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NEWS OF OAKLAND, BERKELEY, ALAMED A, HAY WARD AND SAN LEANDRO
GIRL TRIES RUSE
TO HIDE MARRIAGE
Ruby Johnson Gets License at
San Rafael Five Months
After Wedding
ALAMEDA, Jan. 31. — A belated an
r.c.unw-n.ent of the marriage of Miss
KuLy Boll ' Johnson of this city and
Ernest William Wright of San Fran
< ;fco was made tonight by the par
ents of the bride, as a result of the
discovery of a marriage license takfn
out in Pan Rafael Saturday to hide
«hat the father of Miss Johnson now
declares -was a runaway "week end
"pdiiinpr" in Santa Cruz in August.
Miss Johnson is the attractive daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Johnson
.•f 102:; Morton street, her father be-
T.g the superintendent of the Prudent
iial Insurance Company of America,
v.-ith offices at 1T.4 Sutter street, San
Francisco. Wright is a young Denver
jiiin, now residing in San Francisco
.^iid connected with the shipping: de
inann company.
MCKNSE ISSUED
News of the wedding first became
public with the issuance of a marriage
license to the young couple Saturday
at Pan Rafael, when both gave their
residence as Alameda, and Miss John
.^-oh declared that she was 20 years
«^:<i. From this came the announcement
-. anight that the wedding really had
taken place in Santa Cruz August 21
of last year.
When first askM about the San Ra
ia*l license today Mr*. Johnson de
« "find that her daughter had not been
;..arri«-<i. the young lady herself referred
qaestloners to her father and Johnson
,-^id that he had no details to give out.
In addition to this no members of the
family would say who Wright was and
none of Miss Johnson's friends could
be found who knew him.
Tonight, however, Johnson reconsid
rred his decision to make no statement
and told of the Santa Cruz wedding, in
timating that the marriage license had
Veen tJiken oi:t Saturday in San Ra
fael in order to hide the runaway wed
rilng in Santa Cruz. For over a year,
lie said, the family had been aware of
the attachment between the young
. oiiple. but had no idea they had seen
lit to take matters into their own hands
ntil Saturday, when, the date for her
wedding coming up Tor
liecaeeion Miss Bell announced to her
parents that sh* already had been Mrs.
Wrigtit for several n~.cnths.
WEEK i:\n \VKDDIKG
•"The wedding itself was something
-.1 an impromptu affair — a w«»ek «*nd
wr.^dinsr," s*id oJhnson la.<t night. "My
daughter and young WHght were In
Santa Cruz At the lime and expected to
meet a relative <.'f the family who was
dv«» th<»r«> on her honeymoon^ she did
not arrive, and on the spur of tho mo
rn*>nt. with nothing better to do, they
.jpi.ided to pot married.
"Thorp was no objection to the match
on either side, btu their courage oozed
oot and it was only thp other day that
my daughter summoned back enough
to tell me of the hasty wedding. My
wife was naturally a little disappointed,
bavins discussed plans for a wedding
later; but Wright is a thoroughly nice
boy and w* are more than pleased with
the match."
The bride is a pretty, vlvieious bru
nette, woh received her education prin
cipally in eastern schools. Thft family
. ame here two years ago fiom Balti
more .at which time Johnson opened up
in San Francisco a branch of the Pru
dential life Insurance company.
LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
SAILED
Monday. January 31.
Sirnr Netrbcrz. Xorbrg. «1r»j« Harbor.
MISCELLANEOUS ' *r
SEATTLE. Jan 31 — V S ettur Snohomish re
port* srhr So*!*: M Fluniiaer. jire.Tlnu»ly reported
•rreefced. drifted into San Jose bay Thursday
Qlfrnt. Jar 27, where ste- will ground sDd no
I'jiiger be a menafA to nurUrstion.
DOMESTIC PORTS
I'ODT TOWNSENU—Passed in Jan 31—Stmr
J'.*>«\ benre Jan 27.
Arrived Jan 31 —Schr W F Garms. from Saata
K"-.«alia.
TACiiMA—Sailed Jau ."1— Stmr Queen, for
Semitic; bktn Everett G. Grigus fv>r Eagle har
bor: s"hr Zispora. fishing.
NEWABD —Arri»ed Jan 31— Stmr Bertha, from
KETCHIKAN—AtTired Jan 31—Stmr Sintt
Ana. from Junes n.
WINSUJW—ArrJreiI JaD 21— Bktn Everett G
• iriirjr*. frritn Ta<-onia.
ASTORlA—Arrived Jan 31 —Stmr Mackinaw,
heß«-e. Jaa :X»: Fr bars Bofsuet, from Antwerp;
t-itnr Kansa« City, beacc'Jan 2fi; *ohr Virjinla,
Jipnre I»cc 3L
ISLAND PORTS
HONOLULU—SaiIed Jau 31—Stmr SJteria. for
Yokohama.
Arrived Jan 31 —U S ftmr» Tennessee. Waf:h- ',
lD£tae. Colorado, s^niih Dakota. West Virginia.
Marj-lan4, Pecn^vlrania, California, from Yoko- ,
i ftr.x. -•
FOB BIG X PORT?:
VICTORIA. B ("—Arrived Jan Sl—Stmr Citr
«.f Poetola, I^n^e Jan 29.
ASTOEIA. Ja.n. 31. —Stf-amer Mackinavr ar- '•
livfd tMny from Sen fYimcinco to load lumber
for return.
steamer K»n«»s <Mtr arrived today from San
I'raneiifo with fr^ifht and parsencers and left
tin the river for Portland to discharge.
Oil tack'-r ARurx-ion arrived today from S«n
I'rancixcu with « tartro of fuel oil snd lrft up
th# river f^ir Llnntoa to dlsrnarpe.
French b*rk BowuH, with a rarjM of efnient
from Antwerp, arrived todnjr and is und*r ebar
i(T to Irjad jrrain for Euop*.
Steatcer ?ve«. vrith a carpo or lumber for San
J>dro. sail'-d today.
SfKiD nhoontr Voscmite. with a <~argo of
lambex for Ran Pedr<». went to nea today. -
Sstcam«;r Casco. w itb a <*«rgo of lumber for,
Francisco. *?-nt to sfa today.
British trmi «iulf Stream, with a ear?** of
3'iinbT for <"»T»e. Town, South Africa, h«« arrived
<ji,trn th»- river and will fo to »ea at tbe first
ojifiortucitr. ;
Steamer J. Marboffer is dn«» to arrive from San
rranejttoc eitb*T tbif even'.Bg or on Tuesday
ramming.
Tb efoor masted scbooner Vira-ini* was towed
irifide tills afternoon after bavins been o!I tbe |
mf.uth of tbe rire rfor the last 18 days from
San Fta.nci*eo. Captain Knudsen bae not come
s-;,,;i-. liut it ib known that all on board are
\u25a0well and tnat it received no damage during its
ril>erienee«i outride.
Steamer Ca«'-o clearM at the custom house, to
day for San Fran<-if*o with n cargo of 525.ft00
frpt of lumber loaded at St. Helena.
The Fteamer Vowtnlte rl«-ar««d Sunday for San
I'M'.ro with a <-argo of Wlo.rjOO feet of lumber i
loaded at St. Helms. T2.000 feet loaded' at <"»ak I
Point, I.oo* piling loaded «t lUlnler and 2,726:
;!'\u25a0•» loaded *\ <;üble.
WbiU» erosi-ing out over a very roajrn bar
Saturday tlie tug Tat»o*h was *\»ept bj- a huge
o«itrii.*.r that Ftnashed In the starboard doors of
th edookejr engine room, flooded that compart
ment und sprung tbe side of tlie bouse for a
flitKMD'-e «f about 2»» feet. Repairs are now >>e
ing m.-ifJe and the tug vrill bo ready for service
j;?ain t'>day.
The sdKxmcr Oliver J. Olson, wbicb arrived a
fow d«y tmgo from Callao. hr.s been ordered to
jirocee'l' to Taeoma to load lumber f«r San Fr*n
rlaoo. Site will sail as soon as she secure* a
rrew and the weafber conditions will permit.
Suburban Brevities
HIKBICHS GOING ABROAD— jU»m«^a, Jan. 31.
