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The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25

sewer will be, at it's bottom, ten feet and
nine inches below the city base, or four
feet below ordinary high tide
Where Sansome and Chestnut streets
cross the bottom of the main will be
twelve feet below the city base. or FIVE
feet and three inches below ordinary high
tide.
On the water front. at the crossing of
Dunont street the bottom of the main
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25
I idal w ater Flow
Will Back Up
Sewage.
Pipe in Business
Center Below
the Tide.

- HE astonishing discovery has
been made by The Call that
there is a radical defect in the
official plan for a sewer sys-
El TEN for the city of San Fran
CISCO which is the basis Of the
proposed issue Of sewer bonds to the ex-
tent Of several millions Of dollars. A care
full investigation establishes this fact. and
it becomes a public duty to make the
facts known, plainly and clearly. so that
they may be fully understood by all citi-
zens.
II the sewer system shall be constructed
as planned by the city authorities it is
definitely ascertained the great North
Point main sewer, which is to drain the
greater part of the city, will, for a long
distance, twice every day in the year be
flooded by the ordinary high tides and the
uoe waters viii run twice every twenty
four hours through the sewer to the juno
ton OF SiXth.and Howard streets Every
extra high tide. such as is common at a
certain season. will back up in the sewer
as far as Tenth and Harrison streets.
The business section of the city is to
be drained by the North Point main
sewer. The lands to be served by this
sewer include also the Islais Creek dis
trict up to Ocean View station, the entire
Hayes Valley district, the Park Pan
handle district, the entire Mission district
west of Harrison street and up to
Twenty sixth street and the entire south
erly slopes of Pacific Heights clear down
to the line of the sewer
The North Point main sewer is the
principal key to the entire proposed new
sewer system Instead of running off sew
age from the higher levels to the water
the plan has been based upon running
everything down to zero and there trying
TO handle Il. This is as if a sixteen-story
building were to be drained first into the
basement and then an effort should be
made to get rid of the incubus unncces-
sarily brought there
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25

G-second and Howard Here the sewer will be
feet and ) inches below ordinary high tide.
HSansome n The bottom of the
main will here inches lower than the
binary high level
I-sansome Jackson streets The bottom Of the sewer
is here 10 md nch
below the level of ordinary tide
END of tunnel. from Pacific to Union
K-Outlet Of at Beach. 10 feet and IL
inches below inches below
ordinary
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25

will flow to Harrison and Tenth streets.
A stream six feet deep will enter the main
sewer at North Beach, the main being
there eight feet in diameter, and will flow
into the sewer against the current of
sewage that tries to come out, and this
inflow will reach, twice every day, to
Sixth and Howard streets.
Naturally, as the tide begins to rise,
the flow into the sewer in the direction
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25

will be found to be IL feet II inches be-
low the city base and feet inches be-
low the ordinary high tide.
From the foregoing showing it will ap-
pear that twice every twenty-four hours,
as the tide rises, the tidal water will en-
ter the sewer at North Beach and will
run at ordinary high tide as far UP as
Sixth and Howard streets, where at win
meet the sewage flow. Extra high tides
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25
A-Oneida avenue.
B-Beginning of tunnel.
END Of tunnel.

AOneida
B-Begnning of
C-End OF tunnel.
D-Eighteenth and Division bottom OF the
main at distance OF 200C0
let North Beach,
E-Tenth and Harrison streets to which high
TIDE VIII back up in the main blocking the flow
Howard and Sixth streets. Here the main
sewer will be Is feet and inches
feet and inches below the city which that
it is about the ordinary high tide
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25
interested in Frame Picturesp

If so, look through our framed picture
department and see how beautiful and
attractive the new pictures are and at
such moderate prices. Sanborn, Vail &
Co. TAI Market st.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25
rrnnks and suit cases-

We give you the best value in trunks.
suit cases and travelling supplies in the
city Look over our leather goods de-
partment and be convinced. SanbOrn.
Vail & Co.. 71 Market st
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25

to nhd
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-25

Buy your watches at Lundys, 4 Third
street and 752 Market street.
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

