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WEDNESDAY .....MAY 15,1895
Street improvement must not be made
to wait forever.
Prospects are never bright for those who
have clouded eyes.
Even a debt on the streets would be bet
ter than cobblestones.
V\'e may have a feeling for Cuba, but we
are not reaching for it.
It would not be a very hard job to im
prove on the street-paving.
For those who keep out of crooked paths
the world is straight enough.
Talk of enterprise may be nothing but
wind, but it will turn somebody's mill.
New York will evidently have to do all
her reforming over again on another basis.
It is an easy prediction that during the
coming decade Sacramento Valley will rise
rapidly. . .
San Francisco should set an example to
the State in street work as well as in rail
road building.
Princeton beat Yale in debate, but when
it came to an athletic contest with Berke
ley her wind gave out.
Since Mrs. Lease ha 3 exhibited her pos
session of the power of hypnotism, there is
a wild demand for her to try it on Grover.
Even the Silurians ought to understand
that when the cobblestones are removed
from the streets they will have a quieter
time.
The political reformer thinks he has a
soft snap when he enters into non-partisan
combinations, but they generally turn out
to be quagmires.
Japan will have a sweet revenge in de
manding a right to have a voice in the set
tlement of the terms of peace after the
next European war.
The announcement that Cleveland has
nine different lives of Andrew Jackson is
calculated to weaken the popular belief in
the influence of books.
In disciplining Admiral Meade the Cleve
land administration will have the un
pleasant task of proving his insubordina
tion by his patriotism.
Ysaye has fiddled his way into the hearts
of the people here, but his bow is graceful
or " otherwise, according to the way in
which we pronounce it.
The sincerest expression of sympathy
which California can show to the frost
etr.' fruit regions of the East is to sell
to them better fruit than they have lost.
The use of bicycles has become so com
mon in New York that the builders of new
flat-houses are arranging to furnish each
flat with a storage-room for the family
wheels.
Those who enjoyed Dean Hole's humor
during his visit to this country will appre
ciate his recent remark, "I was glad to
note that athletics are not neglected in
American colleges."
Some of the big Eastern papers are hav
ing a lively dispute as to whether it is the
more correct to say "up to date" or "down
to date," and until they cease agitating the
question it is safest to say "fin de siecle."
The information that the Indians of
New Mexico are about to "rise" does not
add that they will rise sufficiently high to
Berve as targets for army rifles and as elo
quent protests against pilfering by Indian
agents.
The reduction of gas rates for lighting
purposes and the promise of a still greater
reduction for gas used in machinery is
another of those torches which are coming
fast to iight the way of San Francisco's
progress.
The President's assurance to Mr. Ricketts
that the mineral lands in the railroad
grant will receive attention might be un
comfortable news for the Federal Land
Department if it thinks that the President
is in earnest.
Dr. Parkhurst may be correct in saying
"unless something is done at once to save
the big cities they will go straight to the
devil"; but we have always understood
that things had to go crooked to reach
that destination.
One of the oddest causes of death on
record is reported from Chicago in the
case of a man who. while moistening an
envelope, managed to cut his tongue
slightly with the edge of the paper and
died from blood-poisoning.
It is not surprising that the Valley road
directors who are looking over the ground
ere not saying anything with regard to
the route which the road will take when
we reflect that the directors expect the
people of the valley to do the saying.
The Brazilians being dissatisfied with
Rio Janeiro as a capital city, because it is
neither central, healthful nor well laid out,
are t-lking of building a new capital on a
plateau of the mountains, and expect to
make it one of the model cities of the world.
.The enterprise of San Antonio, Tex., in
bidding $40,000 for the distinguished honor
of having two bruisers fight for money un
der its auspices, is the kind that afflicted
San Francisco in the recent years ante
dating the present reign of civilization,
pride arid progress.
Chauncev Depew asserts the main issue
for 1896 will be neither the money question
nor the tariff, but the duty of saving the
Government from a continuance of Demo
cratic paralysis; and Mr. Depew would not
be very rash if he should back his opinion
by offering to bet on it.
When the London Times began a series
of articles on American art galleries a
happy serenity was noticed in the East
over the expectation of compliments, but
now that the writer says the Boston Gal
lery of Fine Arts contains "a roomful of
Italian pictures mostly large and of doubt
ful genuineness" there is danger of a
racket.
DISCOEDANT NON-PABTISANS.
The way of the political reformer is hard
at all times, but never so hard as when he
unaertakes to reform things by means
of a non-partisan movement. This truth
is mjide evident by the condition of
affairs now existing in New York. All
other States in the Union have finished
their legislative business, retired politics
to the background, and are now giving at
tention either to the advancement of in
dustry, the revival of baseball or Bpecol*
tions concerning whom the Republicans
will elect to the Presidency in 1896. New
York, however, is still in the throes of
political controversy, and the prospect of
any good outcome grows dimmer every
day.
