The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1895, Page 18

i ] - fallacy of shipping raw material out of the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1895 i CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$G per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. SUNDAY CAL WEEKLY CAL 50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- rean, Rhinelander building, Rose and ew Yerk. 50 per year. can cover almost anything ex- cept a cobblestone pavement. | PR | Treat life as a fine art and you can make | it equal to all that fancy painted it. It is to be hoped the Memorial Museum won'’t perpetuate too many memories, A man’s best thoughts are often no more than the eman his wife’s cooking. Putting all your eggs into one basket is not so 1 as using all your baskets for one egg. . Are we to understand that John L. Sullivan knows now that he has had enough? Make the best of your leisure as well as of your work if you wish to enjoy the full- ness of life. The cheapest recreations are nearly al- 'ways the best. Good things are too plenti- ful to cost much. There is one thing about Jake Schafer. Although he has met his Napoleon he ad- mits no Waterloo. The distinction between a fool and a | silurian disappears the moment the silu- rian begins to talk. Every attraction added to Golden Gate | Park is an addition to the wealth and pop- ulation of the city. nciscans have seen n Francisco or even How many San all the attractions of S: know what they are? Enterprise is so tru local issue that when reduced to the last analysis it results in the individual effort. Sretath | The halo about the head of honest prog- Tess casts a shadow on the throne of mo- | nopolistic corporations. { The best way to enjoy the advantages of San Francisco is to keep continually at the work of improving them. g shall be elevated to the | When cooki ! ry artist can | domain of r pose as a model. After we shall have learned the lesson of cooking as a fine art it shall be in order to learn how to eat as a science. When we are helping home industries we must not forget that music, art and elocution are also industries. | 2 | Noman makes the best use of all his| faculties who does not cultivate an habitual | avocation as well as a vocation. The local police have a nut to ecrack in Commissioner Gunst’s insistence that they wear their clubs outs their coats. The fitti end of every silurian is to | rattle his bones over the stones; when dead he's a pauper whom nobody knows. BThe incoming of the valley probably have an important effect on real estate values south of Market street. | —— i Under the new for record of riage in Calif failure. He is a wise man who delights in his work as if it were play and he not less so | who puts as much zest into his play as if it | were work. i The stage-driver who permits hims be held up by a highwasyman armed witha | sausage is not sure but that the weapon is 1 to bar The business community that depends ! upon the silurian promise of a better day coming leans upon the broken crutches of false pretense. The progress of the valley road compels even the head of the Southern Pacific to incline to the belief in the future advance- ment of California. i Superintendent McLaren has said what | he will do for Golden Gate Park if he be allowed money enough. Let him be allowed money enough. If all the festivals and excursions now talked of in the State are carried out the | season will be as noted for the revival of pleasure as for that of business. Whatever we may fear of the possibility of fraud in public improvements it must not be forgotten there is always more cor- ruption in stagnation than in progress. The dissolution of the California redwood | tree, transplanted to the frosty soil of the | Nation’s capital, is an object lesson on the State. The public will sorely miss the cars which for 2 long time have been following each other on Bush street at so close inter- vals that they looked like a string of link sausages. S e | Much of the unhappiness of the world results from the persistent effort of an in- dolent minority to disturb the machinery of government constructed by an industri- ous majority. Governor Budd’s stipulation that the léase of China Basin shall not be assigned was as cheerfully accepted by the direc- tors of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad as it will be welcome to the people. A golden key is often used to unlock secrets, but that prepared for the Me- morial Museum is none such, for Director- General de Young made it a stipulation that the doors should never be locked. As it is reported one scene in a play now running in Paris represents Herod and John the Baptist in a Greeco-Roman wrest- ling match it appears the irreverent wits of France are so eager to make a profit of their jests they are willing to make a jest of the prophets. o TR S The need for a comprehensive pure-food law throughout the Union finds another illustration in the report that nearly 300 cheese factories in Wisconsin are reported to be making “filled cheese’’—that is, cheese from milk which has had all the butter fat extracted from it and cottonseed oil substituted in its place. i The | the faintest hint of this unearthly blaze | tertiary trac | night that had no beginning. ART OPPORTUNITIES. However noble have been the efforts of painterd to put upon canvas the strange and inspiring wonders that so distinctly set California apart from the rest of the world. there