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The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20

Some wives are economical, and some
others can't save up enough in a year
to pay hubbys cigar bill for week.
Under the British constitution the
king could make war without reference
to parliament
In general and electrical engineer
ing factories in the United Kingdom
over 10000 women are employed.
.obliterated inscriptions on CONS can
often be declphered by placing the coin
on hot iron for few minutes.
The Austrian river Polk drops into
a big hole and disappears.
What is said to be the Oldest pipe
organ in the world is on the island of
Gothland. ia the Baltic sea. It dates
from about 1910 A. d.
1t takes four years of education to
prepare a lion for a circus life, and
one properly accomplished IS worth
five times the value Of an unframed
one.
Manitoba. although the smallest and
most thickIy populated of the prairie
provinces of Canada, has still large
areas Of vacant land~4or settlement
Jamaica is more populous in proporz
ton to its size than Spain, Turkey,
Russia and some other European coun-
tries. The white people. however. are
outnumbered by the black and colored
by nearly so to !.
In 1902 the mileage of wires used for
telephones was four times as great as
that of telegraph wires, but i've years
later it was eight times as great.
Forget your troubles and count your
It's easier to get married than it is
to pay alimony.
Even the straphanger stands up for
the streetcar service.
Lots of men would rather be consld-
cred mean than ordinary.
In playing for a hero medal be care
full not to nag the foolklller.
Spea king of the parcels post, what s
the matter with the suburbanite2
Many woman is single from choice
the choice made by man who chose
another.
steal a march on your enemy by ad-
mitting you were in the wrong before
he finds ii out
think she is doing her duty unless she
spoils her children.
A girl may boast that she has never
been kissed by a man, but she never
boasts that no man has ever tried TO
kiss her.
When a public official imagines he's a
big gun he should be fired.
1t is always advisable 10 know some
thing about what you are trying to
teach.
Tomorrow viii be another day-but
the majority of US will be up against
the same old grind.
But a woman never tells all she
/ hears-probably because she has two
ears and only one tongue.
You never really know a woman un.
til you see her in action near a crowded
bargain counter
Our idea Of an eytravagant married
man is one who leaves a $40 bill in his
! pocket when he goes to bed.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20

Boards of trade throughout the
United States are watching with deep
interest the attempt of the bucket
shops to strengthen their foothold in
San Francisco. Especially keen is the
interest among New York and Chicago
businessmen. 1t is known. that the
bucket shops expelled from those cities
are headed westward with the inten-
tion Of establishing themselves here.
1t is felt that the final and biggest
battle against these gambling places
viii have its setting in this city.
The local bucket shops continued
their operations yesterday with the
same caution that has marked their
trading since the recent raids in the
middle west. There has been some
falling off in the number OF customers,
but the wire clicked quotations and
they were posted on the blackboards
in the same manner as of old. Look
outs held their places near the en-
trance, but the federal deputies dld
not appear. Rumor had it that they
had come in during the late afternoon,
but if this were so, they did not dis
close their presence.
In Chicago the raids were conducted
in much the same manner as is en-
among the Chinese. An apportune mo-
ment during a time of active business
was chosen, and then the special agents
and detectives swooped down upon the
suspected places, gathered in owners
and clients alike, and collected all
available paraphernalia that could be
used as evidence.
In some instances it has been found
most advanta geous to send agents into
the bucket shops, who obtain the neces-
sary evidence by becoming patrons and
suffering the inevitable financial loss
a distinguished feature of a bucket
saop-a feature they all possess IN san
Francisco-is the even balance between
the loss Of the clients and the profits
Of the bucket brokers' The bucket
shop does not make its earnings in
commissions. That is merely a fiction
to which they give verisimilitude. II
pockets the payments of its customers.
1t must be remembered that the
bucket shopper neither buys nor sells.
He merely bets on market fluctuations
and he displays or withholds or twists
the quotations to conform TO his hnan-
ciaI necessities.
The bucket shop is held in such abb
horrence by every legitimate CONNER
ciaI agency or exchange that their
members are forbidden to transact
business with any of its representa-
tives. A violation of tins obligation
entails expulsion from the exchanges.
Rules of this sort are enforced strictly
and promptly by such organizations as
the New York stock exchange and the
Chicago board of trade
The present general investigation by
the federal government is directed not
only against the bucket shops, but also
concerns such telegraph companies or
agencies as assist and cooperate with
these institutions. The bucket shop can
not live without the wire quotations.
The exchanges of the country have def
mite contracts with the telegraph COM
nanies which forbid the transmission of
their stock figures to bucket shops. 1t
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20

