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

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—#$8 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ o AY CALL—$1.50 per year. KLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. MARCH 6, 1895 Clean the streets. Cobblestones are a barbarism, Home goods are best for home use. A dime well expended is a dollar saved. The silurian should see Third street and die. Bond the city for gold and free it from filth. ‘What is given to local enterprise is never a give away. Fakirs may attract crowds, but they can- not lead them. Grover has gone fishing and the country may take a rest. After this Fresno will cease to be noted for her fossit men. The power of the press is great only when greatly used. The manufacturers of the State are awake and mean business. Progressive cities are never afraid to spend money for progre Street improvement we need and street improvement we must have. How would it do to cobblestone the silurians by way of a change? Now that the tariff-tinkers have gone, the income tax should go with them. We ought to be hearing from Humboldt again on the north coast road project. If you do not see any need of street im- provement take a look at Third street. No journal can arouse public spirit unless animated by the spirit to which it appeals, What is the matter with San Diego that no one h a blast from her bugle horn in these da Governor B may use a veto, a club or scalping-knife as he pleases, and the peo- ple won't k It is evident that if there is anything the ad wants from the Legislature it r wants it long. The only thing now noticeable about the crawled into is the lin- 11 of brimstone. San Francisco reform, now and always, iepends on the people of San Francisco and not on the Legislature. A subscription to the San Joaquin road is much better than a year’s denunciation of the octopus; put up and shut up. The difference between a plain cold and a fin-de-siecle la grippe depends mainly no the style of the fellow that it catches on. Don't rejoice prematurely; the Gould wedding is out of the way, bnt the Leiter- Scarsdale affair has begun to make a racket. If we manufactured the articles we use that are made of California material we could give employment to all our working- men. Every subscription to the competing railroad not only makes a showing now, but will help to give the city a better show later on. After exhausting the treasury for the benefit of their friends, perhaps the legis- lators will appropriate the penitentiary for their own use. Says the Republican elephant to the Democratic tiger: “If you will eat the Congressman I will stamp the stuffing out of the Legislator.” The killing of the inquisition bill in the Republican caugus is a convincing proof that the majority knows how to act right when it feels like i ‘We shall refuse to obey the provisions of the income tax; not in any spirit of oppo- sition to law, but in order to determine whether or not it is the law. We have raw material, cheap fuel, water supply, capital and labor in abundance; what, therefore, is needed for manufactur- ing except enterprise and home patronage? Idle attaches could be profitably " em- ployed in jerking foreign blankets off Cali- fornia beds and giving notice to the owners that they must have California blankets or shiver. Since the entrance to San Francisco by sea is called the Golden Gate, the entrance along Third street from the Southern Pacific depot might as well be called the mud gate. The beauty and sweetness of flowers on the streets at midwinter are among the fine charms of San Francisco that we can- not forego. The flower-sellers are here, and they are here to stay. As a plain, common-sense proposition the only thing the Railroad Commission can do with any good effect is to return their salaries to the State treasury and turn their footsteps home. No matter how many other enterprises engage your attention don’t forget that you will be expected to do something to- ward bringing the next Republican Na- tional Convention to this city. Another illustrationfBof the: ability of newspaper men to do the proper thing at the proper time was afforded by the corre- spondents at Washington in greeting the adjournment of Congress by singing ““Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” The bill providing for the closing of barber-shops half the day on Sunday de- serves to be enacted. It is only just that every man should have some rest on that day, and it is clear that without legislation on the subject, many hard-working barbers would never get any rest at all. Director-General Meyberg of the Los Angeles Fiesta, in speaking of the assist- ance offered by the merchants of San Francisco, very justly said: “It is a sign that sectional feeling is wearing away and that we are all going to work together for the upbuilding of the State.’” That is exactly what it means, and it is a happy coincidence that the manifestation of it should be celebrated in a grand springtime festival, THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE. As it is conceded that the growing good of every American community is largely de- pendent upon the influence exerted by the press, it is a matter of public concern to consider what that influence is