The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. SU WEEKLY CALL—#$1. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Buresu, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. PRILS, 1895 NDAY Vim and vigor always win. Another week for enterprise. Pledge your business to the Valley road. The southern fiestas will be picnics for the State. Every step of progress is a stride toward improvement. Silurians expect te go to heaven in a bal- loon made of cobbleston All parts of the State are moving for- ward to the music of progress. Enterprise in Santa Barbara blossoms like a rose in a single afternoon. Excursions round the bay would be pop- ular and profitable if well conducted. Huntington is not the King he was, but he will have a court reception when he gets here. Subscribe for stock in the San Joaquin road and get into the company of progres- sive men. Some people think they are cheering themselves when they are growling at their neighbors. A pledge to patronize the Valley road is a pledge of manliness, independence and patriotism. 1f we must have cobblestones for paving let us ram them down hard with the heads of silurians. Lovely woman has one eye on the Easter bonnet and the other on her husband’s pocketbook. Every beam of light that travelsfrom the sun to the soil of California is glowing with molten gold. The discovery of oilin San Bernardino | County will make the wheels of progress turn smoothly. Nobody can override the proposed boule- vard, but it will soon be in shape for every- body to ride over it. The streets of n Francisco will never be clean until the cobblestones have beeen swept out with the rest of the dirt. The ‘‘shadow” which Buckley's credi- tors are throwing over his movements is not as gruesome as that of his history. There has been a great blowup in the local powder trust, because of the discovery of bad faith on the part of some of its mem- bers. With so many projects for public im- provement under way, it is a very unfor- tunate citizen who cannot help at least one of them. Santa Rosa was named in honor of Saint Rose, and not because of her abundant roses, but they are as beautiful as the mem- ory of the saint. Progress in California has tired of tread- ing the dust of monopoly’s wagon, and now proposes to build a railroad and ride in a train of its own. The first spike of the Valley road will be driven into the heart of monopoly, and the hammer used to drive it will be the inde- pendent spirit of the people. The burning of the pavilion in Santa Barbara was a disaster which the live peo- ple down there are turning to advantage by making it advertise their energy in re- building it. The Fresno Ezpositor is advised that the CALL's insistence against a compromise in the Fair will case was clearly in the inter- est of public morals and the security of property in general. The practice in Eastern cities of in- creasing their population by annexing ad- jacent territory has been carried fo the extreme limit in Duluth by a proposition to annex not only all its suburbs in Min- nesota, but t0 reach across the bay and take in a part of Wisconsin. That Americans are not the only in- ventors of new dodges for making money is evidenced by the arrest of a man in Bel- gium for exhibiting a phonograph on the field of Waterloo, and grinding out what he ‘declared to be the voice of Napoleon giving orders during the battle. Some of our interior exchanges express surprise at the CaLL’s innovation of prais- ing its City contemporaries and assisting them in their advocacy of measures for the public good, “when,” as one paper puts it, “the public has been used to see them in the role of journalistic Kilkenny cats.”” In saying that “one county in California isreported to possess gold gravel mines worth somewhere between $100,000,000 and $1,000,000,000,” the 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat does us a slight injustice. There are sev- eral counties in the State of which such re- ports are made, and several more to be heard from. It is sometimes more inconvenient to be an orderly citizen than a person charged with crime, as was illustrated by the fact that the jury which was unable to agree in Judge Morrow’s court on a verdict in the case of the railroad strikers, suffered greater privations and discomforts in the trial than the strikers did themselves, Boston will give the country a new idea in journalism by the establishment of the Standard, which it is said will be “‘a news- paper of opinions and devoted to patriot- ism.” The patriotism, of course, can be found in almost any newspaper, but a journal thatis to pay more attention to opinions than to news will be a novelty that can look for success only ina city where the people care more for their own opinions than for the world’s affairs. The Wheatland Four Corners might gain wisdom from the reflection that by charg- ing the CaLL with being ‘“‘subsidized,” be- cause it desires to see hydraulic mining resumed by some means which shall not prove injurious to the streams and valley farms, it is getting outside the range of gentlemanly discussion and crippling the cause of the anti-debris advocates by ex- hibiting not only a spirit of unfairness, but also an obstinacy that serves as a bar- rier to the progress of the State. THE WILDE CASE. the Spring Valley Water Company. With such leadership and support in the city it It is to be regretted we cannot havea | js probable that this end of the boulevard wall of protection around the United | will be construeted first, notwithstanding States that would not only guard American industry from the competition of the un- derpaid labor of Europe, but American homes from the contamination of Europe’s aristocratic scandals. Certainly theill ef- fects that flow from the competition of the starving workingmen of Manchester are hardly to be accounted worse than the vile abominations that emanate from every new disclosure of the debasing sensuality of the so-called upper classes. The telegraphic dispatches sent to this country in regard to the Oscar Wilde libel suit are among the worst offenses of the time. They reek with vileness and it is only by the most careful editing that even the substance of them can be reproduced in a newspaper that makes any pretenses to decency. That some American jour- nals have been so eager for sensations as to make these telegrams the chief news of the day and emphasize them with con- spicuous headlines is an evidence of their corrupting