The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1895, Page 6

CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ | per week. SUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN . FRANOCISCO CALL (Daily and. Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander -building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. WE v APRIL 3, 1885 April starts well: All' enterprises are moving. Don'’t forget the Carr pledge. Home reformers have work waiting for them: Stockton is getting ready to turn the earth over. Signing the Carv's pledge is a declara- tion o(mdependp ce. shudder comes to the No Tripe: I National Guard ¢ There are’a good-many bad splinters on. the Board of Supervisors. p the jobs? at. Stockton will muuopnlv. Of all fakes'that qum* the unwary, the fottery ticket is llm most; nnpmnmble. v.- for: public improve- that catches on every- grows ‘uxuriantly in-some of the cobble- stone-paved stree Whenever you pass California products to buy: Edstern goods, you let a cog slip in the-wheel of prosperity. A -road throngh Santa Clara as well as through 8; will be-necessary to round ouf the enterp: What is needed now is an indignation meeting that will rip ‘up the Board of Su- pervisors like a buzz saw. There is.a rumnect of ‘new brightness on-} the horizon in the. report that ‘Greshant | proposes to get out of public view: There are _some perm‘xe who would even | like to:see our homé climate languish,‘and & new one imported ‘from the East. ‘What do ‘the local capitalists think of thedemand which Eastern ‘capitalists are making for shares'in the valley road? Since the bicycle has. brought about the: divided skirt, there is no reason to be sur- prised in learning it can hold up-a train; 1f Spain doesn’t quit treating Uncle Sam in the way shé hds been doing, he will sar- prise hier some day by taking a Havana. Armed ‘hirelings of streét railway cor- porations fighting for streets -are a fit ac- companimeént : of .cobblestones -and * silur- ians. Before the week is over, the proprietor. of the Ezaminer should have the satisfaction of seeing §10,000° subscribed for him:to put his$1000 on. in ‘the local price of Mexican from 55 to 63 cents eanses- the gold standard-to:be sicklied. ¢'cr.with the pale cast of silver. It has been discovered by a local: scien- tist that the convolutéd -surface: of.a si~ lurian’s -brainstrongly resembl&s a street paved with:cobk The p\\blma.‘cn of the Hofficial drawing?* of a lottery is not contrary: to.law, but: there ‘are & great. many immoral things that the.law-does not prohibit. There are one hundred: “of -the “most prominent businéss-men of: Chicago’ who have confessed that ‘President Cleveland’s National financial policy is merely.sound: Perhaps- a-heavy revenue tax on French labels on all ~goods exposed for salé in this country might -have :a wholesome effect in keepm« them off California wines and:Cal- ifornia fruits: 1t is not'so much the National Giard ens campment as the pretty girls that: Santa Cruz grieves to lose this year; but Ukiah will "embrace ‘the opportunity that Santa :Craz has lost. Bismarck’s: saying’ that in all his eighty years of life hehas had only twenty-four ::-hours of happiness ‘niay be taken asa con- . fession.of ‘regret {hat he didn’t come West "~ ‘when he was youn The- announcement that a' New York surgeon-has discovered a surgical - cure for idiocy ought to be.gratifying news to thtose . S8an Francisco silurians - who may desire a changedn their condition, - A strong California delegation at the Re- publican League:Convention- in: June can -do good work in préparing the way to bring the Republican National Conven- .tion to San Francisco next year. **The ewly inverted German rifle, which - can send a bullet through:seven menata distance of 2000 yards, would endanger the lives of the people living in adjoining States if it were fired in Rhode Island. Having secured the valley road, Stock- ton is determineéd to have more such at- tractions as hersplendid courthouse and her beautiful library, fer she is now taking eteps to make Congress show cause why she should not house her mail in an ade- quate