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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
MAYOR PHELAN
WATCHES THE
NEW GAS BURN
A Comparative Test
of IlIuminants.
NEW PRODUCT IS CHEAPER
CLAIMS MADE BY THE EoUIT-
ABLE COMPANY.
It VIII Try to Get the Contract for
Lighting the Streets Along
Which It's Pipes
Are Laid.
NEW PRODUCT IS CHEAPER
CLAIMS MADE BY THE EQUIT
ABLE COMPANY.

An interesting test showing the con-
narrative Illuminating powers OF the sas
Furnished by the Equitable ana the oal
Francisco gas companies was ndue 80
tardav afternoon in the Pup restaur am
on Stockton street under the olreCtion -
DIR. J. w. Chisholm, inventor OF inc 60
manufactured by the Equitable an
r1bar1aS T. Alderman. president of the
company. ,.o tho
The new concern hopes to secure lhe
contract for lighting the streets aIoLS
which it's pipes are laid, ana accolu t ,I1sIr
invited Mayor Phelan, Gas Inspector 1up-
per and other city officials TO Juose "a
themselves of the merits OF the he" pA00
uct at a public test. ~
Chisholm said a few words in explana-
ton. "Our gas he said, lis essentla!ly
a fuel gas, and while we do not clalIl
that its Illuminating powers are as gT ea,c
as that of the old gas we say Ina Than the
old company. This test will be mace pg
what is known as the test meter: as
our gas will not burn with an open pui ~, ~
t ws viii use "eis0a'n iAl'p
He then had the meter attached to one
of the tips, regulated It for tull ra atgIt
showed that it was burning 40 IeeI
per hour Another test made few NM MN,
utes later with the cock turned on iuil
mum. This gas was drawn from cna nan
delier which had six other lights burnlns
on it. AS the test of the San Francisco
Company's gas was to be made from
Single chandelier another record was
taken from a single chandelier OF the
Equitable Company. 1t showed practically
the same pressure and the same consunp-
ton.
The product of the old company was
then submitted to a test with the same
meter and the same Welsbach lamp.
There was no way of recording the candle
power, so the comparative brilliancy OF
the two lights had to be guessed at. When
the register of the meter was taken there
was a difference of about 20 per cent, as
it showed that the old company's gas was
running through the meter at a rate vary
ing from SIS to SIS feet per hour:
President Alderman was we'll pleased
with the showing made by his product:
This test does not show as great diff
ference as some we have made, he said
1--WE made a test last Monday night which
was % per cent in our favor, but this last
one is very good. The record shows that
we furnish the same light with 20 per cent
less gas, and we only charge 81 per thou
sand against 81 rs charged by the other
companies. Another feature is that our
gas is cleaner. I have here a number of
bottles containing sediment taken from
the pipes of the other company Our gas
cuts this out and leaves the pipes per-
fectly clean. Why, you can cook over our
gas with silver pan and the bottom of it
will not be discelored in the least
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
Carrie E. Sankey Tells
Her Story.
AFFLICTED WITH PARALYSIS
TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF WHILE
IN THIS CONDITION.
Charles S. Coggins Now Admits That
He Never Gave His Ward
Money From the Profits
of Her Estate.

