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TUESDAY AUGUST 24. 1897
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Unfortunately not all of Joaquin Mil
ler's manuscript is undecipherable.
Certain of the Greeks want Ttar with
Turkey rei-umed. Evidently they have
recovered breath since their last run.
Nobody need fear starvation because
Russia intends to keen her wheat. This
country of ours is in the grain business a
little.
"Weyl?r has not resigned," announces
the telegraph. Of course not. The best
that can be hoped for is that he may be
incontinently tired.
Merely as a vacation proposition there
does not seem to be any particular reason
why the Governor of California should
leave his own State.
Perhaps the Omaha lawyer who was at
the head of a band of bicycle thieves has
acquired enough win-els to enable him to
mate a plea of insanity.
The people who spurred by the rang of
jealousy act upon a suicidal impulse are
tar from admirable, and yet it is kinder to
kill one's sell than somebody else.
San Francifco wants the Grand Army
men. As to what sort of a convention ;
town this is the veterans are conlidently
referred to any Christian Endeavorer who
was here in July.
It is fortunate that the school children
ol San Francisco are bright as it will en
able them soon to unlearn quickly the
absurd system of vertical writing in which
they are now being drilled.
If the successor of Canovas shall, as he
declares his Intention, follow the policy
of tbat statesman, some feather-headed
anarchist will be likely to follow the
policy of the late garroted Golli.
Without a doubt some of the kid-gioved
who are speculating in wheat have fallen
into the common and perhaps enjoyable
error of counting chickens that have to
undergo the formality of batching.
Announcement ihat a crisis in the East
is expected has lost its power to alarm.
Someday news will arrive ihat no crisis is
apprehended, and then a startled world
will hold its breath awaiting a crash.
According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel
there is nothing in either Klondike or
Trinity but delusion and snare. Possibly
Bard JfcPherson thinks Californians can
do no better than to lemain at home and
read his poetry.
There may be mortals more unhappily
situated than the Kiondiker who first ex
pends all his cash in nayine duty on his
outfit, and then loses the outfit. However,
none such has been heard from and imag
ination strrves vainly to picture him.
The public would te glad to see Pro
fessor Davidson back in his old place as
head of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
If his removal was satisfactory to any
body but the gentleman who succeeded
him the fact ha* been strangely unre
veated.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith's scheme ol com
pelling bachelors to marry lacks some
elements of practicability. For instance,
it would involve the necessity for some
body to marry Charlotte, unless possib.y
thera is an unheard of Mr. Charlotte
Smith.
According to the Federal court the
nickel-in-the-slot machine is a gambling
device, a definition that, at the risk of in
curring contempt, must be pronounced
flattery. The gambling device is supposed
to give a player some chance, however
meager.
Joaquin Miller teils touchingly about
plucking a strawberry away up north
somewhere, yet it is palpable tbat people
are not going to the Klondike for straw
berries and can pluck a whole box at any
San Francisco market for much less than
the cost of a ticket to Dawson.
Now that Edward Deacon, the slayer of
Abeille, is violently insane the club that
expelled him for hshiug from the drink
ing water hunks ol ice wherewith to
assuage the throbbing of his brow ought
at least to expunge accounts of the affair
from official records.
As a poet John J. Ingalls is better than
some people, yet not faultless. In a recent
effort he declared that at midnight he
wandered in a graveyard. Now, there is
an air of improbability about this. People,
even people who are guided by the muse
of song, wander elsewhere at such an
hour, unless perhaps they dream and
wake in a cold, prosaic sweat. However,
if Mr. Ingalls has a poet's license, this
liciion may be forgiven. It is when he
speaks of hearing a heart throb in the
audible silence that a practical world
rau-t decline to soar with him. Mr.
lngalls is airapiy mi-taken. Silence that
can be beard is something else, possibly
indigestion. The bard who rhymed of
unkissed kisses reached the absolute limit.
Even the admirers of Ingalls must decline
to listen with him to a noiry silence, a
glamorous absence ol sound.
THE ASSESSMENT OF SAN FRANCISCO.
The editorial in The Call urging the taxpayers of San Francisco to oprjose anj
proposed raise of the assessment of the City and County by arguments based upor
reason and justice instead of sitting down and abusing the State Board of Equaiiza
tion has met with a mo<t gratifying and cordial response. It Is now certain thi:
course will b° followed and there can be little doubt the results will be good.
San Francisco will have a strong cas° to present to the State Board. Tne propert3
of her taxpayers is assessed as high if not -higher than that of tne residents of othei
portions of t tic State. She asks no special favor*. She seeks no favoritism. It is no
the desire of her jeopie that any injustice should be done to taxpayers elsewnerc.
Slio i? willing to bear her share of the burden of supporting the commonwealth, and
asks of the State Board of Equalizers no more than what is due to her taxpayers in
justice ana fair dealing.
Having so strong a case it would be foolish to weaken it by vague attacks upon
the honesty and impartiality of the judges who are to pass upon it. There is every
prospect ol success by following right methods. Let us submit to the boara iacts
wliicii cannot be controverted. Let us sustain them with arguments which will con
vince instead of adopting a tone of bluster, which can have no other effect than that
of irritation.
