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SATURDAY MAY 28, 1898
JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Ffopnetof. ■' ■
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C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Advertising Representative.
BRANCH OFFICES— S27 Montgomery street, corner Clay,
open until 9:30 o'clock- 287 Hayes street, «pen until j
9:30 o'clock- 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 j
o'clock. 6!s<Larkln street, open until 9:30 o'clock. I
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street, open until 9 o'clock- '505 Polk street, open
until 9:30 o'clock- NW. corner Twenty-second ana
Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock-
AMUSEMENTS.
Baldwin— Ysaye
Columbia—" The Pace In the Moonlight"
California— Hopkins Trans-Oceanic Star Specialty Co.
Alcazar— "Yorick's Love .:.- '-■'}■:
Uoroeco's— "Mrs. Partlngrton and Her Son Ike-"
Tlvoll— "The Poster."
Orpheum— Vaudeville.
Ihe Chutes-Zoo, Vaudeville, and "Visions of Art"
Olympla— Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties
Sutro Baths — Swimming 1 ,
Recreation Park— Baseball to-day.
Coursing-— Ingleslue Coursing Park.
Coursing— Union Coursing Park.
R.i Campo — Music, dancing, boating-, fishinir. every Sunday.
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* AUCTION SALES.
By Eapton, Eldridgre & Co.— day. May 28, Burs, at 106
Grant avenue, at 2 o clock
By H. L. Reed— This day, May 28. Jewelry, at 1036 Market St.,
at 2 o clock.
by Kllllp & Co.— This day, May 28. Horsea, Buggies, etc, at
*17 Jolbom street, at 11 o'clock.
By Frank W. Butterneld— This day. May 28. Furniture, at
1126 Geary street, at 11 o'clock.
By Klllip & Co.— Thursday, June 2, Horses, at San Mateo Stoca
Farm, at 10 o'clock.
GOOD FOR THE UNION-STREET LINE.
HEREAFTER no soldier wearing the blue will
pay fare on the Union street line. This is a
generous concession, and will be appreciated
not only by the soldiers themselves, but by the pub
lic, to whom the comfort of the soldiers is a matter
of close concern. While many of the soldiers have
been moved to the Bay District, there are still hun
dreds who in reaching the city will naturally depend
upon Union street. All the boys in the Fontana ware
house and those in the Presidio barracks will espe
cially be grateful for the favor of the company.
The Union street line runs into the Presidio, and
is the only one approaching that point. It runs its
cars from the ferry. It has been noted for its freedom
from accidents, a breakdown being a rarity, although
it traverses some of the steepest grades in the city.
This kindness will tend to add to its popularity.
The pattern set is an excellent one for the Southern
Pacific. The Bay District track is reached only by
Southern Pacific lines. Of course this great corpora
tion, having the matter called to mind by the liberal
ity of an associate, will not hesitate to follow so good
a pattern. We cannot believe the Southern Pacific
would take the nickels of the soldiers, particularly
when the added traffic in carrying civilians must
notably swell its receipts. It would be a pleasure to
announce to-morrow morning that the Southern Pa
cific had taken the hint. '
LOOTING UNCLE SAM'S STRONG BOX.
THE Transcontinental Freight Bureau is prob
ably made up of gentlemen who never ,vent upon
the highway with a pistol to woo a purse from
the passer-by. They would be above such an act, and,
besides, the purse might have little in it. Kept by
principle from one avenue of thrift, they sought
another: the}' became a freight bureau.
Possibly Huntington originated the expression,
"Charge all the traffic will bear," but he has no mon
opoly of the practice. The same lofty sentiment in
spiring the utterance is the sentiment of the freight
bureau; indeed the bureau may be regarded as the
crystallization of the sentiment.
The particular bureau under consideration has just
held a meeting at Milwaukee and put itself on record
as a collective swine by advancing the rates on war
material. This is done just at the time when there
mast be a considerable carriage of this, whereas or
dinarily war material is a rare sort of freight. If in
1 vice a road can afford to haul cartridges for $i a
hundred pounds, it can certainly better afford to do so
in war. when offerings are sure to be heavy and con
linuous. Yet the bureau advanced th: rate 50 per
cent, and on every article demanded by the exigency
of the moment made advances, some of them even
more outrageous.
