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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Overhead Loop VIII Be
Eyesore, Says Architect
BY WILLIS POLK

cause it is easier to handle traffic
in and out Of the ferry building
by an overhead loop regardless of
the inconvenience that this loop
would cause. or shall the freedom
of the surface be preserved and
the same traffic facilities be Gre
ated by an underground loop?
UNDERGROUND MAINTENANCE
CHEAPER
To make the underground loop
practical 1T would, therefore. be
necessary to make some modifica-
tions in the ferry building, such
as discharging upper deck pas
sengers to the street level and
way level. From an artistic point
of view no business man, person,
firm, corporation, municipality or
even the state board OF harbor
commissioners should be expected
seriously to give the matter any
consideration whatever.
But from an economical stand
point an overhead loop, regardless
of the obstruction 1t would cause
to surface traffic conditions. would
cost initially practically the same
as an underground loop. Further
more, the maintenance of an over
head loop would cost more than
the maintenance of an under
ground loop.
If there is a balance sheet diff
ference, 1t must consist solely OF
the cost of such arrangements OF
the ferry building as might be
necessary to accommodate an un-
derground loop. To strike ball
ance on the final results. shall we
charge to the investment account
the cost Of modifying the ferry
building or shall we charge the
permanent upkeep OF the overhead
loop. added thereto the permanent
4ohatrucffOn Of surface traffic
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
CITY BAND WILL GIVE
THANKSGIVING PROGRAM

The municipal band tomorrow att
ernoon at Duboce park. Duboce ave-
nue.. Pierce and Scott streets. will give
the following Thanksgiving program:
.~rhe Star Spangled Banner
March. "Semper Fidelis'' -...-...J- r. Sousa
Fantasy. "Reminiscences of All Nations.
...........-..F Fred Godfrey
Waltz Luna .........-..-...-. Paul Lincke
Overture 'Egmont" Ludwig Won Beethoven
Vocal solos
la) .rlow Along. River Tennessee.
......-...........-.... Gumble
(b) .'On Good Old Time Sleighrode
................... Gumble
Miss Anita Heymans. soprano.
Operatic excerpts, .sCreme de la Creme
Iueo. DiOStS- Qua N
Tar Gavotte ssStefanie''. .........A. Czibulka
%, Hawaiian Patrol "kilauea"
.--- -. u U
Medley of Popular Airs. -.-...W. g. % Hare
Polish Dance ee.....-..........-x. Scharweuka
March. ..Our Emperor Frederick. F. Blon
America
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Western Fuel Offers
To Produce Records

The new federal grand jury. meet
ing for the first time this afternoon,
will have before 1t new angie In
the famous Western Fuel case wherein
the company presents a compromise
proposition. offering to produce the
books and documents before the clerk
of the district court instead OF hand
ing them over to the grand jury In
Its original refusal to produce the
books the company brought upon it
self $4,000 fine and an order that
Secretary Norcross be confined in the
Alameda county Jail. This Judgment
was recently sustained by the United
States court OF appeals.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26

The present condition of traffic
congestion at the ferry is this:
That on the surface loop they can
not unload or load as fast as they
can deliver or dispatch. If you
make an overhead loop. you can
handle twice as many cars as
You can on single surface loop.
II the overhead will do this.
the underground will do the same
thing. The traffic problem is the
same.
In favor of the overhead loop
Is the ferry building itself, be-
cause you can take passengers off
the upper deck to the upper story
and passengers from the lower
deck to the lower story. That Is
the only argument in favor of the
overhead loop.
OVERHEAD LOOP NUISANCE
Against the overhead loop is
this argument: 1t will not only
be an eyesore from the esthetic
point of view. but it will be q
positive and permanent obstruc-
ton to surface traffic, exactly the
same as any scaffolding that
mlsHt De erected In Market street
might be temporary obstruc-
tion.
On the other hand, an UNDER
ground loop would handle the
same volume of traffic as an
overhead loop for the simple rea-
son that it would be just as easy
to go underground as overhead
from the same switch or switches.
Therefore. from this point of vew
the traffic problem is equalized
and at the same time an under
ground loop would not interfere
with present surface traffic.
whereas an overhead loop would
be a serious obstruction to such
traffic
Therefore, to weigh the matter
carefully. shall the present ar
rangements in the ferry building
control the decision simnly he
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Dixon Is Expected
To Get New Trial

