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The San Francisco call., 1908-12-31
MISSION IS READY
FOR FESTIVITIES
Celebration of New Years Eve
Will Establish Precedent
for Future Years
Attractive Floats Are to Partici-
pate in the Immense
Night Parade

The finishing touches to the Mission
New Years eve parade were made at a
meeting Of the committee in charge
held yesterday. Another and final
meeting of the committee will be held
Immediately before the New Years pa
rade Twenty thousand official pro-
grams of the days events will be dis
tributed throughout the Mission and
the Potrero to prepare the people for
the great celebration in the evening,
which will be the first New Years eve
demonstration ever held in the Mission
district Needless to say, the whole
Mission is interested in the event, be-
cause it's success Will establish a prec-
edent for future years.
FLOATS FOR PARADE
a~ Dolores street, between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth, where the participants in
the evening parade will assemble, will
present a busy appearance. Besides
the floats from the Improvement clubs
of the southern district, the Enterprise
brewing company, the Union brewing
and mailing company, H. ]. Grauerholz,
j. H. Kruse lumber company, the North
Star brewing company, the Broadway
brewing company, Louis Taussig & Co.
and the Golden Gate and Fredericks-
burg brewing companies will have spe-
cial decorated floats in the float con-
tingent The Bosworth District i'm
provement club is the latest to enter
the contest.
The boys OF the Youths directory,
the pioneer charitable institution OF
the Mission, will be on hand at the
headquarters of the association to as
sist the committees in charge of the
celebration and will take part in the
parade. Jack Won Staden, the crack
erjack drum major of the First Cali
fornia regiment during the Spanish
war, will direct the uniformed bands
of the procession.
MOUNTED POLICE ESCORT
A squad of eight mounted police,
under command of Sergeant Shanahan,
will escort the marchers, Immediately
following Colonel Kelly, the grand
marshal. Dewey Coffin and the other
members of the committee of arrange
ments I'm charge of the parade will be
in separate automobile, followed by
the directors Of the Mission relief COM
mittee.
After the distribution of prizes
speeches of welcome will be delivered
in which the progress of the Mission
during the last year, the present i'm
portance of the district and the out
look for the coming year will be dwelt
upon. The float winning the prize in
the parade will afterward parade the
streets separately, accompanied by it's
home delegation.
Colonel Kelly and the participants in
the serpentine automobile dance expect
to carry off first honors with the odd
spectacle. Immediately at the conclu-
sion of the dance the Mission Dolores
bells viii sound the knell of the old
year at u o'clock to the minute.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-31
FILLMORE STREET
TO BE GAY CENTER
Carnival Will Start With Parade
at 5 o'clock and Last
Till Morning
Twenty Thousand Noise Devils
Will Be Given Away;
Song Is Popular

The final meeting of the Fillmore
street carnival committee was held last
night and it was announced that all
everything in readiness for the great
celebration tonight. The heads of the
various committees reported that the
details had been completed and prom
ised that there would be no hitch in
the program. These committees, head
ed by Samuel Adelstein, were as fol-
lows: Music, Herbert Myerfeld; deco
rations, Albert j. Pom; carnival fea-
lures, Norton c. Wells, H. p. Hermance
and Walter H. White.
Thirty thousand copies of the new
song were distributed yesterday and
it was sung in all the principal vaude-
vile houses last night 1t has fine
swinging tune and has already caught
on. Every band will play it in the
parade tonight and it will be sung in
all the cafes
The parade will begin. at 8 o'clock
and the carnival will continue far into
the. morning with something doing all
the time Samuel Adelstein willie the
procession as director and will be
escorted by a platoon of mounted
police and heralds on horseback. Next
will follow the ''Mulligan guards and
the 'hayseed' band, then the devil
wagon from Sheol Center.
Twenty thousand noise devils will
be distributed by committeeman of
Fillmore street association from au
tomobiles and then will come the big
noise and the float "Old Time Horri
bles." The automobile section will fol-
low with a float of the Maccabees drill
ing team, commanded by Mrs. A NJ.
Incleto; wild Indians of the plains,
cowboy bands, decorated autos with
passengers in costume, the little Ger
man band and the following in their
order:
Group of convicts and warden; Fill
more street Improvement association
officers in carriages; float "Cosmopoli
tans'': devil wagon, Sheol basement;
band, Wandering Minstrels" cow
boys just off the range; decorated au-
tomobiIes, committeeman distributing
noise devils; demons from the warm
place: masking parties; clown band:
rubberneck section; devil wagon, SheoI
Esubcellar; float, "Sons of Rest; pump
costume; "Sons of the Sunny
"Hooligansv; clown section: geo
tesques; devil wagon, witches division;
decorated carriages and automobiles.
parties in costume; carnival marchers
en- masque.
1t will be a great time. Fun will
be fast and furious and will last into
the morning with not dull moment.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-31
Police viii Prevent Rowdyism

