The Bulletin: SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1915. GAVE NISH TO ENEMY Surrender Followed by Kind Treatment at Hands of Bulgars NEW YORK. Dec. American who surrendered the city was an of Nish.
Serbia, to invading Bulgarian army after the Serbian forces had retreated, according to a story told today by Douglas M. Dold of this city, who has just returned to his home after spending several months in Serbia. Dold a and his brother, Elliot W. Dold, sons of an alienist, left here in June as of an automobile squad attached to a relief expedition sent out to aid the Serbians. Douglas M.
Dold, who was in charge of the squad, was stricken blind at Nish as a result of the hardships, overwork and privations endured there, and it was on this account that he his brother returned. SERBIANS MUTINY. Dold said that when it was realized that Nish would captured a Serbian regiment, thee Twentieth Puhk. mutinied, killing their colonel and looting the houses. Dold attempted to protect the hospital stores under his charge, but was knocked down and beaten by the soldiers, who, he said, wasted the stores of alcohol and quinine which were used for the.
sick and wounded and took 2400 pairs of shoes which were among the supplies. After this regiment left the city the people appealed to the Bishop of Nish to induce Dold to surrender it! to the Bulgarians and asked for protection. When the Bulgarians neared the city Dold, the bishop and a throng of young women bearing garlands of flowers went out to meet them. A white flag was raised and officer commanding the Bulgarian forces rode forward. GERMANS LOOTED PLACE.
The bishop introduced Dold as an A American. my passport," said Dold, "and asked for protection of the city and the, people and for the hospital stores. After I got through he bowed respectfully, and his men themselves splendidly while in the city. A guard was sent to protect the hospital stores, and there was no disorder unti lthe Germans began to arrive, and then pandemonium broke loose. Their conduct was worse than that of the Serbian mutineers.
Destruction and loot were Ton all sides. "When the exodus from Nish began the Agricultural Society turned over to me its belongings, and Sir Ralph Paget placed in my care the entire relief supplies. Men tried to give me outright their hotels and places of business, and frantic women implored me to marry them in order to protect them from the invaders through my passport. It was then that I was suddenly stricken blind. of course I was then useless and in the way." Visitor to Fair Is Reported Missing PALO ALTO, Dec.
police are searching for Michael Carroll of this city, who left Palo Alto for a few days' visit to the Panama-Pacific Exposition on July 4 and has not been seen since. friends believe he may have met with foul play, as they do not believe he would have Just wandered off without leaving any word with friends here. Carroll lost his family in the Galveston flood, with the exception of a married daughter, whose location is unknown here. He is a veteran of the Indian wars. Pioneer California Woman Passes Out PALO ALTO, Dec.
-Funeral serrices will be held for Mrs. Sarah M. Clark, a resident of California for 46 years, Monday morning in St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church this city, Rev. Father Joseph M.
Gleason omciating at the ceremony. Mrs. Clark died at her home at 855 Ramona street in this city on Thursday night, following a short illness. She was A native of Prince Edward Island. VICTORY A sense of freedom from all annoying after-eating distress can only be experienced when the digestive system is strong and working harmoniously.
Such a condition can be promoted by careful diet and the assistance of HOSTETTER'S Stomach Bitters Unite in Appeal for Destitute of Belgium San Francisco Men Ask Citizens to Be Generous in Response. EPRESENTATIVE business and cisco professional today men united of in San Franan appeal that generous contributions be made for the aid of the destitute people of Belgium and northern France. The appeal reads as follows: To the Citizens of San Francisco: The undersigned committee begs to make this appeal to you in behalf of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, of which our friend, Herbert C. Hoover, is chairman. California, more than any other State in the Union, should stand behind this commission and give it all the active support possible.
From California have gone a large percentage of the thirty men actively engaged in carrying on the work in Belgium and northern stand at the head and front of this France, and de Californians today commission. Among them are Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Vernon L. Kellogg, Ben Allen, Hugh S.
Gibson. E. F. Hollman, W. L.
