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s\ ! IRDAY MAT 11, 1885
See Oakland to-day.
These are florid times.
There seems to be a frolic everywhere.
"What the rains started the sunshine will
ripen.
Santa Rosa is crowned Queen of the
North.
All things are gay for those who love
gayety.
The weather isn't torrid, but it is a trifle
tropical.
A lack of pride is incompatible with
progress.
For every festival in California there is a
strike in the East.
The Pacific Yacht Club will spread its
white wings to-day.
The Delaware Legislature shxit up with
the same deadlock it opened with.
The dog show may be accounted as an
other of the successes of the season.
England has no more fear of the Monroe
doctrine than of doing anything wrong.
Other festal cities had rose queens, but
Oakland will content herself with a bud.
The San Joaquin would thank us for a
little wind, with the breath of the ocean
in it.
Festivals come and festivals go, but the
San Joaquin road will stay with us for
ever.
This warm weather is melting the sun
shine into ingots and coining the fruit into
gold.
The San Joaquin Valley has an oppor
tunity to say what it thinks of San Fran
cisco.
No man is ever accounted good in the
community unless he is good for some
thing.
The San Joaquin road deserves the China
Basin iv a clean shape without any cold
soup in it.
It isn't worth while to kick at a silurian
when you can hit him with an improve
ment club.
f This is the kind of weather that puts the
sugar in the strawberry and the flavor in
the cherry.
It would be a wise thing to keep the
Board of Health free from the necessity of
fumigation.
After the glow and the fervor of the in
terior festivals, society will be glad to take
in the Santa Cruz swim.
If the big money syndicate buys up all
the gold it will be easy to let them keep it
and do business with silver.
It is one o*f the paradoxes in life that the
wheels in a man's he&d never run so rap
idly as when he is off his trolley.
The Civic Federation proposes to do
pomething to help the Half-million Club
by checking the streetcar death rate.
The average citizen cannot without an
effort be brought to think that the Morgue
is a proper place for frolics and orgies.
The first thing for the next Congress to
do by way of beginning business is to put
the Wilson tariff on the misfit counter.
When the Democrats were in power they
did nothing for bimetallism, bat now they
are out of office they mouth it wonderfully.
The Hawaiian National Band has been
expelled from the islands because it re
futed to take the Doleful oath of al
legiance.
The two substantial evidences of ad
vancement in local improvement are the
present increased sales of lots and the ab
sence of increased prices.
One of the surest proofs of the coming
of better times for California is to be
found in the growing improvement of the
wine and the mining industry.
Northward, westward and southward
Ban Francisco grows and finds every
where new sites for homes overlooking
vistas where every prospect pleases.
No Californian who does not provide his
own table generously with California fruit
has a right to complain because somebody
in the East does not indulge in our orchard
products.
The advancing prosperity of Amador
County is manifest by the fact the Amador
Record has expanded to an eight-page
quarto and records a bright and hopeful
outlook for Sutter Creek and all the min
ing interests.
The London Economist, after deducting
the amount of trade Great Britain lost by
the depression, estimates that the British
people profited by the reduced prices of
imported goods in 1894 by something more
than $100,000,000.
Those who may see a red light burning
on or near the summit of Mount Diablo
this evening need fear no worse eruption
than the Cross Country Club, which goes
thither to-day and likes something red at
night to steer its course by.
Unless the Southern Pacific is ready to
prove that the fruit tariffs which it must
charge in order to do business have an eye
to the meeting of obligations which need
never have been incurred, the people of
California cannot be convinced that com
petition in transportation is unnecessary.
It is not only the helpless dead in the
Morgue who need decent treatment, but
also the healthy living people of the city
who are not ready to make personal con
tributions to the Morgue statistics by being
thrown in contact with prevalent diseases
svhich a competent Board of Health might
ivert.
POOLISH FEAfiS.
The statements made by the directors of
the San Joaquin road in reference to the
lease of China Basin, published in the
Call yesterday, are certainly sufficient to
convince any man of the sincerity of the
promoters of the enterprise, unless it
should be some man in whom suspicion
has become so predominant a character
istic that the eye cannot see, the ear can
not hear nor the mind learn of anything
that does not suggest the possibility of
fraud or danger.
That there are people so naturally in
clined to forebodings of evil they will con
jure up improbabilities to base their fore
bodings on, if nothing else serves, is well
known. Has it not been narrated that an
elderly maiden was once found sitting
upon a doorstep bitterly weeping, who, in
answer to an inquiry concerning the cause
of her grief, wailed out in a voice of woe :
"I was just thinking that if I should
marry and should have a beautiful child
and if some one should dig a well in the
vacant lot over there, and if the child
should go iuto the lot to play and fall into
the well, he would be drowned and I
should lose my child."
Absurd as the old story is, it is not with
out its parallels in common life. Is not
the dread which some of the Harbor Com
missioners have in the present case a
parallel? The Commissioners say: ff
this, if that, if the other should happen in
such and sxich a sequence the Valley road
might pass into the hands of men who if
certain additional possibilities should hap
pen would be in a position where the
Southern Pacific tinder a conceivable con
tingency would be able to get control of
the lease and drown the baby competition
in the monopoly well.
Jesting aside, however, the vast impor
tance of the projected line raises every
question that concerns it to the degree of
a great issue. The Harbor Commissioners
should look at the question of the lease in
the light of its effect upon the State and
upon all the industries thereof. Why
should there be any weak forebodings of
evil at the very time when every prospect
is> bright and every heart is full of hope
and encouragement? The State and the
people have such urgent need of the com- I
peting road, with terminal facilities in San
Francisco, that it would not be a bad bar
gain to get the road even at the price of
giving the China Basin outright as a free
gift to the company that builds it.