I'jeparations for pua.'ding the interests of the taxpayers have been well made'
A special committee of the Board of Supervisors has been appointed to go before the
Board of Equalization and show cause why the present assessment should stand.
This committee, which will probably be accompmied to Sacramento by the Mayor
and the Assessor and poss ibly one or two of his deputies, has collected a mass of data,
which it is believed will b) amply snfficiant to prove to the State Board that asseas
men ts are already higher in San Francisco than in any other county in the State.
The commif.ee of oHic'.als should hava the support of a delegation of citizens.
The taxpayers who appeared before the local Board of Equalization and made the
representation upon which the assessment of property was fixed should go before the
State Board and make there the same presentation of facts. Many of them are
repor;ed to have promised to do so and the promise should be kspt. Such a deleza -
tion would have weight and influence and could add much In the way of testimony
to confirm the showing which will be made by the official committee.
This appeal to reason will not. be nude in vain. There has been in California too
great a readiness to resort to abti39 of officials, too much proneness, to denounce and
attack those whose actions do not accord with our desires. This method of conduct
ing our political affairs has been the cause of dissensions wa ich have materially
injured the general wel'arj. A new and better method should be adopted in the new
era. Now is the time to begin it.
WHEAT IN EUROPE.
The big surplus wheat crop of the
United States will be a bonanza for our
farmers and a godsend to Europe, whlca
must look to America alone fcr her sup
ply. It, was believed that Russia could
be depended on to help out the other
countries of Europe la the matter of
breadstuff^, but now comes the word that
the Czar's Government is about to pro
mulgate a decree prohibiting the exporta
tion of wheat on account of the small
crops in Southern Russia.
There is very little reserve wheat in
Europe, which is actually reduced to a
consideration of means of subsistence for
its millions of population. The price of
bread has risen gradually until in the
cities of France, for instance, the poor
people are clamoring against the duty on
wheat, and demand the removal of ihe
exaction in order to keep down the price
of bread as much as possible. "Repeal
the wheat laws" threatens to become an
election cry there, just as "Repeal the
corn laws" was the cry in England fifty
years ago.
It is recognized in France that America j
is the only country with any- wheat to sell at I
present; but leading Gallic statesmen are i
averse to the abolition of the import duty, |
it Deiug argued that the situation is the;
result of natural cause* and that to do
away with the duty would simply mean i
so much more money for the American .
speculator.
The advance in bread, however, has
sirred up au iniDiense apposition to the
French Government on this particular
point, and if the price goes higher t;:e
agitation may obtain such strength as to
compel President Fame to take advant
age of an emergency law and suspend ihe
wheat duty for a period.
The European na.ions, whether they
love us or not, must this year pour their
gold into the American sack to get bread
enough to lent them till next season. If a
war starts up on tiiat continent jttsl
across the Atlantic presently th^re is no
telling how affluent the American farmer
may become. Agriculture in this coun
try has taken a wonderful boom this year,
and there are strong indications that we
sha'.l ses good prices for cereals in the
year to come.
IE. BRYAN'S DEFENDERS.
The swift alignment of the Examiner
and Post in strident defense of Mr. Bryan
for riding upon a Southern Pacific pass
during his recent tour of California is a
spectacle for gods and men. Haß the
Ethiopian changed his skin or the leopard
his spots that the railroad and its noisy
assailant should thus unite in defending
Mr. Bryan's use o: passes "on advertising
account" ?
The excuse which th? Examiner often
for Mr. Bryan that the pass "was such a
little one" has not even the. merit of be
ing new. Every petty offender employs
it when brought to bar. and while con
cealing the number of limes he has sim
ilarly sinned, asks for clemency upon the
ground of the smallness of the single
charpe. Neither Mr. Bryan nor his twin
defenders have confessed how many
passes he made use of in his extensive
railroad travel through California, nor, in
fact, throughout, the entire country.
If the truth were known it wonld proba- j
b'.y appear that the advertising account of
the World-llrroid with the Southern Pa-j
cific and other railroad corporations of the 1
country was a rather overworked Indus- :
try. This especially in view of the fact I
that according to the most recent and re- i
liable advices the Southern Pacific Com- ;
pany had done no advertising with the ]
World- Herald, and that, in consequence, j
its "account" is by virtue of Mr. Bryan's :
pass an altogether one-sided affair.
There are other queries which arise in
this connection which it might be well for
the new aggregation of Mr. Bryan's de- j
fenders to consider. What right has a j
stockholder of a newspaper corporation i
to receive railroad passes upon an adver- I
Using account? Is that method of draw- I
ing down dividends not a species of fraud
upon the other stockholder* of the con
cern? Again, what sort of consistency
does Mr. Bryan display in demanding J
that the railroad shall pay its debt to the
Government, whil9 to the extent of his j
passes at least he is diminishing its ability j
to do so by the expense of his free trans
portation ?
It doe^ seem as though Mr. Bryan should
have explained to our people in some of
his many nights of eloquence that he had
come to California through the courtesy j
of the Southern Pacific Company, and was j
enjoying himself immensely riding up
and down therein upon a railroad pass.
It would have added so much pith and :
poimto his oratory and have furnished
such an excellent reason why he was not
and ought not to have been elected Presi
deut of the United States.