Honnold, Will Irwin, Tracy B. Kittredge, Newton B. Knox, Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, Edgar Rickard, Samuel S.
Seward, William H. Sperry, Dudley B. Gunn, John Simpson and Clair Torrey. It is the originality and intelligence, the executive ability and enof these men that have saved a ergy, the honesty and unselfishness starving. homeless and broken people.
Let the citizens of San Francisco prove that we are willing to back up our representatives know that these faithful workers deserve the Countless demonstrations of gratitude of a people. The Commission for Relief in Belgium, although controlled by Americans, has been financed largely by other nations, but chiefly by Belgium, Great Britain and the British colonies. As an example of what has been done we refer to Stanford University. The faculty, alumni and students of that institution have contributed to this cause more than $700 a month for over a year, and these subscriptions have generally been amounts of 50 cents per month for each subscriber. Your committee believes that there are many citizens of San Francisco who wish to aid in this work, but who do not know the method by which they may give this aid, and they may feel that the amount of contribution which they can make is too small to be of any service.
The committee therefore desires to it plain that it is anticipated that the great majority of answers to this appeal will be in subscriptions of from 10 cents to $1 a month. To business houses and other places where there are a number of employes it is suggested that possibly the employes might be willing to make these contributions once a month through a single check sent from their office. The money can be sent by check to Mrs. A. L.
McLeish, San Francisco treasurer of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, room 1009, Best of all would it be if the perMills building, a San Francisco. son desiring to contribute would personally, take his or her to Mrs. McLeish in the Mills building, because we know that with such personal contribution and trouble will go the heart of the sender. Respectfully yours, W. Lilienthal.
chairman; Daniel G. Murphy, secretary; William H. Crocker, WilBourn, Rabbi Martin A. Meyer, Leon Sloss, Bishop William Ford Nichols, Dr. Stanley Stillman, Henry U.
Brandenstein, John A. McGregor. Raphael Weill, Edward J. MeCutcheon. Warren Gregory, J.
Henry Meyer. John McNab, C. F. Michaels, Seward B. MeNear, Mayor Rolph, James K.
Moffitt. George, A. Pope, Arnstein, Monsieur Legallet. Philip Clap, rence Joseph Redding, Perry Eyre, Duncan McDuffle, A. C.
Kains, George A. Newhall, committee. Window-Glass Men Reap Fat Profits (Br Associated Press.) PITTSBURG, Dec. of the American Window Glass Machine Company were notifed this morning that the directors yesterday had ordered a dividend of $7 a share on the $7.000,000 preferred stock, the second dividend of $7 to be paid within sixty days. This disbursem*nt reflects the extraordinary prosperity of the window glass industry, due largely to the withdrawal of Belgium from the international market and the activity of the building trades in this country.
Leading window glass men said that! orders for window glass from abroad were pressing in this market, some being for quantities as high as 40,000 and 50,000 boxes for a customer. Automobile Concern Remembers Workers All the employes of the local branch of the Haynes Automobile Company were called before C. H. Haynes last evening and presented with shining gold pieces and boxes of confectionery in observance of the Yuletide spirit and as an appreciation of faithful service to the company. The blest worker shared equally with the high-salaried men in the gift.
Christmas Freedom Given Prisoners (By SAN A United Press.) QUENTIN. TIN. Dec. men passed through the portals of San Quentin State prison today to freedom. Warden Johnston was the Santa Claus, for.
under power granted him by the State Prison Commission. he gave them their passports to the outside world because they had "made during their terms. Christmas the prison wasn't as gray as it might have been. The State saw that the men had "Sunday dinner," and practically one had some little gift from friends outside. Down the grim cell row, where the condemned prisoners look out with practically no chance of escaping the noose early in the year, there were special gifts.
heart of the prison went out to them. Nickels and dimes, carved wood pieces, "smokes," needlework came from the prisoners to make probably the last Christmas on earth of the condemned men less doleful than It otherwise would have been. THIS IS STORY OF 2 LEGS, ONE OF THEM WOOD With Incidental Allusion to Attempted Hold-Up and Thrilling Capture of WouldBe Cafe Robber by Officer, As the result of an attempt on the part of Michael Digman to hold up Talcott's restaurant at 225 Mason street, Michael Digman, the would -be robber. has a bullet hole in one of alas meat Abrams, legs patron near of the the knee. place, while who intervened to prevent the fellow from getting the money, has two bullet holes in his wooden one.