Hillsborough, the millionaire town,
with its exclusion, wealth and social
standing, has laid its aristocratic as
sets before Uncle Sam in an endeavor
to obtain an exclusive mail service
one in keeping with the naughty dig
nifty of the communicated for its
pains is regarded now by the postal
department as a joke
The Inhabitants of the town wanted
postoffice. They had a wisteria COW
cred Jail, a sufficiency of parkings and
municipal frills, but they felt the in
jury being done to their standing by
having their mail mingled with the
rest. To them there seemed a note of
incongruity in having their embossed
paper lying cheek by jowl beside one
dealing with the price of potatoes.
Therefore. they asked for a postoffice.
Certainly" said the postal author
aris stocratic noses. Seventy five fam
lilies. That calls for fourth class post
Office
From Hinsborough there proceeded
one instantaneous roar. They pointed
to the fact that Hillsborough was a
community of millionaires, place ex-
clusively set apart by them, one which
the letter carrier would feel honored in
serving. The postal department de-
veloped traits of a most plebeian char
acter
"A fourth class postofice goes-un-
less you get some more millionaires,
was the response to the correspondence
of the civic fathers.
Whereupon, said civic fathers began
to scheme, and their scheming brought
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
RUSSIA'S CALENDAR
CAUSES COMPLAINT
Germany Asks That a Change
Be Made

The German Commercial Treaty asso-
citation has petitiOned the ministry OF
commerce and industry with a view 10
introducing the GFegorian calendar into
Russia, writes Consul General John III.
Snodgrass at Moscow.
In this petition it is set forth that the
German commercial houses interrogated
concerning this question unanimously
complained about the difficulties and
material losses sustained through the
existence of the Julian calendar in Rus
sia. 1t greatly affects business trans
actions in the matter of maturity Of
bills of exchange. payments being made
thirteen days later, and frequently re-
suIting in the loss of the right of pro-
test of bills. 1t often leads to misun-
derstandings in the filing and delivery
of import orders, execution of contracts,
the filing of claims against railroads,
etc.
The association points out the great
Importance of the question to the va
rious foreign institutions and expresses
it's hope that if Russia should intro
duce the Gregorian calendar, the Bal
kan states will soon follow.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
Hlllsborough Fails to
Get Special Postoffice
Millonaires Mail to Travel Beside Letter
Bearing Price of Potatoes

forth another request, which sent the
postal authorities almost through the
ceiling. In effect. it was that the elite
of Hillsboreugh should be marked for
preference and mail for them directed
TO the postoffice at Hnlsborough and
the rest should go to San Mateo-or
anywhere else.
A list of the elite accompanied the
request. 1t was a nice. long list ana
collectively represented several NIL
lion dollars.
Now" said one postoffice official,
they want us to mail that list TO
every one of the several thousand post
offices in the United States. Whenever
the postal clerk starts sorting his let
ters he is to scan the list and see II
any belong on the HillsborOugh list
Then he is to redirect such 10 Hills
borough 1t is one OF the incest
schemes brought to my nOtice-but II
will not go. Hillsborough can have
a fourth class postoffice or none at
all. If this department was 70 start
working out favors for the exclusive
the nation would have heart failure al
the next postal deficit"
Another official declared HillsboroUgh
to be a spoiled child. But, he added
I've will not spare the rod-nO, we
will not spare the rod
All of which has made Hillsborough
peevish Usually the town got what
it wanted, but this is the first time in
its municipal career that it has bumped
against Uncle Sam, and the meeting
shows on the part of the latter an
utter disregard of the thipgs held sa-
cred in HiHSborough.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
REPUBLICANS Will
CONTINUE EFFORTS
County Committee Decides to
Take Part in the Next
Campaign
Enthl N, Harmony and High
Id Are KeynOtes Of
Banquet