A Los Angeles correspondent, in de
scribing an unidentified man who tried to
kill himself over trouble with his wife,
adds with unconscious and almost pathetic
humor: "His description corresponds
with that of three different Los Angeles
men who bavo had trouble with their
wives and were missing from home to
day." A round-up of unhappy husbands j
would seem to be almost a necessity iv
u.e southern, metropolis,'
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1897.
THE CAUSE OF PROSPERITY.
During the Cleveland administration,
and especially after the Wilson free-trade
law went into effect, the press and the
orators of the Democratic party tared
their thinking capacity to frame excuses
for the hard times which came upon the
country instead of the goo~l times which
they had predicted. Fur from showing
any signs of improvement, things went
from bad to worse. Business became
stagnant, banks fa led, mills and factories
closed their dcors and armies of idle men
marched here and there praying for bread
or work. Dread uncertainty prevailed in
the money market, development of indus
tries came to a standstill, and trade and
commerce suffered.
And yet the people had been told that
the most flourishine periods known to our
country's history would te small affairs
in comparison with the glorious days of
happiness and abundance that were des
tined to follow the passage ot the Wilson
bill. Too late the people awoke to the
fact that they had been grossly deceived —
too late to Trard off those calamities of
which everybody Knows, but rhich have
been banished from the Nation along
with ruinous free trade.
Last fall we were told by those same
prophets tbat if Major McKinley were
chosen President it would mean beggary
for the masses and dire disaster for the
American Republic. Yet, with the in
coming of a protective administration,
the clouds of uncertainty disappeared
Jrom the Nation's skies and the sun o!
prosperity arose to glad Uncle Sam and
all his numerous family.
Now, since everybody ha 3 bpgnn to re
joice, since capital is being turned loose
on every hand, since tho wheels of indus
try are whirring and labor is in demand,
those same worshipers of the false po 1 of
free trade nre louuly howling to iho peo
ple that protrction has nothing to do with
the country's present pro'perity; that it
has been brought about altocether by ihe
rise in th ■ price of wheat and by the gold
finds on the Klondike. Asfir as the min
eral discoveries in the Arctic reirioiis go
they have made no appreciable difference
thus far in the condition of any very
considerable portion of the country. But
wheat, goMen wheat, has brought mil-
lions upon millions of dollars to the farm
ers of the great West. Is the prosperity
of the whole country, then, due to the rise
in wheat ?
The best answer is found in the words
of President jMcKinley, who, with that
soundness and simplicity characteristic
of the man, speaks to his countrymen as
follows:
"The cause of the present boom in the
West is undoubtedly due iv a great meas
ure to large crops and high prices caused
by the failure of crops in other countries.
But the fact that prosperity has set in in
the East cannot be accounted for in any
other way than by the wise policy of the
Republican party in restoring a protective
tariff. The present boom is not spasmo
dic, but will continue to increase, and not
only the manufacturers but the people
generally will soon realize that it is only
with a protective tariff and sound finan
cial principles that the country will be
prosperous and remain in that condition.
With the restoration of confidence will
come the restoration of prosperity."
WHY DOES HE HIDE?
The Examiner of yesterday made an
effort to set up before the public a de
fense in the suit which has been brought
against it by John Riley. Whether the
defense is valid or not can be decided only
by a trial in court. If the Examiner thinks
it is good there should be a willingness on
the part of Its proprietors to meet Mr.
liiley before a Judge and jury and bring
the matter to an issue and a settlement.
This is what Mr. Riley has been seeking.
It is what the Examiner ha 3 been evading.
It has been impossible, it seem?, for Mr.
Rile)-, as for several others in this State,
to find either Mr. Hearst or any one to
represent him. Tne absconding jjur
nalist has in this City the means and the
agents to do wrong, but none to be
answerable for the wrong. Mr. Riiey's
suit is still pendine. Mr. Hearst is still
in hiding. The Examiner declares Mr.
Hearst has a good defense. This being
so, the question is inevitable, "Why, then,
does he hide?"
BESOLVED UPON ANAEOHY.
Troublous times are ahead for the Turk.
I Noto^ly is England frowning ominously
uoon him, but in his own empire at any
moment may burst forth flames of revo
: lution and even worse. For years the op
pressed people of Armenia have prayed
for European aid, and for years they have
continued to suffer the tortures devised by
Turkish tyranny and intolerance until ail
hope of interference from Christian na
tions has flea. . Patience is dead with the
Armenians; they are desperate now.
Embassadors at Constantinople have re
ceived warning of impending carnage
there. The circular sent to the diplomatists
declare that "Europe has remained mute
at the tears mothers have shed over mur
dered children," and for that reason the
Armenians have resolved to resort to the
j Dornb, ttie torch and the knife of anarclty.
Death is preferable to Mohammedan
| tliralldom, and tksy are determined to
make their deaths so costly that the sur
vivors among the Turks will tremble to
think of the carnival of blood.
According to the last Turkish census
Constantinople had 873,565 population,
ana of this number half were Mussulmans
and 150,00) Armenians. ltis«laimed that
nearly all the latter are leagued together
in a conspiracy and that the last day of
August will see an uprising of startling
proportions.