J. NJ Dixon. the wealthy Redding
butcher. who was convicted last week
under the new law making 1t q felony
to desert minor child, will probably
be granted a new trial by Superior
Judge Griffin. who intimated as much
today when the case was called. The
hearing on the motion for new trial
was postponed to Monday. The rea-
son the Judge advances for granting
the petition is that he does not ap-
prove the placing a stigma Of con-
viction upon a man whose defense
was not completed. On the advice of
counsel. Dixon did not finish his de-
tense and allowed the case to go to
the Jury without argument.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
: HONESTY IS
||NPOSS|B[E I
ON S75'

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.- Edward
Foye, SIS month clerk, accused of
the theft Of more than $1,000.0 900 from
the Farmers Loan and Surety COM
pany. today defied his accusers to
prove their charges.
Foye, arrested last night as he
stepped from a Philadelphia train,
was taken to police headquarters and
photographed today, and later arr
raigned at the Tombs police court.
At police headquarters the prisoner
said: Il worked for the trust COM
pany for SIS month. They knew
/ was 35 years old and they ought
to know that a man can't honestly
live on such pay. That's all. And
they can't get me on it. either"
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Cardinal Sends Out
Thanksgiving Word

BALTIMORE, Nov 26.-cardina
Gibbons has issued the following
Thanksgiving message:
OF all the nations of the earth
that are called upon to return
thanks to the giver of all good
gifts the United States Is among
the most conspicuous. We enjoy
material prosperity in very
marked degree. We are at peace
with all the nations OF the earth
and we have peace within our
own borders
1t is to be sincerely hoped that
our complications with Mexico
will in the long run be adjusted,
not by the sword, but by the pen
and voice, which are mightier
than the sword.
JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Shots Fool Officer;
Lets Prisoners Go,
Will Train His Ear
Policeman Who Could Not Distin-
guish Autos Exhaust From Pistol
Reports to Practice in Country

Policeman J. C. Quinlan is going to
spend his next day OFF out in the coun-
try, shooting his revolver all day so
he will learn how pistol shot sounds
Last night he had arrested two men
at Eddy and Taylor streets for mis-
demeanor.
Bang! Bang. Bang. Three reports
rang out block away. Leaving the
two prisoners to themselves he dashed
Off
Where's the shooting?" he demand
ed of chauffeur at Eddy and Mason
streets.
Bang popped the exhaust of the
automobile again.
As the chauffeur climbed under his
machine Quinlan rushed back. only to
find his prisoners gone.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
ATTEMPT TO HAL
INVEST |CAT ION
Dealers in Foodstuffs Are
Alarmed by Probe of Cold
Storage Plants

WASHINGTON. Nov. 25.-Alarmed
by the announcement that Attorney
General McReynolds would investi-
gate cold storage plants, dealers in
foodstuffs have wired to the depart
ment Of Justice requesting hearing
before court action is begun. Cold
storage men who come to Washing
ton with facts about their business
and their relations with other con-
Germs will not be turned away by the
department. 1t is announced, but this
will not halt the Investigation.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
DOOR ARE NOT TO
4 BE FORGOTTEN

The poor will not be forgotten to-
morrow. The young women of the
San Francisco Fruit and Flower mis-
sion have been working overtime, Sc
lecting and packing things for 200
needy families. Distribution began
today all over the city.
The Salvation Army plans to feed
more than 500 persons in No. hall.
AZ Hunt street, near Howard and
Third.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
DINNERS ARE SENT
II BY PARCEL POST

The parcel post is swamped with
turkeys.
People are sending their entire
Thanksgiving dinners through the
mail from the big bird down to a
small package Of nuts.
The Thanksgiving rush descended
upon the postoffice last night and
Postmaster Fay was forced to add two
extra wagons and six men to the par
Gel post department.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
EXPENSES or SCHOOLS
OVER THE ESTIMATE

Expenses Of the school department.,
according to President d'Ancona OF
the board OF education are running
over the estimate. with the result that
the board is unable to allow the
teachers the pro rata for outside expe-
rience that was included in the salary
schedule adopted last summer.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
San Francisco to get the news.

