The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONi)AY, MARCH 25, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. S| BSCRIPTION RATES: .50 per year. 50 per year. CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. MARCH 25, 1895 gn the lease, Governor. he whole State wants the competing road. The cobble is the cornerstone of silur- ianism. It is easier as well as more profitable to go forward than backward. The next steps in California’s progress will be taken up the north coast. The Cuban revolution is getting enough advertising to do business after awhile. All mints are worth looking into, butthe one at Carson is particularly so just now. To subscribe to the competing road is to get a title deed to the esteem of the people. Progress follows progressive men and will never go your way if it sees you sitting down. The construction of the San Joaguin road will prepare the way for another to Eureka. The people will keep a close watch now to see the outcome of the manufacturers’ convention. This is & good week to begin practicing your resolution to promote home industry by buying home goods. The man who knows it all is very numerous at mass-meetings, but you never see him on the witness-stand. The Memorial Museum will grow like everything else in California and increase in beauty and usefulness every year. San Miguel Island should be a popular | seaside resort this summer, for it has | started the season with great shakes. | The Half-Million Club will give itself a send-off all round the State it succeeds in carrying out the proposed excursion. Ip is not merely the best help but | help, for the man who cannot himself cannot be helped by anybody. Self the o help | The good man makes what he calls the | best of a bad bargain, but the wise man | goes him one better and sells out at a | profit. ! A portion of San Francisco society is too | cultured to be annoved by criticisms and another portion hasn’t culture enough to read them. are not wholl; Museum, easy thing to subscri ing it better. atisfied with the | nember it is a very | e to a fund for mak- | | In standing in with the floral festivals in the south, the Half-Million Club will have a good time and start a movement with | millions The visit of the Berkeley athletes to the East will put an end to the silly belief in that section that the sons of the pioneers are a puny race. A Pole who came to this country with an unpronounceable name has applied toa Kansas court to change it to American League Republican. If every man of intluence talks in favor of municipal improvements we shall soon have a public sentiment that will make them easy of accomplishment. The climate is doing its best to furnish flowers for the southern festivals, and the decorators will have hardly anything to do except to pick and arrange what nature -gives. > The New York plan of setting the unem- ployed to work improving and cultivating unoccupied lots, is one of the Eastern schemes we should like to see come West and grow up with the country. The report that one member called an- other a liar, and the other retaliated by calling the first a hound, is the only evi- dence we have that the Missouri Legisla- ture is in session; but it is enough. Armonr’s proposal to arrange an im- proved transportation system for Cali- fornia fruit to the East may be looking to our interest with one eve, but it is squint- ing toward monopoly with the other. Until it is decided whether the indemnity demanded from China by Japan is to be paid in silver or gold, every country in the world will be interested in the peace con- ference, and this country particularly so. If the report is true that Cleveland has objected to Gresham’s single act of vigor in dealing with Spain, the people will be more convinced than ever that this Presi- dent serves his country best when he is duck shooting. The fact that a majority of the Reichstag refused to vote congratulations to Bis- marck on his birthday, goes far to consoie us for the kind of Congressmen we have. Our Congressmen are not famous for man- ners, but they have never failed to act de- cently on complimentary occasions. | company the visitors. EUREKA NEXT. All the circumstances justify the con- clusion that the construction of the San Joaquin road is now assured. Money suf- ficient to launch the enterprise has been subscribed and a sum sufficient to com- plete it is in sight. The choice of a route either by San Jose or by Stockton can be had_for the asking, and perhaps both will be accepted. Terminal facilities in San Francisco have been agreed upon and it needs only the Governor’s signature to make them certain. In short the San Joaquin roaa is practically an established enterprise, and the Half-Million Club and other progressive men who look to the future may now ask themselves what is to be done next. Over that question there is hardly any room for controversy. Clearly the next great enterprise to be undertaken is a road to Eureka. The whole rich fegion to the north of us is only partially developed. A line along the north coast would open mp almost a virgin area to enterprise and in- dustry. The region is one of more than ordinary natural resources. The great lumber interests are in themselves remark- able, but they are only a minor factor in the total wealth of the section. The soil is as fertile as any in the Union. It is fitted for the most diversified rural industry and can support an immense population in comfortable luxury as soon as the people are provided with the means of transport- ing theirsproduce to market. A railroad would soon bring about a development that would supply it with abundant busi- ness, and in a comparatively few years would be one of the best paying roads in the State. 