appears good reason to believe that they have not yet grasped some of the morealluring opportunities that exist. Bier- stadt, Moran, Hill,Keith, Latimer and hosts of others have pictured the grandeur of the Yosemite, the depth, mystery and silence of the redwood forests and hundreds of those bewitching nooks where sunshine and shade play hide-and-seek on quiet roads and peaceful streams. But the gen- erosity of nature’s invitation does not end with these. The amateur photographer has shown a hardier and more aspiring spirit. No hard- ship or danger has proved sufficient to check his zeal, and there is not a strange thing in the State that he has not found. True, the photographer’s mission is different from the painter’s, and his processes are quicker and simpler. elaborate training required to produce & painter is not essential to his success. But for all that, the amateur photographer has the true artistic conception and a skill to put it in force. He knows a picture when he sees it and will spare no pains to secure it. More than that, he hunts indefatigably for pictures that have not yet been found, and in this regard sets an example of originality and enterprise that should be a sermon to every painter in the State. He will not thrash over old straw if he can find new for his flail. The photographer has penetrated into the heart of Death Valley and hae traced the mysterious Sargosa River from the point where it bursts full-grown from the ground to its weird and misera- ble disappearance in the vast salt marsh of the desert, covered with its fantastic hummocks and pillars of salt; and he has despaired because the limitations of his art made it impossible for him to reproduce the wonderful light that can be found nowhere else in the world. He has longed for the skill of a painter that he might be able to preserve and takeaway for the wonder of others even of light that the sun sends pouring over the desolate, wind-swept wastes. He will set up his tripod before the lonely grave of a prospector who has died of hardships on the desert, and beside the rude mound of loose stones he will ponder the affection and grief of the friend who, thus left alone in the wilderness, stayed to give decent burial to the dead. | The higher Sierras, where the splendors | of the Kings and Kern River canyons lie remote from the gaze of the world, have seen the advent of the photographer, who takes pictures because he loves them, but the painter isa stranger there. The camera has made us familiar with the desolation of Mono Lake, but the painter has rarely or never sought it out. And so it goes. Not only wonders but an infinite variety of them have yet to re- cerve that recognition of their value for artistic purposes that painters alone are competent fully to extend. THE STOIC OF THE SEA. Between Scylla and Charybdis, between | the devil and the deep, deep sea, between the upper and the nether millstones, be- tween the eternal menace of wind and wave, between the sharks in water and the sharks in boarding-houses, between all dual things that grind and crush and pulverize, is the sailor. There is extant no early account of poor Jack’s mishaps. History was yet un- written when he colliding with the irst belaying-pin or rebounding from the impas of the third mate’s foot. As humanity cannot be followed deeper down | in the earth’s crust than the glacial period, where the primal mariner straddled his coniferous log and .floated through the chartless sounds of the Stone Age, all pre- s of the sailor are lost. . His earlier remains arise not from their cere- ments of rock at the scientist’s call, and his remoter existence is entombed in a But lower than Palwolithic Man--millions of epochs | under the pliocene cave deposits of organic life, among the fossil marine plant forms of the carboniferous limestone—have been found indistinct tracings which might have, restored, more resemblance toa hand- spike than to any other vegetable in the terrestial flora of the 100,000,000 geological years, This isa long jump down through the unrecorded ages, but like the student who rebuilds a mammoth from a bristie or a planet from a pebble the bridging of the measureless abyss between the two remote periods is heree attempted. Man’s oceu- pancy of even the very late glacial day | can be established only by the discovery of afew fragments pf second-hand stone | furniture destroyed when the ice flood evicted the cave-dwellers, As only contemporaneous evidence is little short of mere conjecture the associa- tion of the modern sailor with the prehis- toric club may be founded on the fact that one is the contemporary of the other in the present period, and both are so closely brought together now that they conld not have been far removed in the early strata of time. Albeit, the man of the later sea is be- tween the upper and nether stones figuratively as he is geologically, and there is no probability that he will escape from the rocks until some great social upheaval and cleavage—possibly in the millennium— takes place. Perchancein other and far- away ages drawing down to the present the twin fossils of Jack and his coexisting belaying-pin will be found cased together in the hard debris of dead years. And then science will find, more indelibly engraved in the pages of imperishable granite, the record of their inseparable lives. i The ill wind that is now supposed to blow some, or somebody, goed may have been blowing in the long-ago, and