The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1895, Page 6

L, MARCH 5, 1895 6 - . - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 5 1885. Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATE! L1—$G per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ DAILY CA per week. SUNDAY CALL--#1. ALL-3$ per year. fic States Ad er building, Rose and The fiasco is over. The country feels relieved. Says Grover to Gresham, “It is niceto be alone.’ 15 to the competing road are Subscripti in ord the tariff-tinkers, unwept, unhon- and u ng. ip bacillus has come to town and is looking for you. ood time to be alive, provided e to the time. rove the city to keep pace roving times. Every home in California should be a market for home products. By bonding the city for $5,000,000 we can get it out of silurian bondage. :ven make an attempt to redecm itself, but just quit. alled revolution in Cuba hardly 1ble oscillation. must with the im Congress did not The so- ts to a noti reform should pave the city with good intentions. ier of* Cleveland’s adminis- e a period of convalescence. The adjournment of Congress cut off a silver dc but it will grow again in the next one. Now then, if the Supreme Court will Kuock out the income tax everything will of Congress and the Gould Getti wedding in one day iz what we may call boss luc There are s0 many good reasons for an the Weather Bureau, the ir so long as it doesn’t p on us. tization of the streets, sewers of the city will show plenty getin some good reform work. | The Astors seem to ve agreed that the head of the family shall be the one who has the biggest hotel, and New York is | happy. Home competing roads and | munici ments will soon force f-million Ciub to drop- the s name. half 1tly directed en- raw material finished produect. In the many of California t oom for the employ- ment of thousands of people at good wa and with big profits. The proposed international bimetallic congress may mean business for the world, but is more likely to be nothing but a pic- s, we might as well admit her claim to a place in the swim with the big nations. As the Czar is reported to have joined the triple alliance, it appears the Prince of Wales ardly more fortunate at dip- lomacy than at bacearag. The Czar may forbid Modjeska from playing in Poland because of the way she talks, but he can certainly make no com- plaint of the way she acts. in improving and sewers would be worth to the city five times the money in a few years. The coming of spring will ‘bring rose fes- | tivals and carnivals of pleasure to Califor- nia, while to the t it will bring the breaking up of ice gorges, inundations and blizzards. nificant of the growing strength llism that the closing hours of re marked by a hot debate as hether the Republican, the Demo- ic or the Populist party was the best d of silver. It is of bime An acute observer of the contest now going on in New York between Platt and ¥s when Platt finds himself gives up and says he wants peace, rkhurst is beaten he becomes a public scold and will let nobody have peace. A prominent cotton manufacturer in Georgia says the reason New England mills are mov, natural advantages of that section, but be- cause labor disturbances in New England have made manufacturing too risky to be | profitable. The announcement that Germany is get- ting ready to celebrate the opening of the canal from the Baltic to the North Sea will increase the impatience of the people of this country for the coming of the time hen we shall celebrate the opening of the Nicaragua canal. The prompt responsiveness of the people of all sections of the State to every well- considered enterprise is one of the best auguries of coming prosperity. When people are sufficiently confident of success to work for it with ardor, success is nearly always achieved. Senators Teller, Jones and Daniel and Congressmen Crisp, Hitt and Culberson form the American commission to the pro- posed monetary conference; and while it would have been easy to make a stronger commission had the majority been in the hands of Republicans, it is nevertheless a fairly satisfactory one and represents the silver sentiment of the country. The constitutional convention which assembled at Salt Lake yesterday is the seventh attempt to form a State constitu- tion for Utah. The others failed because Congress was not prepared to admit the Territory. Now, however, there is clear sailing ahead and the members of the present convention may be reasonably sure that their work will be approved and Utah will take its place among the States | of the Union. re of the raw material | South is not because of the | | as it goes there will be no trouble about manufacturing all our | tting