The situation is both interesting and in
structive. Never was there a greater politi
cal victory than tb»* won by the reformers
in New York last .all. The people had
been aroused to the need of reform and
educated on the subject by a long cam
paign against the prevailing evils. The
public exposure of the iniquities of Tam
many made by the official investigation of
the Lexow Committee, had furnished
ample evidence to enable the reformers to
purify municipal government in New York
by convicting the guilty officials. An
enormous majority in both the city and
the State gave strength to the victors and
clearly manifested the force of the public
sentiment that sustained them. Evidently
an opportunity for the performance of
great things was afforded by this unprece
dented success, and yet up to this time not
only has nothing of note been done, but
there is no promise of anything.
Not even the Democratic majority in the
last Congress was more futile than has
been the reform nuijority in New York.
There have been nothing but wranglings
in the city and in the State all winter.
Criminations and recriminations have been
bandied back and forth by the leaders and
by the press on both sides. Our New York
exchanges are given up almost wholly to
mutual animosities and denunciations.
Journals that agreed in advocating the re
form movement are now abusing one an
other as bitterly as they once fought Tam
many. There is harmony of action no
where, but on every side discord and con
fusion worse confounded.
We are too far away from the scene of
action to undertake to pronounce judgment
between the contending factions. One
thing, however, seems clearly evident. The
reformers made the mistake of seeking
victory through a non-partisan organiza
tion, and that organization has dissolved
into its constituent elements. It exhibits
itself as a conglomeration of factions in
stead of an harmonious party. It has
fallen to pieces simply because it was never
more than a rope of sand and because
there was never in it any coherent force
other than an opposition to the Tammany
administration. In this respect it fur
nishes a political moral which all citizens
who desire good government would do
well to heed. Popular government to be
effective must be a government by parties
each having a well understood and clearly
defined policy of action. Only in this way
can majorities work together and carry out
any needed legislation. Non-partisan move
ments are always failures in government,
no matter how successful they may be at
the polls, and the impotent conclusion to
which the Lexow investigation has come
in New York is only a glaring illustration
of a truth which before this has been-dem
onstrated in many another experiment in
American politics.
ME. EICKETTS COMES HOME.
A. H. Ricketts, a competent mining at
torney, who went to interview President
Cleveland in the interest of the State
Miners' Association of California on the
subject of Government patents to railroad
lands, has made a most encouraging report.
He informed the President of the loose
manner in which the Federal Land De
partment was issuing patents to the Cen
tral Pacific for granted lands, which, had
they been properly classified, would have
been excluded from the operation of a
patent by the fact that they bear deposits
of precious metals. The President took a
strong interest in his representations and
gave direct assurances that the matter
would receive the most careful attention.
One of the oldest of the constant scan
dals which have afflicted the State is the
matter of patents for railroad grants. This
has taken the double form of patentß with
held that should have been issued, and
patents issued that should have been with
held. For many years it has been almost
a byword in California that certain inferior
attaches of the land department have
found the railroad land grant an exceed
ingly profitable matter. The game has
been played with the most absurdly con
tradictory results, and it began years ago.
At this time the Southern Pacific has
thousands of contracts with bona-fide pur
chasers of its granted lands for which it
has not yet received a patent. The com
pany declines to issue any deed until it has
received a patent, although many of the
settlers would be satisfied with a mere
quitclaim. Meanwhile the settlers have
paid amounts ranging from one-fifth Up
ward on the purchase price, and are paying
interest at 7 per cent on the remainder.
Not even the most rabid hater of the
Southern Pacific can show any reason why
the issuance of patents to the company is
delayed from year to year, except in a few
cases where the courts have not given a
final decision in favor of the company
where contests were raised. It is con
ceivable that the various commissioners
of the land office might have been influ
enced in this perverse course, which has
been so hurtful to California, by a desire to
make political capital out of the railroad's
unpopularity; but it is not possible to ac
cept this as an explanation of the Gov
ernment's course with regard to the pat
enting of granted lands which are believed
to bear gold and silver.
If President Cleveland is moved by a
very earnest desire to investigate this mat
ter of patenting lands that the Miners'
Association is ready to prove are not pat
entable under the grant, one of his most
profitable sources of inquiry might be the
singular unanimity with which the special
agents of the Land Commissioners have
reported on the absence of precious metals
in these disputed areas. Perhaps Mr.
Ricketta, himself, might be able to en
lighten the Presidential understanding on
this subject. Of course it is one thing to
surmise the inspiration of these reports
and another to prove its character, and
Mr. Ricketts may not be in possession of
such evidence as would convince the Presi
dent and open the doors of the peniten
tiary to his agents ; but we may be sure
that if the President is sincere in his as
surances to Mr. Ricketts, the overhauling
of these reports and an investigation into
the conduct of the Government inspectors
while here on this mission would be one
of the clearest duties that confronts him.
THE OBOAK. OF THE fiAVEJST.
The unfortunate tie-up between the Har
bor Commissioners and the directors of the
San Joaquin road over the lease of China
Basin has given occasion to the Southern
Pacific of Kentucky to utter its first raven
croak of satisfaction this year. The croak
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1895.
comes, of course, from the Record-Union,
and takes the form of a column long at
tempt to prove that San Francisco is on
the wrong side of, the bay; that it can
never prosper, and that it ought not to be
the terminal of any railroad, except, possi
bly, one for local traffic.
