The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATE! DATLY CALL~$6 per year by mail; by earrier, 15¢ per wee SUNDAY CAL WE —=$1.50 per year. LL--3$1.50 per year, office of the SAN FRANCISCO nd Weekly), Pacific States Adver- KLY C SATURDAY .MARCH 23, Keep in the swim, or dry up. To-day we open the Memorial Museum. Good business men are always good citi- zens. he path of"duty leads to the competing road. Governor Budd is in no hurry about scalping the coyote bill. Pan-American live issue in the m is rapidly becoming a field of diplomacy. We would have better City officials if we helped them more and abused them less. Wherever Progress puts a foot in Cali- fornia it finds something solid to stand on. 1f the little Iberian King is not careful TUncle Sam will be after making him walk Spanish. What could be a happier occurrence than for San Jose and Stockton both to have a valley road? The convention can point to its work with pride, but the silurian will view it with alarm. If you wish to brighten your leisure with & daisy to-morrow, remember to get the Sunday CaLL. Now that the manufacturers have organ- ed the mach v, we may expect to see > wheels mov efore long. Those who have any leisure to-day can employ it well in attending the opening services of the Memorial Museum. rl into which Gresham has got n relations has become so tangled have to cut it with a sword. i becomes more and more evident that all have to extend a protectorate over nd make her behave herself. Nicara If ‘“diplomatic language” does not cease to be so common everybody will ng into the ugly habit of talking d him that the next Republican National Convention must be held in San co. Herr Scheel struck our musicians and a pretty hard blow when he d that we need a kindergarten more Onservator: c-lovers ar than a The heavy increase in the gross earnings Santa Fe system indicates that rail- | v traffic between California and the East is growing in volume, The coming of British capital to develop the resources of California ought to be suf- icient to make our silurians realize how nt th re as blanks. Public improvements need not wait for a change in the City government. All that is needed 1ange in public sentiment from silurianism to enterprise, ““The officers of the Carson Mint are asshy about discussing the robbery of the Mint as is a real nice girl over appearing on the ge for the first time in tights. st sufficient oppositions have been de- ped in the Manufacturers’ Convention to show that the members are men of ideas, individuality and earnest purpose. As Mrs. Harriet Wooden of San Diego is amuei Wooden for divorce, it ap- he is not satisfied with his board es to make him plank up alimony. s and w' If we could have a Legislature composed of men like those of the Manufacturers’ Convention, the State would be run on a business basis, and we would never have to complain of idle attaches. Woman's greatest victory this year has been the obtaining of a judicial decision in Kansas that women who register to vote shall not be required to state their exact age, butonly that they are over 21. In voting to issue bonds to the amount of §$396,000, Los Angeles announces that she has no compunctions on the score of ‘“burdening posterity with debt,” for she is well aware that posterity will receive the lion’s share of the benefits. unexpected events of the season was the recent assembling of a mass-meeting of wholesale merchants in Chicago to devise means for counteracting the success of St. Louis nferchants in tak- ing Chicago’s trade away from her, One of the mos While we sympathize with the feeling which has impelled the New York Sua to address to the people of that city the ap- peal, “If we can’t be good, let’s be honest,” we feel it ourduty to say that if Mr. Dana ded a San Francisco paper he could be oth. Professor P. L. Wilson of North Carolina claims to have invented a process of mak- ing illuminating gas at so low a cost it can be sold to consumers for 10 cents per thousand feet, and there is reason for hoping therefore that we may eventually have Jight enough in the world to lighten the bills of the gas companies. A committee of the New Jersey Legisla- ture appointed to investigate expenditures for the State capital has discovered the ex- istence of a systematic and organized robbery of the public treasury, the spoils of which were apparently shared by State officials from the top of the ladder to the bottom. Bills for all kinds of supplies were regularly raised and some bills were sent in for goods that were never supplied at all. In fact the disclosures are such that New Jersey can no longer be referred to as out of the Union. She is decidedly in it with the rest of us. A curious illustration of the folly of the newspaper coupon fake is just now amus- ing the people of the East. A leading church paper in Philadelphia in order to promote its circulation for the interest of the church, offered its readers a number of gems of music, among which, as it turned out, were such songs as ‘‘Flirting in the Starlight,” “Champagne Charlie,”” “John- ny Doolan’s Cat,” “Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay,” “You Should Have Seen Her Boots,” “Pious Orgies,”” etc. Of course, this has made very lively music among the deacons, and the editor wishes to know what the profit is in a fake snap anyhow. WHY WAIT? Commenting upon the eourse of the Cary, in urging the immediate beginning of public improvements, the Ezaminer of yesterday commended the policy itself, but suggested that it is not advisable to under- take it at this time, and said, “So long as there is no assurance that the money spent in public improvements will procure the things for which it is laid out the taxpay- ers will prefer to keep it in their own pockets. But when the publié is once con- vinced that a dollar appropriated for sew- ers will pay for a dollar’s worth of drain- age, and that a dollar spent on streets will bring a dollar’s worth of paving, it will open its pockets.” { There is no gainsaying