. Neither of us felt that 1t would be
judicious to quarrel, you understand. ana
so we confined ourselves to remarks that
neither of US was obliged to take any no.
tice of.
Il waited about an hour after the cap
tain had gone, thinking that he might turn
back in hopes of catching me in the act of
nieddling with his house. At the end of an
hour 1 felt safe enough for it was certain
that he must have gone on to Lucullus. and
that he couldn't get back before dark So
1 called the men that were working on my
house and we lacked Martins shanty up
with the hydraulic jack, and had her on
rollers in next to no time. Then l hitched
the oxen to her with a double OK chain
and started her toward the road. In the
course of an hour I had her planted square
across the middle of the road, SO that no.
body could possibly get by her, and had
my fence put up again, and the ground
smoothed out where it had been cut up by
the rollers, and then I sat down and
waited. for the captain to return.
ut VS. 10 o'clock and the night was
pitch dark, when I heard Martin coming
along the road and singing. I knew from
his style Of singing that he had filed him.
self up with whisky. and l calculated that
he would be considerably surprised when
he found out what had happened. He
never saw the house till he had walk ed
bang UP against 1t with considerable Of a
crash. Presently he says to himself,
Here's house anchored right in the fair
way, and with no riding light displayed!
1hishyer's pretty state of things! Then
he halls the house in his loudest voice. and
wants to know how she Is. and where she
Is from. and where she is bound to. and
what sort of an everlasting fool her cap
tain might call himself. Not getting any
answer. he swore he would climb aboard
and wake the anchor watch with a belay-
ing pin. But after fumbling around for
some time. and hammering on the door, and
smashing few panes of glass, new idea
struck him. 'Thishyer's a derelict: that's
what 1t is said he. I'll just stand by her
till daylight and see if a salvage job can't
be made out of it That was the last that
Evening star., 1897-01-23

and when the coroner broke into the house
few days later, he found Martin lying on
the floor dead.
"Yes, sir, what with cyclones, and cloud
bursts, and prairie fires, and blizsards, and
such like. northern Minnesota is a middling
lively place. However, we folks that live
here never allows ourselves to worry over
what may happen tomorrow, and then
again, may not happen for the next twenty
years. Besides, 1t wonld take first-class
cyclone, or a tremendous big food to move
a house that Is built as solid as this hotel
is. SO you needn't be afraid that you'll find
yourself sailing through the air. or floating
down the Pomponoosucetha is so long as
you pays your board regular. as am free
to say you always has done, and presume
you always will do"
Evening star., 1897-01-23

From the Chicago Record.
Il had heard of chatting dishes for years,
said Smiley Williams. but the one l saw
the other night for the first time fioored
me completely.
Il never thought much about the blamed
things. but somehow l supposed a chatting
dish was some sort of concern that grated
things-somethng that rubbed together and
mashed things
The other night, though. Bolton and I
went into Madison street restaurant for
dinner. You know 7 always had a sneak
ing liking for hash of any kind and so does
Bolton. Bolton ordered turkey hash for
two and the waiter brought it on in a swell
sort of silver dish nearly tall as a cake
basket 1T had tight cover. and when we
opened it it steamed like forty-horse-
power boiler blowing off.
Il loaded up Bolton's plate, and in the
first pass at it he took the skin off his
tongue. it was so hot.
- Just like these internal places Bolton
groWled: anything you've got TO eat is
blistering hot, while coffee is always stone
cold :s.
After awhile Bolton took some more
nash and burned his tongue again.
Holy Moses he said. what's got into
that hash?
Il told him nobody was expected to know
anything about restaurant hash. especially
the fellow who was eating it. but he wasn't
satisfied.
We'll. we kept on eating hash until we
had enough. and do you know that hash
left in the dish was hotter than it was at
the start?
Well. said Bolton. i wouldn't have be-
ifeved my eyes. but with most of the skin
off my tongue I've got to give it ,Ip' Then
he called the waiter.
Say, he said. in a low tone, ''En give
you quarter if youth tell me what in
blazes is the matter with that hash;'
8 Beg pahdon, suh.'
." What keanS has AL bot
Why, sab. that's a chatting dish, sah'
That's how ! found out that a chafing
dish is a silver fruit stand with ID fire built
under it..