Armenian agents are sowing seeds of
dissension in Grate, and in Athens the
war spirit is once again #»v:den'. A while
ago the Turk loomea up with importance
anionij the powers. He has shrank per
csptiljy of late, and if he bring* down the
wrath of Great Britain now the day of the
Mohammedan exodus from Europe will bo
near at Land.
PERSONAL.
Dr. C. E. Reed of Petaluma is at the Grand.
T. C. White, a Fresno banker 1 , is at the Lick.
Major P. M. Norboe of Visalia is at the Russ.
M. J. Healy of Loomls is at the Cosmopoli
tan.
E. S. Ward of San Jose is at the Cosmopoli
tan.
J. D. McDonald of Sacramento is at the Cali
fornia.
William St. John of Fresno Is at the Cosmo
politan.
C H. Dugaln of Merced is at the Cosmo
politan.
Dr. Simpson of San Jose is at the Lick with
his wife.
State S;nator J. M. Gleaves of Redding is at
the Grand.
H. W. Crabb. a winemaker of Oakville, is at
the Grand.
A. L Cox of Santa Rosa arrived at the Russ
ltst wees. '
Dr. J. L. Graves, a dentist ol Portland, Or., is
at the Lick.
L. T. Hatfield, an attorney of Sacramento, is
fit the Lick.
J. M. Latnrop, a real estate man of Newman,
is at the Lick.
Dr. W. F. Smith of Mountain House, Idaho,
is at the Paiace.
James Simpson, a contractor of Eureka, is a
guest of the Lick.
F. S. Wensincer, a dairyman of Freestone, is
at the Occidental.
Ex-Sheriff E. F. O'Neal of Sacramento is a
guest at the Grand.
Dr. O. H. Simon*, a mining man from Red
ding, is at the Grand.
& F. Shepherd, a real estate dealer of
Fresno, is at the Grand.
C. S.'Kimball, a mining and mill man of
Austin, New, is at the Kuss.
Edward McGettigan of Vallejo, Supervisor of
Solano County, is at the Russ.
W. H, Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is
among the arrivals at the Lick.
Frank A. West of Stockton, vlticulturist and
wine producer, is at the Falnce.
J. L. SVilmans, a farmer of Newman, is
among the late arrivals at the Lick,
L U Wiiraan?, a mining man of Bonora, Is
visiting with his brother at tne Lick.
Drury Melonc, the banker, is down from
O;ik Knoll, and is registered at the Palac?.
Dr. James A. Campbell of St. Louis, Mo., is
registered at the Occidental with his wife.
A. P. Halfill of the Los Angeles Fl3h Com
pany, packers of sardines, is registered at the
Grand.
Colonel James Jackson, U. S. A., of Portland,
Or., is at the Occidental with his daugnter
an! his son.
John MiWy of tho Lakewood fitting school
at Lakewood, X. J., is at the Palace on his way
to the Yalluwstone.
Professor James 0. Griffin, head Of the de
partment of German in Stanford University, is
at the California with his wife.
W. F. George, a lawyer of Sacramento, Is at
the Grand on his way home afier a vacation
S[ cr. t at Santa Catalina Island.
Andrew Young of Virginia City. Nev.,
County Commissioner of Storey County, is at
tho Ruis on a visit to his broiher, Colonel
Young.
Mine, yon Finkclstein Mountford, the lec
turer on Oriental lif<» and ilie Holy Land, ar
rived at the Pulace yesterday fiom Portland,
Oregon.
C Cottermnn, chief cierk of the Railway
Mail Service, in r harjre of the lines in Oregon,
\\> shinuton and Northern Idaho, la in town
conferring with Superintendent Flint of the
Railway Mai Service.
Cnarlie Ficltert, Stanford's giant foothill
prtmrd and ex-captain, arrived here yesterday
frnm his father's ranch in the mountains nenr
Tehachapl, Mhe - e he has buen toughening up
for the coming season's games.
Among tho arrivals at the Palace yesterday
was Mrs. Grenviile Dud ere of Now York, wife
of General Dodge, one of tne directors of the
Union Pacific. Mrs. Dodge is accompanying
her mother on a pleasure tour of the West.
ProfessoT Samuel Jacques Brun, for the last
four years connected with the department of
French Rt Sianford University, was yesterday
admitted to practice before the Supreme Court
in this City uj.om certificate from the New
York bar.
Dr. Newton Booth Waller of this City, a
graduate of the medical department of the
University of California and an interne of the
Cltv and County Hospital, is going to Europe
to «pend two years in study at the principal
hospitals of Europe. He will be accompanied
by Dr. Robert Morrow, son of Robert F. Mor
row of this City.
Congressman Warren B. Hooker, chairman
of the House Committee on Kivenand Har
bors, and Congressman Sherman, ex-Mayor of
Utica, N. V., and chairman of the Committee
ou Indian Affairs, are expected to arrive here
to-day, when they will bo shown about the
bay by Dan T. Cole and in tho evening di;:ed
at the Union League Club.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 23.— At tho St.
Cloud— J. Mayor ; Metropolitan— W. E. Ben
neson; St. Denis— A. Bru«nn, Mr. and Mrs. D.