No such gift, however, is asked for, ex
pected or even suggested. The company '
asks only for a lease of the basin at a rental
of $1000 a year under terms that will assure j
the road the possession of that terminal
for fifty years. In consideration of this
the company is pledged to improve the
property and to enter at once upon the
construction of the proposed road. No
sane man who has any knowledge of the j
conditions under which the road has been
organized and its stock pooled can have ■
any reasonable doubt that the State will be j
a great gainer by the transaction. Fore
bodings of evil are, of course, always
possible, but in this case they are close to
the verge of folly. Men who take counsel
of their fears rather than of their hopes
never achieve anything, and in this case
there are great things to be achieved. It
is time for us to have confidence in our
selves and in our fellowmen, and the Har
bor Commissioners owe it as a duty to the
State to go forward and not stand aghast
at some remote possibility of an improb
able danger.
OAKLAND'S GREAT DAT.
We are assured that the entertainment
to be given at the Oakland Trotting Park
to-day for the benefit of the Fabiola Hos
pital will be a spectacle of uncommon
beauty and magnitude. In view of the
character and purpose of the fete nothing
could be more graceful than a very gener
ous attendance of San Franciscans. The
present indications are that the weather
will be superb.
Although this splendid fete is to be given
for the benefit of a local charity, and
therefore has not for its purpose the
broader scope of the splendid floral festi
vals which have been given by Los An
geles, Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa, it will
serve the larger purpose while accomplish
ing the smaller. The Fabiola Hospital is
a most worthy charity. It has done con
spicuous good in its way, and deserves all
the assistance to be given it. In thus pro l
viding for its necessities by the giving of a
grand outdoor entertainment the people of
Oakland are showing the very best of
those good qualities which can be employed
in advancing the material interests of their
city. Out of the success which this under
taking will score we shall expect Oakland
to draw inspiration and courage to assail
those broader tasks, in the accomplishment
of which her future greatness rests.
Meanwhile let us all make the most of
the splendid opportunity for enjoyment
which the present occasion presents. The
fashionable of the Burlingame Club will
parade in all their graceful panoply of
clothes and drags; lithe-legged young men
will run races on bicycles as though their
lives depended on winning; the horse
show will be a spectacle in itself, and fair
est of all will be the parade of the flowers
which all good Oaklanders know so well
how to grow. The gentle breezes which
sweep in through the Golden Gate will
never refresh a braver or happier gather
ing than this, nor the sunshine fall upon
warmer hearts; and the golden seeds of
charity which will be sown will fall upon
a grateful and fructifying soil.
UNIVERSITY OP THE PACiriC.
The announcement made at the meeting
of the board of trustees of the University
of the Pacific on Thursday, of the excellent
condition of the allied colleges at San Jose
and at Napa and of the university gener
ally, will give no little satisfaction to all
who are interested in higher education;
for the university holds a unique place in
our educational system and performs a
special work whose value can hardly be
overrated.
The financial condition of both colleges
was reported to be good, considering the
money stringency which has prevailed
everywhere, and the close of the fiscal year
will show but a small deficit in the funds.
Of the $50,000 necessary to liquidate the
debts of the university $42,000 has been
raised and $10,000 additional has been con
tributed to an endowment fund to assist
deserving students pursuing the classical
course. Prospects are good, moreover, for
further contributions in the near future,
and the sanguine belief is expressed that
before long fully $75,000 will be subscribed
to the different funds of the institution.
These reports are certainly full of encour
agement, and while the sums named are not
large when compared with the endowments
of some other universities, they will suffice
for the day and maintain the institution
against the coming of greater things.
The University of the Pacific does not
rank in wealth and extent with those of
Berkeley and Stanford, but none the less
it holds an important place in the educa
tional system of the State and is bound to
increase in usefulness as the State de
velops and population increases. As the
oldest university on the Pacific Coast, it
stands as the pioneer of learning, and at
tests that those who settled California in
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1895.
the early days did not all of them come
here for gold only, but that many of them
were conscious they were building a great
commonwealth, and had determined to
1-jLy its foundations broadly upon the best
and highest education.
The record achieved by the university
has been a notable one in many ways, and
the Methodist chnrch may well be proud
of having founded it, supported it and con
ducted it. It has a large body of alumni,
and many among them have attained high
eminence in the State. These men and
women having now achieved something of
power, influence and fortune, are in a posi
tion to join in the work of assisting and
promoting the aims of their alma water.
It ought to be their pride as well as their
privilege to do so, and It cannot be ques
tioned that not a few of them will so re-
gurd it. The university therefore may
reasonably look to the future for the tul
nllment of great things, and, as it occu
pies a field quite distinct from that culti
vated by any other university in the State,
its progress will be marked with sincere
gratification by every Californian.
ADVANCING- AMADOE.
The Aniador Record was recently en
larged to an eight-page form, and in mak
ing the change the public-spirited editors
used the occasion to exalt the community
they live in rather than themselves. Con
cerning the enlargement of the paper noth
ing was said except the brief paragraph
"The Record is now an eight-page quarto."
Concerning the town of Sutter Creek, how
ever, and the county generally much was
said and abundant evidence given of the
advantages the locality offers to settlers
and investors.