1t is worth noting, moreover, in this con- nection that the Great Northern road has begun to push its way to the south. A road from San Francisco to Eureka would be a big inducement for the Great North- ern to make that place the objective point of its southern extension. This would open another through route for San Fran- cisco and would be of incalculable adva: tage to her extending commerce. A mult tude of reasons, therefore, impel our pro- gressive men to look northward at this time. Of course, the prime duty of the hour is to subscribe to the San Joaquin | road and get it established and started. After that is done, however, enterprise must turn toward Humboldt. The Eureka railroad is the next thing. WHAT UNITY MEANS. The action of the Hali-Million Club in arranging for an excursion to Santa Bar- bara and Los Angeles for the benefit of the Eastern visitors who are ir San Francisco, is one of the most eloquent of recent evi- dences that a true conception of the best ways in which the advancement of the State may be effected has been formed— namely, that all parts of the State must work in harmony. For San Francisco to take the initiative in arranging for an ex- cursion to Southern California is as novel as it 1s praiseworthy. It means that the intelligent enterprise of San Francisco in taking a step for the benefit of Southern California is earnestly desirous of seeing | | that region grow and prosper, knowing that & benefit to any part of the State is an addition to the prosperity of the whole. The fiestas at Santa Barbara and Los An- geles are the occasions for the excursions. The excursionists will not be limited to visiting strangers, and it is desirable that a suflicient number of intelligent Califor- nians to explain what is seen, should ac- It is in this partic- ular that one of the most important branches of the work is to be done. A most discouraging fact with which Californians have to contend, is the great difficulty en- countered in making even the most intel- ligent strangers comprehend the value of the peculiar conditions which are brought to their notice. It is so natural for us to méasure that which is new by the standard which we have formed from experience with that which is old, that the efforts to induce a setting aside of this standard must be exceedingly patient and unquali- fiedly intelligent. In order totellthe truth about California without seeming to tell a lie, one must have tact as well as judg- ment; for the truth often is incredible to those whom experience has not initiated into the mysteries of the State. Nothing so tries the patience of a Californian as the smile of pitying incredulity with which his assertions are sometimes received by a stranger. Really the stranger himself is the one to be pitied, not only for being ig- norant of the good things which California cheerfully gives to all who will accept, but also for denying himself, by reason of this ignorance, the benefits which their accept- ance would bring. Every intelligent effort to advertise the resources and attractions of California, therefore, must be governed by a knowl- edge of the stranger’s incredulity and by the further fact that it is natural with him. It is never sufficient to tell him what there is here; he must first be in- structed in the shortcomings of his old environment. If he objects to the bracing summer winds of San Francisco he should not only be asked if he prefers the debili- tating heat of his old home, but shouid be informed that these winds, pure and laden with strength-giving ozone, render malaria and zymotic and endemic diseases impossi- ble. This is but a hint of the thousand things that require intelligence to know and tact to impart. And it should always be borne in mind that it can be shown not only that in comparison with all possible Eastern conditions those in California are superior, but that’ here many conditions exist which are. wholly foreign to the experience of strangers and which have to be learned from the beginning. HOLMAN AS A PROPHET. Finding in his enforced retirement from Congress an unwonted freedom from offi- cial responsibility, William Holman, the great objector, has been expatiating upon politics in a way that is truly surprising. It is somewhat surprising to learn from Attorney Preston's statement to Governor Budd, in discussing the water-front lease to the San Joaquin road, that the word “competing” has no legal meaning. If the law hasn’t learned yet what competition means it had better be sent to a kindergar- ten to get a modern education. The resolution of the State Board of Ex- aminers not to pay for the supplies of the officers of State institutions, except such as are purchased on contract for the inmates, isa good step in the right direction. The State pays good salaries to the officials of the various institutions, and provides them with Bomes and the necessaries of life. It is only fair, therefore, that they should pay for the luxuries themselves. Those students at Berkeley who are lit- erally working their way through the university by earning money at odd jobs during the day and living as frugally as heaith permits, will find in the end they have received a double schooling, and that the one given by poverty is not less bene- ficial than the one given by the university. Knowledge is good, but discipline in thrift is better and yields larger results both in money and in character. Instead of talking like a pessimist over the defeat of his party, or filling the country with denunciations of governmental ex- travagance, as might have been expected from a man of his Congressional record, he has, on the contrary, been dealing in pro- phecies that surpass Fourth of July ora- tions and talking more like a stump orator in the flush of a first success than like a statesman of thirty years’ standing who has been driven from office by the defeat of his party. In the course of a recent interview, Mr. Holman is reported