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Tommy Looks Ahead.
JOBS Kendbick Bangs in ft. Nicholas.
When I'm as big as Papa, the thing that puzzles me
Is what I'll do to make my bread, and just what 1
shall be.
I used to think conducting on a horsecar was the
With naught to do but take up fares and pull the
iiuK-a-ling.
But Papa says they cannot keep the money that
they make.
They have to irive to some one else ench nickel
" that they iHkiv.
And where there % s profit In that work is more than
1 can tell,
Unless it's tue fun one gets In playing with the
bell.
And then I thought policeman's work was Jnst the
thine for me.
I'm fond of bitting things with clubs and leaning
"Kiiinsl a tree:
But I am told that if one's caught asleep he has to
no —
Thoaili how a man ccn live without his sleep 1 do
not know;
And as I'm very fond of rest I'll never join the
force.
A sailor I could never be, because, you see, of
course
I'd have to be away from home so much upon the
sea,
I'd hardly ever have a chance to meet my family.
1 couldn't quite get used to that, for really half the |
fan
. A man pets out of life is got from playing with his |
son
At niciit vvlien supper 's over— so my father's often
KUId —
Before me Sandman comes around and sends me
off to bed.
However, with this subject I'll r.o longer vex my
mind, *T^*B
Until I ct*t through boying; and, perhaps, I then
shall Bnd -
Somebody who will pay me well to do just what I
please,
So that my little boy and I r.-.ay live a life of ea3e.
'MEEICAN BOY TURNS BANKER.
With His Sister Phyllis He Visits His Unole
Dick.
Phyllis says she is Roing to be a banker.
She says it's lots of fun, and that it's no
"I can identify Mr. Huntington," said the Mayor.
"But who will you get to identify you?" asked the amateur banker.
fair for the men to have all the good times
while their mothers, sisters and wives stay
at home all alone and darn old stockings.
Uncle Dick has a nice bank downtown,
and Saturday Phyllis and I went along
down to help him tend to it.
When I was a little shaver I used to
think they just dumped the gold and sil
ver into the bank's vaults and shoveled it
•round like we do coal.
I thought you could just wade through
the stacks of $20 gold pieces, or lie down
and roll in them if you wanted to.
They don't do business that way at all.
The money is all tied up tight in musty
old canvas bags, and not even the presi
dent of the bank can go in there and pour
it out to play with. That's the joke of it,
you see.
Not the president nor any of the rest of
the hundred or so people that work in a
bank can even borrow enough of all that
money to buy a loaf of bread with, unless
he yoes around in front of the counter,
and stands in lino with the rest of the
folks, and passes up a check just like he
was a stranger. Only i guess maybe the
president wouldn't have to be identified.
Everybody else has to be identified, and
I'll tell you what that means.
If you are playing marble 3 out in the
yard, and somebody comes up behind you
on tipsy-toes and claps her hands over
your eyes and waits for you to guess who
it is, and if you say "Phyllis!" and it is
Phyllis — why, that's identification.
But they "don't do it just like that in a
bank. When a man brings in a check
they ask him if he knows anybody in the
bank.
If the man can't look you in the eye,
and turns awful red and stammers, "No,
nobody knows me." you know he is all
ri^ht, and you pay him the money his
check calls for.
But if the man don't act that way you
Just tell him he will have to be identified.
You say it sort of tenderly, so it wont
hurt him. You do that because there are
lots of men around and especially women
that haven't got any sense.
Once I read a story about a lady that was
cast away 011 a desert island where there
■was just one man, and she wouldn't let
him speak-to her for live years, because he
hadn't been introduced.
Well, that's the very kind of ladies that
get real mad if you say they'll have to be
identified.
One of them came in our bank Saturday
while I was learning to do the work of the
cashier.
A nice little dog was leading the lady by
a ribbon, and there was a maid to take care
of the dog.
The lady with the sleeves gave me a
check, and I looked at it and said just
awful kind, "Madam, you will have to get
somebody to identify you."
She got mad right off.
She looked at me and said: "Young
man. you'll know less when you are older,
but I'll never, never, never "do any more
business at this bank as long as I live."
And then the dog took her away.
1 made one slip that Uncle Dick says is
likely to cause me and him to lose our
places in the bank. The editor intimated
that I needn't bother about writing
it, as his artist had made a, picture that
would explain the whole tiring. But how
was I to know Mr. Huntington and Mayor
Sutro were good for all the money in that
i bank if they wanted it without waiting to
j be identified as I had been told was necss
i sary ?
Policemen stay around banks a good deal.
! I asked a man why. He said that long,
i long ago, when San Francisco was first dis
j covered, there was once a forger.
The police people got in the habit of
; looking for the forger then, and they have
i never been able to stqp.
I Of course, when you get a great big thing
I like the Police Department started up it is
j a very hard thins; to get it stopped again.
About the easiest job around a bank is to
jbe president. All you have to do is to
keep your silk hat shiny and to sign your
name, and go on signing it and signing it.
