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FRIDAY .i JUNE 7, 1895
Picnics are in full blast.
It is only hungry fish that snap at bait.
Patience is often only a form of laziness.
In some respects the whole World is a
chestnut.
Every day at this season is a holiday for
somebody.
The European war cloud has begun to
hover again.
Tb« only way to take time easy is to take
it by the forelock.
These are the days when we are proud
of the trade winds.
Nothing is so amusing to the murderer
as our Jury system.
There is prosperity in the air even when
a hot wave strike? us.
In Illinois, at any rate. Altgeld is a big
ger man than Grover.
Kentucky promises a straight fight be
tween silver and gold.
The four hundred thousand are now
eager to get in the swim.
The best citizens are those whom the
public schools are producing.
Democrats are not sawing wood so much
as splitting up their platform.
Even the peacock is wise enough not to
spread his feathers in a storm.
Jim Corbett has now an opportunity 1 to
try to knock out a divorce court.
The weather inclines everybody to pleas
ant thoughts of the Santa Cruz swim.
Enterprise is the sunshine that puts a
rainbow of promise on every prospect.
Although the oyster Is not noted as a
eport, it keeps pretty close to champagne.
There Is nothing profane about the dam
ming which the people of Santa Crnz are
doing.
The New Woman would convince u§ that
there is no bifurcation of intellectual habili
ments.
Since Wall street has become a ball mar
ket the people are more willing to bear
* : thit.
By and by you will be able to drop a
nickel in n slot anywhere and get an an
swer to Coin.
If Turkey persists in roasting Armenia
she may get all Europe in the fire before
she knows it.
The revival of California mining indus
tries will go a long way toward settling the
gold question.
It will be hard for California to do with
out new comets when Professor Barnard
goes to Chicago.
It appears the Japanese think they can
invade California as easily as China and
get more loot by it.
Perhaps Oscar Wilde consoles himself on
the treadmill with the reflection that he is
tramping on Philistinism.
As most of our desires are purely artifi
cial, it is unfair to complain of the woman
who puts rouge on her cheeks.
Until the European powers learn to agree
with one another the Sultan can hardly be
expected to agree with any of them.
A grand hotel near the park will be ex
actly the thing needed to complete the at
tractions of the City as a summer resort.
One of the strongest proofs of returning
prosperity is the fact that the Republicans
have good prospects of carrying Kentucky.
The most unfortunate men are those wno
will not be able to seek the society of the
Summer Girl at the coast or in the mount
kins.
It is doubtful whether the discussion of
the money question this year will take the
edge off the campaign of '96 or sharpen
it up.
There is said to be a widespread belief in
Europe that France and Russia have
agreed to whip England at the fiiat oppor
tunity.
Now that the miners of Colorado have
become quiet the sheepmen have broken
loose and begun to advertise the State as a
fighting center.
If it is true that the rumors of Oscar
Wilde's insanity are unfounded, the poor
wretch Is denied his only possible claim
upon humanity.
It is as much the duty of merchants to
inform purchasers what desired articles
are produced in California as it is for Cali
fornians to buy them.
It is hard to find a man in these days
who does not see an advance toward pros
perity in every step takes in the construc
tion of the San Joaquin road.
In sending a leading citizen to the pene
tentiary for malfeasance in office, Alaska
shows a tendency to violate the customs of
the Republio and set up for herself.
The Brentwood (Contra Costa County)
Enterprise has issued a special edition
which ably pictures the resources of one of
the most attractive sections of California.
The queen of the Santa Cruz water car
nival is going to wear a gown imported
from Paris for her coronation, but even
that will not be sufficient to conceal the
loveliness with which the sunshine of Cali
fornia has clothed her.
The fact that the loss of the Colima i was
coincident with the presence of a load on
her deck recalls the other fact that few .of
the small steamers plying between :•' San
Francisco and northern points; fail to/sin
•gainst providence in this repaid.
GOOD TOE MINERS.
The announcement of Irwin C. Stump,
published in the Call yesterday, that a
company is soon to be formed in New
York to exploit American mines in ways
similar to those employed by a London
syndicate in developing the mining wealth
of South Africa, opens another vista of
coming prosperity to the State. There are
good reasons for believing that California
is still the richest liefd for gold mining on
earth, and now that sufficient capital to
undertake the work of development is
about to be provided, it would seem to be
fairly certain that this industry of the
State will once more become one of the
most profitable within its borders and by
its yield advance the prosperity of all the
others.
Under the operations of the proposed
company, as outlined by Mr. Stump, any
mine-owner, upon the payment of a small
fee, can have his mine examined by an ex
pert of the company. If the expert's re
port is satisfactory, the company will either
buy and develop the property for itself or
will endeavor to sell it, charging a com
mission. Or. if the mine-owner wants
enough money to put up a mill, the com
pany will do that and take a share of the
returns. Or the company will take a prop
erty, with a view of opening it up to see
what it contains. Tf it is not satisfactory
after a certain amount of work has been
done, it will be dropped and the loss ac
cepted. It wil! be the aim, also, of the
company to list the stock of mines on
the exchange and offer it for sale to the
public.