Stark; Barthoidl— E. P. Denipsey; Park Ave
nue—C. Griffith; Cosmopolitan— S. Hendy, G.
J. W. Stark; Broadway Central— Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Lesig, J. G. Mather; Murray Hill— G. B.
McAneny. A. Halsey left the Bt. Cloud ana
sailtd on ths Lahn for Bremen. A. Messager
and Mrs. Y. Cougliian are here buying.
WITH YOUR COFFEE.
She— l did not expect to see you. Somebody
told me you bad met with an accident the
other day.
Ue— Oh, no; that was my brother.
She— l'm so sorry.— Pick Me Up.
Old Millyuns— Young man, my daughter
tells me you kissed her last night.
Percival Tootles— Well, if she wants to go
bragging about it that's her privilejc.— Chi.
cago Record.
"He has consulted every prominent doctor
in the country, and now they say hie case is
hopeless."
•'Why, I thought he expected to do cured
this season."
"But that was before his money ran out."—
Life.
She— The Count, you know, can trace his
family back 800 years."
He— Ah! Through the bankruptcy court
records, I suppose.— Texas Sittings.
"You referred to him as the professor V
"Certainly."
"Of mathematics?"
"Certainly nor. Ha used to make balloon
ascensions when he was younger."— Chicago
Post.
"How old are you, little girl?" asked the
kind lady of a 3-year-old.
"l's not old at all," was the reply. "I's most
new."— Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Tenspot— l am so glnd that you are en
gaged to Harold Willoughby. Was It a long
courtship ?
Miss Skidmore— Not very. My cyclometer
registered about 100 miles.— Judge.
Maud (earnestly)— l want to ask you a ques
tion, George.
George (also earnestiv)— What is it, dearest?
Maud (still earnestly)— lf you had never mot
me would you have loved me just tho jeme?—
Judy,
UNCLE SAM— "Never punctured my tire."
[Nob York Pre=s ]
PUBLIC &ATHS.
£an Francisco, Cal., August 22, 1897.
rear Sir: With reference to the subject of
municipal ownership of public utilities, so
much discussed nowadays, there is an article
on the subject of pubic baths and wash
houses in the Bulletin of Labor (issued by Car
roll D. Wright) for July that is well worthy of
attention.
It is an old gftying that cleanliness is next to
godliness, and it is quite certain that unciean
conditions and surroundings have decided
effects upon character and morals. The man
whose person, clothes and environments are
dirty is naturally shunned, and as a result he
soon loses confidence in htms.-lf, loses his self
respect and moral character.
Very few people care to be dirty nnd covered
with vermin; certainly no one likes to be
shunned. It is therefore bbvious that men
are dirty in the great majority ol cases simply
and no ely because they haven't the means to
get clean.
The thousands of men who sleep In the 5
aod 10 cent lodging-houses that are now be
coming so numerous have but little facilities
for even washing their bands ana faces and
absolutely none for washing their bodies.
The same poverty that compels them to sleep
in 10-cent lodging-houses denies them the
means of washing their persons and clotnes.
It Is idle to deny this or quibble upon the
subject. Since tho L,lek Bath managers raised
the price from 5 to 10 cents there has been a
very great decrease in the number of bathers,
thus proving that even 10 cents is too much
for many people.
From the description of public bath and
wash hou-es in hngland (in the article io
which I referred) it seems that a person can
get a swimming bath for 4 cents ana a hot
bath for 2 Cints. The wasnhouses are litted
wi;h boilers, tub?, -wringers', dryer*, mangles
and flat-irons, by which a woman (or man) can
wash, dry and iron an entire lamiiy's wiis-h in
about one hour (the clothes are dried in about
len minutes), and the cost is only 3 cents.
Consider what an Improvement such an ar
rangement is; no damp, sloppy, rooms, no
wet clothes hanging up tor two cr three days
to dry, the inevitable accompaniments of
home washing.
One hundred and ninety-one Eng:i3h towns
nave these public bath ami wash houses.
They do not cost so much as some people
may think. For instance, the total cost of one
cf the establishment* in London, where land
is very dear, wa« $174, including the cost
of the land. TnU egiabhsumeni had one ti.-st
class swimming bath, 182 by 40 feet, with 140
drefsine cabins; one ■ocond-oiuwtwlamiag
bstb, 100 by 35 ieet, wi'.h .-evonty-one cabin**,
and one women's bwlraralnc rmth. 75 by "5
feet, besides 108 private lUL-bitn r00m.% auil
a washhouse and laundry with accomnioda
tion f>r forty-nine c.othes-washers at once.
Tae most t-xpensive public esiab isnmeni of
tliis nature In London cost only (520.15 L
Moping that t:ie ior«.-goiug will n.tn.ct some
attcatiou to this subject, yours truly.
THOMAS BERSFORD.
THE RIGHi MEihOD.
Pan Francisco, Cal., Aug. 23, 1897.
Editor Coil: You article of Sunday, headed
'■T.ie Ordenl of Equalization," is the only
editorial that has been written by fcidr. Fran
cisco journals an the subject for the pnst half
dozen years, and as one of the taxpayers of
this City who has watched this particular
thing I want to congratulate you on starting a
movement in the rignt direction.