This is business, but it has a savor of treason. It
is thrift, but the unholy thrift of the Shylock. The
roads agreeing to the imposition deserve no good will
from the country. If need arise the strong arm of
the Government should take temporary control of
them and make them seem decently patriotic by de
priving them of the privilege of looting.
THjE SPANISH AWNING DOWN.
OUR yellow neighbor has at last removed those
flaring red and yellow awnings which have
been a source of extreme irritation to all pa
triotic citizens. Every time a soldier passed within
range of these awnings a strong impulse would seize
him to tear them down and trample them in the dust.
IJesides being about the most unsightly things to be
found in the city, these awnings too strongly re
mind one that there are Spaniards on the earth. The
Examiner has been compelled by popular clamor to
remove them, and it is to be hoped that they will soon
.share the fate of a large portion of the Examiner's
circulation and be wafted to the breeze through the
tall chimney of the crematory.
Murderer Ebanks, who was hanged yesterday,
served to illustrate the folly of procrastination. He
richly merited all he got, having, indeed, earned it
twice over, but he exhibited a most annoying preju
dice against mounting the scaffold. By balking at
frequent intervals and appealing to all the courts in
turn he managed to keep alive for months and until
nfter the opening of the war. Had he promptly taken
liis medicine he would have received considerable
?pn^<* in the papers, but now a murderer is of no in
terest.
Even if Cervera bombard an Atlantic coast city
there will be the conflation o f kpowinjj where he is.
IS THIS LOYALTY?
ON Wednesday Senator Stewart made a free sil
ver speech against the war revenue bill. The
telegraph wasted words in telling the country
that it was "a long speech." His speeches are long
and also numerous. The matter before the Senate on
which he cannot make a long free silver speech has
not yet been introduced to the attention of that body.
If it were a proposition to recognize God in the con
stitution Stewart would speak on free silver.
The war revenue bill is an administration measure.
The President and his constitutional advisers know
the difficulties raised by the war and- the plans neces
sary to meet them. They know that our so-called
"insurgent allies" in Cuba and the Philippines are, in
v military sense, a myth. The report of Lieutenant
Rowan on the insurgent situation in Cuba discloses
the lack of force, the insubordination to discipline, the
incapacity to fight in military formation, of the guer
rillas under Gomez. The quality of Philippine patriot
ism is illustrated by the history of the rebel chief,
Aguinaldo, who raised the revolution and sold it out
to Spain for $800,000 spot cash. Half of this was to
have been divided among the common soldiers who
were enlisted under this bandit. He gobbled it all and
ran away to Hongkong, whereupon his deserted fol
lowers renewed their revolution, probably in the hope
of another cash deal with the home government.
Americans will have to do the fighting. Already
we have under arms and under call to arms 280,000
soldiers. Their pay alone is over $4,000,000 a month.
Their arms, equipment and maintenance cost many
times that sum monthly. We will soon be spending
on this war $5,000,000 a day; and Senator Stewart
made a long free silver speech. The flower of the
country is being hurried to the front, over land and
sea. The merchant marine is being drawn upon, and
soon we may have to do as England did in the
Crimean war and charter our troop ships from other
nations; and Stewart made a long free silver speech.
The sentiments of mercy and philanthropy among
the people are vitalized and working together to pre
pare comfort and cure for the ill and wounded. Com
mercial bodies and financial institutions are already
pouring out money to fill the treasury cf the Red
Cross; and Stewart made a long free silver speech.
With the news of the first battle wives will be
widows and children will be orphans. The sweet foun
tain of pity is already affluent, and men and women
are organizing to assuage the sorrow and succor the
distress that will be upon many an American home;
and Stewart made a long free silver speech.
The administration is pressed for resources to meet
the emergency. The President and his Cabinet have
not only the task of calling and equipping troops,
managing the delicate diplomacy required in war,
watching the enemy and meeting strategy with strat
egy, but they have to concert the financial measures
which must supply the sinews of war; and Stewart
made a long free silver speech.