Preservation OF the republican
county committee as an active agency
for the accomplishment of the highest
ideals in municipal government was
the keynote sounded last night at the
committees banquet at a downtown
cafe.
The belief that there was anv intent
on the part Of the republican county
committee TO betray the spirit Of the
new nOnpartisan charter amendments
was eTectually dispelled last night.
Nearly a score Of speakers. leaders Of
the republican party and representative
Of the state and local organizations
gave emphatic denial to the suggestion
that the republican organization as
such sought TO repudiate the expressed
viii OF the people
That the county committee shoD1d
take an aSgressively active part in tbe
municipal campaign Of FII was the
unqualified opinion Of every snea lrar
That the committees part should be
within the spirit of the nonpartisan
charter provisions and designed only Ia
accomplish the greatest good for San
FRANCISCO was the advice Of every
speaker
ORDER CHANGETH
The banquet given by the republican
county committee last night was a de-
pailure from all precedents of that
BODY ID bespoke the new order of
ihlngs IN the republican party even
more eloquently than the advice and
pledges Of the after dinner speecbes
was attended by virtually all Of the
~ members Of the county committee.
ny numerous representatives Of tba
state central committeeman bv s,,cb
representative businessmen as Captain
william Matson. Albert E. Castle and
- fennlmore- An interesting and
Interested participant was Theodore
Roosevelt Jr, who was the guest of
secretary Philip Bancroft
The banquet was the first meeffnv
OF the county committee since prior 10
the general election and before taking
up lue business Of the meeting Chair
man Fred q. SanbOrn thanked The raey,,-
pers OF the organization for their splen-
oid work which resulted in giving a
san francisco plurality for Hiram W.
Johnson. SanbOrn explained that there
was no program and that the previous
dinner participated in by the leader of
or the Organization was held not to
put up slate or program, but to ar
range FOR last nights affair.
KEYNOTE ORGANIZATION
What is to be the future of the conn
" committee That" said Sanborn. eis
the real question for our decision
What are we 10 do in the rnunicinai
campalgn2 The new charter amend
ments provide for municipal tickets
without partisan designations. That
does not mean that this county com
mittee may not, II it chooses. name a
ticket composed entirely Of renuhlic-
ans. or. If If chooses. indorse a ticket
composed Of republicans. democrats.
union labor party men, prohobitionists
and socialists.
Il believe that this splendid body
should be kept together Our keynotes
should be organization and harmony.
Every element in the republican party
is represented on this committee and
II we can convince the people that we
want only those things that viii be
for the best interests Of the whole
community our work viii be easily ac-
complished."
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
1t VIII Be a Merry
Christmas Abroad

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Good
times are in store this Christmas
for many persons living abroad
who have relatives or friends in
this country. judging from the
amount of money and the guam
tity of other presents that have
been sent across the seas
Figures furnished today by
Postmaster Morgan show that
from December 1 to the sailing
of the Mauretania Saturday after
noon 437,S39 international money
orders, representing a face value
of S7,O25,45S, were. issued in New
York City and sent to foreign
countries.
While the greatest number of
the orders were forwarded to
Great Britain, the largest aggre-
gate amount of money went to
Italy. In the same period 27,104
sacks of mail, containing, besides
Christmas greetings, 3S3,319 reg
istered articles and 5000 pack
ages, have gone forward.
OF the money orders issued,
SI,657,406 went to italy and
S1.63S,9S5 to Great Britain.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
EXPLOSION ROCKStp
MANHATTAN ISLAND
Third Rail Responsible for Flash
Which Penetrates Leaking
Gas Reservoirs
Seven Killed When Streetcar Is
Hurled Into Passing
Automobile
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into the lower levels Of the auxiliary
power house.
When workmen' set to clearing away
the lumber it Is assumed that one Of
them dropped a steel tool across the
third rail- There was flash Of elec-
tricity and the great reservoir Of ac-
cumulated gas exploded.
The roof OF frehouse No. .. directly
across the street from the power house
lifted like magic carpet, n shower or
glass, bricks and mortar and splintered
timbers began to fall on the pavemcnts
and in an instant the streets were filed
with prostrate men and women blown
flat by the shock and the rush of air.
They sat dazed where they fell. pick
ing slivers from their flesh
In moment crowds besieged the
drug stores begging for aid and clam
oring for telephones and then the clat-
tering gOngs of ambulances rang be-
tween the tail buildings
Whole houses were emptied in q
twinkling. The tall facades Of the
fashionable hotels in the neighborhooX
were spotted with faces of half dreSS1A
guests. shaken from their sleep, peer
ing from broken windows
The worst focus of death was the
spot at which the trolley car and the
automobile were hurled together. The
seven passengers were dumped to the
under side of the car in a tangle OF
ironwOrk. sharp fragments Of glass and
broken panels.
CRUSHED To DEATH
Miss Mary Pope was caught by the
head between a stanchion and the over
turned automobile beneath and crushed
to death Three other passengers. all
men, were overwhelmed with Wreckage,
and died before help could reach thenr.'
Twenty feet away Miss Edith Offner.
2S years old, a stenOgrapher in mag
azine Office. on her way to work, was
speared through the head by a flying
joist.
Frank Smith. chauffeur of the
wrecked automobile. cut, bruised and
shaken, said: Almost before i real
lied that there had been an explosion
a rain of bricks and mortar began to
fall on me. Then a siX-fOOt timber
shot down out of the sky like an ar
row. I had one foot on the brake
my knees wide apart.
THAT great arrow passed between
them and smashed down through the
floor Of the car Then the trolley car
toppled over on me and pinned me be-
meath the mass of wreckage. Two
priests were pulling me out for dead
when I got my wits"
Albert SeagrOatt. the mOtOrman of
the train that rammed the bumper and
broke the gas main, was held by the
coroner on a technical charge Of hom-
icide. He said he smelled gas after
the collision and notified the yard
master.
Workmen were digging at the ruins
all night looking for the four missing
labOrers-
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20

