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LOGGING ON THE AMERICAN RIVER Exciting Experiences on Big Booms in a Surging Stream. For the past three years the South Fork of the American River, which takes its source a few miles this side of Lake Tahoe and meets the North Fork near the State prison at Folsom, has had its turbulent vexed with logs and log drives. The American River, which is located almost in the center of Northern California, A especially adapted to the purposes of log-driving, with the exception of a few places where it is hemmed in on the sides by precipitous rocks and mountains. In these places it is difficult to navigate on account of the swift-running current, the numerous rocks, eddies and rapids. In Pino Grande, about nine miles from Placerville.

may be heard the ring of the woodsman's ax and the crash of the falling pine. The trees are here stripped of their branches and bark and cut into lengths from eighteen to twenty feet long; they are put on flat cars and hauled about eight miles over a small narrow-gauge railroad, which runs along the top of a mountain ridge. At the end of this ridge is the largest chute in the world, it being 3000 feet long, with a fall of 1100 feet. The circular trough of the chute is formed by the arrangement of seven logs; HIDING. DANGEROUS BOOMS ON THE AMERICAN RIVER.

for the "Call" by a little one in the center, two larger ones on each side. In the trough made by the two larger logs is placed a third, which completes almost a perfect half-circle, large enough to shoot logs of 'A and feet in diameter by IS and 20 in length. There i were over 2,000,000 feet of board lumber used in the construction of the chute, and if all the logs were nut- end to end they i would form a line eight miles long. logs after being brought to the end of the narrow-gauge road are slid down the chute, and on account of its steep incline the logs fairly fly down the chute, almost smoking and almost catching fire, and plunge into the deep, water of the dam below, splashing the foam and water at times forty feet in the air. 'yi-'V Opposite the great chute, is what is called the Chute Camp.

The sides of the mountains are here so steep 'that it was found necessary to build a turntable- at the end of the wagon road, and also a cable road to hoist the lumbermen to the' top of: the mountains. A dam thirty, feet high, built of i logs, banks the water up for nearly a quarter of a mile, and the reservoir thus formed can easily hold about. 4,000,000 feet of lumber. "When everything is ready for a drive, the gates of the dam are opened, the logs dart out into the river, and start on a fortymile journey from Placerville jto Folsom, where they are caught in the boom. In this year's drive there, were between three and a half and four million feet of lumber sent down the river at the rate of from one and a "half to two and a half miles a day, with a gang of fifty, brawny sunburned men driving.

moving camp all the goods and the cook arc transported overland, excepting when it is found necessary to cross the river, then, everything possible is taken into the boats, or what are called batteaux. An extra trip is always made with the best oarsmen to convey the cook across the treacherous, stream, as the loss of the cook would be regard ed as a terrible disaster, and the man responsible for his drowning would be in danger of a lynching. The horses are made to. swim behind the batteaux. and the wagons, which are the most difficult to get across, are towed.

A is sent across with a towline attached, about thirty men begin pulling, and as soon as the towline is taut the.wagon is cut loose; away it goes in the stream, rolling over nnd over until the current swings it around to the other shore, where it takes all the strength of thirty men to pull it out. These loggers possess a wonderful amount of endurance and strength, as they are waist deep in the ice-cold water of the melting snows from 5 in the morning until at night and seldom ever have a chill, nor do they, as a general thing, overindulge in the intoxicating as one unacquainted with their peculiarities might- These "men are served four hot meals a These men are served four hot meals a day, which are devoured with as much relish as a gourmet shows when disposing of a hot bird' and a cold bottle. The loggers continually have their lives in and they refer to their perilous experiences as in the ordinary course of things. 't "On one occasion," said; a "some logs were caught on a large rock, forming a jam in the center of the river. The men were working with might and main to get it loose.

Somehow or other she came loose before we expected. Now, when a long starts to go, she goes like Jehu. Our batteau got 'loose and two of us were left on a log to shoot the rapids, about 150 yards down the river. We'd jno sooner started on the rapids than we struck a rock. My partner stayed with the log, but I went head first into the rapids, with the rear logs of the jam following close on me.

