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News of the Counties Bordering San Francisco Bay
RELIGIOUS DEVOTIONS IN
HONOR OF ST. PATRICK
Catholic Churches to Hold
Services of Elabor
ate Nature
'CHILDREN TO SING
St. Mary's Parish Sunday
School Pupils to Ren-.
der Hymn
OAKLAND. March 16. — "With solemn
ceremonial in honor of the pntron
eaint of the Emerald Isle. St. Patrick's
day Trill he observed tomorrow in the
Roman Catholic churches. Special de
votlons vr!H be ohperved at St. Pat
| rick's Church. West Oakland. High
mass xrlll be celebrated In the morn
lhg by Rev. J. B. McNa^y, the pastor.
This .will also be the commencement
of the forty hours* devotion, which
will be concluded Tuesday morning at
8 o'clock.
Religious observance of the day will
, be on an elaborate scale Jn St. Mary's
Parish. The children of the Sunday
echool will sins the hymn. "Hail. Glor
ious Patron, St. Patrick," at the 8:30
o'clock mass. Rev. Robert Sesnon vrill
be the celebrant at high mass at 11
o'clock with Rev. Edward Dempsey
deacon, Ry. John Grant subdeacon,
and Brother Timothy master of cere
monies. Father Dempsey will preach.
A large choir under direction of Pro
fessor Adolf Gregory will sing. Mrs.
Gregory will play a grand march, com
posed for the service by Professor
Gregory, who will eing the offertory.
The annual ball given by the Ancient
Order of Hibernians of Alameda County
i will ne held Monday evening at Cen
tral Xlall. Twelfth street, near Broad
war. The event will be in celebration
of St. Patrick's day. Many invitations
have been Issued and a delightful re*
' union of the sons and daughters of Ire
land is expected. Those in charge are:
Committee of arrangements. John For
rest (county president, chairman), R.
Heeney, T. J. Desmond; floor manager.
J. Pegnera, assistant, R. Heeney; floor
committee, F. Smith. B. Nolan. D. M.
Murphy, T. Desmond, E. Dlnneen: re
ception committee, L. Moore, T. Dixon.
T. V. Murphy, P. Considlne, S. IJono
hue; door committee, W. Lenane, James
McElroy, C. Dwyer. J. Forrest.
Under the direction of Rev. J. B. Mc-
Nally, the pastor, St. Patrick's parish
held a celebration tonight at the audi
torium In Tenth 6treet. adjoining the
church. Songs and addresses appro
priate to the occasion were given.
Councilman-elect John F. Mullins de
livered the opening speech. The pro
gramme followed with musical num
bers, dances and recitations. Replete
w'th humor was the oration of the
evening by Father McNally. his theme
being "Nothing Too^ Good for the
Irish." Albeit for native wit the ad
t'rrss was sparkling, the clergyman was
r.irnest in his seriousness, as he dwelt
upon the history of the Iriph people.
During- the evening the St. Mary's Col
lege Orchestra gave several selections.
Harry Krause, F. W. Dunn, "W. J. O'Con
ri«T and L. Grundell, College ejudents,
assisted with solos and recitations. Oth
ers who took part were Joseph Burke,
Francis Dcrham, Glee Club and Thomas
J. McCarthy of Sacred Heart College,
fen Francisco: Ruth Burnham, ' Mar
guerite Grau. Mrs. Adams, S. J. Sandy.
Gladys Gerrish and John Laydon.
Rev. p. C Torke, pastor of St. An
thony's parish, delivered an address at
St. Anthony's Hall this evening on "The
Message of the Age," a study of social
conditions, changes In the life of the
people since the earliest days. The
ciergymßn was chairman of the even
ing, v.-hlch was devoted to an enter
tainment in celebration of St. Patrick's
day. Pr^eding the lecture the pupils
of St. Anthony's parish, under direc
tion of Miss L. C. White, sang several
Irish songs, amontr them selections
from Tom Moore. Miss Marian R. Fit
ton gave a number of ancient Irish and
Scottish airs.
OAKLAND PETTY THIEVES
WILL SERVE IN CHAIN GANG
Three Who Pleaded Guilty cf Petty
Larceny Receive Six Months'
Imprisonment
OAKLAND. March 16. — Police Judges
Samuels and Geary this morning meted
out severe punishment to three men
who had pleaded guilty of petty lar
ceny and the thieves will pprnd a con
siderable period in the chain gang.
