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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

for life when he marries; and only
6 to 1 in San Francisco,
In San Francisco wives were the
plaintiffs in two thirds of the in
stances in which divorces were
granted Sfxty-six and fve-tenths per
cent of the dissenting couples were
married in California. 2s.5 per cent in
the United States outside of California
and ) per cent in foreign countries
SO the palm for constancy must go to
the foreigners in our midst. The ma
jority of the divorces were granted be-
tween the fifth and tenth years of mar
ried life.
The statistician who gave out the
figures made a wry face as he read
them off.
1T does not look as if a fellow stood
much show for a happy married life
in this vicinity, does it?" he said. Then
his face frightened and he smiled.
But most of the parties marry
second time" he added. land second
marriages generally stick
So the answer seems to be that
man can not be happily married until
he has been unhappily so a time or
two.
But let us hope that the five happily
mated couples out of the fated six are
happy and constant enough to partly
erase this blot on our social page.
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NAL death rate falls below the figure
given. The total number of deaths for
the year was s.154. The<total number
OF births was 6.671.
Every two hours a marriage occurs
and most mournful is the figure to fol-
low-every IS hours divorce! Thir-
teen is always an unlucky number, any
how. The figures given are for the
fiscal year ending in 1908. There were
4.12S marriages and 713 divorces, the
percentage of divorce being one to
every six marriages; so San Francisco
awokes to find herself famous in the
matter OF divorce. But she did not
lead her state, even at that figure.
Calaveras county showed the highest
percentage, of about one divorce to
every two marriages. During the pre-
vious year San Francisco was content
with a ratio of one divorce to every
eight marriages.; and the rate for the
whole state was one divorce to every
10 marriages. Therefore the chance Is
only 10 to 1 that a Californian is tied
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

the congested travel is easily in the
morning and late in the afternoon,
when the army of commuters gets
into line. This makes q grand total
of $4,000 passengers day. This is
only rough estimate, on basis OF
paid fares for given period, mas
much as the transbay traffic consist
emily fluctuates. With big drawing
card on this side the transbay travel
reaches much larger figure than this,
though the ferries have never been
overtaxed in caring for the GRO vds.
Our birth rate is perhaps a little
behind the times. The stork in San
Francisco is not an aggressive bird; al
though he beats the grim reaper by a
good 10 minutes he is not working
overtime. Every 80 minutes a child is
born, and every 80 minutes a death
occurs Vital statistics show, however.
that of the total number of deaths oc-
curing more than half are foreigners
while every child born is, of course, a
native son or daughter. SO our pros
poets for future growth look extremely
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hHE McAllister car was filed to
1 overfiowing as it neared Fillmore
street. A few passengers got off.
but more piled on. among them an old
woman, bent and withered with age,
wearing a rusty black dress and a bon
net of the fashion of two decades past.
across her shoulders faded shawl.
Notwithstanding her aged appearance.
however. she climbed sbriskly on the
car. glancing furtively to the right and
the left. and sank into a seat near the
front. which kindly disposed passen-
ger Immediately offered to her.
BY the time the conductor worked
his way from the rear Of the car to the
front end several blocks had been trav-
ersed. He bestowed upon the old
woman a glance of recognition as he
said: Fare. please" She glanced up
ward and handed him a transfer.
This transfer is no good" said the
conductor. as he handed 1t back to the
old woman. "Oh, isn't it?" was the
reply. VERY well, stop the car at the
next corner. 1 will get Off"
II should think. madam" said the
conductor, that you would get tired
of getting on my car and getting off
again"
The old woman did not deign to an
swer, but. rising TO her feet. dismounted
as the car came to a standstill.
The episode had interested me, and
followed the conductor to the rear
platform.
"who is that old woman?" I asked.
"and what did you mean by speaking
to her as you did?"
THAT, madam" replied the con-
ductor, lis a professional deadbeat. L
have been on this run for six years and
I have yet to collect my first nickel
from her. She never pays her fare. but
always manages to ride as far as she
wants to and then gets off. She works
that racket with the bum transfer
right along on the different car lines.
1t is easy when the cars are so crowd
ed. because by the time have got to
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26
BEATING THE STREETCARS

