The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
Answers to Queries

Ooth sexes, IN or ue6r san Franc1scOs
The Croker old peoples home at
Pine and Pierce streets. San Francisco.
and the Altenheim, Fruitvale.
TO CLEAN MARBLES Subscriber. City. Please
state how TO clean marble:
The following is the method used
in the Chicago free library in which
there are many thousand square feet
of the finest kind of white marble.
little oxalic acid and water is
poured on a piece of muslin cloth and
the marble is rubbed with this to take
off the dust. Then polishing powder
is used with dry cloth. This polish
ing powder is known as white polish
ing powder and is to be obtained at
drug stores. II takes good strong rub
bling 10 put on a good polish.
FREIGHT RATEs-F. R.. City. Please in
form me where / can, in the most satisfactory
way, ascertain the shipping rates on ocean, bay
and river steamers, also freight rates by rail7
At the offices of the steamship com
panies and at the railroad offices.
coal AND oIL-subscriber. City. Where
can | obtain information about the daily con-
sumption Of coal in San Francisco, Oakland. Los
Angeles. Sacramento and Stockton! What per
centage of the states fuel consumption is oil ?
What would be its equivalent in tons Of coal.
per day
You might obtain information as to
coal by placing yourself in communi-
cation with some of the leading coal
dealers in each city named? AS TO
the consumption of oil as fuel. the Pa
cihc oil exchange in this -city might
assist you There are no figures that
tell what the states fuel consumption
is, oil or coal.
QUESTION OF LAVE. C. L., Oak
land, Cal. Your question about the
selling of a homestead and the division
of the money. in a case where there
are two children ETC., is one that calls
partment does not give.
SEATING CAPACITY. J. l.. City. What
is the seating capacity OF the New York Hip
York city. and the Chutes, San Francisco?
$500, 3.ss6Na and 1000 in the order
named in the question.
FOR GoLD-A. o.. City Please inform
me what mixture you would TO add to
copper in order TO make rod to draw gold
from the gFound2
mis- department does not know Of
any such mixture or rod.
the annual export of wines from the United
States to JapanI
The statistics of exports and imports
do not give such figures. To obtain
this information you will have to write
TO every custom house in the United
states.
LAHGE OFFICE BUILDINGS-S. Los Banos.
Cal, How many buildings are there in New
York city that are more than 80 stories in
height:
The Metropolitan life insurance
building 46 stories. the Singer building
Al stories and the Times building 81
stores.
SIDEwALKS-P.. City. Is there any law in
San Francisco that prohibits the throwing OF
water public sidewalk, such comes from
an icebox?
There is an ordinance which says
that it shall be unlawful for any per-
son to wash or caused TO be washed
any sidewalk with hose or otherwise
between the hours of o'clock a. m.
and o'clock p. M
Some one might construe the act al
luded to as washing of the sidewalk,
and if done within the prohibited time
it would be a misdemeanor. In case of
that kind the party would avoid trouble
by carrying the water to the edge of
gutter.
BEAR FLAG PARTY-R.. Philo. Cal How
many, il any. of the Bear Flag Party" Of the
early days OF California are still living?
OF the 40 men who composed the
party of the bear flag raisers only
three are living-Henry Beeson of the
Sacramento valley contingent and Ben
jamin Dewall and Harvey Porterfield
of the Napa valley contingent
PRESIDENCY-D A. H.. City Is there any
clause in the constitution of the United States
which says that only a white man shall be eli
gible to become president of the United States?
The constitution is silent as to the
color of candidate for the presi-
dency. 1t says: mo person except
natural born citizen or a citizen of
the United States at the time of the
adoption of this constitution shall be
eligible TO the office of president;
neither shall any person be eligible to
that office who shall not have attained
to the age of So years and been Il
years a resident of the United States"
PARTNERS-A. NJ. City. Two men are en-
gagged in business in partnership. One wants to
sell. Must he have the consent Of his partner to
sell?
That might depend upon the articles
of copartnership. As general rule,
when one partner wants TO withdraw
due notice. with first offer to pur-
chase
Subscriber. City Which is the lighter.
damp or dry air?
At sea level. where the barometer
frequently registers a height of 30
inches, we find that at 81 degrees
Fahrenheit the column of mercury 80
inches high resting on one square inch
weighs LAT pounds. 1t is easy from
this, knowing that mercury is 1876
times as dense as water. and air only
one hundred and twenty nine one hun
dred thousandths as dense, to measure
the weight of a cubic foot of pure dry
air, which under these conditions will
be about 565 grains (troyl. On the
top of a mountain $4,000 feet high it
would weigh only half as much. The
weight of cubic foot of water vapor
under the same conditions would be
only 352 grains. From this it will be
understood that when vapor is mixed
with dry air the resulting compound
is lighter; that is, damp air is lighter
than dry air. This is the explanation
given by Douglas Archibald. NJ. A, in
The Story of the Earth's Atmosphere"
MUSTER oUT-Cig.. City. What was the date
of the mastering out of the volunteer organiza-
tions serving in the Spanish American war?
February 90. 1899.
ALSACE-LoRRAINE-R Oakland Cal
Is Alsace Lorraine under the direction of any