With a company having ample capital
ready to undertake work of this kind, the
mining industry ought certainly to expe
rience a marked and rapid advance. It is
only because abundant capital and the
highest mechanical appliances have been
employed in the work of development that
the mines of South Africa have been made
profitable. When the mines of California
have been exploited to an equal depth and
with an equal thoroughness, the results
will, in all probability, surpass those which
have so profusely repaid the enterprise of
the London syndicate. Up to this time
we have hardly done more than scratch
the surface of our ore-ribbed mountains,
and therefore the highest expectations of
what will result from a more exhaustive
system of mining are hardly likely to
prove too sanguine.
THE COLIMA DISASTER.
The arrival of the steamer San Juan
with the survivors of the ill-fated Colima
will revive public Interest in the disastet
and strengthen the desire to investigate
fully the causes which led to it. This de
sire will be largely gratified by interviews
with the survivors which we publish this
morning, but it is possible that a satis
factory decision cannot be reached until
an oilieial investigation is made and the
testimony of all the witnesses is compared
and tested under a thorough examination.
It seems to be the general opinion that
the loss of the steamer was due mainly to
the overload of lumber on the upper deck.
On this point the statements of the sur
vivors made yesterday are in accord with
the dispatches received at the time of the
wreck. It remains to be determined, how
ever, whether the overloading was one of
those errors of judgment that occur
despite the utmost care, or whether it was
the result of a culpable indifference to tne
safety of passengers and a reckless dis
regard of the conditions under which the
voyage was to be made. Men of good
judgment will not hastily condemn the
6teamship company, but there certainly
seems evidence of bad management some
where in the loading of the ship, and now
that to all, except the relatives and the
near friends of those who perished, the
first shock of the tragedy is over, it is to
the determination of that problem that
public interest will De mainly directed.
Strangely enough it appears that under
our laws, whether the Colima was care
lessly loaded or not, no damages can be re
covered from the company by the sufferers.
The liability of a ship-owner for any loss
is limited to the value of the ship and any
collected freights, provided the loss, though
caused by negligence, was not done or
suffered with the knowledge of the owner.
In the present case this practically
amounts to depriving the victims of the
disaster of any possible redress, for their
claims would lie only against the Colima.
and she is at the bottom of the sea, and is
worth nothing.
We publish in another column an inter
view with tlte eminent admiralty lawyer,
Charles Page, in which all the material
points of law applying to the case are
tersely presented. A careful reading of
his opinion will make it evident that some
change is needed in the maritime statutes
in this respect. Navigation is not the
hazardous thing that it was when our laws
justly exempted a chip-owner from re
sponsibility for perils of the deep. At the
present time, with our comprehensive
knowledge of the sea and its coasts,
our improved methods of navigation
and superior construction of ships, there
is no reason why the owner of a steam
vessel should not be as responsible for
damage done by negligence as the owner
of a railroad. If the Colima disaster leads
to an agitation which brings about a revi
sion of the law on this important subject,
her loss, which has been so heavy in prop
erty and in precious lives, may result in
making ship-owners more careful and
ocean voyages saier for all who travel
hereafter.
THE SPEINGFIELD COFTENTION.
In calling the Illinois Democratic Con
vention to order on Wednesday, Chairman
Hinrichsen stated the convention had been
called for two reasons. First, to forestall
the action of the National silver party,
which might otherwise carry away from
the party ranks a good many Democrats,
and second, to open up the discussion of
the money question long enough before
the meeting of the National Democratic
Convention in 1896 for the party to arrive
at a basis of agreement on the issue, and
thus avoid the discord that now threatens
to hopelessly divide it during the Presi
dential campaign.
No one who has paid the slightest atten
tion to the condition of the Democratic
party can doubt that these reasons are a
sufficient justification for the convention.
That party which once with some show of
reason called itself a conservative party
has in later years been following the
leadership of men who take extreme views
of every issue. The rank and file of the
party has, of course, felt the influence of
this leadership, and as a consequence the
majority have also become extremists.
Not a few of them are inclined to go over
to the Populists or to the proposed silver
party, while others are ready to follow
Cleveland and Carlisle into the camp of
the extreme gold-standard men and oppose
bimetallism under any possible terms and
conditions.
With the party In this discordant state
it was certainly an act of political wisdom
to try to harmonize it. The proceedings
of the convention, however, were by no
means calculated to effect the object de
sired. From first to last there seems to
have been no word spoken for harmony or
any suggestion of a plan by which the fac
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1895.
tions could be brought together. On the
contrary, the convention was dominated
by extremists, whose speeches were di
rected mere toward driving the other fac
tion out of the party than inviting them
to an agreement of mutual compromise.