Dignan entered the place about o'clock last night and presented Mrs. Ethel Talcott, wife of the proprietor, at the cash desk with a card on which he had written: "Keep as cool as you can. Take the money out of the cash register and give it to me." Mrs. Talcott read the message and replied: "I shall do nothing of the sort." THREATENS TO SHOOT. Then, when Dignan threatened to shoot if she did not obey, Mrs.
Talcott called out: "Oh, girls, here's a man trying to hold up the place!" That was the signal for Miss Marie Nauha, one of the waitresses, to skip through the side door to the Hotel Berg and summon Talcott, who came running, but at the door was confronted by a pistol in the hands of Dignan, who took $10 fro the register and was about to leave. ENTER MR. ABRAMS. Meanwhile Gus Abrams, who heard what was going on, was waiting at the front door with a heavy cane, preparing to smite the hold-up hip and thigh as he emerged. He banged Dignan over the head and staggered him and hit him again in the same place, but the fellow recovered, and that is where a wooden leg was better than an ordinary one, for Dignan fired twice.
both missiles taking effect in Abrams' willow limb about where the knee would have been had the member been the original, original. Then the real excitement started. The crowd instituted an impromptu chase, and Police Corporal Gus Mogan, the way to a theater with his wife, joined in. Dignan hopped a Geary-street car, but had to get off, as it did not move. He then ran to the alley back of the Bellevue.
Frank Solomon of 3583 Seventeenth street tried to stop him, but Dignan fined at him, the bullet going through his coat. Then Dignan fired at Mogan. and Mogan at Dignan, and they clinched. Dignan had his right hand free and would doubtless have shot Mogan, but Jack Olivia, who runs a fruit stand, took a stick in the game and by a dexterous kick in the head put Dignan in a trance, and he was taken to the city prison. St.
Nicholas Is Given Greeting in Netherlands War's Horrors Do Not Stop Celebration of Patron Saint's Birthday (By Associated Press) THE HAGUE, Dec. Claus visits Holland and Belgium each year about three weeks before he goes to the United States, for the children of these two countries honor their patron saint and receive his annual gifts on St. Nicholas Day, December 6. St. Nicholas lived in Holland and was Bishop of Amsterdam, where his memory is honored by a fine statue.
His traditional liberality to his parishioners led to the custom of hanging up the children's stockings on his feast day. so that he might drop a gift therein. In Holland, Santa Claus is not only the patron saint of children, but also the patron of scholars, prospective brides, sailors and parish clerks. He is also the patron saint of Russia. GERMAN TOYS PLENTIFUL.
As in previous years, the St. Nicholas Day gifts in Holland this year were largely of German manufacture. The shops were flooded clockwork toys of new and ingenious design, most of them naturally suggested by war. Picture books and colored prints were in Infinite variety, and there was a display of cheap jewelry and enamel work rather finer than in any previous years, when, presumably, much of the best wares went market overseas that are closed to German goods this vear. There were Austrian gloves, hats, candies in great abundance and at lower prices than ever before.
of more strictly Dutch manufacture were the plaques and tiles, the chocolate birds and beasts, and the fine sweetmeat alphabets with letters sometimes six inches high. St. Nicholas Day is celebrated throughout Holland with much the same festivities as those of Thanksgiving or Christmas in America. There are no Christmas trees, but there 18 a great dinner with an extraordinary variety of good things to eat. Neither plum pudding.
pumpkin pie, nor turkey figure on the Dutch menu, however. CAKES IN STOCKINGS. The children's stockings are hung up on the night of December 5, and are discovered properly filled with suitable presents at dawn of the 6th. Instead of oranges and apples, the Dutch child Ands a great variety of those famous brown St. Nicholas cakes rounding out the spaces in the long stocking.