to have declared his belief that inside of the next twenty years Mexico will have absorbed San Salvador, Costa Rica, and the other Central Ameri- can States, and become herself a part of the TUnited States; Newfoundland, New Bruns- wick and the Dominion of Canada will have come into the American Union within the next fifteen or twenty years, and before a half century has elapsed we shall com- prise within our borders and under our flag all.of the western hemisphere. The foreteller of these great things is further reported to have wound up his prophecy with the exultant declaratio: “That is the spirit of true Democracy— that is the Democracy of Thomas Jeffer- son.” It will be conceded that these things sound strange from the mouth of Holman, or for that matter from the mouth of any man who in Congress has given even a tacit support to the narrow foreign policy of the Cleveland administration. Recog- nizing the incongruity of his present pro- fessions with his record in Congress, Hol- man went on to say that he had prepared for submission to Congress a resolution in relation to the Hawaiian affair which would have extended the Monroe doctrine over the entire western hemisphere, in- ciuding Hawaii, but was induced to with- hold it by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in order to protect the State Department from criticism. All of this makes very interesting read- ing for the American people. We may not have faith in Holman’s annexation proph- ecies, nor even believe such extensive an- nexation is desirable, but no one can fail to see in the suppression of Holman’s reso- Iution another evidence of Cleveland’s blighting effect upon his party. It is not to be wondered at that the last Congress failed so completely when its leaders were thus handicapped by the White House. “The spirit of true Democracy—the Democ- racy of Thomas Jefferson,” as Mr. Holman puts it, was sat upon by the fat President and crushed out of shape. SOCIETY AND THE WITS. One of - the oddities of California is the seriousness with which a large proportion of its people takes note of every casual criticism of society. One would suppose that no other society had ever been criti- cized, and that the belles and beaux and social leaders of San Francisco alone were subject to the slings and arrows of wit and satire. It seems to be overlooked that this sort of thing has been going on in every age and in every nation since the beginning of literature. If we may trust the wits, there is no such thing as good society and Aever has been. The beau monde of Berlin, Paris and London have been more bitterly lampooned than that of Chicago or San Francisco. What has been written of us that will compare with what Thackeray wrote of England, Zola of France and Heine of Germany? These men, being brighter | wits than those that afflict us, have shot more deadly shaifts, and while our society has escaped with an abraded cuticle that of the older cities has been pretty nearly skinned. ‘Wherever there is wit there is raillery, and satire, like death, loves a shining mark. Nothing that is bright escapes it. If a man makes his own fortune he is ridi- culed as a parvenu. If he inherits it he is denounced as an idler and a dude. If he remains always in his native land he is mocked at as an untraveled ignoramus. If he goes abroad he is lampooned as a tray- eled popinjay. One social leader is reserved and is pictured as a supercilious exclusive; another keeps an open, hospitable house and is described as a seeker after notoriety. Thus there is no escape for the victim, and the only consolation for the descendant of a hundred earls or the daughter of a soap- maker is to be found in the knowledge that the existence of the satire is a proof they have been conspicuous enough to attract the satirist. It is a profound saying of Schiller’s, “Wit wars with beauty everlastingly.” It is ever the finest poems that are parodied and the noblest paintings that are per- verted in cartoons. Beauty would draw all men from work to an idle worship of its loveliness, if a divine providence had not raised up a host of railers to mock at it. The glow and the glory of social life as seen in rich men’s halls, with all the acces- sories of. exquisite garments, glittering gems, good music and dainty repasts, re- vealing as it does men and women under their most joyous aspects in the rapture of the dance or the free flow of delightful con- versation, is one of the most beautiful sights the earth affords. Wit cannot but war with that sight and seek to spoil it. Fortunately it wars in vain. While it is as- sailing one phase of social hife a new one arises, and society leaving itsold fashion for the wits to peck at, goes dancing off to fresh fields and pastures green. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. There is no region in the world where life can be supported with less labor than in this pertof California. There is no region that produces a greater variety of food with so little Iabor and in such profusion. There is no re- gion in which the land to raise food in such profusion and so near to good markefs is so cheap as itis here. These advantages should cause San Joaguin County to have ten times its population in a few years, for that many could earn a living and enjoy life better than can be done in the East and those who exercise en- ergy and enterprise could accumulate wealth besides.—Stockton Independent. What shall it profit the Legislature to sup- press the high hat when the wearer can imme- diately substitute big sleeves that throw the man behind her into the darkness of the mid- dle ages? Verily, Mile. Rustle is the name of thelady, and the Legislature that keeps up with her has got to get & mighty move on it.