From the statements made in the various
articles of the paper it appears that Sutter
Creek and Amador are making improve
ments of all kinds ana expecting them
from nearly all directions. We find scat
tered over the first page paragraphs like
these: l> lt is all forward." "Nothing is
going backward." "New people are mov*
ing in." "There are no vacant dwellings
in town and new ones are going up."
"Some big mining schemes are on the tapis
in this county." '"A new railroad is head
ing toward Amador City from the lone
branch and a number of new mining ope
rations are being evolved." "The mining
interests around Jackson are in the most
flourishing condition. Several big mining
operations are in full blast and others are
being started up." "Plymouth has picked
up amazingly in the past year and a num
ber of new mining enterprises have been
inaugurated." "Oleta is on the verge of a
full-fledged mining boom." "There is a
great deal of prospecting in the vicinity of
Volcano with encouraging results." "The
parties who are developing the quartz ledge
on the Oneta ranch are pushing ahead
with a vim."
From the examples given, judge the rest.
The whole page glows with short, luminous
articles on local industries and local in
terests. Every section of the county is
mentioned. All the big mines are noted
specially. We are told what is doing at
the Wildman, the Mahoney, the South
Eureka, the Maximillian and what is ex
pected at other mines. Is or are other in
dustries overlooked. In short, the county
as a whole is pictured in these statements
of facts concerning what its people are
doing, and the picture is animated with
the life of real things. Such a paper is
worth something. It is universally in
teresting because it is locally true. We
congratulate the Calkins brothers, editors,
on their success with the enlargement of
their paper: we congratulate them on
living in a community, where, as they say,
"Everybody takes a hand in advancing
some improvement"; and, finally, we con
gratulate Sutter Creek and Amador on
having such a Record, for it is one to be
proud of.
COTJBAGE THAT WINS.
Four men of Napa — Under Sheriff
Brownlee, Attorney Bell, P. N. True and
John Williams— went hurriedly out last
Thursday to intercept two hard and dan
gerous highwaymen who had robbed the
Calistoga and Clear Lake stage, and who,
they had learned, were passengers on the
stage from Montecello to Napa. These
four have so distinguished themselves for
their courageous conduct that they stand
forth in this State and at this time as men
whom good citizens delight to honor. It
is true that they intended to reach a
Bafe spot where they might leave
their own carriage on the roadside
and ambush the ruffians; but it is true
also that having failed in this, and having
met the highwaymen on the road and dis
covered that the more dangerous of the
two was sitting beside the stage-driver and
held a shotgun in his hands, they opened
the desperate battle for life or death, in the
name of the law, and came out of a bloody
fight wounded, but victorious.
There have been many fierce battles in
California between highwaymen and offi
cers of the law, but we cannot remember
one to surpass this in brilliancy of daring.
Vasqnez was filled with buckshot while
leaping from a window; Sontag was
captured when the daylieht following the
fearful battle of the early night had made
a descent upon his shattered body rea-
sonably sale; and Evans was taken in
bed, whither he had crawled to groan
over his wounds. But these four stalwart
men of Napa — only one of whom was
bound as an officer to seek the desperadoes
— took chances vastly greater than any
which these celebrated cases disclose.
They fought to the death in the open;
took aim and tired as though their own
bodies were not covered, disregarding the
fact that at the next moment they might
be lying stark in the road; and finally
landed two of the most desperate of high
waymen in prison — one shot through the
vitals and the other already regarding the
world through a noose.
Under Sheriff Brownlee and John Wil
liams have some honorable lead in various
parts of their bodies, but no harm will
come from that. The stage-driver, John
Gardner, an honest man, has in his own
person some bullets meant for the high
waymen. That was unfortunate, but nec
essary ; and surely the good people of Napa
will know how to salve his injuries as well
as how to show appreciation for the heroic
courage of its four brave men.
FORWARDING OUR FRUITS.
In the Call of yesterday appeared a com
pact and highly instructive statement of
the conditions which will affect the over
hind shipment of this year's fruit crop in
California. It discloses a number of pecu
liar facts. One is that while the Southern
Pacific Company has arranged to furnish
700 ventilator cars for this season's use and
will try to secure a five-day time between
Sacramento and Chicago, the Santa Fe
road has gone far beyond that move by
constructing a car which may be used
either as a ventilator or a refrigerator, and
whose other great advantage is that it
saves so much to the shipper in the weight
of boxes. It is evident that every pound
saved on the weight of packages is one
pound more of fruit, and hence a saving in
the cost of transportation. This often may
represent the shipper's margin of profit.
To be more particular, by the use of the
Santa Fe car the shipper can send 3328
more pounds of fruit than in a Southern
Pacific ventilator car. Besides that the
Santa Fe boxes cost only $43 75 a car,
against $90 for boxes in a Southern Pacific
car. It is easy for the shipper to calculate
how much he could save if the Southern
Pacific would offer advantages equal to
those given by the Santa Fe.
The Southern Pacific has taken the
trouble to explain that the lumber interest
of California, as represented in the kind of
boxes which must be used in its cars, gives
employment to a large number of persons
and is an important concern. We are
as fully aware of this fact as of two others,
namely, that the Southern Pacific has an
interest in some of the mills which pro
duce fruit boxes, and that the local freight
receipts by the Southern Pacific on boxes
shipped from the place of manufacture to
the packing centers must be a considerable
item in the company's receipts. And
while the Southern Pacific may be pursuing
a praiseworthy course, by which it secures
a double advantage in encouraging the
lumber industry of the State, the fact re
mains that the production of fruit and
wine and their profitable marketing out
side the State are the main sources ufcon
which the prosperity and development of
the State must depend.
