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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-07

FLOWER SHOW.-The flower show at
Colonel BCles' CCLservatOries will be held
Thursday afternoon beginning at 8
o'clock The side entrance will be used
and ten cents admission will be charged
for the benefit of the IIahneman hospital
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GREAT REVIVAL MEETINGS-Evan
geist Lewis Shcllhorn, of Ashland, n. j.,
just closed the greatest revival of rclig.
ion in Spring Brook, Pa, ever known.
Persons for miles around attended these
great meetings. Many were converted
and added to the church last Sunday.
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CHOIR REHEARSAL.-The Christmas
choir of the First PRESBYTERIAN church
will meet for rehearsal at the church to-
night at o'clock sharp. a fun attend
arce of all the parts is requested.
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. THE MODEL"

VIENNA CAFE AND RESTAURANT.
E.MosEs, PROP. ssI-es5 WASH
MeToN AVENUE, ORE. COURT
HOUSE.
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TWO CAR JUMPERS.-Thomas Gore,
of West Scranton, and George DAILY, OF
Clarks Summit, were arrested yesterday
morning by Special officer Durkin FOR
riding on a Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western freight train and were taken
before Alderman Howe, who discharged
them both on payment Of costs.
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CITY NOTES


DIME BENEFlT.-Thc benefit for Mr.
and Mrs. Harry +. Dixie will be given at
ST. Lukes Parish house tonight.
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DIPHTHERIA STILL RAGING.-Last
week there were thirty deaths reported
at the board of health from all causes
There were fifty-nne cases of contagious
diseases reported for the week, Of which
thirty-two were diphtheria. That IL is
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SLIGHT BLAzE.-An alarm was turn
ed In yesterday afternoon from box S.
located at the corner of Washington ave-
nue. and Maple street. The blaze was on
the roof of n tenement house opposite
Central Park garden, caught from pass
ing locomotives spark and was extin-
guishcd by the judicious use Of a few
buckets of water before the companies
arrived.
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VEGETABLES IN THIS STATE GROWN IN GREAT STRETCHES OF ACRE
H3 I3dustry 6bat Promises
SPleDdid Retur3S.

this vegetable. for not only IS it one OF
the chief products evaporated, but 1t Is
extensively shipped to the East in its
raw state the shipping season being in
the winter months; besides large con-
sumption in the manufacture of krout
and pickles.
The fields Of flowers are largely raised
for their seed. This has come to be an
industry Of itself in the State as it has
been found that California grown seed
possesses the maximum vitality and pro
duces the best developed flowers.
The market for the seed is world wide.
From wherever climatic conditions admit
Of flowers being grown. orders come for
seed. Europe. Australia and India are
among the countries to which California
seed growers ship large consignments OF
their products. The commodity is very
much like that of evaporated vegetables;
it viii stand any temperature and needs
only to be kept dry. The harvesting of
the crop, however, is a most difficult and
tedious matter, all Of it having to be done
by hand. Some growers nave tired CUT
ting and threshing; but when the pods
are ripe enough to yield their seed they
will generally empty themselves before
thTeSheT can get to work on them. The
work is light and easy, and great num-
bers Of girls are employed in the picking
The great farm vegetable and flower
areas o1 California have come to stay
They have been called into existence by
other industries of which they are sup
ply stations. and as the future of those
industries must be onward toward larger
developments so must the great fields of
numerous throughout the arabic reaches
of the State,
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Westminster, in Orange County, where
there are about 1000 acres devoted to this
product and where for miles over the
broad country nothing else can be seen
but long deep rows of celery rurrowed
through the black soil.
The pea grower, upon the other hand
seeks the dry soil and moist atmosphere
of the sea coast; his land must not be
wet; it is moistened by the winter rains,
after which he ploWs il and plants his
crop; usually there is not a drop of rain
falling upon it from the time it is planted
until it is harvested; the plants conserve
the moisture that is in the soil by spread
ing their leaves thickly over the ground,
at the same time they draw nOurishment
from the air, for the thick fogs float over
them daily, carrying tons of water from
the sea which IS readily absorbed by the
strong leaves of the vines.
The alluvial lands Of the San Joaquin
River present large areas grown to
duct being mostly used by the canneries.
The great farms of asparagus in those
districts are features of the country and
call FOR the employment of hundreds OF
hands, mostly Chinese. The short tender
shoots are cut during the second year of
the growth of the plant, the first years
growth being sheared off even with the
surface Of the soil, then burned on the
spot from which it was cut. The ashes
are good fertilizers and the heat does not
hurt The plant, which IS deep rooted.
The great cabbage district of the State
is Olema, near San Rafael.
There is a strong, constant market for
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the games.
"One morning I had gone into the bill
lard-room 20 see If I could get a little
game Of caroms with the marker-it was
raining hard, so that l couldn't go out
for a walk after my brealIfast-and just
as I got into the room a bellboy came
running after me with a parcel. | dtdn't [
expect a parcel from any one that morn
ing, so l took the package and looked very
carefully at the address, which was, Mr.
William FitZ Clarence
This isn't for me, I said; I'm not
Mr. William Fitz Clarence
LAS l said that ! saw another mana
neatly dressed. fresh-CumpieXione young
felow-look up with a start.
What name did YOU say?' he called
out.
THE bellboy hurried over to where he
was standing. by the cue rack, and said,
Is this Mr.. FitZ Clarence?
The answer. as i noticed at the time,
was given with some hesitation Of man
ner-'Ye-yes; oh, yes, that's for me. They
ought to have sent 1t last night
My curiosity was excited enough to
make me want to scrape an acquaintance
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STRANGE STORY OF q MOST REAAARKABLE FUGITIVE.