top prices for the | | | i | | | i The judicious expenditure of $5,000,000 | cruising service for ordinary police pur- and extending the streets | poses with dirminished fighting capability. | brought them nothing but disappointment. | and become the law we will be on the high | composite construction, that is with steel | service | rights, be constructed and stationed here. | part of our cruisers every summer. | Navy-yard should also be given a chance ABOLISH THE COMMISSION. There is yet time for the Legislature be- fore it adjourns to adopt a constitutional amendment for submission to the people abolishing the Railroad Commission. There is no longer any excuse for its ex- istence. It has been tried and found want- ing. The practical experience of fifteen years has fully confirmed the prediction, made when that clause of the new consti- tution was under consideration, that the commission would be rather in the interest of the railroads than of the people. En- dowed by constitutional provision with ample powers to regulate rates and enforce its mandates, it has signally failed to use its powers for the benefit of the people. Each successive election has blasted the hope of relief. One commission can hardly be said to have been better or worse than another because all have been alike use- less, or worse than useless, ‘Whether or not wholesale railway regu- lation by commission is possible is ot ger- mane to this issue. It may be conceived that a commission composed of honest men, thoroughly acquainted with railroad | matters, and endowed with required powers, might be able to regulate trans- portation in a way that would be just to the railroads and beneficial to the public. Such a commission we have never secured, and there is no probability that we ever will under present methods. Whatever else may be done the first thing necessary is to break up the’ present arrangement by a constitutional amendment. The only argument worth a moment’s notice that has been brought forward in favor of retaining the commission is that its abolition would throw the whole detail of railroad regulation upon the Legisla- ture. Undoubtedly that would result in a biennial crop of cinch-bills, and an in- creased activity of the railroad lobby at Sacramento, but there is no necessity for any such result. The constitution lays | down broad lines for the control of railroad | corporations. The fundamental law and the courts can protect the public from imposition better, at least, than it has| been done by the commission. | But beyond this the people have their remedy in their own hands. The exist- | ence of the Railroad Commission and de- | pendenge thereon for railroad regulation | has been largely responsible for the failure | to apply that remedy. All that is wanted | is that the railroad should furnish trans- portation from point to point on equal terms to all applicants and at the lowest rates that will pay operating expenses and a reasonable profit on the actual invest- ment. Can any law be framed or comm sion constituted which will do that as well as a competing line? Perhaps the best proof of this, if any be needed, is in the experience of the operation of the interstate commerce law in connection with traffic between competing points. There has never been any diffculty about keeping rates down in such cases. The trouble has been to prevent infraction of the law by making rates higher between non-com- peting way points than between com- peting terminals. Even where two or more railroad systems combine the com- petitive principle is ever present and active in influencing the terms of combination. We are now about entering upon an era of railroad building and operation by the people and for the people. The organi tion of the new valley road will insure its maintenance asa competing line. So far | regulating the rates of the Southern Pacific. The same method of regulation should be extended throughout the State. It will be ended if the people will make up minds to help themselves instead of ng upon a commission which has Pass the amendment abolishing the com- ion through the Legislature and by the time it can be submitted to the people road to regulation of fares and freights by the natural and indefeasible law of com- petition. OUR SHARE IN NAVY BUILDING. California is particularly interested in the naval appropriation bill as finally passed to the extent of one torpedo-boat, and possibly further than that. The bill provides for four such boats, of which one is to be built here. It will cost something over $100,000. The original proposition was for twelve torpedo-- boats and three battle - ships. That was modified to two battle-ships, four torpedo craft and six light, composite