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IRRIGATION IN ARIZONA
It Is Not a New Thing in That
Old Territory by Any
Means.
SOME DITCHES CENTURIES OLD.
They Were Built Hundreds of Years
Before Cabeza la Baca
Came.
[Soecial Correspondpnce of The Cai.l.J
rHCKNIX, Akiz., Dec. 14.— Irrigation is
not new. It is not an innovation. Cer
tainly it is not either of these in Arizona,
for from the appearance of the ruined
casas and ditches built here centuries be
fore Cabeza la Baca, Espijo and Coronado
wrested this section from the Indians,
Arizona, and especially the Salt River
\ alloy, was inhabited by a people who
knew all about it and who had lifted this
absolutely essential branch, of agriculture
—for this section at least— far above the ex
perimental stage and brought it to itshigh
cst development. The irrigators of to-day
know no race than they, since with all
their machinery and approved methods
they have been unable to improve upon
the construction of the ditches, feeders aud
MAKING A DITCH.
[From (i "photograph by Hartwell.]
laterals built by that unknown race in an
age which is shrouded in mystery.
The moderns are learning, though. The
education came to ttiem, as it comes in
all such cases, after years of experiment,
and now gigantic enterprises have been
launched, enterprises which, if completed,
will make of arid Arizona a veritable gar
den spot.
Great progress ha? been made in this di- i
rection already, for in his report, submitted
to the Secretary of the Interior a few
weeks ago, Governor Hughes says there !
are 10,000,000 acres of land in Arizona j
capable of reclamation to agriculture. Of j
this 997,000 acres are already under culti
vation. There are now in course of con
struction reservoirs and canals which will i
reclaim 535,000 acres within the next :
two years, and other enterprises con
template the reclamation of about
50.000 acres additional. During the !
past year particular activity has been !
shown in this direction. Legitimate en- j
terprises of preat magnitude are under
going construction after the most ap- |
proved plans, and much costly work is j
being done. None of these are as yet com- j
plcted — the great difficulty encountered \
being want of capital. Money has been
scarce and so many woolly lies "have been !
told of Arizona that Eastern capitalists — :
and "Western, too, for that matter— are j
timid about investing here. Some of the j
ditches are delivering Water and many are i
apparently completed, but all the com
panies owning them are contemplating
▲ FALL IN THE DITCH NEAR PHOENIX WHICH DEVELOPS 5200 HORSE
POWER.
[From a photograph by Altenburgh.]
improvements and are pushing projected
work.
One of the notable improvements j
noticed all along the line is the marked ;
tendency toward the building of reservoirs. ;
This is following the example set by the !
irrigators of California, but following it j
after years had been wasted in experi
ment. The irrigators here could not or did
not learn from California's eminently sue- j
cessful experiment that the only way to be !
sure of a permanent supply of water was
to build storage basins or reser- j
voirs, until the last few years
when their own common-sense told
them to follow their leader. For years
their methods of delivering water "have
been wasteful and extravagant in the ex
treme, but when the dry ditches and no
visible 6upply of water confronted them at
a time when water was most needed they I
decided that storage basins was the only
successful method, and now storage
basins are in course of construction.
Of all such basins the Hudson reservoir
(projected) is by far the largest. Ground
has been broken, but capital is needed, for
it will cost $3,000,000 to construct this
basin, which will be when it is finished
the largest of its kind in the world. It will
make a lake twenty-five miles long, two
miles wide and eighty feet deep, thus hav
ing a capacity of 3,215,027,200 cubic feet of
waiter. It is almost impossible to calculate
the amount of good such a basin will be
capable of doing.
The Aqua Fria, another such concern,
contemplates enormous improvements,
which will, when finished, irrigate 160,000
acres of land. Their projected work, upon
which a good deal of labor and capital has
already been expended, contemplates the
construction of three dams. The first one
will be 40 feet high by 620 feet long.
The second is to be 75 feet high by
450 feet lone, and the third 150 feet
high by 262 long, the water from
which will be conducted to the arid land
through fifty miles of canal. The esti
mated cost is 12,000,000. But people who
know say that it will exceed this by many
thousands.
The Rio Verde is another such concern,
and is now building a system of reservoirs
which will eventually comprise four stor
age basins, one diversion ciam and 140
miles of canal, thus making fertile 400,000
acres. This company is also hampered by
want of capital.
The canals already delivering water and
in full working order are, as taken from a
list compiled especially for The Call by
Mr. Bruce Perley, secretary of tae Phoenix
Chamber of Commerce, the Arizona canal,
with forty-seven miles of ditch, with a
total capacity of 50.000 miners' inches, de
livering water to 100,000 acres of land, only
40,000 0f which are under cultivation. The
total cost of construction waa $1,000,000.