Chief Cook summoned company COM
manders before him yesterday morn
ing and impressed upon them the inn
portanee of suppressing all attempts
at hoodlumism during the carnival fes-
tivities tonight. He said what was
desired was a sane and joyful celebra-
ton and the captains must work to
that end.
The chief issued a supplemental or
der dealing with the running of cars
of the United Railroads for the guid-
ance of company commanders, in which
il was stated that the Valencia, Castro
and Haight street cars would run down
Twelfth street to Mission after $3.50
.. M; the Hayes, McAllister and Eddy
street cars would be switched back at
Market street after $40 .. M: the
Ellis street cars would continue to run
to Third street and Townsend for the
convenience of travellers by the rail
road the Third street cars would be
switched back at Market street after
$40 D. IN. and the Kearny street cars
would run until the parade turned into
that street, after which they would
stop at Broadway
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-31

automobile bus band, autos containing
officers of the Downtown Merchants
association, officers of. San Francisco
motor club in decorated car; then in
line of three abreast White autos, fiat
car with bands and Buick autos, red
fire autos; floats and red fire autos
will be run in at various points in the
carnival line.
LIGHTS ALL NIGHT
The gas company informed the SUI
pervisors' artificial lights committee
yesterday that the lights on Van Ness
avenue would be kept burning all night
tonight at no additional cost to the
city.
The committee decided to ask the
board for an appropriation of $4,000
to enable it to finish out the fiscal year
without retrenchment. At the pres
ent rate of expenditure the S325,000
budget appropriation allowed last June
will be exhausted before June 80.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-31

Do You Want $5.00t
Read THE CALLS weekly offer on
page IL.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
Nepswtsnee.

There 10 one case Of death- bed ~
pen,auce recorded-the peuitent thiet
that no one should despair; and
only one. that no one should Pre-
sumo. st. Augustine.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
BLOCK OF MODERN
BRICK BUILDINGS
Burned Section in West Queen Street
to, be Replaced by Modern Store
and Dwelling Houses

The long One-story frame structure
in West Queen street, which was de
s,roycd by the fire early Monday
morning. is to be replaced with
handsome brick business block.
Mr.. X. |. Mason, who with MIR. j.
N. Willis, owns the property. stated
yesterday that they had reached the
conclusion to put up substantial
brick building. which will probably
have five or six good store-rooms ana
comfortable residential quarters over
the stores.
Mr.. Mason said that the work VIII
be started as soon as the various de
tails can be arranged. II there Is
demand shown for the new buildings
the owners will likely fit up the en-
tire structure with all modern con
veniences.
II was also said yesterday that II
n Palmer. whose blacksmith shoi
was destroyed. will nave bricf
structure erected on :hc site Of th'
burned Nsilding-
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
Baltimore Produce Markets.

BALTIMORE, MD. Sept. y
unchanged.
WHEAT-eaSicr: spot contract ?'f.
a u; do Red Western. 100 "a )
Southern TN grade 9iA 91A.
CORN-dun: spot mixed -: :
White -: Southern White Corn 81
a 80.
OATS-iirm; No. mixed 519 a
80.
RYE-firm; No. 9 Western Dome 5
tic 80 bid.
RITTER-quiet. unchanged; fancy
imitation % 81; do creamery 2''
do ladle 20: store packed lG1a a H.
EGGS-quiet. unchanged. - %
cents.
CHEESE-quiet, unchanged: NJ"
large 12A; do fats 12%: do small
1874.
SUGAR-steady; coarse granuiaten
so: fine 500.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
PENNSYLVANIA MiLlERS
REACH Old POINT COMFORT
State Association to Convene In An
nuai Session This Morning-Two
Hundred Delegates.

More than two hundred members OF
the Pennsylvania State Miilers As
eociation, which will begin its annual
session in Hotel Chamterlin today.
arrived at Old Point shortly after II
h'clock last night. having made the
trip down from Washington on spec
fal st amer The convention will be
In session TODAY and tomorrow and
the miIlers expect TO return to the
Keystone State Saturday morning. The
association represents vast amount
Of wealth In Pennsylvania.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
Poisoned Condoners.

