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The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
WILL EXTEND THANKS FOR
HEROIC SERVICE RENDERED
Harbor Commissioners to Recognize
Work Performed in Saving
State PrODerfy

The State Board of Harbor Commits
sioners met yesterday afternoon. Pres
ident G. H. Spear and Commissioner
John ID. Mackenzie attended the ses-
sion.
The secretary was directed to pre-
pare resolution wherein services
rendered by the army and navy. the
National Guard, steamship and tug
companies and others in fighting the
fire and saving life and property
should be recognized. The resolution
Will be presented to the board at a
meeting next Tuesday afternoon. II
is the purpose of the Commissioners to
express appreciation of efficient and
heroic work done in the preservation
of the property of the State. Later
on official acknowledgment OF the SER
vice may be made by the Governor
and the State Legislature
The total loss to the State on the
water front by the quake and fire
amounts to s640,0O0. The damage to
piers and slips approxmates 100000,
on which there is insurance OF
SIC, ,000
The secretary of the board was in
ment of damages caused by the care
less handling of Southern Pacific
boats.
Notice was given that all occupants
or State lands and water front berths
would be charged full rental for their
respective premises. 1t transpires
that holders of State leases are an
plying for reduction of rent at time
when the privileges they hold could
be leased for sum much larger than
that named in the original grant
The chief engineer estimates that
creosoted piles, to the value of $4,000
will be required in the next six
months.
The necessity for strict economy in
the administration of water front af-
| fairs was discussed. The receipts fol
the month of May show a falling off
The Commissioners assert that a def
cheney must not be created.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
Veteran Relief Committee.

BY direction of the Department
Encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic the department COM
mander, w. c. Alberger, has appoint
ed a Grand Army special relief COM
mittee OF twenty-one comrades as
follows: A. j. Buckles, Sacramento;
y. Z. Seymour. Patton; N. P. Chip
man, sacramento; w. w. Russell,
Marysviile; William r. Shafter, San
francisco; Henry c. Dibble, San
francisco; }. II. Garrett, San Fran
cisco; Z: j. Handley, San Francisco;
Horace Wilson, San Francisco: f. IN
ooxe, San Francisco; William Healey,
san francisco; John SpeIlman, VAL
lego; {. w. Rice. San Jose; G. A. Nor
ton, oakland; l.. H. Edel, San Fran
CISCO y; harminsky. San Francisco;
>. j. Walsh, San Francisco; A. f..
Leayitt, San Francisco; f. Hart, SAN
Ia Rosa n. 4. Osborne. Los Angeles;
r. W. Gushing, Oakland, and has
calied a meeting of that committee
FOR May %, 1906, at p. M. at Ham
iiton Hall. corner of Geary and
Steiner streets
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
PERSONALS.

R. Fl. Pease, president of the Goodyear
Rubber Company, who has been in Port
land the last three weeAs, will return
here early next week.
Malcolm Fraser. who was for many
years in the Board of Public Works Office
here, but who is now engaged in business
in London. England, was married to Miss
Marie Telling in that city in the early
part of this month
Lieutenant Edwin S. Long returned
yesterday from a short official trip to
Fort Leavenworth.
Douglas Sloane Watson and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Watson have taken
the Marcus residence at Mill Valley for
the summer.
Charles Page and family. who have
returned to their residence, 251S Pacific
avenue
OAKLAND, May 24-Frederick Whit
ney. passenger agent of the North Shore
Railroad, is registered at the Hotel Crel-
lin. He came to Oakland to confer with
his brother officers of the road regarding
the future conduct of that enterprise.
The clerks of the Hotel MetropoIe re-
ceived a telegraphic message this morning
to reserve apartments for Minnie Madderr
Fiske, who will arrive in Oakland tomor-
row.
A. W. Frost the well-known mining
man of Tonopah. is registered at the
Hotel Athens.
William Halderman. a mining man. who
is taking gold from the debris of the bee
of the Feather River, is registered fror
Oroville at the Crellin.
| f.. L. Foncar of Oroviile and j. W. Neil
of Pasadena. mining men. are at the Crel
lin. They are looking after their minins
interests in the Oroville district.
A. C. Bilcke. one of the owners of ths
Hollenbeck and Alexandria hotels of Lo
! Angeles is at the Hotel Athens. He ha!
in project large hotel on the site OF tn,
former Windsor. Fifth and Market streets
San Francisco.
/ C. w. Wellman and F. s. Wellman o
! Cleveland. Ohio, are at the Hotel CrelIin
The Welmans are here to Investigate tn.
losses of those insured in the several com
panies they represent
s. Atell. diamond merchant of Belling
ham. Wash. and his wife are guests e
! the Hotel Crellin.
| Arthur Croxford. an appraiser for tn,
New York underwriters. is at the Hote
Crellin while at work appraising tn
losses in San Francisco. He is contrac
I tor of Salt Lake City.
Mrs. Il. j. j. Lord and two childre.
/ have returned from Honolulu and ar.
guests at the Hotel Metropole.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