— Pasadena Star. Tt is & good thing for the conntry to get the lawyers hacking away at the Fair millions. Lawyers are liberal and do not hoard up their money. What division they get out of the Fair estate will be distributed 1n California, and what they do not get will go East. Here's to the twenty-six lawyers!—Stockton Independ- ent. The industries of every country in the world spring from their natural resonrces. We can- not expect to dig coal where there is none, but we can attract health-seekers to a health cli- mate, we can build up a fruit industry in a fruit section. It requires confidence and enter- prise, however.—Colfax Sentinel. Good roads and plenty of them are what builds up & county and makes it prosperous.— Fort Bragg Advocate. The advertisement brings the customer and the salesman gets the credit.—Santa Cruz Sen- tinel. 1t is significant that no one complains of high hats at church.—Fresno Republican. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT- Ex-Congressman “Joe” Sibley, of Pennsylya- nia, the Presidential candidate of the Bimetal- lic League, is & milllonaire banker, who made his fortune in oil wells. He has an attractive personality and makes friends wherever he goes. He gave the whole of his salary as Con- gressman to the various agricultural societies in his district. Ex-Senator Edmunds is enjoying & very large and profitable practice of the law now that he has time to devote to his cases, but res- idents of his State have but little opportunity to know of the real extent of this service, as most of his work is in the higher courts of the country. The new President of France, M. Faure, has become extremely popular among the soldiers of the palace guard of honor by giving them -an extra allowance of wine every day from his private cellar. He also interests himself per- sonally in the men, and already knows them all by name and much of their family history. Governor J. M. Stone of Mississippi looks like & younger edition of Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson. He wants to succeed Senator George, who will not stand for re-election, and he has already announced his candidacy, although George has yet four years to serve. Charles Lederer, for eleven years the princi- pal artist on the Chicago Herald, whose politi- cal cartoons have gained him a national repu- tation, has severed his connection with the Times-Herald. He will establish in Chicago a high-class {llustrated weekly. UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. S. A. Andree, the distinguished Swedish civil engineer and scientific seronaut, will start next year on a balloon journey to the North Pole, under the suspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and with the financial support of a number of Swedish gen- tlemen, says the New York World. Chimerical as such an undertaking seems to De, its projectors believe it will be & success, with most important results. In & lecture before the Royal Swedish Acad- emy recently Mr. Andree outlined hisplans. He declared’ that the science of balloon con- struction and of steering a balloon during the last four years has advanced so far as almost to solve the practicability of aerial navigation. His planis to establish headquarters at the Norwegian Islands on the morthwest coast of Spitzbergen. Here a house or shed of sufficient size to cover a balloon of 22 meters, or 72:6 feet in diameter when filled with gas, will be erected, and from this point the balloon jour- ney to the North Pole will commence. The greatest expert in the world on balloon con- struction and serial voyages, the celebrated balloon manufacturer, the late L. Gabriel Yon of Paris, in a letter to Mr. Andree indorsed the Plan as entirely practicable and advised him to use a balloon of 22 meters in diameter, to be constructed of two-fold silk covers, and said that a balloon of this size and construction would float for thirty days without refilling. As an indorsement of M. Yon’s statement, Henri Giffard, Poisenilles and Graham, who are well-known aeronauts, computed that the balloon would lose comparatively a small amount of gas in a month. 2 The gas used for balloons is now manufactured and for sale and can be transferred any dis- tance in cylinders; 1700 to 1800 cylinders are sufficient to il a polar balloon, such as Mr. Andree will use, and can without any difficulty AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “I'll match you.” Hardly & man who visits the Palace Hotel, eithor as a guest or for liquid refreshments, but has heard a wee small voice piping these ‘words. As regular as 5 o’clock comes a diminutive specimen of humanity answering to the name of Johnny Robinson makes his appeerance. His little, pinched, drawn face would be pitiful but for & certain cunning, eager, though hon- est, expression. He is only about nine years old, though he looks twice that age. His main ambition in life is to make money,and he adopts the rather precarious means of “match- ing nickels.” Asa side line he carries a tittle plate of boutonnieres which he sells at 5 cents each. From the sale of his flowers he realizes a neat sum, and then commences his plaintive little cry, “I'il match you.” “Ill match you,” he said to Riley Grannan the other night, and, as the noted plunger was never known to refuse any sort of a bet, he was quickly accommodated. Fortune favored first one and then the other, finally settling on the side of the little flower-seller. It takes some little time to win a dollar at five cents a throw, but Robinson at length had that much of Grannan’s coin. “Now I'll make it two dollars or nothing,” said Grannan. ‘Tl go you,” quickly responded the boy. “You match me.” “Tails I win,” said the boutonniere vender. “Heads I lose,” remarked Grannan. “That boy is what I eall & dead game sport,” said Grannan, ss his successful antagonist walked away. “I'Il bet he would bet hislast cent on one throw if he could find any one to