the accuracy of that statement. Even the most progressive men will not vote money for public im- provements if they believe the ‘money would be stolen or wasted. To object to public improvementson that ground, how- ever, is to assume that our present officials are dishonest and such an assumption ought not to go unchallenged. We are aware there have been many charges of dishonesty and corruption in official life made at different times by different per- sons, but we are not aware that anything wrong has been proven against our present officials, or that any person has ever been found who was willing under oath to make a specific charge against a single one of them. - Suppose instead of assailing, attacking, denouncing and maligning the officials of the City, a hearty, generous, public-spirited support should be given to them by the people and by the press. Suppose instead of faction fighting we try a year or two ot harmony and co-operation; is it not likely under those circumstances that our officials would be able to carry out economically the municipal improvements that are so much needed? It requires no elaborate civil service reform, no extensive imitation of British or Australian official methods, to take up the cobblestones and put down on the streets a solid concrete foundation with an asphalt covering. That is simple work. The cost of it can be easily esti- mated in advance. The processes of con- struction can be readily supervised. What, then, is the reason why it cannotbe done? ‘Within less than fifty milesof us, San Jose. with a similar system of city government, raised $500,000 for public improvements by issuing bonds and expended every dollar of it with that high economy which in- creases wealth. Why could not San Fran- cisco do the same with §5,000,000? MEASURES OF SECURITY. In forming & pool and investing the Di- rectors with adequate authority, the share- holders of the S8an Joaquin Valiey Railroad have a shrewd eye to the danger of absorp- tion which the presence of the Southern Pacific Company creates. It is cheering to note that the Directors themselves are anxious for all possible restrictions to be placed upon them, in order that it shall be a physical impossibility for them to be- tray the trust reposed in them. The con- trolling idea of the whole undertaking is that this is to be a people’srailroad, owned by Californians and operated as much in the interest of the State as in that of its shareholders, and that hence it must for- ever be kept free from any danger from the very monopely whose policy has made it necessary. On this point there is per- fect harmony. Even the evidence of decay of the Southern Pacific Company’s power will not be permitted to cause a relaxation of watchfulness and care. The situation is extracrdinary in many ways. Its most eloguent feature is the general abiding fear of the old company’s grasping propensity, and the harm to the State which its success in this case would surely bring. Hence the proposition of delegating extraordinary powers to the Directors, which will probably be acted on to-day. Itisnot only so to hedge them about with all conceivable barriers against any possible scheme by which they might hand over the control of the valley road to the Southern Pacific, but at the same time to invest them with extraordi- nary powers with regard to the selection of the route, the construction of the road and the installation and conduct of the service. At this writing the details of the plan are not accessible to the press. From the rumors which have been heard, however, some such policy as that here suggested is likely to be proposed, and if so it certainly should be adopted. ° ‘The men composing the Board of Direc- tors—Messrs. Claus Spreckels, Isaac Up- ham, W. F. Whittier, John D. Spreckels, Charles Holbrook, John B. Stetson, Thomas Magee, Leon Sloss, Robert Watt and A. H. Payson—would never be sus- pected of any desire to betray any trust reposed in them; but it is generally char- acteristic of honest men that they never object to precautions taken to prevent them from being dishonest. A friendly rivalry has arisen between San Jose and Stockton as to which shall secure the road. In thiscontest it might be well for San Jose to bear in mind the fact that the selection of the Stockton route would include several other cities and towns which are making eager bids for the road, and that whatéver the size of Stockton’s bid it will represent but a part of the assistance which would be secured by including that city in the route. Stock- ton is working very earnestly and an- nounces that it alone can raise half a million dollars. Engineer Storey goes to that city next week to inspect the ground facilities which have been offered, and as he is a veny competent man his recom- mendation will have great weight with the directors. - The valley road project is now, and for a long time will remain, the most important matter that affects the State. The attitude which every person assumes toward it will be the expression of his wishes concerning the State’s advancement. Every man oi means who invests in its shares will estab- lish the fact of his enterprise, sagacity and patriotism, and every man having money which he might thus use and refuses so to employ, it will be known. A BRITISH VIEW. Some of the best humor of the time is to be found in the grave and serious attempts of English editors to explain American affairs to their readers. Not infrequently these sober attempts result in a burlesque hardly inferior to the efforts of Mark Twain and Max O'Rell to take themselves seriously as wits and duellists; and while the sineere efforts of an editor to enlighten the public are not to be flippantly ridi- culed, it is permissible to pass some of the worst, or best, blunders around as a part of the service which the press owes to the gayety of nations. An example, rich to the verge of raci- ness, of this Rind of humor occurs in the Manchester (England) Herald as a result of an effort of the