postoffice. ‘While Editor Colnon is in San Francisco doing all he can'.as Harbor Commissioner 1o help the City by beautifying the water front, his:paper, the Stockton Mail, is _breaking our hearts, and making us be- ‘lieve that a tenderfoot is writing heads for his paper, for it is calling us “Frisco.” * After all the racket about the great rail- road strike in Chicago, Chief of Police Brennan of that city casually refers to it in his annual report as- “an unimportant -affair’” and says ‘‘there was no trouble where there was no troops. Inall cases <here the _police were left to themselves ‘peace was preserved.” edo, Texas, has advertised itself as ace where a fight was permitted be- tween Parnell, the lion which killed a man in San Francisco last summer, and a izzly. bear that enjoys no special dis- tion. In refusing to permit this re- volting exhibition, S8an Francisco showed that at least it was civilized. A OOMPLACENT SIN. The most genial of rascals is the Lottery. It is well thus to personify it, for, though to assign it sex would be a risky matter, its characteristics are distinctively human. It has not only a deportment of the most gracious order, but-it enjoys the possession of large business capabilities as well. We all naturally object to being robbed on the highway by a ruffian who threatens to in- crease the number of our heads, and swears in a most ungentlemanly manner ana calls us all manner of wicked names; but the polite rascal who with a fine manner apol- ogizes for the discomfort to which he sub- jects us, and compliments our good taste in the selection of jewelry, and hopes that he shall have the pleasure of meeting us again, and bows. gracefully when he takes his leave, so wins us that anger is impossi- ble and only an amused ¢hagrin abides. This shows the great value of form..-In- deed, according to the popular estimate, form is more potent than substance. - Vic- tor Hugo’s . Man Who Laughs, for:in- stance, had -a” most -noble soul, but the eternal grin which cruel surgery had fixed upon his face was so excruciatingly ridicn- lous that the poor wretch was laughed from the House of Parliament into the dark waters of -the Thames. - Buppose that. the Lottery, instead of being a-cajoling and alluring knave, were'a vulgar, profane and offensive (mef' suppose that instead. of smilingly: holding- before' us an enticing picture of ease and comfort from sudden wealth, and jingling musical coins beneath our roses, he were an uncounth -footpad, smelling of bad whisky and -scaring us to. death with a pistol, why, every sense of right and decency inus would be shocked, and we would unleash the bloodhounds of the Jaw to run the brutal ruffian to earth, And yet we know that the Jow, ill-smelling footpad is not nearly so dangerous a thief as the Lottery; that his'stealings do not amount to a-hundred-thousandth part as much; and that the Lottery’s demoralizing effect is immeasurably greater. But the Lottery is 4 smooth, polite and unctuous rogue, and rascality with such:ac- complishmentsas these - may oftén: thrive, as the Lottery does, in the very teeth of all the legal and moral ‘agencies created: for its’ suppression. Not -onlydoes it walk abroad in the streets of SanFrancisco fear- less, though knowing that the Iaw has set a price ‘on its'head; : not ‘only does:it hob- nob with the police and find pleasant com- panionshipin the society of worthy : men and women who will solemnly declare that they have a large respectfor ‘morality and the law; not -only does it” go freely ‘in | and oat-among the congregations. of ‘the | churches, as pious .as the most' devout; not only dees'it softly chuckle at the idle laws that hold it sloft'asa thing for honest men to hate, as'a-mean thief that steals the i earnings of the poor, 45 a petty swindler {'that openly cheats in its play,as a pro- { moter of thriftlessness and a school forthe ‘: education of gamblers, asa briber of those |appointed -to -enforce ‘the laws, and as a | corrupter of .those who by precept and ex- 'ample are ‘teachers of morality to the | ung and the weak; not only: does it: do I'these things'with exquisite aplomb, but t