Improvements costing many thousands
more are contemplated. The Consolidated
has forty miles of ditch, having a total
capacity of 50,000 miners' inches, water
ing 100,000 acres of land, only
30,000 of which are under culti
vation. Large expenditures of recent
date make it impossible to calculate
the cost of construction. The Grand
canal has 27 miles of ditch, the Highland
22, the Maricopa 26, the Salt River 19, the
Teinpe 30, the Utah 20, and the Buckeye
is uncalculated, but these seven ditches
water 80,000 acres, all of which vast tract
is under cultivation.
The Gila Bend or Peoria canal is a ditch
in the southern portion of the Territory.
It has the largest diversion dam in the
country. This dam is 1948 feet in length
and lifts the water of the river fourteen feet,
forming a lake one and a half miles wide
and live miles long, delivering water
through forty-one miles of ditch to about
60,000 acres of land. Unfortunately the dam
needs repairing and the company is not
now delivering water because of pending
litigation.
C. E. Crowley of Los Angeles is largely
interested in this ditch, and within the
last few days has been trying to interest a
party of New York, Philadelphia and Bos
ton "capitalists. It is very probable that
this property will change hands within
the next few months, and if it does the
sale will result in a great deal of good for
all of Southern Arizona.
Other canals in Arizona of which no defi
nite information can now be obtained are:
The South Gila, the Florence, the Farmers,
the St. Johns and Mohawk ditcnes.
Arizona may or may not prove a garden
spot. Her future as yet is enveloped in
mystery. She may be a great mining State
when she becomes a State, or she may be
one vast farm. Years ago, before the possi
bilities of irrigation were known, the idea
of Arizona producing any considerable
amount of agricultural products was an
unsuggested thing by any but the enthusi
astic editor of the country weekly. The
man from California's fertile valleys
and gold-impregnated sands, or from
the Eastern tields of waving grain,
passed through and went back and told
stories about the rattlesnakes, the Gila
monster, the bad men, and bones bleach
ing in the deserts, through which both the
transcontinental railroads unfortunately
run. That there was some foundation for
this is admitted.
There were rattlesnakes, bad men, Gila
monsters and bones bleaching in the des
erts, but there were other things worth
talking about then, and in the last few years
those have grown, increased and multiplied
until now the visitor is very apt to talk of
something else. If he visits the Salt
River Valley, where ?12,500,000 has been
spent in irrigation, he will, for here, where
the beckoning leaves of the fan palms are
kissed by the zephyrs, where the birds are
nesting all winter long, where every day
is full of sunshine, where the moon beams
kindly all night long, is one of the garden
spots of earth. Irrigation has done great
things for the Salt River Valley, and will
do as much for all Arizona.
Leonard Fowler.
PASSION OF MONEY-GETTING.
Evil of Teaching Boys That Education
Has Only a Commercial Value.
Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D., in
writing of "The Passion of Money-mak
ing" in December Ladies' Home Journal
says, concerning the prevalent idea re
garding the value of an education to boys;
'We are considering the effect which is
going to be had upon the boy by being led
to feel that the value of his training,
whether it be obtained in a business col
lege or in any other kind of a college,
is detremintablt by the amount in
cash, stocks and securities in which it may
be expected ultimately to eventuate. That
is an indirect — but none the less effective
for being indirect — way of telling the boy
that money is so transcendently great a
thing that the only value that anything
else can have is its efficiency in contrib
uting to that end. It is an indirect
way of telling him that the only value of
an idea, the only value of a mental energy,
the only value of a disciplined brain,
in fact, is its cash value; which amounts
substantially to listing intelligence and
putting it upon the market in mercantile
competition with wheat, leather and rail
road stock. Of course there is no such in
tention as this on the part of parents when
they hurry their sons into the store or
banking-house or on the Exchange, but
the effect just stated is bound to come and
is damning in its consequences."
Popular works of fiction, history, travel, re
lipion, etc., at retail and by auction, to close
consignment. The prices will surprise you.
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1895.
WOMEN'S GREAT FRIEND.
What Bab Learned About the
Late Alexander Dumas'
Life Story.
READER OF THE HUMAN HEART.
He Had a Strange Life, Full of Ex
citing Incidents and Strug
gles.
NEW YORK, X. V., Dec. 10.-There
is another black-bordered card to be
pasted in the day book of 1895. It bears
upon it the name of one of the greatest
writers of the day, but, better still, it bears
upon it these words : "L'arai dcs femmes"
— the friend of women — Alexandre Dumas.