Louis Fwmdcnberg. who stole a rachet
wrench from the People's Water Com
pany, was sentenced to six months in
the City Prison by Acting Police Judge
Geary, r.s was William Pagot, who
eto'.e a bicycle from S. O. Wolfe. Wil
liam Jones acknowledged that he had
etolen fifty pounds of brass from the
Oakland Traction Company and was
sentenced to a term of six months by
Police Judge Samuels.
FIGHTS STREET OPEXIXG
OAKLAND, March 16. — E. Q. Turner,
Superintendent of Streets In Berkeley,
was made defendant today "in an in
junction suit brought by Mrs. Margaret
J. SHvershield to restrain him from pro
cerdinff to widen Allston way, from
Dana street to Telegraph arenue, Ju
accordance with a recent resolution of
the Board of Trustees of the college
town. Mrs. Silvershield owns property
on Allston way, near Telegraph ave
nue. She declares that the widening of
the street \u25a0will damage her property to
the amount of $18,000, but that the au
thorities ha\-e assessed her damage at
only $6450.
ROBBED DV COXFIDE.\CB MAS
BERKELEY, i-crch IC. — The police
believe that George Mollar, a con
fidence, operator, who has several
aliases. Is the thief who tricked Thomas
Trlkk\e, a Greek, out of $600 yesterday.
Chief -Vollmer has ascertained that
Mollar accompanied Trlkkis from Point
Richmond to Berkeley and the two
were seen tcjrcther at about the time
Trlkkis cays he lost his money. The
Greek declares that his companion took
the money under pretence to place it
in a bank for the owner.
AUTOMOBILISTS AT WAR
( OAKLAND, March 16. — Joseph Klink
i cnbeard, who owns and operates sev
j eral automobiles, was arrested this
(afternoon on complaint of W. S. Ba
icon, another automobile owner, on a
charge of having made threaU against
'his life. The defendant is alleged to
i have drawn a pistol during a dispute
jover the right to occupy a street stand.
J When the warrant was served- on
iKllnkenbeard he was ill In. bed' and
bonds were furnished for his .appear
1 ance. .
i TEAMSTER EKDS XJTE— J. W. Skarc*. \u25a0
tPKmeter, committed enJclde In a lodplripliouso
at 817 Clay street yesterday afternoon. He
took a room at tse place and went *to bed.
L«t«r tittle Fitzgerald, a chambermaid, tmi -il»--i
I ca* find * utnmooed assistance. The door wei
'broken In and the man found d<»ad. SkagCT ar-
I rived • from tfae Philippines \u25a0 about three weeks
1 i*o. B« bad been a policeman in the islands.
Knife of Surgeon Restores
Young Wilcox's Reason
Patient is Reported
to Be Out of
All Danger
OAKLAND, March 16.— Edson WII
cox. the son of Dr. W. J. Wilcox of
576 EaKt Fourteenth street, whose
reason has been restored through an
ope'ratlon by which a mass of necrosed
bone which was pressing on the brain
was removed, was reported today to
be out of danger. No trace of the
mental trouble, which caused the de
tention of /he young man in the State
Hospital at Uklah, apparently a hope
losjJ maniac, remains, and the surgeons
in charge of the case are confident
that a permanent cure has been ef
fected.
Vrilcox first Fhowed signs of mental
trouble about three years ago while
he was a student at the University of
California. It was at that time be
lieved that his mind had been affected
by ovrrstudy. His father Induced him
to temporarily give up his studies, and
after a brief rest he re-enter«d college
and was graduated with honor. His
condition, however, became \u25a0worse in
stead of better after his graduation,
until finally his once brilliant mind
gave way entirely.
The first of the attacks of violent
insanity which at last resulted in his
commitment to a State hospital came
a year ago, and afterward occurred
with increasing frequency, until it was
determined by Dr. Wilcox that for his
own safety and the safety, of others
he must be placed under restraint.