Allow me space enough to add that to my
know. edge for the pa»t three or four years
our Ci:y officials have acted a farce v.ith re
spec i to the State Board oi Equalization. Lc.ok
at lan year. What was done? When ian
Frincisco was cited not one of our howliig
ofliciiils wns jrc-ent. We not only insulted
the State Board, but we did worse— put i.i ti.e
hanUs of '..'hesebrougi*., member from Uih ois
lnet, data turn lie knew little of and which
were not backed up by facts. He perturin<. d h
strange proceeding by acting as attorney find
juJfje as weli, and ended the who.c lmce by
oeing voted down.
The sooner we learn that the State Board is
made u;> o! experienced, able men in the mat
ter of assessments, and that such men are not
to be trifled with, the better it will be for the
tsxpayers. Let us send men able to copo with
the State Board and go about the matter as
outlined by your journal. C. S.
BRYAN'S uILEMMA.
San Francisco, Aug. 23, 1897.
To the Editor of the >an Francitco Call— Sir:
W. J. Bryan wires the Examiner in reply to an
inquiry about that "pass" that he Is a stock
holder in the World-Herald Company of
Omaha ana got his pass on "advertising ac
count." His being a stockholder does not en
title him to a pass. Now, the question is, Did
Mr. Bryan have an order from the Word-
Herald upon the Southern Pacific Company
for a free pass on advertising; account? If not,
upon what grounds did he make the applica
tion? Ask the railway company.
Again, what particular obj?ct could the
Central or Southern Pacific have in advertis
ing in Omaha? I believe the Examiner had a
contract for advertising with tne Southern
Pacific some r.me ago, but did not live up to
it. I think the advertising dodge is about
played out. j. v.
MEN AND WOMEN.
Glsdstone's prescription for keeping well
and living long is to cnew each bite of food
•seventeen times.
The porter of the Paris Bourse recently died,
leaving a fortune of $50,000. He had been
employed thirty years at a sa'.ary of $240 a
year. Ha evidently pot rich on "tips."
Ncah Roby of New Brunswick, N. J., has
just recovered his sight, after being blind lor
ten years. He is said to be 125 years old, and
hopes to break the ace record.
The Rev. C. W. Lee ol Vevay, Ind., whom the
Republicans have nominated for Congress to
succeed the late W. S. Holman, is a retired
Methodist minister who has become a pros
perous farmer.
John Howard Bryant, a brother of the poet,
William Cullen Bryant, who lives at Prince
ton, 111., js himself a poet. On his ninetieth
birthday, July 22, a reunion of the family will
be held at his home. _
It is announced that Sarah Bernhardt In
tends to play In London tb« title role In "Ham
let." If her attempt is crowned with succesb—
which a Parisian critic Ihinks is certain— she
will play "Hamlet" in Paris next winter.
No more eleeant compliment was ever paid
to a preacher than that of King Louis XIV of
France to Jean Baptiste Mas-sillon, Bisnop of
Cermont. fciaid he: "I have heard many
great preachers, and the effect they produced
on me was that I felt thoroughly satisfied with
them- Every time I heard you I have been
dissatisfied with myself."
The wife of tne late Professor Agassiz was
one morning putting on her # stockings and
boots. A little scream attracted the profes
sor's attention. Not having risen, he leaned
forward anxiously on his eibow and inquired
what was the matter. "Why, a littlo snnke
has just crawled out, of my boot !" cried she
"Only one, my dear?" interrogated the pro
fessor, calmly lying down again. "There
should have been three." t He had put them
| tnere to keep them warm,
FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT.
Golden Gate Parlor Wants Flags r>is-
played la This tity on September 9.
Golden Gate Parlor No. B<J of the Native
Pops of the Golden West is anxious that on
Admission day every person who has 8 flag
staff over or in front of his house and owns an
American flag should display tnat flag on the
9ih of Septemb?r. Trie members of tho par
lor say that the 9ih of September is tne State's
natal day, and that on ear-b anniversary the
American flag should be floated everywhere,
not only in this City, but iv every part of thu
State, to fhow that Californians are glad tbai
they «re in the Union, nnd to show lunher
that patriotism is not dormant.
This parlor, of which Mar:in C. Eichel is
president and A. Eberhardt is recording secre
tary, is actively engaged in making arrange
ments for a fine appearance in the Admission
day parade in Santa Rosa. Tne members have
rrocuiect a neat uniform, and tney expect to
be In the front rank of the parlors making fins
displays.
Piedmont Parlor, X. D. G. TV.
Piedmont Parlor of Oakland, at its meeting
held last week in Loring Uali, had quite a.
large attendance, and initiated one caudidate.
This parior, which of late has been makinp
considerable progress, will visit Santa Rosa on
the 9th of September a:ici will tate part in the
parade. Quite a number of the members have
signified lheir intention to be on hand at the
celebration, and tfforts are being made to
have a good numerical strength in line.
Court El Duraiiu, F. O. A.
The nith social given last Saturday
night by Court El Dorado No. 31 of
the Foresters of America, In Union
square Hall, was a great social success.