The gist of the whole argument is in the
assertion that San Francisco is on the
wrong side of the bay, and, as the Record-
Union puts it, "is practically on an island
out at sea." The argument applies with
much greater force to New York and to
Brooklyn than to San Francisco. Those
cities are not only practically, but actually,
"on islands out at sea." So the great East
Indian city of Bombay is on an "island
out at sea," and Hongkong, the center of
the commerce of the Orient, is on an "island
out at sea." It is evident, therefore, that
some islands occupy positions which enable
them to command the commerce of vast
regions, and that if it be conceded that San
Francisco is practically on an island, it
would in no wise diminish her prestige or
weaken the prospect of her future great
ness. She asks no higher destiny than to
hold on the Pacific the rank which the
island city of New York holds on the
Atlantic.
It is not worth while to consider in detail
all the inferences adverse to San Francisco
which the Record-Union draws from the
premise that it is on the wrong side of the
bay. Suffice it that not a single one of
them applies to this City with auy more
force than to the other great cities we have
named. To question the advantages of the
site of San Francisco is foolish in the light
of existing facts. This City was not founded
by the decree of an arbitrary will like St.
Petersburg, but it grew up naturally as the
result of the position it held and the con
ditions surroupding it. No one compelled
merchants, bankers and manufacturers to
settle here, and if they came to this penin
sula by common consent, it was because
they recognized that here ia to stand the
metropolis of the Pacific Coast.
It is not, therefore, the arguments of the
He cord- Union that affect us much, though,
doubtless if the article be reproduced by
the railroad organs in the East, it will do a
great deal to discredit San Francisco and
prevent capital and men of enterprise from
coming here. That which really concerns
us is the animus it displays toward the
City. What the Record-Union writes the
Southern Paciric desires. We could afford
to smile at it if it were only as much of a
newspaper as it appears to be, but when
we remember that it is the avowed mouth
piece and organ of a great corporation
having a monopoly of the transportation
service of the State, this declaration of hos
tility to the City becomes a matter of seri
ous importance.
With this raven croak of exultation over
what that bird of ill-omen believes to be
the approaching doom of San Francisco,
ringing in their ears, surely the Harbor
Commissioners can no longer conceal from
themselves that they are playing into the
hands of the monopoly by delaying the
granting of terminal facilities in San Fran
cisco to the competing road in accordance
with the desires of the people and the pro
visions of the act of the Legislature. San
Francisco in this instance is righting, not
for herself only, but for the whole State,
and none who desire the welfare of the
State can oppose that of the City.
UP-TO-DATE IDEAS.
Among the recent inventions is that of a
check protector, which combines a flexible die
with a yielding anvil, obviating thereby the
necessity of sharpening the punches.
When the perforator is to be used an adjust
able guidepiece at one side makes the check
take the necessary position to have the figures
punched at the right place. The dick on which
are the figures is then moved fa either direc
tion to bring the first figure to be punched un
der the punch lever, and if similarly moved
for each succeeding figure. The check is auto-
matically moved along by the feed device in
front, the latter being raised by its finger-piece
to release the check punch after punching,
says the Scientific American.
The action of the device is clean and accu
rate, and the moving parts instantly respond to
the operating lever. By removing the cover,
which is readily done by taking out the three
screws in the base, access is easily had to the
whole of the mechanism, which is not only
quite simple, but duraole.
Banks are always glad to see such devices as
this used by their customers; they furnish &
sure preventive against one kind of forgery.
A check punched in this way cannot be
"raised."
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
It is a peculiar mixture of democratic idea
and monanhism in the fiesta contests that
elects a queen by the popular vote.— Fresno
Republican.
Just think of it, farmers, one solid million
in cash gees East each year for hog meat. Why
not start a packing-house in the northern part
of California and use your own hog meat?—
Corning Observer.
The argument is made by some that issuing
bonds to build good roads is nn extravagance.
Investigation proves that it is far more eco
nomical to build new roads on scientific prln
c'T'U-s than to spend $54,000 annually in
patching very indifferent old ones. — Dixon
Tribune. "
Cheap power from the 6an Joaquin and cheap
transportation to the competing road will
bring to Fresno some of the most important
industries on the Pacific Coast. Mark the pre
diction and see if it is not fulfilled. The next
two years will witness an industrial revolution
in this city.— Fresno Republican.
The Government report showing an increase
of 1,800,000 pounds in our imports of foreign
hops at New York during the first six months'
operation of the reform tariff is another of Mr.
Cleveland's object lessons, which appeals with
especial force to the Oregon farmers who have
hops to sfll at this time.— Astorian (Oregon).
Take an honest pride in tho community you
call home. No matter whether some one yon
may not love as a brother is holding an import
ant position over you. Sustain him in doing
his duty and. manfully fight for him when you
see he is in the rig-ht. Be a man and rise above
personal bickerings and little jealousies when
the welfare oi your town is at 6taVe.— Sant*
Clara Journal."
Is this a truthful statement? If so, what's
the matter with our farmers ? According to
the April report of the Statistician of the De
partment of Agriculture the United States can
not produce sufficient potatoes for our own
consumption, but must buy from foreigners to
the tune of about 3,000,000 bushels a
year. In 1888 a very large crop was raised,
yet we had to Import 8,000,000 bushels that
year.— Alameda Encinal.