In that speech he said of the administration revenue
bill: "It is the most miserable, villainous piece of
legislation ever enacted by a legislative body."
The British Parliament during the civil wars passed
bills of attainder. During our revolution it provided
for the use of wild Indians as British auxiliaries and
hired Hessians to fight us, which moved Burke to
demand the performance of a lustration to purge
England of the crime. The Venetian Council of Ten
arrested, endungeoned and tore out the eyes of the
innocent. The French revolutionary assembly made
the streets of Paris slippery with human blood and
sent Mme. Roland to the guillotine. But Stewart
made a long free silver speech asserting that Presi
dent McKinley's war revenue bill is more infamous
than all these.
The United States hold the center of the world's
stage at this moment. The nations are the audience.
Europe. Asia and Africa are the proscenium boxes
from which they watch us. We are engaged in an
altruistic war to lift burdens and enfranchise men.
The great tragedy of war is in action. All bells ring
the tocsin. The bugle calls to arms. The long roll
is beaten through the camps. Dewey's tired hand
grips the standard at the Antipodes, 7000 miles from
our coast. It is grand, magnificent: and Stewart
made a long free silver speech accusing our own
Government of the greatest infamies in history!
It is a question just how long the fathers who
give their sons to the ranks under call and commission
of the President will tolerate these long free silver
speeches, in which the Government that has sworn
them to allegiance by a soldier's sacrament is de
nounced as worse than that whose tyranny we are
expelling from her colonies.
GOMEZ TO THE FRONT.
GENERAL GOMEZ has announced to the peo
ple and the army of Cuba that be has begun the
publication of a weekly war bulletin for the
purpose of keeping them informed of the progress of
his arms and those of his ally, the United States. The
first of these bulletins informs the Cubans that their
troops are to be known no longer as insurgents, but
as soldiers of the regular army of the republic, and
will be expected hereafter to submit to discipline and
conform to the rules of civilized war. Warning is
given that any soldier or officer failing in such discip
line will be punished.
While the world in these days does not value bul
letins from commanding officers as of any great im
portance and would rather have one victory than
forty of them, nevertheless this manifesto will be re
ceived with considerable interest. The conservative
element of the American people has not had any
very exalted idea of Gomez and his army, and the
lack of any action of vigor on their part against the
Spaniards since the American fleet appeared off Ha
vana has rendered that element more than ever doubt
ful of their fitness either for fighting or for freedom.
The Gomez bulletins are going to be looked for,
therefore, with a good deal of curiosity. There are
many people who will be glad to learn once a week
what the island patriots are doing for their freedom
and what difference is notable in their tactics since
they have been transformed by decree from insurgents
to soldiers of the regular army of the republic.
The fault may not be due wholly to Gomez and his
soldiers, for the whole West Indian campaign, when
contrasted with that in the Philippines, has been
one of exasperating slowness; but even the most
ardent sympathizers with the Cubans have been sadly
disappointed with the inactivity in the patriot ranks.
It had been so often asserted by the Junta at New
York that all the patriots asked for was the recog
nition of the independence of their country by the
United States and that when this was given they
would at once leap forward to drive the Spaniards
home there was a general expectation that when the
United States began open war with Spain the Cu
bans would strike some effective blow at once and
force the war to the walls of Havana.
Weeks of hostilities have come and gone, more than
a month has passed and nothing has been done. Now
Gomez comes with a bulletin instead of a battle.
It is pot what was wanted nor what was expected. If
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1898.
is not even satisfactory in itself. The only redeeming
feature is that it was designed merely as a salutatory,
and that as such it saluted undisciplined bands of
raiders by the title of soldiers of the regular army of
Cuba, warning them that if they do not act as such
hereafter they will be punished. This promises to
put an end to the mere looting and raiding of the
past and gives encouragement to the hope that Gomez
and his followers may yet prove effective allies in a
civilized war for the freedom of Cuba and the cause
of humanity.
