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three miles of protected water front
age for wharves and piers. From 500
to 100 acres Of level land adjoin the
canal site, supplying room for ware
houses and factories
A pamphlet has been published re-
Gently which sums up a few Of the
advantages of Richmond which are of
special signifcance, as follows:
Richmond has the finest water front
on the greatest harbor to be found
anywhere in the world. IT has the most
advantageous location for railroad
terminals; 1t has an unlimited supply
of crude oil for manufacturing pur-
poses; the greatest electric power sup
ply on the coast. In fact. everything
is here and now under full swing to
make Richmond the largest manufac-
turing, skipping and railroad center on
the Pacific coast. Contra Costa county
in the value of manufactured products
is very close second to San Fran
cisco. It will be but a short time when
the land along the east shore of the
county will be occupied by the great
est number as well as the largest man
ufacturing plants on the Pacific coast
Within this territory are already 10
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26

University of California is entitled to
claim even rank with the leading uni
Vsrsities Of the United States
What is said by President Wheeler
cor corning the unity of the educational
system is true in Alameda county. The
steps taken are naturally sequent The
primary and grammar schools lead to
the high schools. High schools are ac-
creditedsto the State university and are
able to certify their pupils directly to
the university. The colleges and schools
under private management have a
somewhat different tendency in some
respects from other institutions, but in
essentials they are practically IN ac-
cord
CALIFORNIA; plan OF education Is a
growth; the growth Of half q century
Of careful cultivation. 1t was modelled
originally from some Of the best sys-
TENS then IN use in the eastern cities.
1t has been modified several times since
to meet the ends of the rapidly Develop
me6a county is, under the school law,
a district TO itself and has a board of
educa ton and a superintendent TO con-
duct the work of education.
The rural schools are equipped to
give education on equal terms with the
city schools. The instruction in the
country district is intended to cover the
entire field of elementary education.
The pupils in the rural schools are
graded the same as in the schools of
the cities. A county course OF study is
the same for all schools except those in
cities. The county aims to educate all
Of its children, giving them like privi-
leges so far as conditions will permit
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ing a large shipping center, in addi-
ton TO being the place to which great
manufacturing enterprises will be at
tracted- The fact has been established
that one ton Of Tacoma coal and two
barrels of Kern county oil will make
1.soo pounds of coke and leave 1900
feet of gas as q residue The esti-
mated cost of coke so produced at
Richmond is s4.27 ton. Steel can be
manufactured in successful competi-
ton with the east The advantages of
the use OF oil as fuel have long been
perceived by the railways and the
steamship lines. which have substi-
tuted oil for coal to make steam. The
center of the Standard oil company's
supply on the Pacific coast is Rich
nond- This insures basic prices for
locally used fuel, which is a large con-
sideration in business way. It also
insures prompt and full supply to
meet all needs.
California possesses an immense
amount Of raw material. Timber, iron,
coal. wool and cotton are all in easy
reach, with water transportation TO
bring them TO Richmond. All that has
ever been lacking to start large manu-
featuring enterprises into existence was
the former necessity for depending
upon high priced fuel for steam and
power. Richmond has been made a
railway terminal point The Santa Fe
and the Southern Pacific company lines
pass through IL; the Western Pacific
line VIII be in direct contact by using
the belt line. The water front of Rich
mond is capable of supplying all the
accommodations for wharyes and deep
water that can be required. There is
depth OF 80 feet of water a short dis
tarce from the shore, while the Rich
mond water front is Is miles long. II
not only fronts the Golden gate but
is on the route of all traffic that passes
up and down the Sacramento and Sar
Joaquin rivers. These, facts show
that there is every condition at hand
to promote and insure large distribu-
tion and an enormous amount of manu-.
featuring at Richmond. The existins
wharves provide capacity for 80 ses
going vessels.
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Point Richmond Center OF Thriving Industries

plants These several enterprises are
reported 10 be paying out near a quar-
ter of million dollars each month
Richmond was Incorporated as q city
OF the sixth class on August 3. 1905.
with a comparatively small area. ,
few months later a large territory wa
annexed. which made up total area
for the city % about 20 square miles.
or $4,000 acres.
In 1905 the assessed valuation OF
properties for taxation was s3.500.e00
in round figures. Before 1900 the land
on which the city stands was valued on
a COW pasture basis Richmond has
fine schools. banks. churches, news
papers, stores. water and other acces-
sories in accordance with the demands
OF its rapid and steady growth.
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Gated score or more of manufacturing
enterprises. representing an Investment
of over s35.0OO.oO0 and having pay
roll of about s350.0oo month. Six
hundred millions is the combined capt.
tai of the various corporations doing
business within this small portion of
Contra Costa county"
The Standard oil refinery is the larg-
est of the industries at Richmond 1t
manufactures all its by products. of
which 1t ships a trainload a day and
maintains fleet of vessels TO carry oil
to the orient and to other parts of the
world. Thirteen hundred men are en-
ployed. The plant is growing steadily.
