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The San Francisco call., 1908-09-22
HIT By sTREETcAR

Leo Schenoni, a fruit peddler living
at 29 Railroad avenue, was seriously
injured yesterday at Market and Bat
terry streets when an electric car col
lided with his wagon. The wagon was
wrecked and Schenonis stock of fruit
scattered broadcast. At the harbor
hospital it was found that the peddler
had sustained a severe laceration of
the scalp and possible fracture of the
skull.
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srRUCk BY ELEvAToR

George Graham, 1907 Walnut street.
Alameda, stuck his head into the ele-
vator shaft yesterday at 531 Howard
street to see who was ringing a bell
on the lower floor. Just then the ele-
vator dropped. The falling elevator
jammed his head against light panel.
which yielded, and the boy escaped with
a painful abrasion of the chin.
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SYNOPSIS

The pressure continues high over the western
half of the country and there are no indications
of any marked change. The temperature has
risen in the great valley and afternoon readings
north of San Francisco fog prevails. with cooler
weather. Pleasant weather prevails In southern
California.
FORECAST
For san Francisco and vicinity-Far Tuesday
with fog: fresh west winds
For the Santa Clara valley-Fair Tuesday /;
light north winds.
For the Sacramento valey-Far TUESDAY /.
cooler; light northeast winds. changing to south
For the San Joaquin valley-Cloudy Tuesday !;
light west winds.
For Los Angeles and vfcinity-Fair Tuesday |:
light northeast winds. changing to fresh west
A. G. McADIE. District Forecaster.
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comuaguie Generale Transatlautiuue

DIRECT LINE TO HAvRE-PAH1S
sailinxs every Thursday. instead of SATURDAY.
at 10 a. m. from pier 42. North River. foot Of
Morton st.
First class 20 Havre s77-50 and upward. ssc
ond class to Havre, $50 and upward GEM Frs al.
AGENCY FOR UNITED STATES AND Can
ADA. 10 State ST.. New York. ]. f. FUCAZI
Francisco. Tickets sold By all railroad ticket
agents.
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ENoI.ANn IErs BEEF CONTRACT

LONDON. Sept. 2I.-The war Office
has placed with a Chicago firm another
large contract for American beef, and
the admiralty is negotiating for q con-
tract for the navy,
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nay AND INTERURBAN ROUTES
MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD
Vallejo, Napa, ST. Helena

ST. HELENA-NAPA VALLEY RorTE
Monticello $. s. Co. and Napa Valley Electro
r. R. Co. Close connections
GROUND TRIPS DAILY-G
Boats leave san Francisco 100 so:45 a m
1890 noon. 3:1J. 600. $3.50 D. m
San Francisco landing and office. Clay street
wharf, north end ferry building. Market street
ferry. Meals Z ID carte.
Phone kexruy 4O6-
Glands navy yard direct.
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.AUCTION@ @