I came to the surface Justin time to almost get my head crushed between two six-foot logs. Just then my paid came along and struck his pevy into the end of the log and I -hung on to it till we got out of the rapids. "It was only yesterday," the logger went on to say, "that we were going through one of those narrow canyons with which the river abounds, where the Mater runs like a millrace. Our batteau was pretty well loaded, with eighteen men, lopes, chains and boxes. When nearly over the rapids we got in to an eddy, our bow struck on a rock, the stern 'swung around and over she went, pitching all the men but one into the water.

"You ought to have seen them fellows swimming," he said, bursting into a roar of laughter. "It was the most comical sight I ever saw, with them swimming in i ail directions, yelling and sputtering as much as the water and their throats would permit. They all got out all right; but it I was a narrow They all laughed at what they considered the highest form of amusement and went in to their fourth meal of the day -with happy hearts and good appetites. A GILA RIVER MONSTER The New Reptile in. Possession of the Central Park Authorities.

Discovered In Arizona and South lts Bite Is Not Venomous. The Central Park menagerie now. possesses a Gila monster. The Gila monster is one of the most peculiar reptiles in the "United States, says the New York correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

This monster occupies a box with a glass front in Director Smith's room at the arsenal. It was presented by Matthew Judge of this city. It is about fifteen inches a very fair size. iy-V The body is; broad and: of a pleasing checkered design. The background is pink and the markings brown.

The tail is long. It is the head, however, which is the monj ster's most effective It is thick and broad, and over the large round eyes are protuberances. It moves about briskly on four little legs, shooting out its forked tongue continually as a snake does. This habit is as threat by the ignorant, but probably the monster is only fishing for insects. The monster lives largely on birds' eggs, which it takes from the nest.

Hard-boiled eggs are given to it here. 'He eats them with much Previous experience has shown that they are the best food for the monster in captivity. The opinion seems to prevail at the menagerie that the monster's bite is deadly, but that is not supported by competent zoological authorities. immense amount of fiction has written concerning this. reptile." It was first discovered in the Gila River Valley, in Arizona, and is found from there to South America.

Few specimens have been found in this THE HE GILA SIZE. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1895. part of the world, and the tales concerning them ordinarily come from a distance. There are many strange ideas'concerning the Gila monster in Arizona. It is alleged that he spits poison, that his.breath is deadly, and that he exudes poison from his skin; These ideas are absurd.

There is little doubt that the breath of the average Arizona man is more deadly than that of the monster. As a matter of; fact he has gained his terrible reputation through his appearance. Men and animals have been frightened by him without reason. Specimens have been received from time to time in the East by zoological and they have developed a considerable riety oi opinion on the subject. Dr.

Mitchi ell of Philadelphia declared some years ago I that the monster was venomous, hut I Yarrow, an eminent scientist, formerly curator of reptiles at the tution afterward positively declared that it.was not venomous. Dr. Stejneger, the present curator of tiles at the Smithsonian Institution, re- I cently made! a careful examination of a Gila monster, Which is known to science as Heloderma also eluded that the heloderma was 'not omous in the sense that the rattlesnake I He thought that its bite might be ally poisonous as. that of a mouse or a rat, I but even this is doubted. "What everybody should be pleased to I hear about the Gila monster is that it is very easily tamed.

Dr. Stejneger averred that he had never met a more agreeable reptile in his life, and he has had a great deal of experience. it should- certainly a source of general satisfaction to know that a reptile which has commonly been regarded as extremely wicked is in reality quite amiable. A Dog and Cut Misunderstanding. Tommy Kirby is a cat.

His habitat is on I Capitol Hill. Among his many friends I and ad miters Tommy, Kirby numbers a i large Newfoundland dog called Jack, who lives at the same house with Tommy I KirbyJ The two are often seen in each! other's company, and on hot afternoons take their siestas on the same hack porch I in' the most amiable, friendly fashion, i They have; a most thorough understand- ing, and on meeting after a brief separation will express their mutual satisfaction" i in short cries and ejaculations in their own language, which they seem to understand perfectly. The other afternoon Newfoundland Jack lay wrapped in, slumber in i the yard. Tommy Kirby came out and. after looking down the' cause, concluded to go over and visit a friend named Billy, who -was himself a cat of worth and belonged to Kirby's set.