Good manure, rich in phosphate. must
be used 10 form the foundation OF the
BED. which will be built preferably upon
dirt floor Two loads will be neces-
sary for a bed fifteen feet long The
mushroom spawn can be procured in
the shape of bricks from the florists and
nurserymen. The temperature OF the
bed must be tested. and no planting
must be done until il is below IS de-
erees. Then the bricks can be broken
IL half-inch pieces and distributed
evenly over the bed.
In eight or ten days a white thread
Ike growth will begin to appear, and
when this is noticed the bed must be
covered to the depth OF one-half to
three-quarteTs of an inch with sandy
loan. The beds are built in conicaI
shape. starting from a base about three
fecI wide, and building Up 10 about two
and a half feet high. with a
width OF about ten inches on top A
frame of six-inch boards may be used
10 keep the bed in place.
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

use Of their back yards for the purpose,
with satisfactory results. The mush-
rooms are easily grown. the yield is
prolIfc. and their sale good.
According to the figures given Times
reporter by a dealer at the market. a
ffteen-foot bed viii grow about ninety
pecks of marketable mushrooms. The
cost of the bed is about IS. The growers
receive IS cents a peck for the best, and
so cents a peck for the second grade
the size and quality determining the
price He figured out that three women
OF his acquaintance were clearing each
about $50 a month out of mushrooms,
grown in the cellar of their homes.
The marketman said a good cellar
was the best place 10 raise mushrooms.
lie said the things necessary to success
were few First the cellar in which
they are 10 be grown must be kept at
a temperature CT about So degrees. and
should be well ventilated. and arrange
ments should be made to have the soil
moist
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
The Sentence Of Robert Emmett.

t-.when my country takes her place among
the nations Of the earth. then, and not till
then. let my epitaph be written
a crowded court. breathless bar.
Both judge and jury flushed with rage
A fearless telon there TO mar
And bloth with shame Britannia s
page.
A hero brave. = rebel bold.
A patriot 10 make tyrants pause,
man OF gallant. martial mold.
A martyr in his country's cause.
And who the prisoner in the dock2
And what his crime against the state?
And why a doom worse than the block
Pronounced on one so good and great
A name with honor 20 be known
In every age and every land
Where freedom bravely holds her own
And freemen rally, hand in hand.
o Robert Emmett. glorious son
or liberty and Erin's love.
Thy dying words have but begun
To echo 20 the skies above.
Thy crime. thy country's pride ard
boast.
Thy death the dearest men may crave
To drive the dcsDot from her coast.
people to unchain and savei
The brutal Toler jibes and jeers,
The traitor Plunket smiles in scorn.
While Irishmen are moved to tears,
Aud generous breasts with GRIEF are
torn.
AS Emmett dares the beuch's worst,
Its ruthless wrath. the hangman s
knot.
A sentence cruel and accurst,
a Gate that cannot be forgot,
And all for love OF native land
OF friends and fields and fresides dear.
He stands a champion. loyal. grand,
or noble front. without a fear,
His cheeks unbIanched, his pulse IN
checked,
To face the gallows and the grave,
A victim Cor the altar decked
With blessings that about him wave,
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
Facts About Razors

Xxx yHEN you take your razor TO
Nv the hardware shop where you
bought II and leave it TO get
fxed.'' it astonishes you to be told that
it will be ready in two hours, and that
the cost will be Is cents All they do
is TO hone and strop it. which you could
do yourself If you only knew how and
had =atience.
But wait until the razor wants grind
ing and strcpping Things are different
then. You are told TO come back in
about a week, and that the charge viii
be 30 cents. This time II is because the
man who sold the razor does not do his
own work. He farms It out 10 trained
grinder. who works for a great number
of hardware men and for BARRIERS VINO
put sign. "Razors Ground and Set in
their windows. when all that any barber
can do with a razor Is TO hone H. He
farms the work out and makes com
mission. One large firm in New York
makes a speciality in razoTs and has its
own factory In Brooklyn. aud this firm
dispenses with outside grinders.
Sheffield manufacturers can make the
hardest and best razors ever turned out.
but there is not firm there thai can
hollow them and make them Ting
when they strike the beard At first
the Sheffield firms got along with the
fat razor, but when few hollow ground
razors from America reached there 'hey
turned the tide. There is no better rasyr
in the world than the Sheffield make,
hollow ground in America.
1t is a singular thing that in many OF
the department store sales" OF rszors
girls and women wait on the men. 4
is a rare thing TO find a man at this
counter. Still more singular it is that
the girls know all about the goods they
are selling. They know where they
were made. how they will work on the
chin. how they lshould be stropped, ;he
best method of lathering and soaping.
and all that sort of thing. II would seem
as singular for a woman to 60 20 a
male clerk about face powders or lin
gerie.
Il want a Sheffield razor" said sharp
young man with a feeble beard the other
day at one OF these razor sales. The
young woman had been telling him that
a Wostenholm would be lighter for his
chin. and was really better value for
the money than a Sheffield.
Give me what 1 ask Cor. or I shall
go out" snapped the young man.
The girl wrapped up a big Sheffield
for him. and remarked 20 another man
making a purchase: IF that fellow
doesn't have face like a hamburg
steak within week I'm no guesser."
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
The Life of Seeds.