August Hlrirtehft of this dry, leader cf the
orchestra q! 1> Liberty theater. Oakland,
iviii loa*«» this month lor a trip abroad. He
*kj*>«"U t<i be absent Iron California ''for
wvi-n months.
f LOT MACHINES HAULED AW AT— Richmond,
J«n. ."I.— Ther«- ha* beau a big exodus of *lot
machines from this place Kinr* the lid was put
on Satordar nipiit. Wagon load* of the taa
«hioes headed for unknown destinations baTe
I'ft llfTO to'lny.
UNITARIAN CLUB MEEJING— AJammia. Jan.
31, Prof. !>•* Eihtcoo Baswtt .of Stanford
iintTPrsitr "ill Jwtnre '.n "Hamlet" at in*
mff-Uny «f »lio I,'nitarUn club Wednesday
•\u25a0Triiii,-. ' Th'i-*< will Ie <wn*t solo* br Itor
AU^b and lia<> solus by Wilfred Glenn.
In a series of telephonic experiments
a German R-ientift lias made rhajrnets.
alternating <urr«-nt transformers.' and
oven dynamos talk without the use of
vibratins plates "or membranes.
BOARD NOW FAVORS
HARBOR DREDGING
Army Engineers Withdraw Ad*
verse Report and Recom*
mend Appropriations
OAKLAND. Jan. 31.— Virtually ''as
sured of the forthcoming appropriation
by congress of money for the dredging
of Oakland harbor, the ciy administra
tion is prepared to push the bond issue
improvements to completion as soon as
the work can be undertaken. There
was no hitch here save in the law's
delays, but at Washington, D. C the
river and harbor board of army engi
neers had declared against the recom
mendation made by Lieutenant Colonel
John Biddle, the district engineer.
Today Mayor Frank K. Mott received
from Congressman J. R. Knowland a
telegram announcing that the board of
engineers hud reversed their previous
action and had indorsed Colonel Bid
dies recommendations.
APPROPRIATION IS EXPECTED
"I believe that the appropriations we
need will surely be given to us," said
the mayor.
"Tnis board recommends tliat the
work outlined by Colonel Biddle be
carried out, and the chief engineer. 1
believe, will sanction the recommen
dation. Then the matter must go
before the rivers and harbors com
mittee in congress, but the board's at
titude will go far to overcoming any
opposition in the committee. Let us
get the committee recommendation and
our troubles in this matter will be
nearly at end. as house •will not
reverse the committee action.
"Of course, we may not get quite as
much as we seek, but I rather think
that our desired appropriations will not
be cut much. If they are trimmed it
will probably be because the committee
makes a horizontal decrease In all the
harbor work recommendations."
TELEGRAM TO MOTT
The telegrajn from Knowland appris
ing the mayor of the sanguine action
by the engineers follows:
I am pleased to report that the
river and harbor board of en
gineers, as a result of the hearing
last Monday, has Reversed its ac
tion and indorsed the recommen
dation of Colonel Biddle for the
improvement of Oakland harbor.
Such action is rather unusual and
can be regarded as a great victory.
The report must be approved by the
chief of engineers, but I think there
is little doubt that his approval
will be given. The fight will now
be taken up with the rivers and
harbors committee of congress.
Will wire particulars later. . - v
J. R. KNOWLAND.
Colonel Kiddie's recommendations call
for the expenditure in the future by
the federal government of about $2,500.
000 In dredging Oakland harbor. The
special recommendation is that $(500,000
be appropriated at once for the dredg
ing of a 30 foot channel, 500 feet wide,
from the bay through tlie estuary to
the drawbridges. This is to facilitate
the bond issue work by the city. The
approach to the estuary, which now is
curved northvard, will "be made
straight out Into the bay.
The items of the work to be under
taken by the war department later 1 are
the 30 foot channel to f'he tidal basin,
the dredging of a channel 25 feet deep
and .100 feet wide around the channel
and the deepening of the tidal canal to
18 feet.
REMARKABLE ACROSTIC
OF REVOLUTIONARY DAYS
Odd Composition Can Be Read
in Different Ways
(The following verse was originally
published In a Philadelphia newspaper
in 1776, and therefore is IS4 years old.
As reproduced, it was clipped from the
Washington Star in February, 1588):
I send a unique composition, which
was originally published in a Phila
delphia paper over 100 years ago. It
may be read three different ways. First
let the whole be read in the order in
which it is written; second, read the
line downward on the left of each com
ma in every line; third, in like manner
on the right of; each comma. In the
first reading the revolutionary cause is
condemned, and, by the others, en
couraged and lauded.
