Evening star., 1919-09-21

between the two cities in about sever
hours and q half. To do this the
transfer OF the cars through Balti.
more with horse power is to be done
Philadelphia and Washington road
are to run to Fells Point below Bal
timore. where they will cross the Pa
tapsco river. which is narrow there,
on an improved boat. This will save
half an hour. The track in Newark.
changes made to shorten the distance,
In New York the overcrowded. al
ways jammed Cortlandt street depot
or ferry Is to be abandoned and spa
cious buildings are to be built Tor
the Baltimore and Washington pas
sengers at Desbrosses street, which
is more convenient to the central por-
ton of New York city. Tickets can
be purchased and baggage checked
there without the danger OF being
crushed In the crowd OF persons and
vehicles or of being run over. as all
case now. These continued improve.
ments are undoubtedly the result OF
the constant congressional agitation
against this line
In The Star Of September 1e. 1863.
is noted the fact that earthquake
shocks had been
Cal;forn;a felt a few days
earlier in Califor-
GaItaquaAe. mia, In confirmation
of fears that had been expressed for
a month previous those fears having
been aroused by peculiar atmospheric
conditions which were regarded as
precursors of seismic disturbances. In
The Stars comment Is the following
paragraph, which was a forecast OF
the sensitiveness Of the people of the
Golden state manifested SO strongly
at the time of the great disaster In
1906:
"The Californians do not like to ad-
init that the crust is SO thin between
them and the Internal regions that
they are likely to be swallowed UP at
any moment. They prefer to have 1t
believed that the earthquakes of the
Pacific coast are mild, atmospheric
affairs rather adding to the interest
and attractiveness of the country than
otherwise. A true blue San Francis
can, or 'Friscan,' will assert that real
estate increased in value the next day
after the earthquake of 1868. 1t GER
tainly rose the same day. The Valle-
the Friscans. however, maliciously
assert that the latter, to do away
with the Impression, and lest foreign
capitalists should withdraw their in
vestments in San Francisco as too
'shaky,' sold out city lots and bought
them in themselves at high prices for
effect"
But even IL real estate did rise in
San Francisco. this tendency was not
manifest in the matter of
Chean all prices, as instanced in
~. The Star of September IS.
SIaat' 1859, in the course Of &C.
s. MS" editorial correspondents from
that city: e.
Fruit is cheap It is 80 plentiful in
California that it scarcely pays mar
keting. A good deal of money was
made with fruit in the first years OF
raised in such abundance as to be
greatly beyond the demand. And this
Is true of the choicest variety of fruit.
It is so much Of drug that 1t re-
qnires caution on the part OF
strangers mot to get imposed upon by
wide awake they will palm OF good
deal more on you than you pay for.
Our first days experience in Frisco
was instructive. We paused before q
stand loaded down with the richest
display we had ever seen Of choice
fair-skinned pears, peaches, grapes.
apricots. piums. etc, and imprudently
asked the dealer to assert us q quar-
ter's worth. The man filled our hands,
and then, when we were helpless, our
pockets and then several large paper
bags, and had we not moved OF with
considerable haste would apparently
have made ds take a drayload for our
money. 1t was q pretty bad fix. Two
of our trio-I name no names-who
undertook to eat their way through
were sight to see. The third, OF
more graceful proportions about the
waistband. could hold. but q peck and
quit early. There were then paper
for II is against the law to- throw fruit
in Frisco cutters. and you can't give
it away to the natives: they affect to
think fruit vulgar. Since then when
we buy fruit we carefully guard
against fraudulent Svermeasure." =: