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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
FREIGHT FILLS
ALL THE FLOORS
One Hundred New Box
Cars for the Valley
Railroad.
Directors Vote to Doub'e the
Rolling Stock of the Com.
peting Line.
Extension to Mcj we Considered to
Connect With the Atlantic
and Pacific.

That business is getting brisker on the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railroad is indicated by the action of the
board of directors, which met yesterday
afternoon. So much trafiic has been taken
from the Southern. Pacific Railroad Com
pany that q considerable addition to the
rolling stock of the company was founo
necessary to handle it. The directors
yesterday decided to double the rolling
stock of the road for the handling of
freight.
TIE board was in session about four
hours, during which the entire situation
with reference to the extension from
Fresno 10 Bakersfield and the building OF
the line from Bakersfield TO Mojave. to
connect with the Santa Fe line, was under
consideration.
Vice President Robert Watt had nothing
to say concerning the action of the board
in relation to the Santa Fe connection,
but that the board did discuss the matter
10 considerable extent was admitted.
The sale Of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad has been postponed until about
the middle of February. In the event OF
the absorption of the Atlantic and Pacific
by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
system, which. it is considered, will take
place beyond the disability OF a doubt,
the toard at its next meeting will con-
slider the matter of the construction of the
line from Bakersfield tn Mojave. This ex-
tension construc ted-either by the Valley
road or the Santa Fe, or jointly-will be
the connecting link that will give Califor-
MIA its first competing transcontinental
railroad.
At the NEE ting yesterday the directors
decid TO build 100 new boxcars to meet
the demands OF the freight-snippers. The
company's rolling stock has, since regular
transportation was accepted, been kept
with its journals warm, and the directors
yesterday provided for the construction
of 100 new boxcars and ordered fifty of
them built at once. They will be built i n
San Francisco. This means an imme-
diate expenditure of ahoul $4,000.
The rollinG-stock capacity of the Valley
road now comprises 100 boxcars and $50
fatcars The fifty new cars ordered are
OF the combination pattern, suitable for
the transportation of fruit, wheat or live
stock. Including the new order, the roll
ing stock of the road for the 125 miles
from Stockton to Fresno comprises 200
boxcars and $50 hatcars.
The running of Sunday trains to Fresno
and the gradual increase of passenger
traffic it is considered may soon necessi-
tate the ordering of additional passenger
coaches,
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MASONIC CEMETERY.
The Annual Meeting of the Lot Owner
CQmmittAa ON Prnxiea N2rnad

The Annual Meeting OF the Lot Owners
Committee on Proxies Named.
The annual meeting of the lot-owners
in the Masonic Cemetery was called for
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the Ma
sonic Temple. There were present large
number of persons interested. and the
meeting was called to order by Henry L.
Davis, president of the board of trustees.
Julius Reimer, ex-Justlce of the Peace,
made motion that temporary presi-
dent be chosen, but the chair ruled the
motion out of order.
Charles L. Patton opposed the PROPOSE
ton of Mr.. Reimer. on the ground that
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Guardians Of the Public Health.

The following have been appointed to con.
stitute the pure food committee of the Coun.
Gil of Associated Industries: Isidor Jacobs,
San Francisco Fruit Exchange; B. n. Rowley.
State Board of Hortcu ture; David Rich,
State Development Committee; J. A. Filcher
State Board of Trade; James w. Kerr, Manu-
facturers' and Producers Association; +. J.
Healy, Mechanics Institute; Charles r. Allen,
Chamber of Commerce; James A. Wills IN,
Builders Exchange; w. w. Montague. Cali.
fornia Miners Association. This committee
has been appointed for the purpose of acting
in an advisory capacity on all subjects con.
corning the adulteration of foods.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
BRIGHT COLORS
FOR THE PULPIT
Rev. DR.. Frank S. Ford's
Ideas on Dress
Reform.
Pastor of the First Christian
Church Would Don Ruby
Knickerbockers.
SAYS the Louis XIV Mode of Costume
Would Be Decided Improvement
on the Present Style.

Rev. DR.. Ford thoroughly approves OF a
dress reform for men, and will probably
be one of the first here to introduce knick-
erbockers as the latest form of full dress.
DR.. Ford is bright. up-to-date young
man, who believes that TO be C ristian
and preacher of the Gospel it does not
necessarily follow that one must be of a
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
Suit by a Conductor.