After brief hearing yesterday after
noon Judge Belcher continued the case of
Carrie E. Sankey against her guardian,
Charles S. Coggins, and his wife, Mary E.
Coggfns, until the 14th inst. Though
brief the hearing elected facts of inter
est regarding the peculiar transactions
that took from the young plaintiff her
rights and her property.
Miss Sankey told the story on Wednes-
day of how the profits from her estate
went to benefit her guardians wife and
furnish luXuries. Yesterday she was
again placed on the stand, and out Of the
tangle of questions and answers the fact
was drawn that one of the deeds signed
by the witness conveying property to her
guardian was prepared and afterward
signed by Miss Sankey when she was suf-
fering from paralysis and weak in mind
and body. She was deceived and led to
sign this document, she says, and when
she finally yielded and was about to af-
fix her name the pen fell from her paral-
yzed right hand and she was forced to
use her left. The signature on the deed
bears out her statement, as. it has back
ward slant and the lines are in trem-
bling, broken hand.
After reciting the story of the signing
of the deed when she was partially par
alyzed the young woman gave an eX-
PLANTATION of the matter in which her
guardian led her to part with her estate,
In addition to the threatened expose, as
told on the stand the first day, Miss San
key said that her guardian and his wife
told her that she had heart disease and
that she might fall dead any day, and in
sisted on always accompanying her
whenever she left the house. They would
not allow her to receive callers unless
Mrs. Coggins was present and took care
that she never communicated with any
one regarding her estate or her life with
her guardian.
1--WE went shopping together" said the
witness, and although Mrs. Coggins al
ways ordered everything l always paid
the bills Many bills were introduced
in evidence showing purchases of house
hold effects, briC-a-brac and other things
which had been paid by the witness One
was for the amount of $l047 for goods
purchased. and outside of two items,
amounting to about $50, Miss Sankey said
that she knew nothing.
In conclusion the witness, in order to
show the attitude of her guardian and
his wife toward her, said that one night
she went to see a lady friend and spent
the night with her. The next morning
Mrs. Coggins called at the house where
the lady friend resided and said that if
Miss Sankey did not open the door she
knock it down. Miss Sankey opened the
door and was roundiy abused by Mrs.
When Miss Sankey left the stand dep
osition signed by Charles S. Coggins was
offered and placed on record. This depo-
sion brings out one important fact-Cog-
gins acknowledges that he never paid
tate. Miss Sankey alleges that he has
drawn out several thousand dollars and
now the proof as to what for and where it
was expended is awaited with interest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
THE GOLDEN POPPY.

= ALIFORNIA may rejoice. The poppy, geam-
[ ing yellow on a thousand hills-pertaps even
- more to say nothing of the peaceful valleys
between-has been indicated. No executive veto
was sufficient to dim its splendor, did It's
gorgeous petals shvel under the blast OF official dis
approval The Assembly says that the poppy shall
be the State flower
II there was one thing California particularly needed
it was State flower At times there has been
yearnng for rain for rise in the price Of prunes, for
d loftier craftsmanship, amendments of the code,
giant exposition, an end to Burns However there
has been on all these subjects lack OF unaninity.
Much as there might be to commend them their ad-
vocacy has been certain to provoke opposition Not
SO with the elevation of the poppy. With one &C
cord the public heart swelled big at the thought and
the public voice camoring for fruitlon OF the plan
was as the roar Of many seas.
Strangely enough, Governor Gage did not perceive
the purport OF the tumut He may have mistaken
It for the sound of wind escaping from Senatorial
boom Thus this act, so benign, so raught with des
tiny the finished product OF cultivated minds, ran
against veto 1t was not to be crushed. It gath
cred itself up took run and jump and sailed to vic
tory so high that back and say to the veto
Never touched me-"
Scotland has its thistle England its rose Ireland its
shamrock and now California springs from obscur-
ity and wreathed in bloom as yellow as a Hearst
daily Joins the procession We congratulate every
body the commonwealth which realizes that its
Legislature did not in vain, and the poppy it.
self Once the great OF people decorated with
laurel and with bay. That was long ago Times have
changed Laurel and bay aren't in it now. The poppy
holds the belt
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
HOW THE
BABIES WERE
NAMED.