The holding of the National Republican con
vention at San Francisco would be a great thing
for ti.° coast, prove a great advertising; benefit,
and givt a lot of Eastern people enlarged and
correct ideas as to the immensity, resources
and importance of tlio country west of the
Rockies. It would also give the goldbug ele
ment of the party, or some of them, who live
East, the benefit, of the broad, expansive silver
currency sentiments of the live and vigorous
Keuublicans.of the West.— Shasta Courier.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
"The people in Texas are hungry for Califor
nia fruits, fresh, dried and otherwise pre
served," said H. F. Burton, a prominent busi
ness man of San Antonio, Tex., yesterday.
"But for some reason or otberthe prices are so
high that very few of the fruit-hungry are able
to indulge in the luxury.
"I am not in the mercantile business," he
continued, "but I know something of the ins
and outs of the produce trade. When I think
of the prices that the people in my part of the
country have to pay for California fruits and
the prices at which those fruits are sold here
by wholesale I am almost appalled. I have
figured on the matter for my own edification,
and I find that the California wholesale price
for fresh fruits cf all kinds is just quadrupled
by the time it is delivered at retail to the Texas
consumer. At the present time California
oranges cost 40 per cent more in San Antonio,
Austin, Houston and Galveston than they cost
in New York. The reason for this is the freight
charges and indifferent service of the Southern
Pacific Railway Company as regards the South
ern trade. Much fruit is spoiled in transit by
delay. The charges are very high, and the im
porters are forced to make up losses on spoiled
fruits by tackiug the amounts of such losses
on to the price of the good fruits received.
"Florida oranges are sold in large quantities
in Texas and Louisiana, not because the people
prefer them, but because they come cheaper.
This is due to gulf navigation and railway
competition. In the matter of dried apples,
peaches and preserved pears the case is not so
bad, but the products of Missouri, Kansas,
Arkansas and other Sfates whose products are
in no wise equal to the California goods are
sold ten to one of the California article simply
because the come cheaper. The people of
Texas as a rule are fond of fruits. The hot and
arid climate seems to demand a fruit diet, and
they all want California fruits if they can get
hem — and are able to pay the price."
L. H. Griffith of Seattle, who is interested in
the lumber business on the Sound, has just re-
turned from Central America where he has
been for several months to see what could be
done in the way of opening up trade relations
for his own firm and several others in Wash-
ington. Last evening at the Grand, in speak
ing of his trip, he said: "It is a surprise to me
that San Francisco does not do something to
establish closer trade relations with Central
America. You have here a large part of the
things they import from other countries and
which coula be laid down from here cheaper
than from anywhere else on account of your
position and the advantages you would have
in freight rates and time. I took down a cargo
of lumber and it was sold easily for a much
better price than could be obtained here.
Nearly everything used there is imported and
most of it comes from Europe and the East and
could be laid down there cheaper from here.
But, of course, you would have to take coffee
in exchange. Canned goods of all sorts, ex
cept fruits, are used there and sold at such
high prices that there is a large profit in them.
They come mostly from the East and Europe.
Of course San Francisco could lay them down
there cheaper. So it is with hay, potatoes and
flour, all sorts of food products, tools, beer,
wines and liquors. Some of these articles are
shipped there and sold at very high prices, but
the amount of the trade could easily be in
creased. Large quantities of beer are shipped
in there, but it all comes from Germany and the
East and is sold for much higher prices than
would be necessary to give San Francisco
trewers a good profit. The profits on all goods
sent down are double, at least, what would be
expected here. Potatoes sell for $8 per 100
pounds, hay for $00 a ton and, although these
prices give an immense profit there is always
complaint of a scarcity of these articles that
can be obtained only from California."
Major A. W. Barrett of Los Angeles is a dele
gate at large to the National encampment of
the G. A. R., which convenes in Louiavi'le, Ky.,
next September. The major has been sojourn
ing in San Francisco fora fortnight, and whiie
reading and pondering over the achievements
and purposes of the Half-million Club has be
come convinced that a brilliant stroke of en-
terprise would be an excursion to Louisville,
and the establishment of California head
quarters in the Kentucky metropolis a few
days before the encampment opens. It is the
major's idea that such free scope should
be given to the impulses of California hospi
tality that the veterans of the Blue and the
veterans of the Gray, the sons ot veterans and
the daughters of veterans and all others
whether in sympathy with the cause that was
won or the cause that was lost, should rise up
and record a unanimous vote in favor of hold
ing another National encampment in San
Franeieco. Major Barrett's observation— keen,
alert and wide ranging — convinces him that
the encampment here in 1886 was the greatest
advertisement California ever had and really
accomplished great good for the State. So
many pleasant memories of that celebrated en
campment yet linger with the passing veterans
of the war that they would cheerfully under
take another journey to the Pacific Coast if
California would only hold up her tinner and
beckon to them. St. Paul and Baltimore are
bidding for the next Grand Army reunion,
with Atlanta next in line, but San Francisco
could capture the prize if the Half-million Club
should invade Louisville.