A. W. Nixon has brought suit in the Jus.
tees court TO recover $299 80 from the
Guatemala Central Railroad Company. Mr..
Nixon sets up that he was employed by the
corporation TO go to Guatemala-as a railway
Conductor at a salary of 5000 per month and
with al agreement that should he desire to
return at the end of twelve months his passage
back to San Francisco would be furnished free.
At the end of six months OF so he was dis
missed. Therefore he sues.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
SAVING ON GAS LIGHTS.

Resolution Adopted by the Supervisors
viii Save $4,000 Per Annum.
The Board of Supervisors by adopting
resolution Incorporating the recommends
tions made by Colonel c. L. Taylor, Gas
and Water Inspector, expect 10 save about
$4,000 yer annum. Colonel Taylor has for
some time been studying into the possi-
bility OF dispensing with some gas lights
which lave burned close to Actric lights.
He figured ont that lib gas tights could he
dispensed with and estima ed that $500
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03

could be saved that way during the re-
mainder of the fiscal year.
Mayor Phelan, who favored this move,
thinks that with the increased mum ber of
nights each month near the time of the
new moon, when the lamps will not be
lighted, will reach per annum a saving of
$500. The lights will be dropped at once
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
SOMETHING QUITE NEW.

Sch ool- Children Invited to Write Let
ters to Missouri Children.
The school-children of San Francisco
may have chance 10 display their ability
in a new direction. Certain pupils in the
fifth grade, to the number of four at one
time, may be invited TO write letters to be
read aloud before the principals and chit
dren of the public schools Of Sprin g6 cid.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
HEALTH DEPARTMENT,

VARIOUS hepor0s SuDmltte0 Which Re-
veal Interesting Facts OF Various
Kinds.
Health Inspector Dockery has reported
to the Board of Health that twenty-four
arrests were made last month IN his de-
partment, and that there were five con.
victions. Market Inspector Ben Davis re-
ports five arrests and four convictions.
and fines amounting to 1920. A great
amount of work was done which was
statistically enumerated. Other reports
showed that last month there were l02
cases of measles in the City and -four
d saths from that cause. There were 1l2
interments in the City Cemetery. The
County Hospital has 944 inmates. The
Receiving Hospital treated 469 cases.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
ADJUSTMENTS.

:. ANlISENAENT y.
BALDWIN THFATER MARY Stuart"
'Co1rMR1A The Prodigal Father
CGIUMB1A fHEATFR.-Symp phony Concert on
Thursday afternoon, February
sMoEosCo Ia RA-t1 UsA-' The Westerner"
NIcAzAR THEATER.--"A Legal Wreck"
T1vorI trFRA HOUSE, Aladdin; or, The
Wonderful Lamp.
iCHPEFrAt-H High-Class Vaudeville
TIE C1UTEs AND SKATING RTSK-DaiIy at
Eaight streeG, one block of the Park
sUTRo BATHs-Bathing and performanceA
o PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB-Races TO-DAY.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
WAsHINeroN. Februarr

EdtOdrd Rosenberg, Secretary Labor Council,
San Francisco: The voice of your meeting to-
night will help us abolish slavery of American
sailors. JAMES G. MAGUIRE
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: The reading was roundly applauded.

Mayor Phelan was introduced and
warmly greeted. He said he was a lands
man and could no: speak as one familiar
with the ways of those who sail the sea.
but he came at the invitation of the secre-
tary of the Labor Council as Mayor of the
City to give his official approval TO the
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
KEW TO-DAY,

To GRoCERs WHO ARE IN
BUSINESS TO STAY:
What makes people buy
of you? What makes you
buy what you buy yourself !:
Conhdence-mostly.
Good tea at a fair profit
will give you the confidence
of your customers, as far as
tea is concerned. And really
you can't deny that ScAal
Ang's Best is the best
money's-worth of tea.
A ASchilling & Company
San Francisco 52o
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03

An Attachment Filed.
An attachment in favor of R. s Graf was
filed yesterday upon the store OF Frank Nc
Mann of 100 stockton street for S346O
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
WASHINGTON. Fehrnarr 9

2.
E. Rosenberg. ETC.: Abolition of imprisonment
for violation OF civil contracts and enactment
OF legislation relieving seamen from unjust
discrimination constitute reforms demanded
by our civilization. VIII exert myself to pro
cure these results. STEPHEN NJ. WHITE
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03

