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A DAY ON THE WATER FRONT. A DAY ON TTTK WATER FRONT. I have always had an Immense r< for the v.. rter. He is the person who discourses technically ah^ut things nautJ al. He knows the difference .. and a barkentlm tween a ship ai ' " :■■ alludes to ' Boats without femlnli - he calls everybody he nn A very little of this 1 knew before I accompanied the great man one day last ■week upon his beat. Bui my admiration for the lore of the water front reporter grew steadily all the way from the Mail doi k up to Melggs wharf, and back again; so that 1 shall have to revise my original opinion of him. How in the namo of all that's salty he manages to pick up the information on all the mul titudinous marine matters that make up his department is one of tho mysteries. Ho knows tho captain on this boat bound Looking From the Upper Deck of the ?r Far Into the Hold Be'ow. for Honolulu; the mi I t E ■ m of. r on •t just arri Is his made, r to 1 onl old has r<M a - I • • • * » Al 1 ■ r • • I > •-• hose and the ro ff lands is that fas •••. I'd m.ikr- the 0' i water front r porter. I mipht hip of the I man en my b!6ck, or for the honor I that mipht be mino in boy t >>on = t of intimacy with the ■ ■ dally exer< s the hoi • • \";ne house. I'.nt all the h energies to the water front re ■. For llm I'd fag. For him I'd heart I'd that sine* i - which I r<! anticipate his every wish. ful if he noticed me as I should I>e to disappear did his briny lord ropil lous. For the water front reporter holds the key to living- stories, tales whose charm Is greater than the Arabian Nights and Robinson Crusoe put together. True, in the course of the years of experience that make him the glorious being he Is, the vrater front has lost Its poetry to him. But, If you're a boy. you've stores of romance safely concealed in the depths of a nature that pretends to gruff, prosaic disillusion. Let but the genius of the boy give the opportunity; boyhood will do the rest. • « » • • Tf you're bo unfortunate as rr.» to be a hoy. • 'rmit will not have quite rm. It will lack t! ■• ponal possibility b, for inst might give it v. • cent fickleness to in; moment a Scandinav and the n^xt a Scotch capl hat; In an hour ctianging i ; and dea wlth all the speed and facility . 'v-flream. But it is not only to youth that the I of the bay are so attra< ■■ rationality under the sun. every type, of : n nature, all the evldenc I ] i.s a cosmopolitan city, i. . along the mil. -U. against which the i -hips lie. close, load- Ing and unloading. ••• • • On board the Beljnc the Chinese Bailors anda are scrubbing industrl -■■ ■ . vr<- for Australia. Rather superior look . these, in their dark Fhirts and trousers. We wal them loading I I the reft ■ !gs and lambs and sides of '■< efi with the giblet appurtenances, enough to an army. Here's a Chinese boy, who works steadily handing one butch ered innocent after the other to his com :. In the refrigi rator beyond. He wears a peculiar woolen cap, turned up helmetwise on the Bide, and his tntelli ■ watches < very move of the men working with him, while he up a steady clang of Chinese ex hortation that orally testifies to the business going on aboard. Far back— l believe the water front re rs call It "aft"— a group of about twenty Chinese are huddled. They have come over on the Beigic and have b. en detained because of Uncle Sam's insistent fussiness about certificates. If their cases ere not decided by Saturday they will be transferred to some other vessel. "And who pays for their board in the meantime," I asked the inspector, who v.iis surrounded by a chattering crowd of ■!als. "The Chinese themselves," he an sw'-red. "More than that, they put up a horid to pay their passage back should they be refused admittance to this glo rious land of ours." Think of what it m«>ans to a Chinese laborer to earn enough money to pay his passage both ways from China here and back; of what the contingent fund must be to pay his expenses should he be detained. Think of the voyage in the Btern of the Belgic, where these men are permitted to make a Chinatown for themselves in one great room, where they nlttiß hammocks and cook and eat. And think, too, that all thin on the chance only of their gaining admission here. Tin.' world's not so old after all when the name i.f America stlH holds such promise an to Induce men to sacrlfl much, often merely to meet disappoint ment. The prettiest sight on board the Belgic is Leo Toy Wan. You should see her as she leans fr<>;:i the upper berth In a stateroom, which she shares with two other Chinese girls, one of whom, in a green blouse