The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-29


Alviso, Cal. The largest steamer afioat
at this time is, according to Lloyds regis
ter for the current year, the Lucania
II, 952 tons.
THE ARIZONA-G L., City. The di-
mansions of the Arizona, now called the
Hancock, are: Length. 1902 feet;
breadth. 45.4 feet; depth, 35.7 feet. ton
mage, 1856 net 5305 gross.
COAL COMPANIES-W. E. c., Grass
Valley, Cal Some of the leading coal
companies of Washington are: Pacific
Coast Company, Black Diamond Com
pany, Scotch Prairie Company, Rosen-
fields Sons Company.
PAWNBRoKER'S CHARGES-s w,
City. If a pawnbroker makes loan on
a pledge in the regular way he is not al
lowed by law to charge more than 2 per
cent per month, and if he does he may
be arrested for misdemeanor.
ABLEAUS-Inquirer, City. You can
not patent thought, such for instance as
an idea as to the placing on public stage
of novel and original ideas in the matter
of tableaus, but you can have the same
copyrighted, just as you would a dramatic
production.
THE PILOTS-H. T. T., City The fol-
lowing named are the pilots for the bay
of San Francisco, T.. H. Barber. F.
Freeman, D: Haskell, F: Jordan, n. B.
Jordan. G. S. Korts, ]. Miller, L. Meyer,
Reed, j. w. OFT, G. d. Wallace, F. Ma
thieson, ]. E. Mccullough.
MARRIAGE-W. F. A, City. In the
State of California a minor under the age
of 81 male and is female can be married
if the consent of parents or guardian is
given. In Mexico the age for marriage
without consent of parents or guardian
is q years. In extraordinary cases a
special dispensation may be granted to
authorize marriage where the male is
over IA years OF age and the female is
over Il.
GOLD IN A WATCH CASE-D. r. T.
c., Auburny CAL To extract the gold
from an eighteen-karat gold watch case
the case must be pounded in a mortar
and placed in a bath of nitric acid and
allowed to remain until there is no longer
any Tuning. That will eat away all The
base metal that 1t may contain. Ihen
the material must be rinsed and dried,
then rolled in sheet lead, placed in cupei
and then into a muff1ed furnace That
will dissipate the lead and then there
will remain a button of gold. If it is de-
sired to refine the gold so as to make 1t
of higher grade, there must be ld LEO
two parts of silver to one of gold and
the same process gone through.
TWO HULLS-F. J., City. In relation
to the question as to the difference in
tonnage between steer nun anu Woooeh
hull of exactly the same dimensions G.
w. Dickie of the Union Iron Works says:
LAS to register tonnage there would be
no difference between the tonnage of one
vessel and another that measure the same
internally, as the interior cubic capacity
of the vessel in cube feet divided by one
hundred is the register tonnage. This,
however, has nothing to do with the car
rying capacity of a vessel Very often the
register tonnage is COMPOUNDED with the
dead weight carrying capacity. AS a rule
the steel vessel of the same register tom
mage will carry more than the wooden
difference in the weight of the hull of
the one as compared with that of the
other, but there is no rule to determine
what that difference is, it depending en-
tirely on the structure of the wooden YES
sci and. the weight Of material used
therein