San Francisco to get the news.
Then there are the vending ma
chimes in public buildings and on
the street corners, offering a va
riety of desirable wares. No, in
deed, the penny Is not to be de-
spised. "A penny saved is penny
earned" Respectfully yours.
RUPERT TOURNEY,
1922 Market street.
MAKES KIDS HAPPY
Penny Contest Editor, The Call.
San Francisco-Dear Sir: Since
you started your great paper
and sold 1t for one cent we
have been the happiest bunch
of kids in the Mission. Dad,
who, mamma says, is hem
pecked whatever that isl.
would only give us a nickel a
week for spending money, and,
gee, that didn't go far. when
some kids get two bits. But now
it's all different. Last Sunday
mamma gave me is pennies; Ma
mie got 10, Annie s and Tommy Z.
and mamma says as long as The
Call sells for a penny we Will
have spending money every Sum
day, and I know how she does 1t:
but, please. Mr.. Call, don't tell.
You see, pop is crazy about base
ball and fights and wants to read
all the sporting news for dope, he
calls it, so he buys The Call every
night. He'd never give a nickel
for paper, so he has four cents
every night. Mamma says he's
ashamed TO give them for carfare
or a beer. so she told him she'd
save them till he had enough to
buy her a Christmas present, and
now mamma says he's tickled to
death at getting out of that, but
says you wait and see how she'll
fix him at Christmas.
So. Mr.. Call. that is how we are
all so happy and hope you will
never make 1t a nickel.
FRANKIE HEALY,
TOM HEALY,
MAMIE HEALY,
ANNIE HEALY.
1895 Twenty-second street.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Diamond Output Held
Down to Boost Prices

KIMBERLEY. Nov. 26.--It was an
nounced today after the annual meet
ing of the De Beers syndicate that the
output of diamonds could be doubled,
but 1t is not intended to exhaust the
resources of the South African dia-
mond fields, the object being to keep
up prices If competitors persist in
the overproduction of small diamonds
the company, 1t was said, has plan
to cope with the situation.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
'EOODSTUFF PRICES
Il SAME As LAST YEAR

Foodstuff consumption, the princi-
pal Thanksgiving event, goes against
prices generally about the same as
last year Turkeys of good grade are
about the same, p cents to 30 cents
Cranberries at from 70 cents 70 p
cents per quart and mincemeat at IS
cents 10 IS cents per pound are about
as formerly, though butter now sells
at 40 cents TO As cents per pound and
potatoes at two pounds for cents.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
BichIoride Tablets to
Be Made Triangular

WASHINGTON, Nov. Ex-senator
Gallinger OF New Hampshire today
introduced bill prohibiting the sale
OF bichloride Of mercury unless the
drug shall be contained In blue or
amber colored bottles conspicuously
labeled and the tablets shall be trtan-
gular IN shape.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Astronomer Who Made
Science Popular Dies

LONDON. Nov. 26.-Sir Robert Ball,
who made astronomy popular by lee
lures, Is dead today following a long
illness. Sir Robert was widely known
as a wit and could always attract
larger audiences than any other sci
enlist in Europe
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
COCKTAILS? +?
No, SAYS
JAFFA
Eat Salads and Laugh Best
Sauce for Thanksgiving,
Professors Dictum

To those who would enjoy their
Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. who
would eat a royal portion of all the
holiday goodies. from salad to plum
pudding, without an aftermath, Meyer
E. Jaffa, professor of nutrition at the
University of California and head of
the state pure food laboratory, offers
Tour commandments:
j. Above all things. observe modera-
tion and eat slowly.
2. Garnish each course, and not
merely the last, with conversation
and laughter.
3. Skip meal on the day of the feast.
4. For salads, entrees and desserts.
use those foods whose composition
: is largely liquid
RULES BETTER THAN Ape
TIERS
Emphasizing his commandments,
Professor Jaffa said:
The observance of these four rules
will prove a better stimulant to a
harmless enjoyment of the big dinner
than any known appetizer, and they
are an absolute guarantee against that
feeling of STIFFNESS which is apt to
aff1ict the ordinary diner at about the
fourth or fifth course
THE first commandment is the prime
requisite, but for those to whom it is
an unwelcome addition to the menu,
whose ambition it is to eat indiscrim-
inately follow the other three. There
is perhaps no better way to increase
without penalty ones capacity for the
juicy turkey than to dine leisurely
and to add to the mere matter of eat
ing that of merriment and entertain
ment 1t is also a good plan TO skip a
meal before the real one. But this
should never be overdone by fasting
for a day or two. The body is ma
chine, and to get the best out of it or
into it. as the present case requires,
II must he treated intelligently. Don't
starve the stomach and then cram 1T
all at once. In this case the cure Is
worse than the disease
COCKTAILS CAUSE DULLNESS
aside from the we'll known appe-
Tiers such as cocktails and wines,
which may be all right for those who
relish them, there is no better way to
insure the hearty enjoyment of the
repast than to make the salads, en-
trees and desserts consist of those
foods whose composition is largely
water instead of crab, shrimp or nut
salad, substitute plain lettuce or to-
mato. as the former are too heavy and
filling. Oysters make a good entree
and ice cream or water ice is about
the best thing in the dessert line.
such appetizers as cocktails and
wines do not increase the capacity for
enjoyment of the Thanksgiving meal.
but dull the senses, SO that the par
taker does not know until the next
days pains show him his folly
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
FERRY LOOP PLANS
GO TO SUPERVISORS
AT 2 O'CL LOCk TODAY
City Engineer Favors Over
head System to Relieve
Congestion