a regular treadmill to him.
That's strange 1 couldn't help re-
YOU think it strange because you
don't happen to know a man who has
inherited enough property to keep a good
sized German state going and keep two
chanceLors of the eXcheQuer busy six
days d week. If the man happens to
have a taste for finance it may be anus
ing to him; but my brother only goes in
for that kind of thing because he's obliged
to. What he cares for is books-bOoks to
read, and books to bind-bookS inside and
His income is so big that he has to
watch it and see that all sorts of sharpS
don't rob him. That's a matter of prin-
with him to spend thousands on charity
and all sorts of benevolent objects He
has t2 look after a good d ead Of all that
himself, besides giving lot of attention
to business-coal mines and all that And
ali the time he wants to be collecting rare
books and reading good books. It's tam
taIZng, l can tell you.
always congratulated myself on be-
Ing younger son. l went into the army
and had good enough time out in India.
My tastes don't lie in the direction of
books; l care more for sport and ali that
sort of thing-jungle life
When, l got back from India I found
that jim had had a romantic experiences
he must needs go and fall in love with
1901 girl, who first encouraged him and
then 1hen we went t and and married another man.
lie, you re the heir. I told him I'd see
him hanged first 1 had all the money
wanted and wasn't going to burden INV
institutions. 1 Ne'i0' OienI
. Jim didn't think I'd run awav in
good earnest-nobody did They ali
lhought ! was only talking to cheer him
up and encourage him to marry some li1it.
other girl Nobody knew why I was real
iizlng ind aH ~ my English property and invest
ms als ~ IN America. But, finally. I got
everything .eIFyI into shape-and here am e0'
bi Nnen CIarence had got to the end Of
nus story took it for granted that mis-
was the end of it-I was obiieed ~ odnIi2
that his experience was more sfartiiT',
than mine iiiole staIIiiHe
of I-aIt bus there is one point where I'm ahead
C,o,,;. - = oG. Ola man, said l. You think
happens to be FletcherNis IN ieTSr Ie'ti50
ell ne isn't, or he needn't he If ali he
SSaILlS Is TO Shirk those millions Lord
tiTnn a,go married last year, or some
di5 was glad to see that Clarence really
uenu 70 nave seen 1t in the naners As q
ia -, NJ vi OF TACT, Lord Camelford had been
~ ,il ne" ork not long before with his
missed it there. Hao solleiO'
+old is IS now several years since Clarence
- ,!4G eIiIs story and eclipsed mine with
nau,S ~ tue Qther day / saw in a London
ford Ietter that the Countess of Camel
fine - DgGome the mother of another
o+n+ 10y. Inc paper was particular 10
state that this being tbe tbird con horn
eI,ooae1to aeoto Camelford, insured the direct
eeCcesslon of the enormous Camelford
has But bna whether Mr.. William Fitz Clarencs$
own "a! p u al these things and resumed his
IWLt Ty.t name of Charles Fitz William
IN tS or whether he is still after bear
in, itl IN. Ine Rocky Mountains I have not yet
GWEN MCPHERSON
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@aIifor3ia's Imme7se HreaS
Of FloWer Farms.