Then came the determination of the
father to attempt by an operation to
remove the cause of the troubles
ALL FARMERS CAN
MAKE ALCOHOL
Law on ttfe New Denatured
Product Allows Ranchers
to Operate a Distillery
vJrufr Avenue Commissioner
Is to C answerln e an Inquiry recently
£lc«\ ni iu many pallons ot denatured
fn th» , V\ a PP ro * Jr^tely be needed
in the Industries for 1907. says
«n"i Ia T lnS absolutel >' nothing' to base
an estimate upon, it is not possible for
tae to make an estimate as to the quan
tity of denatured alcohol that will be
consumed In that way. K 6 formal ap
p"cations have as yet been made by
distilleries for approval of denaturing
bonded warehouses. Such applications
could not be filed for the reason that
proper blanks have not as yet been
placed In the hands of collectors. At
present there are forty distilleries Tn
the Lnited States manufacturing what
might be termed commercial alcohol "
In reply to a criticism of the law on
the ground that regular distilleries only
can engage in the manufacture of de
natured alcohol, enabling the whisky
trust to secure practically a monopoly
Terkes said:
'This office knows of no process by
which alcohol can be manufactured ex
cept by distillation, and as regular dis
tilleries are the only kind recognized by
the law, alcohol manufactured under
the supervision of this department must
be manufactured at regular distilleries
There are absolutely no limitations as
to the size of a distillery that can be
operated under the law. There are over
1000 distilleries In operation now, at
each of which the daily spirit producing
capacity is less than 30 gallons. Many
of these were set-up on an outlay of
less than $200. So far as the Internal
revenue laws are concerned, either In
theory or In practice, the smallest and
crudest distillery can produce alcohol,
if as a business proposition it is deemed
advisable to do so. The small distiller
ies have always been treated by this
department with the same consideration
as the larger ones.
"If a farmer or other person desires
to go into the business of manufactur
ing denatured alcohol, at a plant how
ever small, he wiU.be required to con
struct his. plant y in the manner pre
scribed by the general laws and regu
lations. He will be required to give a
bond, the effect of which is to prevent
him from defrauding the Government
of the tax og any distilled spirits pro
duced by him. He will be required to
establish a distillery warehouse; to de
posit the ppirlts produced by him In this
warehouse; to establish a denaturing
bonded warehouse, and to tax pay or
denature, ju.n as he may wish, the alco
hol produced by him. All of this will
be done under governmental supervi
sion, but the Government pays for this
supervision. The manufacturer of al
cohol does not bear one cent of It.
There is no objection to a tanner manu
facturing his alcohol in 'his back yard'
provided he wants to establish a dis
tillery there. If you will take - the
trouble to Investigate you will find. In
my opinipn, that the laws and regula
tions relating to the manufacture of al
cohol in Germany do not differ to any
great extent from the laws and regula
tions in this country."
MCIMMED MILK IV TOE ARTS
Billiard balls, boxes for handker
chiefs, ink wells, combs, etc,., are now
made from skimmed milk. Milk stone,
or "galalith." as it is called, is a com
bination of skimmed milk and forma
line and is made by a simple process.
The equipment of the manufactory
consists of a huge tank Into which the
milk is pumped, and connected with
this by. means of an inclined trough
is another tank with a wide, square
opening. Over this opening are placed,
one about two inches above another,
three wire sieves, varying in fineness,
the lowest one. being of : very close
mesh.
From a huge vat Into which certain
chemicals have been poured the milk
is pumped through ehort pipes Into the
first tank mentioned, .where it. is
thrashed about by a glass paddle for
fifteen minutes. The bunghole of the
tank is then opened and what was once
milk is for^d out . by air pressure in
the form of a yellowish brown powder.
This !s called chemically treated
"casein," and it Is sent down the in
clined trough through the three sievos
to the second tank, where it Is Anlxed
with the formaline and poured out on
marble slabs -to dry. The formaline
solidifies the powdered, casein "and
forms it into hornlike fiubstance.'whlch
has been Given the name of "galalith."