You only have to keep awake about two
hours of tiie day, and you sit at a desk
with nothing much on it but a bouquet of
j roses, ana you have somebody else do
j everything for you, but the signing your
[ name.
I suppose you could even get somebody
to do that for you if you wanted to; but of
course you would never be able to find
anybody who would look after your silk
hat as you'd look after it yourself.
About the hardest job of all is the cash-
I ier's. Just think of the figures that man
has to keep in his head !
He bas to know just what kind of bank
account everybody keeps — whether they
overdraw or are careful ; whether they pay
| drafts promptly, and all about everybody's
j money matters generally.
Most likely people just act out their na
| tures in money matters, too, and I'll just
i bet thnse cashiers know a whole lot about
people as well as about figures.
"W hen a man comes into a bank to bor
row money the cashier has got to know
more about the man's business than the
man does himself.
i Then he's got to advise that man just
what he had better do — or else it is really
just what the bank wants the man to do.
And whether he lends that man money
or not he's got to make him think the
bank i« just dead anxious to take care of
him at any cost.
If the bank isn't going to lend him the
money the cashier's got to sond the man
away, saying he's ever and ever so much
obliged for the advice.
And if he gets the money, why, of course,
he's just awfully much obliged for being
allowed to pay the interest on it.
They teach cashiers to say a little piece
that is something like this:
''Banking is the art of borrowing money
without interest, lending it with interest,
and making both borrower and lender feel
under obligations to the bank. :>
The man who pays out money is called a
teller — but he isn't.
Nobody in a bank is ever allowed to tell
anything. That is not a part of the bank
ing business.
It isn't any trouble at all to be a teller —
that is it looks as if it wasn't till you try.
Someboay else fixes a tray of money,
and when those fellows pay it out or take
any other money in it just slips through
their ringers as easy as water, and looks as
if it just counted itself.
It didn't slip through my fingers quite
so slick when I was trying to be a banker
I tell you, and Uncle Dick says he thinks
I could make enough mistakes in a day to
ruin the Bank of England — if there were
men enoueh to carry off the money I
didn't figure out right.
I was going to tell you about the money
in the vaults.
Most always those dusty sacks hold $20,
--000 in some kind of coin— specie they call
it.
Then there are lots of little sacks that
have never been opened since they came
from the United States mint.
They hold exactly $5000 each, and they
are sealed •with the Government seal. The
coin inside is always brand clean and
bright.
I wondered if a fellow couldn't carry off
one of those nice liitle sacks of twenties
without anybody ever missing it.
. I whispered to Phyllis that 1 thought I'd
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1895.
try it— just to see what she'd say, you
know.
At first she iust laughed and shook her
head.
Then I kept talking about it and told
her we could buy icecream soda and choco
late creams every day for twenty years
with that money.
Then Phyllis "said if I didn't stop talking
so awful she would cry. and if I even
talked of doing such a thing she would
never speak to me again.
She didn't give in a bit and she didn't
even say she'd tell anybody.
That's why I think my sister has got
lots of sense— for a girl.
One man takes care of the money.
He keeps a little book and he's got to be
able to tell you every single minute of the
time just how much money there is in the
vaults.
If a bank in the country sends a telegram
for $100,000 they have to hand it right
straight over, just as quick as if it was
only $10.
Sometimes— not very often— checks call
for millions.
They get paid just the same, but not
quite in a minute.
It takes a few hours for the clerks and
folks to count up some millions.
I remember once, when I was a little
chap, I saw a dray standing by a bank
with some old bags in it.
Two men with old, ragged clothes on
were standing there, and some more poor
men were carrying out some more sacks.
I asked Uncle Dick about it, and he said
somebody must have been getting a check
cashed.
And once I saw a check for 2 cents. It
was drawn by the comptroller of a big
railroad company and signed by two high
officials. It was countersigned, too.
That's the way we men who understand
business principles attend to trifles.
Those trays that I spoke of are quite in
teresting. They always have twenty pieces
of money in a stacic, five statiks in a row,
ten rows in a tray. If they happen to be
twenties you can see — but 1 guess I will
just let you have that for a little example
in arithmetic to improve your minds.
If I could just begin by being a bank's
messenger and then skip to president I
might like it. But I don't believe I shall
ever know the multiplication table quite
well enough to do the rest of the things.
And if a fellow has got to figure all the
time just like a schoolboy, what's the use
of owning a bank, anyway?
Mary Calkins Johnson.
SOMETHING INTERESTING.
A Letter to the Children Who Bead the
"Call."
Children, do you like poetry? If you
will all listen, I will tell you about a little
girl who loved poetry and wrote beautiful
little verses herself. When she was only
4 years old she wrote some pretty verses to
THE KITTEN AND THR BIBD.
A kitten went to the Wrdle'B house,
And found him sitting upon a mouse.
And tliun he sprang right on the mouse,
And made him holler "nix cum rouse."