and durk blue, wide trousers. - a long pipe. But Lee Toy Wan, with her soft, pale face, her tiny brown hands, a purple silk handkerchief knotted about her throat, long, blue, enameled earrings depending from her pretty ears. Is unlike these others. She is very young, this Chinese girl. There Is a babyish gracfousness in her expression as she leans forward to answer the inspector's questions. Her voice is gentle and soft, and lacks that strident ring that "Whan Choy Fa's Can ton accents have. Whan Choy Fa is a shrewish little maiden; pretty too, but not with the in nocent grace of Lee Toy Wan. \ Pa and r Chinese n!rl sat tailor-wise in a lower berth of another stateroom. In front, on the floor, their embroidered shoes, one pair ot which wa- upon a heel In tl • middle of the sole, so that l&adean Choy should be high and dry above the ■ cks or muddy streets— should she be so fortunato as to be permitted to land. In olden days, before American expe rience matched Oriental shrewdn-ss. same guileless-iocking heels were packed with opium, and every Celestial belle walked down the gangplank with a tiny dowry beneath her small, whlte stoctdnged I Whan Choy Fa was suspicious. In an swer to the inspector's query she would only repeat, in a nasal sing-song, with much movement of jaws: "Whan Choy Fa! Whan Choy Fa!" Of that mucb , but this n girl was not going to risk any thing by further speech. AH her cau tion was : • rter's note book. She had been well drilled and she ' ' H In her ■ T.ik^ r little Celestial tiger cat she snatched back, from the inspector's hand, the piece of white lir.en she was embr ing for a sock— part of ln-r trou perhaps, for the first of her mv.' : here. Just now all Whan Choy Fa's desires, all her hopes, {ill her wishes, tend . direction— toward San Francisco's China town. And ju. • ; Ity of the thing— all l^->? Toy Wan craves is to go back. "Not land! Xot land!" she repeated .'• childish voice in answer to the tor's Question. "Go home. Go bac k!" ♦ was the burden of her little Chl- And could you have seen tho pretty little thing, with her ingratiating, child- her readiness to ts . • ::dly, to wavegJier delicate little k f:i <\m;a!>W? bridging of th..* lingual distance that separated us, j have longed for the p ■■-.-. i ! this little girl luck to the Interior vt China whence Bhe came. • » » • • Across on t 1 : ie of the dock ley is laying in a cargo of wine for the East. Barrels and barrels ilting here to be put on board, while on the other aide sniks upon tral Americas coffee lie ■ r the calls of the men, the stamp the hideous rattling '.hug-chug of the donkey engine, the m of the steam. You can put your of the country's arteries here p.nd fee! the strong, healthful, busy beat of the commercial pulse. %Ye walk along the front past the schooner Bella of Florence. The air is Groups of Laborers Smoked Contentedly Beneath Unobtrusive Signs. sweet with the smell of the fresh lum ber which la being taken from the flat bottomed boat, All around the place is strewn with the yellow planks. Th< unloading for hours, and yet sharp, short picks which lift out one layer of planks only to lay bare another covering. Bella of Florence has been up north. Her nam*- signifies nothing of her home or destination. Here's the Crompton, a great square rigged English ship. She has. brought coke up from th? colonies. And opposite lies the Progreso, a steam collier. Both of them are unloading, and the place is black with lumps of shining coal and burned out porous coke and sifted black dust for the blacksmith's forge. Such a dirty Progressori One would al most believe that the boat knew that this is almost its last opportunity for be ing good and dirty. The Prdgressor, like other adventurers, has caught the Klon dike fever. She intends to put off this grimy black coat of hers, don respectable garments, have her deck built up like the Excelsior's, and, then ho, for the gold fields! , Instead of coal, the Progressor will carry fortune-hunters and gold. O, the scorn this new passenger ship will feel for its old companions in the colliery business! One gets- a wonderful picture by. looking THE SAX FRANCTSCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1898. down from the upper deck far Into the hold below. Down, down at the bottom of this wooden shaft three men are work ing shoveling the coal into the great Iron baskets which swoop down empty from the tall Iron cranes and go groaningly full aloft, to be turned upside down and pent flying: down again Into the bowels of the ■hip: Look at these three. They wear high boots, trousers and brown flannel smocks, with gre.at arm-holes and deep-cut