Hark! Hark! The trumpet sounds, the
din of war's alarms;
O'er seas and solid grounds, doth call
us all to arms,
Who for King George do stand, their
honors soon shall shine;
Their ruin is at hand, who with the
congress join; ,:J:V
The arts of parliament, in them I much
delight,
I hate their cursed intent, who for the
congress fight:
The lories of the day, they are my dally
toast:
They soon will sneaft away, who inde
pendence boast; \u25a0
Who nonreslstance hold, they have my
hand and heart, ;
May they for slaves be sold, who act a
whiggish part:
On Mansfield, North and Bute-, may daily
blessings pour;
Confusion and dispute, on .congress
evermore;
To North and British lords, may honors
still be done; .
I wish a block of cord, to General
Washington.
TWELVE iMILLION PHONES
USED IN THIS COUNTRY
Averages One Instrument for
Every Two Houses
It Is reported that them are now in
this country 12,000,000 telephones, or
one for ev«ry two houses in the coun
try, Recording to the Philadelphia In
quirer. This does not mean that one
half of the residences in the country
contain an ; instrument, since many
business houses have a large number,
but the figures are instructive and il
luminating. Practically everybody who
is anybody in the cities or towns and
villages has a telephone, while those in
the country districts are legion. The
astonishing fact is that each of these
phones is used on an average of six
times a day. The total number of
calls in a year runs up in*o the billions
and is not appreciable by the human
mind.
This is the more remarkable when
we consider that 40 years age, ther*
was no such thing as a telephone, and
even 20 years ago the, instrument was
not common outside of business houses.
Now they have become one of the ne
cessities'of life. We use the telephone
not only in business, but for social pur
poses, for shopping and marketing and
for almost every purnose where: we
used, to use the mail! or do without.
If by any catastrophe the telephones of
the country should: be silenced; forever
It would amount to a calamity^of . the
first magnitude. .We have adjusted our
liveß-to the'telephone and could not;do
without it "unless we made new and un
desirable arrangements.
CRUISEE HAULED OFF HEEFS— Tangier. 3»'n.
31. — Tb<» Trench cruiser Obatrurenmilt. ivhlfb
ran aground 2i) mile* Boiitlrwrnt of ('ape SpartPl
\u25a0 vpstcrday, wn hauled off the reals tfcj* morn-
THE SAN' FRANCISCO CALL. TUESDAY.: FEBRUARY 1. 1910,
OAKLAND SOCIETY
AWAITS KIRMESS
Friendly Rivalry Between Va=
rious Groups and Voting Con*
test Will Decide Winner
i /
OAKLAND. Jan. 31. — Only two days
more before the kirmess, the- beautiful
festival of dancing which is planned to
coax from the public the big fund
necessary for the building and equip
ment of a clinic by the Anti-Tubercu
losis society of Alameda county, will
open In Piedmont^pavilion. By Wednes
day evening the last red bell and
fragrant garland will bo hung and the
several hundred young people who have
been rehearsing for the last month will
be ready to do their part. There, is a
friendly rivalry between the
and all are working to win tlie voting
contest which will decide to whom the
laurels belong. Box parties and sup
pers will add to the general festivity
of the prelenten charity event:
Tete a tete tables set amid a profu
sion of palms will make the kirmess
cafe a favorite gathering place, where
Mrs. Granville Abbott and. a score of
society folk will receive during the
intermissions of the program. Assist
ing Mrs. Abbott will be the, following:
Mrs. J. P. 11. Dunn MUs Floreuce P«rdee
Mr*. Harry Thomas Miss Carol I'ardce
Mrs. Oecar F. Long Miss Florence Woods
Mr*. S. E. Woods Miss Goodwin
Mrs. John T. Wlieeler Mis* Ix>rctta Wliire
Mrs. A. I>. Thomsoa Miss Edna Khlncliart
Mro. J. Helen Glenn Miss Marparet Bassett
Miss Carmellta Glenn Miss Helen Baseett
Miss Helen Rbinchart
The. handsome souvenir programs
will be offered for sale by the mem
bers of Oakland hall. Mrs. Leon Hall
naming among her lieutenants the fol
lowing:
