The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-23

reached San Francisco for this great
gathering entered the city over the
tracks of this one road On the north
ern division alone S3S cars, containing
some %, 600 people, were handled; and
many thousand more exeursionists
reached the city by the southern route,
having come to Southern California
over the southln route of this COM
pany, or by the Santa Fe. Several
accidents occurred when the excursion
trains started from Chicago and other
Eastern points, but after the excur-
sionists We're turned over to the South
ern Pacific not single accident Of any
sort marred the pleasure of the trip.
And all this was done over a single
track road and at a time when the
lines were crowded with special ex-
cursionS for the Fourth, the Bryan
meetings, and the Trans Mississippi
Congress. In San Francisco the COM
pany maintained a bureau of infor-
nation and distributed immense guam
titles of attractive advertising matter
setting forth the beauties of not only
the resorts about San Francisco, but
of Yosemite and Southern California
While the convention was in session
twenty stereopticon exhibitions were
given of California views. Southern
California was generously treated in
the views shown and several fine slides
of Riverside were included The exhi-
billions We're attended sometimes by
lO,OO0 people. In various ways special
efforts We're made by the company to
advertise Southern California. And as
result of these efforts fully 1000
tickets We're sold for side trips to
Southern California, TO excursionists
who came West over the northern
route. OF course the railroad was not
playing the part of the philanthropist
but liberal. judicious adver-
Using, such as has been done by the
company in connection with this con-
Vention, costs the. State nothing and
benefits it greatly. The railroad shares
in the benefit, but that is no reason
why We should not acknowledge the
good results that have come to the
State because of the enterprise and eff
ficiency which have been shown by the
railroad officials in handling all the
thousands of Endeavorers from all over
the country who have been our honored
guests this month.
STOVE TO COOL THE HOUSE.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: A stove has
been invented to cool rooms in summer
Salt, a small quantity of ice and a
patent chemical are used, and the stove
becomes so cold that, if a hand be
placed upon it, the skin will instantly
blister. AS salt is cheap the chem
fcal not dear, and as the stove can
make its own ice in the oven, the de-
vice is one that will be likely to come
into general use in warm climates 1t
may seem a joke to some people to
think of cooling a house, but it is just
as logical as overheating it in winter
The house of the future will have re-
frigerating appliances as well as huge
furnaces in the cellar If it is neces-
sary to keep warm in winter as a mat
ter of comfort, it is equally important
to sleep in cool room when the ther-
mometer is raging.
THEY DO READ THERE.
MERGED Sun: Don't make the foolish
statement that you don't read the ad-
vertisements in the newspaper you
take. Fully 80 per cent of all news
paper subscribers do read the adver-
tisements; not carefully, perhaps, as
they would read the particulars of an
elopement, but they invariably glance
through the advertising columns, and
If the eye happens to light on some
thing attractive, they read every word
of it. AS matter of fact, advertise
ment writing has come to be such an
art that a progressive mind cannot
keep up with the progress of thought
even in a general way without read
ing advertisements. Nowadays the
careful reading of advertisements is an
indication of progress and intelligence
THE REASON WHY.
Stockton Independent: The man who
says the doubling of the price of wool
is due to speculation and not to the
prospective tariff should try his hand
at telling what caused the speculation
Not a cent has been added to the
tariff on WOOL cries one fog horn
That is true, but the moral certainty
that 10 cents a pound will be added
in a very short time has doubled the
market price. The free trade editor
who writes with his scissors has been
echoing this silly sentence, hoping that
voters are so stupid as to be deceived
by it. Every sheep man in the whole
country knows why he gets twice as
much for his wool as he could a year
ago. 1t is because Mckinley was elect
ed President with a Congress to back
him in resuming the healthful policy of
protection to American Industries.
COLONIZING BOYS.
"a nd hn nF
ing poor boys from the great cities
upon cheap farming lands, which has
been so successful in the case of the
George Junior Republic of New York
City, is a growing one. In ST. Louis
there is just being formed an associa-
ton which will raise $4,000 to buy
farm near the city where orphans
and abandoned children may be taught
agricultural labor and be exercised in
the art of self-government according to
the methods instituted in the famous
New York colony. 1t would not be a
bad idea if this plan of intoxicating the
idea of mutual responsibility should be
introduced into such State establish
ments as the Whittier School and the
lone School in California.
GOOD AND BAD TIMES.
San Jose Herald: Advices from the
newer States of the Northwest are to
the effect that the farmers have for
some time past been paying off their
mortgages and that the amount of them
has been greatly cut down from what
it was a few years ago. This looks as
though the farmers of those States had
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