The San Francisco call. [volume], December 20, 1897, Image 1

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VOLUME LXXXIII.— NO. 20.
CALIFORNIA GREETS THE NEW ERA CALL
NEW ERA
SCORES A
SUCCESS
Something About the Great
Edition of "The
Call"
Everybody Praises the JournaN
istic Feat That Has Never
Been Excelled on the
Pacific Coast
. The Call has reason tn congratulate
:.ft.self upon the success which attended
■y'Ais efforts to produce the best paper
;•: •yveT published on the Pacific Coast.
..The unremitting toil of weeks is at an
: Y-mi. and yesterday witnessed the con
summation of the stupendous under
taking. Three hundred and fifty thou
(sand papers have been sent out, and
\: : .tfie entire civilized world will hear of
Cornia through the pages of this
tifioent production.
1,000 copies of eighty
h printed. Each copy equals
TO bulk ten copies of Dv Maurier's
-■/Trilby.' 1 In other words, the entire
on equals three and a half million
< •■;•» s- of that celebrated book.
Were the matter to be taken from
viper and the columns pasted end
nd the slip of paper would reach
t;\vo and two-thirds times around the
jyprldL Were this slip laid in a straight
md a railroad track built along
side of it it would take a train travel
ing at the ra; ,- miles an hour
nty days to go from one end to the
other. Were the lines to be set end to
would make the trip to the
d bark ten times.
f Had the paper been printed in Chi
and by the usual methods em
ed by that race in their publica
tions, the work would have been so
great that had a Chinaman began it
when the waters receded from Mount
Arrarat the edition would not be com
..frt.eted yet, and 200 years more would
>c before the last copy came from
saone.
V\ hen the old Washington hand press
:n use in newspaper offices it was
estimated that the most rapid press
rnaii.eould print ISO pages in an hour.
.. At this rate it would have taken a lit
ore than half an hour to print one
..vcoriy of the New Era edition, and
working ten hours a day it would take
J'Tty-rive years to print the entire
edition.
h copy weighed one and one-quar
ter pounds, the entire edition pulling
•down the sales at 223 ions. In order to
get these papers to the Postoffice more
than 17,000 mail sacks were required
•and to haul the entire edition over the
railroads necessitated twenty-two
freight cars. For the Los Angeles
readers it required three cars, and for
those at Sacramento one car to carry
the papers. As each paper called for 5
-,<-fents as tribute to" Uncle Sam for car
fyins it through the mails the postage
.on the entire edition amounted to $4380
. : AVhen the time taken in compilation
: .and printing is considered this was the
largest edition ever published by any
: >pewsp"aper in the world.
: : :.;\A;I-7 day long there came to the office
. of: The Call unsolicited commendations
. :ff..cJm all classes cf people, while con
gratulatory telegrams were received
tr'opri all parts of the State reached by
morning trains carrying copies of
thij|.New Era paper. Not alone was
, the •magnificent edition praised but
. .' : th«jnefnory of the illumination of the
■■..previous night remained, and that
•/.-beautiful display, too, came in for its
;s3?"ajre of commendation.
..{The. Sonntagsblatt dcs California
Demokrat (Sunday edition of the Cali
.■.f/*rnia. !Demokrat), in its issue of yes
terday, cays: •
NEWS OF THE DAY.
:
:'■ - Weather forecast 'for San Fran
':■■' Cisco.- Fair on Monday; continued
. -c6ld; light northerly wind; killing
. frost in the morning.
■■ „ FIRST AND SECOND PAGES.
•." ' The New Era Edition.
."• •;. THIRD PAGE.
''■:'. Cleveland Survivors Found.
:'• ' "\4'ar Clouds in China.
..:■' ' FOURTH PAGE.
'•' •• Chandler's ■ . .-<■ Prediction.
. ; . A Bigamist in Trouble.
Sending Warship* Abroad.
i-: - 'An Atrocious Murder.
V _. Japan and Annexation.
;■ : . FIFTH PAGE.
'." The Loot of San Jose.
Fitz Will Fight Corbett.
Drum] On the Diamond.
'■'.• Spite Work in the Grand Jury.
A Daring Robbery.
SIXTH PAGE.
Editorial.
The New Era Edition.
Upward Tendency of Trade.
• Avo;4 the Rush,
China and the Chinese.