The contract between the Southern Pa
cific and the Santa Fe is based on the
proiK>sition that competition in overland
transportation would be hurtful to the in
terests of those two companies. Hence it
is that the Santa Fe is not permitted to
send its improved cars into the region
north of Goshen, or if it does they must be
sent East over the Central Pacific. This is
a very comfortable arrangement for these
two companies, but meanwhile the differ
ences between the local policies of the two
companies may be taken to explain much
of the prosperity of Southern California
and the stagnation of the business north
of Tehachapi. It is true that the superior
enterprise of the people in the southern
region has been an important factor in this
result, but it is equally true and notorious
that the efforts of the Santa Fe in develop
ing the southern region have been immeas
urably superior to those of the Southern
Pacific in this part of the State.
The salient lesson to be learned from
these complications is that a monopoly of
transportation is an evil so long as it pre
vents the profitable shipment of California
fruits to the Eastern market. The South
ern Pacific has done a handsome thing for
our fruit-growers in making arrangements
which will reduce the necessity for em
ploying refrigerator cars, but it has not
done sufficient to show that it can be safely
trusted with the enormous responsibility
of deciding by its tariffs and other regula
tions the whole question of California's
prosperity.
PERSONALS.
Dr. J. H. West of Klamathon is at the Grand.
A. B. Jackson, a banker of Salinas, is at the
Grand.
O. T. Dyer, a banker of Riverside, Is at the
Palace.
Captain and Mrs. Rich of Bakersfield are at
the Palace.
Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at
the Grand.
\V. B. Xewlin, a fruit-shipper of Los Angeles,
is a guest at the Palace.
Stanton L. Carter, an attorney of Fresno,
registered at the Lick yesterday.
C. J. Sharon came in from Virginia City yes
terday and registered at the Palace.
T. B. Phelps of the United States ship Olym
pla registered last evening at the Palace.
Senator J. H. Seawell came down from Ukiah
yesterday, and registered at the California.
William J. Jeter came to town yesterday from
Santa Cruz, and is registered at the California.
C. H. Phillips, a prominent capitalist of San
Luis Obispo, registered at the Palace yester-
day.
Varnum B. Cochran of Marquette, ex-Super
intendent of Schools of Michigan, is a guest at
the Grand.
James W. Bartlett, the District Attorney of
Trinity County, has come down from Weaver
ville and is a guest at the Lick.
Prince Franz Josef of Battenberg and Colonel
Townshend spent the day yesterday in sight
seeing about the City and will leave on this
evening's overland for the East.
Rev. A. C. Hirst, D.D., pastor Simpson Me
morial Methodist Episcopal Church, has recov
ered from an attack of the grip and will preach
to-morrow morning and evening.
Senator S. M. Cullora of Illinois, who has
been visiting San Jose and Monterey, returned
to the Palace last evening to attend the ban
quet given in his honor by the Union League
Club.
J. Stanley Brown, an agent of the Treasury
Department from Washington, arrived in this
City yesterday on his way to Alaska, and is
stopping at the Occidental. Mr. Brown mar
ried a daughter of ex-President Garfield.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The loudest-mouthed reformer is often the
first man to sell out his constituents.—Hum
bold t Standard.
Claus Spreckels, A. B. Spreckels, Grove Ayer
and Thomas Watson will go to Aptos to-day
and will remain there until next Monday.
Now that there is no danger of their doing
anything indiscreet, the President will send two
or three warships to Nicaraguan waters. —
Portland Oregonian.
Cheer up, fellow-citizens; cheer up. Less
thau two years more of Grover and Wall street,
and then we may hope for somebody else and
the people.— Fresno Republican.
A trust to control "excelsior," an article
used in upholstery, is being formed in Michi
gan. It is hardly necessary to explain that
excelsior means higher.— Santa Barbara Press.
It is a common saying that nothing can be
relied upon in the press, when just the reverse
should hold ; and that it pays to be correct and
absolutely authentic is shown in the various
grades of influence passessed by different jour
nals.—Pasadena News.
Yea, to be sure, gold is "sound money."
Just listen for a moment to the awful din its
advocates are making. But we want some
thing more than sound. We want the pros
perity which would come with the remonetiza
tion of silver.— Red lands Facts.
The present awakening in San Francisco, if
maintained, will in a few years make the Half
million Club seem very modest. There is no
reason why San Francisco should not have a
million inhabitants before the first decade of
the twentieth century Is complete.— Stockton
Independent.
So far as Pasadena is concerned we have an
exceptionally beautiful locality, with a climate
to suit, but it has taken no little effort to
turn the sheep pasture of twenty years ago
into the city of to-day. We have accomplished
it by hard work, by being loyal to the town and
to each other, and by telling the world about
it. — Pasadena News.
Now is the time for everybody to join hands
in a grand push for everything that will benefit
the town and county. A word in season and
out of season in favor of our town, its location,
capabilities, will keep it before the people
whom we want to come and make their homes
here. Let those people now here stop whin
ing. Let them praise instead of decrying the
town. Put your shoulders to the wheel and
all push together, with the one and single pur
pose of boosting the town into the front rank.
It can be done. It must be done.— Winters
Express.
Within the boundaries of Santa Barbara and
San Luis Obispo counties are all the elements
of prosperity. Were they by some convulsion
of nature torn from the coast and made an
island of the inland sea they would still possess
attributes that would make them independent.