The pioneer building on Third street
will probably be the new Oaks Hotel, to
be erected on the same site where the old
one stood. The new hotel will be ten
story structure of the class A type.
Thomas Jennings, owner of the hostelry
that was destroyed. is behind the enter
prise.
Plans for the new hotel have been COM
pleted by Architects J. A. Miller and
George Colrnesnil. In the construction Of
the building all projections, such as cor
nices, will be eliminated as much as pos
sible. The material to be used will be re-
inforced concrete. The facings will be
terra Gotta blocks, which will be anchored
to the frame.
While the owner at present is planning
to make it hotel to replace the one de-
stroyed by the fire he may convert il into
an Office building if the conditions favor
If II is conducted hotel the place will
be called the New Oaks. 1t will cost over
s2G0, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
SUGGESTS PLAN TO MAKE
CITY EARTHQUAKE PROOF

Is an island exempt from earth
quakes? More properly speaking.
does small island escape the full
force of an earthquake?
To an observer from the ferryboats,
shortly after the recent seismic dis
turbance, there was no visible dam
age done on any of the islands in
the bay. Not chimney telegraph
pole or fence was down apparently,
on Angel, Yerba Buena or Alcatraz
islands. On Belyedere, which is
almost an island, the damage was
slight.
The train of thought thus started
leads directly to the query: Has a
comparatively small island in this part
of the world, or in any part for that
matter, ever suffered severely from
the shock of an earthquake?
Islands have been mysteriously
formed and obliterated from the face
of the map in various parts of the
world through the agencies of VOL
cano and earthquake, but has a re-
spectacle. legitimate island of un-
stained pedigree ever suffered serious
damage from the effects of an earth
quake?
The seismic disturbances of Japan
will be the immediate answer of
many; yet japan is not a small
island.
Once establish the fact that an ISL
and OF this size is practically i'm
mune from such a blow, that the
girdle of water protects it from the
coWardly stab in the back given by
vicious earthquake, and the solu-
ton OF the matter would be simple
BY digging canal from the ocean
to the bay across the peninsula on
which San Francisco is situated an
island would be formed, and the city
n IO n htIcs h.
quake proof armor more potent
against disaster. similar to the re-
cent one. than all the ingenuity of
man could contrive. If the disturb
ance is of the surface, and the vari-
Gus theories appear to agree in this,
all the more reason why this theory
should be given a trial
An earthquake is the worst disas-
ter that can befall q city, for the
reason that it is the only one which
comes wholly without warming. War,
famine, fire and pestilence are fearful,
but all are heralded They are NOR
tai lnf1ictlons, If one may call them
SO, while an earthquake is ghostly,
CHASTITY, uncanny visitation. absolute
~ different from and infinitely worse
than the others. because the attack
is so secret and unexpected that no
preparation can be made against it.
Is it not possible to place a weapon
in the hands of San Francisco to en-
case her tender flesh in a coat OF
| mail and place a helmet on her
wounded head, so that when the
neXU cataclysm strikes her she may
not be sitting thoughtlessly by her
Golden Gate, an easy victim, but
equipped, ION guard" a full pam
opied warrior.
ELIZABETH GERBERDING.
San Francisco, May "a
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
FOUNDATIONS ALREADY LAID.