necks. Their face* are bo black and grimy you'd hardly take them for white men, and the great muscles of their bare arms and their powerful shoulders are becoming coated more and more thickly with the stifling black dust. They look like poor, ineffectual pigmies laboring down there to reduce that mighty black mountain of coal. "What are they paid?" I asked the gen ius of the water I "Twenty cents an hours," he replies. Ugh! It makes one think of Daudet's "Jack." And yet these men have air and light— such as It Is. The two words heard oftenest on the water front the day T spent there were Klondike and Alarm Every boat th.it wasn't bound for the Klondike must have been sorrowful and envious, so completely was It out of the swim. Hero's one ship after the other fitted up for northern trade. And the reason of these early large shipments of coal and lumber is also told in the word Klondike; for the dealers In the north know that if they do not send down their cargoes before the spring rush to the great Alaskan prold mines begins, there will be no ships at their disposal. \s to the Alameda, everybody on the water front was Inquiring about her. from Marshal Baldwin, waiting on Meiprgs wharf for the Australian criminal who never came, to the crowd of relatives and fri^rds strain!! yes and their tempers, while they waited. * • • • • Further tip n round Telegraph Hill way the North Bend Is being repaired. Her captain thought ho didn't need any one to bring him into port, and the North Bend smashed upon Point Diablo, and The crn^l rorks, they gored her sides. Like the herns of an angry bull. Look at the keel torn away, the grea* timbered sides ground and splintered and softened until the bruised patches on the poor ship's hull look like pieces of rotten rope. When you stand on the dry dock and look op to this majestic vessel, you'll realize the power of wind and waves and sunken rocks. Fancy a great bulk like this hurled against Diablo and ground and ground upon the rocks! There's romance in the sea, but there's danger and death there, too. Put the North Bend, cradled on the dry dock, with the merry tap of the ham mers sounding against her sides, with the old calkljig pried out and I filled anew with oakum, has already for ■ Point I'iablo. If the old ship dreams, n? she lies there, it is of oih.-r trips, to the north and Klondike, again. • • • • • - Henry P.. Hyde, the largest American ship in the bay Just now. And there's La Madeleine from Peru, the only ntatlre in this marhv -,vn below the pier's edge lies the poor little Katie S., a drudge of boats, humble. Insignificant toller she, laden with iron. Phe looks humiliated and abashed and ill-at-ease there among the i_- w irld. The ■'.. whose red-sweatered mate- is overseeing the l< ndiri? of pr - and sand to be used for mortar. Is bound up the const. So is the SCOW bus out there en the br.y, lying stli! and motionless, waiting f to turn, laden with bricks which make a ■ '-'lor against •he • white water, the white cold skies and the long. Film black lines of the masts. Her crew la below eating lunch and the only living thing above is a great, gen ial Newfoundland dog, who waves bis great tail In amiable salutation as we go by on a little launch. We pass a host of saucy little tugs, and the great authority on this floating cos mopolitan city explains to me the signifi cance of red stacks and black stacks and yellow stacks. There's the Othmarschen from Hamburg and further on the condemned Kuroka, shamefacedly nosing- Into the shore, 7T.-r<« come the English ships; or rather theyap- poar to come. It Is we who go by on tho launch. Fine ships, these English ones, big and shapely and well-named. There's the Marlborough Hill from Liver pool and the Primrose Hill and the Roderick Dhu, which possesses the most picturesque figure-head In all the harbor. We sail scornfully by the ferry slips. What romance attaches to a trip across the bay, or even to the river steamers that go as far as Stockton? They're too petty, too near. They lose woefully in comparison with the associations that crowd upon these, traveled, haughty dis tant relatives of theirs. " On either side of Melpps wharf hang fishing lines, left to thems.lws to see what they, unaided, can do in beguiling the wily smelt. Here's where the boya go crabbing, and their baskets are con tinually being hauled up and let down with a splash again. over there to tho northeast He threo pmall schooners. The one at the end is the Central Pacific. Now, although the name Is imposing, this poor, declasse boat i by those who go down to tl..