take him up.” 2 “I have always contended that the condition of the California farmer is no worse, if as bad, be transported to Spitzbergen. As it might | as that of some of our friends in States further be somewhat dangerous to fill a balloon in the | East,” said D.C.Parker, who owns a large THE PROPOSED COURSE OF THE BALLOON TO THE .NOBTH POLE. open air Mr. Andree will erect a portable shed to cover the balloon when being filled. The balloon under construction will be of such carrying power as to support a large, strongly built gondola. The gondola will con- tain & dark room for photographic purposes, a sleeping-room for three persons and will be provided with a system of sails for steering. The gondola will be suspended from the bal- loon in such a way that in case of disaster it can be instantly detached. An interesting feature of the projected trip is that the balloon will not rise higher over the earth on an average than 825 feet. This will be accomplished by means of draglines, con- structed of cocoa fiber, permitting them to float on the water. The balloon can therefore be kept at the same distance from the earth in passing either over ice or water. The belloon will also be provided with a great numter of free hanging ballast lines. The object of these is that in case the balloon from some cause or other suddenly sinks to a great depth as soon as the ballast line touches the ground the balloon will be relieved of a corresponding weight and the sinking will stop before the gondola touches the ground. The journey, as now planned, will be in a direct line from Spitzbergen over the north pole to Bering Strait, a distance of about 2294 miles, and will not, it is expected, occupy more than six days, which is a fifth part of the time the balloon cdn float without refilling. Geographicel and meteorological observa- tions en route will be made by a competent scientist. Photographs will be taken of the country as the balloon floats forward, and these will be taken in double sets. Oneset will be developed on board the balloon in case the travelers meet with accident and have to take to the gondola. The balloon will also be provided with Davy’s safety lamps and an electric storage battery for cooking, ete. In the polar regions during the month of July the sun, both by night and day, is above the horizon, =0 that the Arctic regions are peculiarly fitted for a long aerial voyage. The lowest temperature at Spitzbergen in July, 1883, was a few degrees above the zero point. Another advantage of ballooning in the Are- tic regions is the absence of vegetation, and thus the drag lines will pass along evenly and without obstruction. Still another advantage is the absence of electrical storms. No record has ever been made of lightning or thunder in this part of the globe. It has been suggested that a heavy snowfall would destroy the bal- loon, apd this would certainly be a misfor- tune; but from records made in July at Spitz- bergen this danger is not to be feared. The total cost of the expedition will be about $40,000, and this amount has already been subseribed. King Oscar of Sweden takes & great interest in the proposed balloon jour- ney, and will no doubt materially aid Mr. Andree. o Baron Nordenskjold, the famous polat trav- eler and discoverer of the Northwest Passage, has strongly recommended the expedition to the Royal Academy, and has stated the only practical way of reaching the North Pole is by means of a balloon. From his large experi- ence of polar and arctic meteorological condi- tions, he is satisfied that Andree’s plan will be successful. As the distance from Spitz- bergen to the North Pole is only about seven hundred miles, with a south wind the expedi- tion should in a few hours see more of the polar regions than would be discovered in several centuries by the old methods of ex- ploration. Dr. Nils Ekholm, probably the best informed meteorologist in Europe &nd one of the mem- bers of the Swedish Spitzbergen expedition in 1882-83, says that the wind currents are favorable during the summer months for a balloon voyage. The oniy danger he fearsiis that on reaching the North Pole, or the center of the polar regions, a perfect calm may be found to prevail; but experience has proved that such a center is usually surrounded by wind currents blowing outward. Mr. Andree has a European reputation as a scientific serfal traveler. He isnot anenthu- siast, but a practical cool-headed man of science, who has made many experimental tests besides many balloon journeys. Inhis balloon Svea last November he traveled from Gothenburg, on the west coast of Sweden, to the Island of Gotland, in the Baltic, a distance of over 245 English miles, covering the dis- tance in five yours, The Y. M. C. A.’s Offer. A very large number of young men have taken advantage of the numerous opportuni- ties for seli-improvement and physical culture at the Young Men's Christian Association since the opening of their new building, and in order to make it still easier for young men to join, the board of directors at their meeting held March 19 unanimously decided to divide the membership fee, allowing young men who join between now and the 1st ot ay to pay $5 down and the other $5 in four montns, thus placing the benefits of the institutfon within the reach of eve oung man who desires to take advantage of the same. There are man: young men working on small salary who fin t so1aewhat dlmcufi to pay the $10, which is Aseociation o this Feahs ot of the lergest one most suceessful in uuyuonntrt- ranch in Solano County and who was &t the Grand yesterday. “While I was East last fall I gathered some statistics which bavea bear- ing on the matter. The last obtainable re- ports of mortgages in force in the State of Kan- sas show the number to be over 298,000, repre- senting the vast sum of $243,146,000 and covering