quite possible that find begin rebuild that
the work reconstruction prove and less expe
than have supposed We
buildings erected in the downtown during the past ten
fifteen The foundation ground and
constructed largely of columns embedded
has always been expensive and slowly built part of the modern
building but when completed the superuete the edce
rapidly from It's base
Now find that these generally intact half
of the reconstruction already accomplished words
shall be about half long putting buildings were
IN the original edhces And reasonable presume many
Of these massive foundations are still solid
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses
We're granted yesterday:
Lester T.. Hastings, 20, 372 Hickory
avenue, and Barbara Richard, IS
1461 Sixteenth street
Peter Fay. 81, 619 Willow avenue
and Nora Hughes, %. 1893 Oak street
Frank II. Holcomb. 26. 937 Capr
street, and Elsie NJ. Kelly, %, 937
Capp street.
Herbert r. Ellis. "a. sO3 Fulton
street, and Clair Schober, 20, 1850
Twenty-second street.
Clarence j. Band. %. liz Biede-
man street, and Lille s. Martin, 20,
1107 Laguna street.
Gotarp Mori. "a, Napa, Cal, and
kinuye Hasegawa, 19, 2025 Pine
street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
Picnic Organisations, Notice!

A il organiza tions which have MADE contracts or
asransements , with the Southern Pacifc Com
ians i1r EXCURSIONS to New Sunset Park, Farm
p;o LII, pn.h, Schnetzen Park at San Jose or Bay
,, view Park at MARTINEZ Will please advise the
seHsra aar passengcr Office Ferry building, if it
yca enfl' m,enilon to fufl the same. II ad-
,doc ~ received ON or before Thursday. May 81,
~, i.a'a. contracts will he considered cancelled
ehAs. ;. FEE. Passenger Traffic Manager.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
Galloway and Howard rnite.

j. D. Galloway, the we'll known civil
engineer. has formed a partnershiD
with j. c. Howard. the architect. Roth
men are familiar with building struc-
tural work and Will give much of their
a.tention 10 the erection of San Fran
cisco's new buildings. Their Offices
Will be in the Atlas building SOC Ms
sion street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

Marguerite Gilberd Asks Divorce.
Marguerite Gilberd, who married
Fred Gilberd on December %, 1902,
is suing for divorce. She says he left
her Ia March, 1905, and forgot to
retErn.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
Old Vienna Bakery Opens.

The Vienna Model Bakery. for
merly of Sutter and Kearny streets.
has established temporary quarters at
1920 Post street A mercantile lunch
is served daily at moderate figure.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
Tries % Jump Fnto Rax.

Pat Leary. after filling up on Oak
land whiskey yesterday, tried to jump
into the bay on this side. friend
rescued him and he was sent to the
detention hospital
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS-S. Winters,
Cal No method of manufacturing mer-
chantable diamonds has ever been dis
covered. A French chemist made some
very minute crystals by an extremely ex-
pensive process. simply TO prove that the
thing is possible These proved to be true
crystals of the diamond structure. but on
the attempt being made to polish them as
natural diamonds are polished they crum-
bled into bits.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
Southern Pacific Excursion to Louisville,
Kentucky

Round trip, $685.; tickets good to leave on
any train June OF I; choice of routes either di-
recton between San Francisco and Chicago or
ST. Louis; good ninety days. City ticket otices,
sisco. and II San Pablo ave-. Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25
senatc Talses Up lAgriculturnl Bin

WASHINGTON, May 24-The Sem
ate entered today upon the considera-
tion OF the agricultural appropriation
bill.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

Townsend has full stock of California
glace fruits and choice candies at his
residence, 1920 Valencia street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

BRIDGE WHIST-A Reader. City. This
department has not the space to describe
the game of bridge whist. For a very
small sum you can obtain from any book
seller book that win tell you all about
the game.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

NOTARY PUBLIC-H. J. b, Berkeley.
Cal The necessary qualifications TO be-
come notary public are good common
sense, good education. a knowledge Of
the form of legal documents and the requi-
site pull to secure an appointment.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

WINE WITH FRUIT-Housekeep
City. The proper thing in the matter of
serving wine with fruit is to place ON the
table ToSay, Malaga OF Muscat.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

IMMIGRATION-S. City. The imuni-
grafton to the United States in 1905 was
the largest in the history OF the country.
hamely. l.VzA4zl The year previous it
was S12.S70-
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

Policy Holders Unite.
Call at Policy Holders Association. 1917
Laguna street
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

CANADA-Subscriber Oakland. Cal
The salary of the Governor General of the
Dominion of Canada is $50. GOO a year The
salary of each member of the Dominion
Cabinet is 5000. except the Premier. who
receives $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