while raking the past mariner fore and aft was preparing and hardening him and the suceeeding generations of his species for the mishaps of a later day. From this must come his invincible stoicism, his sturdy and perfect indifference to every calamity that energetically seeks and finds him. Jack is usually pic- tured as the living embodiment of a “growl,” and this gross, unfounded error has been scattered broadcast. That is oniy his peculiar way of submitting pa- tiently, joyfully, even thankfully, to any- thing that comes along. The Sunday duff, with or without plums, and the mate’s | existence. FOR THE PROSECUTION. i The history of this country will never be complete if it omits an account of C. P. Huntington’s operations and an analysis of his influence on the business and morals of the people. Whatever might be said in his defense must be in a comparison of his acts with those of worse men. If it be said that, unlike Jay Gould, he never wrecked a railroad, but on the contrary strengthened every one that he owned, that will merely be saying that his method of accumulating wealth was different from Gould’s. The methods by which Mr. Huntington has accumulated his wealth are notorious, and need not be recounted here. The various effects of the plans which he has followed in that pursuit are more or less clearly understood, but the theme is never dull. The most unfortunate circumstance attending them—one which schemers of his shrewdness may always rely upon to aid them—is that a desperate people, more eager to seize upon any means for relief than able to apvreciate its value, fall an easy prey to their enenty masquer- ading as their friend, to charlatans who seek the power to extort money, to honest cranksand incompetents whose friendship is more hurtful than their enmity, and to other similar forces which paralyze all efforts for relief, bring discredit upon the cause of the wronged, and strengthen the enemy’s power. Huntingtons would be impossible if the people were wiser. It is not their moral sense that is at fault. The future historian will not be able to find that Mr. Huntington’s ignoring of the ethical relation between transportation companies and the people can be explained on the ground that he was ignorant of its To do that would be to charge him with lack of understanding, and most likely he would rather be called a rogue than a fool. That he knows of the ex- istence of this relation is proyed by his de- liberate operations to pervert and degrade it. Were he not aware that men are honest, he would not try to corrupt them. Ifhe were ignorant of the fact that laws in- tended to force him into honest ways were an expression of a sentiment of right-doing on the part of their makers, he would not resort to bribery to nullify them. If he did not expect the making of laws to check his business immorality, he would not set about to elect lawmakers on whom he could depend both to defeat laws which the honesty of the community prompts and enact others which are repughant to the popular sense of right. To assert that in the handling of his business itself, without reference to these phases of the ethical relation, he is igno- rant of the moral relations which exist between the server and the served, between ter and servant, between the merchant and his customers, between duty and op- portunity, between power and the manner of its exercise, would be to charge him with gnorance of one of the fundamental prin- ciples upon which his success is founded. If there is one thing in the history of bis conduct about which there is no intelligent doubt it is that the material prosperity of the people whom he serves has never had the smallest atom of intrinsic weight with him. If he concludes that by charging the people of Fresno exorbitant rates on their products he can make more money and secure it more quickly than by reducing rates, and thus making the people more prosperous and contented, he would never hesitate a moment to adopt the former course. Itis no concern of his that the prosperity of those whom he serves would enable them to have more comforts, in- creased facilities for moral and intellectual development, and larger opportunities for expanding into that higher and stronger form of manhood and citizenship which makes a people wise and their government firm. Mr.'Huntington's policy has never con- templated anything ulterior, anything that might even remotely tend to better the condition of mankind. Whatever in- cidental benefit humanity may have re- ceived from his operations, the fact of its existence has no interest for him, and it has been offset a thousandfold by his de- liberate acts to degrade. Concurrently with the absence of any intention to do good have been his deliberate acts of wrong-doing, in evading the laws, in shirk- ing his taxes, and in every other conceiy- able way. If he has been faithful in the performance of his written contracts, that was the policy of a shrewd business man. The Chinese are noted for that. In writ- ing 8f the manner in which Mr. Hunting- ton has fulfilled his moral obligations, the future historian must pause in wonder and dismay. So far as the public is concerned Mr. Huntington may well have taken the motto, “After me the deluge.” It is not only because he has failed in the duty of trying to do good, but further, because he has always and deliberately employed his vast opportunity and power to do harm, that he is hated. For this he will have a unique