Hon. Charles Creighton, formerly Attorney-
General for the Hawaiian Kingdom and later
the clerk of the Supreme Court of the nation,
has many queer stories of the peculiarities of
the native Legislature. " Much confusion was
occasioned by the divorce laws," lie said. "Soon
after they were passed, everybody began to
take advantage of them. It became quite the
rage for married people to separate.
"Finally, the prevalence of the divorce habit
became alarming. One of the old Hawaiian
nobles thought something should be done. He
rose in the Legislature and declared that the
entire moral system ol the nation was being
destroyed by the frequency of divorces. It was
deplorable, and, he thought, should be dis
couraged. The only proper way that he could
see was to have people sure they could be
happy together before they were joined for
ever.
"To accomplish this he introduced a bill.
His bill provided that persons who intended to
marry should live together for six months. If
at the end of that time they decided their tem
pers were not compatible the final ceremony
need not be performed and they would stay
unmarried.
"It is needless to add," Mr. Creighton con
cluded, after a moment's reflection, "that the
bill was killed."
Al Truman, owner of the champion setter
Dick Swiveler, and John B. Martin, secretary
of the Pacific Fox Terrier Club, were looking
at the fox terriers at the dog show together
the other evening, and Truman, Jwho does not
care much for those dogs, remarked that they
were wanting in intelligence.
"Why, man," said Martin, "you don't know
them. Fox terriers are the most intelligent of
all the smaller dogs. That is why I take so
much interest in them. One of mine got into
the habit of going to my bedroom and jumping
up on the bed and lying down. I licked it
once or twice for that and it soon knew that it
was foi bidden. One day I came home and
from auother room could see the dog in the
bed. He had been lying on it and hearing me
come in wan busy smoothing out the counter
pane and blowing on the spot where he had
been lying, to cool it off."
General N. P. Chipman of Red Bluff is
sojourning a£ the Palace. The general finds
the surroundings of the Palane very agreeable,
but if the current of events had taken the
channel in which he expected them to flow he
would now be looking after the affairs of state
in the capitol at Sacramento. General Chip
man goes to the National conventions as &
delegate, and enters the arena where emolu
ments as well as honors are bestowed, with a
regularity that attests his strength at home
and widens his influence abroad. Obviously
he is in San Francisco now to attend the elec
tion and bnnquet of the Loyal Legion at the
Palace Hotel this evening.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
The third centenary of the death of Tasso
was celebrated in Rome, where he died on
April 25, 1595.
It appears to be well established that the
'first Englishman to reach Chitral" was an
rishman named Kelly.
Florence Nightingale, at the age of 75, lives
•with her sister, Lady Verney, at Claydon
House, in Buckinghamshire.
Miss Julia Grant, daughter of Colonel Fred
erick D. Grant, Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of
Jefferson Davis, and a number of other celeb
rities are expected to take part in a series of
"living pictures" now being arranged iv New
York under fashionable auspices.
It is proposed to place a memorial to the late
Lord Tennyson at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the
birthplace of the poet laureate.
A spectroscope detector by which one part of
blood in a solution of 850.000 parts can be dis
covered has been invented by M. de Thierry.
It will be of value in murder cases where the
etains are very minute.
The Empress Eugenic before leaving Paris
for Cape Martin gave Lieutenant-Colonel Bizot,
who is under orders for Madagascar, the cam
paigning kit of the Prince Imperial, and also
that which she herself used in her sad pilgrim
age to the scene of her son's death in Zululand.
Colonel Bizot is the son of the late General
Bizot, who6e wife during the empire was one of
the ladies of the Empress.
A notable feature of the celebration of the
golden jubilee of Archbishop Williams in Bos
ton on May 16 and 17 will be the presentation
to him of a magnificent gold chalice, studded
with precious stones and blessed by Pope Leo
XIII on Easter Sunday. It was recently brought
from Rome by BiEhop Michaud, coadjutor
Bishop of Burlington, Vt. The chalice is about
12% inches in height, of pure gold, and of
Gothic design.
The Key Monument Association of Frederick
City, Md., is raising money for a suitable mon
ument to Francis Scott Key, the author of "The
Star-spangled Banner," aud it suggests that on
Flag day, June 14, the subject be taken up in
the public schools.
PERSONAL.
Robert Kffey, Mayor of Santa Cruz, is at the
Grand.
William Law Jr. of Chicago is registered at
the Palace.
Dr. G. W. Cox of Brownsville, Or. , is stopping
at the Grand.
Andrew G. Myera of Fort Jones is stopping at
the Occidental.
J. A. Verlaque of San Diego is registered at
the Russ House.
Dr. M. Schnabel of Newcastle is a guest at
the Grand Hotel.
J. P. Abbott, lawyer of Antioch, is stopping
at the Lick House.
Mrs. L. E. Mosher of Los Angeles is regis
tered at the Baldwin.
A. R. Lord, Sheriff of Nevada Couniy, Is at
the Hotel St. Nicholas.
J. M. Hale, a merchant of Los Angeles, is
stopping at the Baldwin.
State Senator Alexander J. McCone of Nevada
is at the Occidental Hotel.
W. E. Duncan, a well-known mining man of
Butte County, is at the Lick.
H. J. Wilson, proprietor of the Butte Hotel,
Butte, Mont., is at the Palace.