Governor Altgeld's statement: "You
have got to have a President who will be
in sympathy — a President who will be
willing to stand by the great American
people and not by the bondholders of
Europe" — was a blow at Cleveland that
could not have been more unmistakable if
Altgeld had named him. Surely there is
nothing in that statement suggestive of
harmony, and yet it was greeted with ap
plause. Moreover, it fairly expresses the
general tenor of the speeches that were
most applauded. The thing verges on the
absurd. Here was a convention of Demo
crats in one of the greatest States in the
Union, called for the express purpose of
providing a means of saving the party
from discord, and yet applauding most tu
multuously when the man who represents
it as Governor of Illinois denounces its
National chieftain as an agent of Euro
pean bondholders. With such harmony
as this in the ranks it will hardly be worth
while for the Democrats to hold a National
Convention. Indeed it is doubtful if such
a convention could be held without be
coming liable to suppression as a riot.
AN INADEQUATE SYSTEM.
There will never be a cessation of the
outcry against the absurdities of our crim
inal jury system until its imperfections
have been eliminated. Like many other
things which we have borrowed from Eng
land instead of having the originality and
independence to create standards better
suited to our needs, this feature of the
English common law is so absurd in its ap
plication here as it would be ridiculous in
the criminal procedure of the Continental
men to convict means nothing more than
that the law seems to suit Englishmen:
and yet in all the things that go to make
up the National life of America there 19
hardly a country of Europe to which our
National temperament is not more closely
allied than to that of Great Britairi. Had
it not been for a series of peculiar acci
dents, including our partial descent from
the British, the heritage of the English
language and of the written laws of Eng
land, a nearer geoeraphical contact and
certain business relations, the salient tem
peramental differences between Americans
and the English would have made them
natural enemies.
The American criminal jury system is
one of a series of absurdities which operate
to shield the criminal, discredit the courts,
encourage crime and make lynch law the
final resort of justice. Equally as absurd
is that grotesque fiction of the common
law that the accused is deemed innocent
till his guilt is proved. In these two
absurdities He the beginning of the inade
quacy of our criminal courts.
If the Federal Government should set
the example of reform, the individual
States would quickly follow the lead. In
the June number of the American Magazine
of Civics Horace F. Cutter calls attention
to and gives the history of a bill intro
duced by Senator Perkins of California in
the United States Senate in August, 1S&1.
It provided that in civil actions and cases
of misdemeanor, under the Federal laws,
the jury may consist of twelve, or any less
number upon which the parties may
agree, but that in felony cases there must
be twelve jurymen ; "that in civil actions
three-fourths of the jury, and in criminal
cases five-sixths thereof may render a ver
dict"; but in criminal cases below felony
a jury may be waived by consent of both
parties, and in civil actions by consent of
the parties in the manner prescribed by
law.
As Mr. Cutter very truthfully declares,
the civil jury system of California provid
ing for a verdict by nine of the twelve has
proved most successful and satisfactory.
Even a verdict of ten out of twelve in
criminal cases, as proposed by Senator
Perkins, while giving a defendant in a
criminal action an advantage not enjoyed
by the defendant in a civil case, would be
a great improvement on the present plan.
In a country whose whole system of gov
ernment is based on the will of the major
ity we find the requisite of a unanimous
verdict in criminal cases a gross anachro
nism. Even the Supreme Court of the
United States, deciding as it does questions
which may affect the vital welfare of the
whole Nation, is permitted to render a
simple majority verdict, and that is very
much looser than a five-sixth verdict by a
jury. Mr. Cutter rightly declares that
there is nothing in the Federal constitu
tion requiring a unanimous verdict, and
he leaves the clear inference that such a
verdict is contrary not only to the princi-
pies upon which our Government is
founded, but also ignores a universal
knowledge of the fact that unanimous con
currence is foreign to the mental processes
of our race.
"We are to hope, therefore, that Senator
Perkins' bill, which was referred to the
Judiciary Committee, will be revived at
the next session of Congress.
TOR HOMOGENEITY.
The closing exercises of the public
schools, now proceeding, draw the atten
tiou to one exceedingly important result
which these schools are accomplishing— the
creation of a civic solidarity among the
young. In a community like San Fran
cisco, which is singularlycosmopolitan.it
is most interesting and instructive to ob
serve that all the strange, alien and natu
rally unsympathetic elements of the City
are brought into harmony by the schools
and steadily led into the broad highway of
a uniform American citizenship. And
this is not all that the schools are accom
plishing in this direction. Above all things
else they are democratic; and even though
the lives of the pupils widely separated by
social conditions may never again unite,
they can never widely diverge, and must
run parallel; each has learned something
of his strangely different fellows, and such
knowledge as this is wisdom and tends to a
strengthening of the common civic bond
which the schools have laid upon all alike.
All this, of course, is totally distinct
•from the purely educational feature which
the schools represent. It 13 true that the
training and development of the mind and
the storing of it with some kinds of knowl
edge that may be useful in after life are
the main considerations of the system;
and while these are certainly good, per
haps the incidental feature of civic homo
geneity is even more important.
This being evident, it is clear that the
schools themselves, being the very foun
tain from which citizenship is drawn,
should represent citizenship in its highest
form. Children are wonderfully sharp.