and to what degree its force is felt in the affairs of the community. Such a consideration is espe- cially important to the people of San Fran- cisco at this time. Many enterprises and undertakings are now claiming the atten- tion of the people. Itis impossible that each individual should examine all of them for himself and determine how far they are deserving of his support. Most people, therefore, must rely upon the press for in- formation and right conclusions in order to know how to act; and unless they have confidence in what is said in the news- papers, it is evident there can be no har- mony, no unity of action in the com- manity, even in those enterprises which are most important to its welfare. Have the people of San Francisco conti- dence in the press of San Francisco? If we may judge by recent events, they have not. In the election last fall, for example, the so-called power of the press resulted in a complete fiasco. The vote of the city, if it were affected by the press at all, was affected by the rule of contraries. What the press advised was left undone, and what the press opposed was done. No daily paper in the city supported Mayor Sutro, and yet he was elected by a'majority of such magnitude that it may be fairly called stupendous. It was literally over- whelming and was evidently rolled up by a force of public sentiment against which the press was as impotent as an air balloon in a Kansas blizzard. The huge majority for Sutro was not the only illustration of the impotence of the city journals afforded by the election. In fact, in no single instance did it appear that a candidate was injured by the oppo- sition of the press or aided by its advocacy. This feature of the result of the campaign was so marked that it was widely com- mented on at_the time, and it is still a fair subject for discussion. Indeed it will al- ways remain so until the true explanation is made known, for when the newspapers of a city that reach nearly every voter every day during a long canvass fail to make any impression by the facts they state or the arguments they urge, it is cer- tainly time to consider what is the matter with the press and how it has cometo be so out of touch with the people that it has no longer any power either to warn or to direct. It is evident that no newspaper can have power or influence unless it appeals to the abiding sympathies of mankind for what is good and right; and that if it does appeal to these sympathies it will alw have power. Men are attracted by gaudy nov- elties, but they are not held by them. The fakir can draw a crowd together, but he cannot animate it with a common senti- ment. Newspapers that seek only to give a new sensation every day, and pay little or no attention to the permanent interests of men will never be regarded as of serious importance. On the other hand, the paper that seexs out the enduring principles of action, the established industries and well- founded interests of men, and gives them the prominence in the affairs of the day which they deserve, is certain to achieve the confidence and win the sympathy of intelligent men, and with that will come power. It is the ambition of the CALL to be an influential journal, to have weight and influence in the community, to be relied upon as well as to be talked about. To achieve this, it does not seek to be a leader so much as a supporter of leaders. When- ever a new industry is started, a new enter- prise launched, a new civic movement begun, or any other undertaking brought forward that tends to the welfare of the city, the State, the Nation or the people, the CaLL will support it cordially, not for advertising pay, but for the broad favor of an enlightened people. THIRD STREET. Persons who object to bonding the city for the purpose of street improvement should look at Third street; they should stumble along the full length of it, gaze on the wretched wrecks of buildings and smell the odors. It is an epitome of all our abominations, an evidence of silurianism, a typical disgrace; and serves no good pur- pose save that of emphasizing the demand for improvement and demonstrating the need of it. At one end of Third street is the South- ern Pacific depot and at the other is the Palace Hotel. It is of necessity therefore one of the main thoroughfares of the city. Hundreds of visitors pass through it every day. Their first sight of San Francisco is this highway that seems and smells like an entrance to the slums. Inanother year the Coast road will be opened, and then nearly the whole course of Eastern travel from the south will pass through Santa Clara Valley to reach San Francisco at this depot. Third street will then be our re- ception avenue for tourists, and—oh, ye gods, what a reception it will give. Save the line of electric-cars and here and there a building whose excellence is a reproach to the wrecks around it, there is not upon the street a single evidence of thrift, progress or enterprise, except what is manifest by some merchant who is struggling hard against adverse influ- ences and silurian rents, to make head- way in business. The street is ill graded, ill paved, ill repaired and ill cleaned. The sidewalks are narrow, un- even, dirty amd disagrecable. The build- ings should have been burned for bonfires