DEBATES-To Correspondents. This
department does not furnish material to
enable persons who have agreed to speak
in the affirmative or negati on a aues-
tion- The person who takes part in a de-
bate should express personal views and
give personal reasons for the position as
sumed. If a debater takes the views ex-
pressed by the Query Department. he ex-
presses the views of another ard not his
own Were 1T not for this rule this de-
partment would have nothing else to do
bH' furnish ideas for persons who want to
make debates easy
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

a RACE IN '96-W. NJ. Sacramento
Cal The betting in the race February %
1896. in which Ruby. Gilead and Claudius
ran, was as follows: Ruby. opening 4
.. closing IL to 10; Gilead. opening anc
closing. 4; Claudius. opening 2, closing
to 5.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

Miss Florence Lundborg. who has
been the guest of her brother and
sister-fn-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Irving
Lundborg of Linda Vista, is prepar-
ing to leave for visit to Santa Bar
bara.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

Mrs. William Greer Hitchcock is
expected to arrive in town soon and
viii be the guest of her sister, Miss
Sara Drum.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04


am working the road now. ALI my
work is hauling gravel. ! do my grad
ing in the spring. Then the road bed
is well settled for the gravel Can l
do the work for the money? No, l can
not. Then must tell you why. On
Monday we put four men in the pit
to load the wagons. and warned out
ten teams to work on the roads. Some
of these teams were to make long
hauls. others shorter ones. In all we
should take out seventy-iiye loads OF
gravel, have four teams come to work.
the ones that were to make long hauls.
The result was we got out sixteen
loads. -Four men in the pit at $l.5O per
day equals SO, and divided equals thir-
ty-seven and one-half cents load, for
putting the gravel on the wagon. Who
is to blame for this? 1t can not be the
fault Of the supervisor. On Tuesday
you have arranged for like number
Of teams. Every one comes; the bal
ance Of those that were to come on
Monday. Now what is the trouble?
Too many teams for the number Of pit
hands. You cannot send them home.
The law gives them the right to work
the tax, for which you are to al
low them S3.75 for ten hours. You can
take the money and hire the same
teams for $3.50 per day. Mr.. Cullen,
my neighbor, has the county work and
is hauling from the same pit. Can he
get men? Yes, by the dozen. He
has no phone, and sometimes call ON
men or tell them when he wants them
to work. Last night called man
for him. 1 wanted to know Of the man
what he was doing. He said not much
of anything. Then said, can you
work the roads tomorrow? Well. be
had not bought \ farm, nor married a
wife, and 1t was amusing to hear him
tell why he could not work the roads.
oh! l said Mr.. Cullen wants you to
work on the county roads. A sudden
change came at that time. Yes!
promised Cullen to haul a few days
for him. At the other end of the
phone he was saying II can work for
you at any time"
Now to the men who made the Road
law: Why not, give the supervisor
the same chance with the other fellow?
The railroad companies are paying men
in my road district $3.50 for ten hours
labor with man and team. They sell
the work to the lowest bidder. Come
off and change the law" Or stay at
home, and let some of the poor. ig-
norant supervisors make laws for a
while. They can do no worse, and
might do better.-T. NJ. l., in the In
diana Farmer.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04
DracrInr The Road.

"Out there in Kansas" where they
have been very successful in keeping
ordinary dirt roads in most excellent
shape by the use Of a common, ordinary
drag. speaker at one of their meet
ings made the following suggestions
as to how to use the drag: Don't
drive too fast. Don't walk; get on
the drag and ride. Don't wait for
your neighbors to take hold they may
be waiting for you. Don't bother ahout
a tongue; it is much more trouble and
expense, and is Of little benefit Don't
wait for the big grader to come and
shape up your road; all you can do first
VIII help to make the work of the
grader permanent. Don't be particu-
lar about material; with an axe and a
two-inch auger almost any kind OF a
log can be made into drag; the one
I used for several years is box-elder.
Don't try to drag with one piece; use
two. One will scoop out the hollows
In the road and deepen them. When
two are used the one keeps the other
Up; and in a month or SO the hollows
will have filed, and become level and
hard Ike the balance Of the road
Weekly Witness.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04
Town. Made while you Walt.