Taere were present a large number of young
people who enjoyed tbe fine programme of
d»nces tnat hud been prepared lor them. The
affair was under the management of the fol
lowing-named; Committee of arrangements-
William Bunemann, Alvin 6. Maas, F. Peder
son, A. M. Be«cn, Charles Burgess; reception
committee— Cliarlf s Magiunis, A. F. Wad«, H.
J. Mahler. Benjamin Posner, F. E. Kroeper, H.
Cau'vet; fl >or manager, Charles Kurg.-ss; floor
committee- -Emil Henry, Louis Ben<iewaic!, J.
C. Webber, H. J. Miller, *: H, Maas, E. J. Stan
ley.
I-* Egtrella Tarlor, N. D. G. tT.
The following-named were the participants
in the rntertftinmeat recently given by L>
Estrella Panor of the Native Daughters of t:ie
Golden West; M::s Dora Bahr, zither !<olo;
s<^ni£ and donee. Miss Flossie (.r.aOson ; spec al
lies, Frank and Georee Bush ; recitation. Miss
Conn. This r.ar.or Is mnking arrangements to
so to Santß Rosa to take pnrt iv tte procession
on Admusiuu day.
Kn : glits of Pythias.
Alfred Perrier and J. E. Slinker have or
ganized a new lodgi of Kn ighis of Pvthia« in
Sau-alito, and at a mee'ing to be he d this
evening in Bellrinle's Hnll in that place steps
will be tf>ken to prepare lor the institution of
tho new body.
The Orphans' IToin*, I. O. O. r.
The board of trustees of the Orphans' Homo
of tbe Independent Order of Odd FeUou*. be
ing built at Gilroy, have tne assurance of the
contractors that the buiidiuewill be com
pleted in time to enable the noard to furnish
the rooms and t pen the home on the Ist of
October. The dedication ot the home will
take place in the latter p.irt of October.
CALLING THE COWS.
I shall never hear her more
By ihe r«?rfv L'nflis shore.
"Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!" calling,
J.ie Uii' early deue be falling;
I shall nfVfr ln-ar her song,
•■I ishii! C usha!" ail elotig,
Where the sunny I.iudis Siowetb,
Uot.h, flowelh;
From the raeads where meilck sroweth,
When il)» water wind ng down
Onward flowt-th to th« town.
I sbail never se ■ her more
\\ heie the reeds and rushes quiver,
(Shiver, quiver:
StRDd bes de iue sobbing river,
i-obbinK. throbbing, in us falling
To the sandy, lonesome shore:
1 shall never hear her cnli.uff,
"Leavp your meadow grassas mellow,
low, mellow:
Quit you cowslips, cowslip* yellow:
Come uppe, Wnitefoot, ccme uppe, Llghtfooi;
Quit your pipes of parsley hollow, !
Hollow, hollow; '
Come uppe. Llghtfoot, rise and follow;
LighUont, Wbtiefuot,
From your clovers lift the bead ;
Come uppe, Jetty, follow, follow,
Jetiy, to ihe miikin;-shed."
Jean- Ixqelow.
NICKEL IN THE SLOT.
Gambling Machines Not Pro
tected by the Patent Laws
of the United States.
Important Decision Rendered by Cir
cuit Judge Morrow Which
Abolishes Eoyalties.
United States Judge Morrow yesterday
rendered an opinion in favor of the de
fendants in the case of Gustnv F. W.
Schultz acainst Theodore Holtz and
others in an p.ciion in equity to restrain
the defendants fioin infringing on the
complainant's patents on certain nickel
in-the-siot machines. The meat of the
opinion is as follows:
In this case the verified answer not only de
nies tnat the invention is new and useful, but
alleges a specific fnrt, wnich, If true, disposes
of the question of utility. It charges diiectiy
that the apparatus is used for gambling pur
roses and that it cannot be used for any other
purpose. Oiearly this is an allegation which,
under the rule, should be treated as testimony
in favor of the defendant, and in view of the
fact that the complainant has introduced no
testimony lo support the patent, it is, in my
judgment, sufficient to entitle the defendant
to a decree In his favor.
In patent 514,661 the inventor sets forth
the object of the machtne a3 follows:
In my previous machine and in this the main
object i» to return the coin deposited in the
machine or the equivalent thereof, in ca*e a
predetermined re-ult be not arrived at, other
wise to retain said coin. This result may be
of any suitable character, as. for example, the
telling of a fortune, widen may be HftVcted by
means oi a prepared list of statements corre
sponding to tne various positions of the indi
cating di.-k.
'•There is certainly no utility apparent
in this device," said Jud^e Morrow. "Let
a decree be entered for the defendants
with cost."
The decision will strip the royally from
the saloon machine*. Any body may make
them witii impunity.
• — ■»■ — •
Every woman knows some man who would
be immensely rich instead of poor if "lie had
his wife's energy.'- Atkiuson (Kans.) Glob*.
ON E BON D MUST
BEAR IT ALL
Postmasters Responsible for
the Peculations of
Clerks.
Only Exceptions to the Rule
Are Acts of God or of
Public Enemies.
William J. Bryan's Sureties Must
Make Good Ten Thousand Dol
lars That Were Stolen.