Mrs. John Mole Miss Irene Merchant
Mrs. James Ellison Miss I.eonA Merchant
Mrs. W. U. Flint Miss Kdna Campbell
Mn*. Edward Hoffman Orrllle CaWwell
Mrs. K. A. Meritnire Joseph En^enberger
Mrs. C. K. Loudcrbmck Paul
A coterie of young matrons and
maids will offer a diversion to those
in attendance by • the photographs
which will be made while you wait. At
this concession will be:
Mrs. William A. .SchroyViMlss Ruth Hall
Mrs. I^slie Rice Miss Etta Sclm-ck
Mi»s Eliza Baura Mis* Lily Brellinj:
Miss Margaret Itaum Miss Hatel Laymauce;
Miss Grace Laymance
The\flower booth. und*>r the direction
of Mrs. Willard Williamson, will offer
a temptation with its beautiful blos
soms and artistic arrangements. The
following will receive with Mrs. Wil
liamson:
Miss Clarissa Lohse Miss Trances Williata-
Mlss Carmen Snttott son
Ml«« Erelyn A<lams Miss Clara Franrt
Ml*s Ann Enpelhardt Miss Mary Engelhardt
The center of fun will be the unique
booth for which the members of the
Elks lodge have made all of the ar
rangements, refusing to make known
their secret until Wednesday nigtit.
Miss Ethlyn Reavley Ramsey, the 12
year old violinist, who is to play solos
at both of the matinees, is one of the
most talented musicians of her age in j
the west. She has mastered the com- 1
positions of many of the classic com
posers and was sufficiently skilled on
the Instrument to give public concerts
at the early age of -8.
MONEY IS WANTED TO
SAVE OLD LANDMARKS
Lovers of Dickens May Buy Old
Curiosity Shop
Dickens* "Old Curiosity Shop" is the
latest of the sentimental landmarks of
London to be menaced by the devastat
ing hand of progress. Unless a fund
of $10,000 is raised it is doomed to de
struction, says the New York World.
Halt of the amount has been pledged,
and *kn appeal is now made to Ameri
cans, "who yield to none in their vener
ation for the greatest humanist of the
nineteenth century," to rescue from the
hands of the, house wreckers "the lit
tle shop in Lincoln's Inn fields around
which Dickens wove his intensely pa
thetic of Little Nell and her
grandfather."
As American bounty goes, $5,000 is a
trifling item in the list of millionaire
benefactions. A 10 cent tax on""all
American visitors to this Dickens land
mark within 10 yeans would be suffi
cient to save it. Yet what with- pre
serving our own literary and historical
shrines and contributing to the pres
ervation of those abroad — to memo
rials of Shakespeare. Coleridge, Keats,
John Harvard and all — American purse
strings are kept pretty continually un
tied at the behest of sentiment. Tab
lets on every building in -England thus
rescued on which the amount of Amer
ican subscriptions were recorde.ii would
make (interesting reading.
No doubt we are accumulating a
credit balance by these contributions
to sentiment on which we may confi
dently draw at some future day when
an American shrine dear to English
visitors needs to be preserved — a Poe
or Whitman cottage, for example; or.
among natural landmarks, 'Niagara
falls, once the. main objective point -of
the Britsh traveler in "the States."
FIRST DATE IN HISTORY
IS GIVEN. BY EGYPTIANS
Astronomers Calculate Solar
Year From 4241 B.C.
The age of pristine barbarism, or of
primitive man, seems to recede ever
further and further back, and what, is
called the dawn of civilization grows
more and more remote. Hitherto it has
been" supposed that the most ancient
«.ivilization on earth of which real
records had been found could be traced
back to B. C. 3500. This refers .to
ancient Peru, and the culture of Its
earliest known inhabitants. Rut the
Homiletic. Review points out that the
professor of ancient history at *tie Uni
versity of Berlin,; Dr. Eduard Meyer,
has been studying afresh the Egyptian
calendars on the monuments in the
Berlin museum. He has discovered that
the date B.C. 4241 is frequently cited
as that in which the early
astronomers first calculated their solar
year from the rising of the star Sirius.
This is by far the oldest reliable date
in the history of the human race.