has demonstrated its possession of those | mircommon: businessqualitiés which enahle | it to conduct great mewspapers. And we have not observed that our leading ‘tesch- ers_of morality, including: the ministers, have refrained from encouraging -the" Lot- tery’s journalistic enterprise by denouncing the papers in which the Lottery proclaims itself: In eompeting with abilities so varied and conspicuous the proprietor of the CaLL ac- Enowledges the magnitude of his task.: If ever it should become neccessary forhim to. prefer one: that is debonair to one: that is that if he should be forced to take either the Lottery ora footpad asa pariner:he would prefer the Lottery. Whether ornot. our ‘able contemporaries. take a “similar view - of the mattér we have -no.way of judging other than from observing that the. Lottery enjoys a large and. swinging’ free- dom in their columns, and - is physically— indeed we might say personally—so con- spicuous ‘therein after every “drawing,” ‘and is manifestly so eager to make its busi- ness_and journalistic association kmown, as -almost to- overshadow the undoubted patriotism and personal worth of the gen- tlenen who “still print-theirown namesat the head of their papers. 3 OENTERED IN THE MAYOR. The ‘pepular sentiment which Qlected M:r. Sutro Mayor was-ah- expression both of thie protest agm.nst, the past.and-of hope and -confidence for the future.- The City had been 5o long ridden By rings, robbed: I'by collnsion and burdened with monepo- | Hies created and fostered. by official power, that a man -of high patriotism -and un~ flinching courage to -occupy the Mayor’s chair was the crying need of the hour. The first conspicuous act. of thi Board of Supervisors” was . to passan‘ord: nance creating.a monopoly- in the supply of bituminous: rock ‘for street pavements.. Board that the scandal of ‘it is resounding from one end of the City to the 8ther. Board steod-out against the job; and al: though the eight opposed to ‘them were. able.to pass the ordinance in spite of the they. will not be able: to make it effective. if the Mayor should veto it, for it requires nine votes to pass an ordinance ‘over the Mayor's-veto, and it will-be impossible. to. secure them. ~The only hope that the situation presents is the exercise of the veto power by the Mayor. . Every good citizen in 8an Francisco who voted for Mr. Sutro hopefully and’ confidently, is watch- ing him anxiously now. Every one: of these believes that he will veto the . ordi~ nance, just as.every good citizen helieved that Governor Budd would ‘approve the bill authorizing a lease of city front land to the San Joaquin Valley road. ' The Gov- ernor did not-disappoint the péople, but the anxiety that - preceded -his aetion was severe, as the pressure brought to bear on him to swerve from the right was great. This‘ same natural anxiety exists now with regard to Mayor Sutro, and the sooner he ends it by doing that for which the peo- ple elected him the sooner will the public mind be placed at ease. —i THE USE OF PISTOLS. James W. Harris, superintendent of the Cuhiflmmstmt Cable and Ra ilroad Com- pany, is charged -by ‘certain workmen of the nro;ectcd Cliff House road with having | interrupted them in their work yesterday | and threatened with a drawn' revolver to |- shoot them if they pemsm! 5 ing it. 1i this charge is proven, there onght to be : for the offender a speedy, sharp and severe punishment. The situation is a grave one. Offenses against the person in California have become so common as to be a serious | menace to society. Not s week pasess without areport of murderous assault com- mitted somewhere within the State, and often they are so frequent that for weeku they are recorded every day. It isbad to have these offenses committed by hood- lums, bandits and scoundrels. What shall we say when they are committed by men holding responsible positions, represent- acquire a thief ‘as a partner he would much | gross and ruffianly, and this means. to say | It has-come so early in the caréer of the |- Happily. four sterling members of -the | ing great corporations and having a full knowledge of the yalue of law? . The use of the pistol has, indeed, become a curse upon the people. It has given| courage to the bully, the criminal and the coward, and rendered life unsafe for the peacenhle the braveand theinnocent. Out- rage after outrage of assault and murder has oceurred - in - this- City ‘and the law seems powerless to prevent them. -Haive. we then no law -at all?’ Are we to return to the customs of mediéval bar- barism where the citizen protected himself as best he could and the rich hired bravos and swashbucklers to terrify. their neigh- bors? Is the pistol. to dominate every- |- thing? Oan. rich -corporations hire men to ‘go about witharms interfering when- ever they see tit and compelling workmen to stop with a pistot at their heads? No language can overrate the seriousness of the offense charged against the superin- tendent of the Carifornma-sureet cable road. He is not a hoodlum. ~He is not ignorant: He knows the law of Californis; ‘and if he offended against- it he must have been moved: by.-a -contempt - for it. “He:must have been persuaded that the -corporation which hires him is so big, so'strong and so irresponsible that its servants need pay no attention to: the laws of California, “but may -at their will stop the work of rival companies on: the street, and drive their workmen away-with drawn revolvers. When: men- of fair- intelligence .and- of high position in the city act in this way, what wonder is' it that the hoodlum and the scoundrel believe - themseives justified in the use of the pistol? - What wonder is it that crimes abound and. murders are frequent? ‘What differencein ‘morals. is there between the ruffian who - robs’ the street-passer with' a “pistol thrust in his face and the. corporation. that. sends it3 bullies to stop the: workmen of. another ‘corporation by thrusting revolvers in their faces? These “offenses must. be' stopped. Even if it should be necessary to summon Judge Lynch, they must-be stopped. The law of California provides ample remedy for dny wrong the Cliff House road may do. to..the California-street ‘road.- ‘To that law. the’ richest corporation as wellas the humblest citizen” must :look - for ‘protection.. San Francisco is niot medieval Venice, and the methods gf the bravo and the ’riully cannot be folerated here. ATTENTION, BEI‘OBM‘_EE 5 There is work at hand for those reformers of -San Francisco who were so eager forit last winter: here and right now forthe Grand-Jury, indighation meetings, for civic federat for committees on political punhcatxon aud for Lexow commissians, The subject forinvestization: the Board of Superyisors, and the occasion is tiie pis: sage, by a-vate of éight to four, of an ordis for There is good -oc¢casion right |* "RANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, would be worthy of no coantjon whit: ver if it were not for the fact that it has been so often urged by the mossbacks and silurians -in the cities of Cnh!omlu. It is difficult to discuss their view of the case with ‘any patience, Their obstruction has | served as a stone wall across tne road of ‘progress in various cities of the State be- sides San Francisco, and the influence whichit has exerted by one means or another has often prevented a popula. vote in favor of ereating a debt. There is. no doubt that a majority of the people of San Francisco would favor the creation of such a debt. g With regard to the possibilities for offi- cial stealing which the debt would create; it'may be said that times have greatly changed since the days of Tweed ‘and Shepard, and. also since the very recent days of Buckley. He wonld be a hardy public: officer who would - dare now ta attempt what formerly was done with im- -punity.. Such rascaliiy has been either so well punished, or the unpunished rascals and their methods have beeome so well known and so easily guarded against, that the danger from. this source is compara- tively small.. For that matter citizens who areafraid to create a debt for -fear that the men whom they have deliberately elected to office will sten]l it can &asily remove that difficulty by lecting honest men.