or torn down to avoid fires long since. In short, every aspect along the way from the depot to Market street suggests a new feel- ing of disgust. A sense of the vileness of silurianism penetrates to the mind through eyes and the nose at every step. And yet it is along this route that all our visitors will come, and from this they will get their firstimpressions of 8an Francisco and form their prejudices of its people. It is not difficult to imagine the evil effects this vile street will have upon us when the Coast road is open and all the host of tourists come through it. Fresh from the citrus fairs and fiestas of beauti- ful cities of the south, coming to the city through the bloom of Santa Clara Valley, with the glow of the rose gardens of San Jose and the fair parks at Menlo still bright in their minds, they will be borne into the city of the Golden Gate through Third street. Can any man doubt what the re- sult will be? Every judgment will be a condemnation. Every letter that goes East will denounce us. We shall have that street flaunted before the world until, like the mangy dogs of Constantinople, it will be notorious among the nuisances of earth and a reproach to San Francisco all around the globe. . Something must be done for Third street, and it should be done before the Coast route is open. We can never make it a grand avenue, but we can make it a decent thoroughfare—a clean highway. We can pave it properly, cover it with asphalt and keep it in repair. We can clear the side- walks and make them level and neat. We can purify the atmosphere of the foul odors that permeate it. We can give those who live on it a chance for Ppros- perity. These things the city can do, and when they are done, perhaps the property- owners will do something. Third street, in fact, is a convincing argument for bonding the city for street improvements, and the argument is so clear that he who runs may read. WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS. Antioch, at the junction of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, prefers its claim as the heavy freight terminus of the valley railroad. In addition to its situa- tion at what may be deemed the head of navigation for deep-water ships, it urges the possession of the neighboring l\lum}t Diablo coal minesas animportant factor in its claim. : Many considerations will be involved in locating the terminus of the valley road for either freight or passenger business. One thing, however, is certain: the neighborhood of cheap coal, with good shipping facilities, should make Antioch an important business point. The Mount Diablo coal mines have been worked for a generation, producing the cheapest coal that comes to the San Francisco market. Presumably the output could be increased on demand. There is no good reason for importing coal so long as a home supply is available. On the contrary, sound policy prescribes that we should patronize the home product, even though not the best in quality. For many purposes its cheap- ness may be made to offset its low grade. 1t is also possible that the construction of the valley road may make Antioch a convenient shipping point for coal from the newly opened Corral Hollow mines near Livermore. This is a deposit of higher quality, and apparently almost un- limited quantity. A short feeder line might be connected with the valley road some little distance above Antioch. Cheap coal for San Francisco industrial and household use and the patronage of home industry combine to induce atten- tion to this source of supply. There is a double, or rather a multifold, benefit within sight. We have been for years partly attributing our manufacturing back- wardness to dear fuel, and here is a cheap supply at our doors. The development of these mines will start the wheels of our factories and the employes of each will become the customers of the other. Every new industry makes a place for another, and so the ball will keep rolling until California becomes a seli-sustaining com- munity. In all things the purpose should be to trade with our neighbors as much as pos- sible. California has remained for years comparatively poor and scant of popula- tion because it has gone abroad for what .t could and should produce at home. There is one of the largest straw and manilla paper mills of California in this same little town of Antioch. It is running now with half a force. Many other mills in the State are closed down. Meantime we are importing papers. This offends the gram- mar of business. It is only one instance of many. It is time for a change, and the CavrL proposes to be a factor in bringing it about. THE INCOME TAX. The first Monday in March has come and gone, and with it has also come and gone the time within which the citizens of the United States have been required to make statements of their respective in- comes under the odious and unpopular income-tax law—if it be a law. There are many thousands of our most law-abiding citizens who have not made these state- ments and who will not, because they deem the statute which seeks to compel them so to do itself illegal, and hence who will be in sympathy with us in our deter- mination to resist every step in the process toward enforcement of this abominable tax by appeal to the courts of