gunboats. The change is in the direction of an improved Presumably some of the gunboats will be built here. They are of more use in Pacific waters than elsewhere. Being of frames and wooden sheathing, coppered, they will not collect barnacles and other sea growth like steel vessels, will seldom need docking, and can stay indefinitely on along the Mexican and South American coasts, at the islands and in China. They are just what is needed on this station, and we should have the building of several of them. One of the battle-ships should also, by ‘We have now but one, the Oregon, besides the coast-defense monitors Monterey and Monadnock. In the East there are, build- ing or completed, three first class battle- ships, two second class, two powerful armored cruisers, four monitors and a steel-clad ram. There is more work for light cruisers and more likelihood of work for armored ships on the Pacific than on the Atlantic. Aside from possible compli- cations with the turbulent Latin-American countries, Hawaii, Samoa and the Orient, the Bering Sea patrol draws off the larger It is important that Government con- struction should be provided to keep in working-trim the navy-building plants on San Francisco Bay. The Mare Island to compete with private enterprise in building, instead of being maintained as a mgre repair-shop. It is worth while to pay a trifle more for construction for the sake of keeping up the efficiency of Pacific Coast navy-building facilities. HOW NOT TO DO IT. The session of Congress just closed is re- markable chiefly for what it has not done. It has not passed the Nicaragua canal bill that everybody wanted. We may blame Speaker Crisp more than any one else for that. The Democratic majority and the administration might have atoned for many blunders and shortcomings by put- ting that through. Now a Republican Congress will get the credit for such legis- lation next winter. Nothing has been done on the financial question, which is probably the best that could be expected of a Democratic ma- jority hopelessly at sea on that subject. Perhaps before the next session the way to efficient action may be made clearer by in- ternational conference or the natural course of financial events. For the masterly inactivity in the mat- ter of refunding the Pacific Railroad debts we may ohiefly credit the California dele- gation. They have worked hard to do nothing, and next to accomplishing fore- closure, that was the best possible result. Our people can breathe freely for a while and work up sentiment in favor of fore- closure by the next Congress. The people of the United States must be educated to understand that the gain or loss of a few millions of dollars to the Federal Govern- ment is a small matter in comparison with the importance of relieving the communi- ties from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri River from carrying for fifty years longer the load of fictitious capitalization and corporate exploitation under which they have groaned and sweated for over a quar- ter of a century. In many other respects Congress has done those things it ought not to have done and has not done those things it should have done. It has left a plentiful residue of business to be cleared up by the next Congress—at least it has demon- strated that Democracy cannot be trusted with constructive work. The party has signally displayed its inability to handle large public questions in a practical man- ner. "BONDING THE CITY. The proposal to bond the city for $5,000,000, or at least for a sum sufficient to carry out the needed improvement and extension of the streets, sidewalks and sewers, hardly needs anything more than a fair consideration to win the approval of all men who have true ideas of economy in regard to municipal affairs. Streets, sewers and sidewalks are essen- tial matters to public welfare. A well- paved street is about the best business investment a community can make. Good paving means a saving on every load that is hauled over it, and in a city where the traffic is so large as that of San Francisco the aggregate saving in this way for a year would amount to an enormous sum. There is hardly any part of our street paving that is up to date. The cobblestone system has been abandoned in every progressive metropolis years ago and may now be almost regarded as a relic of barbarism. By substituting for it a bituminous pave- ment the improvement would be as great as that which was achieved when the cob- blestones were first laid on the sand hills or on the clay roads. Improved sidewalks and improved sewers would be not less beneficial than improved streets, though, of course, they would not result in the monetary saving to traffic. Improvement