w California one nay now walk for
hours over land planted to single
species Of garden vegetable. Ncge-
/ tables in this State have come 10 be
grown not only in plats but in great
stretches Of acres. grower devotiug
himself 10 a particular strain ana raising
nothing eIS.. Thus il occurs jnat there
are TWO hundred and three hundred ecre
tracts Of green peas, one hundred ana one
hundred and fifty acre tracts of ce,Cry,
seventy-ive and one hundred acre tracts
of caJhages. equal areas Of fields OF let
tuce. onions satisfy and tie Ike. all
treated as field products and raised Ike
grain or grass
Not only are these products 50 grown
but corresp spoudins stretches are now reg
ular.y planted TO flowers. Ii seems curI-
GUS 20 look over d vast field and See Moth
ing bur the varieEatsl blossoms If lower
iug peas, or to observe Wide stretches Of
dark red tulip poppies uoddius upon their
tall stalks ~ the gentle breeze. here again
u great sweep of the white bells Of the
Gala. and there tremendous sea Of
the fragrant spikes Of The hyacinth.
The market for vegetables has come to
be such that il cannot be satisfied by the
culuvators Of garden truck who grow
supplies for family consumption. This
business, in the hands largely Of the
Italians and Chinese. is entirely separate
from vegetable farming. the latter IS not
conducted for domestic but for foreign
consumption. The vegetable farm Las
been called into existence by the process
of eyaporating vegetables for the ship
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ping trade. Reduced in this manner many
times in bulk and weight they are sent
To- countries both hot and cold for cou-
sumption there. The gold diggers of
Alaska are largely fed by these products;
an evcr-increasing demand is coming from
that territory and as the country opens
up and becomes populated with Ameri-
cans an enormous quantity Will annually
be sent there. sufficient to maintain many
farms In this State.
The same Is true as regards the South
and the Orient. When the gold strikes
were reported in the Sierra Pinta country
in Lower California recently the miners
Who left San Francisco for that place
supplied themselves literally with evap-
Grated vegetables; parties who left about
tie same time for Cape Nome did the
out Of the Golden Gate TO furnish food
TO the officers ard men in the Philippines
had stored among their cargoes boxes and
catues Of this same character of prod
ucts.
Owing 70 the increasing demand selec-
tiOns have been made by individuals who
devote their time TO growing a specimen.
This specialization is favored also by the
fact that when large areas Of vegetables
are required particular localities of the
State and peculiar soils are essential to
success. A soil that would grow lima
beans would grow celery, but it would
not grow celery successfully on a large
scale, and the same thing may be said Of
lima beans on celery soil. Consequently
It is found that the celery growers gather
upon the heavy, moist peat lands about
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Of The
Grea%esS
Historical
interest.

neared the entrance to Monterey Bay and
1t was necessary to put into Monterey for
repairs. She was afterward condemned
and her passengers and cargo (Which in
cluded the frame and lumber for the AL
len house and their barnyard animals and
fowls) were landed at Monterey, and the
Aliens finding Monterey what they ex-
pected Yerba Buena to be. decided to re-
main where they were.
This house was connected - a peculiar
manner with the celebrated Custom-house
robbery that occurred about 1865 Mrs
Allen, having become a widow found il
necessary to increase heP income so
rented a portion of her house, the tenants
being a family of whom she knew moth
ing. A short time after ehey moved in
the Custom house was robbed of $50 500
and the crime was laid TO a man by the
name of King, then Collector of the Port.
King was liberated because of lack Of
evidence to prove his guilt and soon after
left the country. Mrs. Allen. however,
became suspicious of her tenants be-
cause of their strange behavior and COM
municadng her suspicious to the officers
a search was made, resulting in the find
ing of the whole amount hidden in the
house-$S00 in silver in the door under a
table and $4,000 in gold divided into
smaller sums and placed In boxes under a
dght Of stairs, box under each stair.
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The Oldest
Woo9en
Structure
IN
California.