IT is" characteristic of the demagogues who ride into
political power on waves of popular discontent to
celebrate their victories by alleging that they have
overcome "corruption" after a hard battle. This is
now being done by some of the disreputable support
ers of the new charter, who have fought in the hope
that their schemes of blackmail will be furthered by
the instrument. The tremendous combination of
"corruptionists" defeated on Thursday by these in
dividuals may be understood when it is considered
that the total vote polled against the charter was
12,025. This includes not alone those who honestly
thought the charter a dangerous experiment, but the
school teachers, policemen, firemen and politicians
who regarded it as inimical to their personal interests.
The vainglorious shouting of these demagogues be
comes ridiculous when the awful "corruptionists"
whom they overthrew are reduced to a few hundred
votes. The truth is the new charter was adopted, not
because a majority of those who voted for it have read
and digested it, but because there is a general desire
for a change in our organic system. This was the
great influence which operated to carry the new con
stitution in 1879. The campaign for that instrument
was accompanied, as this one has been, by a weak
Grand Jury, a corrupt School Board, a rotten Board
of Supervisors and a disgraceful Legislature. Prob
ably the Legislature of 1878 was the worst that ever
assembled anywhere. It is unavailing to reason with
the people when such object lessons in coiiuption are
before their eyes as have been before the eyes of the
people of this city during the past six months.
But the whys and wherefores of the late campaign
are no longer of interest. The existent fact is one
fifth of the voters of the city have fastened upon it an
entirely new experiment in charter legislation. Should
the Legislature ratify it, everybody should thereafter
endeavor to elect honest officials under it — particularly
an honest Mayor. Since 1879 the Supreme Court has
delivered a thousand decisions interpreting the new
constitution, and yet that instrument, which is shorter
than the charter, is still in question. We practically
know nothing upon the subject of making charters,
and it is not improbable that when the document car
ried on Thursday comes to be subjected to legal
scrutiny much of it will be found unconstitutional.
One thing, however, may be set down as settled
beyond doubt Unless the people capture the Mayor
and maintain possession of him they will be undone.
Nearly all municipal power has been transferred from
the present sources and lodged in the Mayor. If the
predatory classes are permitted to control this official
they will make short work of the taxpayers. There
is not much reason to fear the bugaboo corporations,
but there is great reason to fear the political bosses
who know so well how to organize and win at trfe
ballot-boxes when there is plunder in sight. Under
the divided responsibility of the consolidation act
there has been during forty years very little waste
and corruption. We trust the centralized government
the people hate now adopted will make a similar
record.
JUBILANT BAKERSFIELD.
THE rejoicings at Bakersficld over the comple
tion to that city oi the line of the Valley Road
fitly celebrated the accomplishment of another
step toward the emancipation of the great San
Joaquin Valley from the long domination of the
Soul hern Pacific monopoly that has baffled its enter
prises, thwarted its energies, checked its industrial
development and prevented its people and cities from
attaining the full measure of the prosperity they de
served.
The significance of the new road and the competi
tion ft has brought to bear upon the old time monop
oly are well understood throughout the State. Es
pecial emphasis was given to it in all the proceedings
of the jubilee at Bakersfield as at all other points
which in succession have been reached by the road
in its onward progress. It was amply and amus
ingly expressed by a local merchant. One window
of his store was fitted to show the condition of
Eakersfield in 1888, when the farmer pleaded for
lower freight rates and was met by the railroad with
the reply, "Oh, my dear sir, you are unfortunately off
the line of competition.," Another window showed
the condition of affairs since the arrival of the Valley
Road. This year the railroader pleads, "Mr. Farmer,
can't I induce you to let me haul your wheat?" and
is met with the answer, "Oh, my dear sir, you are
unfortunate in being located on the line of com
petition."
The extent of the benefit derived by Bakersfield and
the surrounding country from the change wrought in
the conditions of transportation by the construction
of the road can be measured, so far as the present year
is concerned, by contrasting freight rates now with
what they have been in the past; but the gain sure
to come with the future is incalculable. With cheaper
rates for freight there will be left in the hands of the
producers larger profits from all crops, and these
will result in a more liberal patronage of the mer
chants and the artisans of the cities. A healthy growth
will be felt throughout the whole San Joaquin region.