In the clearlngs the log house Is
rarity. because the portable sawmlll
goes along with the tlmberman and
slits the log into framing and boards
for the dwelling while you wait. And
the people are even in touch with the
world. If they have no time to plant
telephone poles, they nail the insula-
tor to the trees and run the wire
through the woods. In the old days
Of the plains West" the town was
born when the saloon. the smithshop
and the corner store threw open their
doors. In this Northwes. the commu-
nifty springs into existence with every
thing ready for the daily life Of its in.
habItants. Not only are the stores
prepared for trade. but the school,
house is awaiting the children, the
church invites to Sunday worship and
it is strange II the town newspaper
does not come of the press to Its read
ers within month or SO after the
birth o. the future city-D. II. Brock.
in 'The Amerlcanism OF the Last
Wost,7 in the Outing Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04
Hyena Hunting ON shipboard.

An exciting hyena hunt was among
the unadvertised attractions of vOy-
age between Tunis and Marseilles with
in the last few days, on board the
steamer Djurjura. A pair Of hyenas
had been taken on board, but the cage,
a wooden one, was not strong enough,
and daring the night the female es-
capped. AS efforts to get her back to
the cage only drove the brute to show
her teeth, she was shot by gendarme
In charge of some military prisoners.
Next day the male got out, but after a
hue and cry he was got back into the
cage. He began, however, to attack
the timber bars with his teeth in a
manner SO savage that he, too, was
shot as a precaution. The passengers
on the steamer had 70 be kept below
during aese scenes London Globe.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04
WORDS OF WISDOM

No good work was ever done BY ac-
cident.
Souls are not caught in cobwebs on
the brain.
You don't have to quit trying to be-
gin to trust.
The more we work for the ideal the
more we help along the real.
This world has always put its great
est treasures in some attic or barn.
Full many truth in stately rhyme
expressed was first conceived from
some prosaic Jest.
No speclous plea, il argued e'er so
long, can justify the doing Of a wrong;
no learned sophlstries, however fine,
can change the course of any law di-
vine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04

The following is from a speech by
Senator Nelson, OF Minnesota: I have
no doubt in the years to come, in the
years Of my grandchildren, perhaps,
even Alaska will come here asking
admission into the Union, not as a
single State, but perhaps as three
States. The coast line. the Aleutian
archipelago, and the archipelago along
the British boundary. and the south
shore, Southern Alaska as 1t is
called, will no doubt some day come
knocking at the doors Of Congress for
admission as State; then the great in
terror Of that country, the great Yukon
and Tanana and Koyukuk valleys,
will come to Congress and ask for ad-
mission as State, and by and by Sew
erd Peninsula, with Its 10000 square
miles, with its endless amount Of gold
bearing creeks and the country beyond
that will be knocking at the doors Of
Congress. II we who are now in this
chamber could look down upon this
world Of ours 1OO years hence have
no doubt that we would find three
States in this Union from what now
constitutes q portion OF the Territory
AZ AIagka -. -; =. -. =. 4, ~ TT
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04

Says the Baltimore Herald: Presl-
dent Seth came to the rescue Of the
married men whose wives exceed their
limit of credit. when he introduced a
bill making merchants liable to puni-
tive damages If a woman is given
credit while her husband is providing
her with all the necessities of life. The
preamble Of the bill states that married
men are often inconvenienced by the
extension Of their credit to their wives,
and it provides that husband can so
into a court of equity, stop the giving
of the credit and recover damages.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-04

Mercantile Device.
In Siam apes are now employed as
cashiers. A year or two ago mucn
base coin was circulated by a. Clique
of coiners, and the tradesmcn FOUND
that it was a very difficul. matter 10
discriminate between good and bad
money.
One large store kept pet monkey
and one morning he was seen 70 aKe
coin from the cashiers desk ana
put it between his teeth. After Dltihs
It for some moments he threw II on
the floor with solemn grlmace OF dis-
satisfaction.
The proprietor of the store then
handed the monkey anclner coin, ana
after testing it with great de.iberatiop
he laid it on the cashiers desk.
Apparently the creature could tell
counterfeit coin from rood one. anu
In order to ascertain whethe- otner
monkeys had the Same extraordinary
gift couple OF apes belonging to
ZOO were given the test. with salts
factory results. From that day tho
majority of the business houses In
Siam have kept monkeys as cashiers
and the gifted creatures have devel-
oped the faculty OF discrimination be-
tween good and bad col + such per-
lection that 20 human being can com
pete with them.
A little while ago monkey en-
ployed by firm of clothiers died. and
his coffin, which was Of polished oak.
and conveyed to the cemetery In an
open hearse was followed by all the
casl Ter monkeys In Siam.-Lahore
Tribune.