5RHE oldest wooden structure in Cali
fornia is the Allen homestead in
Monterey, which was built in 1S49 Of
lumber prepared in Obertown, Eng
land, and brought TO California around
the Horn in the Elizabeth Starbuck. The
woman whose husband superintendent the
preparation in England of the material
that he put together himself upon his ar
rival in Monterey still occupies the house,
ard though the old building has a most
alarmingly dilapidated appearance out
side, inside it Is quite homelike and COM
Portable and in reality very substantial
There are twelve rooms in the house, and
in every one is a large open fireplace. The
weather boarding has become very hard
from climatic action during the years it
has stood, and when several years ago
Mrs. Allen engaged a carpenter to re-
weather board a. portion Of it it was found
impossible to drive nails into the old
boards. The house looks ready to fall to
pieces at very slight provocation, but
closer examination shows 1t to be in really
a remarkable state of strength and pres
ervation.
The landing Of the Aliens at Monterey
was an accident, their intention being to
go on to Yerba Buena (San Francisco),
but their vessel sprang a leak as she
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7 WAS getting tired of the superiority
which l could not help feeling accrued
to Clarence from his possessing 50
l large a stock Of personal remius-
cence and meeting with so many
strange adventures. His telling of @N
these wonders was interesting. no doubt;
but it seemed TO me that adventures and
"reminiscences of my own-if 1 could only
get hem-would be just as interesting
and might help 10 put me on footing
of more equality with this remarkable
glObc-trotter.
At last / thought / had hit upon some
thing worth telling-something that Clar-
ence would have 10 listen TO, if only out
Of sheer uriosty-something l had quite
recently found, and which would offset
that wonderful Australian yarn he had
last told me about an old hat
Accordingly l walked in on him one wet
Sunday afternoon, trying to assume the
very same air Of nonchalant fullness Of
matter with which he had introduced that
Australian hat story. The attempt was
q failure.
Whats the matter with you?" Clar-
ence asked, rubbing his eyes and stretch
ing his legs, as he awoke from a nap in
long reclining chair. Been seeing the
ghost of Spanish grandee in armOr,
Something rarer than ghost l said,
trying to be calm.
what Is rarers than a ghost?" be
asked. Come TO think Of it, ghosts are
getting quite common nowadays Before
long youl be able 10 buy them in de-
parJment store"
That's right" I said. My friend
our friend-Simcox win turn them out by
the dozen. But ] bet I've found some
thing you cant duplicate
Il take YOU, said Clarence, briskly
jumping up. ~ take you. sight unseen.
Make it a hundred Havana filters"
Done" ] said. It's a man that really
doesn't want to make money"
"Oh, Lord" said Clarence contemptu-
ously. Have you found one of those
freaks? Well, you're getting on my boy
Only don't go and think the things alto
gether unique"
q suppose you met lots of them, eh?
In Ceylon. for instance"
"Oh, If you're going to talk about Cey
lon" he said, Struggling his shoulders,
Il can find you scores of them there.
Why look at all the yoRis-I thought you
meant in the civilized nauons-the nations
that grab money as steady thing"
Such as2'
Such as the American and the English.
where a man who really doesn't want any
more than he has is a freak. Even in
those countries I can match you"
l was so taken aback by Clarence's as
sUrance that for the moment l had moth
ing to say. He saw his advantage and
let fly his story at me before 1 could get
mine going.
Why" he said, 'I can tell you one in
stance right here in New York-or he was
here until he went to Nevada or some
such far country.
1T was through my name that l be-
came acquainted with him. My name is
rather an uncommon one, you know
was staying at an uptown hotel which
has since been pulled down to make room
Tor a larger building. 1t used to be called
the sutherland; you may remember it.
There was good billiard-room there and
was very fond Of sitting and watching
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with the young Enghshman-I saw he
was an Englshman. So l Strolled over to
him and remarked You and / came very
near being namesakcS.
He looked up quickly and said, I beg
your pardon?
The marker was just ready to COM
mence game with him and stood by the
table waiting. There was no one else in
the room at the time. I repeated my re-
mark. and the young man answered,
Oh.-er-How is that"
ence, / said, and mine IS Clarence-with-
out the Norman prefix.
HIM, well, that is odd, isn't it?
don't think ! ever met the name just in
that form, he said.
After that his manner lost the slight
embarrassment that had marked it when
the boy first brought him his parcel.
watched him play Il very good game with
the marker. and then he played with me.
I'VE played several games together, for
it was a wet, miserable morning, and
neither of us seemed to have any pressing
business to take US out But at last we
got tired Of the green cloth and gradually
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fell into conversation about the subject
that had first served to introduce us.
I've often wondered how my name
came to be what it is, 1 said. I suppose
the Fitz must have got knocked off by
some accident generations ago
so | should imagine, he answered.
II noticed that he seemed shy of the
subject, and that made me all the more
anxious to continue it.
" Funny thing, that tendency. of the
English to cut words short. isn't it?' l
said
Yes it is a national trait he an
swered. Are you an Englishman?
when l told him that l was an Eng
lshman the information didn't seem to
please him particularly. l went on TO
explain that I had lived nearly ten years
in this country and then he asked II
thought of going back to England at all
soon.
al don't know, I said-'haven't been
in England for fifteen years
He seemed rather pleased with that
information 1 thought And then he went
on to ask, with a rather evident effort to
seem unconcerned. I suppose you keep
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pretty well posted about the news in Eng
land, don't you?
Il told him that I had so many new in
terests in this country that l had got
out of the way of reading European news
with any great interest.
after that we chatted about a multi
tude of things. He told me that he was
in New York only temporarily. He was
looking about him, he said trying to
make up his mind in what direction lie
would strike out
terms after that. I saw him again that
same evening. and the next morning at
breakfast. But | noticed that the more
we talked together the more he seemed
troubled or embarrassed about something
he had on his mind.
AT last, one night in the smoking room,
he suddenly said to me, quite irrelevantly,
1 fancy a good many Englishmen in this
country want to cover up their troubles,
eh?
Yes I said, "a good many of them
have to- I'm afraid
We'll look here he went on I don't
want 20 be taken for q fugitive from JUS
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tice, I may as well tell you, my name
isn't Fitz Clarence at all
You surprise me- l said.
" Perhaps l shall surprise you more
before I'm done he said Did you ever
hear of Lord Camelford?'
The Yorkshire millionaire coal mine
owner? l said. of course l have
'H'm-Thought So, he muttered half
to himself Every ybodys heard of poor
Jim. Well, he's my brother, l don't
mind telling you the truth about it, be-
cause I shall soon get out of this place,
and they can't set the police on me: 1t
isn't a crime to run away from millions,
and even If you wrote to my brother about
it he wouldn't try to track me down.
1t is a nice thing to have plenty, of
money, | have no doubt l wouldn't like
to be hard up myseIf-sorry for the poor
devils that are. But there is a medium in
all things, you know. l call &S000 year
good medium in the way of income:
and that's what I've got at present-my
share as younger brother-Camelford S
only brother. And | made up my mind
long ago to stop at that
Just let me tell you-Jim's money is
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-01-05