Colonel J. W. Barlon, United States Engi
neers, San Diego, is In the City.
James Mawhiney, wife and daughter of Oil
City, Pa., are at the Occidental.
\V. L. Pierce, presiding Judp;e of the Superior
Court of San Diego, is at the Grand.
S. S. Badger, a prominent mining man of
Denver, is ai the Hotel St. Nicholas.
Dr. W. B. Thornhill and wife of Lynchburg,
Va., are registered at the Occidental.
G. D. Plato, well known in mercantile circles
of Modesto, is registered at the Grand.
Ex-Senator Berry, a prominent farmer of
California, is a guest at the Lick House.
John J. Roche, a leading re/il estate man of
Sioux City, lowe, is at the Grand Hotel.
Captain J. .T. O'Oonnell, 17. S. A., Benicia
Barrack?, i- registered at th^ California.
S. Farjcon, editor of the Concord Sun, is in
the city as a deii-gate to the High Court of
A. 0. F.
W. G. Hunt of Woodland, one of the leading
fruit-growers of Caiifornia, is registered at the
Pleasanton.
E. C. Davidson, a well-known resident of
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., is registered at the
Grand Hotel.
Mrs. K. H. Wade, wife of the general manager
of the California Southern Railroad, is a guest
at tne Palace.
K. 8. deGolyerof Salt Lake is at the Occi
dental Hotel. He is posted on the mineral
resources of Utah.
Mark L. McDonald came down from Santa
Rosa yesterday to attend the Ysaye recrptior
at the Bohemian Club.
John M. Thornton of Pittsburg, Pa., a man of
riches, whose wealth was acquired in coal, is
at the California Hotel.
J. F. Kidder of Nevada City, superintendent
of the Nevada County Narrow-gauge Railroad,
is a guest at the St. Nicholas.
Mrs. 8. C. Balch of Portland, Or., and Miss M.
R. Jacks, daughters of David. Jacks of Mon
terey, are guests at the Pleasanton.
S. J. Menzies of England, who represents a
land syndicate, controlling valuable lands in
California, is sojourning at the Palace.
H. E. Owen and wife of Butte, Mont., are
guests at the California Hotel. Mr. Owen
knows a thing or two about mines in Montana.
J. G. Waples and wife of Denison,Tex., are
guests at the Pleasanton. Mr. Waples is largely
interested in the lumber trade of the South
west.
V. S. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee came
to town last evening to attend a meeting of the
Pacific Associated Press at the California
Hotel this evening.
Washington Porter, a fruit merchant of Chi
cago, is at the Palace. Washington Porter is a
household name in Chicaeo, as he owns much
valuable property in the lakeside city.
John T. Sullivan of the Sea Beach Hotel,
Santa Cruz; H. W. Chase of the Nadean, Los
Angeles; S. Reinhart, Hotel Arcadia, Santa
Monica; W. E. Hadley of the Horton House,
San Diego, and B. Hawes, a hotclman of San
Andreas, are at the Grand.
J. M. Walling of Nevada City, ex-department
commander of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, is registered at the Russ House. Mr. Wall
ing carried a gun in an lowa regiment during
his term of service from 1861 to 1865 and his
record as a soldier is of the highest order of
merit.
Colonel Henry C. Bymonds has just been
transferred from the New York Commandery
of the Loyal Legion to the California Com
mandery of the same military order. Colonel
Symonds is living at Los Gatos. He was re
cently principal of a military academy at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Dr. Chester C. Rowell of Fresno, a well-known
public man of California, is registered at the
Grand. Dr. Rowell 6erved as State Senator in
the first session of the Legislature after the
adoption of the new constitution. He has
made gallant contests for the Republican Con
gressional nomination in his district, and
while success in that line has not yet crowned
his efforts he has a legion of loyal friends in
the country about Fresno who stand ready to
enter the field again in his support.
Colonel F. C. Crocker, who has been journey-
Ing around the world in company with D. O.
Mills, is expected to arrive in New York to-,
day. He will leave that city soon
for San Francisco. When heard from in
Burmah the colonel was collecting rare and
beautiful curios for his friends in this City. It
is supposed that he will have a collection
worth a study by the time he gets home. He
intended to pick up a good many trifles for his
own edification and agreed to remember some
of his friends while about the task of collect
ing. Reports have not reached this country
of any lavish expenditure of money by D. O.
MiHs in pursuits of this character.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
The woman who thinks before she speaks has
to be a lightning thinker.— Puck.
Literature is divided into the grand, the
semi-grand and the Sarah Grand.— London
Truth.
A girl who can't sing, and who dcesn't want
to sing, shouldn't be made to sing.— Boston
Courier.
The man who considers himself all wool and
a yard wide wants to make himself felt.—Gal
veston News.
If Bolomon lived in these days the bright
young men would ridicule him unmercifully.
— Atchison Globe.
The Manayunk philosopher riseß to remark
that a strong breath doesn't make a Sandow.—
Philadelphia Record.
A new industry is the suDnlvinsr of chaDerona
for the new men ; the new women have no use
for them.— Philadelphia Record.