in the one, however, would add to the health and enjoyment of the people and the other would greatly aug- ment their comfort and convenience. In all progressive cities the importance of these things has been recognized, and no small part of the best energies of the mu- nicipal government has been employed in extending and improving them in every way. In undertaking the work of such im- provements San Francisco would waste no money in experimenting. The experi- ments have all been made in other cities. ‘We would have only to adopt what experi- ence has shown to be the best system for street and sidewalk paving and sewer con- struction and go ahead with the work. The bonds issued to obtain the necessary money would be taken at a very low rate of interest, This is proven by the eagerness of capitalists in taking up every loan that has been offered by any city of note during the past year. The time, in fact, is propi- tious for the work in every respect. Mone, is cheap, labor is abundant, city politics is on a good business basis, and the growing spirit of public enterprise renders every project for municipal improvement more popular than ever before. The project which is now being -worked up in Boston, New York and Chicago to form colonies to settle the West is worth watching by the Board of Trade and simi- lar bodies in the various counties of Cali- fornia. 1f the colonies are to be composed of persons to have sufficient means to achieve success inducements might be offered for them in this State, but if the scheme is simply a plan to rid the Eastern cities of penniless people we ought to see to it that our State is not made the dump- ing ground for them. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The decided triumph of the hydraulic miners and their representatives in the Legislature is a hopeful sign of returning sense. It will hasten the revival of a great industry that had been made a crime, and that could be pursued only in contempt of court and subject to pen- alties of fine and imprisonment. Never before in the history of the world did & State or nation undertake to crush out one of its chief indus- tries.—Placerville Democrat. What right has any member of the Legisla- ture to demand any contest expenses from the taxpayers? Why should he not be on the same footing as a county officer? One makesand the other executes the laws. The legislator runs for office for what there is in it and so does the County Assessor; but if the Assessor has a contest he has to pay his own expenses, and so should the legislator.—Lodi Sentinel, President Worthing of San Jose Grange says that if every man, woman and child in Cali- fornia would eat only ten pounds of dried fruit annually the entire product could be marketed in this State. Ten pounds of dried fruitan- nually would be a small quantity for one in- dividual to consume. The average should be far above that.—Sanfa Cruz Surf. The Legislature displayed good judgment in killing the teachers’ pension bill. There is no sense whatever in the measure, as instructors in every branch receive due compensation for their services. To put this never-ceasing ever- increasing burden upon the already overtaxed people woul indeed be an unwise enact- ment.—Lodi Sentinel. The San Franeisco CALL announces its de- termnination to go out of the “fake” business, and will henceforth refuse to publish lottery ads. of every description. The stand taken by the CALL on this subject should meet with hearty commendation.—Merced Star. If the Legislature has done nothing it has certainly undone something and might ad- vantageously undo more. The repeal of the contract marriage law might be followed by the repeal of a host of bureaus, commissions and sinecures.—Willows Journal. A movement is on foot to have the great poli- tical national conventions for next year held in California. The Sentinel heartily supports the idea. The great West needs more people and one way to get them is to have them come and see the country.—Hanford Sentinel, The CALL'S determination to refuse the pub- lication of lottery lists is commendable. While it may not stop Jotteries it will at least be in- dicative of the fact that its proprietor does not wish to see his subscribers swindled.—Ukiah Press. The signing of the bill providing that the State purchase all property for sale for taxes is & clean knockout for the tax-title shaxp.— Alameds Argus. The CALL tersely sa; Probe the scandals. Yes, probe them and let no guilty man escape; probing is what we most need, and vigorous probing at that.