A creat man, a great writer, a great
reader of the human heart, a great reader,
that most difficult of all things, of the
heart of woman. And more than that, a
student, and a successful one, of the heart,
brain and body of women, for he well
knew the effect that the one had on the
other. He pictured woman as she is, but
always he was pitiful to her. Always he
forgave, and always he recoenized that,
when she committed the sin which women
look upon as the sin of all sins, it was be
cause she loved too much, and he main
tained that, tirst of all, the man should oe
the one to forgive her. Every one of hiß
plays teaches that. Always there is the
friend who look? at things clearly, and
who says, in some way or other, "Forgive,
my friend, forgive tnis woman. Pardon is
an attribute of God; try to reach close to
God. 1 '
DUMAS' STRANGE LIFE.
And yet, if ever there was a strange
story, it was that of Alexandre Dumas.
Until he was a grown man he had no
name except that which had been given to
him in baptism, for he was one among the
thousands of children who cannot say
"My mother" without blushing. The day
came when his father recognized him and
was proud of him ; was generous to him
and assisted him ; but always there hung
over him this dark cloud that enveloped
him from his birth. And even before
his birth. Do you believe in heredity?
It stems to me that, if you think, you
must.
Years ago in Paris there was a young
man, ambitions, imaginative, magnifi
cently strong physically, and poor. All his
days were spent in tne public libraries,
studying out the histories of France, find
ing out each little story connected with
the kings and queens, and building a ro
.munce about it. Full of life, he soon
spent the small amount of money he had.
Occasionally a few francs were earned by
a story or an essay sold to one of tne jour
nals of the day. This young man grew
poorer and poorer. The publishers laughed
at his novels and refused to read them.
The day came when there was nothing left.
Before" him there seemed only starvation.
That he would not submit to. All of one
long day he worked in the library and went
home only because he knew there was a
pistol there. Such a home! A garret
room at the top of a miserable house, ten
anted by poor writers like himself, thieves
and wretched women. He entered his
room, found a mateh — the last one — struck
it to light the bit of candle that was to
show him how to aim conecily. The
match went out. It was fate. He laughed
long and loudly. Just then he heard a
voice in the hall, for he had not thought to
close the door.
A WOMAN'S VOICE IT WAB THAT SPOKE.
She said : "My neighbor, do you wish a
light? Take one from ray candle." A lit
tle seamstress, a trim grisette, stood before
him and pleased his eyes. He chatted
with her; he found he Could laugh, and
laugh merrily. He was still young. Bbc
followed him into his room. The door
was closed. Alexandre Dumas, pere, never
forgot that night, when all the world was
reading the "Three Mousquetaires," but
can you blame Alexandre Dumas, tils, for
having in his nature much that was dark,
since his father was thinking of killing
himself and his mother was unhappy and
half starved?
But always this child of a great author
and a poor seamstress pleaded for women;
always his pity went out to those little
children against whom the world's hand
is raised before they are born; and surely
no better words can be put >:pon the tomb
stone of Alexandre Dumas than those
which formed the title of a great play —
"L'aini dcs Fenimes."
It seems strange that while we are all
thinking and talking of this great writer
his plays should be put upon the stage and
the leading parts played by a woman
whose rendition of them would have
pleased their creator. Can more than this
be said? She is an interesting woman, al
most as much of a girl as Juliet, and yet
with Juliet's ability to read the human
heart.
A LOVELY ENGLISH WOMAH.
You know whom 1 mean— Ultra Nether
sole. £he comes to us from England, and
when you look at her, when you hear h< i r
speak, and some one says "English," you
smile in disdain. Then "there is a hint of
the apanish blood, but your smile comes
just the same. Once, years ago, I visited
in the North, and with the early spring
time went out to look for arbutus. One in
our search party came to me awe-stricken,
and held in his hand what was strange to
him in this cold country, but which I knew
as the bloom of the Soinh — the passion
flower. How did it come there? Who
can say? By chance on the wings of
heaven, brought by a balmy wind. That
is Olga Nethersole.
She is the best type of French woman,
and she comes from England. The voice
is soft and sweet, without any accent. The
eyes are pitiful. They look up to you and
ask for your love and sympathy, and
never a word is spoken. They are won
derful eye*, pure eyes; eyes that tell their
own story of goodness and of seeing good
ness in other people, which is so much
better than announcing one's own virtue.
But "the play's the thing." Last night it
was "Camille." Before that it was "Frou-
Frou," and before that it was "Denise."