When she was a year older she wrote
some verses to
THE DAISIES.
Daisies with eyes so bonny blue,
Up to the mountains quick they flew,
And scattered all about the fjrouud,
And in a little hole they found,
A smaller daisy in the ground.
I hope jou will all like these verses, be
cause they were made up by a little girl no
bigger than yourselves, and her mamma
wrote them for me.
just a little later she made some verses to
THE TWIIjIOHT.
Open the window at candlelight
And let the stars shine in so bright.
And the moon so yellow an*round
Snines down on earth upon the grouud.
A horse goe3 scamp'ringdown the street
With iron shoes upon his feet.
Then this little poet wrote some more
verses.
. One sunny summer day
Wild roses were at play,
"But none of this," the daisies said,
"We thin It we now will go to bed."
Hark! Hark!
Down the park!
Where t;ie band is playing.
Listen, listen to the lafk—
Hear whut he is saying;
Hear him say "K'chick. k'cblck,"
Scamn'rlng down tlie trees to pick.
When she was six years old her papa
went away, and she wrote a little poem to
him:
We all were lonely when you went,
My papa sweet and dear,
I wish a letter you had sent
To tell us you were near,
A pretiy spoonbill bring with him,
a pretty spoon for me,
When ho comes home to little Jim.
How happy 1 will be.
My darling sister she will be.
So glad her dear papa to see;
She'll smack him in her loving way,
And then to him she'll try to say,
I love you, papa, every day,
My (lollies are not broken yet,
My kitty U a littlo pet.
My mamma is quite well to-day,
Aud that Is ail I have to any.
In the next month she wrote a fairy
story in verse:
It was the faith of fairy land.
When children were at play,
The birds were sitting on the boughs,
A-slnsing every day;
And little roses peeped their heads,
And looked about and smiled,
While all the pretty daisies looked]
As they were growing wild;
Cunning mosses blooming up,
Ked berries drooping low. .
We' 11 put them in a little cup,
And there we'll let, them grow.
Was she not a bright little girl to write
such pretty verses? But I am sure that
many of my little readers can write verses
too, and I wish tbey would all try to write
some and seucl them to me. Those who
cannot write any verses at all may write
little letters, telling me all about them
selves, and the editor of The Call, who is
a very kind man, says that he will print
the prettiest verses and their best letters
in the children's page. Of course you
must not cony little Irene's verses, "but
send me some that you have written your
selves, and tell me how old you were when
you wrote each poem. Please tell me, too,
why you like to write verses, and whether
you hope to be a great poet some day.
Tell me all about it, for I shall be inter
ested in every word you say. I hope you
will all write to me, and that as many as
can write verses will send me some.
Address letters to your loving friend,
Mothke Goose,
Care Daily Call, San Francisco.
GEOLOGICAL REMINISCENCES.
Senator Jones Tells How the Wolves of the Mining
Lodes Played Rough Games,
A few evenings since a group of well
known mining men were seated in the
barroom of the Palace Hotel when one of
them remarked that he would wager the
drinKs for the crowd that no one present
could tell of the first mining swindle per
petrated on the Comstock.
Senator Jones would never allow a bet
ting bluff of any kind to float past him,
and said immediately that he would ac
cept the offer, and told the following:
"The first instance of a square-toed swin
dle in connection with mining on the Cora
stock was where Jim O'Riley let a contract
to three miners to sink a shaft 100 feet in
depth. After he had paid 20 per cent of
the contract money to bind the bargain
he brought a 100-foot tapeline to the
miners, and stipulated that when the tape
line fell from the windlass and hung clear
in the bottom of the shaft without touch
ing he would pay the balance of the
money, amounting to several thousand
dollars. Shaft-sinking was pretty expen
sive in those days. Well, in course of time
the miners called upon him for the balance
of the money, and took him to the shaft
where they" pointed to the 100-foot tape
line hanging from the windlass to the bot
tom, with an inch or two of free space
under the end of it. O'Riley, after com
plimenting them upon their work, gave
them the balance of their money, and in a
few hours they had disappeared.
"The next "day, when O'Riley took a
more careful inventory of the work, he
discovered that the miners had cut twenty
feet out of the tapeiine. thereby making
the shaft twenty feet less in depth than
they had contracted for. He buckled on
his "six-shooter, and started out in quest of
a rebate on the job; but when the story
got around the Jedge it raised such a
laugh at his expense that he dropped the
subject and relet the contract to other
parties. He said that the splice where the
twenty feet was cut out was made so
neatly that it took him nearly an hour to
locate it. A few days afterward he got a
package from Sacramento containing that
portion of the tapeiine that was missing.
They wrote to him saying that they had
taken it away through an oversight, and
they returned" it that he might put it back
where it belonged, in order to complete
the sinking of the shaft with mathemat
ical accuracy. The twenty feet of tape
line was exhibited for many years in the
Delta saloon.''