- jor i it Ao ELECTRICAL ~ENERGY, - According to the latest reports, the great electric works at Niagara Falls are not giv- ing the -grand - results which the general public expected of them. Too much forge is lost in transmission for the power to be effective at any such distances as were an- ‘ticipati It ‘appears the Niagara Works ‘cannot transmit power even to. the neigh- -boring-city of Buffalo without so much of & logs'that the cost: of the applied energy is greater than that now obtained in -the ‘same city from steam. APRIL 3, 1895. ARQU“ m conmnons Major Frank McLaughlin Laughlin of Oroville is down here again, and is at the Palace. «“How. are you, gentlemen?” said the mljnr to the crowd of friends who gathered around him’ as he crossed to the grillroom | from the office,- % “What brings you down thjn nm:f" inqnired one of the group., 3 “Fright,” answered Lhe mljor. “Did some ohe get the drop on-you?” “No, not exactly that; but I was afraid some- thing would drop on mie if I'stayed there much’ longer. You “see, some months age when we | were in the midst of operations on the Golden Featber canal, there was a miner who came from the sunny hills of Portugal who got mad because a stick or.two of giant powder went off in his‘hand and he left his: job. I’ don’t know how-far he went, but tp ta the present-time we have seen tiothinig of him. “Well, this gentle: man had a running mate, who goes by the. name.of Frank, who has takén the place of his former companion. . 1 thought the other day that he would join his friend, but-hestill lives. ‘You see, it is necessary to dry out giant powder when: the weather is cold, and‘in order to do this it is"the ‘custom to ‘place. it in what is known ‘as. a thawing-machine, made ‘for that A correspondent of the New ank Tribune |- eskumtes the loss in transmission. of -elec- trical -energy: from. the power-house at Niagara fo the shopsin Buffalo to be-about 50 per cent. - The rate charged for-power by the company is'$18 per- horsepower- for twenty-four hours, at the generator shaft, and consequently the costin Buffalo would be equivalent to about-$36 to the consumer. This would bé.a saving in some _cities, but | | in Buffalo coal is so ‘cheap power. can -be generated by “steam -under favorable con- ditions and inlarge quantities: at $21 per horsepower. - Ynder these circunistances tha tnmmi& sion of electrical power. for machirery may garded 8 still in ‘the experimental | stage..” Niagara may eventually send: ifs energy farand wide over the surrounding ‘country; bt at présent it is eonfined toad- jacent” factories, -whereat * the " fown: of Niagara:rejoices, for factories” are -being ated there instead of in Buffalo. nance which, if not vetoed, will practizaliy:| - give the Sorthern Pacuic a. monopnly of the stréet -paving’ businessin: this Clmg. With the ‘prospective véto, the ‘reformiers have nothing-ta do. - The jobwlllb: e the less vicious if ‘the Mayor and -four: incorruptible. Supervisors should prevent ‘its consummation. The evilis'disciosed in: the very nature. of the job itself, and thzr {act that ‘eight Supervisors: voted for i sufficient fo set in motion all the machinery of reform and animate the Grand Jury;the Civic ‘Pederation® and all-other reformiers with a ‘determingtion w probe’ tie job:to. the bottom and-expose its authors.: - If:we are to have an lionest municipal administration in San’ Francisco, we may. as ‘well- begin right .now. :In this street paving job there dre :pliin ‘eyidence something. very miich! like offieiafeorrnps tioh. Even the most holiafiuf&npermm would hardly vote to dej adv anfages of & competitive market it pre- - curing. bitumineus: ‘rock; unless e were offered some very. private’ and hidden rea- sons for doingse, . The work of: searehing | out-those reasers is much miore importint than that of going thropugh the slums of the |, City to find outif there muy be'a Q‘;nlbkbr or a-courtesan’ there. - Here sible high'places: a specmn of prostity ticed gpenly in the very; govemmenfi it; The . zealons: eformera of last wi tsr g y in-taking up- this{’ ar work. - The - Grand Jury has to show'if it b9 o1 opportinit denounce a: ¢pecifi¢ wros anid to hold