They take to the republican idea of gov
ernment with all the zest that so natural
a conception of government inspires. It
is important, therefore, that the publio
school system shall represent only the
purest and most wholesome idea of repub
lican sovereignty, and that those directly
charged with the responsibility of incul
cating ideas of American citizenship
should be themselves the highest type that
can represent the idea. Between the neces
sity for a discipline which shall insure the
efficient working of a complicated machine
and that form of repression and terroriz
ing which makes a teacher appear helpless,
ridiculous and devoid of individual char
acter, there is a generous interval for the
exercise of patriotism on the part Of the
school authorities, and for the giving of
proof that the schools are probably the
most importaut of all the things which
constitute the substructure of our people
and their government.
PERSONAL.
Dr. W. P. Inglish of Vacaville Is at the Grand.
L. Rosenthal, a merchant of Stockton, regis
tered yesterday at the Grand.
8. H. Lashells, a real-estate dealer of Biggs,
registered yesterday at the Grand.
Frank J. Brandon of San Jose, secretary of
the State Senate, is a guest at the Grand.
J. Cooke Caldwell, an attorney of Bakersfleld,
was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand.
John T. McCall, who lately sold his mines at
Grey Eagle Bar, in Placer County, to San Fran
cisco capitalists, ia at the Baldwin.
Rer. Joseph Cook of Boston, the noted re
ligious lecturer, registered at the Palace yes
terday. He is on his way around the world on
a lecturing tour and will sail for Honolulu by
the next steamer.
A. E. Welby, the general superintendent of
the Rio Grande Western, arrived from Salt Lake
yesterday in his private car. fie came to visit
his wife, who is staying in this city for a short
time, and will remain only a few days.
Wiley J. Tinnin,whowasßurveyorof the Port
during Cleveland's first administrations, and
Secretary of State while Btoneman was Gover
nor, came in from Fresno, where he is a lead
ing attorney, yesterday, and is staying at th«
Grand.
SPIRIT OF THE FRESB.
How the gold men prate ot honest money!
They prate of honest money with the same
glibness that honest lago talked to Othello of
Desdemona. And they are honest as lago, and
no more so.— Salt Lake Tribune.
Balmy breezes freighted with the perfume of
the tropics ; above, a sky and a sun that sur
pass those of far-famed Italy; beneath, a smil
ing violet sea— who can say that Berkeley is
not favored of the gods?— Berkeley Dispatch.
The hills of Calaveras County are seamed witn
gold-bearing rock and only an effort is required
to reveal the treasure. The ledges within the
boundary lines of this county contain enough
of the precious metal to make a nation rich.-—
Angels Herald.
The prosperity house which will soon be
built in Spokane will stand upon real, not
fiotitious values. Producing mines, well-tilled
prosperous farms, and employing factories will
form the foundation timbers of the new struc
ture.—Spokane (Wash.) Times.
This is essentially an age of association, com
bination and co-operation, and the community
that cannot work harmoniously for the com
mon good must drop behind those that can, in
the prosperity procession. Natural advantages
will not do everything.— San Bernardino Times-
Index.
The man who Is capable of earning a good
salary, but who gets a very small one, need not
be discouraged. Twenty-five years ago the
president of the Great Northern Railway was a
freight clerk on the steamboat docks at St.
Paul, getting a salary of $40 a month.— Fresno
Republican.
When a proper tariff system shall be re
stored, as it will be under the next Republican
administration, so that an adequate revenue
shall bo obtained and proper protection to
domestic industry shall again be assured, con
fidence will be restored, business will revive,
and the nightmare produced by "the change"
of 1892 will pass away. — Oregonlan.
Where there was one person ten years since
to expatiate upon the merits of Southern Cali
fornia there are now a score, and the region
that was then known in but few parts of the
civilized world, and known ouiy as being fit
principally for grain--raising and cattle-rang
ing, is now famed in all lands for what it is
really worth.— Los Angeles Herald.
If there coula be a radical change in the
methods ot administering the laws, fewer par
dons of great criminals, more prompt aad vig
orous prosecutions and better wisdom in our
courts, life would be made more secure and
more worth the living, nnshadowed by such
atrocities as are growing alarmingly frequent
in San Francisco.— Fresno Expositor.
The fact is there is nothing to-day that will
give a greater impetus to trade and commerce;
that will more quickly resuscitate the waning
finances of the State; that will give employ
ment to a larger number of men now idle and
on the verge of starvation; that will make the
entire State more prosperous, than the resump*
tion of hydraulic mii.ine.— NevaJa City Tran-
Ecript.
To fully realize the rosy future for our fruit
Industry it is only necessary for the fruit
growers to effect a combination whereby they
can handle their own fruit and thus free
themselves from the exactions of the middle
men who interpose between them and the
consumers. The question of shipping and
handling fruit is one of the most important that
demands the attention of the California fruit
grower.— Watson vi lie Rustler.