Iron and coal, gold and bitumen, strawberries,
potatoes, olives, fruit, wheat, barley, rye, oats
and every other product of the soil are ele
ments of Independence upon which it is safe
to rely and build future hopei. — San Luis
Obispo Breeze.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
Colonel T. Chalmers Scott, who is a candidate
for adjutant-general, was a newspaper corre
spondent once, and although but a boy at the
time worked up a big "scoop" for the New
York Herald. The other evening at the Occi
dental he was telling about it and said: "Upon
the opening of the China steamship line in
18G7 I made the round trip to China and back
on the first steamer, the old Colorado, on her
first voyage there as special correspondent for
the New York Herald. On our arrival at Hong
kong at midnight the Pacific and Oceanic
steamer, which had waited twenty-four hours
for us, was ready to start. I borrowed
the captain's gig and boarded her
and mailed my letters, paying pursers'
rates for postage. She left in half an
hour for the West. There was no other
steamer for a week and so the Herald beat the
Tribune and other New York papers. Coming
back our steamer was to leave Yokohama at
such an hour that the latest quotations irom
Shanghai on rice and flour and other impor
tant articles by cable were four or five hours
old. I arranged for a tug to come down the
channel nnd meet us with the quotations later
than any others had received. Before our
arrival at San Francisco the local agent of the
Herald had chartered the Western Union tele
graph line for twenty-four hours for trade pur
poses. I came from the steamer without wait
ing for my baggage to the telegraph office and
sent off all the quotations and other corre
spondence in cipher, and the Herald printed
the news twenty-four hours ahead of all the
other New York papers. The Herald having
the line would let no news through for the
other papers."
C. C. Terrill, who is heard frequently in the
councils of the Civic Federation, returned from
a visit to the Santa Rosa Rose Carnival yester
day and when told that the federation had
been informed by Manager E. P. Vining of the
Market-street Railway Company that the com
pany was complying strictly- with the fender
ordinance, he smiled broadly and replied:
"That reminds me of the story they tell of a
well-known attorney of Sacramento, who is
wont to indulge too deeply in the intoxicating
bowl. A short time ago his friends resolved to
have him arrested on account of his drunken
ness, so as to teach him a lesson.
"So, late one night when Attorney X was un
usually exhilarated he was literally dragged
away to the City Prison and credited on the
prison register with disturbing the peace. X
put up $5 bail and gave his name as Smith— he
was sober enough to appreciate the advisabil
ity of that, at least.
"The next morning when the case was called
an attorney arose close to the Judge's bench
and moved, very solemnly, for the dismissal of
the case. His Honor blinked knowingly and
asked: »
" 'Which is the defendant?' as he looked to
ward the dock.
"Just then the attorney leaned over and
whispered to his Honor:
" 'Sh, Judge. I'm the defendan t.'
'"Case dismissed,' said the court
"Do you think the counsel of the Market
street Railway Company and their imported
manager can obtain a dismissal of the charges
of disregard of the law by such a plan? Well,
I think not."
Colonel John S. Young of the Russ House last
evening was speaking of the great reduction in
the number of guests at the hotels at the be
ginning of the harvest season. "A month ago
the hotel was crowded. The falling off In the
arrivals from the interior of the State now as
the harvesting is about to begin is nearly 50 per
cent, and for the next three or four months a
large number will be kept at home."
Manager Thorn of the Grand Hotel takes a
good deal of interest in the coming Venetian
water carnival of Santa Cruz, and has notified
the committee in charge that he will give them
all the committee-rooms they may require in
this City in the Grand Hotel. Mr. Thorn has
been placed on the committee on promotion by
Chairman Sullivan of Santa Cruz.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Paul Bourget will be formally received into
the French Academy on June 13.
Thomas Kelson Page has a beautiful home
full of valuable things from all parts of the
■world.
There is a probability that President Faure
will shortly visit England and be a guest of the
Queen.
Myron J. Whitney of Syracuse, N. Y.,is suing
the State Board of Charities for keeping him
shut up as a lunatic for 264 days, and claims
$1,320,000, or $5000 a day.
Kaiser Wilhelm has forbidden the officers
and men of the Berlin garrison to smoke in the
principal streets of the city, in consequence of
irregularities in the salute offered to His
Majesty and the members of the royal family.
Senator Manderson of Nebraska has a fine
collection of Indian relics at his home in
Omaha, and one that time will render each
year of increasing value, for our Indians and
their ways will soon be things of a past gener
ation.
Marie Louise's son by her chamberlain, Count
Neippurg, whom she married after Napoleon's
death, has just died near Vienna. He was
Prince William of Montenuovo, an Italianized
form of Neuberg (Neipperg), and was 74 years
old. He survived his brother, the King of
Rome, sixty-three years.
Emperor Frar.cis Joseph of Austria, says Le
Figaro, intends to change the order of succes
sion established by the pragmatic sanction of
1723, by which Maria Theresa became Queen,
and to have the crown transferred to his only
grandson, the child of his youngest daughter
Valeric and the Archduke Francis Salvator.
Professor Victor Horsley, who is a relentless
vivisectionist, has won his great reputation a
a brain specialist to some extent by the vigor
ous research he has made into the surgical
methods in vogue among the prehistoric races,
lie is a tall, well-built man, clean shaven, ex
cept for his mustache, with dark-brown hair,
gray eyes and a well-shaped head. His manner
is abrupt and seemingly thoughtless, and his
dexterity with the surgical knife is nothing
short of marvelous.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
It is cheaper to owe rent than to move.— New
York Press.
England considers it generally advisable to
send an ultimatum C. 0. D.— Washington Star.