this plain announcement, but the
twins, both boys. by the way, came
into this world with the peculiar physical
coincidence of one weighing just half as
much as the other, the first tipping the
scales at ten pounds and the second of
the diminutive strangers at five pounds
exactly.
A few days after the happy parents were
discussing the prospective christening of
the little tots, and while they both agreed
that the name of the heavyweight should
be John in honor of wealthy grand
father, they could not come to any con-
clusion with regard to the naming of the
lighter youngster. Each had mentioned
nearly every cognomen in the dictionary,
but none was thought suitable by the
other,
Their six-year-old boy, who had been
a patient listener during the friendly dis
pute and had been watching the subjects
of the conversation with feelings of
mingled wonder and mistrust finally said
when his father and mother gave up the
naming proposition as bad job:
Say, that's easy. If you're going to
call the big fellow John, why don't you
name the little one Demi-John?"
H. E. Barber and wife Of Stockton,
James Berry and wife of Fresno and A
L. Begbie, mining man of Mount Pleas
ant, California, are at the Grand.
w. w. Shaw, a New York merchant
is at the Palace with his family With
them are r. " Wakeman and Mrs.
Wakeman and daughter, the party hav-
ing come to this coast on a pleasure trip.
Chief Engineer Y. Wadagaki and his
assistant, c. Nakayama, of the japanese
navy, who have been supervising the con-
struction of the Chitose at the Union
Iron Works, will leave for New York to-
day en- route TO London to superintend
the building of a battleship and cruiser
lately ordered by their Government.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS

NJ D. Scribner a mine owner of Ari-
IONA, is guest at the Russ.
E. w. Stratton, a New York hotel man.
is registered at the Occidental.
H. H. Harlow, a mining man of Gold
Gulch, near Fresno, is staying at the
Grand
w. H. Baird, a sugar planter of Ho-
nolulu, is at the Occidental, accompanied
by his wife.
George E. Stayton, a mining man of
Sonora, has returned from visit to Gill
roy and is at the California.
I. Jacobs, a Portland merchant, and S.
r. Ryan, a Spokane mining man, are two
of the arrivals at the Palace.
G. D. Plato, Modesto merchant, John
T. Moody. a Truckee lumberman, and E.
Birch a Hanford capitalist, are regis
tered at the Lick.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
.Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup"

Has been used for fifty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while Teethug with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child softens
the gums, allays Pain. cures Wind Colo. reg
ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teethIng or
other causes. For sale by Druggists in every
part Of the world. Be and ask for Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. ESQ bottle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
ANU = EN- ENTS

Columbia-'The Sign the Cross"
CaIifornia-"The Jewess'
observation-disclosures the Magic Kiss"
Orpheunl-Vaudevile.
AIcazar-"The I Left Behind Me-
Comedy-'A Trip Ocean
Grand Opera House-Eis Opera Company. Monday even
Is.
Chures and Zoo-Panka, Lady Of Lions
Olympia-Corner Mason Ellis streets. Specialties
Park-The Steeplechase.
Alhambra-Sousa Concerts.
Alhambra-"Dewey the Hero of Manila" Monday evening
March
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
Suit for Shippers wages.

John Ross began suit in the United
States District Court yesterday against
George NJ. Perrine to recover 5000 alleged
10 he due him for wages as master of the
schooner w. S. Phelps and for money ex-
pended by him for supplies and wages for
the crew.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

Thomas B. Potter of Oakland, an agent,
filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday
in the United States District Court. His
liabilities are $3257 and his assets moth
ing.
James NJ. Taylor, clerk hos liabilities
of S6167 and no assets
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
California Limited.

Santa Fe Route. Leaves Sundays. Tuesdays
and Fridays. Elegant service. Vestfbuled
sleepers observation cars. Harvey's Dining
Cars through from California TO Chicago with
out change Get full particulars at eonpanys
office 62S Market st.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

its age but the amount of encouragement IN 1t mas
lessened with the years. The people are waiting 10
hear when the company intends get fairly to work
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

HOTEL DEL kORONADO-Take advantage
of the round-trip tickets. Now only $50 by
steamship. including fifteen days board at
hotel; longer stay. 50 per day. Apply at New
Montgomery street. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

SICK HEADACHE ABSOLUTELY AND
permanently cured by using Mok Tea. A
pleasant herb drink. Cures constipation and
indigestion. makes you eat sleep. work and
happy. Satisfaction guaranteed money
back At Owl Drug Co.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
AUCTION SALES.