When Jones had finished the story Billy
Foote, who had offered to bet, ordered a
round of irrigation goods for the entire
party, and Jones, after moistening his
throat, remarked: "If anybody wants to
make another wager for the same amount
I can tell the second operation there of the
same nature." No one interrupting him he
continued:
"Some of the boys had a claim up on the
side of Mount Davidson when the stock
excitement was preUy lively. Their claim
did not prove to bo of much account, and
they accordingly introduced the salting
process for the first time. Quite a rich
strike was made in the Ophir on rock that
ran into the thousands. One night they
extracted several sacks of ore from the
Ophir shaft, and dumped it into their own
prospect hole. They spread the report
that they had just got into a rich forraa
ti3n, and quite a number of people were on
the ground when the rirst bucket came up
next morning. Of course, they pounced
on the specimens and in a few minutes the
rich chunks of ore were finding their way
into the nearest assay offices. The result
was that a forty-eight hour excitement
ensued and a wild scramble for the stock,
during which time the owners cleared up
?15,000 or $20,000."
"Speaking of salting mines," said Lon
Hamilton, "I never shall forget the time
when some stock operators sent some
mining experts to spy out the prospects in
the Gould & Curry. A diamond drill was
being run, and they wanted to know what
it struck. The experts reached the Corn
stock looking like ordinary miners, and
very readily secured a job in the mine.
They considered themselves very fortu
nate when they were put on a level within
easy reach of the diamond drill. The joke
of the thing was that the insiders who
were working the mine got the tip from
below. They were all prepared for their
visitors. They systematically salted the
drill, and left the key where the other
fellows coula find it. The natural result
was that in a few days certain brokers
from California were loading up with
Gould & Curry in the expectation that
when the drift reached the ore body they
wouid reap a fortune. But no drift ever
followed that drill-hole, as it was barren
rock, and in a few months the California
street sharpers who had engineered the
job found themselves very beautifully
dumped, and the biters proved to be the
bitten."
"Do you mind the time when Captain
John Kelley of the Lady Bryan had the
Holy Bible salted on him?" There seemed
to be a ceneral desire to hear the anecdote,
and Ben Fitch, after emptying a tumbler
of red fluid, proceeded: "You see, John
Kelley was working the Lady Bryan mine,
down in Six-mile Canyon, and sent the
drill ahead to prospect for an ore body.
Meanwhile, the miners, who had a large
quantity of the stock at low figures, salted
the drill-hole, and as a result one morning
Captain Kelley was in a very excited state
of mind. He "believed that he was about
to make the strike of his life, and that
Lady Bryan would prove to be a second
Consolidated Virginia. In his enthusiasm
over the prospect he gave a number of his
friends the tip, after whicli the miners had
no trouble in disposing of their stock at
handsome valuations. The drift was
pushed to the end of the drillrhole with all
possible dispatch, but no ore was found.
"During the next week the air was blue
with the blasphemy that circulated around
ihe head of John Kelley, and he feared for
his life. In order to demonstrate his inno
cence of the charge of swindling his
friends he held a sort of inquest on the
defunct ore body. He made all the miners
come into a room and submit to an exami
nation. He had put a large Bible, weigh
ing about twelve pounds, on the table in
the dining-room of the company's cook
house. Each miner when questioned was
required to advance to the table and kiss
the book. The scene was a very solemn
one— the victims of the deal bein? at one
end of the room and the miners at the
other. Kelley meanwhile was seated at
the head of the table acting as a sort of a
judge. Each miner swore dv the book
that he had no hand whatever in the salt
ing of the drill-holes and did not know
any one else who had.
"After the entire force of the mine had
made their solemn declarations to this
effect and kissed the book, it began to look
pretty blacK for John Kelley. He had ex
pected confessions from the miners under
the circumstances, and after they had tes
tified and filed out of the room, Kelly sat
at tiie table in a dazed condition. He then
said that he was ready to swear on the
same Bible that he had not salted the drill
und that he had induced the boys to go in
the deal in perfect good faith. As he
pulled the book toward him, however, the
cover came off and revealed to the aston
ished crowd not a Bible, but a big pile of
leaves from a patent office report. The
miners had taken the Bible out of the
covers and substituted the Government
literature unknown to Kelley. It became
apparent to the crowd at once that men
who would salt the word of Go 4 with such
niatter were capable of almost any atrocity
in the salting line, and Kelley was absolved
from further blame in the matter.
"In spite of that," said Billy Sharon,
"Kelley was a pretty smooth operator, and
you could always copper anything he did.
Whenever he was losing money hand over
fist iii the stock market andbleedlng in
wardly he would put a big diamond-pin
on his shirt front, drink nothing out
champagne and wear a perpetual grin
upon his face, but whenever he made a
hundred or two thousand on a turn he
would walk up and down the street look
ing like a man who had been driven to
desperation by bad luck, wearing an old
woolen shirt ana pretending to his friends
that he was searching for employment.