over 26,500,000 acres, showing a per capita debt of $170, or $850 to each family. As the population of the State only includes 286,000 families this represents more than one mortgage to every family in the State; but of course this number of mortgages covers all classes of property and does not relate to homes alone. in Iowa the total number of mortgages was over 252,000, or more than one to each family in the State, and fn Illinofs the ratio is not quite one mortgage to every two families.” ““While {n Los Angeles the otherday I learned that Captain Jack Williams, the man whois credited with having saved 120 lives during his nautical career, was lying sick ina cheap lodging-house—hopelessly crippled by rheuma- tism,” said A. A. Spring, an Eastern traveling man, at the Baldwin yesterday. “Itis a lament- able phase of civilization that noble deeds are allowed to pass from the memory of man un- less circumstances occur which are calculated to bring them to mind. The irony of fate is strongly illustrated in the case of Williams, With an unequaled record as a life-saver he is now shorn of his strength, prostrate on a bed of sickness and dependent upon the charity of strangers for the necessities of life. Here isa man whom the Government and hundreds of societies have honored with medals and testi- monials, yet of all the persons whose lives lie has saved not one has, as yet, done a thing to alleviate his sufferings or better his condi- tion.” 8. T. Moore, & gentleman ‘who is interested in the development of oil properties in Los An- geles, is at the Occidental. He says there has developed a strong sentiment among the prop- erty-holders against allowing more wells to be sunk in certain localities which are believed to be good ones by prospectors, and that this feeling is liable to greatly restrict the develop- ment of new fields. “The trouble is that the oil district lies right in the residence portion of the eity,” said he, “and property-holders very naturally object to having thei surrounded by the unsightly derricks.” PERSONAL. General M. W. Muller of Fzesno is at the Bald- win. Henry C. White of Stockton is staying at the Lick. A.J. Harrell, a Visalia merchant, is at the Occidental. Ed R. Thompson, a noted horseman of Stock- ton, is at the Palace. M. C. Helwig has returned from Chicago and is staying at the Baldwin. Ex-Congressman J. A. Louttit of Stockton is aguest at the Lick House. J.JC. McEvoy and wife of Beloit, Wis., are registered at the Baldwin Hotel. Fred A. Baker, a leader of the Detroit, Mich., bar, is a guest at the Occidental. Colonel George B. Sperry and Mrs. Sperry of Stockton are at the California Hotel. J.. Walker, a well-known horseman, of Coy- ington, Ky., is staying at the Baldwin. Rudolph Blankenburg, a wealthy Philadel- phia manufacturer, is staying at the Palace. Seneca G. Ketchum, late of the Berkeley Daily Herald, has gone to Kingman, Ariz., to engage in newspaper work. W. F. Debert, who is interested in the Zeila mine in Amador County, is in town and makes his headquarters at the Lick. Frederick Woodworth of Santa Barbara is here in the interest of the Flower Festival, and will return home Wednesday after having ac- complished much for the coming pageant. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Hobson (at club reception)—Say, who is that man over there? He's been standing around with his'hands in his pockets all the evening, and not a soul has noticed him. . Dobson—I guess he must be a guest of the club.—Pucek. O'Kelf—Don’t you think the income tax is an outrage? McEIl—Not much; it will give me a good, square chanee to have a good laugh at the ex- pense of the janitor of our flat.—Brooklyn Eagle. Witticusse—What do you think of these “Lines to a Gas Company ?" Pitticusse—The meter is false. Witticusse—That’s done intentionally to make it realistic.—Life. Husband—My dear, I want to ask you one fayor befora you go off on that long visit. ‘Wife—A thousand, my love. What is it? “Don’t try to put the house in order before you leave.” “Itisn’t hard work.” “Perhaps not; but think of the expense of telegraphing to you every time I want to find anything.”—New York Weekly. WHY NOT TAP THE RICH SOUTH COAST? A NEW RAILROAD THITHER WOULD TRAVERSE A VERITABLE EL DORADO. HERE'S A SANTA CRUZ IDEA. CariTaL Is INVITED CaLMLY TO ConsiDER Its Osvious ADVANTAGES. Charles M. Shortridge, Esq., Editor Call:— In common with the people of this great rommonwealth of California I have been pleased with the new departure you have made in the makeup of the Morning CarL by giving precedence and prominence to Pacific Coast news in that paper. As a journalist you are showing your apprecia- tion of the fact that California has the capacities of an empire in herself, and that San Francisco ought to be a metropolis, not a mere monopolist, absorbing the profits of the country instead of expanding its resources. ‘We the people are glad to note that you have discovered that Humboldt is within the confines of California (and incidentally within the limits of the CALL’s circulation); that Benicia is yet on the map, and that even “South’’ California does not receive the cold shoulder from the CALL. We observe that you have been able to find sexeral valleys in which a competing railroad might be run—on paper at least— with protit to the investors and advantage o the community, but I am surprised that the CALL has not cast its editorial eyealong the coast of California when looking foran outlet for San Francisco or for opportuni- ties for investment. The newspapers have not spared space in dilating upon the frrofits of competin, railroads, and the halls of legislation. and the chambers of commerce have echoed with eloquence inspired by the tremend- ous advantages of competition. Let me inquire, what is the matter with building a raiiroad along a route free from