Galalith' can again" be mixed with
other -substances and worked over into
a material which forms a substitute for
bone, ivory, celluloid, marble, hard rub
ber and even amber,
vln Austria something like 100,000
quarts of skimmed milk are used daily
for the purpose of making galalith. Its
great strength allows it to be -used In
place of stone or marble.— Technical
World,
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; , SUNDAY, :;-M^'GH- : /17; r yl9(7r:''
CALIFORNIA'S SENIORS
VICTORIOUS IN REGATTA
Defeat Sophomores in Final
of Interclass Rowing
Contests
ALAMEDA, March 16. — In a continu
ous downpour of rain the four-oared
barge interclass races of the University
of California were rowea this after
noon on the tidal canal over a three
quarter mile course between the Park
street and the High-street drawbridges.
There were three races, the first be
tween the freshmen and sophomores,
the second between the Juniors and
the seniors and the third and final
race between the sophomores and the
seniors, the winners in the previous
events. The last contest was an ex
citing one and the seniors had to do
their level best to cross the line three
quarters of a length ahead of the
sturdy., sophomores. The time in this
race was four minutes and forty sec
onds.
In the opening race, between, the
sophomores and the freshmen, the lat
ter had a bad attack of ra tiles and
were easily beaten by four lengths.
No time was taken in this race.
In the contest between the juniors
and the seniors the veterans crossed
the line four lengths ahead of their,
opponents and did" not have to stretch
themselves to win. /After crossing the
finish line in this race Ashley, who
was pulling No. 3 for the Juniors, col
lapsed and pitched forward in his seat
He had to be assisted out of the boat
and to the dressing-room by <hls mates.
Ashley had been slightly indisposed for
some time, but pluckily entered the
race for the honor of his class.
Coach E. M. Garnett was well pleased
with the showing made by his charges,
especially the seniors. /The crews were
made up as follows:
Senlnm— Hubbard. coxswain; Erans, McKllli
can, Williams and Bush.
Juniors — Baxter, coxswain; Tuller, Ball, Ash
ley and Stowe.
Sopbomorrs — Mryor*. roxfjfain; Witter, Stem,
XortUcroft and Richardson.
• Frertimen — SteHe. coxswain; Sperrr, Shrocder,
ItobinsoW and Ashler.
Official*: Coach E. M. Garoett. atari er; T.vs
snwt-kl. clerk of course; A. L. Salisbury, judge
at finish; A. O. Jodi-r. timer.
GERMAN RETAILERS
GIVE PREMIUMS
Organize and Adopt Plan to
Encourage Payment of
Cash by Customers
The popular belief that one must
higgle with the European retail mer
chant or be cheated in the article
bought does not hold true with regard
to many of the German markets at the
present time.
Instead . one finds plainly marked
prices, and inducements for the pay
ment of cash are made even. A plan
adopted in Glauchau has been found
successful not only in encouraging
cash payments and thus avoiding, bad
debts, ljut it has led to a greater
amount of business being done, due to
confidence on the part of the customer
that he is not being cheated. The
main points of the system are as fol
lows:
There Is a voluntary union" of mer
chants organized and having corporate
powers. Each member must be a store
keeper, and an initiation fee of* 50
marks (Mark 23.8 cents) is charged
on Joining. Tlfe price of goods must
be marked plainly, and the customer
paying cash at the time of purchase
Is entitled to "rebate stamps" showing
the amount bought. When stamps
showing .purchases to the amount of
110 marks have been accumulated by
a purchaser he presents them, pasted
In a book fornl&hed for the purpose
and 6howlng his name, for, redemption
and receives therefor 5 marks, this be
ing a little more than 4ȣ per. cent of
purchase price of goods.
The distinctive* German feature of
this plan is that the funds of the union
and the redemption of the stamp* books
are j ln 'the: hands-, of the city' savings
bank, which .' guarantees the payment
of all obligations. This it is enabled
to , do from the fact that stamps used
by the merchants are paid* for. In ad
vance to the bank. Thus there Is mon
ey on hand to redeem every stamp out-*
standing. Furthermore,'~to cover,* ex
penses, the merchant pays more for
the stamps than is refunded to the pur
chaser of goods.; The city council has
had the city savings bank undertake
the financial responsibility, of the plan
because, of tho evident" commercial -ad
vantego to .the city, r the; only .reim
bursement for^the "services' of- the bank
being the use: it has of- the union's
funds* .. . ' >-.-...
