The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-25

grand trustee, and as only seven are to
be elected large number are apt to get
showed under. Some of the more promi-
nent aspirants for the grand trusteeships
are: Judge H. r. McNoble of Stockton
Parlor, Judge Fletcher A. Cutler of Hum
boldt Parlor of Woodland QncumbenD,
W d. Shea of California Parlor, San
Francisco; NJ. T. Dooling of Fremont
Parlor, HOLSTER; Frank Sabichi of Ra-
mona Parlor, Los Angeles; d. w. Edel
man of Corona ParlOr. Los Angeles; c. E.
Mclaughlin of Quincy Parlor. Plumas
County; P. V. Long of Columbia Parlor,
San Francisco; Frank Barnett of Pied
mont Parlor, Oakland; Joseph E. O'Don-
mel of Yerba Buena Parlor, San Fran
cisco; Charles O. Dunbar of Santa Rosa
Parlor; James A. Devote of Alcalde Par
Tor. San Francisco; and John A Porcher
of Mission Parlor, San Francisco. Those
whose chances are regarded as the best
are: Cutler, McNoble. Dunbar, Sabichi,
Mclaughlin, Long and Devoto
The contestants for the office of grand
Of Mantle Parlor and Joseph K. Haw
kins of Pacific Parlor, each at present
holding the office of grand trustee The
office of grand marshal will go to mem
Admission day celebration will be held.
A. w. Fielder of Las Positas Parlor,
Livermore, grand outside sentinel, wants
to be advanced to grand inside sentinel.
Max Glass Of Alameda Parlor would like
to be grand outside sentinel. John J. Nc
Mahon of Mount Diablo Parlor, Mar
to be one of the seven grand trustees to
be chosen
The big fight of the session is between
Byington and Hawkins for the office of
grand orator. Both men have many
friends working for them and all other
members of the Grand Parlor are watch
ing the contest with unusual interest.
These elections all occur on the last day
of the session, and in the meantime all
the candidates and their friends can do
is to vigorously pull the wires"
do, ~
tives, accompanied by the Fifth Regi-
ment band of San Jose, boarded the
dummy line trains to VISIT Spreckels and
be shown over the great sugar factory.
At the entrance to the factory grounds
they were met by superintendent w. c.
Waters and a corps of guides, and all
climbed about amid the ponderous ma
chinery from the ground floor to the top
of the enormous building. Everything
was interesting, not only because of the
size of the plant and the monetary outlay
represented but because of the beauty of
the machinery and the skill of the me-
chanics who constructed so vast and
complicated a plant. The building and
IFS equipments are yet incompleted, and
those among the Natives who under
etand machinery were diverted by watch
ing the small army of workmen en-
bba1ded a card with the following sta
tistics printed on it as souvenir of the
afternoon:
Tho great factory will cost about 50, 800 OOO
The dimensions of the buildings, etc, are as
Main building-Five hundred and eighty-two
feet long, 1902 feet wide I'VE stories high, con-
tains $500 tons of steel 100000 brick and 500
squares OF slate. s.. -. r..
49, aivtv-eight feet wide, twenty-five feet
high; will contain nearly 100000 brick, TWEEN,
tr fo,,r boilers four economzers, two steel
syynolxestacks 2l6 feet high, thirteen feet in
diameter each stack at base, Weighing 1000
Machine shop and carpenter shop-Five hun
dred and fifty-nine feet long, forty feet wide,
twenty-five feet high; will contain about 60O
COO bricks. -.
MISUNDERSTANDING by 200 feet
Scale house-Twenty by thirty-two feet
office bufldng-Seventy by seventy feet.
Reservoir-Two hundred by sixty feet at top
and 200 by twenty feet at bottom depth TWEEN
ty-two feet; capacity, ,0C0 gallons
Water required for factory-Thirteen million
gallons per day of twenty-four hours
Fuel-Will consume about 1900 barrels CT oil
Per day of twenty-four hours or its equiva-
lent In wood or coal
Beets-Will slice and crush 5000 tons of beets
per day Of twenty-four hours.