He soon got the name of the Ursa Major,
and every time a pump-rod broke, a shaft
caved in or a fire occurred in the mines
it was a pood day for Kelley's stock ac
counts, but beyond this he was a very
shrewd miner, as was pretty well demon
strated at the time Jim Fair invited the
experts to inspect a drift in one of his
mines. The face of the drift seemed to be
all in good ore, but Keiiey figured out if it
was such a good thing Fair wouldn't be
inviting in the outsiders. He went to the
surface dilating on the future prospects of
the mine, but he was the only one who
had sense enough to short the stock, and
as he wore an old shirt and didn't indulge
in a shave for several weeks afterward I
figured that he must have cleared up about
The stock went down with a
rush when the drift struck porphyry and
the boys always said Kelley smelled it.
He certainly had a great nose for por
phyry.
"There were no flies on Warren Sheridan
as a mining operator," said Billy Wood.
"At the time when the Comstock was
booming and they had a man for breakfast
every morning Sherry was regarded as one
of the smartest and smoothest quick-turn
operators on the ledge. In order to be
sure of inside information he accepted a
situation as a miner in the Savage
miue. It used to be the custom
in those days to keep news of the
big ore strikes from the public, and
when one wad made, the mining superin
tendent used to send down provisions and
mattresses and keep the miners imprisoned
for twenty-four hours so that they could
not get to the surface and give their friends
the tip. When the boys dropped on this
proposition they nsed to give orders for
stock as soon as they saw the mattresses
and the grub going down the shaft, but after
a few of them had got badly bitten a time
or two they made up their mind that
this system of playing with stocks lacked
the essential features of reliability, a3 the
superintendents would occasionally send
down the prub and mattresses when they
struck porphyry; but Warren Sheridan,
who always "kept his eye peeled for the
main chance, was 'laying' for something
that was positive.
"He carried a little bottle of emetic in
his pocket, and one night he saw a blast
disclose some ore that was fairly fat with
wealth. He knew that inside of five
minutes, the order for mattres.'es would go
to the surface. He accordingly took his
emetic, and in a few minutes was writhing
in pain and showing all the symptoms of a
severe case of nausea. He "begged to be
taken to the surface that he might die in
the bosom of his family. They sent him
upon the 'quick hoist,' and the man's
groans of pain would have melted the
stoutest heart. He was put in an express
wagon and when he got home and
was carried into the house and
put to bed, his wife, who was dead onto
the scheme, filled the place with lamenta
tions, and said it was another one of his
heart attacks, and begged of them to get a
doctor as soon as possible. She cleared
the house in short order, sending
each man for a different doctor.
As soon as the door was shut
Sherry hustled on his store clothes and
struck out for his broker by way of the
back window, where he lined up the situ
ation in short order. By the time
the doctors got around Sherry was back
in bed and calling for a lawyer to
come and make his will. The order to buy
reached San Francisco early in the morn
ing and Sherry caught a few thousand
shares at bedrock rates in the morning
board. Sherry and his broker cleaned up
about $160,000" on the deal, and when the
Savage manipulators found out the big
order that got in ahead of them, they rec
ognized the tine Spencerian hand of Sheri
dan. They laid for him to get even, and
after he went back to work they jobbed
some information on him and broke both
him and his broker.
"One morning when he came down to
his mine with his dinner bucket they ad
vised him to go on the stage and work his
death scene tor the beneiit of the public.
Sherry smole a faint smile and walked off.
He was never allowed to swing a pick again
in the Savage. He got so that he
never could speak of the most common
occurrence without using mining lingo,
and once when he was at a coroner's in
quest he described seeing a man
fall down the Con. Virginia shaft, wind
ing up his testimony with the remark
'As soon as I saw him fall through the
opening I knew he was a sood short.' He
is now down at Yuma City, Arizona, ex
perting some new mines for Jim Brazil
and H. M. Levy, and thinks he has struck
another Comstock."
"Speaking of slick work in stock," said
General Roberts, addressing Senator
Jones, "do you remember the time I
charged yon $2000 for your Senatorial ban
quet in the Arlington House, Carson
City?"
"I think I do," replied the Senator, with
a slight smile.
"Did you think it was an overcharge?"
continued Roberts, with a broad grin.
"I never dispute bills of that kind," said
the Senator, "but my local agent informed
me that he thought you got about $1500
the best of me."
"Maybe I did, temporarily," said Rob
erts, "but I plunked the whole wad into one
of your Crown Point deals, and inside of
thirty days I lost every cent of it."
"Guess the champagne is on you," said
Lon Hamilton, and after the great silver
advocate had divided a couple of quart
bottles among the crowd somebody said
that it was half-past 1 and they dispersed.
SCHOOL HEEDING REPAIRS.
South San Francisco Residents
Disappointed With the
Board.
Director Clinton's Promise to
Editor Griffiths Still
Unfulfilled,
There is considerable disappointment In
South San Francisco over the failure of the
Board of Education to have the South San
Francisco schoolhouse repaired.