Success often comes from knowing
what to expect and when to expect It.
The game of politics is all right for
men who wish to try out their reputa-
tions.
The man who knows just what to
do usually hunts up some one to do it
for him.
When a man boasts that he is honest
it's a sure sign that he expects some
one to say he isn't.
The average man would find it easy
sailing if he could make money as
easily as he can make love.
No, Alonzo, there isn't a particle of
danger in going up in an airship. 1t
is the coming down that hurts.
Snore in your sleep If you must, but
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
BUENOS AIRES SHOWS
COM MMERCIAL EXPANSION
Capital Increased by Many
Business Corporations

Exery index of prosperity shows the
city of Buenos Aires to be in a pros
porous condition and that business is
good there and, generally speaking,
throughout the republic, rejecting a
healthy, progressive development dur
ing the first half of 1910. says Consul
General r. M. Bartleman of Buenos
Aires
Sales of real estate and mortgages,
as well as postal and telegraph re-
ceipts, show an increase. The real es-
tate dealings were mostly in the sub
urbs, which are being rapidly devel-
oped. The returns of the gas COM
pany for the first half of the year show
an increase of 2,000,000 cubic meters
over the corresponding figures of 1909.
The current furnished for light, power
and traction purposes by the electric
light company compares favorably with
that for the same period of the pre-
vious year; and the tramway companies
carried 22,O00,000 persons more than
from January to July, 1909, this in
crease being partly due to the centen-
ary exhibitions
To meet the great increase of bust
ness on all sides many of the COM
panieS working in Argentina are in
creasing their capital. 1t is said that
the increase for the first half of 1910
amounts to about S9,000,0 900 in United
States currency. The building and
electricity companies are responsible
for this increase. a. S more than half of
it is for them to meetthenew, expand
ing conditions. The few new compan-
les that have been floated had their
capital quickly subscribed. Several
foreign companies doing business in
Argentina also increased their capital;
and English interests in this republic,
where such abundant and lucrative op-
portunities exist for the investment of
money by United States citizens, were
strengthened by the forming of more
companies in London.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
GUADALAJARA GROCERY
STORES OF TWO KINDS
Specialization in Liquors Marks
the Difference

Grocery stores in Guadalajara are of
two kinds-those which make a Spe-
cialty of liquors and those which do
not, says Consul Samuel Z. MagiH of
Guadalajara. Both carry the ordinary
stock of canned goods, etc. The average
stock of the latter will consist of S5
per cent of American goods. 5 per cent
of English and the balance French and
Mexican products.
There is another noticeable difference.
Should the store be owned by a French
man there is greater percentage of
French canned goods and less of Amer
lean. The same is true il the proprietor
is an Italian or other European, fndi-
eating the value to any country of haV-
ing some of it's citizens in foregn trade
centers to stimlate demand for home
made goods to which they are accus-
toned.
Mexican rice, sugar, flour. salt, laun-
dry soap, candles. brooms, coffee, bis
cults and crackers are sold, as a heavy
protective tariff keeps out foreign
products of this class.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
STROKE OF APOPLEXY
KILLS WILLIAM MANN
Stricken in Jail After Argument
on Train