editor to explain to his readers the recent attempt to prevent Robert Ingersoll from delivering a lecture on the Biblein New Jersey. The Herald gave the facts in this way: Ex-Senator Ingersoll of Kansas, who, it will be remembered, ran against Mr. Blaine for President in 1884 and derisively bestowed upon him the title of “Plumed Knight, has recently been experiencing great trouble in de- livering hislecture on the Bible. Mr. Inger- soll is known asan authority on theological matters, but owing to the fact that he would take no part in the World’s Fair festivities upon the ground that the entire affeir had an immoral tendency, the American people have turned against him, and now no opportunity to persecute him is neglected. This statement of the case ought to be satisfactory to Ingersoll. It gives him a reputation as an ex-Senator, a citizen of Kansas, a candidate for the Presidency, an authority on theology and a World’s Fair purifier. What more in the way of pro- motion could any man expect from a for- eign critic? SENATE BILL 762. There were published in our local col- umns a few days ago certain interviews upon the origin and objects of Senate bill 762, which might be construed into strict- ures upon the measure and might seem to indicate that we were arrayed with the in- terviewed against its approval by the Gov- ernor. The contrary, however, is the fact. Senate bill 762 is a meritorious measure, whatever may have been its origin, and should receive the Governor's sanction and become a law. It may be inquired, What is Senate bill 762, and to what subject does it refer? It is a bill providing that appeals to the Su- preme Court, which are either without merit or are taken by one having no real interest “in the subject-matter of the action, must be dismissed by the court if upon hearing after ten days’ notice to the appellant such appears to be the truth. It is argued against this measure that it has been urged tb passage by the adherents of Florence Blythe and for the special pur- pose of putting an end to that celebrated and long-drawn-out litigation. If the bill had no merit otherwise, or if it were an injury to the public interest to end that litigation, the objection might be potent. Neither of these things, however, is true. The bill, on the contrary, is general in its scope and effect, and if perchance its especial object and potency may be to terminate the Blythe case it is well that it is so. To consider these points in the inverse order of their statement, we affirm that it is directly and positively a matter of public interest to have the Blythe case ended speedily and finally and at the earliest date which it can be made legal so to do. Here is a vast estate, possessing large and valuable properties in San Francisco and in other sections of California. It has been in the meshes of the law for more than a decade, during which time it has been impossible to improve or to dispose of it as such properties should be disposed of or improved. It is to the interest of every part of California and of San Fran- cisco in particular, to have the right of disposal pertain to real estate as little unhampered by the courts as the law can make possible in justice to the perfection of titles and the rights of heirs. Every spear of wheat in the Blythe case has been threshed over and over again By the courts of this State until there is nothing left in the mill of litigation but the veriest chaff. The code ought not to encourage the creation of new precedents for Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, and if this bill shows the way to the Supreme Court to put an end to this sort of litigation it is a good measure, no matter who conceived it or procured its passage through the Legis- lature. It is a practical truth that almost every new law has behind its preparation and passage some individual motive and insistence. This being so, the measure should be judged as to its merits, not by the special aim and end of its promoters, but by the benefits of its general and per- manent result. This bill so considered cannot fail to secure the approval of honest and dis- interested minds. Its immediate effect would be to rid the calendar of the Supreme Court of its burden of frivolous and meritless appeals. Itsultimate utility would be to greatly lessen the number of such appeals thereafter to be taken and thus leave more of leisure to our court of last resort to consider fully and to decide quickly the meritorious causes. In other words, this bill is calculated to re- move a little of the lead which retards the heel of justice in California, and to that extent will relieve our judicial system of the reproach which has been too fre- quently pointed with reason at the law’s delays. PAN-AMERICANISM. None of the many diplomatic questions now pressing for solution upon the State Department at Washington, are likely to resuit in war or even in any strained re- lations with other nations. None of the issues directly involved are important enough to justify such results, and if we had a strong, résolute, clear-headed man in the State Office instead of the weak, irresolute and blundering Gresham there would be no doubt of the prompt disposal of all the complications on the basis of ‘peace with honor. While the existing issues are slight, however, they furnish evidences of a con- dition of things that may at any time produce the most serious complications. Our relations to the States of Central America have been only half worked out in diplomacy. We have asserted the Monroe doctrine as a principle, but we have not fully established the extent of its application to every issue that may arise. These issues, so far as Nicaraguais con- cerned, are growing every year more serious and important, and the present complication there emphasizes the neces- sity of the immediate establishment of some well-defined and strongly enforced policy. The condition of affairs is this. Nica- ragua, like all the Central American States, is in continual disorder, and