This is a peculiar world. One man is spend
ing all he can make in taking a girl to the the
ater and sending Her flowers, with the hope of
making her his wife, while his neighhor is
spending what gold he has in getting a divorce.
One mau escapes all diseases that flesh is heir
to and gets killed on the railroad. Another
escapes with a scratch and dies of pneumonia.
One man stands off all his creditors, goes trav
eling and lives lavishly, while another stays at
home, pays his debts and dies a pauper —Red
wood City Demociat.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
i She had studied French— Have you any bon
! vivant this morning? -
Butcher— Boned what, mum"
"Bon-vivant. Why, that's French for good
liver!"— hife. '• . V.-'--
Colonel Clay of Lexington— What's that
curious hole in the ground over yonder?
"They're digging a well."
"Ah, yes. For water, I suppose. What queer
things one sees when away from home."— New
York Recorder.
Neighbor— How did your daughter's marriage
witn that count turn out? ,- "^' v-
Mrs. Brickrov— last letter states that he
has spent all her money and she is taking in
washing: but then, I presume she washes only
for the nobility.— Tid Bits.
Cholly— Fweddy, I had an awful scare
l&WBt night.
Fweddy— Deed, deah boy 1. What was It?
Chollle— By mistake I mistook a cuff faw a
collaw, and, doncherknow, it was bo widieu
lously low.— Buff alo Times.
"They say," said Mr. Jones, "that the
Chinese Emperor gets up at 4 o'clock every
morning." - -■■--■:■_.■■ -.< . ;.- -. ■
"In that case," said Mrs. Jones, sternly, "it
is pretty safe to conclude that he's not in the
habit of coming home at 2, hanging his | shoes
on the hat-rack and putting : his hat in the
bureau-drawer. * Not much New York ! Be
corder. '■'.■'•■
. "Mr. Timmins," said the old-fashioned girl,
"I hope you're not -an admirer of . the new
■woman." .'• • " -* - ■' '; '
v "Oh, but I am," confesses Timmins. "She is
good for at least three jokes and a poem every
week."— lndianapolis Journal.
"Why do you and Bobby quarrel so much? I
hope my Willio is not a selfish little boy." .
"No, mamma, I'm not selfish, but Bobby is.
He always wants to play the games I don't
want to."— Harper's Bazar. .
' ; Blobbs— How is it you are • never troubled
with tramps? You don't keep a dog, do you?
V Slobbs— but my wife bakes her own cake,
and : they have tumbled to it.— Philadelphia
Record. ■ <: ■ : - -\ —?{■'■ /••:■'■ *"■ 'JP ':
Daughter— Frank said something to me last
night. . . ;
Mother— l hope it was apropos.
. Daughter— was more, mamma. It was
i apropoa-al.— Detroit Free Fress. " ' *f. '; •■, •
UP-TO-DATE IDEAS.
A correspondent sends a sketch relating to
the recent crossing of the English Channel on
a tandem cycle boat by Mr. John Ruck, of
Chislehurst, Kent, accompanied by Mr. R. E.
Wicker of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Mr. Ruck and his companion put into Margate
Harbor on Saturday afternoon, having made
the journey thither on the new boat from Wool
wich, says the London Grapnic.
The same afternoon they started for Dover,
arriving there in the evening and starting on
THE TANDEM CYCLE-BOAT SECURITAS, WHICH MADE THE TRIP
FROM DOVER TO CALAIS.
their voyage across Ihe channel at 8 o'clock on
Sunday morning. Perfect weather favored the
adventure, and the boat reached Calais Harbor
safely at quarter past 3. The "Securitas,"
as Mr. Ruck's new boat Is called, i« twenty-four
feet long, and is built on gig lines, with a deck
fore and aft. She has two cylinders, one on
each paddle-boy, and these help her buoyancy.
She is fitted with tandem cycle fittings, and
with her patent eccentric paddles will, it is
said, attain a speed of over seven miles an
honr.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Lord Charles Fitzgerald, a brother of the
Duke of Lelnster, lives In a small cottage on
Simpson street, East Melbourne. He is married
to a sister of the actress, Athenia Claudius.
Dr. A. Conan Doyle is living st Davos Platz,
Switzerland. He declined a tempting offer for
another lecture tour in this country, his prin
cipal reason being that American railway cars
were so unendurably hot.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir pre
sumptive to the Austrian throne, who recently
returned from a trip around the world, has
given his diary to the public at the request of
many of his subjects. The first volume ap
peared a few days ago.
Monday, May 20, was the fiftieth anniversary
of the departure of Sir John Franklin and his
gallant comrades from England to find the
north pole. It was observed at Greenwich by
a ceremonial in which the few survivors of vari
ous search expeditions took part.
When Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field, the relfgious
editor, was a college boy he was known among
his associates as "Parvus Ager" (Little Field)
from the fact that he was the youngest of the
family of famous brothers. Dr. Field dbs been
for forty years the editor of the New York
Evangelist.