thisioom pétition!or ciyal lines If parallel roads will pay, and no one doubts that, why would it not pay to con- struct a line through a fertile territory where its entire traffic would be tributary ? These are pertinent questions at this time of railroad revival in California. The region lying northwest from this city, skirting the ocean shore, appears to be a veritable terra incognita to the aver- age Californian. The Southern Pacific line running via Menlo Park to San Jose, southward to Pa- jaro Valley and beyond is called the coast division, and the mountain range dividing the San'Joaquin from the Santa Clara Val- ley is mapped as the coast range, and these geographic misnomers have uncon- sciously caused great misapprehension re- garding the topography and the extent of territory lying along the shore of the Pa- cific Ocean. The fact is, that the Santa Cruz range of mountains hide from the view of the valley traveler a tract from twenty to forty miles in width, which con- tains more resources and more productive possibilities of development than any area of equal extent in the State at this time. A railroad running from’ S8an Francisco to Halfmoon Bay and thence down the shore to Santa Cruz would expose more natural wealth and develop more traffic than the most sanguine promoter of the valley road is calculating upon for any seventy-five miles in length on that route. From the crest of the Santa Cruz Moun- tains to within a few miles of the sea shore extends a virgin forest of timber; covering 150,000 acres, the largest and finest body of timber contiguous to a great city that re- mains on the globe to-day. Only those who have some knowledge of the output of the Aptos and Boulder Creek canyons can have any conception of the vast tonnage this can give to a railrond and of the stimulus to industry it would be to open up this belt of timber which at the present time is as inaccessible as if it lay n Alaska. : Not only is this region rich in redwood, but it contains more tanbark oak than is standing elsewhere in the State. The tan- neries located in this city and in San Ma- teo County have exhausted the tanbark that is accessible by teams, but there are millions of cords entombed in this tract, every pound of which would contribute tonnage to a railway. Another feature of this forest, often over- looked in computing its resources, is the variety of timber it contains. There are nearly seventy species of forest growth found between the Santa Cruz summit and the shore, at elevations reaching from the ocean level to an altitude of 4000 feet. Such variety of timber growth is found no- where else on the Pacific Coast, and it sug- gests an adaptability of soil and climate for other ‘productions “equally varied in re- quirements of culture. This vast timber tonnage which for ten years would run a railroad lies visibly above the ground waiting the saw and the locomotive. But this section does not haye its wealth all displayed on its person, so to speak. Its canyons are ribbed with gran- ite, lmestone and that peculiar California mineral production, which combines the qualities of cement a4nd concrete, called bituminous rock. The limewo in operation for forty years in the vicinity of this place, yield what is conceded to be the best lime on the coast, and furnish now a tonnage of about 3000 carloads per annum. But there are richer treasures in this line to the northward. Limitless deposits of limestone, said by experts to be superior in quality to the present available product, and only requiring facilities for transporta~ tion to make their output available for con- sumption. The bituminous rock business has de- veloped from nothing to a daily output reaching thirty carloads within ten years, is yet in its infancy, and the deposits that would be accessible for shipment over acoast road are as limitless as the salt in the ocean itself. This rock is now hauled by teams from seven to nine miles, over outrageously bad roads, but every pound of it could be loaded on the cars of a coast road by grav- Yy tramways extending to the quarries. The timber, the tan%ark,the lime and the bituminous rock are crude staples, al] awaiting transportation in enormous, in- calculable quantities from this territory, but they do not comprise all the resources tributary to a railroad. * The milk, butter, vegetables and small fruits to supply San Francisco would main- ly be drawn from this region when once communication by rail was established with the metropolis. What the develop- ment of this business would bein a country where four crops a year can be grown and where grass remains green without irriga- tion for nine months in the year cannot be estimated. Within a short time the fa- mous truck farms of New Jersey would be surpassed under such favoring conditions of climate and arapid transit to market without the intervention of a ferry cross- mg. ome years ago the fertile farms and foothillsin the Pajaro section were sending to market small shipments of fruit by the box. In 1894 the a;‘?le crop_alone ex- ceeded 700 carloads and Pajaro Valley now furnishes 3000 carloads of produce annu- ally. From Santa Cruz northward, along this reglon referred to, are several valleys as fertile as the Pajaro and their aggregate acreage would compare with it in extent. Hlnghcnpred as the farmers are with the necessity of hauling their crops by team over the heavy mountain grades, this sec- tion has smgggd 17,000,000 pounds of cab- bage to the mfi).mnrxet and sold nearly as much in San incisco in a single sea- son. Freight ratesat present from Hali- Francisco i moon Bay to San are higher than they are from Liverpool to San Fran. cisco, and that this region has developed at all under these conditions is proof of ity superior soil and climatic conditions f, the culture of vegetable and root product Concerning