upto pubuc condemnition Lig | peno neaessxf.y in: thi éase” for invective |- nd md)gnnf.lon to waste. their enérgies: g '1‘1: e is much momy in'it in sight ‘and 4 great. deal more. in prospéct.: San. Fra 'S M 10, be P ) mynhinatmn tha mseekmg to ng. the what mch & bonanu 1 1 relonners and’ thnreiore plain. In anotjaerpn ‘of thi: piblishes -4 communicat from ] nry P 000 for the purpou “of M: Sonntag mnkeg assuming that. 35,(00 of - Cit; £ should -not -be taken by Iocal capitalists; thus keepmg the “in} which there In twent The m’iur inrthe declares that a}l lng. and anmrprumg ¢itiés -have a 3 debtedness, -incurred " for: ‘the m;&ing improvements which "hav aids to their greatness. she never. expecta to get out: cares nothing l‘bont it. hat Tweed and sheplrd in -the" ¢ity; still, Tweed and New York and ’w-ihi'nmn that they are. - Mr. Bdmflhg uuggufa thab WThese remarks’ are very mgguflve, end PEBSOYA& Dr . L. Paice of mmre 15at the Palace. W.-H! Allardice, U. S, N, is attha Palace. Drury Melone of Oak Knoll is st the Palace. T C; Bail ‘of ‘Woodland was at.the L.k last’ night. D Hi b, Pace of Tularg is ‘& guestat the < Farenholt, U.8 N.,is.e gueit at the Rumésy -of cleullnd, Ohin, ls at the Omlgie'n(ll ‘Jgssé D.. Catr of Stunu is Jmted at tha O adenm G Bustelll, & e Grand. ¢ E:Jacoh, & wemhy resldenz of thh the O wine mexchmt-of leermore. 15 T.E: dhn);wzn ‘nd wife nt Wnsonvil‘tenre g ests at the Lick. & min(ng man al Los Angel' lfl tered: t thes Russ. - 1A, Touttit; an_aitorney of Stockton, iy at [ ‘the Lick with ] his wife. : w‘ew, 8 mflchlnt of. Fumo, ise . 7. Cahill u.eru engineer ! San Mufln,is ; Tegi tered at the Grand. tronsof Hus: | ‘v.wiivule, is n yrm ’ones of San Joae wn n the cu,y yes- érday. &u&nd{fi‘nmtefln[ of- flx- h!mnl of: cifie const litie at -the ‘San M-rg-rlu gap; is | e Palace. ade up.of pnvmlnent cm:em of the: Keymn State meomp-nl 15 on & trip. umuxn ‘Southern -Cali- En U!!S MeCarthy isat; )ulents:oppi Angeles, lnd wil touch upen the two. vital points. in the |- oy, matter—the om;uo"n of a dab: for. terity to pay and the making of an op tunity for oflchi thnvery The nm ppin “Of cottrse not,” mplud mnu;dt mted. ut grab ‘the. mermome MAJOR WIAUGHLIN TALES £BOUT GIANT POWDER: [Shelched from:fe Jor the “OaIL". by-Nankivell:) purpose. - A small fire is built underitand.a thermameter. plaeéd’ in the oven: 'About 80 degrees, ‘and fio. higher, 18.considered the cor: rect lieat to thaw swith; but Frauk dida't:seem to know-how to regulate Ho. knew that 80 degrees whas réquired, and it was his'method of regulation that causéd me tacame dowii to the city “for. 8 ‘few days; W 3 0 blasting ot long ‘ago, Funk to get {the:pgwder: ready. Hewes sokmg nzom over fo-the seat of ‘o fellow . perspiting Jike s voalheave E“ery orice:in a, While ke would peer:info. the aven, #nd sbuu 1 into-a q m Xgue uhe‘.uwl get Kep’ ver? copl in on bucket wetar. Many hees thermom: in: oven.. 1 se¢ “As sobn as théforeman saw Frank trying 1o keeps the thermomeser coal: msma‘ 1 Tie pulied liim away at. that: would make o' teri-second’ sprinter. envions: Lnekily ‘the' ©A Short llmehgo » ‘said Mi: Young, “t jors vade & uwhu«- family, ai £ be pernfl(tfl to. seck ‘sheifer in -poortionse.’” Mr, Majors hay’been'a Visitor in San Francisco: ‘} groat care. ‘I her rights among. CITY BONDS. Henry P. Sonntag in the Fvening Post. Tn the eriticism passed by the Post upon my suggestion that it would be good business for San Francisco to issue bonds to the extent of $5,000,000, using the money so obtained for improving and besutifying the city, there are certain statements made upon which I would like to comment, For one thing, my eritic admits that if the bonds were to be taken by the people of Cali- fornis there might not be so much ground for objection. Why should they. not be taken here? It is & fact that there are now heldin this eity Government bonds—four per cents—to the ex- tent of upward of $10.000.000. Is ‘it contended thiat resident capitalists would not take their own city’s securities for_$5,000,000—that city, too, with $400,000,000 taxable property? I say that the bonds wouid be readily disposed of -here in San Francisco; and st © per cent pre-. mium at that. “There would be no need of go- ing “to Paris- or ‘even to New -York for the money. . Place the interest as 10w &s 3 per cent and our own people’ would take the bonds. at par. 1 do not'believe, to repeat my original propo- sition, that the present generation should bear all the burden of a taxation designed to. pro- vide for improvements by which_ their succes- sors and heirs are to benefit as well as them- selves.