—Santa Clara Journal. The Lamp Exploded. John McGowen, fireman on the steamer Dauntless, now at the Clay-street wharf, met with a serious accident yesterday. He was working in the boiler-room. when a coal-oil lamp he had in his hand exploded. The burn- ing oil was scattered over McGowan’s head, face, left hand and arm, inflicting paintal in- juries: He was taken to the Receiving Hospi- tal and it took Dr. Berry over an hour to dress his burns. He is & resident of Stockton. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Mark L. McDonald, superintendent of the Santa Rosa Water Works, made a flying visit to the city yesterday and spent the day walking up and down the corridors of the Occidental Hotel waiting for a gentleman to keep an ap- pointment with him, but the appointment was not kept and the Santa Rosan fell to discussing the slowness of San Francisco people. “It beats the Dutch why & man can’t keep his engagements in this city. I1knew when t left home that he would not be on hand. Well, no matter. One can’t expect much more in this place. Slowest people 1 ever saw. Why, up in Santa Rosa we are on the dead jump all the time and there is no county like Sonoma. This year we will have a fruit crop large enough to supply the State. I reached this coast In 1859, and, after drifting all overit, I have concluded that for good, all-round life and activity Sonoma County beats them all When & man makes an appointment with you MARK M’DONALD IN AN IMPATIENT MOOD. [Sketched from Ufe for the “Call” by Nankivell.) up there he keeps it, and you don’t lose a whole day weiting for him. Where in the deuce is that fellow anyhow ?” Mr. McDonald opened his watch and closed it with a snap, aiter which he continued: “When a man promises to do anything he ought to do the best he can. I lived in Ken- tucky once, where a man's word is as good as his bond, and—-" “Then you are probably a good judge of w—1" put in & bystander. Am 1?7 asked the former Kentuckyian. Well, I should say o0, and a good judge of beautiful women too. We raise ’em in Ken- tucky, you know. There’s another great sec- tion of the United States. I was born there and—" “Probably knew Breckinridge,” suggested some one. “Yes, I did;and though he didn’'t do just what a thoroughbred Kentucky gentleman would have done, he is a fairly good spoat, and I've got & whole lot of sympathy for him. How- ever, that's nothing to do with wasting a day in San Franeisco. You folks break more en- gagements here than in any other town in the United States. Yes, two to one; and you are oo slow to get out of the fog.” Mr. McDonald was one of California’s Com- missioners to the World’s Fair. He got ina hurry trying to run away from the midway &nd has not got over it yet. There was a small brown-faced man sitting in the writing-room of the Occidental yester- day looking reflectively at half a dozen letters before him, all of which bore the postmark of the City of Mexico. The gentleman was Mr. Milton Calawell, known from Guatemala down and around to Vera Cruz as a man looking for onyx mines equal to those near Esperanza. Mr. Caldwell has spent years on the Mexican railways, and knows the Interoceanic Railway from the City of Mexico to Johutla in the ‘‘tierra caliente.” ‘‘There seems,” said he, “to be considerable blame being laid upon John Naufer, the en- gineer of the Amecuameca-bound train that was wrecked the other day. Now I knew the man, whose name is not Naufer, but Knauf, when he was a fireman on the New York Cen- tral and Hudson River Railway, long before he went to Mexico, and I do not believe it possible that the accident was due to his recklessness. There never was a railway accident yetin Mex- ico where the blame was nog laid upon the en- gineer, if he was an American as most of them are. All Mexicans of the average class hate Americans, and I have known American pas- senger engineers to be shunted into Belem prison without a chance to communicate with any friends, when all the people on the train knew that the native engineer on a freight train preceding the passenger was responsi- ble. “Knauf has been running on the Inter- oceanic road since its early days, and whether blameless or not would be blamed if running the train, the wrecking of which caused so many deaths. The snubbing received by the United States the other day when Secretary Gresham was too anxious to arbitrate between Mexico and Guatemala shows the spirit of that country toward us,and it is this same spirit that puts the blame on the American en- gineer.” % M. M. Foote, who has returned from Sacra- mento, said, during a general conversa- tion in the Occidental Hotel yesterday, that he had labored assiduously be- fore the Legislature in the cause of the insane and as president of the California Society for the prevention of illegal incarcera- tion of the alleged insane had surely been suc- cessful in scaring