- sea. in ships without a guffaw. It I that the Central Pacific is sessed by «n old preacher, who in turn is possessed with the desire to save water front souls — sadly in need of saving, no doubt. All about the bay, the good old fellow goes preaching to those who will llpten. Ho get* up as far as Stockton. I believe, always preaching the word and praying for the wicked ones. Be It under stood that it Is not the piety of the her which provokes laughter, but hIR original methods of Bail construction. At n r ;y into, he offends against a.l rules Of cunvHfl-hoisting. and the hugest Joke on the front Is to try to classify this meek little Central Pacific, according to the changes her erratic owner makes In her appearance. ••• • • W> walked down from Melggs wharf along tho sea wall, through the grain sheds. Th« Wp.Ha Walla had come down the night before from the north and the sheds wore piled with pale gray-brown sacks of wheat, darker tan sacks of beans and white sacks of the Oregon flour that excels ours, so they say. The Kilmory was filling her hold with the Walla Walla's grain. The Kilmory comes frae Glasgo 1 . She belongs to a t'.rm that christens all Its ships Kil something or other. The Kllbrannan is the Kllmory's own sister. "Where -re you going?" I asked the Scotch mate. He leaned over the side, a soft cap pulled over his tawny brows, a short In bis mouth. "truth Africa," he said, with just the agreeable shade of a burr. "Al d then?" "The colonies, perhaps. Or back here, who know?? Anywhere but home." \\c climbed up the Kilmory's brightly painted side, and the Kllmory's home- The 0!d Fisherman Sat Mending His Tnple Net. stok mate. Who has made no friends In "Frisco" and doesn't like th» place, told us (as w<> watched the grain being put in the hoMY I ■ pack frozen m^at In the Australian arid New Zealand ships. "Ev'rry earreass of them tied In a cal ico sheet and coverred with frrost. On' it might be a hot day, on' on deck you'd be sweltering, while down there"— he pointed to the hold— "ye'd see the men clapping their arms aboot, trrying to get warrni." • • • • On down toward town again, through the grain sheds, untenantcd save for the myriads of sparrows, ■ho keep up a ceaseless twittering In the dark rafters; a paean of praise, doubtless, to God for a grr- harvest, r\r.d to man for gather- Ing the wheat and providentially ripping up a bap or two. Past groups of labor ers now, contentedly smoking their aft er-lunch clay pipes, beneath unobtrusive prohibitive signs. • • • • • Ti-r-'s Flsherman'i wharf. You'd know it before you saw it, for your senso of would forewarn you. But it's worth peeing— the most picturesque sight I the hay. All the Jaunty fishinc: pmaoks are lying bobbing upon the wave* In the rectangu lar apace Inclosed by the pier. Their sails are 1 furled, hut tho diagonal lines of tall, slanted masts show clear against the sky. which is blue, now that the sun is higher. This red-shirted. blriok-mustached f>l low baa a whole boatload of shad and iirht up in the Sacramen to. Be and tho sunburned boy who helps him. load basket after basket full of the fish, their pills red -with blood; and the merchant in v' I above on the wharf hauls up the catch. The other are covered thicK with silver her ring. There are flounders, too, and up on the wharf great sacks full of drowned and smothered mudhens. Wntch young Italia. He's Interesting. A baby about 4 years old, with a warm tinted face and drirk eyes nnd clothes his mother made, of course. What tailor could turn out Irousei ■ such as these, guaranteed to b<« of the snme width top and bottom? The little fellow slings a birds over his stout round nrm. and marches off to do his share toward supplying Sun Franrlpco's housewives with r, wretched looking, un tried birds. Two others or his kind, a few years older are rolling hoops in the market where no one expose* his wares, Incidentally. These two are smoking- ci garettes. Thoy wear upon their heads crocheted red caps like their fathers'. One has rubber boots and the other :1 '-"■ he < in bandy keep upon his feet. Their clothes are beyond descrip tion and yet with an absurd resemblance to those the fishermen outside wear. Up on the long aide of the rectangle the red-brown nets lie drying in the Fun. Look at this old follow, who sits mending his triple net. lie wears a great sealskin cap like a Russian's kaftan, but with an absurd filnglf. mangy fur tassel hang ing down In front. li!s rubber boots reach nearly to the thigh. What trousers one may ?