The man who never forgets anything never
forgets to boast about it to every one he meets.
—Boston Globe.
Sne— No, Mr. Bluunderre, I cannot entertain
your proposal. The truth is lam engaged to
marry your father.
He— Why, the old idiot.— lndianapolis Jour
nal. A
Before marriage the question a girl asks her
lover is, "Do you really love me?" After mar
riage the query becomes, '"Is my hat on
straight?" — Tammany Times.
Man is made in God's own image, so we are
told. When we look about us, it is rather hard
to believe this, but when we come to ourselves
it is easy to see that it must be so.— Boston
Transcript.
She had now become desperate.
"Your family has a grand name," he ob
served.
"I would prefer almost any other," she re
joined with a promptness sufficient to suggest
that she had given the subject thought.
After a time she sat as one in a trance and
wondered what would be the chances of his
tumbling if a wheat elevator were to precipi
tate Itself upon him.— Detroit Tribune.
Young lady— l must have some money to go
off on a journey.
Father— Eh? Where?
| (Young lady— l don't know yet, but I must
go somewhere at once.
Father— Why! What's happened?
Young lady — The dressmaker misunderstood
me, and instead of a walking costume she has
sent me a traveling gown.— Tid Bits.
Mrs. Snaggs— l am so glad that Mr. Bloomfleld
is rid of his chills and ague.
Mr. Snaggs— But he isn't.
"You said he was."
"I didn't."
"You said the ague had given him the cold
shake."
"Well?"
Here the discussion ended.— Pittsburg Chron
| icle Telegraph.
MR.WILDER IS ON GUARD.
The Hawaiian Representative
Is Watching the Fili
busters.
He Does Not Think This Govern
ment Will Interfere With
Them at Present.
Charles T. Wilder, Consul-General for
Hawaii, is on the alert for filibustering in
surrectionists who are supposed to be
making preparations to invade the Para
dise of the Pacific and overthrow the
present Government of Hawaii. In an
interview on the subject yesterday Mr.
Wilder said:
"There have been rumors and rumors of
filibustering expeditions for many months
past, but I learned nothing definite until a
! short time ago. At first I paid no atten
tion to these rumors, but I have since ob
tained information which has caused me
to change my mind. Now lam convinced
that the rumors were not without founda
tion. In fact, I know there is some
thing in the wind, but just what I know
lam not now at liberty to tell. I have re
ceived iastructions from my Government
to investigate the matter thoroughly, and
to take such steps as may be necessary to
prevent the shipment of guns and invaders
to the islands from American ports. Of
course as a matter of official duty, as well
as one of sentiment and political faith, I
shall do all in my power to prevent unlaw
ful shipments of arms and men from
United States ports. And lam not idle in
the premises, 1 can assure you."
"Have you any agents in the field watch
ing the suspected leaders of the proposed
insurrection?" was asked.
"Yes, I have three or four of them," re-
I plied Mr. Wilder, "and they are wide
awake and very siy. I know for a cer
tainty who are the men that are working
up this filibustering scheme. 1 cannot
give the names of the principals just now,
but I know who they are. I have no hesi
tation, however, in mentioning the name
of one of the agents of the filibustering
chiefs. It is Francis L. G. Harden, an ad
venturous young fellow, who is wholly
irresponsible. He has everythine to gain
and nothing to lose. He was banished
from Hawaii last winter, and has roved
about on this Coast ever since. He re
cently went to the southern part of the
State on a secret mission for the men who
are backing the insurrectionary move
ment. I have had him watched, and I
have learned that he is up to mischief."
"What will you do in case that you have
positive proof of a hostile movement on
the Coast?"
"What will I do? Well, I hardly know
just what I can do. My only course will be
to lay the matter before the United States
i authorities and invoke the intervention of
i the neutrality law. But I don't expect
! much, if anything, from the United States
; Government. In fact it has been shown that
j this Government will not interfere or take
any action at law in any cases of violation
of the neutrality laws so far as Hawaii is
concerned. Take the case of the schooner
Wahlberg for instance, and her captain,
Mathew Martin. There was not even the
shadow of a doubt that the Wahlberg
landed the rifles and ammunition, and
further, that Captain Wahlberg swore to a
false manifest of cargo.
When I tried to prosecute Martin for
violating the neutrality laws I was in
formed by the United States District At
torney for the Southern District of Cali
fornia, Mr. Denis, that I had no case un
less it were to prosecute Martin for perjury
in swearing to a manifest and then putting
in an additional cargo of arms. When I
consulted United States District Attorney
j Foote I was informed that there was no
I case on any grounds against Captain Mar
tin. Hence, Martin and the Wahlberg
were released. If the insurrectionists suc
ceed in leaving this Coast, with a vessel of
light draft, they will have no trouble in
landing in Hawaii. There are hundreds
of coves and inlets and natural harbors on
ali of the islands— harbors that are un-
guarded and from which guns, men, am
munition and other accoutrements of war
can be landed at any time with ease and
comparative safety."
A PANHANDLE OHUECH.
The Howard Presbyterian Building to
Be Moved Out Near the Park.
There is a good prospect of a Presbyterian
church being erected near the panhandle
of Golden Gate»Park before very long. The
matter has been under discussion for some
time. It seems that years ago the officers
of Hamilton-square Church purchased a
building lot near Hamilton square, but
they never built a church thereon. In
time the lot was sold for $2500. The Wood
bridge Presbyterian Church, which dis
banded after paying all its debts, had
about $4000 left. The two sums of money
were thrown together by the presbytery
and a lot purchased near the panhandle.