Are f.nndoners being p0inoned DS
coal gas? This question is raised by
the Lancet. which directs attention TO
a statement recently made AT the meet
ing IF metropolitan gas company
TO the effect that 110.0o0,O00 cubic
feet OF gas had not been accounted
for during a period of six months
One OF the reasons advanced by the
m sdicaI journal for this leakage Is the
vibration caused by motor omnibusses
which, II saws. is not calcuuated to In,
crease the efficiency of service pipes
las carriers.
"Evsn though We do not hear oil
serious accidents" tn" paper con
clude the fact remains that millions
OF cubic feet OF poisonous gas are an
nually being distributed In the air oi
London. Lonioners are found to com
plain O: headache. dizziness. and op
preston. an three Of which symptom
are readily invoked by chronic doses
|of carbon monoxide-From the Baiti
mre American Star.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
A PsyjN0 Investment.

Mr.. John White, of IS Highland Ave.
HouIton, Maine. says: Have been
troubled with n cough every winter
and spring. Last winter tried many
advertised remedies. but the cough
continued until ! bought a Soc bottle
of Or Kings New Discovery: te!oTe
that vas half gone. the cough was nj
gone This winter the same happy
result mas FOLLOWED: a few doses once
more banished the annual cough.
am nos convinced that Dr. Kings New
Discovery Is the best OF I'll cough
and lung remedieS." Sold unde:
guarantee 81 all druggists. SOC AID
81 a. Trial hottie free.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10

hi, ON the one hand, while Oh the Other
hand they bankrupt competitors, op
press the producers of law materials
and deal arbitrarily with their en-
ployas. !, enleaNors TO protect ia"
innocent corporations by visiting pun
ishman; upon those corporations whiN
are guilty OF iniraCtionS OF the mora
and the statute law Here. too. ON
platform is specific aud no one can
use It's language 10 f,iehten any bu5'
,nesn man who's, transactions are tar
land whose income IS honesti" earned
No nna can contrast the plain
,straiehtfur~aTd declarations OF our
PARTY with the vague and ambiguous
|utteranceS Of the Republican leaders
and the Republican Cani!dat" without
|r.cogniline that our appeal Is 10 IN"
ind emsnt aud good sense OF the voters
y IA irS1rc ti.ttc" for thNm@"!v": ana
insist upuu Justice beng done 'H
others our party. IL entrusted with
the power. will remedy the al"ae3
which have grown mp under Repabti'ah
rule and Vet r-m.d. those abaseS WIN
SN- regard tu constitutional hihha
tiuns and without injury to ANY l"tit
riai. biiSin->s interest,
Various issuea
When he had hniSnrd his pr"par d
Sp-,ch h., launched into "A discussion
CT tn. various isNn.n Of IN" campaign
and reiterated his charr" that MI.
.Taf, was not satisfied with tn" Rcphh
licar ,,i3 form and had been compelled
10 amend il in many particulars. Whtn
th. rain pulled out of the depot 10
.uIgut tn. actual invasion OF the east
by the candidate was begun. From
this point until the trip is conclude"
S.ptrmbsr % at Lincoln. Mr.. bryan
will travel in private car. Accom-
nan, ins him are. former Governor w.
s JENNINGS, OF Florida; Robert ,.
Rose. sscrctary: four newspaper men
and A. F.. Manning. BIO will look after
the comfort of the party.
Governor Jennings will hav" the
complete management of the car.
While In West Virginia and Mary
land Mr.. Bryan will seize the oppor-
tunity to confer with the Democratic
county chairman of those sta'es. the
meetings having been arranged by
John w, T0mlinson. OF Alabama. head
of the organization bureau. who ~
be represented ly Governor Jennings
and III give several talks on organize
ton work.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
Abiiwy.

Abii'ty.
Men who undertake considerable
things. even IN q regular way. ougk,
to give ss ground 70 presume ae1ng.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
New York Money Market.

NEW YORK. Sept. 9.-Money Oh
call easy. a IA per cent; rulihs
rate |: closing bid l. offered at IA.
Time loans firm: sixty days 2 per
cent: ninety days 81. per cent.
Close: Prime mercantile paper
Az; Sterling Exchange firm. with
actual business in bankers bills Il
4s4.75 a 4S4.S3 for sixty day bills ana
at 4S6.35 4S64O for demand. Com
mercial bills 4s4 4S4A. Bar silver
5lb: Mexican dollars As.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
Wines and Liquors