<>f> am of the latest rough ma terial milady wi .us, green, tttfted. Where outside of a dry-goods store did he get " Ills shirt is of bluish green and his cont Is dark blue. He has a mustache enough for Tartarln and a smile as gentle as a child's. He weaves his bone Shuttle in and out, using the toe of his great boot to hold the net taut. Hero is a swarthy-farod artist pains takingly painting a slender line of dark blue, on Ills loved Savoia. There is a Tarn o' Shantered Slavonian painting the bottom of the Heformo the most shriek ing of scarlets, while above there Is blue and white. There Is the Garibaldi lying keel up In the sin. Here are the Rosetta, the Lucia and all the rest of the pretty Itnlinn names. This is really loungers' Wharf. It's a place to lie and dream, and. if others in sist upon working, why. to watch them work. The men lie outstretched against the sides of their boats, their pipes be tween their teeth, their eyes narrowed partly through sheer physical comfort, partly by way of tribute to the glancing, Ehining waters of the bay. Look In this door and see what a beau tiful effect the sun produces, shining In black bars through the deep blue smoke. You can barely see the faces of the men beyond. They are tanning their nets with oak bark, and the great caldror.s beneath which the fires crackle are sim mering and scenting the air. ••• • • "The Alameda! The Alameda!" A tug goes whUzlng by, men turn their steps toward the dock, the loungers leave the fishermen and the smotherers— they can't be rnlled hunters -to haggle over the fi»h and tho bird*. But to the naked ere the Alamerta 1b not yet visible. Carts upon carts block the way. These are unloading roal from the Vanoourer and the Toscmittu The GHpsy has hroueht down potatoes. On the Mauna Ala the pumps ar<» at work, three men on each siil«. thHr muscular, aotlvfl figures bending now thin way. now that, while th<* water pours out from the ship's p!<l<\ Here's the 8. K. Castle, h°r decks redo lent with tobacco she Is taking down to the Sandwich Islands. There are bales of hay, too, and dissected earrings. Down in her hold the grain bags go spin ning. They are marked "ITana." And at sight of that word the whole busy water front vanishes and the eye of one's mind sees that beautiful bay. the high moun tain of the dead Hawaiian kings, the great cane plantation, and the tall Dane, the manager, whoso hospitality was truly Hawaiian. ••• • • The Alameda sailed In serene and splendid. Her entrance -was like a stage entrance that has been fittingly led up to. For just nn hour In the history of Ban Frnncisco's shipping she was to be lead- i ing lady. On she came stars and stripes i and pennant flying, gray-bearded cap- ! tain and pilot aloft, passengers on deck and an Interested crowd on shore. And just at the critical moment a ■tupld :'at-br>ttnmed scow swung her broad n«se np.iinst the ocean steam er's side, and the glory of that striking entrance was forever marred. The Ala meda had to stop and wait while the fussy little tup. the Governor M.irkham, blushing cardinal red with vexation, and stage fright threw a mpe to the scow and tugged and pulled and towed her out of the way. Then the Alameda really docked. The saloon passengers are as unlnterest nig as saloon passengers usually are. Rut over on the steerage side were five men bound for— Klondike, of course. Come clear from Australia and New Zea land to go to the new gold mines. One of them, a Cornishman. with a short, black-gray beard, a stout, sturdy fellow, whose brown coat was too short in the sleeves. Another, a Cockney, blonde, facetious, with a pipe between his teeth and a laughing word on his lips. "What the deuce do they want? Do you know?" drawled one. "T f bow through y'r loggage, (Jon't you know," replied his companion. But Tnole Sam only wanted to asmm himself that none of th^? p foreigners was coming io America without the prescribed |l ' Wneo the commissioner called out, "American citizens first!" Jock turned laughingly to his companion, and said: "Try it. me boy; keep your tongue closed. They'll think you a Yankee?" }?ut the Ftoor.ipe waited patiently, sub mitting, as is the w»nt of steerage, to rules and regulations the saloon escapes. D the Alameda Is deserted. A news paper correspondent who has been half way around the -world and back again, a Honolulu merchant and an adven turous doctor of medicine, tall, lanky, spectacled, wearing go!f stockinsrs and ab surd low shoe?, knee trousers and canvas coat. This man soueht the Adamless Eden and, like other enthusiasts, !