The San Francisco call., 1897-01-26


| close the eighteenth cen tury SO the year 1901
will be the first in the nineteenth century.
! HEIGHT OF BUILDINGs--A. R. T. c., City. The
| height of the Palace Hotel above the level OF
| the street Is 120 feet. The new building cor
ner Third and Market streets being erected by
| Claus Spreckels will be sixteen stories high.
| To the top of the main cornice the height will
| be 21O feet and to the top of the dome the
| height will be 800 feet.
THE POPULAR voTE-F F.. City. The popu-
lar vote for President tial electors at the last
held Presidential election was as follows: Nc
Kinley Republican). 7,105, $50; Bryan Demo
craft, 6, ,454 ,943; Palmer (National Democracy,
| 132, $40; Levering (Prohibitionist), 13l, ,74S;
Bentley (NationaD, 1873; Matchett Nabor),
Kinley over all, 1856, 265; total popular vote of
| 1896, 13 S75 653 The official vote of each
! State is announced by the Secretary of State.
| THEATER ON KEA STREET-C. F., CITY.
| There was a variety theater in the upper part
| of the building on the northeast corner OF
Clay and Kearny streets, opened in 1864 by
| Ferdinand Gilbert as s'The Olympic" 1t was
subsequently known as "Gilberts Melodeon. I"
and afserward as "Bert's Melodeon," E. G.
| Bert being then the proprietor. 1t was closed
in the latter part of 1869 or early part of 1870
| Joe Murphy, the comedian, played in the
! Olympic, appearing there in minstrel special
| ties, one of his greatest hits being his per
/ formanee on the ''com bonicum." At the same
! time there were among the performers at the
| Olympic Lotta Crahtree (Little Lotta), the
| Worrell Sisters, Ben Cotton, Maggie Moore and
| others.
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| FREEMAsoNRY-A. T. D., Los Angeles, Cal.
| There is no certainty as to the date of the orr
| gin OF Freemasonry. The difficulty of arriving
at the precise time, place or circums tance in
which Missionary or its true prototype began
has been encountered by every writer on the
| subject. 1t is claimed that recent explora-
tions in Egypt accord with the tradition that
| the order was in existence when the pyramids
| were built Modern Freemasonry began in
London June "a, 1717, 'hlgh noon of the year,
the day of light and of roses" when the four
| London lodges, having created themselves
| into grand lodge, named their first grand
master. In England there is claim that the
Inls is a subject that cannot be answered in
the space allotted to this department 1t is an
| interesting one, and the writings of Anderson
ana OF Ere ston, which go deep into the origin
OF Ine order, will give you a great deal of in
| formation.