In a number of the towns the old custom of a sort of municipal celebration endures despite the pressure of war and hard times. Santa Claus himself rides through the streets at the head of a motley collection of maskers, many of whom carry money boxes, wherein they gather up contributions for various charitable objects. This year the collections were almost exclusively for war objects. HURT IN SKIDDING AUTO. Samuel Robinson.
driver for the City Delivery Company, was badly hurt, sustaining broken bones and severe cuts. when his auto skidded and overturned this morning at Market street and Van Ness avenue. Pioneer Called Samuel D. Woods, who died suddenly yesterday. SAM D.
WOODS PASSES AWAY Sudden Attack of Heart ure Results Fatally, AMUEL D. WOODS, who repreS sented District the in old Second California 1899 to Congress from 1902, and who held the office of Judge Advocate under Governor Budd, died yesterday morning at the residence of Dr. Albert Wheeler, 1829 Gough street, after a brief illness. He was reading the morning paper when he was suddenly seized with an attack of heart failure. In recent years Woods had been a familiar figure in legal practice, having been connected with many prominent cases.
But besides his legal knowledge he had an intimate acquaintance with the Western country, being the author of "Lights and Shadows on the Pacific Coast," in which he wrote much of his experience gained when he had been a miner in Death Valley, and while taking horseback journeys In Oregon, Washington and California. Woods was born in Tennessee in 1845, and came to California in 1850 with his father, Presbyterian minister, settling first at Stockton and going afterward to Los Angeles. He was a brother of Rev. James Woods of Lakeport, and Mrs. Francis H.
Jones of San Francisco. As a young man he taught school in the Suisun hills, and had Edwin Markham as one of his pupils. The funeral will be on Monday. She Dies Two Days After Son-in-Law PALO ALTO, Dec. services were held here yesterday for Mrs.
G. S. Bray, mother of Mrs. J. J.
Morris of this city, who had lived here sixteen years, and had been an invalid for the past five years. Besides Mrs. Morris, three other children survive: Mrs. Frankie Q. Thomas of Palo Alto, Mrs.
George H. Boke of New York City, and Dr. George F. Bray. Her son-in-law, J.
J. Morris, pioneer Palo Alto real estate man, passed away Tuesday night. Mrs. Bray's death occurred Thursday night. Titanic Survivors Are Hurt by Train.
(By United Press.) PORTLAND, Dec. Ellen Polihronis and her 5-year-old son, survivors of the Titanic disaster in 1912. are spending Christmas in hospital as a result of the mother's heroic attempt to rescue her son from the wheels of an interurban train yesterday. Seeing the train approaching, the boy jumped in front with shout. The mother leaped for the boy and attempted to throw him off the track at the risk of her own life.
She was too late. The train struck them, hurling them aside. Both are seriously injured. Snow Casts White Pall Over St. Louis (By United Press.) ST.
LOUIS. Dec. men are dead today and twenty persons are injured as the result of a heavy snowstorm which blanketed the city under eight inches of snow. An unidentified man, found dead in a ravine in the suburbs. was believed to have stepped off a trestle when blinded by the snow.
Another man dropped dead from heart failure in a church where he sought refuge after overexertion in plowing his way through the storm. Hobo Hotel Guests Enjoy Large Feed PALO ALTO. Dec. at the famous Palo Alto "Hobo's Hotel," conducted by the city, sat down to a real Christmas dinner this morning shortly before noon. There was turkey, cranberry sauce, plum pudding and all the fixings that go with a real Christmas dinner.
Afterwards the men put in their four hours' work at kindling 3-chopping to pay for their day's board. PORTRAIT PAINTER DEAD. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK. Dec. Flagg.
portrait painter, is dead of pneumonia today in a hospital here. was born in Hartford. and was in his seventieth year. His father was the late Rev. Dr.