Plans for elevated or subway ferry
streetcar terminal and relief for the
congested traffic conditions by a CEN
trail station at Eleventh and Mission
streets will be taken up at o'clock
this afternoon in conference be-
tween representatives Of the United
Railroads. members of the supervi-
sors public utilities committee. Mayor
RoIph and superintendent OF the mu-
nicipai railway.
The central station plan for Elev-
enth and Mission streets is a plan Of
City Attorney Long, who proposes a
central street railway and suburban
station there.
Assistant City Engineer Ransom
has found that 254 cars circle the
ferry loop per hour. as compared to
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
YOU ENTERED
THE CALLS PENNY
CONTEST? NO? HURRY

Have you tered Calls big Penny Cones
If
busy and from
Everyb writing the
thought therew SO man
little fellows have ideas,
pennies exceeding
of
the The S waiting
are of adv
of
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-26
Orovfl1e Orange and Olive Exposition
November 25th to 3Ofh.

Reduced round trip tickets via
Southern Pacffic from San Francisco,
Oakland, Alameda. Berkeley. Reddfng.
and points between On sale Nov. % to
80 Return limit. Dec 3.--Advertise-
ment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
ALL READY AT FISH WHARF.
New Regime Meets With Approval
of Those Using Headquarters.

All preparations are completed at the
fish wharf for the handling Of the frs,
shad and herring season since the Dis
trict took the property in charge. The
shad and herring season is opening now
and small craft with a few of the fish
are coming i'll from the nets down river
and within the next week or ten days
the fish should be received on the wharf
by the thousands daily.
The construction of the fences tina,
will isolate the fish wharf from the
oyster wharf and the public wharf where
lumber and other cargoes are loaded
has been completed and during the COM
ing fishing season only those having
business on the wharf will be allowed on
it and the crowds of boys who loaf about
the fish cutters and pick up herring roe
will find a cold welcome when they come
to the wharf this year.
The fish wharf has been provided with
iron loops to which vessels landing fish
there can make fast. Proper mOOrings
have long been needed at the wharf and
the vessel masters are well pleased with
this feature. Market Master Garrett
who was placed in charge of the wharf
when the District took it in charge. has
resigned to take up other employment
B. F. Noyes, who was Mr.. Garrett $
assistant. has been appointed market
master. and Capt Addie Posey. well
known steamboat man, has been made
his assistant
Among the plans proposed for sys-
tematizing methods at the oyster wharf
in the next season is that of issuing a
license to oyster shuckers and to give
such licenses only to men of known
good character who will look after the
interests of those employing them to
shuck oysters. 1t is also stated that re-
ports have been received at the Office
of the superintendent of weights and
measures of short measures being used
This will be looked into and those found
guilty will be punished to the extent
the law allows 1t is also proposed
to build number of shucking stalls or
the wharf and to rent them to the
shuckers. at a nominal rental. BY this
method the shucker can be held respon-
sible for the condition Of his stall and
the cleanliness of the wharf greatly i'm
proved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
sELECTMAN IN COMMISSION.
Tug Had Hull Rebuilt While or
Deans Railway.