- Especially am T opposed to the idea in view of the fact that thé making snch improve- nients will o ‘result thiit at. the end ofsay twenty years, instead of $400,000,000 of - taxa- ble. property, those. who shall havetaken our places will find themselves with double that ‘| amount from which to raise their share -of the indebtedness, . With the great increase ‘in the valte of property resulting in the investment ‘of §5,000,000 the paying off of thatsum will seem a very trifling matter. All large ‘and .énterprising -cities have in- debtedness, and heavy indebtedness, too.: Take the case of London, the center of the money markets of the world. She never expects to get-out of debt, for that matter, and the people buy her bonds simply that they may obtain in- terest regularly on'a safe and permanentin- vestment,. I donot. mean to Aargue, of cours?, that the mere fact that a prosperous city is in debt is'nécessarily the ¢ause of that prosperity. 1 only mean tostate. that the- experierice of the greatest, most enterprising and magnificent cities of the world has proved. that'it pays. to borrow money when “such' money is to be ex- pendéd.in creating necessary improveéments. Now, 85 {0 the fear that much of the money raised on.the bonds might be stolen, I would like to-ask if San Francisco is to. be allowed'to remain in her present condition simply because her ¢itizens haven’t confidence in their own people? I, for ome, believe that a board of public works, composed of men at once capable anad hionest, could be readily organized to con- [ o * Two or three slpecies of birds are known trol and direct the disbursement of the money expended. ‘But, referring again ‘to the fear of passible jobbery, 1t may' be noted that. New York lost heavily'indeed by BossTweed, but, néverthe- less,. that same individual brought: about a. world of puble improvements. in the Eastern metropolis. - Say. that he planned. those im~ provemerits in.order: to:furnish opportunities for thievery.: The fact Temains:thathiis prison- cell 'is. shown to visifors to-day with® speeches something 1ike this: ““This is the cell of Tweed, | the miart who made New York.” Vashington City, too, they acknowledge owing ‘the. same’ sort-of -debt to Shepard,. for wliom no.one thiere had a good. word ‘& while. b;ch T am notappraving of public jobbery, of -f coursei; T-am -merely painting: out how the | Yesults of such & policy as T.would seeinaugur- ated here ‘have been so great in other cities as to omplétely overshadow and dwarf even the | most gigantic schemes'of corruption. Trealize'the fact that the Post kas nothing of the: silurian about: it; but earnestly desires o see‘the “eity ‘go forward.. 1" admit, 'too, that there'seem’ 10 he some -good points in the sug- géstion for the raising of $1,000,000'g year by Qtrect taxation for: public improvements, but T ¢ontenid that the bond proposition is the better one. At the same time.l might suggest that {Here is no need of raisifig the-entire$5,000,000 all'at once. . It might be redlized as needed; say | at the rite-af $1,000,000 & year. Of course, the members of the Board of Pub- lic Works, with - whom would rest the expendi- | tire: of - the-meney,- should be- selected with eif. appointment might be left o -the:. Governor- and’ Mayor -jointly, or such other’ grrangements " could ‘'bé. made. as'might Beem advisable. . But “this i8: & question of defail, ihe solution-af which, hawever, need presenl o difficulties: SPIRIT OF THE FRESS. * The idea of building a “boulevard between 841 J65¢ and San Francisce is a grand ofie, 4nd should receive the :uiténtion that itsimport- ance merits. . .Once started nothing could keep 11t