place in American his- tory. Thetime now is almost past for hoping that retribution will overtake him in this ljfe. He is an old man, and his physical energies are close upon annihila- tion. It would be a weak soul that would care to see him punished in a spirit of vengeance. Whatever profit such punishment would bring would have an exemplary value. While every man is entitled to the full posses- sion and enjoyment of his own, the written law and the moral sense which abides in men prohibit such a use of his own as will work harm to others. The harm which Mr. Huntington has worked can never be measured. The smallest part of it is his mean tyrannies and insatiable greed prac- ticed in the ordinary course of his business. Immeasurably greater is the moral injury which he has done. Into what intricate and devious ways it has wandered; what measure may be found by which to ascer- tain its extent and force; what bearing it has on the pervading estimate of right conduct which men have come to hold under its overshadowing influence; in what manner its operation in the evasion and perversion of justice through corruption of the law-making and administrative branches of California particularly has been incorporated into the conduct of the people, and has served as the inspiration and excuse of crime, no human being can fist, with or without a club, were estab- [.have the wisdom to say. lished from the foundations of the earth, thinks this philosopher of the sea, and whether they were or were not in the ship- ping articles when he made his mark he doesn’t know nor care. The shore-sharks may take what their voracious brothers of the ocean don’t get, and anybody may have what escapes the deep sea. Long life, if he desires it, and then a snug harbor, if he approves of such lux- ury, to this true stoic of the wave, whose soul is of little less density than the upper and nether millstones that pulverize him, It is left for us only to take what conso- lation we may-from observing that the people are understanding the magnitude of Mr. Huntington’s power and the de- grading uses to which he puts it, and that they are preparing to shake him off. This revolution will not end with his death. The ugly temple in which he lived, fat- tened and held high and unlawful sway will be purified as by fire, gnd it will be fortunate for his’ survivors remaining therein if the vast, glittering structure do not fall in ruins and overwhelm them and whose feelings are little less hard than those of the sharks that devour him, in its destruction. Mr. Huntington should be convicted. MR, HUNTINGTON AND THE LAW. THE CASE OF THE RAILROAD MAGNATE CONSIDERED FROM OPPOSITE POINTS OF VIEW. FOR THE DEFENSE Coliis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, has been indicted by the United States Grand Jury for violating the Interstate Commerce law. The indictment charges him with having issued a pass over his railroad to Frank M. Stone, the issuing of such a pass being, under the law, a misdemeanor, pun- ishable by a fine of not less than $1000 and not more than $5000, or a year in the State Prison, or both fine and imprisonment. The evidence upon which the indictment is based is a part of the testimony given by Stone last January when a witness in the case of two strikers charged with offenses during the great railway strike last sum- mer. As no rebutting evidence has thus far been made public, we must assume the testimony of Mr. Stone to be correct, and consider the question of Mr. Huntington’s guilt or innocence as a matter of law. Tt is in the highest degree fortunate that this issue has at last been prought to the test of the courts, and brought there in the person of such a man as Mr. Huntington. No one will claim for him any exemption from the laws that govern his fellow-citi- zens. He is nota poor man to be pitied for his poverty, an ignorant man to be ex- cused for his lack of knowledge, nor a public fayorite for his offenses to be over- looked by reason of his personal popu- larity. He is, on the contra able to defend himself; a w ing full knowledge of the law, and a man having so little of personal charm for the multitude that prejudice is more likely to be against him than for him. With sucha man at the bar there is nothing to distract attention from the law itself. The defend- ant pleads nothing in extenuation. The sole issue before us is involved in the ques- tion, Has this man offended against his fellow-man to an extent deserving of fine and imprisonment ? What is his offense? It is charged that he gave to Mr. Stone permission to ride free upon the Southern Pacific Railroad, but it is conceded that he as president rep- resents the owners of the roud. He gave away therefore nothing that was not right- fully his to give. He and those whom he represents built the road. They maintain it. They defray its running expenses. They pay all its obligations. They are taxed for it as their property. They are responsible for all damage it does and are answerable in law to every man who is in- jured by it. Inits last analysis therefore the indictment charges Mr. Huntington with having given away something that belongs to him. He was driving his wagon along the road and let his neighbor ride. That is the sum and substance of his offending. American law is devised not for the per- secution of men, but for their protection. Itis not designed to deprive them of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but to secure them