Jared B. Flagg. CHRISTMAS DAY FETE IS FINAL FAIR FUNCTION A few members of the committee which has issued appeal on behalf of the poor people of Belgium and Northern France. oHM JESSE MC NAB LILIENTHAL PABA MEPER LEON SLOSS WA. CROCKER.
BISHOP NICHOLS BRANDENSTEIN WAR TOLL OF CIVILIANS BIG 1 (By United Press.) LONDON. Dec. -Ravages of war on Great Britain's peaceful civilian population sums up 77,000 fewer babies born and more than 50,000 additional deaths, as compared with the peaceful year of 1913. Seventeen thousand fewer babies than in 1913 have been born in the county of London alone. In Greater London, which includes, contiguous suburbs.
there decrease of 25,000 within the year, while 15.000 more civilians than normally have In addition to the babes unborn, the United Kingdom's frightful infant mortality, indirectly due to war, is mounting. The excess of civilian mortality is ascribed by medical authorities to the excitement of the war and resultant consumption, cerebral hemorrhage and heart disease, principally the latter. superinduced by worry and shock. The majority of civilian war victims are persons more than fifty years of age. Figures on the birth and mortality rates in Berlin, the next greatest European war city, show that the Germane of capital 400 a is week.
losing Vienna civilians re- at ports indicate that the Austrian capital is losing 400 citizens a week, either through death or falling off of the birth Births in patris are about 390 a week, as against 800 normally. The weekly civilian death rate has not been officially computed. Submarine Fires on Greek Steamer (BIN NEW Associated YORK, Press.) Dec. Greek steamer loannina arrived today from Piraeus and reported having been fred upon by a submarine, nationality unknown, when about 80 miles off Kalamata, Greece. Captain Hajapis said the submarine pursued the steamer for some distance before firing a shell.
which fell 50 yards off the starboard side of the steamer. N. The passed then close to stopped the and steam- the er. but submerged after seeing the Greek flag on the vessel. Russian Fleet on the Bulgar Coast (Br United Press.) BUCHAREST.
Dec. Rour Russian cruisers and two torpedo boats heavily damaged Euxinograde, Bulgaria, in bombardment, according to advices here today. (Note--The increasing activity of the Russian fleet suggests that some recent reports of the crippling of the Turkish navy may be true. For the past two months, apparently unchallenged, the Slav ships have shelled and raided Bulgarian and Turkish ports. The last report of damage to the Turkish fleet told of sinking one vessel and injuring another.) you surprised to hear that Jack Rapidde had been married on the Slobbs that happened a year ago.
The surprising thing Is that he has stayed married that long." Santa Claus Presides at Big Tree at Exposition; Free Candy for the Kiddies and Outdoor Fete Is Held. Santa Claus is paying the Exposition a visit today for the second time. He has brought gifts; is directing San Francisco's official celebration, and then, this evening, will assist the final lowering of the curtain on the short post-Exposition period. After today, the visitors will be admitted to the grounds as in the past, but never again will a special effort be made to bring them through the gates. TREE IN FAMOUS COURT.
The Court of the Universe is the scene of the municipal Christmas celebration. Here the city's beautiful tree has been erected in the shadow of the Tower of Jewels, and here A program of Christmas music and Christmas dances is being presented this afternoon. The 25,000 sacks of candy, which have been made ready this day, are being distributed at Fillmore for. gate between the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock. Long tables have been built near the entrances, and, as the children pass the turnstiles, each receives a sack of the sweets.
The children are admitted free throughout the entire day, and, between the hours of 12 and 1:30 o'clock the parents with their little ones also are passed without an admission charge. DAINTY DANCERS APPEAR. Sixty children, under the direction of Miss Doris de Fiddes, will present the program of dances. They are to appear on a stage erected near the tree and will be seen in a Wewpie dance, Hawaiian dances, the Kilties' dance, other numbers. The Columbia Park Boys will sing Christmas carols, which are to be made a feature of this final Exposition vrogram; Professor Graver's mandolin and orchestra of sixty pieces will furnish the last orchestra selections, and Casassa's Band will play the last band concert.