One of the saddest sights in this world is to
see the crabbed man trying to smiie when he
meets the preacher.— Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Cleanliness is next to godliness, and people
there are who, because they are beyond being
clean, fancy, as a matter of course, that they
must be godly.— Boston Transcript.
A professor calculates that the earth is
shrinking about two inches a year. That ac
counts for the nervous anxiety manifested by
some people to possess it while it is some size.
— Tid-Bits.
"I desire," said the scientist, "to inform my
self as to the mean temperature of this re
gion." "Well," replied the native, as he
shook the rain off his overcoat, "you couldn't
have come at a better time. This is it." — Wash
ington Star.
THE CIRCULAR CONCERNING DR.
BROWN'S ADDRESS.
To the Editor of the Call— Dear Sir : As I read
the Call I noticed in this morning's edition a
certain allusion to the address of Rev. Dr. C. O.
Brown, delivered lately and mailed to the pas
tors of the prominent churches of the country.
The circular, signed by the trustees of the First
Congregational Church of San Francisco,
caused me some surprise. The opinion of the
honorable ex-United States District Attorney
embodied in the circular might have been
wisely left out.
It is strange that whenever men try to bring
around some reform the good people in the
community rise up in arms. Is it not a hopeful
sign that evangelical pastors should seek light,
and information on the great issues at stake?
Is the t>astor, even of a prominent church
compelled to cater to the tastes or the wishes
of his congregation ? Is he not the representa
tive of a great cause, the friend of the weak?
The best people in the land complain that
politics run the whole machinery, and that
those politics are corrupt and demoralizing.
They still adhere to the very machine that is
crushing them, and they are not afraid of
making certain assertions in order to protect
the machine. They pray for good government
and pure politics.'but they support the bad
government all the time.
I wish as a citizen to protest against the im
putation contained in that address and circu
lar. lam neither an "unbridled socialist" nor
a ' 'destructive one" ; lam working for the bet
terment of human life in this land and for the
salvation of souls, and I resent any such asser
tions, perfectly unsubstantiated.
It is not very Chri6tianlike to represent any
would-be reformer as a traitor and an anti
patriot. The reply to the ex-attorney could be
made in the same words. We will not use
those weapons.
The church suffers enough from severe criti
cisms, not justified at all in many respects.
Why then should not the church people seek
and devise the best means of giving our be
loved country more prosperity and social
health?
The address of Rev. Dr. C. 0. Brown may
be scattered over the land, the results will be
different from what he expects. Only it is
hoped that, even if his colleagues in the min
istry adhere to Professor Herron or any other,
Dr. Brown will bear in mind that all the truth
is not on his side, and that the first duty is to
be friendly and not so sweepingly bitter and
harsh. Yours respectfully, E. J. DUPUY.
San Francisco, May 1-4, 1895.
Loyal Legion Contest.
Companions of the I.oyal Legion, California
Comrnandery, will assemble according to
orders in the maple room of the Palace Hotel
this evening to determine whether the honor
of leading the legion for the ensuing year shall
be conferred on Brevet-Major W. B. Hooper of
the Subsistence Department, Second California
Volunteer Cavalry, or Colonel R. H. Warfield,
Engineer Corps, Fiftieth New York Volunteers.
The election promises' to be interesting if not
exciting. Colonel C. Mason Kinne, the present
commander, is confident of his ability to pre
serve order and keep all the voters together
until the banquet begins, and then the ban
quet will do the rest. There has been some
talk of both Hooper and Warneld withdrawing,
so thai the recorder might cast the vote for
Cclonel Shaiter. U. S. A., but late last evening
it was given out that the principals would not
consent to come down.
Flags at Half-Mast.
E. B. Griffith, secretary of the G. A. E. memo
rial committee, sent a communication to Mayor
Sutro yesterday, which the Mayor transmitted
to the Board of Supervisors, asking that the
flags be raised on the City and County build
ings and in the park to half-mast on Memorial
day.
Bacon Printing Company, 508 Clay street *
♦ — — •
Strong hoarhound candy ,10c lb. Townsend's.*
Raleigh said that he owed all his polite
ness of d'-portment to his mother.
Geo. W. Mokteith, law offices, Crocker bldg.*
Palace sea baths, 715 Filbert street, now
open for summer swimming season. *
Wine-drinking people are healthy. M. &. K.
wines, 5e a glass. Mohns & Keltenbach. 29 Mkt*
Mark Hopkixs Institute of Art.—
Spring Exhibition open daily. Admission
25 cts. Thursday even., admission 50 cts. *
There is no money available to run the
Nebraska penitentiary, and it may have to
be closed.
Have you ever noticed how your system seems
to crave for special assistance in the spring? Jnat
the help moat needed is given by Hood's Sarsapa
riila. It gives nerve, mental and bodily strength.
"Mrs. Wiuslow's Soothing Syrup"
Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth
ers for their children while Te thing with perfect
success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels
and Is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether
arising from teething or other causes. For sale by
Druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a
bottle.
BEAUTirci. hair is always pleasing, and Park
er's Hair' Balsam excels in producing it.
Pabkeb's GiNsEii Tonic the best cough enre.
Subscribe Tot "The Delineator," the ladles' fa
vorite fashion magazine. June now ready. Price
$1 year. Butterick Pub. Co., Ld. t 124 Post st., 8. F.