Since then various suggestions have been
made as to the use to wnich the land could
be put, and many were in favor of erecting
a building there for mission purposes.
The Howard Presbyterian Church on Mis
sion street, near Third, after several ups
and downs, called Rev. F. R. Farrand to
its pulpit. That gentleman, in a spirit of
enterprise, suggested that the Howard
Church be moved out upon the panhandle
lot, and the project has met with universal
favor by the members of the congregation.
At a recent meeting of the board of di
rectors the moving of the old church was
indorsed. It is believed that in the near
future steps will be taken to carry out the
proposition.
BEAUTirUL CAENATIONS.
J. H. Sievers Won the State Floral
Society's Special Premium.
At a meeting of the California State
Floral Society yesterday a society badge
was discussed. A committee, composed of
Mrs. Charles Mason,- Mrs. Weister, Mrs
Baldwin, Mrs. Ryder and Mrs. Martin, was
appointed to select a design for the badge.
At the June meeting Mr. Hutchinson wili
read a paper on the sweet pea. At the
July meeting J. H. Sieyers will present a
paper on tuberous bigonias. It was de
cided to have a permanent floral exhibit
at the coming Mechanics' Institute Fair
A beautiful exhibit of carnations was
made by J. H. Sievers, Gallert & Co. and
P. L. Volberg of Alameda, who competed
for the $7 50 premium offered by John Hin
kle for the best, variety. Sievers won the
premium.
Hounds and Hares.
San Jose, Sacramento, Modesto, Stockton,
Oakland, Merced and Fresno, as also San Fran-
Cisco, are enthusiastic in their efforts to secure
some of the prize money offered to all
comers at the interstate coursing meet
ing to be held at Casserly's well-known
coursing park at Ocean View, commenc
ing Decoration day, May 30, and continuing
the two following Bandars. Messrs D. Shan
non j. j. kdmonds, John Grace, H. Huft, J. K.
Dickson and J. H. i>erigo will have charge of
the meeting. Casserly Bros, have added 8305
to the stake. Following are the prizes: First,
»25Qj second, $125; tnird and fourth, 850
each; fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth, .•*!•>
each. There will he a consolutiou stake,
to whicn the club will add a purse.
Mr. John Grace will be in the saddle, and Mr.
James \\ re n will handle the slips. In antici
pation of the large attendance thaPis expected,
the Messrs. Casserly have remodeled the grand
stand and grounds, intending to make this the
greatest meeting ever held ou the Pacific Coast.
The great number of hares now in the park
will satisfy the wi&hes of the most ardent
sportsman. *
Forage Contract* Awarded.
At a joint meeting of the Committee on
Health and Police, Fire Department and Hos
pital Committee yesterdy contracts for fur
nishing forage for public institutions were
recommended favorably to the Board of Super
visors as follows: To Scott <fe McCord— Wheat
and oat hay mixed, $12 28 per ton; oaten hay,
•fll per ton; wheaten hay, $12 84 per ton;
Dran, 77 cents per 100 pounds; barley straw,
72 cents per bale. To Peter & Rowie— Alfalfa
hay $11 25 per ton. To J. L. Vermeil— Tula
hay, $1 25 per bale. To D. Keefe & Co.— Oats,
$1 19 7 'r per 100 pounds; middlings, 79 cents
per 100 pounds; ground barley, S7 cents per
100 pounds; carrots. 49 cents per 100 pounds.
Varley'B Lectures.
The third lecture in the series of addresses to
young men only, now being given at the Chris
tian Association building, Mason and Ellis
streets, by Rev. Mr. Varley, will be delivered
to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Eacon Printing Company, 503 Clay street •
Plain mixed candies, 10c lb. Townsend's.*
Geo. W. Monteith, law ottices, Crocker bldg.*
Important— Eine eyeglasses,2oc ; 81 Fourth st.,
nr. barber. Sundays, 730 Market, Kast. •
We guarantee our ports and sherries to be
pure. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street.*
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.—
Spring Exhibition open daily. Admission
26 cts. Thursday even., admission 50 cts. *
Summer Clothing.
Men's dusters, 50c; fancy French flannel
coats and vests, $2 95; alpaca, mohair and
linen coats and dusters, all at bottom figures.
The old I. X. L., L. V. Merle, proprietor, corner
Kearny and Commercial streets. ♦
J. L. Hand of Pelham, Ga., is known as
the watermelon king. He plants several
thousand acres of seed every spring, and
in the summer season ships Hundreds of
carloads of melons North.
The way to give strength to the weak and ttml
body is to purify the blood. Hood's SarMpwrtOa
the only true blood purifier, makes jmre blood and
gives health. Try it now.
The charm of beauty is beautiful hair. Secure
it with Parker's Hair Balsam.
lliudebcobns, the best cure for corns, IB cents.
Secure a sound mind, which seldom goes with
out a sound digestion, by using Dr. Siegert's
Angostura Bitters.
A Slight Cold, if Nk<;lectet>, Often' At.
tacks thk Lt'NG.s. " Jirotcn's Broncliial Trt>rlies"
give immediate and effect uul relief.
British society has possessed some sort
of visiting card for nearly '200 years. The
early Englisn cards were used exclusively
by statesmen and peers as a means of noti
fying the people of less quality that a visit
from them would be acceptable.
PERFECT GEMS.
THOSE LOVELY
DINNER SETS.
Selling for a Mere Song.
DINNER SETS COMPLETE.