On account Of sickness and to satisfy my credi
tors. will sell 5 sand wagons and 10 good horses
and mares. with harness. Calvin owner. At the
same time and place l will sell l car OF good
young horses, also large assortment OF wagons.
bussles and harness Sale at DUBOCE STA
BLES. 18th ST. near Valercfa. THURSDAY, Sep
tember "a IL a. m
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with 100000 feet of lumber for San Francisco.
went to sea today.
ballast, and which was reported to be of Cane
Mears week ago. was reported to be OF the
seattie. Sept. .st 2i.mAmerican ssn ship st. paul
returned today from Chignik. Alaska. with
6s 400 cases of salmon and $50 barrels of salt
fish. 1t was u days returning. On the out
ward passage last spring August Sundburg was
lost at sea. while Gustaf Peterson died as the
result Of fall from the mizzen lower topsail
yard.
British steamer Ferndene will complete a
cargo Of wheat for the United Kingdom TO
morrow.
Norwegian ship Clyde began to load for The
United Kingdom at the Great Northern elevators
today.
Steamer Mackinaw returned from Tacoma this
morning and Is loading for Its third voyage OF
the to Nome.
Bark Guy C. Goss has gone to winter quarters
tug c. c. Cherry. which has been stationed
at the Dundas cannery. arrived this morning.
with the seasons pack the last of this month.
Steamer Olympia went TO Bellingham to load
1.000,0OO feet OF lumber for Nome
Steamer Jeanie arrived with general cargo
from San Francisco.
Steamer Harold Dollar arrived from San Fran
cisco. as did also the steam schooner Wasp
Steamer Shna-Yak is repairing at Eagle
harbor.
tons OF wheat the German ship Efrieda will
leave for the United Kingdom in the morning.
brltlSn steamer fftuklyn H1lSueQ nef gram
cargo today and is expected to leave port to-
night for the United Kingdom.
British steamer Suveric returned from Port
land today to resume loading general freight for
the orient.
steamer Mackinaw left port today for Seattle
TO resume loading for the north. 1t carries q
shipment of government supplies from Tacoma.
san Pedro, Sept. 2i.-Steamer Helen P.
Drew, Captain Gunderson. completed the dis
charge of 100000 feet Of lumber for the San
Pedro lumber company and cleared today for
Greenwood via San Francisco to reload.
Steamer Hanaei, Captain McFarlane, arrived
from San Francisco with passengers and 300
tons of freight and merchandise for the Cres-
cent wharf and warehouse company. 1t
cleared on the return trip tonight.
OIL steamer Whittier. Captain Seamen. cleared
today for San Diego carrying 1900 barrels of
oil for the Union oil company.
Steamship Santa Rosa. Captain Alexander,
arrived tonight from San Francisco via Redondo
and Santa Barbara with freight and passengers.
steamer Vanguard. Captain 0dlund, completed
the. discharge of a part cargo OF lumber at the
Salt Lake wharf and cleared today for Eureka
steamer ]. B. stetson. Captain Bonnifield.
completed the discharge Of lumber cargo and
cleared for Grays Harbor to reload, taking
freight and passengers for San Francisco
The Banning eompany's steamer Cabrillo.
Captain Blanchard, returned today from San
Francisco where II was on the drydock for
cleaning and oyerhauing.
Long Beach. Sept. 21.-The launch Virginia
Captain Napier, struck whale while returning
from Catalina island last evening. There were
80 passengers aboard the Virginia. One of the
engines was disabled a result of the collision
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-ock and on Exchange
OFFICIAL SALES
NfInInr Sfocke
.OAISTOCK

san FRANCISCO STOCK EXCHANGE
Following were the sales on the San Francisco
stock and exchange board yesterday:
gONFSTOrES
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Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co.

(SOuTHERN DIVISION. AUGUST 10,
190S, VIA SAUSALIT0
For sausaIito, MIL Valley, San Rafael
-Daily-Every 80 minutes from Gas TO 9.4j
a. M; hourly until 3:45 p. M; then AIS and
every 80 minutes until 7:45 p. m; 500. 1885
On Sundays additional trips as follows: 1o:i5.
11:15 m and 1918. ISIS p. m.
For Fairfax-Week days-6:45. 7:f5. Sis.
10:45 a. M; PAS 3:45. AIS. 4:45. 5:l5. 5;45
D. m. sundays-s:45. 9:15. 1918. iO:45. Has
a. M; l2:45, las. 2:45. 7:45 D. N.
For San Quentin-Daily-s:45 a. N. and
s:i5 a. m. daily Except sundays) and 2:45
p. m daily for Lagunitas, Camp Meeker. Monte
Rio Cazadero and way stations.
S:15 a.. m. Sunday onlv for Point Reyes and
5:l5 p. m. daily texcept sundays. s:45 a. N.
and T:45 p N. tSundays only. for Point Reyes
and way stations.
VIA TIBURoN
For Tiburon, Belyedere and San Rafael
$3.50 D. m. daily and '12:so D. m. Saturdays.
On SUNDAYS additional trips at 1880. $50
p. N. for San Rafael and intermediate points.
T:35 a. m. daily for Petaluma, Santa Rosa
Healdsburg. Cloverdale. Ukiah. Willis. Sher-
wood. Sebastopol and way stations.
500 a. m daily for Petaluma Santa Rosa
Glen Ellen. Camp Vacation and way stations
s:10 a, m. Sunday only. for Glen Ellen and
i1:Oo a. m: daily for Petaiuma. Santa Rosa
and way stations.
$50 D. m. daily for Petalums. Santa Rosa,
Healdsburg Cloverdale Ukiah, GuerneviIle Sc
bastopol and way stations
5:i0 p. m. daily for Petaluna. Santa Rosa and
$50 D. M daily for Glen Ellen and way sta
toDs
sTo Tiburon only.
Pacific transfer company's agents are author
TiCKEr OFFICE Ferry Building
GENERAL. OFFICES. .Iarres FlnOd building
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OCEAN TRAvEz.
Toyo kisen kaisha
OCEAN TRAVEL

(ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP COD
3. S. '.Tenyo Mfru" Friday, Sept. IS, 1908
3. 5. America Maru'' (via MANILA
..-...---...-..-.-.-. Tuesday, Oct, %. k5Q9
Steamers sail from company's piers. Nos. A..
"a. near foot Of Second 81, p. m. for Ioko-
hama and Hongkong. calling at Honolulu Kobe
fHiogol Nagasaki and Shanghai. and connecting
at Hongkong with steamers for Manila, India.
etc. No cargo received ON board on day Of
sailing. Round trip tickets at reduced rates
For freight and passage apply at ONCE. 240
James Flood building. W. Fl. AVERY.
Assistant General MRnaDnx
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Depot 18th and Mission sfs.-Daily except sun
day-Lesve: .7:45a. 9.l5a. LISP. 5.50p- Ar
hoIisiavs-Leave: 7:55a. 9.15a. @sfo-ooa. i0:4oa.
le:e0 noon. .4J q. 5;J5p. s:l1p. Arrive: I:35a.
sAiIxed. .sGranada Express. makes no inter-
mediate stops
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Weather Report
RAINFALL DATA

United States department of agriculture
weather bureau--San Francisco, September ri.
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Army Transports
.,tfoa c.n+or,h.~

The Buford sailed September ii from Homo
lulu for Manila.
The Crook sailed for Honolulu September Is.
The Fitzpatrick is at Newport News, va.
The Dix Is at Seattle.
The Logan is in port
The Meade 10 at New York
The Sherman is IN port.
The Sheridan sailed; September 10 from Manila
The Thomas Is In port.
The Warren is at Manila.
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U. S. Branch Hydroxraphic oface

u. :. Branch Hydrographic ONCE
a branch OF the United States Hydrograpbic
Ofhce, located at the Merchants Exchange is
maintained In San Francisco for the benefit of
mariners without regard to nationality and free
or expense. Navigators cordially invited 10
visit the office, where complete sets of charts
and sailing directions of the world are kent at
hand for comparison and reference and the lar
est information can always be obtaiad regard
ing lights. dangers to navigation a. matters
Of interest to ocean commerce
J. c. BURNETT
Lieutenant, q. s. n, In charge.
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Time Bali

United States Branch photographic Office. Mer.
chants Exchange, San Francisco September
81. 1908.
The time ball failed to drop today.
]. c. BURNETT
Lieutenant. L. s. N in charge
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The Overdue I,i.t

The Overdue List
The bark Toxteth. out 204 DAYS from Port
Talbot. tor Tocopllla. 30 per cent
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CLOSING QUOTATIONS
CALIFORNIA
NEVADA
Tonopah District

BidAsk Bid. Ask.
crscksjsck G. osiBazel n Co..l.25 ] 80
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TO SAIL FROM SEATTLE

SUN and Tide
United States Coast and Geodetic Suryey-Tfme
and Heights of Tides at Fort Point. For city
front mission street wharf add 25 minAtes
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22
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Sun rises 6..5T Sun SETS no
iTfmel iTimeI l.rims l1ymel
SepI - Ft u Ft ~ Ft ~ r.
w ia WI IL wi IN WI
o.. s:Isl o.5lIo:2oI 4.sI a:sel 2.7I e:2sI 50
%. 3:46l 06llo:42l sol 4:12l 23llO:lOl so
"a "a 4:2S oall1:os 81 4:44 l.sl1o:5ol 40
70. 300 1-0ll1:27 So 5:20l 1.5I H. 27 As
2e..l $500 I3l11:44l 5.ll 5:5eI 1.2I -. .....
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OCEAN SHORE RAILWAY

TICKET OFFICE AT sAUsALIT0 FERRY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