The breaking down of the railroad monopoly will
mean the upbuilding of a hundred industries.
The rejoicing at Bakersfield is to be by no means
the last of the many celebrations which mark success
ive steps in the progress of the Valley Road. Even
while Bakersfield was taking a holiday for her fes
tival the work at the other end of the line was being
pushed westward from Stockton toward the Bay of
San Francisco. There will be further rejoicing when
this westward movement reaches its destined ter
minus, and beyond that there will in the end be a great
and final demonstration of public satisfaction when
the Valley Road accomplishes its full usefulness to
the commonwealth by becoming part of a larger
system, thus giving the people emancipation from the
monopoly by providing a competing line across the
continent.
Citizens who pined audibly because the first call for
volunteers was answered almost wholly by the Na
tional Guard will soon have an opportunity to show
whether they really meant it.
It is disgraceful for School Directors to fight, but
if they will make it a war of mutual extermination the
public will be inclined to promote hostilities.
Weyler talks of his eagerness to invade this coun
try, and there is probably nothing he could do which
would please this country better-
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THE CORRIDORS.
Hon. Robert N. Bulia of Los Angeles,
who is a prominent candidate for United
States Senator, is a guest at the Grand.
William E. Bainbrldge of lowa, second
secretary of the United States legation at
Peking, is at the Occidental lxotel. He
sails on the Doric to-day with Minister
Conger.
Major E. H. Conger of lowa, formerly
Tnited States Minister to Brazil and who
was recently appointed United States
Minister to China to succeed Colonel
Denby, is at the Palace Hotel. He will
sail for China on the steamship Doric to
day, accompanied by Mrs. Conger, their
daughter. Miss Conger, and Miss Pierce,
a niece.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, May 27.— C. J- Steadman
I of San Frnacisco Is at the Holland. J. P.
! Langhorne of San Francisco is at the Al
| hemarle. J. L. Elastland of San Francisco
iis at the Manhattan. Frank Stecher, M.
Werner, F. Schulte, G. Morris. C.
Dougherty, A. Bloom. L. Baer, A. Gump
and Mr. and Mrs. Wakeman of San Fran
cisco and G. Gaghards of San Jose have
gone to Pariß.
THE TJ. S. S. MAINE.
In Havana harbor lying, with the starry ban-
Over^urre"*' decks, barbettes, In the sunlight
WithMie sfralns of music dying, all along her
Birds about *her o'er the water, as she came—
I can see her yet, our mighty battle-ship, the
Maine.
Lofty was she, proud a* freedom, never fearing
in H a avina bafbo?lytn*. with the starry ban-
AU^loife^but strong In courage, leagues away
Duty 'called' her^fast and faster she had come,
I ea n Or d dme nnn e ye?. lß §ur cl mighty battle-ship, the
Maine.
Oh, ye brave who died aboard her, those who
watch and warder kept.
Deep within her bosom lying, starry banner
Sons e of freedo n m,' sweet your dreaming. God
but called you while you slept; .
Sailors true whose cruise la ended, ordered to a
Do P you see* her ' yet, our mighty battle-ship,
the Maine?
In Havana harbor dying, 'neath the starry
On b th" n Spanish' hills, In sleep that no friend
could wish so deep, ... . „
Sadly waves that break are sighing for the
Bu^n^bells 1 or°buffles n wake the,, vole, of duty
cannot rouse thee, . ...
You have followed her, our mighty battle
ship, the Maine.
Ah. the phantom ship that's sailing, wistful
Frorn° Havana "harbor flying, with th« starry
On Iher1 her n ghftstly decks; there are none can stay
SilenrnoU^ifcross the water, faithful servant,
SheTs^^nrhfmT'at last our bau^ship.
the Maine. GRACE A. LUCE.
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CONDENSED WISDOM.
It is better to be lonely than to be
bored. ,
Money is everything to the poor fellow
who hasn't a cent.
Self-love prevents some people from lov
ing more than once.
A thorn in the flesh is more troubleaome
than two on the bush.