her to collect the fare she has gone as
far as she wants to go. Oh. no. sne is
not poor. notwithstanding her appear
ance. She owns several blocks of wall
liable property and her rent roll is
something enormous. 1t becomes very
tiresome. this dealing with the dead
BEATS
s"oh. then. are there many Of themT'
I asked.
Many OF them. Well I should say
so. There is a class OF people travelling
on the streetcars who openly boast
that they never pay any fare. One Of
the most common tricks Is to become
deeply absorbed in a paper or a book
and to pay no attention when the con-
ductor passes Then when challenged
they brazenly reply that they have paid
their fare. 1t has been worse since
the strike. The public seems to be an
tagonistic to the company and 1t makes
it pretty hard on the conductors to
have to collect fares on the over
crowded cars under such conditions.
especially during the rush hours and
WAeTe there are lu6 most transfers.
Who are the worst offenders" T
asked. "the women or the men?"
BLESS you. there's no difference. A
woman will beat her fare whenever
she possibly can and men are Just the
same. Even the children are getting
WISE You know, their tickets only
cost them ~ cents, yet they work very
clever schemes to ride sree. bunch
of youngsters will pile on the car, half
of them at the front end and the other
half at the back: then as soon as
have collected the tickets and given
transfers to the ones at the back they
will work their way to the front and
give their transfers to their comrades
at that end. who will then insist that
they have paid their fares. showing the
transfers in proof of the assertion. On.
they are foxy. the youngsters. leave
you here" he continued. as we reached
the carhouse at Central avenue "or I
could tell you some rather amusing in
cidents as they come to my mind"
"Oh. some other time when / am on
your car I called to him.
Another conductor and another mo-
torman came on and the car continued
it's journey I'D the hill
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

IA local calls. This means that San
Francisco is doing marvellous amount
Of telephone business-for her size.
These "A local calls are independent of
Saa Francisco's long distance calls,
which are recorded at the rate of seven
every minute. Time is at a premium
here. Not only is the great bulk of
btsiness transacted over the phone;
but long distance social calls are now
the order Of the day. The agony or
pleasure Of shopping is also abbreviated
by the phone, on this side. as well as
transbay- The figures given mean
that each little hello girl must an
swer 80 calls per hour; so her line
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

busy" does not mean that she is taking
out a special crouch on you. 1t Is much
easier to connect you with your party
when possible than to take time off
listening to a complaint.
The streetcar business done varies
of course. with the clock. The whole
city seems to start down town early
in the morning, and you meet the city
and his wife returning late in the
afternoon. Hence the great army of
strap hangers. Figuring on the basis
of a "a hour day. with no rests be-
tween, the street railways carry 3S2
passengers every minute. This is al
most one-third as many as big New
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

The ratio in New York is one di-
vorce to every 36 marriages. So we
score one on New York, wishing mean
while that the figures read the other
way.
We drop back when 1T comes to fires.
We do not believe in fires in this vi
einity. We've mad ours. thank you. A
fire occurs on an average OF every IL
hours. A fire at the eleventh hour. OF
course, But this includes every little
blaze that is instantly put out. The
big fires. costing $4,000 and over. may
be summed up as 20 for the whole
year. Several days will pass without
a single fire; then from three to five
will occur in one day. But New York.
or, indeed. any other large city. is
burning down far more swiftly than
we are now. In New York fire occurs
every hour and "a minutes.
In the matter of fatal accidents our
to be- Pedestrians are accustomed to
the swift running cars and the swifter
autos, and their agility in lodging
these possible engines of destruction
makes them likewise agile in avoiding
other calamities. But, withal, a fatal
accident occurs somewhere in the city
every 90 hours. And this is a very
low rate. compared to New York's
fatal accident every hour
Suicide is last on the list. and the
longest between A suicide occurs on
a fair average of one every 40 hours.
This. the police claim. is an all too
regular occurrence Every 40 hours.
generally at night. some poor fellow.
weary of his own thoughts. goes to bed
for the last time. and snuffs out his
own little candle. And his deed goes
down in the annals of big city-an-
other blot on our social page.
But the blots are few and far be-
tween. after all. and the other pages
are fair to look upon. The hour glass
has been turned many times. but ths
golden sand is still sitting down.
Yet it is safe to predict that SONS
of the figures here given will look like
mere pigmies in the era of the Panama
Pacific fair.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