as a result of her lawlessness, is with a growing frequency embroiled with foreign powers. She is now involved in a controversy with Great Britain, and has been called upon by that nation to pay an indemnity of $75,000 under a threat of war. The claim of the British seems to be a justone. The issue before our Government, therefore, is to de- termine how far we can permit England to coerce Nicaragua and how far we can our- selves exert the force needed to compel the Nicaraguans to respect the rights, the persons and the property of foreigners who are residing there and engaged in legiti- mate business. In the case of other Central American States the solution of the problem might be difficult, but in the case of Nicaragua it seems to be simple enough. We propose to open a canal through that country for the commerce of the world. That com- merce must have protection from the law- lessness of incessant revolutions. As Nicaragua cannot assure the supremacy of law and justice, the United States must. The establishment of a firm protectorate over that country would be in accordance with the part Mr. Blaine intended the United States to play in his policy of Pan- Americanism. What American at this juncture does not regret the death of that great man whose broad statesmanship in- cluded in its scope North, Central and South America and all their islands, and whose far-seeing wisdom and sterling pa- triotism would have solved for us every problem of our relations to foreign coun- tries and placed the United States fairly in position as the arbiter of the destinies of the Western World? Sooner or later ‘we must take some decided action in these matters, and it would be better to have taken it with Blaine than with Gresham. R AN ELOQUENT EXAMPLE. The important announcement is made that the Canadian Mortgage and Trust Company (limited), and the United Trust (limited), both wealthy Liverpool corpora- tions, have arranged to lend $1,000,000 within ninety days on California country lands, and that other rich English corpora- tions have an agent here inspecting the State with a view to the selection of prop- erty on which to lend additional miliions. The United Trust of Liverpool has decided to buy the Fresno Land and Irrigation bonds, the proceeds of the sale of which will bring under cultivation a large area in one of the richest sections of the State. It is most significant that these money- lenders are confining their investments to those agencies which will develop natural Tesources, and thereby increase the popu- lation, wealth and prosperity of the State. This isa very different proposition from that of lending money on *'gilt edge” city property, and itisin this difference that our oWn capitalists may find reason for some hard thinking. That English capitalists, after an intelligent study of the possibili- ties which exist all around us, should back their judgment with their millionsis the most eloquent example that has ever been set before our people. Their exhibition of greater faith and enterprise than some of our capitalists have dreamed of, is the se- verest rebuke that the silurians among us could possibly receive. The subject presents many interesting phases. Although, since the recent adop- tion of an amendment to our constitution, aliens residing abroad cannot acquire land in California, these shrewd Englishmen still have the power to lend money to us, and they are wise enough to embrace the opportunity. < As we have pointed out heretofore, this country is already paying to foreign holders of American securities considerably more than $300,000,000 every year in the form of interest and dividends. It is clear that if this money were kept and reapplied in the additional develop- ment of the country the march of progress would proceed with tremendous strides. By reason of the fact that California’s pro- portion of outflow is very large, the drain upon our productive capacity is propor- tionally severe. Now comes the assurance that this tax is to be largely increased by further loans of English capital. It would be both un- gracious and unwise to discourage such a movement, for however large the amount that we must pay to these capi- talists, we shall receive much more for the use of their money; the balance will be largely in our favor. not only directly from the use of this money for its specific pur- poses but indirectly in various obvious ways, such as the enhancement in value of unimproved property contiguous to that which is thus to be improved, the encour- agement to others to follow the example, the interest which the leaders are bound to take in assuring the success of the en- terprises which they aid, and so on. One of the most important results will be the increased volume of trafic which it will bring to the San Joaquin Valley Railroad and the larger profits which will accrue to that enterprise. But however valuable the influx of this foreign capital it will take away money that is so badly needed here. This could s0 easily be saved tothe State and rein- vested if only those unenterprising citizens who have abundant means had the wisdom and enterprise of capitalists who live six thousand miles away. The rivers, the winds, the sunshine, the tides and the waves of California might all be utilized to selve the fuel problem. SPIRI OF THE PRESS. Even lawyers get more or less tangled up when put on the witness-stand, and yet men and women who have never attended court are expected to come out of hours (and sometimes days) of badgering without having any fault found with the testimony or the manner of its giving. The next Legislature should try its hand at & law requiring Judges to protect wit- nesses. In fact it would not be a bad idea to have the Judge ask all the questions the law- yers suggest. The Judge could put the question in & manner that would not intimidate & wit- ness. A reformation of some kind is impera- tive.