A Voice of Discord.
Individual Thoughts.
SEVENTH PAGE.
On the Rifle Range.
a Star That Never Came.
News From the Water Front. '
An Almshouse Suicide.
EIGHTH PAGE
Confirmation at Sacred Heart.
Olympic Defeats Reliance
Death of James Oglesby.
NINTH PAGE.
News From Across the Bay.
TENTH PAGE.
National Guard Doings.
ELEVENTH PAGE.
Birth, Marriages and Deaths.
TWELFTH PAGE.
A Maniac Fires His Cell.
Hold's Defense.
. . ' Death From Starvation.
Now th« Football Girl.
" - . The Gum Chewer Goes Back.
The San Francisco Call
"Seen from the hills of the city last
night. The Call building ablaze with
innumerable lights, presented to the
view a most magnificent sight.
"The illumination was in honor of
The Call moving into its new home
and the issuing of the festival number
of the paper, consisting ol not less
than eighty pages.
"The California Demokrat wishes
that its colleague in the stately build
ing may live, grow and prosper."
Hundreds of people crossed from
Oakland to San Francisco last night
to witness the illumination of the new
horn*- of The Call, and the passengers
tin the crotarded boats discussed noth
ing i-\<-. The effect from the bay was
beautiful and the rays of light from
what appeared like a pillar of fire
reached clear Across to the foot of
Broadway it; that city. The mars of
light -towered high over all the other
lights of San Francisco, and the ef
fect of th>- distance was such that the
building appeared as of a uniform red
It was very plain all along the
Berkeley shore and West Oakland and
could be plainly seen from Alame<ia.
Ex-Mayor o. C. Pardee, who enjoys
a State reputation as an astronomer,
thought he had discovered a new
colony of comets, when his mind re
called the notice in The Call of the illu
mination of the paper's new home.
"That's a sight San Francisco has
never seen before," said the doctor,
'•and it should make people think. It
means more than a few thousand
lights making a magnificent building
i^pptar like a lighthouse on fire, it
means that San Francisco and th<^
whole of the Pacific Coast is moving.
It marks a new era, and every time as
I pas-s that splendid structure on Mar
ket street I wish that California had
a thousand more men as he after
whom the building is named."
Attorney G. R. de Golia, who saw the
illuminated building from the Blake &
Moffitt block in Oakland with a party
of ladies, said it was one of the most
beautiful sights he had witnei
"We expect these things of The Call
now," he said.
SAX FRAXCISCO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1897.
MAILING THE NEW ERA EDITION.
NEW ERA
DAWNS FOR
THE STATE
The People of California
Welcome the Great
Newspaper
From All Points Reached by the
Mail Yesterday Come Words
of Commendation for
the Achievement
From all those parts of the State
reached by the first day's mail from
San Francisco comes pouring in to
day congratulations upon the splendid
success achieved by the New Era edi
tion of The Call.
The success was instantaneous and
complete. Perfect in al 1 its depart
ments, the work of the best writers on
the Pacific Coast and created from a
mechanical plant the most complete
ever laid down in San Francisco, it
was believed the New Era Call would
be a great newspaper, and that the
people of California would be quick to
recognize that greatness. How quick
herewith show.
GREATEST NEWSPAPER
EVER SOLD ON THE
STREETS OF SAN JOSE.
The Call Has No Rivals Now Is the Senti
ment Expressed in the
Garden City.
SAN JOSE, Dec. 19.— The New Era
edition is the leading topic of discus
sion around the city to-day. Every
one met asks "Have you seen to-day's
Call?" and then proceeds to tell of its
merits and virtues. They sold like hot
cakes and the newsboys reaped a
rich harvest. Nearly every one on the
street had a copy in his hand, and
this was particularly noticeable of
people on their way home from
church. All were loud in its
praises. They pronounced it the best,
prettiest and cleanest paper ever is
sued. The edition of the Examiner
was insignificant compared with The
Call, and the sale of the paper showed
this. The following interviews speak
for themselves:
O. A. Hale— The New Era edition of
PRICE FIVE CEXTS.
The Call is a triumph in coast Jour
nalism. Nothing has ever been issued
in the West that equals it. The im
mense edition of 350,000 copies made
it a great advertising medium. It is
far ahead of to-day's Examiner in
every respect. The reading is all first
class, the illustrations artistic and the
great edition will probably be the high
water mark of circulation for many
years to come. The Call and its pro
prietor deserve the success that it
has achieved.
