The San Francisco call., 1899-01-28

HENRY THOMPSON.
San Francisco, Jan. a. 1899.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
NEWPORT AND CENTENNIAL-C G.
b, City. The steamer Newport is owned
| by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
Inc Centennial is owned by ]. c. Ellis.
BRIDESMAIDS = Morning Wedding,
City. AT morning wedding with nup-
tial mass it is proper for bridesmaids to
! appear with or without hats. 1t is a mat
ter of individual taste.
GOLDEN GATE PARK-J. H. w, San
ia Cruz, CAL Golden Gate Park in San
FRANCISCO has an area of about 1885
acres. The length of the main grounds
is $3.50 feet, width 225O feet, length of
panhandle 1850 feet, width 412 feet.
THE CLAUS sPRECKELs BUILDING
j. S. W., Folsom, Cal. The Claus
Spreckels building, in which are located
me me, business offices of The San Francisco
Call and the press rooms, is an 1S-story
building, the height of which is 315 feet.
SWANS-C. F. c., Dinuba, Cal. A
friend of this department has kindly fur
nished the following: Swans sing be-
fore they die; 'twere no bad thing should
certain persons die before they sing. will
be found in a work entitled British Po-
cts, From Falconer to Scott a continua-
ton of DR. Aikens work. 1t appears
among other epigrams attributed to Cole
ridge" The thanks Of this department to
70. O'D., City, for furnishing this informa-
ton.
COFFEE-T. B., City. Whether coffee
| should be boiled or not is a question that
has been agitated ever since coffee has
been used as a beverage, and it is as far
from definite solution as 1t was when first
nyU I n T11qly u ffno &c -
taste, but those who claim to be Judges
of coffee declare that the proper way is,
to pour boiling hot water over the ground
conee grains, ground just before using,
| the strength to be determined by the
taste of the user. In this manner the
aroma Of the fresh made coffee is pre-
served, while in boiling it passes away.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-S., City.
The government of the District of CO.
lumbia is vested by act of Congress, .ap-
proved July IL, 1878, in three Commission
ers, two of whom are appointed by the
President from citizens of the District
having had three years residence there
in Immediately preceding that appoint
other Commissioner Is detailed by the
President of the United States from the
Corps of Engineers of the United States
army, and must have lineal rank Senior
to captain or be a captain who has served
at least fifteen years in the Corps of En-
g1neers of the army. The Commissioners
said government
STAMP FILTRATION - SNOWFALL"
City. The following is given as the stamp
Irritation: Stamp inverted on right hand
upper corner means write no more
Stamp inverted on left hand upper corner
means declaration of affection. Stamp
in the center at the top signifies an af-
flrmative answer to question:; oppo-
site at the bottom means a negative.
CfcrI of hn rierlok
fixed at right angle asks the receiver
If he or she loves the sender; in the left
hand corner 1t is declaration of hate.
A proffer of love is made by placing the
stamp on line with the surname. If the
party addressed be engaged a reply is
made by placing the return stamp in the
same place, but reversing it.
THE CENTURY-T. McG., Agnews,
Santa Clara County, and G. R., City, The
Christian era dates back to the beginning
of the first century, and was fixed in 525
The first century does not begin with the
birth of Christ. The date of the birth of
Jesus is now generally fixed few years
at least four-before the commencement
of the Christian era in the accepted chro-
nology. The reasons for this are not
given, but the reckoning of dates from
the birth of Christ did not begin until
A. ID. 525. The precise date of the birth
or Christ cannot be determined. The
century closes with the last second of 100
will close at the last moment of the year
1900, and the very next moment the first
OF 1901, will be the first of the twentieth
century.
NATIVITY AND CITIZENSHIP A.
M, City. This correspondent, in asking
the following question, confuses nativity
with citizenship: MY father came to this
country from Europe, was never natural
lied. l was born in San Francisco. am
now of age. Am L entitled to vote with
out having to obtain papers?' The son
OF an alien resident of the United States
tied to all the privileges, in which is in
cluded the right to vote, but such a
son son on arriving at majority must elect
the country of his birth, or that of the
country of his fathers birth If on ar
riving at majority he performs any act
takes upon himself the citizenship Of the
United States but if he desires. he can
refrain from the performance of any such
try of which his father is a native. and
in due form become citizen of such
and doing so he is to all purposes an alien,
would have, should he desire in the fu-
ture to exercise the rights of an Ameri-
can citizen, to be naturaTized.
THE TENDERLOIN DISTRICT
M, City. The term "Tenderloin District
was one that was used by a police cap
tain in New York City number of years
ago when there was a change of captains
from one district to another. This par
ticular captain was one who had never
been able to get into the better districts
of the city. He felt disgusted that one of
his brother captains had been assigned
to one. that he was anxious to get into
himself, and in tone of disappointment.
while discussing the assignments that had
been made said: That fellow always gets
the tenderloin and get the cheap cuts
r11Q mir hnT fall
signed to the districts in which lived the
very best class of people and that he was
assigned to districts in which there was
only the riff raft of the community. Of
late years the term has been perverted
by persons who had no idea of its origin
and meaning, and who have erroneousIv
used 1t when speaking or writing of sec
tions that are occupied by disreputable
people. According to the intention of the
coiner of the phrase that part of a city
wealth and the least rnssihIe cau e. -