proper juris- diction and of ultimate resort. It is not our intention in this or any other matter to violate the laws of theland while conceding them to be such, nor to engage in any opposition to them for the mere sake of litigation. Our resistance to the income-tax law is based upon the firm and honest conviction that it is not a law in truth and fact when tested by those canons of liberty, equality and justice which the constitution has established. The contest will be,an entirely friendly one, with the sole and single purpose of determining whether or not this unequal and unpopular measure is a binding law. It is the right of every citizen, and not alone his right but his duty, to resist every inroad upon his liberties which in good faith he thinks unjustified by the consti- tution. Inall royalty and devotion to our Government, we shall contest the imposi- tion of this tax until the highest courts in the land have ruled upon its validity. There isalready on the way to the United States Supreme Court a case in which the issue of the legality of this tax may possi- bly be decided. Itis an injunction suit brought by one John C. Moore, a banker of New York, against John 8. Miller, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to re- strain him from attempting to collect the income tax. Thus far in the progress of that case the direct issue as to the validity of the law has not been presented, the lower courts deciding that it could not be reached by an injunction proceeding. The Supreme Court may adhere to this view, and hence that suit may fail to be decisive of the real controversy. By direct resist- ance to the law at every point where its enforcement is tried, the exact question cannot be long avoided, and sooner or later we shall have the court of last resort face to face with it and with no recourse but to decide it finally and fairly to be a law or to be of none effect and void. To- ward that issue and decision we shall steadfastly set our face, in the fullest con- fidence that the income tax will be rele- gated to the bric-a-brac shelf set apart for those statutes which have come in conflict with the Federal constitution. NO MORE STREET-GRABBING. The Board of Supervisors has passed to print an order imposing punishment by imprisonnient from three to six months on any one who begins work involving the tearing up or obstruction of public streets without giving forty-eight hours’ notice. Now let them put it promptly through tinal passage and then vigorously enforce the ordinance. There has been too much grabbing of public streets by corporations under cover of night. We have seen such work done in forcible defiance of the city authorities for want of an ordinance to fit the case in the opinion of one or another department of the city government. A street railroad, corporation can well afford to gain its end at the expense of a fine or civil suit, but directors, bosses and em- ployes will be slow torisk a term in jail. As regards the convenience of corporations the public convenience is the first consid- eration, and street railroad companies do not decide upon and require new lines in such a hurry that they cannot give two days’ notice of intention. HYDRAULIO MINING. The Debris Commission has indefinitely suspended the permission granted to the Hustler Company, near Cherokee, Nevada County, to carty on hydraulic mining. This is due to the bad condition of the shows that the Debris Commission is company’s dam, which tain the debris. This action will be gratifying and en- couraging to those who favor hydraulic mining as well asto those who oppose it for fear of damage to valley settlers. It will no longer re- attending to business; that its superviséan is a guarantee of the proper regulation of hydraulic mining. It will inspire con- fidence in the operation of the law upon which the continuance of such mining depends. The number of applications for permits now before the commission indi- cate the activity which will soon prevail in that line of production. It is a golden prospect for California. The number of protests against the restraining works of certain companies also show that a close popular supervision is maintained that, in co-operation with the commission, may be depended upon to keep things straight. Everything is working in the right way. PERSONAL. Ex-Sheriff E. W. Kay of Visalia is at the Grand. i A. Harris, & Madison merchant, is & guest at the Grand. 0. Steenberg, a ranch-owner of Brentwood, is at the Lick. E.D. Beard, a merchantof Napa, is registered at the Lick. J. H. Einhorn, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is af the California, 'Dr. W.D. Rodgersof Watsonville is registered at the Occidental. J.R.Lane, a mierchant of Calico, arrived at the Grand yesterday. G. W. Chandler. a lnmberman of San Jose, is registered at the Grand. C. I Marshall, & prominent resident of Ever- ett, Wash., is & guest at the Lick. 1. L. Delano, the owner of a large granite quarry at Rocklin, is at the Lick. F.L.Goss of the Goss Printing Press Com- pany, Chicago, is at the Palace Hotel. Albert Hanson, a lumberman of Redwood City, registered at the Lick yesterday. Joseph G. McCarthy of the Virginia Chron- icle, State Printer of Nevada, is in the city. J. F. Tourtelotte,a wealthy resident of Minne- apolis, Minn., is at the Palace with his wife. George Tatterson, manager of the Stockton Woolen-mills, was in the city yesterday on a business trip. E.S. Rothchild and bride of Portland, who were recently married in the Palace Hotel, have returned froma trip south. . E. W. Holmes, formerly captain of the Umia- tilla but now of the Portland, who has been in the hospital for & couple of weeks, is again at the Lick. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. Jefferson Davis has recently regained some property in New Orleans which belonged |- to her husband before the war and was con- fiscated by the United States. The property was sold and the purchaser held it until 1892, when Mrs. Davis and her daughters got pos- sesslon of it. They are now asking the parish of New Orleans to remit the unpaid taxes for some years before they became its owners, Mayor Denny of Indianapolis was asked by the Mayor of Wilmington, Del., to participate in & conyention of mayors, but replied that he did not care to attend, as Indianapolis had the best city government on earth; that there was nothing to be learned by a convention and that other cities had the privilege of investigating the city’s charter and profiting accordingly. | Prince Kung, China’s Foreign Affairs Minis- ter, has been for years almosta wreck from over-indulgence in opium-smoking. When the efforts of his enemies resulted in his overthrow some years ago Lie took to the pipe for comfort and forgetfulness, and kept it up. Alphonse Dandet’s son’s marriage with Vie- tor Hugo's favorite granddaughter, Jeanne, did not lastlong. They have just been divorced for incompatibility of temper after two years of married life. Secretary Carlisle 1s to make a series of speeches in Kentucky after the adjournment of Congress. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Mamma—You and your little visitors are do- ing nothing but sitting around and looking miserable. Why don’t you play something? Little Daughter—We is playin’. Mamma—Playing what? Little Daughter—We is playin’ that we is growed up.—Good News. Tommy Bingo—Sister had her young man call | t0 see her last night, and I was peeping through the keyhole, looking at them, when ma came along and stopped me @ Willie Slimson—What did she do? Tommy Bingo—She 100k & look.—Tid-Bits. Merchant (to clerk applying for a situation)— S0 you speak French and English? Clerk—And Dutch in the bargain. Merchant—We have no dealings with Dutch- herefore, T will take one-third off your salary.—Plauderecke. **As to the question of sidesaddles, madam,” ventured the reporter, as delicatel$ as he could, “what will probably be the—the position of the coming woman?” ““As to the question ‘of saddles, sir,” replied the president of the woman’s convention, with considerable asperity, “the coming woman, if she feels like it, will take both sides,”—Chicago Tribune. Mabel (blushfully)—Papa, did the Count call upon you to-day on & rather important matter? Papa—Yes. Mabel (still more blushfully)~You con- sented? Papa—Well, not until he had given me a note for sixty days to show for the amount.—Town Topics. THE GOVERNMENT WILL PAY. How Accounts of Debt Can Be Squared in Hawali. If a man has run himself deeply in debt in Honoluluor any other part of Hawaii, and is unable to pay, and therefore cannot secure his passports to leave the islands, no matter how anxious he may be to de- part, thereis stiil a way open for him which works like a charm. He can become an enthusiastic royalist, get himself deported, and have his debts paid by the Govern- ment. At least thatis the plan which is said to be in operation with the Dole Gov- ernment at the present time. Frank L. Hoogs, editor of the Paradise of the Pacific, and city editor of the Hono- lulu Advertiser, who arrived on the Aus- tralia last Saturday, in speaking of degor- tations and exiles from the islands last niqht, said: Tt is a fact that many of the men who were mixed up in the last attempted revo- lution and who have since been_ deported, or will be deported, are deeply in debt in Honolulu and could not undef ordinary circumstances have secured their Basspons te leave the islands. But, while the fact I am about to state has not been generally published, it is understood upon good authority that the creditors of all those who have been deported by the present Government will be paid the full amounts of their claims against the exiles. This would seem no more than just, because otherwise the law against disloyal citizens would work a hardship on the creditors who may be loyal and true to the existin regime. They would lose their money an would have no further recourse against the debtors.” T A SCHOONER'S TROUBLE. Struck on a Rock and Deferted by Her Crew: The schooner Albion arrived yesterday morning from Siuslaw with Captain Olsen and a crew of two. Off the Suislaw the vessel struck on a rock, damaging her timbers slightly, and after she was re- d the crew refused to go in her, on the ground that she was unseaworthy. Cap- tain Olsen secured two men, and sailed for 8an Francikco, arriving here without trouble. —————— The Hindoos have no word for friend, be- cause they use the word brother instead. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘“Would you be Mayor of San Francisco again, Ellert, if the opportuuity presented itself ?” inguired a politician of the ex-Mayor as they met in the corridor of the Palace Hotel yesterday. “No, str,” answered Mr. Ellert. “Why 2 “‘Simply because the duties are so harassing and tiresome that it is a good thingto geta rest, and after a man has been Mayor of this city one term he feels like resting the remain- der of his lifetime. Excuse me, I've had all I want.” “But think of the distinction you are bound to ac—" “AR, true. But think of the several thousand gutter-snipe politicians you have to cater to. I know what I am talking about when you come to San Francisco affairs, for I was born here thirty-eight years ago and have never been east of Ogden nor west of the Seal Rocks. Itisabout all a man wants todo to attend to his own private business and do it to his satis- faction. After one gets through with that he is ready to go home and cool off by reading the daily newspapers, which keep well up with the times and politics. “My political schooling has been of value to me, but there will have to be a considerable renovating before I would advise a young man to tie himself down to it for life. To be sure, there are some good features about it, as is the “I DO NOT CARE TO BE MBYOR AGAIN,” SAID MR. ELLERT. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.) case in most anything. That’s one reason I like the CALL. It is frank to admit that San Francisco, with all her faults, has some good points, and some very good ones at that. That is & novelty in San Francisco journalism. *“It is senseless to complain of everything in the city limits, and the man who can find time to admit that there is an occasional redeeming traitis & good citizen, because he is not a pes- simist. Whenever anything is done well the CALL admits it and never makes any bones aboutit. That is the right policy and one which will in the end win for the journal a magnificent following among the progressive citizens. The clean-up suggested by that paper will do the city good; and when the new road is built the people of progress will see the State rising out of her toils and shaking off her chains,” The ex-Mayor recovered himself here and re- marked that he was getting in a little deep and drifting off the line. *But,” he concluded, “‘what I said about not wanting to be Mayor of San Francisco again goes. Once is not often, but it is enough. Itis all that one man can stand.” “The Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans this year was probably a grand success, but I doubt if it created more excitement than did the Tecent phenomenal snowstorm in that city,” said B. L. Elliott, an Eastern oyster-grower, at the Occidental yesterday. *Iwas in the city at the time, and the antics of a lot of school- children when the first snow of the season puts in its appearance in the East, was no com- parison to the unbounded Milarity of the Crescent City people. The snowiall occurred during the night, and the next day was uni- versally observed as & holiday. The public buildings were closed, as were also about all the wholesale and retail business houses. The snowiall amounted to about nine inches in depth, but it was sufficient to block traffic in a city totally unprepared for such an emergency. At first sleighs were few in number, but the fertile minds of those bent upon having sport soon improvised structures for the occasion. They were made in every conceivable size and shape, ohe man appearing in the street behind a fast trotter attached to a dry-goods box mounted upon two pieces of gas pipe. The whole city was alive with the sport, and the first night all the theaters were closed. It will be many years before the residents of New Orleans will forget the winter of 1894-95.” “Talk about there being no longer any money in raising oranges,” said R. A. Arnold of Los Angeles in the Grand yesterday, “why, the proposition s ridiculous. I know of one man who will this year make a small fortune from a forty-acre tract. He is L. E. Waite of High- lands, who owns a magnificent grove of Wash- ington navels, the trees being seven years old. Only the two outside rows had been picked when I last heard from the grove and they had yielded 800 boxes, or an average of six boxes to the tree. As there are 100 trees to the acre it will be seen that this average would show a yield of 600 boxes to that amount of ground, which at present prices would bring the owner in & revenue of about $1350 an acre. I am re- liably informed that this is not an isolated case, but that there are many other groves which will show up equally as well.” “The people of Pheenix, Arizona, are getting ready to give the biggest ‘blowout’ ever at- tempted in the West,” said G. M. Holton of that city at the Palace yesterday. “Last week the Santa Fe, Prescott and Pheenix road was completed to that city and there is a wonder- ful show of activity in commercial affairs in consequence. Three years have been consumed in building the line from Ash Fork, on the Atlantic and Pacific road, to Pheenix, via Pres- cott. Now that lumber can be secured at a nominal cost builders say that hundreds of new structures will goup in Pheenix within the next year or tw}." “This thing of receiving letters of condolence is getting to be rather