The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-02-24

He Was Accompanied by
Mayor PheIan and His
Private Secretary.
Special Features Have Been Arranged
for the Miners Amusement
To-Day.

President Sanford B. Dole of Hawaii
and his private secretary C. P. Iaukea,
were the guests of the State Miners
Association at the fair on yesterday
afternoon. In company with Mayor
Phelan and President Denicke they Wis
tied the Pavilion about o'clock. AS
they entered the band played Hail to
the Chief" and the crowd cheered the
distinguished visitors.
After being welcomed by the fair Off
Gals Mayor Phelan took the President
in tow and pointed out to him the many
things Of interest. President Dole eX-
amined the large granite blocks that
We're to be drilled into by the miners.
and he also watched the contests with
much interest. He visited all of the
exhibits and was particularly interest
ed in the North Bloomfield hydraulic
mine, the operation of which was ex-
planned to him by President Denicke.
Professor Bartholomew trained
horses particularly amused the Presl-
dent, who was astonished at the Won
derful sagacity of the beautiful ami
mails.
The two-handed drilling contest be-
tween four different teams was eXclt-
presided, and the contestants were:
John Dingle and ]. w. Jafford, J. }.
Coan and t. L. Coffey, Pat and john
Kitto and Lewis Page. The terms or
the contest were for fifteen minutes
drilling into solid granite. There were
two prizes, the first 1920 and the second
500, and in addition two gold medals
of the value of $50 were given to the
first and second teams. Owing to the
hardness of the granite and the badly
tempered steel in the drills several were
broken by each team, and this tended
to keep the records down several
inches.
The teams finished as follows: John
and Pat Feeney rs 14-16 inches; Kftto
and Page. 26 9-16 inches; Coan and Cot
fey, % AIS inches, and Dingle and Jaf-
ford, 81 1916 inches. When the an
nouncements were made by the judges
Kitto and Page challenged the Feeney
brothers to drill to-day for $1,000, and
the match may probably be arranged.
The wrestling matches at night were
prefaced by an able address on Gen
eraI Mining" delivered by Judge ]. M.
Fulweiler of Placer County. In the
wrestling the heavy weights came
first Fred Trevilcox, 215 pounds, cas-
lily threw Fred Webster, 1877 pounds, in
three quarters of a minute. The light
weight contest between Charles Hos
k1nS, 100 pounds, ana InOInaS w ndIen,
10 pounds, was a beautiful exhibition.
Tt took fifty-five minutes to decide this
match, which was won by Whalen In
the twenty-fifth round.
To-day at the fair Will be Oakland
and Alameda day. The Acme Club of
Oakland will give an athletic exhibit
ton in the evening. The Chinese will
be present in full force. Consul Yish-
iyee and staff will attend, and there
will be prizes offered for the best
dressed Chinese woman, boy and girl
The Mining Fair management hav-
ing offered a splendid banner for the
best all-round county exhibit, the
Judges awarded it to Tuolumne Coun-
ty in the following report:
We find it exceedingly difficult to decide
upon any one county as having the dis
play of greatest merit. The exhibits are
all meritorious, considering the short time
County exhibit as having the best and
most liberal display of characteristic ores
from the leading mines CalaVeras County
as having the most instructive and syS-
tematic display of ores, representing the
veins of the different belts parallel to the
mother lode: Tuolumne County as exhib-
fling satisfactorily the mines Of numer
GUS localities showing exceptional varfe-
ties of ores and specimens and general
beauty.
Under the terms of our instructions we
make the award of first merit TO Tuol-
slmne County.
Louis Janin, James Maxwell, Moss F.
Breene, judges