Take layative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
AUCTION Ais

TeY FRANK w. BUTTERFIELD-ThIs day Feb
ru ary 3, Furniture. at1717 Haight ST. at O'Clock
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03

&HH Stop every ache and psin quick
q VI as an electric flash with the cele-
brated Collins VoItaic Electric
AkYR R Piasters, greatest pain -alleviat-
\EEP ing muscle-strengthening plas-
- VI i ter yet made.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-16

with the picture of the Empire State Ex-
press, which is seen to approach and pass
at the rate of nearly sixty miles an hour.
1t probably never ran backward as fast
as that, but it could be made to do so
on canvas. The last car would appear first
in the picture, and finally the engine, the
whole train vanishing a mile or so down
the track, where, in the true picture, it
first came into view. In like manner the
sound-money parade might be turned into
farce for here the men would be seen
actually walking backward.
The biograph, cinematograph, and other
machines of that nature merely show kin
etoscope pictures enlarged by means OF
stereopticon lens All the pictures shown
in the theater are of moving objects taken
while the machine itself is at rest; but
double effect may be produced by having
the machine move too. A good example Oh
this double effect could be made by plac-
ing the machine on the front of Broad
way cable car and making a trip OF sew
eral blocks down Broadway, or better
still, by taking the curves at Fourteenth
street. This picture thrown on screen
in darkened theater while some one
shouted hold fast would make a scene
familiar to every New Yorker as the
view, looking through the front window
of the car, would be naturally depicted. II
is probable that cinematograph and do
graph operators have refrained from THESE
amusing exhibitions, as the effect wouln
not be required to explain the reason ior
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-16

"Several years ago I began TO suffer with
some kind of stomach trouble. Ny food did
not seem TO agree with me and | was unable
to do any farm work. Food that / ate at
times caused severe pains and cramps in my
stomach and would cause it to SWELL | at
first began to doctor with physician who
was travelling through the country, but he
did me no good. l then went to Mt. Vernon
and consulted one of the best physicians in
the city who pronounced my case abscess Of
the liver and began to treat me by first blister.
ing my right side and back. He then gave
me one or two different kinds of medicine all
of which afforded me but temporary relief.
After doctoring with him for FIVE or six
months without receiving any permanent
benefit, tried two other physicians with the
same result
"a year ago last February, I was con.
fined to my bed and suffered one of the
worst attacks l had ever had, and while
doetoring with one of the aforesaid doctors.
| read in paper of the wonderful cures that
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
were accomplishing and the testimonials Of
people who had taken them and been re.
stored to health, so l decided as soon as |
was able to get to town, would buy box
and try them.
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Mr.. j. P. UtIey, of Mt. Vernon, In-
terviewed by Reporter.
He TELLS OF HIS SUFFERINGS
WITH TROUBLE OF TIVE STOMACH,
How He Fought it for Neutrality-suspicious. Tried t.
Cure Him but Failed Finally He Discov-
Remedy and is Cured.

" In few weeks was able 10 90 out ana
accordingly went to w. H.. Fogas' drug store
and procured a box of Pink Pills which
took home. On my way home | began to
study about taking the pills, and became
afraid to try them as | had taken other
patent medicines and been doctoring with
trst-class physicians. so | laid the box away
where it stayed until last September.
then began to take one after each meal.
The third day after | had been taking them
feel better and relish my food, and strange
thing had not experienced during my three
years illness
After taking i've boxes of the pills l now
feel entirely well and am not bothered with
my old trouble at ALL my only trouble now,
Is, that my stomach is not big enough to hold
what desire to eat | am also able to do
as much work as any man Of my age.
" Since | haze received permanent relief
and believe myself cured, | have recon-.
mended the Pills to "A number of my friends.
This is the first proprietary medicine / ever
recommended In my life, but | am happy to
do it If it will help any sufferer to regain
health and bodily ctivity.
- occasionally take some of the pills, but
not regularly. 1t is said the pills are stimu.
lating, but | cannot say that they give me
any such sensations that | am aware Of
They merely cure and that is enough.
lSignedl ~. p. UTLEY"
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
sth day of August 1896.
JOHN B. DAVIS,
Justice Of the Peace.
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From me Sun, M. rernon. Ind.