Such wonderful women ! And each so un
like the other. I say to this citizen of the
world, for England can no more claim
Olea Nethersole than can France or Amer
ica: "How do yoii feel when you piay a
part? Are you Denise?"
There was no hesitancy— the answer
came quickly. "Honestly, 'I could not say
to myself I will be Denise, I will be Frou-
Frou, or I will be Camille, but, when I say
their words, when I am living her life,
before I know it I am overcome by the
strong personality and become another
woman. It seems as if, whether I willed
it or not, the spirit of the one woman came
into me, filled my heart, brain and body,
and I speak and move as if I were her,
because for the time being I am that
woman. If you said to me 'Cough' I
could not do it. But when lam Camille I
never give it a thought. The cough
comes naturally because I know I am dying
of consumption, and that cough is one of
my pains and one of its terrors. Then
there is Frou-Frou. I have been asked
why I did not conceal or gloss over the
unlovable side of her nature. I couldn't.
I would not De Frou-Frou. That was the
woman. Ju3t as she had won your love
and your forbearance by her sweetness
she did some willful thing that made you
conscious of the other side of her nature.
"What a woman would call the kink in her.
About the stage? Do you know, I was
afraid to come to this country at first? I
thought I ought to wait until I had
reached the point I mean to, and was per
haps 40 or even 50, but that, by accident,
I did come is a fortunate thing lor me.
There is something in the very air that
exhilarates me, something that urges me
to do my best, and I mean to.
"I had an odd experience in Boston with
one of its great scholars. I had played
Juliet — which I have never seen played—
and I did something which was not in the
book of the play, but which it seemed to
me Juliet would have done. The critics
all noted it. I spoke of it to this great
student, a Boston man, and reaching
among his books— for I was supping in his
house — he took down Haziitt. He found
where Kean, in playing a certain part, did
something quite new, and had been de
rided by the critics because of it. Then he
turned over several pages, and came to
the account of the acting of another great
man who was reprimanded by the critics
of his day for omitting to do that which
Kean had done. He looked at me and
said: 'Some people make roads for other
people to walk over— you keep on making
roads.' Wasn't tnat a beautiful compli
ment?"
It wasn't Frou-Frou, it wasn't Denise, it
wasn't Camille who looked joyful and
happy over this; it was the woman with
a throat and neck like Langtry's, witb
beautiful hair like Mrs. Kendal's, with
a grace like Sarah Bernhardt's, but with
clear eyes, and with an individuality that
was Olga Nethersole's, and hers only.
Interested? lam. We women make the
success of the woman actress. We have
been looking for many years for a suc
cessor to Mary Anderson, whom we loved,
because she 'was beautiful, because she
was uood, and because she looked the
parts she played. I think the sucessor is
found. Of her it must be said that having
the beauty, the youth and the goodness of
M ary Anderson, she ha?, in addition, the
ability not only to Jock the part she plays
bu t to be it.
But to return to Dumas. Alas ! he never
can return to us. Last night after the play
was over I picked up a book and caught
a phrase here and there — phrases that
you and I might think, but which it took
a master mind to put in words. That's
the art of writing — when the reader says
"Thais what you think and I think noth
ing more"— yes, but we didn't take the
trouble to say it to the world, whereas the
great writer touched the keynote called hu
manity, and his audience was large. Talk
ing about the theater, he said, '"Men
and women go to the theater only to
hear of love, and to take part in the
"Uab."
pains and joys that it has caused. All the
other interests of humanity remain at the
door." True? What are the plays that
live? The love stories. '"Romeo and
Juliet," "Camille" and all that lons list
which tell the history of a love, which !
means, of a heart. Again, and oh ! how j
well this is known to be true by women, |
he says, "Celibacy, marriage and adul
tery — this is the tragic trilogy in which
the life of women struggles. It is in this
that poets may find eternal dramatic sub
jects. Of the three phases of the tragedy
the most painful is evidently the last
named." 1 turn over the page and I read,
'•Wherever there are assemblages of men
and women there are souls to be won."
WHEN A WOMAN'S HSABX IS TOUCHED.