A SERIES of experiments is being
n made by the Department of Agri-
culture TO determine how long
seeds Of various kinds will retain their
power of termination II they are buried
in the ground. The experiments are TO
be made in the most systematic manner.
the burying having been done at the
Arlington Farm last December The
seeds were packed with dry clay in
porous clay pots, covered with saucers.
and were buried at various depths from
six inches to three and one-haIf feet
There are upward of 5000 pots. more
than 100 kinds OF seed being represented.
Tests are to be made at the end of
various years from one to fifty. One Of
the officials OF the department recently
reported a case in which seeds respond
ed 10 termination tests after being
buried for twenty years.
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
To Favor Is to Resemble.

IS ~ London last June" said Wash
L ington man. when l happened to
use one day the sentence. She favors
her father meaning. She resembles her
father a smile went all around the
room.
What an odd Americanism' every
one said. And l felt sheepish. l felt
that had used a piece OF provincial
and incorrect English.
But after l got home l looked into
this matter. and l found that the use
of this word favor in the sense OF re
semblance' or appearance was an an
cient and good use. The cattle In Pha-
raoh's dream. 1 discovered, are called
'well-favored' and ill-favored. and in
the Spectator l found Addison say
ing; The porter owned that the GENTLE
man favored his MASTER
These Londoners thought that the
correct use of favor was only as a
kindness or a particular generosity
Well. ii seems that they were wrong,
while / was right. The English have
lost a good use of the word favor that
We Americans still retain
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

jobs at so week. How do they man.
age to live. Lord knows, They pick up
odd jobs here and there and pinch along.
The Checking System.
Recently there have been introduced
some checking systems that are mighty
Interesting. Like figures? Yes? Well.
there's more in figures than in anything
else in the world Our whole lives are
mapped out in figures. Some old fool
once said that figures didn't lie. Surely
he was right, IL he meant that figures OF
themselves do not lie; but how about
the man behind them? An expert can
make the most honest figures do amaz-
ing stunts at lying and fooling the best
mathematician in the world.
But as to checking, with the object
Of enabling the bookkeeper 20 keep
along with his posting and addition day
by day so that at the end of the month
he can be absolutely sure of his bal
ance. The check figures most in use are
the proof by g the proof by H. the
proof by 49, and the proof by 10
1T takes bright mind and a strong
memory 70 use the proofs by 13 and 10.
as one must carry all sorts of tables
in his head. You have TO memorize the
multiples OF 13 or 10 In order to check
safely and quickly with those figures.
Hero is how it is done: Suppose you
want to check the correctness Of the
Of 5s4 and SIG. You make it
to 564 is SOL; subtract 1t from 5s4 and
you have 10. The nearest multiple of 10
to SIS is S74; their difference is 2; and
IL plus equals Is. The nearest null
,iple Of 10 to LAO is 1,425; lao minus
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
LANDSCAPE ON A FISH'S SHOUT
N Curious Painting Sent From Maracaibo Venezuela by
Pfmchr, Exhibition at the Masonic Library City

HIS is the saw of a sawfsh. and
one of the biggest ever seen;
but the most remarkable thing
about it is the picture that is painted
on It, 1t represents the house and
plantation of the United States consul.
Eugene Plumacher. of Maracaibo. vene-
zueia' He forwarded the saw with its
strange painting to the Masonic Lii
brary. in this city the other day. where
it was photographed.
A sa~fish wears it's teeth in differ
ent way from any other known animal
They are true teeth. but are distributed
at regular intervals along the sides OF
the saw. The way the sawfsh uses
them Is by wagging his nose from side
TO side rapidly in the midst of a school
OF smaller fishes, disabling them. and
thus making them his easy prey.
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
COMING CONFERENCE OF BISHOPS
% High Episcopal Churctmen All Western
Hemisphere Meet Here Questions of IMPORTANCE