Signor Crispi, it is said, wears a shirt of
chain mail, made by a Milanese armorer,
when he goes out of doors.
PERFECT GEMS,
THOSE LOVELY
DINNER SETS.
Selling for a Mere Song.
DINNER SETS COMPLETE.
J'urn White Set complete $4 00
Rich Brown Decorated Set complete 4 75
Dainty Harvest Decorated Set complete 6 75
Decorated Gold Enamel and Wild Flower
Sei complete 7 00
Gold Ill'iminated Decorated Set complete,
exquisite.. g 25
Decorated Toilet Set j 35
Decorated Toilet Sjet, extra large size 2 65
Sfewest and Richest Shapes, designs
and decorations. Don't fall to see them.
Gems of beauty.
A ReYelatioQ in Prices-New Features.
AT
Great American Importing: Tea Co.'s
STORES.
52 Market Street 1
140 Sixth Street
1419 Polk Street
521 Montgomery Aye.
2008 Fillmore Street
3006 Sixteenth Street
617 Kearny Street ! O nn Cninnionn
965 Market Street f 0M T PHHCiSGO
333 Hayes Street
218 Third Street
104 Second Street
146 Ninth Street
2410 Mission Street
3259 Mission Street
917 Broadway )#* • 1 ■
131 San Pablo Avenue V {M 311(1
616 E. Twelfth Street ) uaiXianu
Park Street and Ala- { A| am p|]j,
meda Avenue t n.'alllUua
- DRY GOODS. ;.; *
ifIFIBIS-
Curtain JJuJJcir lllidlll.
50 pairs of IRISH POIST CURTARS,
In 4 and 6 pairs lots, former price C*7 X A
. $10, to close at ■«pl.pl/
• _ Per Pair.
150 pairs of IRISH POIST CURTAINS,
(Good value at $6 50), to close ©^ A A
" Per Pair.
250 pairs of IMTHGHAI CURTAILS, S
Heavy Guipure effects, Z X A yards
long and 54 inches wide, great Q-1 C)t •
bargain, to go at t? L»u%3
-:>,■•; Per Pair.
300 pairs of IOTTII6H.iI CERTAMB,
In Brussels and Guipure patterns ©1 H\
(value $2 25), to close at. ..... $■»-• * "
Per Pair.
Your Choice of Our Entire Stock of -
NEOUS TAPESTRY PORTIERES,
All new and nobby patterns C* A fTA-'
(former price $5 50), at....... i ±.t>\J
. Per Pair.
Handsome Lines of Satin Derby Portieres,
In latest colorings (good value &(* f\f\
at $7 50), to close at «?U.Uy :
Per Pair.
G.TERDIER & CO.,
S. E. Cor. Geary St and Grant Aye., S. F.
Humus'
BRANCH HOUSE, N . * .
223 SOUTH BEOADWAT,
LOS ANGELES. ..
MONTGOMERY & CO.
GROCERS.
Bay, Try and Compare.
THE BEST GOODS
AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
For the ensuing week we qnote :
Crosse & BlackwelFs Pickles,
Pints 300
Quarts SOo
Cooper's Olive Oil. *
Quarts $1.00
Pints 5O
Fancy Creamery Butter,
Squares SOo
Rolls 250
Dairy R0115... 200
Best Mild Cheese, Per Pound, 10 cts.
There Is no economy in buying: poor
goods when the best can be had at such
low prices at
MONTGOMERY & CO.'S,
(31 Sixth Street.
STORES hlB Third Street.
1 1645 Polk Street.
SAN FBAN CISCO.
W.L. Douglas
*&•$ 5 !!? IS THE BEST, f'vi-
so VlSyfa FIT. FOR A KING. -A
>^P***^3. COISDOVAN,
mm*: lW ntENCH&ENAMEUXOCALT. .
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W__ktmW *3.SPPOUCE,3SCLE3.
$ 2. WORKINe
J^L -EXTRA FINE- "*•
pf^lip* 2 -* 17 - B3YS'SCHO3ISH3&
Over One Million PeepZo wear the
W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes
All our shoes aro equally satisfactory
■ They give the bast vtluo for the money. '
Th# equal custom *hoe* in style end fit.
Their w«arins qualities are unsurpassed.
The prices are uniform,— on sold*
Prom $i to $3 saved over other makes.
If your dealer cannot supply you we can. Sold by
8.KAT5CH1N5K1..... ..'.... ........10 Third St.
R. PAHL ... ..324 Kearny St.
JOS. KOHLBECHER..... .123 Fourth St.
SMITH'S CASH STORE .....418 Front St.
D.DONOVAN 1412 Stockton St.
M.MILLER & CO. ..S}l49 Mission St.
A. STEiXMAN ■■■ ■: Golden Gate
A LADIES' GRILL BOOM y
Has been established in the Palace Hotel
ON ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS
made on the Bir.aaccir.rat. It takes the piacs
of the city restaurant, with direct entrance from
Market st. , Ladies shopping will find this a, moil
desirable place to lunch. Prompt service and moil-
•rate charges, such as hove given the gentlemen'!
Grillroom an international reputation, will preval
In this new department, ■ •• • . *