United Slates Circuit Judge Morrow
rendered an interesting opinion yesterday
mornine to the effect that a Postmaster is ;
liab.e upon his official bonds for the
money embezzled by one of his cJerk%
even tbough tae clerk may nave been ap
pointed under the civil service acr.
Tbe suit was brought against William
J. Bryan as principal and Jesse D. Carr,
William Matthews, William W. Stow and
Henry Miller as sureties on bis official
bonds of $300,000. executed by them on.
July 14, 1886. Biyan wa6 Postmaster of;
San Francisco from Juno, 1886, to June 30, ■
169 a
The particular breach of the conditions
of ihe bond alleged is that Bryan neglect
ed to render his account to the Postofflce
Department as required by law, amount
ing to $9399 £8, no part of which had been
paid:
Bryan's answer set up as a defense was
was that the $9389 8S was embezzled by
James 8. Kennedy, a clerk in the Post
office of San Francisco, who helU bis
cftije under tbe civil service rule.-. Ken
nedy was subsequently convicted of the
crime. .. ,, ~\'. >'-
Counsel for the United States demurred
to tbat part of the answer which set up
that Bryan was not responsible because
the clerk was not his appointee, but had
been appointed and held his office under
tbe civil eervice laws of the United States.
In the decision sustaining the demurrer
JuJge Morrow says:
The liability of a public officer upon bin
official bond is governed to a large extent by
the terms of the bond itself and the du'.ies Im
posed upon him by law. The terms of the
uonds sued on in this case are absolute. No
exceptions are provided for. The condition
cf the obligation was that he should faithfully
discharge all the duttes and trusts imposed
on him either by law or tne rules and reguiit
tions of the PosK Eice Department, etc. Th^
law?, rules and regulations required him to
nccouni for all the nioneyi received by him as
Posima=ter.
It is admitted by the answer that he dirt not
p°count for the sum sued for, viz.. $9399 88.
Nownere, either in the law or in the rules and
regulation* of the Postofiice Department is
there any provision re easing a Postmaster
from his reliability to the Government where
money-order fuiids of whicn he had tne pos
bession have bean embezz ed by a clerk who
nekl his office as such under the civil service
laws oi the ['nited Stales. The court certainly
canuot import such an exception into the con
ditions of the bond.
Here Judge Morrow quotes from Justice
McLean of the Supreme Couri oi tlie
Doited States as follows:
The oh ipation to keep safely the money is
at>s hue. without my condition expressed or
implied, and nothing but the payment of v
\\hei requ. red can discharge ih« bond. Pub
lic policy r. quires that evi_ry depositor 01 the
public :i oiicy *houid be held to a strict ac
countability. Not only that he should exer
cise the Highest degree 01 vigilance, but that
he should keep saiely the rnoueys wnich coma
y> bit hands. Any relaxation of this condi
tion would opeu the <loor to frauds which
might be practiced with impunity.
A depositary would have nothing more to do
than to lay his plans and arrange h:8 proofs.
so as to establish his loss w.thout laches on
his p*rt. Let such a principle be applied t'>
our Postmaster. 5 , Collectors of th« custom',
receivers oi public moneys and others who
receive more or less of the public fundi, and
what losses might not be anticipated by the
public? No such principle has been recog
nized or admitted as a legal defense.
Judsre Morrow goes on to say that the
only exceptions sanctioned by the authori
ties are the act of God or of a public
enemy, and concludes:
As the present case does not come within
elinerof the exceptions thus recojjnizeu it is
difficult to see how the defendants, though
harsh it may *eem 10 be, can escape the ex
acting measure of liability which the Govern
ment, ba*ed unoo principles of sound public
policy, requires oi those public officials who
handle the public moneys.
The demurrer to the answer was there*
upon sustained.
BIEDS WERE IN GOOD POEM.
Olympic Gun Club Knjoy » Day's Sport
at Ingleside.
The regular monthly live-bird shoot of
the O ympic Gun Club was hold at the
Incleside shooting park Sunday after
noon. The weather was unusually favor
able. The birds proved cood without an
exception and the scores made speak
favorably of the form of the shooters.
Peterson was not in his usual form, but
the scores made by Feudner, Haighr,
Qolcher and Murdock were above tho
average. Hart killed eleven birds out of
the twelve, but his success was mo3tly due
to the second shot.
An unusually* large number of birds
dropped outside of the bounds, which
accounts to a certain extent for some of
the smaller scores which were ma ie dur
ing the day. Following is the result:
O. Fendner 11. C. A. Haight 11. H. C
Goicher 11. Roos 8. Neustadter 9. Slade 10, F.
J. Schultz 7, X A. Schultz 8. Edwards 11, Carr
8, Hart 11, Fishbact 10, Owens 7, M. K. Uneer
9. Peterson 7, Murdoct 11. F. Vernon 8, H.
Vernon 11, S.oane 6, Allen 8.
California siace fruits. 503 lb. Townsenl'i*
Special information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Pres*
Clipping Bureau (Alleii't), 510 Montgomery. ■
It seems Mther paradoxical to say that the
raising 01 things that nobody warns Is a sign
of agricultural prosperity, but the truth of tho
remarfc is demonstrated whenever a farmer
raises a mortgage from his farm. — Rochester
Democrat.
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