AUCTION SALES.
BY A. ". Iouderback-Ths Day, at 1913 and 25V p
m Turkish Rugs l23 Geary street
Killp Co-Saturday. March 4. at Il M Ihoroush-
bredH Horses. a Oakland Race Track
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
The household

The household
of a certain young
married couple OF
this city was made
particularly hap
Ply a few days ago
by the advent of
twins. Now there
Is nothing re-
marEabIe about
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1Q42
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

In . book called Yesterdays in the Philippines"
the writer says: The American national policy and
the American military system do not fit in with the
administration of 400 islands,, 5000 miles away from
the American mainland, sweltering in the tropics,
swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes and
harboring 100000, more than threequarters wild
coored people, speaking score of languages" This
densey ignorant author evidently heard of the
Journal Examiners national policy which is big
ger than any typhoon or earthquake, and peculiarly
adapted to savages.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

The police have lately been reasonably successful
Washers at large.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

1t is certainly strange that the Fiipinos should
have 600 American soldiers prisoners without our
commanding officers missing them at rolcal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

The country will be glad to learn that the packers
OF the suspected meat confident of its goodness
to freely swear to it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

HERMANSUL-W. A. w, City. Her
mansul was a Saxon deity, worshiped in
Westphalia Charlemange- destroyed the
idol and converted its temple into a Chris
tan church The idol stood on column,
holding a standard in one hand and bal
ance in the other. On its breast was the
figure of bear and on its shield lion.
Probably it was a war god.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

The peculiar form of wit which finds expression in
mutilating the property OF university is something
which should be attended to by the police
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
cEn1FoRN1ANs IN NEW YORK.
Two Bankrupts.

NEW YORK, March &c. H. Bentley
of Sacramento Is at the Fifth Avenue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03


tan church. The idol stood on column,
holding standard in one hand and bal
ance in the other. On its breast was the
figure of q bear and on its shield a lion.
Probably it was a war god.
GEObrETRICAL FIGURE-E. N, City.
The geometrical figure asked about can
not be "drawn with a pencil without lift
ing it from the paper or retracing line"
in the ordinary way that would be implied
by the quoted words, but it can be done
by a trick; that is, fold the paper in such
a manner that when the pencil is drawn
across the paper to make one of the par
aIIel lines the side of the pencil will pro-
duce another parallel line and the balance
of the drawing can be accomplished with
out removing the pencil from the paper
or retracing line.
THE NAVEL ORANGE-E. G., City.
The following is given in relation to the
origin of the seedless orange known as
the California navel: III 1873 the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington, D.
Bahia, Brazil, and they were sent to
Riverside, Cal, where some were budded
on native trees. Nature attempted to
produce twins, but one of the twins sur
vived merely as protuberance in the
blossom end of the fruit, forming little
kernel enveloped in the skin. In the. pro-
cess the seeds were never fully developed
The horticu!tt rists took advantage Of this
accident to extend the culture of the
seedless fruit.
BLUING GUN BARRELS-S. s., Dan
vile, Cal The following is given as the
methods for bluing gun barrels:
For bluing gun barrels by staining, dissolve
Az ounces of hyposulphite of soda in one quart
of water, also IA ounces of acetate of lead in
one quart of water. Mix the two solutions and
bring to a boil in a porcelain dish or stone not
Clean the gun barrel free from grease oil or
varnish, warm the barrel and smear with the
hot solution, using piece of sponge tied to a
stick. When the color develops wash and wipe
dry; finish with boiled linseed OIL
The bluing of gun barrels is also effected by
heating evenly in a mufhe until the desired
blue color Is raised. the barrel being first
made clean and bright with emery cloth Ieav-
ing marks Of grease dirt upon the metal
when the .bluing takes place. then allow to cool
in the air. Il requires great deal of expert
ence to obtain an even clear blue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

The Examiner still maintains its reputation as a
blunderer and an egotist
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

One woman is accused of having recently caused
the death of four OF her by criminal opera
tons While the facts are for the courts determine
there is marked absence of any for believing
her innocent, and the present would to be an
excellent time to express dsapproval. Where the
health officials? That woman is equal to a malady
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
BLUING GUN BARRELS-S. S., Dan
ville Cal. The following is given as the
methods for bluing gun barrels:

Cal. glace fruit SOC per lib at Townsends..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03
NOW Is THE TIME TO STAND.