NEW YORK, Dee. 19.-William N.
Mann, an officer of the Vacuum oil COM
pany, died today in ST. Marys hospital,
Hoboken, N. J., where he was taken
Saturday night in an unconscious con-
dition. Mann was arrested after an
argument with a fellow passenger on a
train in the ,tunel beneath the Hudson
river While in the police station in
Hoboken he was stricken with apo
plexy.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
PIONEER WOMAN OF
HOLLISTER is DEAD
Mrs. Emma Shaw Passes AVN
at Age of 80
SGD D..ealeh 3 TLe Call

HOLLISTER. Dec. 19.-AIrs. Emma
Shaw, so years old. died here yester-
day after an Illness OF several weeks.
Mrs Shaw came here with her hus-
band and a family Of seven boys and
one girl in the early 70's. She was a
native Of England Shaw established
a paper here. which is conducted by
the family.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
4 Christmas suggestIon.

You could serve nothing better with
the fish or oysters on Christmas day
than the Italian-SWiss COlOny's Chablls.
Rfesling or Sauterne. Their famous
red TipO and Burgundy so well with
the roast and with the dessert and
sweetmeats we would suggest that you
use their Asti Special Sec. a white
sparkling wine as good as the best
French champagne at half the price
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
SUGAR CANE TO BE
REDUCED TO POWDER.
Process Patented for Purpose
of Evading Duty

A patent has been applied for in one
of the British Guiana colonies in rela-
ton to improvements for treating
sugar Gamer The invention involves
the separation of the canes into their
two principal structural parts, pith and
woody fiber, by mechanically reducing
the canes to fine shreds and then COM
pleting the separation by a screening
or sitting operation and separately coll
lecting the two parts, all this with the
retention Of the natural juices. The
stalks are passed endwise through ro-
tary cutters, by which they are shred
ded into a mass in which the pith ex-
lists in sawdustlike particles and the
fiber in fine Elementary shreds. The
sugar cane, thus reduced to dust and
shreds. is intended for export in this
condition, the idea underlying the en-
terprise being to escape the duty
chargeable on sugar on admission to
the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20

Most women can keep a secret
going.
And the smaller the tub the sooner it
slops over.
If you succeed it isn't necessary to
explain how you did it,
There are a lot Of people in business
who have no business in it.
Most men prefer d well formed
woman to one who is well informed.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
Baltimore in Line
[seseial Disnaleh 70 The calIl

BALTIMORE. Dec. 19-At last The
women are coming into their own.
Even though they are denied the right
10 vote, many Of them have been fight
ing for the privilege to smoke in pub
lie places and they are rapidly gaining
their point. News from New York
that the ban had been lifted against
women smoking at the Ritz Carlton,
followed immediately by the privilege
10 smoke being accorded women in tive
leading hotels in san Francisco, has in
nuenced similar freedom here Balti-
more women who wish TO smoke can
be accommodated at both the Stafford
and the Belvedere, but only in private
rooms TO be provided for the purpose.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20


BERKELEY. Dec. 19.-To make q
determined fight to secure the indorse-
ment Of the American historical asso-
citation for the Panama-Pacihc exposi-
lion in san Francisco and 10 attend as
q delegate from the Pacific coast
branch Of the society. Prof. Henry
Morse stephens viii leave tomorrow
morning for indianapolis 10 be present
at the twenty sixth annual session of
The historians.
Professor stephens plans to secure
the permission of the council of the
association to address the convention
on the reasons why San Francisco
should be given federal Endorsement.
IFe then plans TO have the historians
indorse the Pacific coast metropolis for
the exposition.
Should his plan to address the con-
vcntiOn on the fair for San Francisco
fail. Professor stephens, who viii be a
speaker at the annual banquet which
VIII conclude the convention, win
speak for san Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20
no cURE a COLD IN oNE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money! if it fails. E.
w. Groves signature on ZACH box. z5c,
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20

The world soon loses interest in a
man who spends half his time in max
ing promises and the other half in ex-
planning why he didn't keep them