at leasta dozen proprietors of such institutions as they were aiter. He further said that he had many times appeared in & bad light before the. people, but when it was thoroughly understood that there were a dozen or more institutions in the State where no record is kept of any incarceration, treat- ment or discharge of the alleged insane it would be shown that he was laboring ina right direction and that the bill introduced by Mr. Boothby last Wednesday to regulate the conduct and management of asylums and hos- pitals for the insane and to prevent the incar- ceration therein of sane persons or of persons Wwho are not so far disordered in mind as to en- danger health, person or property was one of the greatest importance with every one who has a mind inclined to justice. An effort will be made to close every institution in the State Avhere people are incarcerated without due process of law. “Every orange-grower in California ought to make money this year,” remarked M. V. New- lin, president of the Continental Fruit Export- ing Company of Los Angeles, at the Palace last night. *‘Everything in the way of oranges is being shipped East and prices are higher than for several years past. The freezeout in Florida has given a great impetus to fruit-ship- ping from this State and the equipment of every line of railroad in California is being taxed to transport the crop. Even the culled oranges—those which are rejected from ordi- nary shipments on account of some defect—are bringing figures which leave a neat profit over the cost of transportation. “The outlook for all branches of agriculture in Southern California is encouraging. The ranchers have good crops and are getting high prices for their products. Money is easy oW in Los Angeles and there is a greatdeal of building going on. The effect of this year’s sales will be to loosen up money in the smaller towns and putupon their feet a number of growers who have been heavily in debt.” W. H. Cornwell, ex-Minister of Finance of Hawaii under the monarchy, who has been ill with pneumonia in his rooms at the Palace, has so far recovered as to enable him to sit up and cenverse with friends and oceasional visitors. In speaking of Hawaii and the rumor which has been spread to the effect that a filibuster- ing party would be organized and equipped on this coast for the purpose of reinstating the Queen, Mr. Cornwell said: “Ido not believe there is anything in the rumor except mere talk, which may have been suggested by the wishes of some ardent royalist who is probably an irresponsible party. Iam personally acquainted with all the leading men among the refugees and we are on friendly terms. 1f there were such a movement on foot I am pretty sure I would have been apprised of it. Idon’t think there is any desire on the part of the better class of royalists and Ha- waiian patriots to make the least trouble in the future. Only irresponsible adventurers would attempt such a thing as a filibustering expedi- tion.” PERSONAL. ourse of Fresno isat the Ex-Judge George A. Lick. A. B. Jackson, & banker of Salinas, is a guest at the Grand. C. Rule, a lumberman from Duncans Mills, is at the Grand. Sheriff E.F.O'Neal of San Luis Obispois a guest at the Grand. C. Steenbergh, a fruit-grower of Brentwood, is a guest at the Lick. D. E. Knight, a capitalist of Marysville, is registered at the Lick. 8. J.Stabler, an attorney of Yuba City, arrived at the Lick yesterday. C.J. Hamlin, the noted horseman of Buffalo, N. Y, is at the Palace. J. Raggio, a stage proprietor at San Andreas, is registered at the Grand. E. C. Herst, an attorney of Sacramento, is registered at the California. C.J. Kershaw and H. C. Potter, ship-owners of Tacoma, are at the Grand. R. A. Thompson, editor of the Santa Rosa Democrat, is at the Occidental. J.,D. Birchwell, a real estate man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. E. Carl Barck, Superintendent of the Indus- trial School at Ione, is registeréd at the Grand. S.H.Friendly, 2 merchant of Eugene, Oregon, was among the arrivals at the Lick yesterday. Timothy Hopkins and family arrived from the East yesterday and are staying at the Palace. PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. John J. Ingalls is one of the best cooks in Kansas. Sarah Bernhgrdt is to be in London with “Gismonda” by the end of May. The duties levied on the jewels brought by the Marquis de Castellane for his intended bride, Miss Gould, amounted, it is said, to $2500. John D. Rockefeller has recently lost $1,500,- 000 on the Monte Cristo mine, but the erection of his little $2,000,000 Adirondack cottage will €0 on just as if nothing had happened. Behanzin, the ex-King of Dahomey, who was deported to Martinique, is represented by the latest news from that French colony as being very sick. The African potentate cannot ac- commodate himself to his new kind of life. The influenza-is getting in its fine work in England. Among those severely afflicted by it are Lord Rosebery, Henry Irving, Lord Dunra- ven, Walter Besant, forty-five members of the House of Commons, and & large percentage of the Judges of the higher courts. The Rev.Samuel G. Jones of Georgia has de- parted this life at the age of 90. He was the father of the most celebrated of Georgia preach- ers, the Rev. Sam Jones. He raised five sons, all of whom are Methodist preachers. He has left behind him 130 descenaants. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Angelina (to her husband, who is going to Paris—“on business,” of course—without her)— Do you think, darling, you'll be able to enjoy yourself in Paris without me? Edwin—D11try not to, dear; believe me, Angy, I'll try my hardest not to. xchange. Tommy—Do you S&y YOur prayers every night? Jimmy—Yep. “‘And does your tnaw say hers?’ “Yep. «“And does your paw?”’ “Naw. Paw don’t need to; it's almost day- light when he gits to bed.”—Cincinnati Tribune. Sweet Giri—Oh, pape, I have found & way for you to escape the income tax. Father—Guess not. Sweet Girl—Yes, I have. You give half your stocks to Mr. Slimpurse, and then I'llmarry Mr. Slimpurse, and 5o all the money will be kept in the family and the Government won't get a cent.—New York Weekl The man who first said that figures never lie probably never saw & ballot.—Philadelphia Record. Folks who are always growling at this world are too scared to hirea balloon and get out of it.—Syracuse Post. “Well, some people havegalll” said Pro Pono Publico. “What is the trouble?” asked Veritas. “There is somebody Writing to the papers over my signature.”—Brooklyn Life. DEPUTY ASSESSORS AT WORK. Eighty-Seven Took the Field Yester- day. Eighty-seven Deputy Assessors took the field at 9 o'clock yesterday morning to gather the poll-taxes and distribute the Assessor’s blanks among the taxpayers of the city. The list is as follows: D. Almon, J. P. Adams, H. E. Allen, J. Afeld, R. Burkhardt, J. M. Bellrude, Charles Burdette, S. 8. Bamberger, P. Beanston, C.J. Bohlsdorf, . J. Corbett, J. Calish, J. C. Collins, J. Citron, J.Culbreth, G. C. Crall, H. Davis, C._ A. Douglass, E. J. Detels, J. E. Durn. ing, J. H. Effinger, Charies Freund,&F. W. Fravk, Charles R. Franklin, H. C. Firebaugh, H. Francis, E. H. Folsom, P. Featherston, Frank Grabe, H. W. Gerdes, Thomas Green, Charl Gough, Joe Green, Thomas Gillespie, J. Har- told, A. B. Harrison, Mike Hines, Samuel Hunter,” J. Hoesch, James Hawkins, J. Hirseh, Georgo Jewetl, €. Keegan, Joo Kaint D. J. Kirby, J. Lynch, Joe Lowenstein, C. W Lingenfelser, W. H. McNeil, C. McCurdy, C. H. McGreavy, R. H. McPherson, C. Metzner, J. L. Muller, P."Maloney, J. H. Montell, J. Mogan, J. F. Norton, J. Noonan, J. Nathan, W. A. New- som, J. H. Nolan, A.J. 0’Loghlen, Charles E. Pratt, H. W. Quitzow, F. Rodin, F. Richards, L. Ringen, E. Rouzo, J. Rossiter, . E. Raubinger, E. Souther, F. Silvey, M. Sullivan, J. H. Strehl, P. Shannon, W. M. ‘Tayior, J. Theoll, J. von Glahn, J. F.'Westheimer, H. E. Welssig, W. E. Wall, "L Washburn, J. Woods, P. Léwin, F. win. R St S The Street-Cleaning Fund. The following additional subscriptions have been made to the Merchants' Association street-cleaning fund: Previous subscriptions, $28,185 95; American Union Fish Company, $103 George Dahibender, $10; I Selig, $10 . E. Frauk, $10; Michels & Wand, §20; Lach man & Sternfels, $15; Fidelity and Casualt Insurance Company, $10; Goodall, Perkins & Co., $20; Office Speclalty Manufacturing Com. peny, $10; the Company of Associated Stock rokers, $20; James Simpson, $20; Califors Wine Association, £100; Pacific_Gas Improve- ment Company, $100; Bonestell & Co., §10; McNab & Smith, $10;' H. Cowell & Co., $10} Ewell'sX L Dnir{), $10; Millbrae Company, $10; Jersey Farm Dairy, $10; C. 8. Laumeis- ter, $20; W. E. Dean, $10: P. J. Nauman & Co., $15; D. N. & E. Walter, $25; Gray Bros., 8 85; Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 25; Gutzeit & Malfanti (Delmonico Restaur- ant), §20; Borromean Council No. 29, Y. M. I $10; M. A. Gunst, $25; E. Schlueter, minor subscriptions, $116 75. Total to $28,921 55. 