Mr.. ]. P. Utley aged sixty-four years,
whose post-offiee address is Mt. Vernon, Ind,
has been resident of Posey County for forty
eight years. and is one of Posey County S
most prominent and prosperous farmers. Mr..
Utley lives in Lynn township, about seven
miles northeast of this city, and he desires to
speak through the columns of the Sun a few
words in behalf of famous remedy for dis
eases of the blood, so that his many friends
may profit by an experience which he had.
SRid Mr.. Utley few days ago to a reporter
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-16
The Sad Condition of One Of Indiana'a
Fair Young Ladies'.
JOHN B. DAVIS,
Justice Of the Peace.
From the Ne,es, Indianapolis. Ind.

from We Net0S, Indianapolis. Ind.
Probably one of the most direct as we'll
as extraordinary cases where Dr. Williams
Pink Pills was the immediate cause of effect.
ing permanent cure of complete nervous
prostration, is that Of Miss Pearl Hosier,
who lives in the country with her grand.
mother Mrs. Michael Crull, ten miles west
of Richmond, Ind.
Hearing Of the case a reporter visited this
young lady short time ago and learned the
following facts:
Miss Pearl is now in her nineteenth year.
Up to the time that she was fifteen she was
well, stout and very hearty. As she developed
into womanhood a slight twitching of the
nerves and muscles of the hands, arms and
face were noticed, and rapidly became worse
from day TO day. and a disposition was shown
to avoid all company, and she became mel.
ancholy.
The best medical advice was obtained and
she was treated by two physicians. both oI
whom failed in giving her any relief.
1t was while the disease was at its worsi
that her father came across a notice in one
OF the papers of the curative powers Of
the Pink Pills for Pale People. and he al
once procured box for his daughter and
had her brought home. The results were
almost Immediately effectual to the great
JOY of Miss Hosiers friends and relatives
and the establishment Of everybody, all OF
whom are happy in testifying to the same.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give new life and rich.
ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves
They are for sale by all druggists. or NAV bS
had by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine
Company. Schenectady. N. Y, for SOC. oes
box, or six boxes for $3.50.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-16

interment. In many places ii was rumored
that plague patients were buried alive as
may sometimes happen through senseless
alarm ana indecent taste, and thus the
horror OF the distressed people was every
where increased. In Erfurt, after the
churchyard were filed, 1900 corpses We're
thrown into eleven great pits. and the like
might, more or less exactly, be stated with
respect TO all the larger cities. Funeral
ceremonies, the last consolation Of the
survivors were everywhere impractieable.
In all Germany, according to a prOba-
bic calculation, there seem to have died
only l,2l4 434 inhabitants; this country,
however, was more spared than others;
Italy, on the contrary, was most severely
visited. 1t is said to have lost half its in
habtants, and this account is rendered
credible from the immense losses of indi-
vidual cities and provinces, for In Sardinia
and Corsica according 10 the account of
the distinguished Florentine John Villain
who was himself carried off by the Black
Plague, scarcely third part of the popu-
lation remained alive, and it is related of
the Venetians, that they engaged ships
at a high rate to retreat to the islands, so
that after the plague had carried off three
fourths of her Inhabitants that proud city
was left foTlorn and desolate."
Two-thirds of the population of Padua
were missing al the cessation of the
plague, says the same authority, and IN
Florence the publishing of the mortality
figures and the tolling of bells at funerals
were prohibited so that those yet alive
might not be driven to despair.
Nine-tenths of the population of Eng
lana were said to have persisted, an es-
innate which, although manifestly too
high, none the less indicates the unpar-
alleled mortality. A single burial ground
in London contained $1,000 bodies arranged
in layers in large pits. Scotland was free
from the Black Death until the Scots
awaited themselves of the misfortune of
the English to make an invasion of their
territory The Scottish army was almost
destroyed by the plague and the sword,
and the survivors spread the pestilence
through the rest of the country.
The cold of Greenland failed to exempt
1T from the Black Death, and the pesti-
lence made up for it's tardy appearance
in Russia by being unusually destructive.
DIR. Hecker thinks the death of fourth
part of the population to be a moderate
estimate for the entire continent of Eu-
rope. He estimates the population at 100.
00OGO0, so that Europe lost through the
Black Death 25,000000 inhabitants.
The pestilence was followed by remarka-
BILE fecundity in women; marriages were,
almost without exception, prolific, and
double and treble births were frequent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-16
TRICKS WITH THE KINETOsCOPE.
Effects Produced by Reversing the
Film and Varying the Motion.
From the New York Sun.