As'vusually. happens, there is a sur
plus remaining at ; the i end of the ; year
from initiation fes and : excess paid: by
merchants . for stamps. Ynis surplus >Is
distributed as prizes in amounts* of 5
marks each to the' persons whose
names appear on the, redeemed: books
first drawn at -random from the" files
of tho current year. It Is believed that
this surplus ;this s 'year will amount to
over' 6oo marks.
The : Whltak*r Sc Kay 00... booksellers. ''. at 141
Grore st. (at Van Ke*s). Wholesale and retail. •
"I AM TOO NERVOUS
TO LIVE ANY LONGER"
Message Left by a Wealthy
Tennessee Mart Wh°
Killed Himself
SUICIDE IN BASEMENT
John W. Hart, Formerly a
V Shoe Dealer, Ends Life
With a Bullet *
OAKLAND, March 16.— With a bullet
wound between his eyes and a'revolver^
lying between his feet the body of John
TV. Hart, 5 S years of age, formerly a,
prominent shoe dealer in' Tennessee,
was found this morning In the base
ment of the Lincoln School, where he
had committed suicide some, time last
night. It was at first believed that the
case was one of murder and robbery,' as
neither money nor.valuables were found
on the body, but the discovery. later of
a note from the dead, man to his son.
with whom he lived at the home of
Mrs. M. Graves, at 162 Eighth street,
disposed of this theory and amoved that
Hart had taken his own life.
.. The body was .discovered early this
morning by George H. Momeny, a struc
tural Iron worker, who lives at 2053
Market street. Momeny is employed
In the construction of the new Lincoln
School building, and was the first to
enter the basement of the structure
this morning. As he entered the base
ment he saw the body stretched on. the
ground, a glance showing that the man
was dead.
At the morgue the body was Identi
fied by WJnslow Hart, a son of the
dead man, who Is a clerk In the'Call
fornia Bank. The latter at first de
clared that his father had been mur
dered, as a considerable sum of money,
and a iv-atch which Hart always car
ried were missing from the body.
Investigation by the police, however,
proved that the deceased had left hia
watch and all his money in his trunk.
When his room was searched the "fol
lowing note, addressed to his son, was
found:
M.r Dear Son: My watch and money are In
the trunk, and the key Is In this letter.' I am
too ner*out to live any longer. Ooodby. Your
lorlng father, JOHN W. HART.
Besides his san, Hart left a wife, who
is now In Tennessee. Hart had recent
ly sold out his business in the South
ern State and for a time after coming
to the Pacific Coast lived In Los "An
geles, where he left property valued
at $50,000. The only reason advanced
by the son for the suicide of his father
was despondency caused by worry over
financial matters.
WIRE TAPPED AND CITY
LOSES PAY FOR LIGHT
ALAMEDA, March 16. — Superinten
dent Joseph B. Kahn of the municipal
electric light department has discov
ered that the wire, supplying lighting
current- to' seventy-flye f incandescent
lamps / in ' the houses ' of • the Bay Shore
Athletic Club at the south end" of
Ninth street, were tapped, before : the
current entered the meter and that .as
a consequence the municipality has
been defrauded out of payment for the
current not registered. How long this
condition of affairs has existed is un
known, as is also tho identity of the
person or persons who tapped the wire.
• When Kahn discovered that the city
was being beaten out of the full value
of the current supplied to the Bay
Shore Club's house he immediately, or-,
dewd the service, discontinued, and it
Is .probable that an investigation will
be marfe.' j One of the members I of -the
Bay Shore Club said today that he had
no knowledge that the city's electric
wire had been tapped and volunteered
the statement that he believed "the
club would, make good whatever it
owed the: city. X
JAPAN'S IMPORTATION OF • .
PHOSPHATES INCREASES
Market in Island Empire for Fertiliz
ers of Required Standard' Is
v> Gobd> and -Getting Better
Regarding the Importation by Japan
of phosphates in .1905. Vice Consul
General" E. G. Babbitt of Yokohama
says: . - ' .
"Of ( phosphorites the total Imports
were 195,293,000 .pounds, valued .at
$1,218,415; : other manure
45,391.557 'pounds, valued at $340,878.