The average man seems to think that
others expect too much of him.
A girl seldom objects to a. young man
stealing something from under her very
nose.
When men quit the prize ring and
women give up the marriage, ring there's
new stars in the theatrical firmament.
Any fool can distinguish between vices
and virtues, but it takes a wise man to
act according to his understanding.
It is well enough to put your trust In
Providence, but it's unwise to go around
looking for holes for Providence to pull
you out of.
PIGEONS AS CARBIERS.
According to the report of the French
Transatlantic Company made in Paris,
the experiments lately undertaken with
carrier pigeons on board the Bretagne
have proved satisfactory, thereby con
firming the stories that were published
here about the birds a few days ago.
It will be recalled tEUI one bird liberated
half way between Havre and New York
was caught in Connecticut. On the return 1
voyage Captain Renaud took from New ,
York about fifty birds, which were re- |
leased one, two and three days out. O/ ;
these the company's office in Havre has
no news. The birds remaining in hand
Wen freed while the vessel was 250 miles,
IST miles and 125 miles respectively from i
Havre. Most of these were back in Havre
or Rouen the same day, the remainder ,
the next or following days. None was
lost. It has been demonstrated that the
safest fliers were those trained in the sea
coast towns, the inland birds being liable
to lose their way too easily.
WAR TIME JOKELETS.
Is. there any significance in the fact
that the first syllables of the names
De Lome and Weyler foim the name
"Dewey"?— Denver Poet.
Hicks— T cannot go to the war. I am
nearsighted.
Wicks— l am farslghted. That is the
reason why I don't go.— Boston Tran
script.
"What's the row among the seniors,
professor?"
"Every one of them is bent on having
a graduating oration about Dewey's vic
tory."—Detroit Free Press.
A lawyer and his client were descending
the steps of the City Hall.
"Suppose," said the client, "that Spain
decides to send the fleet from Cadiz to
Manila. Could it coal at neutral ports?"
"That would be a question in interna
tional law."
"Then I guess we're all right. If they
go to law on the point the war will be
over long before It gets settled."—Wash
ington Star.
ANSWEBS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
SHORTRIDGE— A Reader, Millwood,
Fresno County, Cal. When C. M. Short
ridge returned to San Jose from San
Francisco he assumed control of the Mer
cury as proprietor, as appeared from the
announcements made.
PENSION— J. F. C Alameda, Cal. The
fact that a man who fought in the war
of tTie rebellion and was entitled to a
pension, has since acquired an independ
ent fortune, does not debar him from
drawing that pension, if he wishes to do
so.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION— G. H. J..
City. It was originally decided the Paris
Exposition of 1900 should open on the sth
of May of that year and close on. the 31st
of October, but the date was subsequently
changed to April 15 to November 5 of the
same year.
TO MANlLA— Subscriber, City. The
distance from San Francisco to Manila
by great circle is 6237 miles. From San
Francisco to Yokohama is 4536 miles; Yo
kohama to Hongkong 1490 miles; from
Hongkong to Manila 628 miles. Total,
6654 miles. By the track chart of the
world the distance to Manila via Hono
lulu is 7130 miles.
FIFTEEN-INCH GUNS-W. M., Park j
Cny, Utah. The only vessels of the
United States navy that carry 15-inch j
smooth-bore guns are the monitors
classed as "coast-defense vessels." The
double-turreted monitors classed as "sea
going- monitors" are the Monterey and
Puritan, which carry 12-inch guns, and
the Amphitrite, Miantonomoh, Monad
nock and Terror, which carry 10-inch
guns. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius
carries three 15-inch dynamite guns. Only
guns on board ship are included in naval
batteries.
THE POUNDKEEPER— M. X., City.
The law which gives the poundkeeper of
San Francisco the right to seize dog 3is
as follows:
The poundkeeper and his deputies shall seize
and take and carry to the public pound every
dog not led by a string, rope or chain, found
running at large in any of the streets or places
not having around his or her neck a collar with
a tag attached
No person owning or having the control of
any dog shall suffer or permit the same to run
at large upon any public street unless a license
tag for the current year for the same haa been
paid.