Pure White Set complete $4 00
Rich Brown Decorated Set complete 4 75
Dainty Harvest Decorated Bet complete 5 75
Decorated Gold Enamel and Wild Flower
Set complete 7 00
Gold Illuminated Decorated Set complete,
exquisite 8 25
Decorated Toilet Set 1 65
Decorated Toilet Set, extra large size... 2 65
Newest and Richest Shapes, design!
and decorations. Don't fail to see them.
Gems of beauty. . ~< : m
A Revelation in Prices— New Features.
AT
Great American Importing: Tea Co.'s
52 Market Street ")
140 Sixth Street
1419 Polk Street
521 Montgomery Aye.
2008 Fillmore Street :
8006 Sixteenth' Street - l^;i-~ c j
SSFJISZ? San Francisco
333 Hayes Street
218 Third Street
104 Second Street
146 Ninth Street
2510 Mission Street
3259 Mission Street
917 Broadway ) a i i j
131 San Pablo Avenue - IJrIR Mllfl
616 E. Twelfth Street ) WttAiailu
Park Street and Ala- ) Alnmniln
meda Avenue f niaillGUa
REAL ESTATE
FOB SALE BY
Tlos. lap &--SODSL
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
And Publishers "Real Estate Circular."
REMOVED TO
4 Montgomery Street,
IV Oi TRUST BUILDI.«, (*UKI MARKET.
NEW PROPERTY.
Special bargain, $7500; income property at Xorth
Beach; 3 nice houses, 7 rooms and bath each, base-
ment; rent, $25 each ; terms reasonable.
I'aciHc Heights— For sale at less than cost; easy
terms; payments as small as rent; price $72.">0;
new houses of nine rooms; tine marine view; very
sunny, completely finished.
Clay St., between Polk and Van Ness; 60x127:8,
an.i fair house; $15,000.
Waller st., near Stanyan, 25x137:6; $1900.
Vallejo st., near Baker, 69 feet front: $3600.
Green st.. north side, near Hyde: very Rood
8-story, 9 rooms and modern conveniences: $3700.
INVESTMENTS.
Larkin-st. investment having two corners, store*
and dwellings, rentlntr for $497: lot nearly a 50-
-vara in size; on one of the best portions of the
Street.
Third St.: rents $385: $70,000: solid building in
stores and rooms. , . '
Warehouse: 50-vara; 412:6 feel from ships and
water front: Lombard, near Sanaome; level lot and
grade; 137:6x137:6; $13,500; has rear front also.
Sutter-Bt. business property, near Kwjrny; 54:bx
120 to rear street and solid brick building; can be
leased to pay well.
HOUSES AND LOTS NORTH OF
MARKET STKKET.
Bush, near Mason, south side; 3-story and base-
ment modern house; rents $.5; 0.000.
Cheap* $5500; Fine St., near stqekton: 34:6 x
77:6. and 2-story house; 12 rooma and modern
CO Jo V ne n sand e Chestnut: 36x137:6: line view and
fine neighborhood; street work done: reduced to
OeMT st north side. nr. Hyde; 25x87:6, and
vprv srood 2-story: $9000.
Ke\r£s7s: Woo: Hyde st., bet. Pine and Cali-
fornia: 3-story: new building.
MISSION HOUSES AND LOTS.
niMlO- neat cottape, 7 rooms, bath and modern
conveniences; lot 60x114: Hill st., bet. Church
and Sanchez: tine view; one block from electric
CS Reduced to $3600— Corner 24th st. and Poplar
alley just west of Valencia; 30x84, and cottage, 5
room's, bath, hot and cold water; street sewered
and macadamized.
Howard St., cottage and lot 30x122:6, bet. 22d
and -3d; one of the best residence portions of the
street* cable-cars pass: $5600.
$6000 ; nearly new flats; 5 and 6 rooms and bath
each: rent $45: Folsom St., bet. 20th and 21st.
$3750 ; very ne nearly new modern 2-story house ;
8 rooms, bath, etc. 27:6x125; west side Collingwood
st., bet. 19th and 20th, a short block west of ('astro;
cable-cars: street work done; $1800 cash; balance
$28 a month.
PRESIDIO -HEIGHTS CORNER AND
INSIDE LOTS.
Jackson St., 2 lots 27:6x127:6; $2750 each; bet.
Oeaural aye. and Walnut. I
Clay st.. north side. bet. Central aye. and Walnut
st,: 25x127:8: fine view; $2600.
Cheap; $2000 only each: 3 lots; 27:6x137:6;
north side' Sacramento, bet. Spruce and Maple;
cable-cars pass: easy terms.
Jackson and Wulmu; corner; 83x127:8: $5000. i
Beduced to $'2000; lots 25x127:8: Jackson st.;
magnificent view: bet. Locust and Spruce; street
work done; any size front.
Pacific and Walnut: corner: 30 feet front: facing
the Presidio reserve; line view; not to be shut off;
$4000. ?-•;■;
I Cheap: reduced to $7500: Pacific aye. and Lo-
cust; frontins; the Presidio; 118x137:6 ; view can-
: not be shut off.
Cheap lo's: $1500 to $1550; on Sacramento st,,
bet. i entxa] avenue and Walnut; 25x100 each;
cable-cars pass.
$1750 each: two lots: 15x100: north side: Sac-
ramento st., near Cherry ; I cable-cars pass.
- $1550; Sacramento st., near Locust; 25x100;
street sewered; cable-cars puss. - •
Cheap corner: 37:6x100; $2400; SW. cor. Sao*
ramento and Maple; cable line passes.
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