The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-12
in the Central block, Oakland. Mrs. s. C..
Sanford is the secretary.


Sanford is the secretary.
A COAL CoMPANY-F. J., City. An
answer to the questions asked In regard
to the coal company named would clearly
be an advertisement of a private enter
prise, and as this department does not
advertise the business Of any company
or firm it cannot furnish the desired infor-
nation.
A TEN-ToN CARS, City. A ten-ton
freightcar will carry 80 barrels of flour, 20
of lime. 70 of salt, 200 sacks of flour, s
cords of wood from so to 100 head or
sheep, so to 60 hogs, Is to 20 head of cat
tie. 10000 pounds of butter, 5000 feet Of
lumber, $40 bushels of wheat, 800 of barley,
$40 of apples, 400 Of corn, 430 of potatoes,
1000 of bran, $50 of oats and 800 OF flax
seed.
THE HELEN w. ALMY-A A. s.. Ala
media, Cal. The Helen W. Almy. Captain
! w. ]. Hogan, which cleared from San
Francisco for Prince William Sound, hav-
ing on board, besides the crew and officers,
thirty miners, bound for Copper River,
was capsized off Point Reyes, Monday
March Il, 1898. and every one on board
was drowned.
CAPTURED AND DESTROYED-A. s.,
Stockton, Cal. AS yet no official list Of
vessels captured and of those destroyed
by the United States in the war with
Spain has been published. A person with
time and inclination can obtain an ap-
proximately accurate list by scanning the
daily papers from the 22d of April. 1898.
when the Buena Ventura. the first vessel,
was seized by the United States.
AN ENLISTED MANS. P, City. If
| a married man enlisted in the volunteer
service of the United States during the
war with Spain and made false represen-
tations as to the fact of marriage, the
matter should be reported to the head
quarters of the Department Of the Pa
ciic, in the Phelan building. If, since
his enlistment he has neglected his fam
lily and failed to make any provision for
the support Of his children, then the mat
ter should be drawn to the attention or
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children.
RELIGION OF PRESIDENTS.A. R.,
City Religion is not a qualification for
the Presidency. of the United States.
man of any religion may be nominated
for the Office. The religion of those who
have held that Office is as follows: Epis-
copahans-Washingto Madison, Monroe,
W. H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore,
Pierce and Arthur; PresDyterians-Jack-
son, Polk, Buchanan, Cleveland and b
Harrison; MISUNDERSTANDING. Johnson,
Grant Hayes and Mckinley; Congrega-
tionalists-J. Adams and J. Q; Adamsi
Liberal - Jefferson; Dutch Reformed
Church-Van Buren,; Church of the Dis
cipies-Garfield.
ROBIN ADAIR-The Reader, City. The
author of the song. Robin Adair," that
is the popular edition, is not known.
There is no record of the authors name.
The air, which is the Irish one of EILEEN
Aroon,' first became popular in England
in the latter part of the eighteenth CEN
fury. English words were written for 1t
and there are several versions, all having
Robin Adair as d refrain. Burns wrote a
Scottish version, but, as before stated, 1t
is not known who the author of the pres
ent song is. A Robert Adair, an ancestor
of the later NiScOunt MOleSWorth, lived
in County Wicklow in the early part of
the eighteenth century.
CHRISTMAS BOXES FOR SOLDIERS
A Subscriber, Napa, Cal. The Christ
mas packages that friends and relatives
desire TO send TO soldiers at Manila by the
St. Paul. advertised to sail on the 18th
inst, should be of moderate size, packed
in strong wooden boxes, the contents Sc
curely slowed to avoid shifting, and II
any goods in glass, such as JellleS and
rnarmalades be sent, the glass should be
encased in tin so that in case of accident
al breakage the contents Will not leak
onto other articles. The packages should
be well and clearly marked, with name or
the individual, branch of the. service he
is inf in the army, letter of company,
number of regiment and title, commits
stoned, non-commissioned officer or pr1-
vate; If in the navy the name of the ship
he was on when last heard from. Pack
ages should be sent to the Quartermas
ter's Department, No. 139 Jessie street,
San Francisco, as soon as possible
CURING LEMoNs-G. w. M, Wyan-
dotte Cal. Professor E. J. Wickson, SUI
perintendent of the department of univer-
sity extension of agriculture of the Uni
versity of California, to whom your ques-
ton as to the curing of lemons was sub
mitted. has kindly furnished the follow
ing answer:
A good way TO lemons, either on a
small or large scale, is to pick the fruit while
it is still green in color with the greatest pre-
caution against bTuising, and place 1t in shall
low trays or boxes in a dry, moderately cool
and dark place where there is good Ventila-
tiOn but draughts or currents of air. Green
lemons thus treated will assume a beautiful
thick and full of sap and easily bruised, will
become thin and silky, capable OF much
handling without bruising. This is the COM
mon method of curing lemons various forms
of buildings and curing rooms are contr1yed to
apply it. 1t is not a quick method, as It re-
quires a few weeks with picking over OF the
for months, to be used marketed at the most
desirable time afterward. The only method of
curing lemons which can be called quick
process is one devised at COvlna, Los Angeles
County and consists in placing the lemons
trays in the curing-rooTn and sweating them
for seventy-two hours in high temperature
the same time changing the air in the depart
ment rapidly by means of blowers, the air es-
Gaping through ventilators in the roof. Thus
the lemons are progressively dried they
sweat 1t is claimed that in that way the
lemon can be cured in seventy-two hours so
that the moisture is all taken out of the skin
vorable results have been secured by that
method during the past summer. but fuller
trial is needed to demonstrate its value. 1t
is evidently not adapted to economical use
a small scale.
SCENTED WOMEN.
The papers are amusing themselves by
discussing whether il is unsuitable for a,