~HECKING San Francisco by the
minute hand. Squirting at her
through the hour glassl 1t is the
measure Of her activity that is
wanted What happens as the little
golden sands sift downward? What is
tolled of every time the clock strikes?
san Francisco's present population is
100000 plus. with the plus still a potent
secret IN the possession of the census
man. But these growing figures do not
give the truest measure of the city. San
Francisco has large floating popula-
tiOn, OF which the census man took no
count. As soon as one tourist leaves
another comes 10 take his place; so this
transient guest population looms up in
good round figures at the close of the
year. Summed I'D altogether. includ-
ing ferry passengers. commuters and
passengers booked for the orient or
nearer ports, there were more than So
100000 departures by steamer from the
port OF san Francisco during the last
year. This does not include the traffic
overland by train on this side Of the
bay.
From figures that are TO follow. it
looks as il each tourist ct al. stopped
long enough to telephone in transit, for
san Francisco holds a record in her
number Of telephone calls per second,
outranking New York in per capita
rate with its probable population of
. 100000 plus
But the telephone is not first in the
count Of the Sitting sands. Nay, nayi
It is The gas meter, of course. Who
would not have guessed it? The busy,
busy gas meter, Tick! Took. And
every time it tocks. in just one second,
it means a consumption by the city of
1l2 cubic feet Of gas. 1t took you more
than a second to snap your fingers In
the face Of the bill collector last month.
And think what the gas meter was ac-
complishing meanwhile in the dark
stiffness Of many cellars! $40 cubic
feet every minute,
And after that the deIuge For the
water mains rank next. Every second
as gallons Of water are consumed by
the city-or 551s cubic feet The gas
meter is away ahead; but 41s gallons
Of water per second means that the
Spring Valley is working overtime day
and night to supply the demand. It
means that we are an unthirsty, well
scrubbed city, and that the watering
carts are getting busy. With the lawn
sprinklers still buster, this figure may
soar skyward a trihe.
The bell rings here; for the tele-
phone is next IN line. Every three
seconds the telephone company records
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26
EHE72Y HF7EsE-Y M7YCZES
nm DDENT

York carries in the same length OF
time on the subway and elevated rail-
ways.
Taking merely normal count for
the month of April. with no festal holi-
days sandwiched in, 267 letters and
cards go through the postofice every
minute-all first class matter. During
December and January these figures
double and treble; and second and third
class matter is more than correspond
ingly large.
In the matter of crimes and crimi-
nails we are a, strangely peaceful city,
all things considered. There were only
% murders in this city during the
whole of last year and 6S homicides..
against one every two seconds in New
York. The majority of the arrests in
San Francisco are for minor. offenses,
and the drunks, alas, lead the process
sion, with record of 10000 for the
year. Ten thousand drunks out of a
total of 34,396 arrests. What are we
to think about that? The vagrants
are next in line with a record of 1851.
But we may cheer up, for the total
number of arrests for 1909 shows de-
crease of ALL over the previous year,
and $40 more drunks were rounded UP
in 1908 than are in the count for 1909.
Therefore we may 1atter ourselves that
we are on the road to reform in the
pastime of imbibing inebriating bev-
erages, at least.
Every 20 minutes. with no deduction
made for stops or delays, taking a
normal count. 1000 persons cross the.
bay on the various ferries. OF course.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

encouraging. Moreover. the stork
during the last year, presenting the
city with as many sets of fine twins.
The health officer makes a deduction
from the total number of deaths occur
ring of nonresidents. children under a
week of age and deaths by violence.
The ratio of one death every 80 minutes
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-26

Every minute 267 letters and cards go
the poao6ce.
Every Is minutes an arrest.
Every 20 minutes. day and night, 20
sons cross the bay on the ferries.
Every 80 minutes child is born.
Every 90 minutes a death.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15
TIE LIST OF QUALIFIED
PRIMARY CANDIDATES