You think this isn't true, and yet before
me there arises the story of a play, the
story of a tragedy in a tragedy. A great
actress was playing Frou-Frou. In her
audience wasa^roup of people who rep
resented what is called fashion, and
among them was a woman and a man
who had once loved each other dearly, so
dearly that when he put the marriage ring
on iier finger he believed that it encircled
all happiness fur him. As the years went
on these two people grew apart. The rifts
in the lute were many, and the song of)
lovi' was hushed or had drifted into :t j
harsh discordance. Before the world j
those two people were simply like many j
others, but when they were, alone
they scarcely spoke. That night, as
the play went on, the woman's heart was
touched as it had not been for years, and
coining out of the theater she asked her
husband to come home with her instead of
to the gay supper where they were ex
pected, lie did, and when they were to
gether she asked his pardon for all that
she had done that was wrong, and she
begged of him to give her another chance
tv prove that she loved him. That night,
for the first time in ten years, he kissed her
— this beautiful woman — and bidding her
good-night at the door of her room he said:
"To-morrow we will be married afresh ;
we'll start on our honeymoon, learn to
love each other again for always, and away !
from all the rest of the world."
THAT WAR GOOD-NIGHT.
The smile on her face was one of ec
stacy. To his good-morning she gave no
answering word, for death had claimed
btr in the night. In her cold hand was
the bunch of violets that she had taken
from him just nef<>r<> she left him, be- !
cause they were like those that Frou-Frou i
pinned among her laces. She slept with
the violets covering her for four years and
then beside her was laid the body of the
man, who during that time had been alone
always, and who had never ceased to
srrieve. because he had had no oppor- I
tunity to make her happy in life. And |
the reconciliation came because a master j
in the art of play writing and of reading ■
hearts had learned how to tell the story I
of a woman who was never bad, but only j
weak. Do you remember when Frou- j
Frou asks her husband to take her away?
Think how different her life would have
been if he had done as she asked! How
different all life would be if each of us
could realize when the other 13 reaching \
out for helpl
Somebody says, "You are enthusiastic." |
Perhaps.
ENTHUSIASM IS A GOOD THING
— it keeps people young — for it always
furnishes them with illusions. If I am
enthusiastic, my friend, I am truthful. |
There is not enough money in the whol.e I
wide world to buy my opinion. Years
ago, when I knew — oh, so well ! — how much i
a little money meant, I took for my motto j
these three words, "Litera scripta manet." I
1 translate it, "What I write I mean,"
and I have never written what I did not
think to be true, and I can stand before j
man and (iod and say that no opinion was !
ever bought that was signed Bab.
Postscript— Once in a while I write one. 1
It is usually meant, as it is now, for that j
hard-hearted person — the editor. Some
times, in some forms, he objects to per- |
sonalities, but I bee of him, as a special I
courtesy, to put in the end of this letter as !
it is (he can leave out the postscript If he i
likes). It is my way of answering a re- |
quest made to me to say an unkind word
about a woman. Will you do this to
oblige 13 a f?
9 MaMm'm.^t
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Gents' Neckwear— 2sc. 50e, 75c. /^ /
An exquisite line of Patterns and
superb qualities.
La Cigale Perfumes— 6sc a bottle.
The most lasting and delicious extract
known. -rViV.^V;
Umbrellas— From $1:25 to $10.00. £$.
Nothing better for a gentleman's gift.
Handkerchiefs— From 25c to $1.00 Each.
For Man, Woman and Child, at any
price at all from ac up, but these
advertised are beautiful silk initial
goods
Kid Moves— sl.oo and $1.50.
Positively the best purchasable for the
price in the world, backed .up. by
our guarantee and recommenda-
tion. Every pair tried on.
RAILROAD TRAVEL;
VERY LOW RATES BY RAIL
TO ' • '
PORTLANp^OII.
Jia ncET yf_-x.* jLj& y i j mm *ijiT ■ _. jr j i i ry j ,- r l, L * r«? j
SUMJAIfVDec. 15, and Every Fifth bay Thereafter, 1
Leave from S. p. Co. Ferry landing, foot ■ •
of Market St., at 8:00 p.m. ,'
©C. oo— lncluding Berth • in Pullman Tourist
*4) U Sleeper.
....ALSO....
First-class tickets, including berth in <P»1 A. OO I
Pullman Standard Sleeper, «JpJ-'-' — ■
SPECIAL NOTICE.
This train will not stop to deliver or take on pas- |
sengers at intermediate stations, nor will tickets be
sold or baggage, checked to such points. i :
'■■ Through Tickets for Puget Sound 1
Points. on Sale at Reduced Rates. '
. For further information apply at
613 MARKET STREET (Grand Hotel
■ Ticket Office), San Francisco.
RICHARD GRAY, T. H. GOODMAN,:
Gen. Traffic Mgr. Gen. Pass. Agt.
SOUTH PACIFIC COJIPAHT.
j ■: v-V 1 :-- . . • ■/■ '•- (PACIFIC SYSTEM.)
I Train* leave 11ml lire due to hi rl vr «l \
; :'.:'::.<■-, ■/SAN i'KANCIM'O.