At the San Francisco convention of
the Episcopal Church. in 1901, com
mittee was appointed to consider the adj
visibility OF calling the forthcoming
conference. This committee was com
posed Of the Right Rev. Henry Y. Sat
terlee. Bishop of Washington; Thomas
Underwood Dudley. Bishop of Ken
lucky, and William A. Leonard, Bishop
OF Ohio. Last February the committee
met and decided to call the conference
for October 10. 1908. and to hold the
meeting in Washington.
The opening meeting of the conference
will be public gathering, and will be
addressed by one OF the eminent
churchmen OF the denomination 1t will
he In the form of a church service, and
at its close there will be communion
service, in which the visiting bishops
will participate. The succeeding SEES
sions of the conference will be held be-
hind closed doors in the Epiphany
Church. On Sunday. October "a. it has
been arranged that the visiting bishops
will attend an open air service on the
site OF the National Cathedral. where
President Roosevelt will deliver an ad-
dress.
National Cathedral Site.
The National Cathedral site is on the
Tenleytown Road upon a large tract
purchased for the purpose several years
ago. The gateway chapel Is built. but
the cathedral is not yet completed The
cathedral is named after the Glaston-
bury Church in England, and the bond
of union between the American and
English churches has been further
strengthened by the gift of twenty o%rv-
ed stones from the ruins os the English
church to be used in the structure here.
The stones are shaped into a bishop
chair named the Glastonbury Cathe-
dra"
While the conference is in session
the visiting bishops will occupy the pull
pits of Washington and Baltimore on
Sunday. as they did at the meeting OF
the general convention in 1883
To Unite Christian Churches.
One or the subjects most likely 20
come before the conference is the union |
Of the Christian churches OF the world. |
Churchmen are looking forward 10 n j
advance in this direction to !
be taken by this conference 1t is pos- (
sible some scheme may be put forth /
upon which the several sects may unite |
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

for progressive work in the future.
This may take the form. at first. OF
missionary effort under a general board
to which the denominations OF the world
will contribute. At least this has been
the idea toward which the Episcopal
church has been working.
The conference has no plenary pow
ers. and it's pronouncements will be in
the nature Of advisory suggestions, 10
which will be given the authority of one
of the most influential Christian churches
in the world. They will, therefore, have
an important bearing upon the future
Of Christian effort toward the evangeli-
cation OF theNworld The meeting will
be almost informal in character, and
the discussion will take a wide range
Bishop Potter. OF New York; Bishop
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
LARGE PROFITS IN MUSHROOM GROWING

n n UsHRooM growing is one Of the
NV latest fads that has struck
Washington. and interesting
stories are told of the financial results
of this peculiar kind of farming. It ap-
pears that there is a large demand for
musnrooms. which will increase as the
people come back from the seashore and
mountains and take up the burden OF
entertaining in their homes. The fact
is 4 course dinner is not usually COM
Plete without mushrooms in some form.
and the market men are sometimes
driven to their wits end to supply the
demand. Numerous private growers Of
mushrooms have lately met with good
success. II the stories told around Cen
ter Market are TO be believed
The abandoned watts of a brewing es-
Enlistment in the northwest section are
reported 20 have been transformed into
beds for mushroom growing. with almost
as good profits as were formerly real
ized from the beer. Several have made
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

Let no man write my epitaph,
But lay my memory in the tomb
Until the bitter cup We quaG
Ee wresthed with the shamrock's
hlooml
And dear old Ireland takes her place
Among the nations OF the world
The sunburst lighting up her face.
Her emerald flag again unfurled!'
He died amid the heartfelt grief
OF comrades. brothers in the strife,
None strong enough TO yield relief.
No pity there 10 spare his life.
And Britain's doom was breathed that
morn
IN Judgment on the rising gale.
For vows of dire revenge we're borne
On signs that soon became WALL
The life that Emmett freely gave
Is cherished IN a nations soul.
The love he bore springs from his grave
To bless the earth while time shall
roll,
His sacred gift. a sainted name,
Hibernia. is forever thine.
To lead thy sons to endless fame,
Thy daughters to a holy shrinei
The Harp Of Tara sounds once more,
For patriot fingers sweep the strings.
And heroes throng the blood-stained
shore
Whose cheer above the battle rings.
The seed that swells the Irish sod
Was sown by hands appraised on high
In prayer and reverence to God,
And martyr harvests never diet
The soul OF Emmett marches on
Among the silent. serried ranks.
With steadfast eyes toward the sun,
Upon eternity's green banks,
The book OF fate is never shut.
Nor dry the ink on history's page.
Till right above the wrong is put
And justice triumphs DER the age.
David Graham Adee-
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