The carols which are to be sung are announced as follows: "Good King Wendeslas," "The First Noel' and "The Wassail Song." Assembly Holds Jolly Xmas Ball The Christmas ball of the Assembly Thursday evening was a gorgeous affair, surpassing in decorative splendor many of the most elaborate dances of the season. The setting in Scottish Rite Auditorium suggested a holiday garden, with lanterns artistically grouped in pergolas about the hall. An elaborate supper was served downstairs at midnight, dancing being resumed after dinner. The orchestra played on the stage, which was converted into a summer garden for the evening, while at the opposite end of the hall a drawing room was formed for the periods between dances. Among the guests at the first dance of the Assembly were: Messra.
George Hooper, Lloyd Schultz, Douglas Short, Bowie Detrick, Chas. Tuttle, Darwin Tuttle, Edward Bullard, Joseph Cross, Matthew Dillingham, Jerome Fee, Randolph Flood, Cuthbert Fleissner, Lester Kilgarif, Reuben Flint, Charles Gibson, Edgar Keithley. Lawrence Waller, Donald McKee, Paul McKee, Roland Forster. Jerome Tallant, Van Dyke Johns, Dana McEwen, Edward Harrison, Arthur Saxe. Stanley Powell, George Flint, Morse Erskine, Forbes Wilson and Charles St.
Goar. Misses Carroll Cambron, Margaret Casey, Dorothy Deane. Mary Freer, Marcia Fee, Elizabeth Fee. Isabelle Jennings, Helen Johnson, Lucille Johns, Lola Lee, Gladys Little, Hermipa Lathrop. Alice Morse.
Ruth Perkins, Marie Perkins, Mildred Pierson, Margaret Barker, Linda Bryan. Marle Louise Bryant. Marita Rossi, Marion Regensburger. Helen Hooper, Marguerite Sullivan. Einnim McNear, Marion Doe.
Elsie Booth. Evelyn Van Winkle, Marie Hathaway, Ruth Welsh. Jean Ward, Dorothy Ward. Santa Claus Visits Executive Mansion (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Dec.
festivities at the White House today were devoted largely to the entertainment of President Wilson's grandchildren. little Miss Ellen Francis Sayre and Miss Josephine Cothran, a grandniece of 12 years. I. H. Hoover, chief usher at the White House, played Santa Claus in the to absence of the President.
There was a large Christmas tree in the library on the second floor of the White House. elaborately decorated and laden with packages. Although the President was away, there were presents and good wishes from him for the youngsters and the grown-ups, too. The White House festivities will be rounded out with a dinner for the family group in the state dining-room this evening. Christmas Message Is Sent by Daniels (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec.
Daniels sent this message to the members of the crew of the superdreadnaught New York. at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, who entertained a. hundred poor children at a Christmas celebration yesterday aboardship: this Christmas Day your thoughtfulness and generosity in previding many poor children with clothing and gifts and Christ dinner on board the New York other splendid example ous spirit of the men the May this day bring to you and to the men of our service as much happiness as your self-denial has brought to these little ones." The Secretary also sent the following Christmas greeting to all and shore stations of the navy, to be broadcasted by the navy radio service to all parts of the world where American ships are on duty: "Volcing the national spirit, I send Christmas greetings to the American navy from the American people." Merry Christmas and Many Thanks us to thank you most heartily for having favored us with the largest Christmas business in the history of this store. We are deeply appreciative of the good will that has brought about this very gratifying result. To our employes, many of whom have served in an extra capacity, a word of thanks and acknowledgment is due and gladly given.
We wish one and all, customers and employes, a very Merry Christmas! The Sweeping After-Christmas Clearances Begin Monday Morning Sharply at Nine o'Clock. Tremendous Savings Will Be Presented. SEE SUNDAY'S EXAMINER New Market Retail Male's at Center Fifth CONVICT ROAD CREWS OBSERVE CHRISTMAS DAY Prisoners, Working on State Highway, Stop Labors to Celebrate in Wild of Mendocino County, (By United Press.) SACRAMENTO, Dec. in the wilds of northern Mendocino county, "fifty miles from nowhere." as State Highway Engineer A. B.