The United States furnished of the
phosphorites $107,511 worth; Mexico,
$52,500 : .and : the United Kingdom,
$23,665 worth; of other phosphatic ma
nure Germany supplied $82,815, and the
United Kingdom 4 $170,947. Whether
the rock is . bought f . • 0. , b. In foreign
markets or on : the dock .In Japanese
ports is a matter to be arranged be
tween buyer y and , seller, . and It - has
been . found convenient |to send .vessels
from Japan to secure. return cargoes of
fertilizers. rV' , ;_;.
Japan affords an; excellent market
for phosphate rock,. and there is likely
to be a steady, increase in the demand.
For fertilizing; purposes ( there are also
imported large quantities of bean cake,
animal bone -and , fish , manure.. The
Government employs 'experts to. exam
ine all imports of fertilizers and mate^,
rials used In their •> manufacture, 'aricf
Buch that are, not of. the required stan
dard are rejected, sale at any price \ be
ing prohibited.- The Japanese manu
facture more than sufficient sulphuric
acid for their own use, in 1 905 : export-
Ing to the value of $103,229."
LITTLE NEED; FOR HEATING
STOVES"IN; BALMY CORUNNA
'\u25a0'. In. Dally Consular. and Trade ' Reports
for - October 5 ;, there . appeared ; a para
graph, furnished ;hy Consul 'Albert Hal."
Btead of t ßirmingham,. England," iwhlch*
quoted the' British : Consuls at Corunna,'
Spain, .as : stating* that i heating, appara
tus \u25a0 for ; houses," J such vas .Voil 'or \u25a0'\u25a0 gas
stoves, might ' be -. successfully intro
duced , in that : city, ' as houses there' are
generally'bullt, without: chimneys, and
the- people r suffer* occasionally "during
the . autumn f and \u25a0•_ winter i months ' ; from
cold; 'In;- relation"; to this v statement
Consul i General Benjamin^ H.\ Brldgely
of/ Barcelona; reports- that," the -Amerif
can: consular; agent f at Corunna* writes
as", follows: • :
\u25a0• V'Tho /climate of " this town ;- ,ils very
mild.* It % Is' necessary ito speak .of t a
period* of twentyffour "years -back -to
remember "-that- the* people |of - Corunna
saw < snow/- f ! The ':\u25a0* thermometer rarely,
If ever * falls ; aa -low.; as > thlrty-twojde
grees'.-Fahrenheit,'^ so as a ? matter, .of
f act* there I Is ', no .' reason to ' declare , that
the "small, trade in; oil*; arid' gas -stoves
is '.an \u25a0increasing trade; jit' Is; atjpres
ent-lof T very/ smallTT' importance,.; v and
probably" could hot be developed to
any extent.'4£>?
SPITE FENCE IS RESULT
OF NEIGHBORS' QUARREL
Mrs/ W. Madsen Erects One
Along J Lot Owned by
"W. A. Watkins
, OAKLAND. ... . March .«' 16.— A . green
"spite" fence, ten feet high, that shuts
off the light on ' one side of the dwell
ing occupied by) Mrs. W. Harbinger Is
an object of comment, curiosity and
gossip in the "neighborhod of. Market
and Eighteenth streets. The structure
was erected*' by Mrs. W. Madsen, who
lives- at. 1314 Market street, next door
to the Harbingers. 1 Also Involved Is
H. A. Watklns . and a portable cottage
in which dwell' the Harbingers. '
Mrs. . Madsen ,'does not admire the
cottage. She also objected to a.', Japan
ese boy who washed the Windows . and
stood on. her lawn whenhe performed
the task. She, built the fence on her
own land, and there 'It wi11 ... stay un
less some law can- be found ; by -which
to force it down. Watklns Is aggrieved.
He owns the cottage lot and is a near
neighbor to the Madsens. Said he:
"Madsen and I have been good
friends for twenty-five .years. Too
bad this; spite .over a small thing
should " cause so much trouble. The
fence doesn't harm me," for the cottage
Is leased for , two years. \u25a0 The Madsens
uprooted a beautiful palm to build the
ugly fence. Neighbors' difficulties, are
sometimes carried too far." . .
Now threats are made to '-petition the
Board of Public Works to remove the
unsightly fence. .