An odd experiment with the kaleidoscope
took place not long ago In Boston. The
subject was a man eating dinner, and
the film, prepared especially for the occa-
sion, was of unusual length, so that The
whole performance could be recorded. The
man entered the room, and, seating him
self at table, proceeded to cut up the
food. The motion of the fork from the
plate to his lips was carefully recorded un-
ill the last morsel of food had vanished.
Then he arose and walked out of the room.
The series of pictures was then reversed.
1t showed the man entering the room walk
ing backward. He sat down at the table
upon which there was nothing but hare
dishes and proceeded to extract the food
from his lips until he had filled the potato
dish with potatoes and gradually put to-
gether a steak on the platter before him.
Then he calmly backed out of the room,
and the waiter did likewise with the meal
that the man had apparently created.
Exhibitors of the cinematograph and
biograph, and all the other graphs" and
scopes" of the same family are missing
a point here in New York which, If prop
erly brought out, would prove TO be in
interesting part of the performance. The
principle of these machines affords scope
for great deal of novelty, especially
when the ribbon or long film is reversed
and made to run backward, or when the
pictures are produced at varying speeds.
In the case of the photograph little
amusement is afforded by reversing the
cylinder as the result is a condemnation
of disconnected syllables, but as with the
kaleidoscope, q variety OF speeds, from very
fast ID very slow, will give interesting re-
suits Take for example, the picture OF
Niagara falls, where the foam is seen to
rise from the water as IL falls into the
pool below. Here the water would as
cend and run back smoothly over the
brink and disappear in the distance-a be-
wildering effect.
still another novelty might be produced
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-16
LIKE THE BLACK DEATH.
The Plague in India Resembles the
Medieval ScOurge.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The black death, which devastated Eu-
rope in the middle ages, had several symp-
toms in common with the plague now rag
ing in India. Swellngs in the groin were
an especial feature, and it was distinct
lively bubonic plague 1t first appeared
in China about 1916, and, in the course OF
the following year, spread over India and
Asia, and reached Egypt. Caravans were
the principal Instruments of it's communal
cation from one country to another. Ships
carried the contagion from the caravans,
when they reached the sea coast, to con-
stantinople and other Mediterranean ports.
The plague was also brought to Constan-
t.nople from the northern coast of the
Black sea, after 1t had depopulated the
countries through which the routes OF
commerce passed, and it appeared as early
as lS47 in CYPRUS, Sicily, Marseilles ana
some of the Italian seaports. The follow
ing year it appeared in Avignon. and other
cities in the South of France from which
it spread to the North of Italy aud to
Spain.
After spreading over France and Ger
many, the black death finally reached
England in August l34S, eight months af-
ter its appearance in Avignon. 1t did not
reach Sweden until November of the sue
ceedng year. and Russia was exempt I'm,
I'll 1851. more than three years from ito
first appearance in Constantinople. Russia
apparently was infected from the west,
after the pestilence, which had its origl-
nal European focus on the Black sea, had
made the circuit of Europe.
The mortality due to the Black Death Is
almost inconceivable More than 100000
Of people are said to have died i'm China,
ana the deaths in the rest Of Asia were re-
ported to Pope Clement at Avignon to
have numbered 23Si0.OOO. Parts of India
were actually depopulated as they bid fair
to be now. None was left alive in Cara
mania and Caesarea. Tartary, Mesopo-
tama. Syria, and Armenia and other AS
iatic countries are described as being COW
cred with dead bodies. Five hundred died
daily In Aleppo. and % 900 people and most
of the animals died in six weeks in GAIA.
Cairo lost daily, when the pestilence was
at It's height. from 10000 to 5000
Following are figures given in "A treatise
on the Black Death by Dr. }. F. G. Hecker
81 Berlin. an acknowledged authority. of
the mortality In a number Of European
cities:
y Iorehce ''''''''''''''.'''''''+ 6OOW
Venice ...,..... 100 600
Marseiiles, in one month ............ 1000
Slena 7O00
farlS ............,.,.,. ........,......... $1,000
-. BenNs a. 600
ANlsnon ..,........................ 5000
Stiasbourg ..................., 900
lupeck .......................... 5000
btsle li.QuN
llrlurt, al least ......................... 5000
Welmhr 1900
hlMouFb ''t'f''f''''''''''''''....,' $500