, tEAVB I— . From November 20, 1393. — . akkivi i
• 6:30 a Haywarda, JNiles and Way Stations.. 1O:I5v
I 7 :<>O a Atlantic Impress, Ogdcn and Kust.. 8:1.1 r
TtOOA Benicia, Vacaville, Kumsey, Sacra- - J
.-- \ mento, and Redding Tia Davis. . . . 7:1 St 1
' 7:30 a Martinez; San Ramon, Kapa, Calig- - c S
'■ -.-rr-. ••; toga and Santa Roe» .".:... 6:15p !
: ■ 8:30 a Nil'-., ■; Nan Jose, i Stockton, lone. ■ "'j
• ' ' ■ „■", ' . -" ] Sacramento, MarysTillo, Hed I3lnS - o
-•■-. •; "" and Sundays excepted Oro^ille.;'. . 4 :1 .1p
•8:30 a Peters and MiltOii.;-........-;.. -:-.;-..- "7:15p
9:00 a Han Leandro, Haywardst Way St'ns * 11:45 a 1
O:OOa Los Anaelc3 i E.ipiess. Raymond, .
1 '„ '"■ ' (for Yoscmitc), Santa ■ liarbara
! ■-.' -' ' and liOsAn!idlcs.';-...-.:.i..':r...... 4:4»p |
: 9:00 a Martinez and Stockton :.:.?........ 10:45 a
1O:WOa San Leandro, Hayw&rds and Kiles.. ' 1:45p ,
12:OOm Ban Leandr* Hay wards A Way St'ns ' 2:42* j
l:OOp Miles, San Jose and LiTermore.. .. .'. M:4s*. ;
•1:OOp Sacramento Rirer Steamers......... *O:OOp
fl:3op Port Costa and Way Stations . : . .; . . - ■f7:45F j
3:00p San Leandro, Hay wards & Way St'ns 5:4Sp
4:OOp San Leandro, Hay wards & WaySt'ns 6 :45p '
4:0 Op Martinez, San ; Ramon. Vallejo, +~
Napa, Calistoga, El Verano and
Santaßosa »:I'.a I
4x—* Benioia, Esparto, Woodland, • „
•> Knights Landing, Marysville,
Oioville and Sacramento ......... 10:15 a ',
4tSop Niles, San ' Jose, "LiTermore and ■ ■ ■' ■ .
• - Stockton ;.:..-.:;:....,".;:..-..•..; ;7«15p '
S:OOp BanLeandro, Hayward3& Way St'ns - 8:45* ,
3:30p New Orleans Express, l'resuo.Bakcrs- " - „ ;•
tield, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles,
Deming, £1 Paso, New Orleans and ■ • ' ' "■ ■ ;'•
East.. ..-..: .;-:.... T..-;.'.. 1...... I«s4Sa
3>3«p Santa Fo Route, Atlautio Express < -
for Mojave and Ea5t,.....'...;....' 10:43 a'
S:OOi> European Mail, Ocden and East.... ~ *:45a
' 6:OOi>llnytvardB, Nilrsaud San J05e....... 7i4»a'
17:OOi- Va11ej0 .........;..... . .-. . .:..... .. ; . t7:4Sp .
i 7:00p Oregon Express, Sacramento, Marys- ;
ville, Rcilding, Portland, . I'ugct
Sound and Kast ..;... .:'..:..■. ...v 10:4.1*
7:00p San Leandro, Ilaywardsfc Way St'ns 1O:30p
9:00p San Leandro, Way fir ttl2;6OA
fl0:05p "Sunset Limited," Fresno, Los ■ -
";•>■■ ,-.' ; Angeles, : El Paso, New Orleaus '"•■'
• --,-;' and East.;-..;.....-..;;...;;....... §l»tlsp
• ttHtls Bau Leandro.llaywarils Way St'ns v 7:15 a
;- "-SASTA Itrz DIVISION (yarrow Q.ingr).
8:13 a Newark. I. lose, Felton, ~ ".■
;.;**.'■-,.■ Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz and Way * -- ' -•.
r -■; Stations... V...... :... ..■....- 5i501-
•*:15p Newai-k, Contcrrille. San Jose, Now '
AlmaCen, Fclton, Boulder Creek, ' ' •
■''■ . : Santa Cruz and Principal Way - :
5tati0n5...... ...... ~.i...-...: :.'. ;.. -. *ll:2o^}
i 4:13 - Newark, San Joso andl.os <;atos , 9:30 a
'. til :4sr Hunters' E^c-.ireion. Ban Jose and '
■ . ■ VVsy Stationß-.........;.....r.:...'- }7;2©p
COAST DIVISION (Third A, Toiriispnd'siw.)