CANADIAN PARK TO BE ,
LARGEST IN WORLD
"National Playground" to Con
tain s,ooo;Square 4>tile^
. The reservation by the federal gov- !
ernment of the " immense mountainous
region flying between the Yellowstone
pass and the Saskatchewan river as a
"national playground"/ will enable Can
ada to take the :r: r record for "parks"
away from the United States, says the
Westminster Gazette. The. famous Yel
lowstone park, In Wyoming, has until
now. been- easily first, with nearly 4,000
square miles to its credit; but the new
Canadian . park, which in to be called
Jasper park, .will embrace no fewer
than u.OOO square- miles, or a territory
almost as large as Yorkshire. IJke the
Yellowstone park -across • the border,
Jasper park contains within its boun
daries marvelous natural scenery, "and
it will likewise- serve as a reservation
lor. the native .faunae .. . ;%\u25a0• . •
Miss Ethlyn Ramsey,
Talented' Violinist
WIFE PROVED SHE
WAS BOSS OF HOME
Chased Husband With Pistol
to Impress the Fact on
His Mind
OAKLAND. Jan. 31. — "I am the boss
of this house." Mrs. Jennie Williams
told her husband, Albert, according to
the testimony the latter gave in the
trial of tlie divorce stilt he brought
against her. Ami to make good her
declaration and prove to her. spouse
that she really was the boss of the
house she used to chase him about tlje
house with a pistol every so often, he
declared. He was granted an interloc
utory decree of divorce today.
His wife was so completely in charge,
Williams testified, and disregarded his
wishes, let alone his commands, to such
an extent tliat he felt that his capacity
was merely "to provide for her."
Coming home intoxicated one night
Gustave Schroeder informed his wife
that- she was going to die a sudden and
violent death. He offered her the choice
between being shot or having vitrol
thrown in her • face.^ 1 Mrs. Schroeder,
who obtained an interlocutory decree
of divorce today against him after tes
tifying to~the abpvej said that she ran
out of the house, declining both propo
sitions. Schroeder is a locomotive-en
gineer in the employ of the Southern
Pacific.
The Thanksgiving turkey of the
Bahrs of Alameda was thrown on tlie
flr«>r by Otto Bahr. a blacksmith, just
as the family was about to enjoy it, his
wife, Mary, declares. She brought suit
for divorce against him today on the
ground of extreme cruelty, alleging
that he was often intoxicated and when
in that condition was accustomed to fly
into an ungovernable rage.
W/. H. Paul brought suit for divorce
against Mary B. Paul on the ground of
cruelty. , One of the charges that Paul
makes against his wife is that she un
justly accused him of being a "chaser."
The following new suits- for divorce
were begun today: Theresa Lilienthal
against Herman Lilienthal. failure to
provide and cruelty; Frederica Salmon
against Henry' L. Salmon, failure to
provide. a _
ADMITTED TO PRACTlCE— Berkeley. Jan. 31 —
Oliver Youngs Jr., a jjradimto of the university
and clerk in the Berkeley Justice court, was
congratulated by his frifnds today on his ad
mittance to practice be-fore the United .States
district court of the northern district of Oali
luniU. •
SA JW X A I hv
Round Trip TICKETS EAST
SOLD SOME RATES
April 6, 7 and 8 . .* Omaha ........... $60.00 /
May 11 Y> 13 U2526 27 Kansas City ....... 60.00
- Tiiiio 9 \ 4 94 or, O6 <tf) Chicago .. . . . . : 72.50
.- • \u25a0 jime^,rf,4,J4,-o,^t),dU Houston... 60 00
July 1, 2,3; 4,5,6,25,26, 27 New Orleans :...!.. 67^50
August!, 2, 3,4 New York 108.50
September 1,2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14 Boston ... :..... 110.50
Tickets sold on April dates for New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington,
New York and Boston.
v Good for 15 days' trip going. Return limit three months from date of purchase.
; Stopovers, choice of routes and accepted for passage on cither of the. great Overland flyers.
|| SAN FRANCISCO
Exclusively^ for high-class travel between California, Chicago and St; -Louis
The new tourist train from Southern California to Chicago via El Paso,
URGE SUM NEEDED
FOR CITY'S PARKS
\u25a0; '
Commission Submits Estimate
"Calling for Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars
OAKLAND. Jan. 31.— The. park com
missioners will ask the. city council to
apportion to the park fund $340,870 in
the budget for the .coming fiscal year.