Fletcher puts it, 111 convicts are today observing Christmas. No special services had been ranged, but there were prayerssilent prayers that came straight from the hearts of men who for years had not known the joys of a Christmas outside of prison walls. There are two camps of convicts along the south fork of the Eel river. They are building a nine-mile strip of State highway. In one camp, the first established.
are 56 convicts. Since October 1 they have opened and graded 6600 feet of roadway. This is considered remarkably good in view of the fact that the highway route goes through the thickest kind of follage. Five miles away is the other camp, with 55 convicts. They started work November 10, and up to date have cleared and graded 1300 feet of roadway.
WORK RAIN OR SHINE. With the exception of Sundays, these men have been working every day, rain or shine, until a today, when axes and shovels were put aside. Lester H. Gibson, second assistant highway engineer, has just returned from the camps. He reports that the men have been anxiously awaiting Christmas Day.
Many of them expect gifts. "These men," says Gibson, "do their work exactly as efficiently as paid labor. O1 120, who taken to the only nine were sent back to camps, prison. Seven of these were taken ill and the other two did not seem to be adapted to the work. Rain or shine, they are plugging away, for each day's work means two days off their sentences.
"During the past few weeks there have been unusually heavy rains and the men were put to considerable discomfort. They complained about the prison -made shoes. with which they were furnished, and I think their OLD PAPERS TO FEED CATTLE AND MAKE STEAKS (By Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. burn your old newspapers; save them," urges Professor Hugo Mehner in the Hamburg Nachrichten. The professor explains that he is perfecting a scheme for turning paper waste into a substitute for straw, which is largely used as fodder, not only in the ordinary way as chaff, but also in fresh ways after treatment by chemical processes.
"So we come to this," adds Professor Mehner, "that the masses of old newspapers which have already fed men's minds in town and country will then feed cattle, and old brown paper and cardboard boxes will yield milk and beefsteak." complaint is well founded, for their feet were soaking wet. "I recommend that they be supplied with rubber boots and rubber garments 80 they can work in wet weather. The men are provided with excellent food and lodgings. MEALS COST OVER 25 CENTS. "Ordinarily the meals they are given would cost about 25 cents each, but owing to the lack of transportation facilities, it costs the State more than that.
The men work eight hours a day, reporting for duty at 8 o'clock. Two guards act as sub-foremen, but there is never a weapon in sight nor any sign of uncalled-for authority." Soon after the first of the year, the Highway Commission will have a report on the expense of maintaining the convict road crews, the figures to be compiled so as to show whether it will pay the State to continue. Highway Engineer Fletcher says the initial expense has a amounted to quite a sum, but belleves, nevertheless, that the convict road laborers have been saving money for California. There would be more wisdom in many a head if it didn't leak at the mouth. HAIR of Faded Hair.
at SENSATIONAL SALE OF EXPOSITION BUILDINGS AND BOOTHS Having bought scores of Buildings and Exhibit Booths at the Exposition, containing millions of feet of the finest lumber, we are enabled to quote you the very lowest prices. The following is our latest list of buildings already bought and paid for--large buildings under contract to be announced later: Iowa, North Dakota, Washington, Utah, Missouri. Idaho, Mississippi. Mary. land, Montana, Nevada, Sweden.
Italy, Bolivia, Norway, Welsh Ranch, Dogx of All Nations, Streets of Cairo. Mexican Village, Grape Juice Irish Village, Diving Girls, Vienna Cafe, Young's Restaurant, Creole Belles, and six separate buildings of the Desmond Supply Co. We have also a tremendous stock of toilets. baths. sinks, pipes, elesent electric fixtures.
French doors and windows--and, in fact, everything in the building line that you will want. We have complied with all the official demands of the Exposition Company, and are now wrecking our bufidings. Juice Exposition Office in the Welsh Grape Fillmore Entrance. San Pablo 2845 21st and BROS. Oak.
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