THE sixty day limit of the Legislature has ex-
pired. From that expiration to the end OF the
session the members serve without per diem.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

Carlyle said chat everywhere is the born
enemy of lies But he had not visited Sacramento
when Dan Burns was candidate for the Senate
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

Dewey declines to state why he desires the pres
ence of the Oregon and Creelman refuses to en-
Tighten the world the subject At least half of tn,
situation is surprising.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

One day the correspondents have the Kaiser max
ing faces at Uncle Sam and the next giving him th
glad hand. These correspondents ought to get to-
gether and adopt platform
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

Matrimony Promoter Balm is now employed in a
jute mill across the bay. People who depend upon
him to provide partner of their joys and sorrows
will be obliged to remain single for fifteen months
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

If the question Of holding the Philippines were left
to the men who have done and are doing the actual
fighting in those islands, it would be quickly settled
in the negative by vote probably of o8 per cent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

The Montana Legislature has passed over the veto
of the Governor bill to permit the big stockholders
OF corporation to freeze the little ones out There
has been something queer about that Legislature
from the first but of course Californian would feel
delioacy in saying so while the one at Sacramento
remains on exhibition
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-03

If Cubans get gay and order the United States to
withdraw they will merely be setting far into the flu
ture the day when the stable government promised
them might be theirs And they may set it so far a:
never to be able to catch up with it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-19
men At TENNIS
Singles for Tro plies Are
Now In Progress
winners In the Opening Trial
Beretania Courts.

The tennis players covered all the
courts yesterday afternoon. The gen
tlemen's singles were begun and six
matches were played. The day was an
ideal one for tennis. and some fast
games resulted
At the Pacific Club court S. G. Wild
er defeated B. F. Beardmore in two
straight set, g, Ga.
E. r. Adams defeated E. a. Mott
Smith, Go, 6-1. The cool. steady
play of the winner VIII make him a
formidable opponent in all contests in
which he figures.
T. NJ Lansdale defeated H NJ Mott
Smith, 6-3, g, IS This was the
first match of the day in which the
three sets were necessary. The feature
was the brilliant driving of the winner.
If he would play at the net more and
vary his drives with placing he would
have few, if any, superiors III the city
At the Beretania courts a large
crowd gathered These were the first
games to be played at the Beretania
Club.
The first match was between D.
Howard Hitchcock and Edwin Hail. 1t
was won by the former, 6-3, Cd
Following them Donald Ross met
and defeated John Waterhouse, 3-6,
Go, GO. AS the prophets have fore
cast that the winner is to figure in the
finals, the match was interesting. His
play was wild in the first set, but in
the following two he showed that he
is a player of ability
Charles H. Anterior was defaulted to
the former, as G. H. Atherton has
been on the Kahuku jury. George R.
Carter, now in Japan, defaulted to G..
H. Cooke
Todays matches will be: A. Wa
terhouse VS.. G.. II. Norton, E. Wode-
house VS.. Frank Atherton. J. p. Cooke
VS.. C. H. Cooke, D. H. Hitchcock VS..
P. M. Lansdale, G.. P. Wilder VS.. S. G..
Wilder, Maurice Damon vs. G. Water
house, D. Ross VS.. E. R. Adams, and
c. A: Elston VS.. A T. Brock The win
ners of the last two matches will prob
ably figure in the semi-finals and much
interest attaches to the result.