Dr. William Thornton, who has just died In
Boston, was widely known as a student of phi
losophy, and he was the author of several med
ical works of value. He was the friend and
co-worker of the late Professor Kingdon Clif
ford of England, who wa9 regarded by many as
the greatest intellect since Sir Isaac
The coal-black negro who recently had con
ferred on him the Victoria Cross was the first
of his race to receive this honor. The man is a
corporal in one of the West Indian regiments,
which has been doing such splendid service on
the West Coast of Africa. He saved the life of
his Commanding office* by throwing himself in
front of the latter and receiving in his own
body the bullets that would have otherwise
found lodgment in that of his captain.
HAPPENINGS AT ST. PAUL'S
An Institution, an Ordination
and a Marriage In Forty-
Eight Hours.
The Rev, William Maxwell Relly Is
Now Rector of St. Paul's
Episcopal Parish.
St. Paul's .Episcopal Church, on Califor
nia street, between Steiner and Fillmore,
has been the scene of several imposing
ceremonies during the past few days.
On Tuesday afternoon last the Rev. W.
Maxwell Reily was instituted rector of the
church; on Wednesday, James B.Eddy,
who had been Rev. Mr. Maynard*s assist
ant in St. Paul's for a year, was ordained a
deacon, and an hour later Albert N.
Tucker, son of the senior warden of the
charch, and Miss Ellen Stewart were mar
ried by the rector.
The institution sermon on Tuesday was
preached by Bishop Nichols, while R.
Tucker, as senior warden, handed over the
keys of the church to the new rector. Mr.
Tucker was supported by John I. Sabin,
the other church warden. Among the
clergy present on the occasion were : Rev.
Dr. Spalding of St. John's, Rev. George E.
"Walk of Trinity, Rev. Mr. Lacy of St.
Luke's, Rev. D. 0. Kelly, and the Revs.
Mr. Wilson, Mr. McClure and Mr. May
nard of Oakland.
The church was beautifully decorated
for the occasion, and after the services a
bountiful lunch was spread in the Sunday
school room. The guests were waited upon
by the ladies of the church, headed by
Mrs. R. Tncker, Mrs. Euler, Mrs. New
lands and Mrs. Nion Tucker.
The new rector was for a number of
years in Nevada, from which place he went
to Grass Valley. Prom Grass Valley he
received a call to St. Paul's, and after
preaching there a year was finally elected.
For the ordination of Mr. Eddy the
chancel of the church was again beauti
fully decorated, and then lunch was
spread. Before the guests sat down the
bridal couple came in and the ceremony
was performed that made Mr. Tucker and
Miss btewart man and wife. Mr. Tucker
Jr. has been connected with the church
from boyhood, so that all present took
«reat interest in his marriage. After the
Funch had been disposed of Mr. and Mrs.
Tucker Jr. started for San Jose on their
honeymoon, and Mr. Eddy left for Hay
wards where he will have charge of the
Episcopal Church.
MAYOR SUTRO WILL ACT.
He Inspected th« Old City Hall Thor
oughly and Visited Coroner Hawkins
at the Morgue.
Mayor Sutro paid a visit to the old City
Hall and the Morgue yesterday. He
wanted to see what progress was being
made in the pulling down of the building
and also to gain some knowledge as to
what was to be done in the event of the
quarters on California street not being
ready when wanted. Sergeant Esola
showed him around the structure ana the
Mayor came to the conclusion that the
sooner it is vacated the better.
"Tne new quarters will be ready in a few
days and then the police and the keepers
can be moved away from here, and the
sooner the better," said the Mayor.
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor," said
Sergeant "Esola, "but it will be at least a
month before the new quarters are ready
for the men."
In the meantime all the windows have
been removed and a good gale of wind will
take the roof off the old rookery and
perhaps save Jake Kauer s workmen the
trouble of pulling the walls down.
I As the Mayor tv leaving the jail he ran
up against Coroner Hawkins. "When is
the City going to supply, the Morgue with
proper appliances?" asked the doctor.
"What is required?" in turn asked the
Mayor.
"Well, here is a case in point. A man is
supposed to have committed suicide last
night and an analysis of the stomach has
to t>e made. We have no chemical appli
ances here and in consequence we have to
send out to get the work done. No part of
the body should leave the Morgue until a
decision has been arrived at, but I am
powerless In the matter because we have
no laboratory. We also want a micro
scope and a number of other instruments.
Our Morgue is the poorest equipped of any
institution of a similar kind in the United
States."
"Well, well," said the Mayor, "that is
too bad. You certainly should have the
appliances you mention, but there is a
good time coming nnd the City will soon
be in funds and I will bear your request in
mind."
To-morrow his Honor will consult with
the Board of Supervisors on the best
course to pursue in regard to the removal
of the police from the old City Hall.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
Estimates for the Next Fiscal
Year Submitted and
Approved.
Four Firemen Heavily Fined and
a Foreman Dismissed From
the Department.