] 1 belong to the lost tribe that
strayed away from Dublin before
Moses tailed on the Red Sea. I'm a
price cutter. I'm 4 moneyemaker; m
the one that sells all straight Wits
likes retail at Wholesale prices. The
following high grade Toe Whistles !
sell for SC 4 drink; Paul Jones pure
Rye. Sherwood Rye WhiSkey. Carroll
Springs. pure Maryland Rye Whiskey.
parkwood Rye Whiskey. All OF the
above named Whistles are strictly
high grade: watch my pricss II you
dare. beat me II you can. Whiskifs
In hulk ut following prices
iona Nick flrv Rye. u pit. &c
gallon .,,.......'.. ...-.''.. WV
IG0nards Fa,oiitc. u pt.. 3Oc
BaltOn 'ss'S"
Hunter Il baltimore Rye VI pt.
%bc. gallon ............... INV
Maryland Club. u pit. 2sc. gal
Ion ...... ....'''' 49, WV
Paul Jones Pare Rye. u pit. zoe
gallon .............'... go
Star A. Rye. gallon .$2.oo
Moss Rose. gallon .$2.oo
l4arkwood Pure Rye. gallon ....32.oo
jefferson Pare Rye. gallon ....S,Ib
kentucky bourbon. gallon ..... 3lf0
Double Stamp Gin. gallon -. sou
The following brands Of California
Wines. Port. Sherry. Catawba. Ga
ret. Blackberry. ut &c per at: per
SALON. IS.
Pride OF North Carolina, I years
Old, gallon .................. $2.o0
Kummeili. per gallon ....... .$a.oo
Carroll Springs. gallon ......... $2'5o
xxx Baker Rye. gallon ......$2.5O
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10

Il 10 said the form OF the fsh-hoo>
hiss not been changed In 1000 years
1t 10 suspected that the structure Of
the f,sh story Is very ancient likewise
Denver Republican.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10

The little four years old daughter
Of Capt. and Mrs. Lcmuel Brawshaw,
of Messick's. York county. died in
their residence Monday afternoon
from a severe attack Of diphtheria.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10

Could you conduct successful
business without "help?' Do you ex-
pect your wife to conduct Successt"'
ho,ls,. without help"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-10
PRICE MANIPULATION
Freely Admitted by Operators On
The Stock fxchspgs. f.
Professionals VERY ACTIVE
Little News to Explain Yesterdays
Advarcs-Western Unions Fasors'
Die showing a Feature ''acuss'o"
or Possible Gold Exports Revived.


NEW YORK, Sept :" An nntHhal
thing about the current upward move
meit in prices in the stock market
is the freedom with which admiS-
sions are heard Of the part played IN
ii by professionalism.
Admunitiuns to this effect art colii-
mon 10 most of the market letters
and advices sent out by commission
houses to their clients. A small com
bina,ion of very wealthy capitalists
is given credit for the summer rise
in prices, and there is no dlsSuiallH
the belief in the large part played
Lv MANIPULATION in the advance.
There was little news as lately
usual to explain the upward move
men,s of stocks today. The Western
Union statement of earnings for the
September quarter had some effect
on sentiment with its transformation
of deficit last year OF Sl.96l,osl INTO
a surplus this year o. $'69,14S.
The days crop news did not quiet
the feeling of anxiety over the corn
crop. The days changes In the money
market were not perceptlble IN Inc
quotations The rise in discounts III
foreign markets has revived, discus
sion of the possibility OF gold export"
again. The requirement Is supposed
to De for large forthcoming govern
meut loans abroad. There was 4
small offer OF currency to Ne" Or
leans and other indications OF rise
in the tide OF the currency movement
towards the interior.
Sales for rraliZinfi profits han some
slight effect ip reducing the days ex-
treme advances.
Bonds were firm. Total sales par
value $4,S96,0O0. United STATES
bonds were unchanged on call. io'ai
sales todxy sS0l.lOO shares. inclndins:
American Locomotive. $500; Smelt-
ing. $4,000; Sugar. 1,4o0; Tobacco
5000 Atlantic Coast Line, TOO; Chesa'
peake & Ohio. 1880; Consolidated
Gas. 25,sOO; Erie. $4,000; Norfolk 4
Western /, 100; Northern Pacific. 81
700. Reading. 123.400; Southern "a
cific, $4,000; Southern Railway. To-
500: Southern Railway pfd, 42,'o";
Union Pacific. $1,000; United States
Steel $500: Virginia Carolina Chem
ical 700
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15
ROADMAKlNG TEST.