—Colusa Sun. China invented gunpowder and she has been unmercifully licked, She invented the com- pass and her fleet is at the bottom of the sea in charge of McGinty. Sheinvented the printing- pressand the managing editors of her news- papers have not had an opportunity to double lead a single article during the progress of the war with Japan. She didn’t invent legs, and they have been the only things that have been of service to her.—Albuquerque Citizen, Cuban annexationists are becoming - as numerous as frogs in & swamp and about as logical. They want to annex Cuba for glory, for profit or for strategic reasons. They all avoia talking about the mass of ignorant and otherwise unfit people who would be made citizens of the United States at one plunge. That objection should outweigh all considera- tions to the confrary.—Stockton Independent. Keep the School Department out of politics. Keep the Superintendent, principals and teech- ers out of politics. No person connected with the schools shounid depend upon his ability to logroll to keep his place. No instructor can do his duty in the School Department or achieve the best results if he owes his position to polit- ical manipulation.—Alameds Argus. Just why the people of California should pay §596 for the funeral of the late Secretary of State Waite is not apparent to the average tax- payer. Mr. Waite was a good man and a good officer, but he drew his salary regularly, and when the people elected him it was not & part of the contract that they should also bury him. —San Jose Mercury. John L. Sullivan is reported to be preparing his memoirs for publication. They will prob- ably be issued in the form of & scrapbook.—Los Angeles Record. An Ohio doctor has invented a deadly rapid- firing gun. Arizona doctors are contented with what they can do in their own profession.— Pheenix Gazette. A Democratic writer says there is “gratifying evidence that free wool has come to stay in this country!” But what about the sheep?—Marys- ville Appeal. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Bill Bluff—Mate, wot's an oration, anyway ? Tom Tucker—It’s about a gallon o’ talk to bring one down to the p'int of the argument.— Harper's Bazar. Horrors! The publishers have reduced the price of “Trilby.” This is going to raise trouble among the servants.—Dallas News. Fingle—There goes a woman with a history. Fangle—That woman who justleft your office? How do you know? Fingle—She worked for an hour trying to sell it to me.—Buffalo Courier. The preacher was indulging in rhapsodies over the glories of the New Jerusalem. Little Johnnie listened for quite e while. He then ‘whispered to his mother: “Mamma, is he an advance agent?”—Boston Transcript. Lifé with him was real and earnest, And the grave was not Itsgoal; ‘The united efforts of six doctors Failed to put him in the bole. —Detroit Tribune, “When the snow and ice have gone,” said the Sunday-school teacher, beaming upon the ‘oys, “and nature awakens from her long sleep, the tiny buds begin to appear and then what do we have? You may answer, Robert.” “Sulphur and molesses,” replied Robert earnestly.—Rockland Tribune. DREAD OF THE CAMERA. BY EMILY BANCKER, ACTRESS. Having my photograph taken is an ordeal that always fills me with a feeling akin to terror. Indeed, it always seems to me an im- possibility that people can sit still and smile blandly and unconsciously before the glaring eye of that relentless camera. The stare of an argus-eyed audience is child’s play to 1t. However, photographs being in a sense a ne- cessity, I made up my mind in Chicago a few weeks ago to spend several hours ata well- known gallery and lay in a stock of pictures that would last for years, if not forever—at least that was the reflection I comforted myself with on my way to the gallery; but I was doomed to disappointment. The proprietor of the studio received me per- sonally, with great politeness, but under his gracious manner there was an unmistakaole tremor of nervousness and anxiety—just as if he were going to pose before the stern cyclops himself, instead of bhaving the pleasure of see- ing another person victimized. ““Of course you are not nervous?” he ventured with a sort of a sickly smile, which showed that however sure he might be that I was free from the failing he was suffering from it him- self. “Yes, I am,” I answered frankly, “having a picture taken is just a degree worse than going 10 the dentist’s.” The photographer_tried to smile again, a still more feeble and ‘watery sort of a smile, but before he had time to answer, the electric-bell rang and a lady’s voice was heard in the corri- MISS EMILY BANCKER, WHO DOESN'T LIKE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED. [From a photograph.] dor. “There she is,” cried the photographer, ina sort of a stage wisper, “I cannot get out of it now for she made me promise, but I never thought you would mind.” “Mind what?” I asked, wondering if some terrible thing was going to happen. “Don’t you understand,” he said, walking about the room to keep himself ealm. “It'sa lady reporter for a morning newspaper who ‘wants to come and write up an actress while she is sitting to have her picture taken. She means to stand beside the camera, see whether | you are cranky sbout posing, jot down how many times you wink your eyelids, and tell the public if you make-up or not to appear before the lens. There is not a thing that will escape her, but she is here now and I have not moral courage to send her away. Won't you? Can- not you brace up your courage and stand it?” Well! there did not seem anything else to be done,so I sank into a seatand murmured something about “Let it all come at once,” and “bearing it with fortitude,” then they took me to the dressing-room and introduced me to the Teporter. How unnecessarily I had been slarmed! That newspaper woman proved to be a charm- ing person, and in chatting with her I actually found for the first time in my life that the camera was robbed of its horrors. As for the interview it turned out & complete success, but the pictures! Well, they were sucha failure that I shall have to be taken again in San Franeisco. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. A= ~ C.J.'Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., is registered at the Palace. Mr. Hamlin is the proprietor of “Village Farm,” one of the most complete es- tablishments in the country devoted to raising fast stock. He is the owner of Nightingale, Robert J and Fantasy, three world-beaters, and has in his stables & number of other ani- mals that have acquired fame on the track. The three horses mentioned were, in company with twelve others, sent to Southern California by Mr. Hamlin last fall. They are in charge of Ed Geers, and Mr. Hamlin said yesterday that his idea of sending the horses to this State for the winter was merely an experiment. He wanted to see if the cli- mate would affect a horse as favorably as it does a human being. The result, he says, has being pretty satisfactory, and the coming sea- son he expects to make some new records with his stable. Fantasy, who has & record of 2:06 as a four-year-old, which is 4 seconds better than that of Alix at the same age, is the pride of Mr. Hamlin’s eyes. “Ii we have no bad luck this year,” said he, “Fantasy will beat all records before the season closes. I have no hesitancy in making this assertion, and I be- lieve the animal’s present form justifies it.” In the breeding of trotters Mr. Hamlin has al- ways endeavored to secure a combination of beauty and speedin the animals. He says that such a plan is feasible and he believes he has succeeded in convincing many other horsemen that such is the case. “While I was in Butte County last week, I ran across s familiar-looking individual, who ‘was entertaining a crowd in the little town of Biggs with a history of his travels,” said W. 0. Davis at the Palace yesterday. “Icould not place the fellow st first, but his story soon identified him to my mind. He was explaining to the crowd that he was traveling around the world afoot as the correspondent of a New York paper, that he left the city named on July 4, 1894, and had since that time traveled 6123 miles. He gives his name as Julian Rapport, and claimed to be en route to this city, I readily recalled him as the indi- vidual who a few weeks ago enjoyed the hos- pitality of the Palace for several days while he ostensibly awaited news from & wager he claimed to have made with & New York club by which he was to win $5000 in case he suc- ceeded in walking to San Francisco in a certain time. California appears to be a favorite field for this class of fakes, but their increasing numbers will soon dispel the romantic interest which now surrounds & man Wwho is supposed to have crossed the continent on foot.” “Some enterprising mechanic who has a little capital has an opportunity to develop a new industry in California which promises to be of great importance in the near future,” said H. 1. Black, & gentleman who has spent several years in China and Japan lately and who 'was at the Occidental yesterday. “The line of business I refer to is the manufacture of ready- made houses. In Japan, where civilizing in- fluences have already made rapid strides and where much greater development may be ex- pected in the future, there is bound to be a de- mand for edifices of this kind. The Japs are very imitative by nature and will soon give up the peculiar style of architecture noticeable there in the building of houses. California has &n almost unlimited supply of timber, which et present is practically useless, or at least is not in demand in the markets. The houses could be framed here cheaply, shipped to the Orient and sold at a fair figure.” Captain Alexander McDougall, the inventor of thk “whaleback” ship, who spent several days in the Palace a short time ago, in discuss- ing the sinking of the Elbe one evening, inci- dentally spoke of the futile efiorts which had been made by ship-builders to construct a boat which was absolutely invulnerable to accident. “Every ship hasa vital point,” said he, “and to remove this vulnerability is to destroy the alue of the ship. The Elbe went g:.\fl‘:ic;lec'aulse she was struck in her vital point, and although such & thing isnot apt to happen to a ship once in & thousand times, .yet it may happen, and when it does it is fatal. Communication between the compartments in 2 ship must be had, so that the bulkheads have to be plerced by doors, and the more com- partments you have the more means of com- munication between them you must have. A ship might be subdivided into mnumen}:le compartments, but besides the danger. just mentioned there is an element of impractic- ability from & commercial point of view. Steamships are built for pe_ople, and a multi- plication of bulkheads diminishes the room for cosl, machinery, cargo and cabins. A steam- ship, therefore, with a high degree of safety attained in this way could be built, but l‘he ex- pense of running her would be prohibitively expensive.” e «Did you ever hear the origin of the name «stogic,’ familiar to every smoker in the land?” asked J. W. Kirk, a salesman of manufactured tobacco,at the Palace yesterday. “That familiar Kind of cigar first came into use in Pennsylva- nia years ago, at a time when primitive trans- portation methods were in vogue, and the al- most universal method was the long, roughly built, canyas-covered wagons, somewhat simi- lar to what in later years were known as prairie schooners, but which were then called ‘Cones- toga wagons,’ after the territory in which they originated. Alongthe then famous national pike which these wagons traversed was a sec- tion of country largely devoted to the culture of tobacco, &nd it was customary for the driv- ers and passengers to help themselves to a few leaves of the weed from the near-by barns, which they rolled in the simplest manner. These long, slender rolls were then called ‘Con- estogas,’ and from that the ‘stogas,’ and finally ‘stogies’ was but a slight and natural ?hnnge. The term ‘tobie’ isan outgrowth of ‘stogie,” and is of late years generally used in the