For salaries the commission -will ask
$57,624, notwithstanding the fact that
the commissioners serve without re
muneration.
The park commission has been com
pelled by lack of' funds to (discharge
several employes.
One item in the budget will be about
$12,000 • for completing the Twelfth
street dam. Money must also be pro
vided for the finishing of the lakeside
parks^
"Hie park commission's estimate was
submitted to the city auditor this
afternoon. All the departmental esti
mates are to be in the auditor's hands
by tomorrow if the request of the city
council is acceded to. By resolution
the council. asked that the auditor sub
mit his budget not later than March 1.
The city charter gives the auditor till
August to do this.
STEEL TIES ARE USED k
ON' GERMAN RAILROADS
Wood Is Still Preferred on Soft,
Moist Ground
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Replying to a Pittsburg inquiry Con
sul General Robert P. Skinner of Ham
burg says that steel railroad ties have
made great headway in several Euro
pean countries, and notably in* Ger
many, and have given susli favorable
results thatany'new form or special
device to be used in connection there
with is bound to be examined with
great interest by those in authority.
Skinner continues:
"Progress has been made with steel
ties, although it is believed that for
many years to' come the German, Rus
sian and Hungarian forests will be able
to supply sufficient ,'uTiber for the Ger
man railroads. Oak ties are employed
chiefly, bnt pine ties are also in great
demand. American red and white oak
ties are considered to be more porous
than ties cut from European trees, and
therefore are not in particular demand.
"All the German railway administra
tions have made experiments with va
rious kinds of steel ties and fasteners,
some of which have been discredited
antLothers of which have found estab
lished favor. The quantity of such de
vices is expected to increase steadily.
On soft and moist ground wooden ties
are. preferred, because they rest more
firmly in the soil than metal ties, and
particularly when the ground is frozen.
On the solid ground which is found in
the greater part of middle and southern
Germany steel ties are much more fre
quently used than in/the sandy and
marshy levels of northern Germany.
SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE PENNY POST
_
Reform Adopted After Long
Agitation by Rowland Hill
Recently was celebrated the seven
tieth anniversary of the introduction of
the penny post into England, a reform
due to the agitation carried on against
the determined opposition of the party
of protection and the permanent offi
cials of the postoffice by Rowland Hill,
who had previously Jed the men of Bir
mingham in their demand for the re
form bill of 1532, and was one of the
earliest advocates of free trade, says
the Westminster Gazette. Until" 1840
the minimum letter post was 4d,'*but,
rising with distance, the cost to send a
note to Scotland was Is. up to 300 miles,
and Id for each additional 100 miles. It
was the discovery by Rowland Hill that
the actual cost of conveying a letter
from Lorfdon to Edinburgh was only
l-36d which opened the eyes of • the
public; but though his scheme was re
luctantly adopted in IS4O. the govern
ment of Sir Robert Peel dismissed him
from 'the public service, and-it was not
until 1554 that he was appointed secre
tary to the postoffice and completely
revolutionized the postal system of the
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Over 3,000 pounds of rose petals are
used in the manufacture of one pound
of attar of roses perfume.
McCarthy SCHEME
CONSIDERED A JOKE
Association Plans for Pullman
Shops at Richmond Shown
to Be Futile
PwICHMOND, Jan. 31.— The reported
activity of the Metrcpolitan-McCarthy
association of San Francisco looking
toward securing a site for the PuHman
car company's shops at San Francisco
is looked upon in Richmond as a huge
joke in view of the fact that the site
near Richmond' has been bought and
paid for, the deeds having gone on rec
ord several weeks ago.
Not only has that important part of
the deal been concluded, but spur
tracks t from the main lines of the
Southern Pacific company and. tlie
Santa Fe have been built to the site,
preparatory to handling material for
the early construction of the shops and
the installation of equipment.
When the report reached Richmond
today no little amusement was created
over the announcement of the McCar
thy association's plans. It was not
tasily ligured how a. metropolitan ath
letic club, or what appears to be the
same thing — the McCarthy business
men's association — was' to proceed. Was
the chosen site with its tracks and sur
veys to be picked up like Aladdin's
place and transported on the wings of
the wind across the bay? The query
could not be answered. At any rate,
Richmond protests against the report
ed move of the Metropolitan associa
tion until it is explained what connec
tion prize fight promoters have with
great Industrial enterprises like that
which the Pullman company has made
ready to build at Richmond.