The Board of Fire Commissioners met
yesterday afternoon, when Chief Sullivan
submitted the following estimates of the
department for the next fiscal year :
Salaries $422,000
Pensions 15.000
Banning expense , 80.000
Material 30,000
Hepalfs to houses 20,000
Vacfttionß of members as required by law. 1 7,610
New honsp, Market near Tenth (truck 3). '20,000
New house, core lot Bush and Battery 120,000
New house, Francisco and Htoekton I'J.OOO
New house, Brannnn and Tenth 6,000
New hrms<". Pacific and Jones 4.000
New house, McAllister and Polk 6,000
New house, Ocean View 4,000
New house, Masonic and Point Lobos 6,000
New House, Hulirht and Stanyan 6.000
New house, Knulne house No. 9 6.000
New house, Engine-house No. 10 5,000
New stable, Bryant and Eleventh 6,000
One thousand new hydrants at $28 28,000
Setting of hydrants at $45 each. 45,000
15,000 feet new hose (23,4 in.) at *H)c 13,500
5000 feet -new hose (3 in.) at $1 25 6,250
Four first-class engines at $4700 18.800
Six second-class engines at 94000 24.000
Three new trucks at $3000 9,000
Making a total of $830,740
The board, after considering the various
items, recommended the allowance of the
same to the Board of Supervisors.
Malachi Norton of engine 25 was fined
ten days' pay for neglect of duty. Thomas
Shiels, hoseman of engine 3, Jonn Fennell,
driver of engine 4, and Eugene McCormick,
hoseman of engine 24, were each fined
twenty days' pay for acts and conduct in
jurious to the welfare and good name of
the department. George Long, foreman of
engine 10, was charged with having failed
to respond to six alarms of fire during the
month oi May, and was dismissed from the
department.
The following appointments were made:
T. J. Harrington, truckman of truck 5;
Joseph P. Franks, hoseman of engine 12,
and Peter McCabe,. hoseman of engine 23.
Plans for the erection of four new en
gine-houses and a department stable were
approved, and the board ordered them for
warded to the Board of Supervisors for
adoption.
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AN HAWAIIAN CKUISEKf
No Quarter Will Be Shown to Filibusters
Against the Sandwich
Islands.
The rumors of prospective filibustering
expeditions against the Hawaiian Islands
have put the people of Honolulu upon their
mettle. Clay Taylor, the organist of Grace
Church in that city, says that the island
ers are not going to be taken unawares.
Therefore they have armed a small steam
er, which cruises around the island of
Oahu with a keen lookout for some long
low, rakish-looking craft with a filibuster
ing crew on board.
This is the second attempt the Hawaiiana
have made to equip a navy of their own
During the reign of Kalakana there was a
corvette with a fair armament, commanded
by Captain Jackson, late of her Majesty's
navy. The missionary element kicked
against the expense of the maintenance of
the craft and declared that she was noth
ing but a junketing proposition for the
use of the King, the royal family and the
luxurious cabinet.
The republic, which now obtains, has
manneo its ships with sterner material.
The cruiser, though small, is wicked. Her
commander is a filibuster hunter, and
wants to run across any strange vessel
bearing "scum" inimical to the peace and
good government of the loveliest isle of
the Pacific. His men are a mixture of
Hawaiians and Europeans, and are as
anxious to serve and fire the guns as the
gallant commander himself.
REBOffDING OF SPIEITS.
It Must Be Done Before the First of
July Next to Save Confiscation.
The new law governing the rebonding of
distilled spirits remaining in general or
bonded warehouses goes into effect on July
1 next. New bonds will have to be given
in every instance and none will be accepted
for less than $1000. Every distiller or mer
chant who fails to renew his license by the
Ist prox. will be liable to have his goods
confiscated. In consequence all the whole
sale wine and spirit men in the city are
getting their new bonds ready.
The new law says:
In view of the provisions made whereby dls
tilled spirits may on and after July 1. 1895 be
deposited in special or general bonded ware
houses under transportation and warehousing
bonds which shall continue in force for the
full-bonded period, thereby modifvinf pre
viously existing regulations requiring the re
newal of such bonds each year; and in order
that spirits previously deposited, and remain
ing ir. either of snch warehouses on the said
tim day of July maybe likewise bonded, di«-
Ullers will on that day file with the collector
of the district modified bonds in lieu of the re
newal bonds heretofore prescribed
„ i a^ k , bonas |or this purpose will be fur
nished at an early date, and collectors will in
all such cases retuse to accept renewal bonds
prescriDed SpirltS nnltsa execu *ed in the form
Buch renewal bonds must be given in a
penal sum at least equal to the tax on the
spirits remaining in warehouse as shown by
the original gauge, and ail provisions of the
regulations above named, so far as applicable,
are hereby extended to bonds given under the
provisions of this circular.
Nearly every Christian denomination in
this country has made efforts, more or less
successfully, to establish and keep up mis
sions among the Indians.
CHEAP COOLY LABORERS.
The Commissioners Will Re
sume Their Investigation
To-Day.