6:43 a San Joro ami Way Kttitioiis (New ■ ■ -. '"•
■ m -^ Almaden Wednesdays 0n1y), .•/.... 1:45p
■:13a San Joso, Tics lMnns. S;iuta Cruz *■ " ' > -
■:-v, X^ Pacilic Grove. Paso Roblea, - San
, Luis ()l>ispo, GuadalupeaudPriu- '.
cipal Way Stations .....:..-.:,... ; '7:o3p'
1«:4Oa San .lose and Way Stations. :. :.. ... M S:<M»p
| 11:43 a Palo Alto and Way Stations.. "" .• 3t3op
■2:30p Han Jose, Gilrny, Tres Piuos, Santa •' ■ " : :.'■
• ■■'/; ; Cruz, SaUnas.MontcreyaiidPaclUo •
. Grove ...:.'.:.;..:. .*.:..'.;;... *|O:4O\
•:i::i«p San Jose Principal Way Stations J 9:47 a
, •4:3OpSan Jose ami Way Stations -.5 *A:O6*
, 5:30i- Sau. loso and Way Stations........ J «8:49 a
■ C::i»t> San Jose and Way Stations;........ 6:33 a'
■Hl:43i» San .Togo 11 ml Way Station*.. t?:4.lp
CREEK ROUTE FERRY. :\
Pr«m SAN FRIHCISCO— Foot of Market Street (Slip 8)— '• •
m;SS «;SS HS3: U:o ° - MB ™
Prom OiltiSD— Foot or BrbadwtT.— 1 ; ■ ' ♦600 ' 8:00
10:00*.M. J12:00 •1:00 > - '■ $2:00 ; : *3 : co ": : 11:00
■ *5:00r.M. ;■" ■■■. -;.■' ..■ '■ "■■■.- •- % ••■ ;.\-;J ■ ....
A for Morning. I;''' Ay P for Afternoon. ' .
•Sundays excepted. '< t Saturdays only.
1 .;..'; _ Sundays only. .: i,v „ -_..-. •
_ri Monday, Thursday and Saturday nights only. '
HTueidajs and Saturdays, Sundays d TbundJl^
Linens for Holiday Gifts.
•'■* ~. Towels, Ta"ble Linens, Bureau and
Table Set 3 etc. Our special
Towel at 25c is good enough for any
one. Napkins from $1 to $20 a dozen. .
Blankets, Oiiiltsaml Comforts.
.' From $1 apiece up to the finest Cali-
fornia Blanket made. The choicest
Silk-covered . Down . Comforts. They
are useful and elegant presents.
' ladies' Light Tan. Coaching Jackets—
$15 and $19.50.
... "Would be grand value at $20 and $30.
See them. They are the swellest coats
in town, and won't last long at these
;■-'■'-. prices. '_■;■;";':..•■-/,;.; ],■■■ V: •>".'; %
TO OUR MAIL ORDER PATROJSS.
Please send in your orders for
Christmas Stuffs as early in the
week as you possibly can. We
send out double the parcels of
any two San Francisco houses,
! and you can imagine what that
I means. Although we've doubled
' both room and force we'll need
I your early orders so as not to
' disappoint. We believe in ex-
' peditious movement and filling
of all mail orders, and if we have
to work three times our #>rce will
not disappoint you. ""^ ''.'■" "
RAILROAD TRAVEL.
slfMcisco & NORTH PA-
: cmc railway co.
Tiburon Ferry— Foot of Market St.
... : .. . San Francisco to San Kafael.
WEEK DAYS-7:40, 9:20, 11:00 a.m.: 13:9SL
3:30, 6:10, 6:30 p. m. Thursdays— Extra trl»
at 11:30 p.m. Saturdays— Extra trips at 1:50
and 11:30 p. m. . .
SDNDAVS-8:00, 9:30. 11:0 a.m.; I:3 S:S *
■ 6:00, 8:20 P.M. • •
San Rafael. to San Francisco.
WEEK DAYS— 6:2S, 7:55, 9:30, 11-10 a mi
12 :45, 3 :40, 5 :10 pm. Saturdays-Extra trip,
at 1 :55 p. m. and 6:35 11:1 -° '£lg??&! 3;4 *
8U: 5f00, Y 6^5 8 p 1( M. 9:40 ' U:l ° *• "■• 1:40 ' 3: **
Between San Francisco and Schuetzen Park sama
schedule as above. « ■ , - .-. - •. -
Leare - . In B ff(^ c ."'. -'• Arrive
Ban Francisco. oct!r2B. - Ban Francisco.