The tug j. r. Selectman of the fleet of
the Columbia Granite and Dredging Com
pany of this city, which was out on the
marine railway at Deans boatyard at
Alexandria for general overhauling, has
been finished and has gone into commits
sion. While on the railway the hull of
the Selectman was rebuilt, her machinery
was given a thorough overhauling and
she was put in good order for a busy sea-
sons work. The Selectman is employed
in towing stone-Iaden lighters from the
quarries above Georgetown to the chan
mel west of the Highway bridge. where
the stone dixie Is in process Of construc-
ton along the Virginia side.
After lay-up of three months or long
er, the tug Edith Goddard Winship. be-
longing to the Consolidation Coal Com
pany, will return to service, it is stated,
in the next day or two. The vessel since
going out of commission last fall has been
given a thorough overhauling, and will
be used in the towing of coal-laden boats
from Georgetown to points about the har-
Dor and along the river near this city.
The tug Capt. Toby of the Taylor fleet
had steam made in her boiler Friday, and
was in service turning around the Gu
ban steamship Cienfuegos, which is dis
charging asphalt at an Eastern branch
wharf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
Breaking Out
Spread OVerFaCe
Pimples Would Come to Head
and Run. Had to Hold Hands
Night and Day. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment Compile civ
Cured.

Mcintyre, Georgia.-'My habys face broke
weeks old and we didn't know what was the
matter. The breaking out first came in little
spots and then spread all over her face The
pimples would come to a head and run. Her
face got raw nearly all over and ran sticky
wztery stuff all the time. She would try 10
scratch it and l had TO hold her hands night
and day.
We were tod il was eczema and had her
treated about month, but il got worse all the
time. the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
advertised and got them and she got better at
once. We washed the baby's face once and
sometimes twice a day with Cuticura Soap and
put the Cuticura Ointment on it three times a
day. Her face commenced 10 get better in a
short time and in two months her face was
well. We used three boxes Of Cuticura oint.
nisnt and three cakes of Cu;cura Soap and they
completely cured her. The baby is twelve
months old now and her face is smooth as can
be-" tsigned, J. J. Shepherd. Jan. %, 1912
A single cake of Guticara Soap. &c and box
OF Cuticurs Ointment, SOC. often sufficient
when all else has failed. Sold throughout the
world. Liberal sample OF each mailed free with
81 p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cuticura.
Dept. +. BOSTON,
C. Tender-fared men should use Cuticura Soar
ehaying Stick, Zoe. Samples free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
NEW DEPARTMENT
Public Utilities Commission to
Organize One for Statistics
and Accounts.

Organization Of department Of sta
tistcs and accounts for the new public
utilities commission of the District of
Columbia will occupy the attention of
members of the commission for the next
several days. 1t is understood the en-
ployment of an expert accountant to be
lin charge of this department is contem-
plated.
One of the first duties of this official, it
is stated, will be to prepare a blank form
which the commission will use in obtain
ing from local public utilities information
as to the valuation of their properties.
The companies to which the form is sub
initted will be required to return it, prop
efly filled out, at the end of each year.
Statement of Annual Business.
With the information in its possession,
the commission will have a statement of
which will be used in the determination
of many questions related to the opera
ton of Washington's public service con-
Germs.
The commission, it was announced yes
terday, Will give. consideration to COM
plants made of the refusal of the Capt.
tai Traction and Washington Railway
and Electric Companies to accept trans
fers issued by the Metropolitan Coach
Company, which operates a herdic line on
18th street. Telephone rates have been
complained OF in several communications
filed with the commission, while other
corporations have been mentioned in COM
plants received.
The commission hopes to be able to ad-
just many Of the difficulties without re-
sorting to formal methods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
CATCHES FINE STRING OF BASS.
Louis r. Perron' of Ballston Has Five
Successive "Strikes.

Louis r. Perron Of Ballston, Va,
caught one of the finest strings of bass
taken out of the river this season at the
tidal basin yesterday afternoon. Starting
at 100 O'Clock, casting spoon. Mr.. Per-
ron caught an even dozen bass before
dark The largest weighed Az pounds
when taken from the water, and the
string of twelve weighed forty pounds.
During the afternoons fishing Mr.. Per-
ron performed feat seldom equaled by
fishermen in this vicinity. On five sue
ceSsive casts he had strikes. each time
landing his fish. The five bass averaged
three pounds each, the total for the five
being fifteen pounds.
The water in the tidal basin is very
high and somewhat muddy, and the fine
string of bass that Mr.. Perron took dur
ing the afternoon was a source of sur
prise to old fishermen, who did not eX-
pect to see a single bass taken. because
of the condition Of the water.