Determined to Warn the Federal
Government of the Danger From
the Orient-
The persistent efforts of Labor Commis*
sioner E. L. Fitzgerald and United States
Immigration Commissioner Stradley ta
pet at the bottom faots of the cooly labor
contract matters are receiving the indorse
ments of all Who have the interests of the
State and the interests oi the white labor
ers at heart. A number of people called
at the offices of these officials yesterday
and encouraged them to go ahead with the
investigation, which, in fact, was only be*
gun in Pleasanton on Tuesday.
The state of affairs in Alame<Ja County
is believed to be about the same as in all
of the fruit, beet and hop-raising sections
of the State, that is, Japanese and Chinese
coolies, by their bosses, hold and control
all of that class of labor in California. No
white man has any chance to compete
with the Asiatics, because the latter have
systems of agreements and contracts that
would mean starvation to a white man.
The Commissioners, on beginning thei»
investigation, thought that the cooly la bo*
evil might be crippled by securing evidence
that the United States contract labor lawa
had been violated and punishing the
offenders. It is doubtful if they succeed in
getting such a hold upon any one, for the
greatest precautions have been taken by
the contractors to avoid laying themselves
liable to the Jaw by documentary evidence
of any kind. Yet as a fact the law has
been broken by the labor contractors giv
ing their "friends" in Japan to understand,
that all Japs sent to this State would bo
provided with work. This promise is
binding, and as a result there are no idle
Japanese coolies among the 8000 now in
the State. Japan seems to have sent her
worst element to this State, for a large
number of tnose here are given to exces
sive drinking and brawling.
For all these disqualifications as laborers
work is provided for all, and in cases
where unruly Japs are too obnoxious they
are shifted from one place to another so as
not to attract too much public attention
to any one gang.
The commissioners yesterday had theif
deputies subpena several business men
who will be required to tell the circum
stances under which they obtained their
Japanese help. Among these are E. R.
Lirienthal of the Pleasanton Hop Com
pany, J. A. Folgcr, the tea merchant on
California street, A. Schilling, Branden
stein, and Macondray, all tea merchants on
Market street, who employ Japs in their
stores. Two Japanese boarding - house
keepers who are suspected of possessing
considerable knowledge of importance will
also be examined.
United States Inspector Geffney, inter
preter for the Immigration Commissioner,
will have his knowledge placed on record.
He has been of great service to this Gov
ernment. So great, in fact, that three
times Japanese have tried to take his life.
Once he was shot at and twice he was
poisoned because he gave the Federal au
thorities information detrimental to the
cooly labor contractors.
Regimental Benefit.
An entertainment will be given this evening
by the First Infantry Regiment, N. G. C, at the
Mechanics' Pavilion, to aid Julias A. Holt,
■who lost his right arm daring the strike at
Sacramento last summer. The programme em
braces a regimental review by Major-General
Dlmond, also battalion drill, dress parade,
band music, presentation of Tobin trophy and
dancing. '- -.-
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The Merchants' Association.
There was not a quorum present at the meet-
Ing of the directors of the Merchants' Associa
tion last night. This was due to the absence
of a. number of members from the City. A
meeting will be called for 10 o'clock a. m. of
Tuesday, June 10. The officers will then be
elected for the ensuing year.
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Bacon Printing Company, 508 Clay street. *
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Vermont maple sugar, 15c lb, Townsend's.*
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Palace sea baths, 715 Filbert street, now
open for summer swimming season. . *
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But your ladies' and gents' furnishing goods .
at Pioneer Dry Goods Store, 105 Fifth st. •
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Don't forget horse sale, Santa Rosa StocK
Farm, at Killip & Co.'s salesyard to-day. •
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Wime-dbinkixo people are healthy. M. AX.
wines, 5c a glass. Mohns & Kal ten bach. 29 Mkt.* -
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A recent report of the Departmental
Committee on Prisons, in England, con
tained a recommendation that the age of
admission to reformatories be raised from'
16 to 18, and of detention to 32.
Eefobe the warm weather of Bummer prostrates
you take Hood's SarsapariUa, which gives strength.
makes pure blood and promotes healthy digestion,"
It is the only true blood purifier.
"Mrs. Wlnelow's Soothing Syrup"
Ew been used over fifty years by millions of moth
ers for their children while Teething with perfect
success. It soothes the child, softeu» the gums, al
lays Pain, cares Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels
and Is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether
arising from teething or other causes. For sal« by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure anil
ask for Mrs. NVinslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c *
bottle.
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Bringdown YOUR.
your feet, \/flf TH
put them V 111) fC
down on our
carpet, and a^ m ~ mmm ■""^ •
bring down
your shoe ex- T^ I"*^ T"^ Hp
pense; while pos- M^ !*> i^ £
sibly bringing up '
the quality of your —
foot wear. fIX
That's saying much;
but mind, there's no f&
retail profit to pay here; Uf%J
which means fine shoes . •^1
at the retail price of poor w
ones.
ROSENTHAL,
FEDER&CO.,
Wholesale Shoe Manufacturers,
581-583 MARKET ST.,
.NEAR SECOND.
Open till BP. ft Saturday Nights till 10. *