TRANSATLANTIC CABLES —F. J..
City. The cable of the transatlantic sys
tem of the Anglo-American Company is
from Valentia, Ireland, to Heart's Con
tent, Newfoundland; Commercial Cable
Company, from Waterville, Ireland, to
Canso, Nova Scotia, and from Canso to
New York; Direct United States Cable
Company, Ballinskellig's Bay. Ireland to
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax to Rye
Beac'.i, New Hampshire; Western Union
Company. Sennen Cove, near Penzance,
England, to Dover Bay, near Canso, Nova
Scotia, Dover Bay to New York; Com
pagnie Francaise dv Telegraph de Paris
a New York, from Brest, France, to St.
Pierre-Miq., St. Pierre-Miq. to Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. From all American points
there is communication with Washington,
D. C.
THE FRENCH ALLIANCE— A. L...
City. France sent 6000 men with La
fayette and Rochambeau during the
Revolutionary War. It was understood
for a long time that the French Govern
ment was advancing the sum of $400,000
quarterly with which to purchase arms
and supplies and for fitting out armed
vessels, but it was afterward ascertained
by Benjamin Franklin that the King did
not furnish any money, but allowed Beau
marchais the right to take supplies from
the arsenals with the understanding that
they should be replaced. This led to a
suit which was settled in 1835 by the Uni
ted States Government paying to the
heirs of Beaumarchais a little in excess
of $200,000.
CIVIL, WAR STATISTICS— C. S.. Val- r
lejo, Cal. The number of men in the
Federal army during the war of the re
bellion was 2.018,200. The number of de
sertions is gfven as 199,165. There wef)
killed in battle on the Union side 67,058;
died of wounds, 43,012; died of disease,
199.720; other causes, such as accidents,
murder, death in Confederate prisons, 40,
154; total died, 349,944. Bounties were $3.*).
Those who presented substitutes paid as
much as $2500.
Treat your friends to Townsend's Cali
fornia glace fruits; 50c Ib; fire-etch bxs.»
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Peanut taffy; best In the world. Towns
i end's, 627 Market (Palace Hotel bldg.). •
A trap that did not spring. See the Star
to-day. *
Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. •
Rare books, valuable to any person, for
sale at Odd Fellows' Library. Seventh and
Market street. Great bargains. •
A Paris letter to the London Mali says:
"At the Bristol the Prince of Wales haa
had his usual small suite of rooms, and
aiso his usual companion— a small, dark
haired dog (somewhat of the bull-terrier
persuasion), which has traveled with him
ever since the little dog which belongel
to Prince 'Eddie' grew too old safely to
leave home."
Excursion to the Yellowstone Park.
A personally conducted excursion will leava
this city July 12 for the Yellowstone Park, vi»
the "Shasta Route" and Northern Pacific Rail
way. Tourists will be accommodated In flrst
class Pullman cars; tickets will be sold, in
cluding berths, meals and trip through the
Park. Send for circular giving rate and itiner
ary to T. K. STATELER, General Agent
Northern Pacific Railway, 638 Market St., S. F.
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Excursion to Grand Canyon of the
Colorado. .
A select party of educators and scientists
will leave San Francisco Monday, June 6. for
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, In charge
of Professor Emory Smith of Palo Alto. Very
low rates have been made and a pleasant and
profitable trip is assured. Full particulars at
Santa Fe Of flee, 644 Market street.
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Faded hair recovers its . youthful color and
softness by the use of Parker's Hair Bai sam.
Pabkeb's Ginger Tonic cures inward pains.
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Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the world
renowned appetizer and invigorator, Is used over
the whole civilized world." Beware of Imitations.
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Queen Wilhelmlna is a bright, fresh
young person on the gui ylve . for enjoy
ment. Her mother, the '..Queen ; Regent,
who weighs about 200, ■ cannot curb her
daughter exuberance of spirits, and
waddles along by her side, wearing a pair
of huge green goggles '"to see the bet
ter, my dear," or to act as a foil to the
kittenish monarch she is chaperoning.
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