The San Francisco call., 1897-10-27

u toMn nat - to be lound In any of the books OF
reference.
rSeERso1L-G. E. NJ, Watsonville, Cal TINS
correspondent wishes to know where ne eau
fnd "IngersolPs address at the toIno ,is
Nsnoleon % Can any of the readers OF thlS
de par tment tell
HARyEsrER-V P, CITY. The largest har-
roSters now in general use cut width OF
thirtv-two feet Some time ago one was trleo
in san JOAQUIN Valley that was 1ntendeu 10
cut width OF ifty-two feet. but IL proved
failure.
MISSION STREET CARs-P. +. s.. City. The cars
of tho utssion.,tr.eJ electric line weigh about
- 80 ond the small ones about seven tons.
Tbe weight of motors is about two TONS. ne
.rafgbt of ca ble-cars of the Market-street sys-
tenn IS about i've TONS
WAGEs-su bscriber, Point Arena, Cal Inc
wages paid to engineers, oilers, ete'' are 'ho
come on all steamers, because they are regu-
Lated nv the Association OF engineers As "
The salaries of O; her officers you should olrect
vour inquiry to the owners OF the vessels you
wish to know about
VIVA RANcH-V. P, City. Vina ranch IN
Tehama County, Cal, has IN ADDITION W
very large acreaEe planted ID wheat, ADTue %so
1000 acres set out IN vines anu nanacitv Of
wine cellars on the ranch have cdPacitS2 300 U1
more than 1OOO, 600 of gallons ABOUT zoo
persons are employed on the ranch'
POSTAGE srAMPs-Mrs. X, City. The ques-
ton. 'Is large quantity of Cancelled Unlteo
States postage stamps of any value Z? ealnoe car
be answered. Stamps are only Faluape ~ ~
the ratio of their scarcity. and 10 determIue II
your collection is OF any value eAcn stamp
would have 10 be passed upon separately
HYDROGEN PERox1DE-Dash. City. II you
have been SO unfortunate as to bleach your
hair with hydrogen peroxide this department
is sorry for you, but it cannot advise you as !3
the best method to tore your hhII W =.
hoff
one who makes a specially OF reatns oot tn
hair. A newspaper might give you recipe
that would Work well In one case anu III
another it might prove positive injury
ToNNAGE-H. E. P, City. The six cities IN
the United safes where the greatest amount
of tonnage entered during 1896 were: New
York, 6,911 1872; Boston, 1,757,2Sl; Phiia-
dolphia, 1.416OsI; sen Francisco. 1921. lS6;
New Orleans, l, OIL AIS, and Baltimore, S9o,-
o93. The six cities from which the greatest
were: New York, 6, $50, ,614; Boston, 1928
006; Philadelphia, l.214,6S3; San Francisco,
1, l65,799; New Orleans, 1,077,331; Baltl-
more. l, ,O67,5
IRoNCLADs-O. s, AIcatraz Island, Cal. In
1912 au American named John Stevens, hav-
ing taken up his fathers ideas on protected
floating batteries, proposed 10 the United
States Government the construction OF an
ironclad ship, impervious to the artillery OF
that time. He began the construction of such
a vessel 420 feet long and 50 feet in breadth,
susceptible OF changed buoyancy by means OF
CON partmeuts fitted to receive or reject water
at pleasure, and which made the resistance OF
water q means OF protection from shot and
made the guns avallab in every direction.
This ship underwent various notifications,
passed into the hands OF his brother, Edward
A., who offered it in vain TO the
Government during the CIVIL War and
5equeathed il at his death 10 the
STATE of New Jersey with $1,000, 900 to
compile te II. The French were the first to ap-
ply in q practical shape the idea which origi-
mated with stevens. During the Crimean war
that nation built five floating batteries, clad
with AS inch iron on 8-inch oak backing.
The first OF these was the Tonnante, sixteen
guns, launched at b. est March. 1855. Three
OF these vessels took part in the bonn oardment
OF Kinburn, in the Black Sea, on the 18th of
October of the year named.