Dr . J. R. Curnow — To-day's Call
shows great enterprise. The New Era
edition is far ahead of anything, iij
number, size and excellence, ever is
sued on the coast.
T. li. Weaver, president of the
Board of Trade— The Call Is ahead of
them all. It looks line in its new dress.
The reading matter is of a high class
and the illustrations are fine. That
350.000 edition is a top notcher for
coast journalism.
Byron Cottle— The New Era edition
is immense! It is one of the best
printed papers I ever saw. the illustra
tions being especially good. The read
ing matter is far superior to that of
to-day's Examiner. That 350,000 edi
tion will supply the State with a fine
lot. of reading matter, and a great deal
of good will result from the copies
that are sent abroad. The Examiner
isn't in it any more. The Call leads
them all.
Rev. H. Melville Tenney, pastor of
the First Congregational Church— The
New Era Edition of The Call is su
perb. If The Call keeps to its purpose
in furnishing the public with a clean
journal, which believes in high think
ing and furnishes the people with the
news and literature that stands for
all that is high, in the true sense
it will deserve the greatest success of
any journal on the coast. Everything
as illustrated by this edition seems to
point that that is its purpose.
Chief of Police Kidward— The New
Era of The Call is a magnificent num
ber. It foreshadows anything ever at
tempted in the journalistic line on the
coast. The 350,000 edition of eighty
page Calls is so far ahead of the 130,000
edition of the Examiner in general in
terest and appearance that there is no
comparison between the two papers.
It is as a mole hill to a mountain, with
The Call representing the latter.
Attorney C. D. Wright— To-day's Call
is an ideal paper. It is surely entering
upon a new era. The immense edition
of over a third of a million copies is
something unheard of on this coast,
and incalculable good must result to
the State from its circulation. It is far
superior in general interest, artistic
excellence and typographical appear
anec to the Examiner.
T. W. Hobson— lt's a great paper.
The Call has forged right ahead, and
NEW TO-DAY.
lllC 1 <IS t Cl Ccl t b
comes with a rush. Consumption has been
frequently pronounced incurable. It is not
It may be stopped — warded off — at almost
any stage. But if the sufferer neglects to
take the proper remedy in the proper way,
death is swift and certain.
Consumption like almost all manner of
disease has its inception in a trio of all.
embracing disorders. They are "imper-
fect digestion," "irregular bowels," and
"impure blood." They are triplets. On*
is dependent for existence upon the other;
Cure one, cure all. Dr. Pierces Golde*
Medical Discovery is the best of all known
remedies for this disorder. It corrects dis
ordered digestion, invigorates the liver
regulates the bowels, makes the blood pure»
and the nerves strong. It is the great blood
maker and flesh-builder. It makes tlu
muscles firm and springy. It soothes an<
invigorates the nerves. It tones up bodj
and brain. It cures ninety-eight per cent
of all cases of consumption.
Mrs. Rebecca F. Gardner, of Grafton, Ycr|
Co.. Va., writes: " When I was married I weiprh
ed one hundred and twenty-five pounds. I vrai
taken sick and reduced in health and broke ou
with a disease which my doctor said was eczema
He treated my disease'bit failed to do me an;
Rood, and I fell away to 90 pounds. I began u»
mar Dr. Pierce"s Golden Medical Discovery, am
thank God and you. I began to improve. Whel
I began taking the ' Discovery ' my weight was 9
pounds and now I weigh 140 pounds and havi
only taken two bottles. I canuot say too mucl
about the medicine. My husband is one of th/
happiest men in the world. He says I loo)
younger than I did the first time he ever saw m 4
and that was fifteen years ago. Well, doctor, 1
am a well woman, anil do al! of my housework
tend to my fowls and cow and do some work ii
the garden. It is a miracle that lam cured."
Health and happiness formed a partnet
ship in the garden of Eden. It has neve
been dissolved. You cannot have one with
out the other. Constipation is the usua
cause of ill-health. Dr. Pierces Pleasad
Pellets are tiny, sugar-coated granules
They cure constipation. One is a gentl)
laxative, and two a mild cathartic. The}
never gripe. Druggists sell them.