'He was picking 'his i across the street with that dignity i and composure that some cats assume, when he encountered a strange dog. The dog 1 was disposed to make it a case of assault and battery." Now, Tommy Kirby i is a cat of great valor, and the neighbor- hood has night, after night rung with his war i whoops. 'Instead of 'living from his assailant, he came to a full made green his eyes, enlarged tail until it I looked as if it- was', meant to cleari lamp chimneys, and gave his back an arch of much hauteur. Then he spat with exceeding emphasis and as one who announced; himself ready Jj for the -worst. "When i Tommy Kirby had thus fixed himself, what they would in St.

Louis call his tout ensemble very much, daunted the strange Instead of rushing wildly in and rending Tommy Kirby, as he had at first proposed, he gave way to clamorous barkings. This uproar aroused Newfoundland Jack, i who came tearing the scene. Never having beheld his friend. Tommy Kirby, I in this heroic guise," Newfoundland Jack utterly failed to recognize him. jj Being a i dog of vigorous methods unhesitatingly assailed Tommy Kirby out of hand.

Such base behavior on the part of bis friend and ally was too. much for the composure of Tommy Kirby. He straightened the arch out of his spinal column, lowered his tail i and fled with a screech of pained surprise. Then it was that Newfoundland Jack I recognized him. He looked after Tommy I Kirby, while grief and remorse shone in his He was full of apology, to the brim.

lasted for a moment; and then i the- meditations of Newfoundland Jack took a new turn. "He abruptly fell upon 1 the strange dog, whose caitiff uproar had gotten him into this, mess, and gave 'him such' a trouncing as few dogs get, and which sent, the strange dog howling from the scene at- a faster pace even than that of.Tommy Kirby. The next day Newfoundland "Jack and Tommy Kirby seen sedately walking the yard together; so they must have; made mutual Evening Star. uy The income of the East Eondon Church Fund 1894 amounted to £18,797, an excess -400 over the income received in 1893, arid the highest figure on record. MUSICAL HOME TALENT VERSUS SCHEEL H.

M. Bosworth's Pointed Opinions in Regard to the "Jayness" of San Francisco. -l weeks ago the Call, quoting from a letter of mine in the New York Musical Courier a local effort means of a popular subscription to tide Mr. Fritz Scheel and his foreign orchestral players over vacuous summer season, published an article on "Stall-fed Musicians." Our local 'artists ran their somewhat agitated eyes over -the undue prominence given these Returning, after an absence in; the East of a month, I find the disturbance by no means allayed. Our own musical prophets are still mourning their increased lack of honor in their own country.

The announcement was made the other day by President Hallidie of the Mechanics' Institute that Mr. Fritz Scheel had been engaged to furnish the music at the coming fair. He prefaced this news with the assertion that the public would be delighted to hear it. Assuming his expectations to be correct, what is the basis of this supposed gratification? It is only to be accounted for on the grounds of public stupidity, ignorance, ingratitude, servile imitation, fickleness, faddism, selfishness and a general indifference regarding our duty a number of musical fellow-citizens who have served us long and well in years past. I think it ill becomes Mr.

Hallidie, at the head of an institution: fundamentally devoted to the development of local industry, and art, to congratulate the 'community upon the supplanting of native artists by recently imported non-naturalized, nontaxpaying, non-English-speaking 1 -v There is no justice or consistency in the i proposition. There is no wisdom in it either. Scheel has been a signal failure in the case of the Park' band. Witness the shower of protesting letters received by the Commissioners since he assumed the baton there. Now, I have been thirty years listening to good and bad music, and I assume, without I apologizing for being an Ameri- can, that, my musical sensibilities are just as virile, sensitive and correct in taste as those of any one else.

I therefore claim the right to speak as authoritatively as any one else. One of the most absurd and offensive things about American taste in certain circles is that it seems to presuppose anything foreign to be thereby; superior to the home article. While this prejudice is so nearly universal, in nothing is it better illustrated than in the matter of music. While Anglo-mania, France-mania and a mania for anything else of European origin is a national weakness, certain San Franciscans are always in search of new idols in favor of whom to turn their backs upon the older ones. Even Ysaye, had he, deceived by the palaver of local adoration, transferred his shrine to 'Oakland, would have become an unknown god ere many, moons, and his worship would have sunk into "innocuous desuetude." I believe it better to encourage musical development among our own citizens, even.slowly, than to snow our local talent under with foreign importations.

San Francisco is often accused of being a "jay" town. No phase of its jayness portrayed by a certain clique is more conspicuous than its characteristic manifestation of undue enthusiasm over Fritz Scheel and his. orchestral invaders. One might infer that we had never been favored with any orchestral concerts hitherto. Even admitting that Scheel's performances excelled previous and I am only i willing to grant this with regard to a very limited number of was there I no good in anything previously done? Shall we turn our backs upon all other conductors from the venerable Rudolph Herold down Ito Hinrichs.

Casassa, Bauer, Brandt and others who have the misfortune of local citizenship? Adolph Bauer gave more than one series of the most successful, instructive, well! attended, and satisfactory symphony certs ever attempted in this City, some of interpretations of the classics being far I better than those of Mr. Scheel. He did this with no aid from imported, talent, but I never heard of any attempt to impede even his starvation -by. popular subscripi tion. He had been conductor at the Tivoli so long before these concerts were given as I to lose the advantage of being a new! comer, thereby failing to achieve that "jay." adoration with which faddists worship at the Scheel shrine, I am heartily to accord to Mr.

Scheel all that is his due. I have enjoyed his music and admired his conducting, "but I am not one of those, who seem to think him the only one fit to lead the Park band, i the Institute band, the amateur orchestras, 1 or to furnish symphony certainly not when to do so involves the overthrow and artistic discomfiture of worthy I predecessors, whose past services are entitled to grateful recognition. Until 1 am convinced that 99 out of 100 listeners could appreciate the superiority of Scheel's 1 say, for instance, at the Mechanics' to I those of his predecessor, I shall not be "glad to hear" that he has supplanted -Charles Casassa, who for years has raised the standard of music there to the high level it has though. Mr. Scheel does receive a higher salary.

Comparative artistic excellence, which at best is a matter of indefinite determination, and dependent 1 upon the unreliable verdict of dilettanteism and much imaginary nonsense of the la-de-da order, is not the only desideratum in a matter of this kind. v'-'I am selfishly American 4to the extent of preferring the encouragement of home in! dustry in' raiment, food, wines, cigars, and even in music, when the home-made article is good enough to furnish a fair degree of enjoyment. If previous performances of musical masterpieces' may have been a trifle lack-" ing in perfection, one ought to be able to supply; by imagination any lapse, or should least refrain from making invidious comparisons. Music is essentially a food for the imagination. I seldom hear any music that I do not imagine a possibly different method of its interpretation.

It might be played faster, slower, louder or softer. These things are largely matters of mdi vidual feeling. Shakespeare wrote one play of "Hamlet," but has received many different" The intelligent auditor will make, his own mental comments and that which he finds completing his ideal. may he not pursue the same course regarding music? An effort to do so will certainly conduce to his musical education. A critical 'faculty exercised is more improving to the mind- than mere tacit unthinking I am actuated by mo personal hostility to Mr.

Scheel. His interests and mine are not antagonistic. I regard him as a very superior musician. 7. With a thorough acknowledgment of all his merits, I can subscribe to what I have here written with complete confidence in its justice and no fear that the sentiments expressed will fail to meet the approval of others who are thoughtful and just.