Dr. David B. Todd and others labored
hard for months to have some attention
paid to its condition, and Editor H. E.
Griffiths of the Mail was particularly
urgent with Director Clinton.
Between 500 and 600 children attend this
school, which is a barn-like frame building
on Fourteenth avenue. When the rainy
season comes they will have to wade
through mud ankle deep up Fourteenth
avenue to get to the school. Dr. Todd
tried, as tiie agent for the Masonic Hall
Association, and a resident, to have a
sidewalk of some kind put in so the
children could reach the school with dry
feet, but to no avail. Nothing, he says,
can be done until the grade of that block
is established it seems, and when the grade
will be established nobody is able to tell.
fto prospect is yet held out to the resi
dents of the Potrero and South San Fran
cisco of the running of the Solano-street
electric line in the near future. The street
has been Daved witb basalt blocks for the
seven blocks from Kentucky street west
ward, and it has been accepted. Tne Six
teenth-street sewer now stands in the way,
however, and, until it is completed, it ia
not expected that the line will be running.
The boilers are now being placed in the
new Bryant-street power-house, and the
first set of engines has been put in by the
Union Iron Works.
Deaorted His Family.
Mrs. Minnie Abrahams of 29V£ Cook street
yesterday requested tlie Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children to help her find her
husband, Bernard, who left her and her three
little children on the 14tn inst. She says she
is destitute, has nothing in the house for the
children to eat, and the house rent is unpaid.
She says that her husband is a laborer, and oc
casionally drinks heavily.
FESTIVAL OF NATIONS.
To Be Given in Aid of the Bush-Street
Temple.
The festival of nations in aid of the
Bush-street Temple at the Union-square
Hall opens on Monday evening, the 28th
inst., and will continue all the week with
the exception of Friday nipht.
In addition to the participants hereto
fore announced the following ladies and
gentlemen will take part:
Doll booth— Mrs. A. Galland, assisted by Mrs.
A. J. Lackman, Mrs. A. Isenber? and Misses
Gertie Pauson, Mabel Aronson, Sarah Bon Den
berg, Birdie Livingston, Henrietta Gra>lwail.
Ida Lippman.Selma Galland and Helen Jacobs.
Wheel of fortune booth— Mrs. A. Schlesinirer,
assisted by Mrs. Nathan. Mrs. W. C. liilde
brandt, Mrs. M. Posuer, Mrs. summertield, Mrs.
Uert Schlesinger and Misses UussieSehlesinger,
Rose Davis, H. Rosenzweig and Miss Frank.
Candy booth— Miss Lottie Snalbur*.
Registration booth— Miss Rose Meyers and
Miss Julia Joseph.
Voting booth— Miss Tessie Franklin.
Flower booth— Miss M. Jacobson.
Newsboys— Max Reiss, Sidney Altschul, Vic
tor Reichenberg, Lucien Reiss, Maurice Ner
son, Lambert Coblentz and Joe Hirsch.
There will be a varied programme of ex
ercises each evening during the week, and
Leo Allenbere, the chairman of the enter
tainment committee, has secured some of
the talent of the City.
Distinctive and appropriate costumes
will be worn by the ladies of each booth,
and a brilliant scene will present itself to
the eye of the visitor when ths doors are
opened to the general public.
NEW TO-DAY. j
I
It Is the Only Charge Made by the
Copeland Medical Institute.
Medicines and All Else Are Fur-
nished at This Charge of $5, and
This Is the Most Favorable Season
for Curlnpr Diseases of Any Nature.
Read the Evidence Below.
The system of practicing medicine as inau-
gurated" by the Copeland Medical Institute w.is
not intended to be a money-making scheme,
but for the pur Dose of enabling people of small
means to obtain the same treatment that rich
people pay large sums of money for. These
physicians know that they can cure diseases
hat strike at nine-tenths of our people, and
hey know that by advertising this fact and
treating patients on a grand scale they can
afford to charge a low fee to cover cost of serv-
ices and medicines— ss a month— to all. In
these hard times such a fee commends itself to
every one needing medical treatment, and
when the ability of the physicians is vouched
for every week by citizens of high standing
and unimpeachable veracity, who desire others
should know what can be done tor them, it
would seem that the man or woman who seeks
medical attention is wasting time and money
in not going to the Copeland Medical Institute
at once.
READ THIS.
If These Symptoms Fit Tour Case,
Then You Have Catarrh.
Are your eyes weak and watery? Do you see
floating spots before them at times?
Do you have a pain over your eyes or a sense
of fullness across the front of the head?
Is your hearing dull and defective? Do you
have a roaring, ringing or buzzing sound in
your ears at times?
Does your nose stop up at times, one 6lde or
the other? Does it discharge a thin, watery
substance almost constantly?
When you go to bed at niirht have you diffi-
culty in going to sleep ? After you are asleep
do you have unpleasant dreams? On awaken-
ing' do you feel refreshed?