107 ate NANUFACTURERS ~ AWAKE. THEY TAKE MUCH INTEREST IN THE CONVENTION TO BE HELD HERE. Many oF THEM WRITE LETTERS URGING ON THE WORK THUS BEGUN. The manufacturers of the city have caught the fever of enterprise whx(“h is stirring up the latent energies of San Fran- cisco’s citizens, and are moving in the matter of the convention which is to be held here on the 19th inst., in a manner which indicates a successful issue. Circulars were recently sent to all the large wage employers of this city in which notice of the coming convention was given, and the statement made that its object was to educate the masses to the needs of fos- tering home industries, to secure gln: necessary legislation in behalf of those in- dustries, and to take an active iuterest in general business affairs. In reply to these many favorable answers were received. From among the list J. P. Currier, pre: dent of the Carson-Currier Company, man- ufacturers of silk goods, has this to say: “We are heartily in_sympathy with this move, and we believe it iea very important step in the right direction. It is a fact that local manufacturers have been greatly handicapped and_ the consumirig public does not give the local manufacturers the support and istance which is necessary to sustain and encourage manufacturing in this city and State. Manufacturing is what the State needs to give permanent employ- ment to a large number of people.” 0. E. Moore, president of the Bay City Iron Works, s that corporation is inline with the movement. “We are with you | square on both feet in this business,” says | he, “and we will attend the convention | and do all we can to make it a succe; | H. and L. Block of the Pacific Glove Works say they are glad to see a move in this direction and that one of the firm will certainly attend the convention, and the | firm of Armes & Dallam write that they *‘think such an organization of manufac- | turers will be productive of good results,” and that their house will be represented. A large number of replies in the same strain have been received and the interest | is manifestly growing. - - - NEW TO-DA HYAMS, PAUSON & CO. 25 and 27 Sansome Street, WHOLESALERS OF CLOTHING Now Selling Direct to the Public et 1 2 the Price Charged by the Retalil Dealers. Save Your Money BEYOND LAND'S END, Enjoyable Day at tainment in the Beach—Enter- Sutro Baths. There were two causes that drew many people to the ocean beach and Sutro Heights and baths yesterday. One was the balmy atmosphere, neither too hot nor too cold, but perfectly enjoyable, and the | other was the concert and entertainment in the big new building. Those who did | not go across the bay or to the park, went | westward. The cars of the line that skirts the shore to Land’s End and beyond, and | those of the Park and Ocean line were | taxed to the utmost to carry the many | who went to seek rest after a week of toi There were thousands who strolled along the beach, going as far south as the new life-saving station, while others wandered | over the sand hills gathering the golden eschscholtzia and other pretty wild tlowe: thot are now beautifying the places in | which they bloom. | Sutro’s well-kept grounds were crowded all day. There was a large audience at the bath that greatly enjoyed the entertain- | | ment presented. - There was concert music | by an excellent band of forty pieces under | the directorship of Eugene E.Schmitz, | | leader of the California Theater orchestra, | events in the big swimming tank, singing | and sparring. | There were three 112-yard races that at- | tracted a good deal of attention. The first, | between W. Smith of the Undine Club and | Abe Pape of the Olympics, was won by | Pape. The next, between Dana Thompson and Mat Gay, both of the Pacific Swimming Club, was won by Thompson in 1:40. The third, between Murphy, Green and Alexander Stoley, also of the Pacific Club, was the most interesting. The men swam twice across the big tank and returned, and the way they swam with the over- bound stroke for goal after the last turn was a pleasure to witne: The race was awarded to Green, whose time was 1:32. Then followed a programme of music by | Miss Gracie Plaisted, Mi lice Neilsen, | Ferris Hartman, John J. Raffael and John P. Wilson. The several numbers were well received and the vocalists were en- cored. The entertainment closed with a sparring exhibition in which Lucy, C. Reno, S. Lyser, 8. Akers, Alex Gireggains, Joe King, Charles Cathcart and F. Smith took part. —————— BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay street. | | B e Pineapple and cherries, 50¢ 1b, Townsend's.* s gt CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; | g it relieves pain and abates inflammation. e THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE BUILDIN advantageously to themselves by entrusting | their building improvements io James E. | Wolfe, architect, Flood building. Specialties | in flats. * e John Fellows is the 19-year-old tongue- less son of a farmer, near Louisa. Ky. He | has not even a rudimentary orcan. In all | other respects the body is perfect. 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