> rontent with little— th" profit on a rifle and a small copra plantation in Fiji. They all leave, and ,ne Alameda be rnnu-s one of many— a has-been and a to-be of ships, like all the other waiting vessels. Before her passengers ar leased from the customs officers, the bales of wool are being wheeled out from her hold. The English sovereigns are on their way Dp tn the mint, where they will be rnme. more than three-quarters of a mil lion of American dollars. The ski: - from Australia, the tin, the New Zealand flax, and the copra from Apia, arp all being hauled out from their hid ing place, ami pQed on the dock. And soon the show Is over. The ship lies quietly bobbins: at the dock, as she will lie ruminating and resting fur the short interval that elapses between runa. • • • • • <"^r.e comes blinking back into the world r.s though he had been away from Pan Francisco the actual time it would take to go about and see all these foreign people and things; to have been In China with Lee Toy Wan; In Glasgow with the Kllmory's mate; in Hawaii with the cook's boy on the S. N*. Castle; to have been where those great shining lumps of clean coal and shalo come from; to go with this immense quantity of c goods and condensed milk and bread stuffs to the Orient.- where they are pre paring for war— in short to have been everywhere and to have tasted life in all Its varied aspects. The town looks commonplace. The peo ple who sit opposite you In the street cars are' ordinary, Insignificant. Down along the water's edge another day of romance is preparing. Here in the town, thn monotonous, old round Is to be gone over again. Down there men have char acter and individuality. Here they are patterned all on one model. On the water's edge there 1? color and there are picturesque differences. In town, man's highest ambition, sartorlally, at least, is to look as nnich like his neighbor as his personal peculiarities and his tailor will permit. MM MAM MICHELBON. PERPLEXITY OVER THE CITY'S DEAD The Closing of the Cemetery Brings About Its Dis advantages. The Chinese Will Purchase a Tract of Land In San Mateo County for a Temporary Resting-Placo. Notwithstanding the loner notice given by the Supervisors that the City Cexne would be closed for all interments on and after the tirst of the present rear, nothing has been dona by those societies and the undertakers having the responsi bility of providing a final resting place for the indigent dead. The same condi tion of affairs has existed with the Chi nese. They, as well as the other?, per mitted tiSM to slip by without making any provisions for the future, until th<>y found themselves in the rapacity of beg gars, so to speak, asking f.>r an exten sion of time, which the Supervisors gra ciously granted them. The time now being extended to the first of April, steps will be taken by the Chinese to procure a tract of fifteen acre* in San Mateo County for a temporary resting place for their dead. Within a few days a meeting of the six Chinese companies will be held and a lawyer will be deputed to proceed to San Mateo and make the necessary ar rangements with the County Board of Supervisors for the privilege of locating a cemetery in that county. This step has been decided on by the Chinese who are fully cognizant of the popular prejudice evinced against them as a race. Of this prejudice they have had experience in the ]>;ist. as the superintendent of the City Cemetery, while admitting all other corpses to a grave in the city's burying ground at $1. has charged the Chinese ?L> El, and the undertaker who has the contract for the burying of the city's in digent dead had a wholesale contract at $3u a month, irrespective of the number of interments. A similar figure has been charged the Chinese for exhuming the bodies of their dead. This the Mongolians characterize as discrimination against their race even unto death, and resur rection. To avoid this it is proposed to own a cemetery of theft" own where they ' ■will not- be subject to this discrimination ami extra charge. v: The number of deaths and exhumations average fifty every month of the Chinese, which, to -the superlntendpnt, la quite an i Item, together with his other perquisites, all of which will be lost to the favored politician who pot this job as a reward ; for services rendered to the political boss. The condition of the Western Addition Undertakers who fipured ho low on the ■ contract as to bury all the indigent dead at M each Is rot so favorablo from a financial point of view, as no conditions were made with the city about a place | for the Interments: this was their lookout ] when they made their bid. They pave a bond of $COOO for the faithful performance of their contract and they must live up ' to it. It is their duty to rind a place for : the city's dead irrespective of price. The other societies having the privilege of the City Cemetery will be likewise compelled to find