The Standard oil works include a whale
oil plant. can and barrel shops. acid
works and ship bailding works. The
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L HE second largest oil refinery in
the world operates at Richmond
in Contra Costa county It cost
ss0O00o0 and was constructed
by the Standard oil company. Tens of
millions Of dollars have been invested by
great corporations in the construction
Of manufacturing plants at a place
where, eight years ago, there were but
three farmhouses and fenced fields de-
voted 10 agriculture and grazing. A
more wonderful transformation indus
trially has never taken place in a dec
ade on the Pacific coast or. in fact. in
the United States. Where IN 1901 cattle
browsed more than 1900 persons are
now living. Acreage lands have be-
come factory sites and residence loca-
tions. A city has been created that is
sixteenth in rank among California
communities OF the basis OF assessed
values. A slough has been converted
into a large artificial canal for ships
70 pass through and a ferry line has
been established.
Richmond. in a few words. may be
summed up as manufacturing center
which has already become known as
''the Pittsburg OF the west" and which.
having made good already in its pre-
Eminary stages. represents a vast
amount Of invested capital, gives en-
ployment 10 an army OF workingmen
and has. with it's natural advantages.
the certainty Of being one Of the fore
most OF manufacturing places in the
world
=. Ocean going ships that go to all
parts Of the world lie at Richmond to
load and discharge. A double pipe line
$50 mnes long is fed with fuel oil that
COMES from enormous tankage in the
oil. fields OF central California, and that
; tnsures TO Richmond stable and low
prices for making steam. This oil is fan
(. cheaper than coal and much easier to
: use, Inasmuch as the oil supply OF
p: Kern county alone is sufficient for q
lDng term OF years. the location OF
= Richmond, considered from an essen
. tial point. is even better than II il
were on top OF an inexhaustible coal
mine.
=. RLchmond has a certainty of becom-
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Santa Fe employs about 500 men at
Richmond. The Associated oil company,
which is next to the Standard oil in
California in size, has a Richmond
plant.
The California wineries association
owns II acres as the site of a main
storage plant and winery. to cost sS,-
000,0 900. At the entrance of the canal
the Richmond machine and iron works
has built a plant On the east side the
Berkeley steel company is shipping
structural steel. A furniture factory
is operated by the Richmond manufac-
turing company The other home in
dustries OF Richmond include potteries.
brick manufacturing plants. stove
foundry. harvester works. cocoa works.
-four milling and stone quarrying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

~ ONE rather extravagant admirers
 of MT. Roosevelt are deluging A% the country with statements to the effect that his popularity surpasses that of any other man who has held the office of President of these United States. Such statements are easily made, but extremely hard to prove Where are the weights and measures of what we call popularity? Who has taken the census?
 Some years ago, in a lively debate in the Baptist general association of Virginia, an able speaker made a very positive statement about the matter then before the body, and added the remark: Three -fourths of the Baptists of Virginia believe this" He was fol- lowed by a pastor of large experience, who asked: How did the brother find out what "three-fourths of the Baptists of Virginia believe on this question? !? should be glad to find out what three fourths of the Baptists of Virginia be- lieve about anything; and if such Knowledge were attainable, it could be made very valuable"
 But without further question as to the extent of MT. Roosevelt's populari- ty-nay admitting that he is the most popular man who. ever filled the presi- dential chair-what does it all amount to? If we glance at some facts in the political history of the country. we
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POPULARITY-By J. C. .Hiden, D. D.

possible political prodigy. states rights whig and before his administration closed he found that he was training with the wrong crew. and so came over to the democrats. where he really belonged.
 Polk was a dark horse,p' though by no means so obscure as his opponents de- picted him. He had been speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States and Governor of Tennessee. His administration was no easy one: and un- der all the circumstances, must be pro- Eounced an able one. Still, when he left office, he had accumulated no great stock of popularity, even in his own party and the whigs disliked and affected to despise him. He sank into obscurity, and soon died.
 Zachary Taylor was an honest and patriotic man who, in an evil hour and under great stress of party tactics, in a great emergency was made the whig can didate in 1S4S. The bottom fact of his election may be written in the words "Buena Vista He died in office and thus made way for an abler man, who was much better fitted for the place. Not a few whigs of that day thought that the change was a blessed one for the coun- try.
 Fillmore, Taylor's successor, made quite respectable President, but this is about all that can be said for him. His party declined to nominate him in 1852, and he dropped out of sight after running on the "Know-nothng" ticket in 1856.
 Franklin Pierce was another dark horse," though he was no ordinary man, and made an excellent President
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to be very punctillious on the subject or fit, and came to Paris to get perfection in corsets. riding habits and tailor-made suits. For her corsets, the Queen some times paid $50 to $75 a pair, but she has scientific scruples against tight lacing
 One of the most beautiful gowns Amelie had made in Paris was designed by her self, and designed by the late Paquin. It was a gray chiffon, heavily trimmed with gray jet, and the skirt was trim med with pinkish gray morning glories. Queen Amelies pet hobby was lace, and she often spent upward of I,0OO at a time on lace in Paris.
 Although lat one time the Czarina dfd much of her shopping in Paris, she was always loyal to Russian trade in certain matters. For instance she always bought her furs and her jewels in Russia and she would not look at French silk. She preferred to send to Moscow for her silk, and had it made up into gowns at Worth's. She considers the Moscow silk weavers the best in the world. On her rare visits to Paris the Czarina has in dulged her hobbies of collecting tapes tries and prints
 Queen Elena of Italy is perhaps the most conspicuously dressed of tho Eu- ropean qtleens. Her taste lies in the di- rection of the extremes of fashion and gay colors. And she is very impartial in her patronage of the Parisian shops, liking to go from one establishment to another to find what she wants, instead
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may find food for useful reflection on this matter of presidential popularity
 Nobody doubts that Washington was a popular President; and yet even his popularity was by no means univer- sal. Divers men, who figured very con- spicuously in our political history, were far from being satisfied with Washing tons administration. Jefferson, for in stance, thought that he leaned too strongly towards the federalists. In- deed Jefferson was so far out of sym pathy with the administration, that he gave up his office of Secretary of State under Washington, and retired to pri- vate life. His dislike of Hamiltons s financiering schemes doubtless had it's influence in bringing about his resig nation; for he honestly believed that those schemes were demorallzing the country Still. he thought that Wash ington was too grealy influenced by Hamilton.
 Towards the close of Washington's last term, resolution was introduced into Congress, highly complimentng his char acter, and warmly approving his admin istration. That resolution did not pass unanimously. It was powerfully opposed by William B. Giles and Andrew Jack son, then the only member of the House of Representatives from the newly ad- mitted state of Tennessee, voted against it. The debate was warm, and not lack ing in spirited and adverse criticisms upon the political conduct of the Father of His Country.
 The elder Adams single term in the
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ROYALTY IN PARIS SHOPS-By Vance Thompson

of confining her purchases to any par tcular house. Her mother-in-law, the Dowager Queen Margherita, is good but exacting costumer in the Parisian shops She insists on being shown ev- erything; but is a generous purchaser, ordering things wholesale, if she likes them, without regard to the price.
 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands has decided views on her dress, as Is shown by her retort to a Paris dress maker who tactlessly suggested that she dressed "too old' for her years. The young Dutch queen answered: T be- lieve in adapting fashions to suit my style, and not myself to the fashions" White. green and blue are her Majesty s colors, and she will wear nothing else. The Paris costumers have learned to show her only these colors, and to dem onstrate for her critical eye the effect of electric light on the stuff they are show ing her.
 Queen Wilbelmina frequently visits Paris, where she loves to make a tour of the shops. Also she is not afraid to spend money On her last Paris trip with her mother, the Queen took fancy to gold purse, marked $500, which the Queen Mother thought rather costly But Queen Wilhelmina said: 'T know 1t is a good deal of money, but like it, and shall therefore get that much pleasure out of 1t
 Paris.
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larity. He was not magnetic; left TO reputation as speaker, and none as writer. He was brave, honest, not conspieuously able in any department of human effort, and considering his moderate intellectual outfit, was won derfully fortunate in his career from the beginning to the end. Little en- thusiasm has ever been expended upon him. politically or personally.
 John Quincy Adams administration largely shared the fate of his fathe Comparatively early in his political ea- reer, he had disgusted the New Eng land federalists by strenuously support ing MT. Jefferson's administration; and for this "defection," as they called it. they never forgave him. On the other erats to believe that a son of old federalism. could be made into trusty democrat. The younger Adams was not elected by the popular vote; nor did he receive even plurality of that vote. Clay. Crawford and Jackson were all candidates at the election of 1924; and the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. C1ays influence was there used for Adams, who was thus elected, and at once made Clay secretary of state.
 This secretaryship had come to be called "the stepping stone to the presi- dency." Jefferson was Washington's secretary of state Madison was Jef- ferson's; Monroe was Madison's, and John Quincy Adams was Monroe's.
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There was a break, however. at Clay, who never reached the White House.