from continuing ol to- @iltoy .and thence to. Hollister. : Good rasds are as conducive 10 pros- petityds railroads, and -thie saoner we quit the. petty ‘tinkering- we' now'call' roadwork, and’ ‘|'eommience to-constriet them in a:lasting and. durable manser; $iist so-soon will our county { lenp 10 & commmdmg position - among the 3 peraus: and- enlightened" communities of P “| this State. The CaLy deserves great - credit for adyancing fhe betlevard idea,and: we trust wiil nétlet 1ip on the schieme until it isan ac- <complished fact. -—Ho.lllnm' Free Lance. & Governot Has ‘stgned the bill relating to the adulteration of ‘food. “In. a short time a quietindividual will go.around-buying up tes, coffge; sugar, drugs. and. various articles, and, aftér the analysis 1§ made, there will be fines nd wails of -anguish. - If lhem s any article ‘in the marketthat i3 metadultérated the pub- nc uld like to know.what itis.—Fasadena -~ Thé average Amerigan is becoming skeptical ahout'the United States being able to maintain @ nations of the earth when she allows such “one-horse” governments as Spgin and Guatémala toinsnlt her. UncIe Sam. | needs & Jackson now‘—Fomms ‘Advance. Even in. the matter. ter ot a State flower, the g oldbugs - are ‘on - top, the golden poppy heing the emblem. that our bear must dis- pla; otanieally ‘speaking; it is the !Eschs- chouz.ia, ‘but poppy Will go with most of the t | folks, —Gilroy Gazette, hfirepoflw that Governor Budd will veto |- sn.rfed, prnved to xtended fromt ‘the goyote scalp bill and :so save the State the | | trifle of $275,000. . Tt.is -fo be hoped that this| J'williprove true, The. bulk-of the scalp clmhna ] dre dishonest -and ‘should ot be paid,—) (Nsmtvflmmldlhd'lkh_ Ca\mty ‘Californian, Governor ‘Budd -has never been notah.u naturalist, but he is now reported -to. have one | of the- ha!cenoollecuun f-bugs in the West. | They arein bills ‘that haveé ‘been killed by the | Governor -refusing ta sigit. " them,—Stockton i fl.nx tates Kentucky | Prosideissy Ter. présents favorite for HE CAME HERE T0 REST. «Bjll” Nye’s Lawyer Brother ‘Enjoying Life in This City. Won Fame Through His Connection With the Ging Murder Case. «There is no probability that Harry Hay- ward will be granted a new trial,” said Prosecitting - Attorney. Frank M. Nye of Minneapolis at the Grand last night. Mr. Nye, who is a brother of the famous hu- morist of that name and resembles him somewhat in his droll manner of conver- sation, is here with his wife for rest and pleasure.- - He became wiaely known to the public through his connection . with: the Gmg murder case, and his successin secur- ing a conviction of the murderer hasadded to- his reputation as a prosecutor.. In speaking of this famous case Mr. Nye said: A bill of exception is_being grepnred by the defense and will be presenied at the spring term of the Supreme Court. Should it not be taken up at that time it will go over to October and will have no bearing on the case, as Hay- ward must hang within three months from the time of sentence. / Yes, Hayward is a wonderful character; wo; derful in crime. He is cool, brazen and 'indif- ferent, without feeling and without soul.- He has absolutely no-idea of moral obligation and the awfulness of his offense made no impres- gion on him whatever. There was. not one man in a thousand in Minneapolis who did not approve of the verdiet. ‘The jury took . only one ballot. It bml;ht have decided without having left the box. Ban‘gy had tried to get his brother, Adry, assist him in disposing of Miss Ging, an ao ersistent was he in hisefforts that the lylr.vunger Brother told Elder Stewart, an old and honored resident of Minneapolis of Herry’s intention. Mr. Stewart could not think such & thing pos- sible and told Adry to have no fears.. Notiong afterward the crime was committed, and. Mr. Stewart wrote us of Adry’s interview with hi That was our first clew, and the arrest of Adry, Harry and Blixt iollowerL The world knows the rest. In view of Blixt’s confesslun on the witness- stand there is nothing left for Hayward to do but to confess his guilt. 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