The time limit for making application
to have names printed on the Official
ballot as candidate before the Demo
cratic primary for any Office. expired
Monday night, and the following appli-
cations have been filed:
For Representa- tive-T. J.DeSteuben
Fred Fee, Riley Johnson, Claude Ohm
stead
For Tax Assessor-James E. An
drews. F. G. Poppell, W. H. Robinson.
For Tax Collector-F. M. Tyler.
For Superintendent of Public In
struction-Geo. E. Coon, j. W. Hodge,
IS. G. VanLandingham.
For County Treasurer h..
Wynn.
For Prosecuting Attorney-Otis R.
Parker
For Supervisor of Registration Ed
Edge.
For Fish and Game Warden Frank
Depew, A. j. Drawdy, William Hogg,
William Rodgers, Dan Sloan.
For Member State Committee "A. b.
Brown.
For County Commissioners First
District A. Holt, Paul kroegel.
Second District--C. H. Edwards. Third
Distrct-A. N. Hoofnagle. N. G.. Jor
gensen. Fourth Dstrict-W. w. Pot
ter, Peter RaulersOn.
Member of School Board First Dis
trict-B. F. Hardesty. Second District
w. B. Cross, N. j. Trowell, w. E.
Tyander. Third district. F. Bell,
William POmerOy.
Members of County Democratic Elk
ecutive Committee-First district
Geo. Braddock Second district r. l..
Brown, w. r. Jackson. Third district
John Schottler. Fourth district
H. Munich. Tenth dstrict-A Lamont.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
IN REGULAR MEETING

The Association for the Improvement
of the Fort Pierce Public School was
called to order Friday at 3 p. m. April
s, 1910, by the president, Mrs. A. {.
Dittmar -,
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and accepted.
A list of the actual needs of the vari-
Gus school rooms was submitted for the
consideration of the Propaganda Com
miltee and includes the following:
Song books, dictionary and reference
hooks. poetry and classics, bookcase,
chairs, table two. stoves. blinds or
shades, globe. maps, charts, water
coolers. primary busy work, cloak
rooms. and inspiring pictures.
Mrs. A. NJ. Sample, chairman OF the
Investigation Committee, reported that
the County School Board is improving
the sanitary conditions at present. as
far MS practicable until a decision IS
reached in regard to retaining present
location permanently. The committee
was requested to devise ways, and
means to raise money Tor a supply. OF
fresh running water and set OF refer
ence books. Mrs. q. K. Bro0me was
u,oointed chairman to succeed Mrs
Sample, .;oa
tbnt the Board Of Public Instruction be
urged to fill in the school grounds pre-
,aratory to planting grass before the
foU term of school Mrs. A. {. Ditt-
mar consented to act as committee
Of one to present the matter to the
County Board at its next meeting.
Mrs Fair read Il very interesting pa
per entitled, "What Home Should DO
for the Child, "
Dnring a recess in the meeting an
continued on page ~
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15

affecting people in all line of business.
One of them alleged that the race;
had caused three suicides in Jackson
vile, of which the newspapers made nc
mention Ali agreed that the races
had been productive of widespread dis.
honesty amongst young men occupying
salaried positions in the city, causing a
number Of them to lose their positions
and characters. Even the proprietors
of business houses had caught the con-
tagion of gambling and some of
them had lost their rating with the two
great commercial agencies.
1t was stated that these agencies and
the local banks had detectives at the
race-track, the former to keep an eye
on the business men and the latter to
watch the bank clerks and other en-
plOyees. Since the racing began, so
these drummers alleged, a number of
business houses in Jacksonville had been
re-rated by the commercial agencies
and their rating reduced.
Indeed the drummers painted dark
picture of the effects in Jacksonville of
the races which have been going on
for the past two months. Such stories
as they told have been related frequent
ly in other placesof the State, all confirm
ing the conviction that the races are a
disgrace to Florida, crying shame to
decency and honor.
And what does Jacksonville get for
her shame? Increased patronage of
her saloons and few extra lOafers of
the sporting frazer nifty boarding
at her hotels. 1t is her peoples
money, to which is added that of the visit.
or, that feeds the horses and enriches
the gamblers who do nothing but follow
the races.
New York and Louisiana, and even
Kentucky, the mother of race horses,
long since in disgust expelled this shame
from their borders, but Florida offers
it to an asylum and fosters it by special
act Of the legislature and forces are al
ready at work to elect next legislature
to continue this disgrace on the State.
1t is bad enough to have the saloons,
with all their corrupting influences de-
bauching both public and private
morality; but with gambling at
both Tampa and Jacksonville, and now
at Pensacola, contributing to the de.
moralization of our citizenship, the d.
rect tendency is to place the sporting
fraternity and the tough element in the
ascendancy through the State and
make another moral Pittsburg of all
If this condition of affairs is
permitted to continue for few years.
then moral worth and high character
will soon be at discount and subject
of derisi6n.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15
fine MUSIC RECITAL
BY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