 Jackson succeeded the younger Adams. His popularity personal and political, was great; but few Presi- dents have been so cordially hated by so many people. Indeed, hatred of Jackson and love of Clay made no small part of the platform of a good many politicians for a generation, or longer; and. during the same period love of Jackson and hatred of Clay were a large part of the stock in trade of the other side
 Van Buren was obliged to suffer tho throes of the financial crash of 1887, and his administration closed in a tempest of obloquy and of undeserved curses loud and deep. He had no more to do with bringing on that crash than you bad; but he was President, and thus was obliged to suffer the penalty of the wrongdoing of people with whom he had no connection.
 When William Henry Harrison died in office, after serving just one month, some of his warmest supporters in the cam paign felt that it was a real blessing to the country to be relieved of so weak a man in so responsible an office, and at such a crisis.
 His successor John Tyler, had so few friends and supporters in his adminis- tration that he acquired the name of "A President without party Consider ing his circumstances, however, his ad- minlstration was remarkably successful. He had tried hard to be that almost inn
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rank In Beauregards army, about Cen treville, that 1t was an ordinary thing for Stuart's recruits and pickets to bring in prisoners from McClellan's cavalry, strapped hard and fast to the saddle to keep them in their seats. There are countless evidences of the effect of leisure and fortune upon the living generations of Northern people, to bring them in sym
 pathy with the Southern habits and man ners of the old regime and the English
 habits and manners. For example we read of Northern men taking parties of their friends to Florida or Camden, s. C., or Asheville, N. C., for social enjoyment.
 The tale was long familiar, that Col. John l. Preston as was his wont, stopped at the Montgomery Hall the hostelry that stood where the postoffice now is, with party of ladies and gentlemen from Co., lumbia who had been spending a month on his Louisiana plantation. Preston was taken i'll at the hotel and for a week the whole company remained there awaiting his convalescence to take the Columbus stages, meanwhile giving dinners to nu- merous town friends from South Carolina, Yancey Fillmore, Rice and others. Final ly the bill was called for. Fifteen hun dred dollars, Colonel Preston found the footing to read I saw MT. Henry Lu- cas's home at Mt Meigs, Montgomery county, at the height of it's elegance.
 There were said to be fourteen negro men engaged about the premises, house ser wants, gardeners, stable men, etc. The head gardener received his board and $1500 salary, a white man. Wealth is greater leveler than poverty: Miss Helen
 Gould gave a ship to the government to go into the Spanish war. General Wade Hampton gave President Davis 4,700 bales of cotton on his Mississippi plantation to ship to Europe. before the fall of New
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Strike for the green graves of our sires For God and your native land.p
 When there was no enemy to strike. But he was getting in his work all the same. Every old field was a drill ground. The farmer with his bitternut suit, the clergyman in his robes; the clerk from behind the counter; the rich and also the poor-all rushed to the front thinking that the war would not last three months. for the demagogue assured them that he would drink all the blood shed.
 Soon there was heard on all sides the rumbling of artillery the tramp of in- fantry. Then the war began in earnest. And where was the demagogue? In the forefront of the battle? Oh, no; he went to the rear He sought bomb-proof po- sition in the quartcrmaster's or the com missarys department; or he took the first ship to Europe. Not on your life did he intend to be perforated by a Yankee bullet.
 For four long years the struggle went on, developing the bravest people the sun ever shone upon; developing the greatest generals of ancient or modern times; Stonewall Jackson side by side with Ma poleon; Robert E. Lee with the Duke of Wellington. Every battlefield gave proof of the courage. the bravery, the endur- ance of the Southern army. At last at Appomattox, etc., etc.
 The mind of society in whatever stage of culture, is divided into two classes. One division is comprised of men who are receptive and passive; men who hold fast to the dogma that, whatever is is right" The dogma is difficult of acceptance to the enlightened Christian. By way of il- lustration, we may say that woman Is the best thing that 'is'' and therefore the perfection of the Creators thought. New ertheless the very beauty of the frame of
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in very stormy times. And yet, so slight an impression did he leave upon the inauguration auth horities for the 4th of March, 1857. that they forgot or neglected to send a carriage to take him to the capitol on that day Sena- for Clement c. Clay of Alabama, who was a warm admirer of Pierce, ex- pressed his disgust at this neglect and in Pierce's presence; but the Pres ident said: "Ahl Clay, the honors are for the incoming-not for the out going man."
 James Buchanan left the whita House under a storm of misses from both parties. He had disgusted the north by denying their right to coeree by denying the right of a state to seceede from the union, and also by his dealings in the matter of Fort Sumter. He could hardly have been a man of heroic mould; for his timorousness at great crises was sometimes painfully apparent. He left Washington under exceedingly unpleasant circumstances; for he had to a large degree, forfeited the respect of the men who had made him President. As a politician he was able and acute; but as a statesman in a great crisis, he was a lamentable failure.
 To go over the careers of the later Presidents would require more time and space than I can now afford; but enough has been written to show that Presidents have checkered lives; and that, if popularity be their aim they generally miss the mark.