In the morning do you have difficulty in
clearing your throat? Does your throat feel
dry and parched? Do you have a sense of full-
ness in your throat?
Do you have a dry, hacking cough? Do you
have a cough that prevents your going to sleep
at nipht? Do you have a cough that causes
you to wake up at night and thus disturb your
repose?
Do you have a feeling at times as though you
were about to faint, and feel as though you
must grasp something for suuport? Does your
Vision become disturbed and everything grow
dark before your eyes at such times?
Do you have night sweats or hemorrhages,
or hot and cold flushes over your body, or
chills or creepy feelings running up your back?
Do you have a weakness as though you had
been working very hard and wanted to rest
and cannot get rested?
Do you have a depressed feeling after eating,
or a bloated-up feeling in the stomach? Do
you belch up a sour taste in your mouth, or
have a very sick feeling at the stomach, or
a heartburn? Do you feel as though what you
have eaten was lying like lead in your stomach?
Do you have a feeling of oppression around
the heart? Do you have a shortness of breath
on going upstairs quickly? Do you have
smothering attacks? Do you have at times
feelings as though your heart was encompassed
by something and it could not move, and then
suddenly find it palpitating furiously?
If so, then you nave catarrh in one of its
many forms. Tnese are but a fow of the many
symptoms that denote to the skillful physician
that you are suffering from catarrh. If they
are your symptoms do not delay longer, but
place yourself under the care of a physicinn
and be cured before" it has taken such a hold
on you that it will be too late to secure relief.
THE NEW TREATJttKNT.
A cordial invitation Is extended by Drs.
Copeland, Neal and Winn to all their friends
and patients, old as well as new, to call and
test the new treatment. It has passed the stage
of experiment and has been demonstrated a
complete success, particularly in those cases
which have withstood the other and older
methods of treatment. They have added
to their already complete offices the new appli-
ances, and are ready to treat all those more
stubborn cases which in the past have been
thought incurable. It is to their financial In-
terest, as well as their medical fame, to cure,
lor one cured patient is worth many dollars 01
advertising. They have tht best treatment and
the new and direct means of using it.
THEIR CREDENTIALS.
Dr. W. H. Copeland ia a graduate of
Bellpvue Hospital Medical College of
New York City, was president of his class
in that famous institution, and, after
thorough hospital training and ex-
perience, devoted his time and attention
to special lineß of practice. Dr. Neal and
Dr. Winn passed through a similar
course, and have for year* been asso-
ciated with Dr. Copeland.
Dr. J. G. Neal won first honors In col-
lege, and was appointed resident physi-
cian of the City Hospital. He filled the
position with honor and received the
hospital diploma. Ho also holds several
gold medals for special excellence in
various branches of medicine, and after
graduation was elected an adjunct
professor of his college.
Dr. A. C. Winn ig a graduate of Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, and of the
medical department of the University of
Miitrtouri. They have devoted them-
selves entirely to the treatment of their
specialties. Years of *-xperi«Mice in the»e
special lines, preceded by extensive
hospital work, have fitted them in a
notable degree for the practice or their
profession.
TREATMENT BY MAIL.
For those desiring the treatment by mail the
first step is to drop aline to Drs. Copeland. Neal
and Winn for a question list or symptom blank.
Return same with answers filled" out and treat-
ment may be commenced at once. Every mail
brings additional proof of the success of the
mail treatment.
$5 A MONTH.
No fee larger than $5 a month a«ked for any
disease. Our motto is: "A Low Fee. Quick
Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment."
Tie Ccpelanfl lineal Mtife
PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN T'fE
COLUMBIAN BUILDING,
SECOND FLOOR,
916 Market St. Next to Baldwin Hotal
Over BeamUh's.
W. H. COPELAND, M.D.
J. G. NEAL, M.D.
A. C. WINN, M.D.
SPECIALTIES— Catarrh and all diseases of
the Eye, Ear, Throat and Lungs. Nervous Dis-
eases, Skin Diseases, Chronic Diseases.
Office hours— 9 a. M. to 1 p. M., 2t05 p. m.,
7to 8 :30 p. m. Sunday— lo a. m. to 2p. m.
Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated
successfully by mail. Send 4 cents in stamps
for question circulars.
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AUCTION SALES.
:' j IN CONJUNCTION WITH
.3/ WM. J. DINGEE,
a/ T T I'l. %J • I W ll^ vjl B-4 L^t
AUCTIONEER,
460 Eighth St., Oakland,
....WILL SELL....
AT AUCTION
SATURDAY,
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1895,
1X....
At 2 o'clock p. jr.,
' At the Park-street Broad-gange Station.
Best Business Corner in Alameda.
BE. cor. Park st. and Lincoln »vc. and immedi-
ately opposite the new broad-gauge Park-st. depot;
this corner is certainly, the best piece of business
property in this city; present rent $92 50, and can
be increased to $125. per month; must besoM;
Park st. bitum.lni7.ed; electric and broa'l-caus;*
cars; as a whole or in subdivisions: lot 50x86:6 ft.