The scale contest in which all of the
older members of Mrs. Atwater's mu-
sic class took part, was given last Fri
day afternoon. When the judges re-
tired after the contest. they could not
make decision, as Misses Florence
Stetson, Laura Penney and Margaret
Nelson had tied for first place. These
three young ladies were given second
trial, after which Miss Penney was
given first place. The judges also
gave special mention to Mr.. Herbert
VanLandingham. Miss Genie Andrews,
and Miss Jewell Swain, and highly
commended to other members of the
class. The prize will he awarded April
goth, at the last recital of the year. A
paper was read by Miss DELAY on Con-
cretration in the study of music.
Today at 3 o'clock the third recital
will be given. Numbers from Mozart,
Schubert, Bohm and Moskowski will be
played.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15

south range, IS east. thence run north
10 place OF beginning The rolling
pace OF the election district number a
snail be at Jensen, Florida.
mat new election district he con-
SS!l'uted to be known rs election district
NO, IL, with boundaries as follows.
commence at the northwest corner of
section 80, township 36 south, range,
IS east: thence run south TO the sontb
Inc OF st. Lucie county; thence run
east to the Southwest corner of section
80 township 81 south, range 81 east.
tnence run north to the point of begin.
ming, The polling place for election
district No. Is, shall be at the residence
of +. 0. Morgan.
Communication from Board of County
commissioners of Palm Beach County
IN regard to lighter to be used as a
pubic ferry on st. Lucie river at Stuart
received, and on motion Commissioner
Austin Is authorized TO investigate the
matter fully, and report to this board
1T Its next regular meeting.
On motion E. j. Davis is given a
contract to shell mile of road COM
at A 237 and extending north :;
shell to be placed in the ruts 2 feet
wide and 6 inches deep, and when work
is completed and accepted the said E.
}. Davis is to receive $3.50. 90 for same.
SAID road to be completed not later than
} une lst 1910.
On motion reward of $25. 90 is offer
ed for the delivery of Jim Holland, an
escaped convict, at the st. Lucie county
Jail.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15
THE RACING SCANDAL
SHAME OF FLORIDA

A party of young men of the calling
popularly known as drummers were
dining on March 18th ult. at hotel in
Lake City, when the horse racing ut
Jacksonville became the subject of
conversation, says the Punta Gorda
Herald. They all seemed to be familiar
with the subject and one Of them adj
mitted that he had recently lost 500 on
the races. The entire party emphati-
cally condemned the business as de-
moraliziug In the extreme, seriously
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15
POLITICAL SPEAKING
JENSEN WEDNESDAY,

All candidates and the public are
ord;allv invited to public speaking
a y, Jensen Town Hall on the night OF
the 10th of April, "wednesday.
Wy As the time between the arrival OF
the train going south and the one gong
u W." Is short. all candidates, as well
as every one else are urgently request
ed to come Immediately to the Hall up
on the arrival of the south bound tIain,
As there are some issues, upon IDOL WIND IVA
u .'.lp'smeritv of the taxpayers of st. Lucie
pa"r r. he discussed, it is to be hoped
t tSst every man and woman who is in
t t""s in the financial features OF our
affairs, will he present. =.
Re- at the Town Hall promptly at y
Az n m. as speaking will commence
without delay.
mn L. L. VI