in the possession of those inalienable rights. The pos ion of property is one of the essential rights of civilized man. Without the guarantee of that right there could be no civilization nor any degree of human advancement above the plane of savagery. How shall a man enjoy his property, however, if he may not share it with his friend? Is it to be lawful to sell, but unlawful to give? Is there to be a premium on parsimony, while common kindness is made a mis demeanor punishable by fine and im- prisonment? When statute lJaws restrict the liberty of the citizen guaranteed by the common law and the constitution, they are to be strictly ¢onstrued. An American, whether rich or poor, is not to be deprived of the free use and usufruct of his property by some loose or strained construction of a congressional enactment. Due reverence for law does not imply a blind submission to legisla- tion. That would be servility to the letter and disloyalty to the spirit of our institu- tions. No people can remain free who do not bring every question of law to the test of the great principles of justice and free- dom. It mustnot beforgotten that, young as our country is, we have had upon our National statute-books the alien and sedi- tion laws, the embargo act, the fugitive slave law; and that in not a few of the States there have been many statutes even worse than those. Such statutes the peo- ple have refused to sustain. Lacking the strength of the popular will they have been idle words upon the books, unworthy of the name of law, until in the end they were repealed amid the applause of the people and blotted out of the records of our justice. o During the period of the French Revolu- tion, when the Tory party in Great Britain, mad in its rage against republicanism, enacted law after law to restrict the liber- ties of the people, freedom found for her- self a defense in the courts. The juries refused to convict men under laws that were abhorrent to every instinct of justice, and it has been well said that during those years the liberties-and the rights of Eng- lishmen reposed in the jury-box as in an ark of divine covenant. To the courts and to the intelligence and honesty of an in- corruptible jury the American can appeal with an unshaken confidence. Mr. Hunt- ington can confroni the tribunal of his fellow-citizens without fear. He has wronged no man by this act with which he is charged. He has deprived no citizen of his property, interfered in no way with his person, conflicted with no principle of justice, violated no precedent of our com- mon law, and can safely rely upon an upright and impartial jury for vindi- cation. We have said it is fortunate the case has been brought up in this way. It is indeed high time to have some questions affecting property and vested rights set- tled in this country. The old foungdations of law, which were honesty and justice, are being bitterly assailed by some of our would-be lawmakers, and if the American is to have any right to his property in the uture it is time to draw the line at socialis- tic legislation and to repudiate it in the courts. Security for the rights of property is a matter of public expediency. Indus- try asksit, progress demands it, civilization is dependent upon it. Vast consequences, therefore, are involved in this case of a free pass. The pass itself was a little thing. It was but a rich man’s casual gift, for- gotten as soon as given, but within the issue it has raised under this status are the rights of every citizen to his property and every man to his own. ‘We look to the jury to acquit Mr. Hunt- ington of this charge trumped up under a socialistic statute, but if for any reason the final solution of the case is carried beyond their adjudication we are sanguine his vindication will be given in the august tribunal of the Supreme Court, which guards the constitution of the Nation and stands for every American as the symbol of inviolate justice. Even if such a rebuke should serve no further purpose than a blow to meanness in the law, it will not have been in vain, | well Quoting from the Carn the paragraph, “When you help your neighbor’s business you put him in a position to help yours,’” the Telegraph says every one in Grass Val- ley should eclip this out and place it in their hat, study and profit by it. The ad- vice is good. When a man has that senti- ment in his hat, he can talk through it with a profit both to himself and to those who heed him., e ‘While conceding to the CaLy, as it says, “‘the highest and most patriotic motives in its opposition to the income tax,” the Wil- lows Journal says: *“We cannot see any better reason for opposing the income tax than any other tax. It is attacked as un- constitutional on the ground of being class legislation. If it be so, then every particle of ‘protective tariff’ taxation is class legis- lation; and so in the sugar bounty and every special grant, franchise and sub- sidy.” Supposing we admit, for the sake of shortening the argument, that “protec- tion” is class legislation, cannot the Jour- nal see that it fosters enterprise instead of taxing its income? There is a great deal of difference between building up industry and tearing it down. According to the Seattle Trade Register, Austin Claiborne of that city, representing the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, says the supremacy of the New Bedford whaling | fleet is a thing of the past, and San Fran- cisco now has a firm grip on that