Wekkl Sun- lunation ITK - I Week"
Days, | pays, "gatmation. DAYa> - | Day>
7:40 am 8:00 am i Novato, 10:40 am 8:60 am
8:30 pm 9:30 am I Petahuna, 6:05 pm 10:30 am
6:10 pm 6:00 PM; Santa Roga. 7:30 pm| 6:15 pm
"~. ■-„•- . Fulton, [ .; ..<. '
7:40 am Windsor, 10:30 am
. . Healdsburs, . : s '
Geyaerville, • .
3:30 PM 8:00 am! Cloverdale. ' 7:30 pm 6:16 pm
:'■ ■- * - "- ' Pitta, : • ' '
7:40 am - '. Hop: and <fc .!; '.: \.> -„--•
■ , 8:00 am Uklah. „ . 7:30 pm 6.15 pm
7:40 am ". . „ . 10:30 am
8:00 am ; Guernevllle. 7:30 -m .
3:30 ■■■',;• ) ■"> -.-. :;.y ■': >. ■■■,}€>• 6:15 PM
7:40 am 8:00 am 'Sonoma ; ! 10:40 am 8:50 am
6:10 pm 6:00 pm and „ .. 1 6:05 pm 6:16 pm
I . Glen Ellen. I•- ' - '•■■
7:40 am 8:00 am! c.,.',;-, 110:40 am] 10:30 AM
3:30 5:00 Seba p .°Vl 6:06 pm| 0:15 pm
1 Stages connect at San Rafael for Bollnas.
Stages connect at Clorerdale for the Geysers.
Stages connect at Pleta !or Highland Sprlocs,
, Kelseyville. Lakeport. ■:.-.-, -•■:•- •.■•■• ■
Stages connect at Ukiah for Vlrtiy Springs, Bias
lAkes, Laurel Dell. Upper Lake, Booneville, Green-
wood, Mendoclno City. Fort Bragg, Usal, Wastport,
Cahto, WUletts, Calpella, Porno, Potter Valley, John.
Day's, Llvely's, Gravelly Valley, Harris, Scotia
and EureKa. ?:....- - ■.■■•.-"
Saturday to Monday round-trip ttckets at ndooai
'■-■ On Sundays reund-trip tickets to ail palate k*
yond San Rafael at half mam, * - ".
1 1 Ticket Offices, 660 Market su, Chronicle baildln*
H. a WHITING, ' ";^ R. 3C. BTAN,
, ...-.- Gen. Manager. : ; Pea. P—. Ann*.
8; Atlantic
* trains leave from and arrive
at Market-Street Ferry.
„\« SANTA FE EXPRESS
To Chicago via A. & P. Direct Lint
Leaves every day at 3:30 p. m., carrying Pulimaa
Palace Sleepers and Tourist Sleepers to Chlca*«
via Kansas City without change. Annex . can for
Denver and St. Louis. -- '.'7.~.'-
-"t CHICAGO LIMITED,
From Los Angeles to Chicago.
V Solid Vestibule Train Daily, wtth Dining-cars,
under Harvey's management. Connecting trains
leave San Francisco at 9 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. dally.
i I The ' best railway from California to the East.
New rails, new ties; no dust;- Interesting scenery;
and good meals in Harvey's dining-room or dining-
cars. >* ' ■-^■■t.-.z: ,:"•■ --.■ «•-• «*.»-. ■ . ... ..
Ticket Office— 644 Market Street,
, Chronicle Building.
NORTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAH
."-■•'• (Via Saiifalito Ferry).
From San Francisco, beginning October 27 ( 189&.
'-.., . ---: -.. „;; WEEKDAYS. -.■..-,
For Mill Valley and San Rafael— 9:15, ll:0t
";i.j 1:«S, 3:46 6:»Op.K/
San Quentin-7 9:16 A. m. : ,.l:4fr F . 5:15 F. K.
Extra trips for miii Rafitel un Mondays, Wednet>
days and Saturdays at 1:30 p. m. ' '
:■■■-->■■> ..-,t.7' : SUNDAYS. - -'vCv : ■
For Milt I Valley, San I Rafael I and San Qnentin—
' 8:00. 10:00, 11:30 a: M. : 1:30, 3:00, 4:30. "6:11
• - r. m. *ix>«ti not run to San Quentln.
' . -% THROUGH TRAINS. v ,
7:30 *a. M. weekdays— Cazadero and way stations.
1:45 p. m. -Saturdays— Tomales and way station*,
1:00 a. M. tsundayi-polui Reyes ana war iia>loa*