Handsome Ilesidence— Central Aye.
S. side (No. 1804) Central live., 60 ft. K. of
Union St.; one of the choicest residences In bMtntt-
ful AlamPda; 14 rooms and bath; plastered hMO
ment; electric lighting: large liciitor: electric
road; near two steum stations; lot 88x140 ft.
Pretty Home— San Antonia Aye.
N. line (No. 2247 1 s.in Antonio aye.. 300 feet W.
of Oak st.: this prcttv home has 7 rooms and bath;
li«ix<- attic; brick foundation: French range; fin*
£as fixtures; stable, etc.; lot SOxl.'-o feet.
Beautiful Horne — Broad wny.
W. line (No. 1727) Rroadway, 82:6 S. of Eagle
aye.; 9 rooms and bath; modern improvements;
stable; handsome garden; lot 50x121 Bt.
Park St. Business Property.
W. line of Park st., 50:2 i feet S. of Ruena Vista
aye.; 3 elegant business lots; No. 1 85:4y;5x106:33/i
feet, Nos. '2 and 8 30x100:83^ feet each; i'ark st. is
the business street of Alameda; Mcond block from
S. P. B. it. depot; terms, 1-5 cash.
'. Central-Aye. Residence.
A beantiful home of 8 rooms and bath on N. line
of Central aye.. 100 feet E. of Pearl st., with lot
40x146 feet: also vacant lot adjoining west, SOx
146 feet; Mr. John Barton's mansion is on the ad-
joining block; street work complete; terms, 1-5
cash.
Grand Home.
E. line of Orand St., 150 N. of San Antonia aye. ;
a fine home of 5 rooms in the center of Alameda,
surround'd by fine Improvements; well and pump
on premises; street work olldone; lot 50x188 feet;
terms, 1-5 cash.
Everett Beautiful Horn*.
W. line of Everett St., 150 fet-t N. of Eagle aye.;
fine 2-story dweiinK of 6 rooms; street sewered,
graded and macadamized; lot 50x140 feet; terms
one-fifth cash.
Residence and Four Lota.
NE. cor. Rnnta Clara avp. and Broadway; hand-
some Kngllsh cottage of 9 rooms and bath; brick
foundations; cottage, with lot 66x145:f) fleet; also
lot adjoining east, with well and windmill, 50.x
145:9 feet; also 2 lots adjoining east, 50x145:9
feet.
Pretty Cottage.
. NW. cor. (No. 1535) McPherson st. and Halght
aye.: cottage of 9 rooms and bath; street macad-
amized; street and avenue sidewalked; lot 65x
133:6 feet; terms one-third cash.
Handsome Residence I. of.
This handsome residence lot Is on the SE. corner
of Lincoln aye. and Pearl St.; handsome surround-
ings; both streets sewered: large corner lot, 70x
140 feet; terms one-third cash.
Frultvale Cottage.
S. side of Blossom St., 125 feet W. of Frnitvale
aye.; cotta«e of 6 rooms: choice surroundings;
center of Fruitvale; electric road; lot 35x114:6
feet; terms one-iifth cash.
All of the above property will be sold
on SATURDAY, November 2, 1595, at
the Park-Rtreet Broad-gauge Station,
Alameda. _____
WILLIAM J. DINGEE,
Auctioneer, 460 Eighth Street, Oakland,
OB
EASTON, ELDRIDGE Jt CO.,
Auctioneers, 638 Market Street, 8. F,
WILL E. FISHER & CO.,
GENERAL. MERCHANDISE AUCTIONEERS,
16 Post street, bet. Kearny and Mont-
gomery. .; --i'- ;. :•
Regular gales days-TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
TUESDAY,
TUESDAY.... October 90, 1895,
At 10 a. if.,
We will sell at our salesroom,
16 lIPOJSI 1 STREET,
A FINE LINE OF
SPORTING GOODS,
ixcLrnis-a -
Guns, Fishing: Tackle, Ammunition
Cases, Hunters' Suits, Revolvers, a
lot of New Bicycles, strictly first
grade, and other merchandise.
also
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
GROCERIES.
WILL E. FISHER & CO., Auctioneers,
.16 Post st.
MER€HA^DISE_AUCTIOi\ SALES.
Commencing Tuesday, October2o. 1895
WE WILL JU/LD RKGULAR
AUCTION SALES OF MERCHANDISE
At 16 Post Street,
In the premises lately occupied by the Builders'
Exchange.
Mil. JULIUS ROBINSON, late with the firm ot
Newhail Sons & Co., lias b»-en engaged by us and
he is authonis>d by us to solicit conM^niupnti It
Is our Intention to hold regular trad<> sa'.os of rner.
chandise, und we would respectfully solicit the lib-
furer BPofThT8 P ofThTs X cny. f "»••*««*««• «* manufac
will c. FISHER <t CO.,
Auctioneers, 16 I'ost st.