interment ground on and after the first of next April, as the ! Supervisors are determined to grant no further extensions. THE RUSH HAS BEGUN. No Spare Birtbs or) steamers Bound for the Yukon. The move of Alaska prospectors to the north has already set In. Not only do the merchants of the city report that they are feeling substantial benefits from the purchase of outfits and supplies for the Alaska trip, but the transportation corn ponies are already forced to admit that carrying capacity of freight and passengers i- c being taxed to the utmost, t the problem That confronts them next summer becomes more and more IS. The "Walla Walla will sail this morning, with every berth taken, and nearly all of her passengers are bound for Dyea and Skaguay. At least one half of this number have been frequent visitors at the Alaska Trade Bureau and have made a close study of the facts and Object lessons which were presented to them at the ferry building. It Is report it the Pacific Coast Steamship Company has enpntred a large part of its accommrvd.itions fur some time ahead and i« daily receiving requests by tele graph to hold berths. The Pacific Steam ng Company's vessel Excelsior will sail on Monday for Dyea, Skaguay and Orca, Tt Is reported that she had offers for more freight and passengers than her capacity allowed. Inquiries by mall were more numerous yesterday than on any other day. As an indication of the amount of mail which the Alaska Trade Committee Is sending: out every day it is Interesting- to note that its bill for postago stamps alone averages Jfi a day. "Word was re ceived from a man who has been travel ing through Arizona for the last few weeks who says that parties of miners are being organized in nearly every camp In the Territory, and for the most part prospective Klondikers will leave early for th« north, so as to take advantage of the trail over the ice which has been broken by the miners who are cominsr out to the coast. Other requests by mail ar.d personal applications for specit'.c in formation and general literature is re ceived dally from almost every Ptate In the Union, and shows n steady increase from week to week. The record of the bureau shows that the inquiries from outside the city are assuming a relative ly greater Importance as contrasted with the local demand. Civil Service Examination. On January 29 a civil service examina tion for the position of stenographer In the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue will be held in the same office. Applications must be on file before the close of business on January 21. NEW TO-DAY. GRATIFYINGJRESULTS. INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH THE NEW STOMACH REMEDY. Not a Patent Medicine, but a Safe Cure for All Forms of Indigestion. The results of. recent investigation have established b«yond question the great value cf the new preparation for indigestion ami stomach troubles: it is composed of the digestive acids, pepsin, bismuth, Golden Seal and similar stom- achics, prepared in th^ form of 20-gram lozenges, pleasant to the taste, conven- to carry when traveling, harmless to the most delicate stomact) and prob- ably th" safest, most effectual cur" yet discovered for indigestion, sour stom- ach, loss of appetite and flesh, nausea, sk-k headaches, palpitation of the* heart and the many symptoms arising from imperfect digestion of food. They cure because they cause the fond to be promptly and thoroughly digested be- fore it has time to sour, ferment antf poison the blood and nervous system. :• six thousand people in the State of Michigan alone in 1894 were cured of stomach troubles by Stuart's Dyspep- sia Tablets. Full sized packages may be found at all druggists at 50c, or sent by mall on r-veipt of price from Stuart Co., Mar- Bhall, Mich. Send for free book on stomach diseases. f POSITIVELY I LAST WEEK. 1 BEFORE" NEXT ' SATURDAY | $ We shall entirely clear out all § I CARPET REMNANTS j At These Extraordinary Prices. | I Tapestry - - 38c per Yard \ | Moquette - ■ 53c per Yard I $ Body Brnssels, 59c per Yard \ i Wilton Velvets, 60c per Yard j I Axminster - 60c per Yard j I THIS SALE ENDS 6P. M. SATURDAY. j I LOOK IN OUR WINDOWS. f I A. MACKAY & SON, j i Furniture, Carpets, Upholstery, ! l i 715 MARKET ST. \ up vi ■an mill m if" wmjii.i^ ■„, ,__■ n imi * Jot ol^toto®!^ El>Tr3 CREAM BAT.M is a positive euro. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 50 cents at Drn?e!*t» or by mail ; samples 10c by malL ELY BKOT.'I 66 Wr.rrrn St., New York City. IDC ACCESS & HEAD NOISES CURED fi.lSl.lMir ln * titml - v - f " lr »NVISIBLETL'UECu«Uiom t " BJ * ■■ help when nil else Alls, as glasaen help eyes. B<'ir-ailJti»tinar. No Pain. Whispers heard, -endtoCOCC I. llitcvxtw.. 