trade, the company he represents capturing 301 of the 352 whales canght last season. The manufacture of whalebone was begun in San Francis¢o last December and the com- pany promuses to rapidly rebuild the in- dustry which used to bg controlled by Eastern factories. This is one of the items that goes to show how San Francisco is reaching out to achieve her rightful share of the profits of the ocean. After the whalebone industry must come the seal industry, and the furs now sent to London should be worked up in this city for the markets of the world. —— Tt is a point well made by the Appeal that Marysville should stand in with Co- lusa in its efforts to secure a sugar-beet refinery because such an establishment would benefit Marysville in more ways than ene. Itis always better for California towns and cities to stand in with one an- other, and it is pleasing to note that this truth is now becoming the controlling fac- tor of public sentiment. Rivalry is giving way to co-operation and sectional prejudice to a true sense of State pride. San Fran- cisco stands in with Los Angeles for the floral festival; Santa Clara and San Joaquin valleys work together for the competing road, and Marysville will help Colusa to es- tablish the sugar refinery. There is pros- perity in that system. The dppeal is right in saying it will benefit in more ways than one. It will benefit more things than one. It will be an all-round benefit in every way and to everything. | Itis the opinion of thé Riverside Press that the wholesale abuse of city and county | officials is one of the evils of California most detrimental to public interests. It cites the recent article in Hgrper's Weekly on San Francisco as an evidence of the effect produced abroad by local “‘mud- slingers™; quotes an instance of a broker who was unable to negotiate a loan on Riverside real estate hecause certain cam- paign statements had exaggerated the rate of taxation and denied the efficiency of the county government, and eloses by de- nouncing the folly of those who slander for temporary advantage the community in which they live, since this cannot be done without permanent injury to all private as as to public interests. This truth should be taken to heart by every editor and by every citizen whose voice has in- fluence among men. No man can de- nounce his city without suffering the evil effects of his own denunciation. It is time to put an end to the ceaseless attacks upon every man in power. If we are to have prosperity we must give our community a good name and not a bad one. THE CITY PARKS. There is no reason why the public squares of San Francisco should not have & reputation as worldwide for natural beanty as California has for sunshine and flowers. The mild climate affords every essential to the healthy develop- ment of trees and shrubs from the semi-tropical varieties to every species of ornamental plants of temperate and northern regions. The re- markable success attending arboriculture in Golden Gate Park proves that exotics under judicious processes of tempering can be made %o thrive in the open air on the peninsula, and that hardy shrubs luxuriate once they are BEFORE GRANT WON HIS STARS- Quite a bit of a controversy seems to have sprung up over an interview concerning Gen- eral Grant before he won his stars, recently published in the CaLL. It has been asserted that Iwas not the man who introduced Mr. Grant to Governor Yates of I1linois. This reminds me that after Grant had in_reA ality “won his stars” and become a major- general, it was by no means an uncommon thing for one old-timer in the Illinois capital to say to another over the friendly todd “Oh, yes; 1 remember very well Grant’s fl_r,il, coming to Springfield. Why, I introduced him to Dick Yates.” And the amusing fact was well known that at least a dozen of those time- worn veteraus claimed the honor of bringing about that first memorable meeting. | The truth of the matter, of which abundant | proofs are at hand, is fully and clearly set forth in my “Recollections of Grant.”” Butany one in doubt can become reassured by consulting pages 646-7 of the “History of Tllinois,” by John Moses, formerly private secretary to Goy- | ernor Yates. It is uite true, indeed, as stated in the CALL | article, that Mr. Washburne did write a letter AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 1f everybody had as much faith in the future of San Franeisco as Connie von Gerichten, the artist and musical pride of the Bohemian Club, there would be no necessity of starting hali- million clubs. He said yesterday in the grill- room of the Palace Hotel: 3 I was born in California, right in this city, on Independence day, 1870, and have been to every foreign land since then, but I tell you San Francisco is all right. People wonder why we have not the same wonderful collections of art here that one finds in the 0ld World, but | they seem to forget that San Francisco is young and that the Government has never spent a cent to establish museums and exhibits here as is done in Paris, Dresden, Munich, London and all over the Old World. “Give us a show. «There is as much talent here in proportion to the population as you find anywhere in the world. Look at the names some of our Califor- nia people have already made for themselves and the State. We have artists, poets, sculp- tors, musicians, inventors, statesmen, crafts- iters and—" m'e'{l\"l::xt's the matter with Jim Corbett, Con- CONNIE VON GERICHTEN REVIEWS THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. |Sketched from life for the “Call™ by Nankivell.] introducing Grant to Yates, but the letter re- mained unread and even unopened until after the latter’s death, and was then first unsealed by Private Secretary Moses when looking over the Governor's posthumous papers. I have been intimate with General Chetlain ever since the war, and have many times talked with him by the hour regarding all the inci- dents of Captain Grent’s life in Springfield be- fore he took command of a regiment, and he agreed with me perfectly in regard to the de- tails of the introduction to Yates. Colonel Moses also discussea the subject fully with General Chetlain and myself, and we were all in perfect accord concerning the facts. I, and no one else, had the honor of introducing Mr. Grant to Governor Yates, and this is how it came about. I was busy around executive quarters, enlist ing soldiers and attending to other milita affairs, and had noticed a little man clad in shabby clothes who for several days hed occu- pled the same chair in the executive office, never approaching any one or speaking, but listening to the conversation and military dis- cussions round about him with a twinkle in his eye. Iwas then a major. AtlastIbecame nervous and one day asked the little man if there was anything I could do for him. “Yes, major,” answered the little man, “I would ke to meet Governor Yates.” Iasked him why he had not made his wishes known to me before, and he said T had seemed planted in'the soil. Indeed in private gardens throughout the city similar results are attained without special skill or knowledge in caring for plants. 5 But the evidence is lacking in the city parks. Instead of & luxuriance of palms, magnolias, laurels, oleanders and ornamental flowering shrubs, all of which would thrive with a little care, there is nothing better than a stiff array of hideous things, neither trees nor shrubs, hacked out of semblance to their natural forms and ugly in the extreme. Intervening in the thickest populated districts these bitsof nature are consequently an eyesore rather than a refreshful vision. Their denuded and stunted aspect, with every tree cut down to a certain standard, every stray branch and lower boughs chopped off and the smaller shrubs pruned into the most grotesque shapes, gives strangers in the city a very poor and a false impression of San Francisco's climate and public taste. Appearances alone would indicate that trees cannot attain a healthy growth and shrubs are all stunted here. That this should be true is a pity. The fault lies largely in a pernicious system of placing men unfitted for their duties asgardeners in the parks under control of the Street Department. Although generally wanting in taste or knowl- edge of gardening, they undertake to improve nature according to their ideas. The result is anything but pleasing to the eye or elevating to the taste of the communit; HELP THE BOYS. Give the boys assistance. It does not cost much, yet it makes them happy and very often helps to carry comfort to a desolate home. You meet them every day with their little box of soap, & bundle of matches or somé newly in- vented toy. They are not seeking charity, but are giving more than value for value received. Particularly now, that school is closed for a time, you meet them. They are receiving a schooling in business which in later life they can refer to with pride. Every one of them, and there are many, is put to the test of stabil- ity. Do not make their burdens any more se- vere than you can help. They will have enough trouble when they grow older, so give them a chance to advence with something more than a Dbitter recollection of early life, California has produced some excellent men. More are to come and some ob them are now growing up in San Francisco. The boy who can take a gruff “no” with a smile and ap- proach his next customer with & cheerful countenance has learned to take humanity as he finds it, and not to be discouraged over re- buke. Yet ‘hope deferred- maketh the heart sick,” and many & boy who goes on from week to week with saddened heart, though smiling +| face, will go down under the burden in the end and enter manhood’s stage with a contempt for life. Help the boy and you will assist man- kind. ‘THE tortures of dyspepsia and sick headache, and the sufferings of scrofula, the agonizlng itch and pain of salt theum, the disagreeable symptoms of catarrh, are removed by Hood's Sarsaparilla. e e Usk Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters to stimulate the appetite and keep the digestive organs in order. 5 e e Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp. son’s Eve Water. Druggists sell it ap 26 cents. s0 busy he did not wish to interrupt me. I took him to the Governor’s room, and while on the way inquired his name. “Mr. Grant,” was his reply. “What can I do for you, Mr. Grant?" inquired the Governor. “I do not like to trouble you,” replied the stranger, “but I would like to obtain a position in one of the departments for & short time to fit myself for active service.” We both readily perceived that hisidea of fitting himself referred in one sense to obtain- ing better clothing, for his appearance was certainly shabby. The Governor, turning to me, said: “Our departments are already very crowded, but if you ean find & place for Mr. Grant will you please do s0?”’ So I set the shabby volunteer at work copy- ing a cord of useless letters and applications, as there wes nothing else for him to do. Mr, Grant smiled at the work, but said nothing. The anonymous writer in the CALL has fabri- cated that part of his article in regard to | Grant's meeting with Yates out of whole cloth, and I am convinced that General Chetlain,who is referred to as authority, never authorized the statements which are made under the cap- tion “Before Grant Won His Stars.” THOMAS P. RoBB. PERSONAL. Dr. R. E. Hartley of Lakeport is at the Grand, Ex-Sheriff E.W. Kay of Visalia is at the Grand. C. E. Brown of San Jose isa guest at the Baldwin. D. 8. Rosenbaum, & Stockton merchant, is at the Palace. . L. Withers, a Philadelphia capitalist, is at | the Palace. Frank H. Gould, the Stockton attorney, isat | the California. ¢ Henry Levy, a merchant of Halimoon Bay, is & guest of the Lick. James A. Louttit of Stockton, an ex-Congress- | man, is at the Lick. Captain P. A. Barnet of Aberdeen, Scotland, is at the Occidental. Charles H. Lux, & well-known citizen of San Jose, is at the Grand. John Mackay, managerof Haggin's ranck at Sacramento, is in town. Norman Rideout, a banker of Marysville, 1s a guest at the California. E. P. Rithet, & well-known citizen of San Rae fael, is a guest at the Palace. P.D. Fraser, a well-known citizen of Stockton, registered at the Occidental yesterday. Realph Granger, a banker of national reputa- tion, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Benjamin F. Stevens, president of the New England Life Insurance Company of Boston, is in the city. On the 9th of next month he will have served his company forty-eight consecu- tive years. Thomas Devlin, & wealthy malleable iron man- ufacturer of Philadelphia, is visiting in this city and making short tours of the State. In company with Auditor Broderick, who is a friend of many years’ standing, he recently made an inspection of the pfantat the Union Iron Works and gave Superintendent Patrick Noble some valuable hints regarding the work- ing of iron. $ nie?” ventured to inquire the gentleman who sat next to him. “I should call him an orator,” responded Von Gerichten, as he ran his hand through his lux- uriant and flowing locks, “but that is neithe here nor tnere; what we want is to get down to the possibilities of the future ot th: coast. Itell youit is bound to come, and any man who is at all familiar with the signs of the times knows it. Here we are in the midst of a rich, remarkably healthy country, and a new railroad, backed by the best men in San Fran- cisco, is on the eve of building. Now mind I do not say that the future of the arts and sci- ences centers on the arrival of one or two or three pew lines of railroad, but I do mean to say that a country worth building railroads in, and a country that has mede other gailroads rich, is & pretty good country to stay in and a—" “Black coffe-e-e-e?” inquired the waiter, “Yes, and some cognac. Wherever the rail- roads go you will — “Here is one match for ze cognac.” “Yes; thank you. You will always find — ivening papers! All about the lottery,” bawled a newsboy at his elbow. ‘‘Here you are, boy,”” said the artist, passing the youngster & quarter; “now run over there to Henry Heyman and ask him if he won the capital prize. But, gentlemen, as I wasabout to state, wherever you find railroads you —" “Pardon, monsieur. One lump, two lump sugaire?” “One. Well, it is always the case with any section of the country, that wherever the raile road goes the — “‘Here, Connie, take this match and light yous cigarette. Excuse my interruption.” “Certainly. I want to say, though, that whenever railroads get to competing the country is looking up, and I am glad there is the competition in San Prancisco. Art and poetry will have better times hereafier.” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS, Streeter—There goes a man that has lefts great many behind him in the race of life, Meeter—So; who is he? Streeter—He's & streetcar conductor.—Cine cinnati Inquirer. ‘Wool—What are you going to bringinas a defense to Miss Sears’ breach of promise suit? Van Pelt—They will have a hard time to cone vince the jury that I was sane when I proposed. —Town Topies. Manager—Why don’t you get off something that will make the people laugh? Artist—Impossible. The peop'e in this audi- ence here would have to have « house fall on them to see anything. Manager—And we ain’t got & house.—Detroit Free Press. . Morton—TIs Miss Casey in? Butler—No, sir. She has gone out walking with & young man. Morton—All right. Just tell her that I came around with a four-in-hand to take her fora drive.—Truth. Johnny Smart—It's & sure thing that the fa- ther of our new Sunday-school teacher is @ butcher. Andy Quick—What makes you think so? Johnny Smart—She didn’t do a thing but talk about the fatted calf and leading lambs to the slaughter. “Iintend to be one of the most successful actors on the American stage,” said the youthe« ful Roscius, proudly. “How do you mean to doit?” inquired his skeptical friend. “I'm goirig abroad,” said Roscius, with reso- lution, “stay there a number of years and come back as a foreign r.etor. hicago Record. , 114 Eddy street. CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢ 1b, Townsend's. e e Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * e o RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.® g ———— THE new Easter Cards, Booklets and Easter Novelties have arrived. 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