New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-11
San Francisco, stirred up by the Hearst

San Francisco, stirred up by the Hearst
papers.
The West is pre- eminently the place
to put ones finger on the pulse OF the
labor and radical movements. The.
population is so cosmopolitan that there
is no place for hard and fixed rules and
there is constant seething and toaming
and boiling. New York has been called
the Melting Pot" Of the nation. San
Francisco might be called so equally well
tho possibly it would be truer to liken it
to the crater of volcano. For out OF
the melting pot comes fused mass
that makes up the bulk OF Americas
citizenship while the elements in San
Francisco seem to be incapable of fusion
and every once in while there comes
forth an eruption that shakes things up
considerably.
The Chinese Tong war which ragged
here for day last week was one example
of the attempt to fuse Chinese customs
with those of the American police system
and when John Chinaman cuts loose he
isn't going to ask any American to help
him in his quarrel, nor is he going to
quit using the rival tong men for targets
just because a detective demonstrates
with him. The volcano simply erupts
until the pressure is relieved and then
things go on quietly again. Oh, it's an
exciting place to live in, is San Francisco.
Any one, no matter what his tastes and
inclinations, can find something to
amuse or interest or instruct him as his
choice may be.
ought to tell you about the Expo
sition, I suppose, but the subject is so big
l do not know where to begin; especially
as l do not know where left off. l
know I've not told you OF the agricul-
tural section yet for I visited it only
yesterday, nor of the Turner festivities
which 1 witnessed last Sunday. We
met Jacob Engel early Sunday morning.
and think he was almost as glad to see
someone from home as we were for we
stayed together all day. Then we met
Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Burg of Oregon
and they did the honors of the West.
We greatly enjoyed the day with them.
The Turner contests were very interest
ing, there being classes from Seattle,
Portland, Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. The Los Angeles and Portland
teams in particular showed excellent
spirit and teamwork. Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday were given over to
the business sessions of the Turnerbund
and 1 have meantime been putting
in some more time at the Fair. l find
that having had rest of about week
from it l can again appreciate it and l
believe my most profitable visits have
been these last ones.
When I entered the part of the expo
sition grounds devoted to the live stock
exhibits I found myself first in the
building devoted to exhibits connected
with the care of our dumb servitors, the
horse and the dog. Here We're displayed
! all manner of instruments Of torture
which had been taken from cruel persons
who were mistreating animals and
accounts of almost unbelievable cruelty
were given. Humane methods of dis
posing of old or injured animals were
explained as we'll as illustrations of
proper bits and brides and housing
for creatures dependant on man. I
noticed particularly shoe, or rather
an overshoe, made for the use of horse
on slippery streets. The shoe had a
sole of mating or straw coarsely woven
and twisted together and was held on
the foot by means of bag-like top with
a drawstring fastening about the joint.
It looked very simple and was told
they are largely used in the west where
many of the pavements are very smooth.
Another device which interested me
was an arrangement for releasing horses
from their stalls quickly in case of fire
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practical.
The live stock exhibits are very few
in number as yet. The prizes are not
to be awarded until October in many
lines and the animals have not yet been
entered. There was one splendid herd
of Observation-Disclosures owned by the
Carnation Milk Company. There were
143 animals in the herd, every one
beauty. They produced 5000 pounds of
milk daily and many of them had records.
Their stable was large and light and clean
and roomy. The great stalls were
acknowledged to give the cows
maximum of space to lie down and at
the same time the offal was deposited
outside the stall upon an easily cleaned
cement floor. The bedding used was
rice-hulls and the floor was of cork brick.
A manure-carrier ran on track, the
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