H. M. Boswortii. O'Farrell street, City. THE OLD HALL DESERTED.

Police and Prisoners Were All Moved Away Yesterday Morning. Chief Crowley Feared "Another Accident and Ordered the Place Vacated. The old City Prison "is a thing of the past; The last "drunk" slept his last sleep within its ceils this morning, and the last vagrant was only taken as far as the sergeant's office and was then hurried out to the new City Everybody was in a hurry to away from the old death trap, and Sergeants Esola and Con boy lost no time in getting their belongings into the new buildings on California street. The most interested spectator in and around the old quarters was Sergeant Abe Hotaling. Outside of Chief Crowley, there is probably no one on the police force who was so thoroughly familiar with the old hall and its surrounding as Abe, and it cost him many a pang to witness the dismantling of the old place which so many hours of his life were spent.

Early yesterday morning Sergeants Conboy and Esoia got to work and everything reserved to the police force in the bill of sale was torn down. The patrol wagon was forced the service, and desks, papers, extra uniforms and all the other paraphernalia of the office were transported to the new station on California This doing away with the station at the old hall is not permanent, and in the near future a new and substantial building will I be erected on the present site for the use I the police and the police courts. The temporary quarters California street are not yet completed, There are no cells I there and all are sent direct to the new City Hall. The iron gratings in the old hall have all been removed and the work of putting them in position in the temporary quarters California street will be pushed. -The old hall is tottering to a fall.

The walls are bulging out on all sides, and un- I less some precautions are taken there may be another accident before the work of i demolition is completed. yy-y; Funds in Chancery. The funds in court in 1894 amounted to the huge total of £64,075,187 4s Id. but the proportion of this sum in want of owners'" is not stated. It is interesting to note that during the preceding year payments were made to successful claimants and others amounting to £16,324,152 3s.

There is also a large sum in court under the heading "Foreign Currencies," made up of rupees, crowns, dollars, florins, francs, guilders, lire and marks. Reference should -also be, made to a long list of boxes and other miscellaneous effects remaining in the custody of the Bank of England, on behalf of the Supreme Court of udicature. 1 An official list of. the titles of the chancery causes undealt with I for fifteen years or upward is published triennially but, as the names of the testators or persons entitled" to the funds are in. the majority of cases not stated, the information is of little value to the general public.

To give an instance: 1823 Nathaniel Briggs, one' of the next of kin to Thomas Storke, who died in 1700, was advertised for by order of the Court of Chancery. The fund was not claimed; and in the latest list of dormant funds we find the title of the chancery suit given thus "Pomcroy vs. No mention is made that the next of kin of Thomas Storke are wanted. An idea of the large number of similar cases may. be gained from the fact that the list of unclaimed funds fills 187 pages.

This list is only an index to the titles of and is not in any sense either a register of next of kin wanted or of lapsed legacies, intestate's estates, unclaimed dividends, prize money, etc. Chambers' Journal. Knew the Sign True. An Oil City gentleman, who, like many others, is fond of fishing for trout, had nearly finished a long day's tramp on a stream which" was strewn with cut poles, bait boxes and other' evidences of the He had noticed, but ignored, occasional sign tacked to a tree of "No fishing on this stream," not allowing the weather-" stained admonitions to interfore with what little enjoyment he was getting. The day was nearly over, and he was nearing the mouth of the stream, when he, was hailed by a resident of a neighboring farmhouse.

"Hello, cap'n!" "Well?" yy IV "Ye been fishin' up there?" "Yes." ''Can ye read?" "Yes. "Did ye see that sign tellin' ye there's no fishin'. up here?" "Yes, and it's true, too." Then the tired sportsman stepped on to inspect a likely hole, and it wasn't until after he had 'put on a fresh bait that the light seemed to break upon the farmer's understanding, who grunted and faced about for Oil City Blizzard. MASKED MONEY. Curious Mania for "Writing Sententious Sentiments on Bank -A mania for advertising and putting strange communications on the back of the paper money of the Government has broken out.