tiresome to me,” said ‘Warden Hale of San Quentin at the Palace yes- terday. “Since the recenttrouble at Folsom a number of my friends have got the idea into their heads that San Quentin was where the attempted escape oceurred, and as a conse- quence it has consumed a good deal of my time in replying to sympathetic letters from my friends and muring them that the record of San Quentin in never having lost a prisoner under my management is as yet unbro{en. > There were many callers at the Occidental Hotel yesterday to bid Mr. and Mrs. Sands W. Forman and daughter good-by prior to their departure for China. The family took passage on the Gaelic, and Mr. Forman said just prior to leaving that they would probably be absent three or four months. Captain Healey took a large party of guests aboard the revenue cutter Bear and accompanied_ the outgoing steamer down the bay quite a distance to give the de- rting couple a hearty godspeed on their ourney. A Pioneer’'s Body Cremated. The body of Charles Cole Knox; the pioneer who died in this city on the 1stinst., was cremated at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in San teo County last Sunday. The funeral ser- vices were conducted verg quietly at the late home of the deceased, 21 Eleventh street. After the brief ceremony the body was re- moved to the crematory at Cypress Lawn, at- tended by many sorrowing friends. Mr. Knox was 67 years old, and_for some_time past had :eellalin ?ui he;‘lth. e was Ifi)\:iines;ml;lbo( erling integrity, ana was well thought o a1l who knew hiz. SaeyY THEY ACCOMPLISHED LITTLE THE COMMITIEE FOR.THE RELIEF OF THE UNEMPLOYED AD- JOURN SINE DIE. PRACTICABLE MEASURES FOR RE- LIEVING THE NEEDY WERE NoTt AGREED UPON. The citizens' committee of twenty-one, which was appointed by Mayor Sutro some time ago to devise ways and means for fhe relief of she unemployed men in the city, held another, and its last, meeting in Mayor Sutro’s office yesterday afternoon. There were only seven membgrs of the committee present—Messrs. George K. Fitch, James R. Kelly, I. G. Truman, James H. Barry, H. H. Reid, John M. Reynolds and M. McGlynn. The meeting was called to order by James R. Kelly. Mr. Reynolds on behalf of the commit- tee on raising funds reported that two canvassers had been appointed and had already begun work. S0 far §145 had been subseribed, the most of which had been iven by members of the committee. It had been arranged to have letters sent out abead of the canvassers to persons upon whom they would call stating the neces- sity for assisting the deserving unem- ploved. : > Mr. Kelly here arose and said that while he did not wish to throw cold water upon the movement to assist the deserving poor he did want to say that he considered it a waste of time to come to the meetings. No result had been accomplished. Fur- thermore, he said that people generally, he understood, were saying that the present was an inappropriate time for the move- ment; that there were fewer men out of employment at present than ever before, and that it was too late in the season. Unemployed men can be found, he said, at all times in large cities, and he did not think there was any distress amon g work- ing people in t ty. He moved that the committee ad journ sine die. Secretary Reynolde read a protest against the inactivity shown by certain members of the committee and deemed their action inhuman and disgraceful. Mr. Kelly expressed some indignation at the reading of the letter and its insinua- tio He said ke had as good a name in mmunity as Mr. Reynolds, and he had assisted the movement in uver{ way. “I have a contempt for such cold-blooded language,” he added. Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Tannian then had a_spat, because the latter held similar views to Mr. Kelly. James H. Barry said he had no doubt about destitution in the city and that thousands were out of work, but if the committee could do nothing there was no cause for its existence. He believed legislative measures should be taken to make the unemployed self-sup- vorting. Mr. McGlynn said he agreed with Mr. Barry, and said_he knew there were more good mechanics out of work now than ever before. After some discussion the motion to ad- iourn sine die was carried. As to the expense which had been in- curred in the registration bureau, the mem- bers present said they would stand their share of the amount. PROF. FARRAND'S GREAT DISCOVERY. Said to Have Found 2 Positive Cure for Asthma and Hay Fever. Among the few really eminent botanists of America, Professor Farrand of Vermont easily stands in the front rank, and a discovery that he has recently made will do much~to add to his fame. After long research he has found a happy combination of herbs and leaves that contain the peculiar health-giving qualities of the famous Adirondack regions, where diseases of air passages are unknown. Wherever tried this has given great relief, and 73 per cent of the cases reported a perfect cure of asthma, some of them seemingly hopeless cases. This Adirondack asthma cure is now offered to the public generally by the Dr. Howard Com- pany, box £ 27 of Burlington, Vi, who will mail & large sized box for 50 cents. They do not want pay from those whom they do not cure, and will return the money to any whom Adirondack asthma cure fails to benefit. This remarkable offer should be accepted at once by any of our readers who have esthma or other xespiratory diseases. * Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * e . STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢ Ib. Townsend’s.