CENTERS OF LIGHT IN
NATION'S METROPOLIS
Impressive Spectacles of Illu
mination Seen in New York
The city's light spectacles are multi
plying in number. To-be sure, the most
splendid and wonderful of all Is still
that which the whole great city pre
sents as seen from across the North
river or from the harbor, but within the
city there are many lesser light spec
tacles that are only less marvelously
picturesque and impressive In their
beauty, says the New York Sun.
Take the night show now around City
Hall park, where you stand at the bot
tom of a deep level contracted valley to
look up all around at perpendicular
high, towering cliffs shining every
where with innumerable lights, while
out of this deep valley you see stretch-
Ing away from you through lighted
gorges rivers of bright light.
Another similar sight you may see at
Union square and still another at Madi
son square. The newest and in some
respects the most striking of those
within the city light spectacles Is the
show that now presents itsejf after
nightfall from the Ninth avenue ele
vated railroad between Thirty-first and
Thirty-third streets.
From that point to the east and
southeast you have a wide sweep of
vision over the great excavation for the
I tracks leading to the new Pennsylvania
railroad station in Seventh avenue, a
sweeping view of the many tall com
mercial buildings put up within recent
years in that midsection of the city,
and lighted they show up wonderfully,
and somehow there seems tb be added
to this show, with all its picturesque
ness, a stalwart touch; in this light
show you seem to see the glow of vlg
orous active energy.
WHY DUMAS NAMED
HIS NOVEL MONTE CRISTO
Alexander Dumas, the great French
novelist, never set foot on the Island of
Monte Cristo, which has recently been
purcnased by the king of Italy, says
the Bo3ton- Post. When visiting Elba
in IS42' the. novelist sailed across to
Monte Cristo in the hope of 3hootlng
some wild goats.
On the point of landing, however, he
learned from one of the sailors that as
the Island was uninhabited no boat was
allowed to touch there under penalty
of six days' quarantine at the next port
of call. .
It was therefore decided not to dis
embark; but Dumas insisted on row
ing all round the island, because, he
told his companion. Prince Napoleon. "I
intend in memory of this trip with you
to give the name of Monte Cristo to
some book which I shall write later."
FRICK IS OPPOSED
TO NEW DISTRICT
School Superintendent Says
That Division Would Be
a Mistake
OAKLANTX Jan. 31. — The plan to
create a new school district east of
Hayward, to be known as the Fairview
district, was disapproved today by
County Superintendent of Schools
George W. Frick in a communication to
the board of supervisors. Frick de
clared that to cut up the present school
districts would result in greater ex
pense and lower efficiency. He de
clared himself in favor of a strong
central school and the establishment of
the ward system in the surrounding
territory.
Frick's communication Is in answer
to the petition from the residents of
the proposed district asking to b*«
given a separate terrttory. The peti
tion was opposed by a large number o?
residents of Hayward and by the trus
tees of that town.
The supervisors declared themsolve"*
in favor of assisting the annual cherry
festival in San Leandro by an appro
priation if such action was held les»l.
DEATH CLAIiMS MRS.
JOSEPHINE TIEDEMAN
A LAMBDA. Jan. 31. — Mra. Josephin--
Tiedemun, wife Of J. A. Tiedeman. a
well- known insurance brojier of San
Francisco, died this morning 1 at a sana
torium in Belmont. San Mateo county,
following an illness of 18 months.
The Tiedeman home la at Htl Ben
ton street, this city. Mrs. Tiedeman was
a member of a prominent family o.f Vic
toria. B. C. -* - .J
She was formerly one of th<» af-tiv<*
members of th<» Adelphian club and was
a favorite in social circles. .
VALUABLE CORNER IS
SOLD FOR LARGE SUM
OAKLAND, Jan. 31. — A deed of trans
fer of the northeast corner of Broad
way and Eleventh street was plated on
record today. It was sold by J. S. Myer*
and wife to the Security bank and trust
company. The consideration was $130.
000. It is the Intention of the bank t->
erect a modern building on the site.
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