As a general thing torn bills are used, as that gives the man with the mania an excuse for his" work, for he uses the slip with which the pieces are put together for his purpose. On a bill that came into the hands of one man on Dearborn street was a slip on which was printed "Shake the bottle." When he turned it into the bank the receiving whose quick eye caught it, asked: "Did yon bring the bottle with you?" "i jj On ass bill handed over a bar on Monroe street was a slip on which was this: "Touch not, taste not, handle not." A Dearborn street bank took in a $500 bill not long ago on the back of which was pasted a slip that had printed on it the ten A cashier in a mercantile house on Randolph street has a bill of $2 denomination on which is a slip, and on the slip is written in a woman's chirography an offer of marriage. The writer puts it thus: "I give up my last money on this. I it out into the world, hoping it may return to me with a good man who will love me arid take care of me." But no address accompanied the offer. A bill is in a frame in an express office.

There is a hole in the bill, and a note explains that the hole was made by a bullet fired by a train-robber. The bill was in the side-pocket of the express messenger. A' bill handed in at a cigar-store on Madison street had this on the back: "Don't come back to me until you can bring your silver brother with you." A -physician in the building has a private mark on a $5 bill which he sent afloat several years ago. It comes back to him about twice a year. A wholesale merchant over on Adams i street was in China Japan a few years ago.

He gave Japanese functionary a bill as a souvenir, placing on the same a private mark. About three weeks ago it came into his possession again. He is confident that he is not mistaken in the mark, and does not feel complimented over the idea that his Japanese acquaintance did not think enough of him to keep the bill. A business man of this city relates this: He went from Chicago to Pittsburg on a sleeper. Pfe paid conductor for his berth, "giving him a marked $5 bill.

He went from Pittsburg to Cleveland the second day, and on the third day he bought a I sleeping-car-ticket, for his return trip, The conductor handed him the same bill he had.given to the other conductor. There is a bill about the country somewhere on' the back of which is a prescription written by a reputable physician several years ago. It is a "sure cure" for the grip, and was put there by the doctor out of the. fancy that it might save somebody's life. Another one is in circulation, presumably, on which is written: "If this should fall into the hands of Reuben Middleman he wilt please communicate his address to his brother James, general delivery, Boston, on or before "January, 189 G.

After that in England. He knows where." Chicago Tribune. MATERIAL FOR A NEST. A Bird Stole a Ten-Dollar Bill and Used It as Lining. A $10 bill, which had mysteriously disappeared, was recovered by Assistant Coin Teller Phil Turpin of theSub-Treasurv in a peculiar manner.

He has a beautiful farm out on Cliff Creek, near the Little Miami River. In that section birds fairly abound. Mr. Turpin was getting ready to attend a soiree at his next neighbor's in Newtown, about two miles distant. The weather, it will be remembered, at that time was un- usually warm, and he left the windows of his room open.

Mr. Turpin had taken his money, among which was a $10 bill, and laid it on a center table, intending to put it in a pocket of his other trousers. The room is at the corner of the house and on both sides. He stationed himself at one of the windows and commenced to shave. The birds were singing outside and flying about the house and through the open windows, doubt, at the advent of spring, while others were busy in trees building nests.

It was luxury to shave amid such surroundings and when Mr. Turpin finished he looked sleeker than ever. After washing he prepared to don his Sundaygo-to-meeting clothes. After he arranged his necktie to give the best effect he went to the center-table and began picking up his money, but was not a little surprised to find a $10 bill missing. He thought that the wind might have blown it on the floor he began looking there for it.

After a long time spent in vain he gave up the search there. He then went out into the yard and began hunting among the flowers and grass for it, thinking that it might have been blown through the open window, but he had to go to that soiree minus a $10 note. Day before yesterday the severe windstorm blew, a robin's nest out of a tree near the front porch. Mr. Turpin picked the nest up, and was about to cast it away when he noticed what seemed to be a piece of paper of peculiar color.

He examined it, and found it to be currency of some denomination, but it was not until he had carefully torn I the nest apart that he discovered it. to be a $10 bill. It was apparently the one he had lost a couple of weeks ago, a bird having flown into the room and snatched up the' money. The bill was in pretty bad condition, and he redeemed it at the treasury Cincinnati Enquirer. TVViV- To Examine the Larynx.

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