* J. F. CUTTER'S OLD BouRBON—This celebrated whisky for sale by ail first-class druggists and grocers. Trademark—Star within a shield. * ——————— CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores.as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it relieves pain and abates inflammation. * ——————— THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE BUILDING can do so advantageously to themselves by entrusting their building improvements to Jas. E. Wolfe, architect, Flood building. Specialties in flats.* e In the Interest of His Section. The Guadalupe Reporter is working very as- siduously for the interests of the community in which it is published. The editor, Charles A. Dinsmore, is an energetic and wide-awake newspaper man. Hoop's Sarsaparitla positively cures even when all other medicines fail. It bas a recbrd of suc- cesses unequaled by any other medicine. Be sure to get only Hood’s. 1t makes pure blood. ST “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth ers for their children while Te thing with perfect success. It soothes the chiid, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Disrrheeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. ————— “BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are the sim- plest, quickest and most effectual remedy for Bronchitls, Asthma and Throat Diseases. ————— The Japanese arc now getting used to glass. At first the glass in railway car- dows had to be smeared with streaks of white paint to keep passengers from poking their heads through it. ISN’T IT FUNNY ? —that the prices advertised as “special reductions,” * cut prices,” etc., are higher than “Our Regular Mission -street Prices?” It's a fact, though, and we'll prove it if you'll take the trouble to compare. Carpets and Furniture. INDIANAPOLIS FURNITURE CoO. 750 Mission St, DRY GOODS. (ITYZPARIS CURTAIN DEPARTMENT. RINGED TA- 5%;5‘}'?YFPORTIERES, 3 75 Per good value at $5, to . Pair close at . 5 Pairs HANDSOME TAPESTRY POR - Per TIERES, regular price ; Pair $6 75, to close at...... FRENCH BAG-~ 5%%&B’s PORTIERES, 4 50 Per regular price $5 50, to . Pair close at... 50 Pairs IRISH POINT UR’ NS regular Per price $4 50, to close N Pair at. . . 75 Pairs IRISH POINT CURTAIN regular rice $8 50, $9 and 9 50, to close at....... $7.50:= BALACE OF OUR STOCK OF SMYRNA RUGS To Close at Tremendous Reductions. G.VERDIER & (0, S. E. Cor. Geary St. and Graot Ave,, S, F, VILLE*PARIS BRANCH HOUSE, 228 SOUTH BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES. FURNITURE 4 ROOIMS $90. Parlor—Silk Brocatelle, trimmed. 5-plece sult, plush -plece Solid Oak Suit, French Bevel- , bed, bureau, washstand. two chairs. rocker and table; pillows, woven-wire and top mattress. Dining-Room—6-foot Extension Table, four Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchen Table and two chairs. EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the coast. Open evenings. M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Free packing and delivery across the bay. _ SEMI - ANNUAL EXAMINATION SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 1893. The regular semi-annual examination of appli- cants for teachers’ certificates (High School, Gram- mar and Primary grades and special certificates) will commence at the Normal School building, Powell st., near Clay, on SATURDA Y, March 15, at 9 .30 Applicants who wish to pass an examni- nation for High School certificates or special cer- tificates will send notice to this office o or befors March 9. In compliance with the State school law each applicant must pay an examination fee of $2 in advance. Applicants who intend taking the exam- ination must register prior to the commencement of the same, as no_fees will be received on that date, Some additions have been made to tbe studies required for grammar and primary certificates, and changes have been made in the schedule of credits. Information on same may be obtained at the oftice of the Board o Education. ANDREW J. MOULDER, Superintendent of Common Schools. GroRGE BEANSTON, Secretary. CALIFORNIA Title Insurancs and Trust Company, MILLS BUILDING. e Money to Loan on Real Estate at Lowest Market Rates. Real Estate Tiiles E@ned and Gueranteed HIS COMPANY WILL HEREAFTER MAKE and continue Abstracts of Titles for the use of attorneys at short notice, and at the usual rates charged by searchers. We are prepared to verify all Abstracts made by any other seacher of recos nf. ts facilities for searching and the reputation and xespousibility of the company are so well known that the abstracts furnished can be depended upon as being most complete and reliable. L. R. ELLERT, Manager, TO LEASE FOR THE SUMMER! Maria Coleman Place at Menlo Park. Apply T. J. SCHUYLER, 32 Mills Building, 5th Floor. 400,000 TREES. PBUNE, PLUM, PEACH, PEAR, CHERRY, Almond, for sale at 3 cents each. F.0. B. Terms to suit you. No better trees grown. Address, Sac- ramento River Nu Com; 'y i e rsery pany, Walnut Grove, Weekly Call, $1.50 per Year