rather elastic term children" but are
noisy and strong and destructive. push
themselves in. that the little children who
used to make up the bulk of the egg
rollers. the gentle. well-brought-up little
ones for whom the festival was instituted
that 1t has fallen into disrepute among
Washington folk who know what it is
really like these days. The particular
Washington mother keeps her children
away-unless, forsooth, there are within
their gates strangers-chiidren who hav-
ing heard Of the one-time pretty custom
wish to participate therein.
Dear to the Heart.
Notwithstanding that it has fallen into
day egg rolling is so old and so we'll es-
tabiished a custom, so dear TO the hearts
Of the people at large, and OF the press
ia particular, that when a year or two
ago President Roosevelt suggested abol-
fishing 1t such an outcry was raised all
over the country that the suggestion was
Withdrawn. And yet most Washingto-
mans will tell you that the President was
right. The custom has SO degenerated as
to have become a good deal of a nui-
sance 1t takes weeks to repair the
damage done to the grounds in those
four hours Of egg rolling-weeks of time
and hundreds of dollars in real money.
The flower beds are trampled under foot
and left disheveled wrecks of their for
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White Lot. And SO famous has this
Easter Monday ceremony become that no
tourist who is In Washington On that
day fails to go down there with the idea
of witnessing it. To many it Is a great
disappointment that they must watch
from the outside. unless they have been
thoughtful enough TO provide themselves
with child as a ticket of admission.
This disappointment is source Of
ready revenue to youngsters who, like
paymaster Jack, are of thrifty turn Of
mind. Many and many of them earn
nickles and dimes galore offering them
selves as tickets of admission to i'm
provident tourists. The officers, of course,
know what Is going on. but are powerless
to prevent it. except by exercise of ar
bitrary authority where the offense is I'M
usually fragrant. 1t is a peculiarly close
listed sightseer. or a peculiarly conscien-
tious one, VINO will not gladly give up a
dime to see the fun from the inside,
though when he gets in he wni probably
find the sight disappointing, at least in
the matter of the class of children who
are taking part.
AS a matter of fact, very few Wash
ingtOn children of the better class go to
the White Lot egg rolling nowadays. They
do most of their egg rolling in select little
parties in Rock Creek Park. The fact
that any child could go to the White Lot
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English in a Chilean School.
From Scribner's.


A class in English was reciting-read-
ing an English fable about the wicked
condor and the poor little hare. and the
use the latter had made Of his legs.
"Pooair-r-aleetle hare-r-re"-they would
read in extreme embarrassment, for some
were quite grown up-"what were you
ADDING weeth your lacc?" Ii may be en-
barrassi but that is the way they learn
English down there, and the way our
spoiled youths Of Harvard or Princeton
do not learn the languages-by talking
them; SO that young men who have never
been outside Of the little interior town In
which the seven-leagued gringo meets
them can chat with him quite flusntly In
his own tongue. After classes were dis
missed for the noon recess the pupils
hurried into boomers and flannel waists.
and under the leadership of q young
woman with that austere springiness
which, outside gymnasium instructors. Is
ne'er seen on sea or land. drilled with
dunbbells and parallel bars. They lined
up and sang their cancion nacional.
and after that in English. America"
which was polite attention no Chilean
would ever have received In the United
States. Their they drew a long breath.
smiled up into the gallery where We
sTemen a sa feeling. MY old Ke e
Home" 1t may be that every reomful
OF South American school girls could do
this last summer but Mr.. Root was then
full mcnth's journey distant from San
tiago. and all could do was TO put my
self i'm the place of a Chilean who should
drop into New York school by chance
and have the pupils promptly stand up
and sing his national anthem and folieW
that with some ancient Chilean popular
song and I do not hesitate to say that
at least one OF that audience was con-
siderable affected.
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mer weli-ordered beauty. shrubbery 10
broken that seasons growth will scarce
ly replace. AS for the lawns, when IL 10
all over they suggest nothing SO much az
one great big dish of scrambled eggs.
Eggs may or may not be a good fertilizer:
certainly in that form they are not pleas
ant.
AS to just how the custom origina ted
there seems to he no record. The oldest
of the White House employees. old Mr..
Pennen. who guards the east room.
survivor OF the Lincoln regime. says there
was no White Lote egg rolling when he
rst came to the White House, Q little
more than forty-four years ago. Then IL
was customary to have a big Sunday
school parade early in May, when all the
Sunday school children of the city
marched in procession to the White Lot
and were reviewed there. That was dis
continued within a year or two OF MP.
Pennelrs incumbency. and the egg rolling
seems to have succeeded IL. though In
just what year IL was inaugurated he
does not remember. but he thinks IL
was probably in President Grants
time Certainly the average Washing
tonian cannot remember when the Gus
tom was not. though some there be who
can remember when the terraces of the
Capitol grounds were a much more popu-
lar place for the ceremony than the White
Lot.
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running Parker and Davis ticket for the
exercise maybe, or something like that.