At Bement, Platt County, Mo. a
roadmaking experiment is In progress
which will be watched with much in
terest, says the Carrollton (Mo.) Ga
zette. 1t is conducted under the direc-
ton of the state highway commission
and is intended to demonstrate the
advantages of highly compacted
earth as an element in the perman-
ency of the roads.
A stretch of road half mile or
more in length was excavated to a
depth of twenty inches to two feet
and the earth thrown out at the side.
Then an enormous steam roller was
put into this excavation, which is
about twenty feet wide, and the bot
tom rolled down as solid as it could be
made. Then the excavated earth was
thrown in by degrees, drenched with
water and rolled thoroughly, and so
on till all the excavated earth was put
back. This rolling process is so rigid
that the earth thrown out will not
nearly fill the excavation, and to COM
plete the filling up ample bitches are
cut at the sides of the road, the earth
thrown into the excavation and thor.
oughly compacted with the roller. The
excavation is filled up to the height
desired for the roadway, and thus the
road consists of body of earth nearly
or quite two feet thick compacted as
firmly as it is possible for roller to
compact it.
The theory is that if this road is
thoroughly drained, so that it cannot
be undermined by water and is dressed
down on the top with a drag when
ever it is wet from rain it will shed
the water on the top and be a perma-
nently solid and smooth road and one
that can be constructed at moderate
cost.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15

subsoil under a thin coating or soil
should not be disturbed with grader.
1t is also mistake to use grader
Unfortunately and to pull material
from bitches upon a sand-clay road.
Not infrequently turf, soil and silt
from ditch bottoms are piled in the
middle of the road in ridge, making
mudholes a certainty.
1t is important in using a grader
to avoid building up the road too much
at one time. A road gradually built
up by frequent use of the grader will
last better than If completed at one
operation. A foreman frequently
thinks his road must be high in the
first instance. He piles up material
from ten inches to a foot in depth,
only to learn, with the arrival of the
first rain, that he has furnished the
material for as many inches of mud.
All material should be brought up in
thin layers, each layer well puddled
and firmly packed by roller or traffic
before the next is added. A common
mistake is to crown too high with the
road machine on a narrow road.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15
DESIRE CHANGES IN LAW.

Some of the counties of this state
desire some changes in the application
of funds under the highway law. A
correspondent of the Chehalis Bee
Nugget says
Within year or two it will be
found that the new road law which is
being put in force is a step backward
that we swung from one extreme to
another Under the law that has been
in force the commissioners spent mon
ey collected in one part of the county
to build roads in another-such was
the complaint. Under the present law
communities like Union precinct, east
of Chehalis, are compelled to main
tain public roads over which thou
sands from the eastern part of the
county travel, while other communi-
ties rich in timber which have little
travel on their roads will have no real
use for the money they collect for the
road fund The commissioners have
made a heroic effort to jerrymander
the road districts under the new law
so that the funds will be available
where they are most needed, but under
the law as it now stands the Ingenuity
of man will not be able to provide
funds in some of the districts where
travel is heavy and roads are hard to
maintain. The remedy will eventually
be found in another change of the
law allowing the commissioners or
road engineer to have the authority to
expend, say, half of the road tax in
any part of the county where most
needed, the remaining half to be spent
in the districts where 1t is raised.
The various road associations through
out the county will thresh this matter
out at their meetings so that In the
end the best results can be obtained
from the expenditure Of our road
money.
The Skagit County convention also
passed the following resolution:
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15
RURAL CARRIERS VIEWS.

The Oregon Rural Letter Carriers
Association gave good deal of their
sixth annual convention at Albany,
May 80, to discussion Of Good Roads
topics. They took for their slogan,
"Stand for better roads and greater
Oregon" J. H. Scott, county judge,
discussed Road Improvement" The
following papers were read by car
riers: "Good Roads From the Car
riers' Viewpoint" Franz Kraxberger,
of Aurora; "Best Horse Adapted for
Rural Mail Service and Care of Same"
william A. Spence, of CASTOR; Elm
provements of Roads," A. e. Tower, OF
Junction City.
A resolution favoring the appoint
ment of care-takers of roads over
which mail routes travel was reported
favorably by the committee on resolu-
ton. 1t favors plan whereby all
mail route roads shall be in charge OF
a regular care-t aker during the months
of bad weather and that the care-taker
shall make regular inspections of the
road and repair all slight damage in
the road SO that no chuck-holes shall
form or any other dangerous or trou-
blesome places in the road shall be-
come of any size. Instead of repair
ing the roads only at intervals, this
care-taker would watch it continually
and keep it in proper shape all the
time. The resolution recommended
that every county should expend at
least five per cent of all moneys col
lected for road purposes in the pay
ment of such care-takers.