East.” “The people up our way have got tired of the telephone monopoly and a competitor is now in the field which promises us some relief,”- said A. W. Locke of Sacramento at the Grand Hotel yesterday. ‘Recently the old company introduced a new rate schedule which had the effect of increasing the already burdensome rates, and as a conse- quence & local company has been organized by prominent citizens and an arrangement en- tered into with the California Telephone and Construction Company which will give usa new system. It is proposed to charge $5 a month for long-distance telephones, %3 50 a month for ordinary telephones in stores, of- fices and business houses, and $2 50 a month for telephones in residences where the ordinary instrument is used. Lines are to be built to Placerville, via Folsom, Shingle Springs and El Dorado, and from the latter place to Ione, via Plymouth, Sutter and Jackson. The new system will be an extensive one when it once gets thoroughly into operation.” “Almost anybody can hold the lines over his own blooded trotters these days,” remarked L. A. Richards, a well-known stock-raiser of Gray- son, last night as with a number of kindred spirits he “talked horse” at -the Palace Hotel. “I heve been raising horses for sale for twenty vears and I never knew prices to run so low. The other day Isold an Electioneer colt in Stockton for $100. His owner is training him for the track and he promises to win his cost in his first race. To-day I sold four more colts of the same get to local horsemen at similarly low figures. Californian-bred horses are favor- ably known all over the United States, but we breeders do not seem to be able to get for them the prices they should bring.” Frank C. Ives, the billiard champion, who has been a guest at the Palace for some days, says that & new substitute forivory in the making of billiard balls has been discovered in a com- position of steel and aluminum. Itis claimed that the new composition will be much cheaper than ivoryand will be absolutely proof against “chipping.” The ease with which a “draw” or “English” could be imparted to the new composition is not known, but the general belief is that the balls will respond much quicker than the ivory ones. PERSONAL. W. D. Tupper of F: Palace. Dr. T. M. Todd of Auburn was at the Lick yesterday. Caleb Dorsey, & stock-raiser of Oakdale, is at the Grand. F. R. Harris of Los Angeles is registered at the Palace. T. J. Field, the mining man, of Monterey is at the Palace. V. 8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee is at the California. F. G. Ostrander, an attorney of Merced, isa guest at the Lick. H. A. Stansfield, a rancher of Nevada City, is at the Occidental. W. F. George, an atiorney of Sacramento, is a guest at the Grand. A. L. Hart, an attorney of Sacramento, was at the Grand yesterday. Thomas H. Thompson, & real-estate man of Tulare, is at the Lick. F. D. Nicol, an attorney of Stockton, arrived at the Lick last night. Alex White, a fruit-grower of Los Angeles, is registered at the Lick. Melvin G. Winstock, a merchant of Seattle, is registered at the Grand. George M. Radford, a fruit-grower of Weaver- ville, is now at the Lick. Clifford J. Owen, business manager of the San Jose Mercury, is in the city. Ex-Mayor Charles F. Bishop of Buffalo, N. Y., registered at the Palace yesterday. John M. Thurston, one of Nebrask: prominent legal lights, is at the Palace. Thomas R. Bard of Hueneme, one of Southern California’s most prominent citizens, is at the Occidental. esno 1s & guest at the most PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. The cigar trade of Russia has been almost completely ruined since the coronation of the young Czar. He is devoted to smoking a meer- schaum pipe, and all his loyal subjects have, as in duty bound, discarded their fragrant Havanas for pipes, and the larger they are the more highly they are prized. The streets of St. Petersburg are now said to resemble a German country town, for more than half the men one meets are pufling gigantic meerschaums, Mrs. Sarah Thomas, centenarian, of Burry- port, Llanelly, who last year received a check of £5 6s irom the Princess of Wales, or a shil- ling for each natal anniversary, has just cele- brated her one hundred and seventh birthday. She is very fond of a well-seasoned clay pipe filled with strong tobacco. Gladstone has become very sensitive to the odor of tobaceo in his old age. He dislikes it intensely, and the surest way to obtain his an- tagonism is to go into his presence with the odor of & cigar or pipe on your person. Prince Bismarck recently said to a visitor that he had only one serious complaint to make against old age, and that was that he had been obliged of late to abstain almost entirely from tobacco. Mrs. Hannah Chard of Vineland, N. J., will be 107 years old on April 20. She can still do her own housekeeping and chores, and is rarely unable to enjoy & quiet smoke. The Japanese Mikado is a man of much en- ergy and endurance, in spite of the fact that he is & great cigarette-smoker. 4 ‘Went Down With the Elbe, A letter that went down with the steamer Elbe, and found its way back to Bremen, Ger. many, whence it was originally posted to Con- rad Fecker, 1104 Stockton street, San Fran. cisco, was received here by that gentleman yesterday. The letter was one of & number saved from two floating pouches found by a fishing-smack two days aiter the sinking of the shi{r. The envelope was badly water soaked and crumpled and worn on the edges.. The stamp had been soaked off, and a forwarding- stamp was substituted by the postoffice 5t Bremen. The envelope bears also the state- ment of the postodflice that it “was saved out of the post cargo of the steamer Elbe.” Mr, Fecker had not heard from his niece, who wrote the letter, for eleven y The Czar’s new yacht, the Standard, was launched at Co%nhnien recently in the presence of the Danish royal family and the corps diplomatique. éhe is 5300 tons burden, is 425 feet long, and her total cost will reach $2,000,000." Her lines were laid down in accordance with the personal in- dications of the late Emperor Alexander, THE QUEEN OF THE FIESTA l’HER NAME, S0 LONG A SECRET, I3 MADE KNOWN IN THIS CITY. MRs. MaMiE Woop, WHO Is Tiyg Honorgep, Is HERE Buving HER COSTUME. Mrs. Mamie Wood, daughter of W, H, Perry, who is to be the queen of the Log Angeles flower fiesta, is in t!:e city. Mrs, Wood and her father, who is one of the wealthiest lumber-dealers in California, are guests at the Baldwin, and while they have been visited by a number of personal friends they have endeavored to kecp secret the fact of the honor which ) ‘Wood will enjoy in the fiesta. Indecd name of the queen is not publicly in Los Angeles, Not evenoneof the th ladies selected as maids of honor has | let into the secret, and some of them have declared that they will not serve as maids to an unknown queen. But the secret 1s out, ‘‘by these presents,” and there will be no occasion for any of them to withdraw, for Mrs. Wood stands among the foremost society ladies of that city. Indeed a majority of the maids of honor would have chosen Mrs, Wood if their voices could have been heard in the selection. The Queen is a tall, handsomely formed woman, whose appearance in the costume being made at Maison Truffert, 609 Taylor street, will fornr a striking picture in the grand festival of flowers. The dress is made of white brocade satin, trimmed with real gold lace and braid, The waist is of ballroom pattern, cut decollete, with double puff that will be met _at the elbow by s button gloves. This is surmounted by a cut-point gold-trimmed court collar. The skirt is gored, with a bias satin cord run- ning the length of the front. On either side of the cord the front of the skirt is ornamented with a design in gold and vari-colored tinsel, representing two vines meeting at an angle at the bottom corner and united by alover’s knot. The coury train is cream satin, trimmed similarly to the skirt front. Mrs. Wood will wear a gold crown set with diamonds and rubies, and a costly and handsome necklace and girdle diamonds and other precious stones. These jewels were purchased in Paris five ago and are valued at a small fortune. The trimming of the ball dress was also im- ported from Paris and more than doubles the value of the dress. 5 Mr. Perry and Mrs. Wood will return to Los Angeles to-morrow. “Now here is a furnace that we guarantee to be simple enough for the average servant to run.” “Um! What you need is one that will run in spite of the average servant.”—Smith, Gray & Co.’s Monthly. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ——————— PLAIN mixed candies, 10¢ Ib. Townsend’s.* DANCING taught. Prof. Love,1214 Powell st.% TowNSEND'S Cal. Glace Fruits,“our make,” 500 Ib. in Japanese baskets. 627 Marketstrect. * z g e GENUINE eyeglasses 156, 8134 Fourth, nr. bar ber. Sundays 736 Market (Kast's shoestore). g e CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it relieves pain and abates inflammation. * B Sir Thomas More was very proud of the “Life of Edward_V,” and left no mention of his estimate of the ‘Utopia.” PEOPLE Who are very nervous will not find s permanent cure in opiates and sedative preparas tions. (Nervousness is caused by impure blood, Hood's Sarsaparilla cures nervousness by making pure blood. ¥ et e SUFFERERS FROM COUGHS, SORE THROAT, ete., should be constantly supplied with “Brown'd Bronchial Troches.” ——————— UsE Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters to stimulate the appetite and keep the digestive organs In order. ———————— Loss of hair, which often mars the prettiest face, prevented by PARKFR'S HATE BALSAM. HINDERCCRN! best cure for corns, 15 cents. [ THE ESTATE OF THE LATH MRS. KATE JOHNSON. 4 ADVANCE BIDS™ WANTED e Wl First-Class Realty NOW IN PROBATE. APITALISTS, CORPORATIONS, TRUSTEES agents and all other persons seeking bargains tn well located inside San_Francisco real estate and two outside blocks are requested to make an offer at once upom the following described property, to wit: FIRST~—The 50-vara lot situate on the northwess corner of Golden Gate aveuue and Leavenworth street. SECOND—The 50-vara lot situate on the souths west corner of Leavenworth and O'Farrell streets, including the magnificent mansion bullt thereon, THIRD—ALL of outside biock No. 799, 240x600 feet, oounded by Thirty-first and Thirty-second avenues and K and L streets, only four blocks south m Golden Gate Fark, comprising 50 city lois. JRTH—The east half of block No. 995, being 120x600 feet, bounded by Thirty-second svenue X and 0 streeis, containing 24 city lots. e above desc property was apprals elght months ago by John Hinkle. Michatl Fiseq and Edward Bosqui as follows: First piece, $130,- : second piece, $62,500: third piece, $75001 fourth piece, $2760. A petition is now pending be fore the Hon. J. V. Coftey ot Department 9 (pro- bate) of the Superior Court of this city and county for confirmation of the sale of the 30-vara 1o, on the corner of Golden Gate avenue and u.v:& T ot worth street at $81,400, and for the confirm ot the sale of the 50-vara 1ot on the corne: Leavenworth and O'Farrell streets at $49,500, and for the confirmation of the sale of outside block No, 799, $5225, and for the confirmation of the sale of half of outside block No. 925 for $1650. Advance bids are desired and may be submitteq tc the undersigned or tendered in open court on 3(DNDAY). March 25, 1895, at 2 P. M. (Departmeny ), probate). i::.gope;:y "flwnfi”m for less than its real , thereby g} IVestors a rare o to secure a blrg!lnn‘ SERd Title good or no sale. For particulars apply to FRED H. DEAKIN, Attorney-in-fact for heirs, at 8 New Montgome: street, in the art store, Palace Hotel. - (=) OFFICE ¢ LU DESKS. ELTH $H24. 00 —DRUPPED— ‘nfi.ote ‘ GEQ. H. FULLER DESK €O, 38 and 640 Mission Street. NEW WESTERN HOTEL. EARNY AND WASHINGTON STS.—RE- EK modeled and renovated. KING, WARD & uropean plan. Rooms 50c to $1 50 T day, fftmarat Sl v e o W o e Foom: elevator runs all nighte © T ST 4 ~