running a Parker and Davis ticket for the
exercise maybe, or something like that.
But you oughtn't to question motives
when there's a romance on foot. But how
about that young lady's father? There
was a good deal of talk to the effect that
1t might be necessary for the King of
Italy to crown him or knight him or
something. SOS to take the curse off the
fact that he belonged to the United States
Senate, and 1t has made my heart bleed
at the thought of some day reading in the
cable notes that at the imperial reception
In the Coliseum at Rome, or wherever it
is that the royal family resides. the dow
ager father-ln-law, nee Elkins, entered
the drawing room wearing white point
desprit over lavender and carrying his
new coronet under his left arm.
Maybe Easter is bringing us the solu-
ton Of some of these vexing problems.
Larry. It's already brought us several
other things. I saw a few limited edi-
tions Of the advance Easter modes out
summing on the avenue this afternoon
They were lovely in the extreme. There
was one fair creature. weighing upward
of 800 pounds, who waited past me with
her haid and her tailor suit and her
spats and her shoes all done in tan tones.
She looked like golden-oak dining room
set And saw one of the new spring
hats that you can't get in a car door
with without turning It up on edge. 1t
had more'n two million feathers on it, all
aiming In different directions. 1t was
worn by a slender little thing, and the
combination makes me think OF the Sa-
cred Cassowary of Abyssinia standing on
its head in q high wind.
II saw something else. Larry-a bunch
of yellow jonquils blooming in a window.
So let's hope for the best Lent may
sometimes be q threat. but Casters a
promise"
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ming. When the looked-for collision
likely to break and the owner Of the
egg which survives claims the cracked
egg as spoils of war 1t used to be de
rigeur to eat all the eggs won. But that
custom had sometimes serious and even
occasionally fatal results. 1t is on rec
ord that one little colored girl dropped
dead on the field of honor at one of the
egg rollinss. a victim to a mad orgy of
hard-boile eggs.
Crazy About Eggs.
A well-known society woman was
recounting not long ago the days
when she. too. rolled eggs at the White
Lot Her appetite for eggs was family
joke in those days, and her eggs were
vanquishing all corners In the rolling.
There were a party Of six or eight chill
dren in charge of governess. Along
about noon Miss Mary" noticed that
Emily vlooked queer and seemed to
have lost her interest in life. She asked
her what the trouble was. II don't know.
Miss Mary. unless I've eaten too many
eggs" replied the child. WHY. how
many have you eaten-half a dozen?"
No, ma am. the last one 1 remember
counting was fourteen" The child was
bundled into a cab. and taken home.
where for a week she was a very miser-
able youngster; and all her visiting play
mates were required to take their oaths
before they were admitted to see her that
they had nothing eatabie concealed about
their persons. She has never really been
crazy about eggs since.
A boy who was in that same party, IL
now q paymaster in the navy. He was
peculiarly thrifty boy. hated to see any
thing wasted. So he carefully gathered
up all the eggs he could find that were
In condition to stand transportation. and
took them home with him. He stored
them away in a chest in his room and
forgot all about them. In the course of
ten days or SO there was most terrible
odor pervading one well-knovn washing
ton home. Mother and father went around
the house sniff. sniff. shifting. trying to
locate the smell. Finally they decided
that either there was rat dead some
where in the walls. or there was some
thing radically wrong with the plumbing,
and were about ready to call In experts.
Finally mother noticed that the smell was
stronger In the boys room than anywhere
else and said to him, do you know,
Jack, 1t seems to me that that smell
comes from your room somewhere
Whereupon Jack grew thoughtful and
saw a great light. We'll. mother. We
been thinking: and it's barely possible
that it's those eggs 1 brought home
Jack learnt right then and there-learnt
the lesson painfully and with tears-that
thrift is one of the good things Of which
it is possible to have too much.
Disappointed Adults.
From . to the White Lot is open to
the children for their egg rolling-the old
game that children have played with their
Easter eggs for generations. the only
point to the ceremony being that in
Washington it may take place at the
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true in periods OF prosperity and expand
ing credit. The man who puts away gold
at the beginning of a period Of expansion
in order 10 part with ii at the height OF
prosperity would find that his gold had
shrunk in value in relation TO other
things. just as In a crisis he finds that
these other things have shrunk In rela-
ton to gold. But the process Is such a
gradual one when prices rise and gold
falls that it makes no such appeal to
the Imagination as the sudden COLLAPSE
of credit and the scramble for gold
which recently caused the very pulse
throbs OF the engines OF the Lusitania
TO be so anxiously counted as she brought
her precious cargo OF the yellow metal
to the relief of the New York market.