close OF the meeting the bishops may
Issue letter to the Episcopal churches
similar to the Lambeth Quadrilateral, -
published by the former conference.
More than fifty bishops of the Amer
ican church Will be present and partici-
pate in the discussions. Twelve of the
Canadian bishops have accepted invita-
tions to attend. and there will be in ad-
ditiOn bishops OF several of the South
American nations, notably Brazil. Mis-
sionary bishops from China, Japan,
Hawaii. the Philippine Islands. Africa.
and the West Indies will also be pres
ent Bishop Satterlee, besides repre-
senting the see of Washington, will
represent the church of Mexico, as the
recently appointed provisional bishop.
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
:. SOME NEW METHODS IN BOOKKEEPING :.

A BALTIMORE bookkeeper on the
~ shady side of sixty has been
spending a few days in Wash
ington, and he takes a discouraged view
of the prospects for men of his voca-
ton who are more than forty years old.
He said new methods and young men
had driven the veterans out OF business.
There are 200 OF my kind out of work
in Baltimore. or in other occupations
where they are earning only enough to
keep soul and body together he said
81 don't mean bookkeepers who practice
my methods, but all methods. I
am regarded as too old a man
for my position, and hope to be
retired next year with a pension Of $500
a year I've been with this house forty
one years. yet ny methods are not so
antiquated as you would suppose.
There are improvements in book
keeping made every year and the man
who doesn't keep up with the advance
is bound TO become worthless. have
made It my practice to take a three
weeks course in business college
every summer-night study. of course
and In that way I've kept up with the
field. But I'm tired. 1 might have had
a small interest in the firm before the
old man died, but the boys don't want
me now.
"of the 200 idle bookkeepers many
have families of from three TO seven
children. and they would gladly accept
The Washington times., 1903-09-20
A SIGH.

Gould you weigh a sigh,
OF a human soul?
Have you scales so fine
And adjusted so true,
You could weigh this sigh
have given for you?
Did you finely balance
These scales of thine?
Are you sure you knew
This sigh OF mine?
Was it light as down
Or heavy as lead;
Like a drop of dew.
Or tear for the dead?
When you looked upon it's form
AS you weighed,
Did II look to you
AS a trust betrayed,
Or was il a jewel,
You once had lost
And found again at another's cos. ?
M. Louise Mason.
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

tn HE forthcoming Pan-American
conference of the Episcopal
- bishops, which will convene in
this city on October IS. promises to be
the most important gathering of the
churchmen of that denomination ever
held in the United States. 1t will re-
semble the famous Lambeth conference
OF English bishops in 1897, and at the
The Washington times., 1903-09-20

Satterlee. Of Washington: Bishop Doane.
of Albany: Bishop Dudley. of Kentucky:
Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts:
Bishop Miles, of New Hampshire: Bishop
Paret, of Maryland; Bishop Mackay-
Smith, eoadjutor Of Pennsylvania. and
Bishop Brown. OF Porto Rico, will par
ticipate in the conference.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-05-30
The Cooks Reason.

The head of certain family always
smiled superciliously whenever the
question of servants was discussed,
and there was a patronizing tone in
his voice when he told of the domestic
serenity that had prevailed in his
kitchen for ~ years. During all that
period there had not been a change.
So the blow was overwhelming when
1t fell. The cook was going, and she
announced 1t SO definitely that all ap-
peal was plainly out Of the question.
No reason was given. 1t was not mat
rimony, nor dissatisfaction, nor i'll
ness. The housewife, distraught by
such an unexpected visitation, petit
toned for an explanation, urging that
she had the right, after such long
term, to find out what the matter
was.
well, I'm going away" was the
final answer, because I'm so sick and
tired of looking into that face Of yours
every morning that I can't stand it a
week longer"
And the mistress wished after all
that she had not insisted so much
New York Sun.