Sumner Cook for councillor from the
End District.
The motion was agreed to and Mr.
Cook was declared nominated by ac-
clamation.
MIR. Weeks of Fairfield, moved the
nomination by acclamation of Albert
G. Blunt for councillor from the 3rd
District.
The motion was agreed to and Mr.
Blunt was declared nominated by ac-
clamation
Mr.. Macomber of Augusta, moved the
nomination by acclamation of John F
Hill for councillor from the 4th Dis
trict.
The motion was agreed to and Mr.
Hill was declared nominated by accla-
nation.
Mr.. Wood of Camden, moved the
nomination by acclamation OF s. M
Bird of Rockland, for councillor from
the 18th District.
The motion was agreed to and Mr.
Bird was declared nominated by accla-
nation.
MIR. Plummer of Penobscot, moved
the nomination by acclamation of Her.
ry w. Mayo for councillor from the 9Th
District.
The motion was agreed to and Mr.
Mayo was declared nominated by ac-
clamation.
Mr.. Cleveland of Houlton. moved the
nomination by acclamation of Don A H
Powers for councillor from the 7th
District.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-01-05
ESTERHAZY SUMMONED.
Must Give Testimony in Dreyfus Case
to Court Of Cessation.

Paris, Nc, Jan. An jcr Comte Fer
dinand Wslsin EsterhaZy. now known
to be the author of the Dreyfus borde
reau, has been summoned TO appeal.
before the court of cessation on Jan.
IL. 1t is understood that although nc
formal promise has been given he Will
be free from arrest coming and going.
1t is expected that the Dreyfus depo-
sitions will be received, Saturday, from
Cayenne and the cort will then decide
whether his actual presence is neces-
sary in Paris. 1t is believed, however.
that the whole examination will be con-
Quoted by telegraph at an enormous
expense. in order TO avoid dangerous
manifestations here.