the tribute of traffic from 1} dairying interests along forty miles of line, I am unable tg offer statistics ofi. hand. At presenta portion of thist done by rail from this (Flnce‘ a portion the ocean steamers, and from San Maten County thereis a regular line of freigl; teams that haul to San Francisco overland, but every pound should be carried railway. These are only hints of some of the i conspicuous possibilities of freight 4 railroad line through a section where lur,. bering, mining, farmmg and fruit-grow are all awaiting trandportation and wh. the only competition possible is the 1 tang and the raging main. The possiii - ties for the development of pleasure tr. are simply limitless. The most att beaches on- the California coast wou within an hour’s ride of San Francisco, a the beauties of mountain, brook and bex for fifty miles of shore line are beyond a adequate portrayal by the pen. Our “fair city by the sea,” with its fir bathing beach and most equable clin in the world, is not unknown to fame, it has by no means reached the limit development. It doubled .its popt and trebled its wealth in the decade from 1883 to 1893, and with a c ad wou be only two hours distant from San Fra cisco, affording suburban attractions u equaied by any locality on the Atlant coast. The project and its suggestive | ties are not new or original. Twer ago it was seriously considered ar in the past actual operations ha commenced. Its consummatior thwarted by influences it is not ne to name, but the fact that the scher 2 considered feasible and inviting the vhen the resources of the section were |. veloped and the cost of constructi cumimr:\bly greater, renders the much more promising and definite when the traffic to offer is_more, th of interest less, and the price of lal material cheaper by half. Even this random, sketchy glance ot some of the obvious businessand be that lie within the scove of an ocean s} line, would be incomplete without refer. ence to the financial aspect of the under- taking. The narrow-gauge road between ti city and San Francisco was one of t costliest stretches of railroad to constr that was ever built in this count was built and equipped at a time labor and material were both dear as pared with present prices. Its actual was over four millions of dollars, or r than fifty thousand dollars a mile, d uting its cost by mileag For tl fifty miles of the line it was in direct petition with the Southern Pacific i its business, and only enjoyed a monoj for thirty miles over the mountain This road after being in operation long enough to demonstrate what it could was sold for $6,000,000 and has since pa per cent interest on bonds to that amount & sum representing an investment $75,000 per mile. The road up the coast to-day can be bui providing the right of way is conceded one-third the capitalization per mile of the narrow-gauge road, and would command without competition 40 per cent more trafi at the outsetthan awaited the narrow g upon its completion. We see it stated that “‘Eastern capital i3 looking this way.” If so its vision ought to be directed to the margin of the Pacific; but_there i h hoarded gold in the vaults of San Francisco thatisnon-produc- ing at the present time to build .’mv{ equip this railroad, and every dollar so expended would be doubled in three years. Let the Carr sound the slogan, and capital will certainly be roused from its slumber. ARTHUR A. TAYLOR. 8axTA CrUZ, March 19, 1895 TOLD IN A TRANCE. One of the Claimants to the Property of Trinity Church Recovers V. - able Papers. le is m pr It A few days ago the CarL made mention of a suit to be brought by the Aneke Jans heirs against the Trinity church corpo: tion, in which over $500,000,000 was in- volved. Mention was also made of Mrs. J. A. Hall, secretary of the International Aneke Jans Union, who was in San Fran- cisco visiting from her labors preparatory to going East, when the suit would be in- stituted. Since the article appeared Mrs. Hall has received perhaps a score of letters from persons claiming to be. heirs who want to know what steps were ne order to become parties to the suit. Many of these claimants will of course be unab to prove relationship, while others may tr ol descantMh Do It roquires an ur broken record of vears to do it. Professor Martin C. Gee, who is one of the heirs, is very happy over the recovery of papers that firmly establishes his clair is a natural descendant of Bogardus through Martins Brower. Nearly forty vears ago these papers and a lot of deeds were stolen from his grand- father, Martins Brower, and all efforts 1o recover them proved futile. About four weeks ago he says he wrote to an a in Ohio, hoping that she might help him in establishing his claim, and then a very strange thing happened. The next day after receiving the letter a little blind girl wasat the house and the story of the stolen papers was told in her presence. Suddenly e TaTat SieTidronuedtio alconiand Whess she awoke had a wonderful story to tell. She said _the papers were not far from Mi wakee, Wis., m a peculiarly built_house, and that the owner of the house had found them years before in a pile of bushes. The story so impressed the aunt’s husband that he finally determined to test its truth. The child says the professor had not missed one single detail; everything was just as she described. The man readily gave up the papersand Professor Gee re- ceived them from his aunt last week. D A Bevy of Birds at a Hotel. T A queer coincidence was the cause of con- siderable merriment in the lobby of the Grand Pacific yesterday. Early in the day D. Sparrow of New York registered and was assigned to his room. Withinan hour T. J. Quail of Groverdale, Mass., spread his name upon the register, and he, too, went to his room. In the afternoon C. A. 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