The Weather Bureau of the Depart
ment of Agriculture Issues an Icono
clastic bulletin in which It states that
long-range forecasts as based
on the position of the planets, phases
of the- moon, stellar influences, or by
the observations of animals, birds and
plants, have no legitimate basis. This
all means that the traditional ground-,
hog, goose bone, changes of the -moon
and : other time-honored weather indi
cations as a matter of fact have noth
ing to do with the weather, and there
fore must be eliminated. from the cal
culations of the farmer who wants to
be up to date.- — Farming.
SPITZER & HARRIS, 130-132-134 W. 7th St., New York
Where Every Woman
Who Wants to Buy » /iXNJtos^^
Ought to Shop . MES . .,.
v \u25a0 . Mail Orders Filled Same Day Received
SAN FRANCISCO - NEW YORK
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1624-28 Fillmbre Street, Near Geary
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KEY ROUTE PLANS DEPOT
AT NORTH BERKELEY SITE
Track Will Pass Within 200
Feet of the Proposed
Capital Location
". BERKELEY, March 16. — Purchases
of land at the stone culvert which
crosses Cordonlces Creek at the
'point where Hopkins and Grove streets
meet by persons acting for the Key
Route Company have been followed by
the report that the Key" Route depot
in North Berkeley will be established
at that point.' The route along Wal
nut street" has apparently been aban
doned ' and the Sacramento-street line
chosen as the means': of access to the
northern part of town.
/ The new Sacramento-street line will
cut off from Fortieth street In Oak
land at California street and will come
up California to a point near Univer
sity, avenue, where the line will swing
over to Sacramento street. The exact
point at which the swing will be made
Is not known, &ut the corporation is
said' to have ' acquired all the land
necessary to make the connection. At
Francesca street the survey stakes
leave Sacramento street and go across
the Mlramonte tract in a northeasterly
direction toward the at Hop
kins and Grove streets. The line Is to
pass within 200" fert.- of the proposed
State Capitol, site/ and will not run
north through, :Pj|ralta: Park, "as .was
originally planned."
CANADIAX RAILROAD ACTIVITY
According to a" report by Consul E.
N. Gunsaulus of Rlmouski, British
North America had only fifty-five miles
.of railroad In 1850, and In 1906 not less
than 22,000 miles, with construction
proceeding at so rapid a rate as to
warrant the. belief- that Canada Is soon
to be covered with a complete network
of railroads In all its parts. Last year
fully |52Jii>0,000 was expended in new
roads, or in adding to old ones, or ap
propriated for roads to be built. Prac
tically every line in tne country. Is
adding, to Its mileage and to its gen
eral; equipment, particularly rolling
stock. ", '
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SWITCHMEN 'S UNION NOT
OPPOSED TO S. P. RULES
Official Corrects a Report
Relative to Physical
Examinations
OAKLAND, March 16. — W. H. Barr.
master of Switchmen's Union No. 15S,
offered explanations today as to his at
titude on the matter of physical ex
aminations of employes of the South
ern Padflc Company, *±c said: "The
-Impression that I said our union was
not opposed to the examination is er
roneous.' 1 I could not make such a
statement, for the subject has not been
brought before the union, and I am
no.t authorized by the members to give
such an opinion. So far as the gen
eral situation as between the trainmen
and the Switchmen's Union Is con
cerned I desire that the public should
distinctly understand that tha organi
zations are separate In every sense of
the word. The switchmen's unions
are entirely independent of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen and hmve
no organized interest in the strike vote
now being taken by the trainmen.
"The Switchmen's Union of North
America at the Chicago conference last
November was granted four cents an
hour Increase in wages on all roads
west of Chicago. The trainmen tried
_io get a two-cent Increase west of
Denver, but failed and that was th»
reason for the strike vote."
The English cities enjoy less horn*
rule than do the cities ,of America.
They have to go to Parliament for
every little thing. And Parliament is
very cautious in the things It permit*
the city to do. This is particularly
true. of London. For the things the
County Council wants to do hurt the
big Interests in control of Parliament.
Almost all of the 121 square miles upon
which the city Is built Is owned by the
dukes of Westminster, of Bedford, of
Portland and a few other parliament
ary landlords. They will not sell their
lands, but let them out on lease. And
the tenant has to make the repairs.
maintain the property -and pay an the
taxes, too. — November Scribner.
DR. TOM WAI TONG
tBl3 Glay St.
OAKLAND
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