60S B'ihj, S.V., tor Book anil l"roo£s net NEW TO-DAY. H /Q ENTERPRISE H /Q I.IU HEATER I,IU n ° (I) t^SSnS^r *^ I Gives more heat for amount of oil con- sumed than any other heater. "MONEY BACK" IF a t tory. 1s * Myers Heater -- $2.49. Largest Variety Heaters In the City. EVEET KIND AT CUT PRICES. HEATERS FROM 990 AND UPWARD. pnmiTAHQ 813 MARKET ST. UUI FLll Of BAN FRANCISCO Catalogues Free. AT AUCTION —BY— SHAINWALD, BUCKBEE & CO. : Salesroom— and 120 Montgomery street. Mills Building. PROBATE SALE TUESDAY, Tuesday January 23, 1898, At 12 O'clock, Noon. By order of Public Administra- tor A. C. FREESE, Esq. REFEREE PARTITION SALE. W. L. Harper, Referee. Nos. 21S to 220 Ritch street, wi>rt line, 200 I feet south of Bryant street; 10 flats; rents $33; lot 60x73 feet. . ESTATE OF ELLEN SLOAN. Broadway Corner. P. E. corner Jones and Broadway; lot 41 feet, with two frame tenements; grand mas view; flats on this property would pay well, ESTATE OF DANEL ERISCOLL. Mission and Thirtieth Sis., Extension Lot. "West line Clinton avenue.' 300 feet south of Berkshire street; lot 25x100; close to San Mateo • electric line. ESTATE OF E. S. MATHEWS. Precita Valley Lot. South line Prospect place. 230:9 feet west of i Columbia place; lot 30x150 feet to Mary street. ESTATE OF TIMOTHY I. GIBLIN, Decease! B. K. corner Clay anrl Leavenworth streets; ', lots 35:6x100 feet: No. 1"22 Leavenworth street. 1 NOB. 1329-1331 Clay street; covered with sub- stantial t'.iree-story buildings, two stores and five flats: solid foundation; excavated base- ment; total rents, $!"• 50. ESTATE OF MARTIN DOUBHERTY. Ripley Place Dwelling. North line Ripley place, 225 feet east of Fol- «om street: lot 50x100 feet, with two-story house of 4 rooms. n ESTATE OF BRIDGET HEM People's Homestead. Lot No. 9. block No. 11. Silver avenue, near Railroad avenue: lot 25*75 feet. ESTATE OFITc. BOMEY. Southside Lot. East line Twenty-eighth avenue, 100 feet south of "J" street; lot 150x120 feet: six lots Outside Land Block No. 742; good chance for a < speculation. ESTATE OF JOHN S. LITTLE. Sutter-St. Building Lot. North line Sutter street. 137:6 feet W. of Scott street: lot 30:6 2-3x164:1 feet; street work done ■ and accepted: Sutter street cars pass; grand lot I for tUt) or residence. ESTATE OF JOHN TRAPP. Twenty-fourth Street Residence. No. 2771 Twenty-fourth street, 3. line. 40 feet east of York street: two-story bay-window i house of 8 rooms and bath; street paved and accepted; Howard street cars pass the door; lot 40x100 feet. ESTATE OF ELIZABETH KELLY. Mission Cottages. Nos. 66 and 68 Merrltt street, N. line. 38.37 feet E. of Rose street; lot 60.76x65.24 and 70 i feet- 2 cottages. 3 rooms each: rents 512; street ! macadam; close to Eighteenth street electric line. SPEAR-STREET WATER LOT. Lot N. E. line Spear street. 188:4 feet N. W. from Folsom street; 1 block from water front; splendid lot to Improve; would pay good In- come. ESTATE OF MARY LARKIN FLIP. :-£;-'. v ! Valencia-St. Investment. Nos. E2l and 521*4 Valencia street, east line, i 315 feet north of Seventeenth street: lot 82x70 j feet; store end two flats of 5 rooms each; rent* , |50; street paved and accepted. ESTATE OF AMANDA DALLAS." Polk-St. Income Property. Nos. 21.92 1 .9- #> 19U-219 V£ - Polk street, west Un?. 41 I feet south of Fulton street: lot 24x52!4 feet: i three flats of 6 rooms and bath each: rents ISO; j this property has a great future: close to Mar- I ket street and the New City Hall. ESTATE OF LUCILLE HELEN WIELAND. Elegant Residence Property. ' Northeast comer California and Webster ! streets: lot 40x132:6 feet, also lot adjoining, ! north line California street. 30x132:6 feet; street : work all done and accepted by the city. ESTATE OF MARY S. BRYARLY. Perry St. Income Property. - . • No. 218 Perry street, between Fourth, an.l ! Fifth streets, Harrison and Bryant; good two- story house of V rooms; rents $15; lot 25x80 feet. ESTATE OF OWEN CLEMENTS. Richmond Lot. Fast line Eighth avenue. 73 feet south of Cle<- i ment street: lot 25x120 feet; street sewered and ! macadamized; on line Park branch Sutro elec- tric road. - • . ■•. City Land Association. Lots 27. *£ 29 and 30 on Ford street, block i No. 11; each lot 25x100 feet; close to Ingleslde * City Land Association. Lot 27. block No. 4, Montieello street; lot 25 * | xIQO feet; close to Ingleside track. People's Homestead. ! Lots 14. 15. 16 and 34, block No. 9. on Sweeney | . and Hale streets; each lot 25x75 feet. 1 People** Homestead. . ; i i Lot 26, block No. 4, Gaven street, near Kins; ', 1 lot 25x7i feet. 9