influence, and if the tone of American society were not healthy, whole- some and moral to the core the evil might have been much greater than it has been. To the American mind nothing conceiv- able can be more abhorrent and disgustiug than the revelations made in this case. Had the foul story been raked up from the slums of London, where the offscourings of humanity are dumped to fester in their own filth, it would have been bad enough, but coming, as it does, from the aristo- cratic quarter of Mayifair, and involving a peer of the realm, a millionaire, and an anthor who for years has posed as the oracle of a literary cult and a fastidious society, the abomination of it passes be- yond the measure of ordinary words, and one can only borrow the language of Par- son Brownlow and declare that if a thou- sand tons of tartar emetic were poured down the throat of hell it could not vomit forth a fouler crowd than this. Few people will care to moralize on a subject of such foulness, and yet the re- flecting mind can hardly fail to discern in it an evidence that a great historic society is rotting to decay. While the British em- pire still stands in outward majesty seem- ingly strong the Wilde case and the Cleve- land-street scandal give evidence of an in- ternal corruption that is destroying the fabric from within. Never since the deca- dence of the Roman empire has manhood sunk so low as in modern London. In that great capital among men and women of rank and station there has been dis- closed a depravity as low as that of China- town, and in that lowest depth, a deeper depth penetrated by Wilde, to which even Chinatown affords no parallel. To rightly picture the debasement of hu- manity in decaying London, Dean Swift would have to be born again to write his story of the Yahoos and write it worse. Perhaps some attempt at picturing it might be useful in England as a warning to the luxurious, the voiuptuous and the sensual, of the depths to which they are swiftly descending. In this country, how- ever, we do not need it. The very sugges- tion of it is abhorrent to every American instinct, and the only sentiment felt here in regard to it is one of indignation that its indecencies should have been telegraphed here at all. SANTA BARBARA'S PLUCK. We envy no Californian who read the dispatches from Santa Barbara yesterday without feelings of sympathy and of ad- miration. The burning of the pavilon prepared for the coming festival pf flowers on the very eve of the opening of the festi- val could not fail to awaken a keen sympa- thy for Santa Barbara in the minds of all who care for the prosperity of the State; while the prompt action of the managers of the festival in raising the money fora new building and beginning its construc- tion within two hours after the destruction of the first, commands the admiration of all who have any appreciation of pluck and enterprise. Such courage and promptness of action in confronting difficulties and overcoming them are illustrations of that type of energy we proudly claim to be distincti of the American. In this case the diffi- culties were many. Time as well as money was involved in the problem. It was not merely that the burning of the building involved a heavy pecuniary loss, but that the work of decoration bad been destroyed and that the time for the beginning of the festival was rapidly approaching. Under the circumstances there would have been no word of condemnation had the people of Santa Barbara contented themselves with spreading a tent for the festival and postponed the construction of a new building to a later date. That is the way most cities, even in America, would have solved the problem. It certainly would have been the easiest escape from the difficulty. Santa Barbara, however, was not seeking an escape but a victory. Her people determined to grapple with the mischance and master it. They resolved instantly not only to erect another pavilion, but to make the new one statelier and more spacious than the old. The telegraph was set at work. Orders for decorative material were issued and the task of the new con- struction was begun before the flames had died out amid the ashesof the burned building Pluck and enterprise of this kind are bound to have their reward. They have given Santa Barbara the best advertise- ment she ever had. known as the home of energy as well as of beauty, and manifested to the world that within her borders the vigor of Chicago is nurtured amid the roses of Elysium. With such a fame as this, all the host of tourists and pleasure-seekers in the State wil! be at- tracted to her festival. Many will wish to see the loveliness of her flowers, and as many more will visit her to see the new pavilion and pay tribute to the swift enter- prise that erected it. OUR APPIAN WAY. It is evident a wonderful change has come over San Francisco. It is but a short time ago when the best plans for munici- pal improvement and development found very little support even in werds, but now any well-considered project not only finds favor, but it is taken up as a matter of practical enterprise by men who are quite capable of carrying it to immediate com- pletion, and they never fail to find popular support in the work. The undertaking of the San Joaquin road is one illustration of this change and the proposed boulevard to Ban Jose is another. They have made her | the fact that the people of San Mateo are eager to do their share and those of Santa Clara are too proud of the repute of their county for good roads to be backward in the undertaking. The value of this road to the property- owners along it can hardly be over- rated. It would soon be the most noted boulevard on the Pacific Coast, if not in the Union. It would be the grand Appian way of California pleasure and fashion, and every spot along it, from Golden Gate Park to San Jose, would afford evidences of the wealth, the culture and the beauty of our prosperous homes. We may reason- ably look forward to an early beginning of the work on this great avenue, and certainly the public should give a hearty and helpful support to the progressive, public-spirited men who have planned it and are prepared to undertake it. THE GAMBLING EVIL. In the April Forum appears a very val- uable contribution by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Newton Smyth, pastor of the First Con- gregational Church of New Haven, Conn., author of a number of notable works of a religious and moral character, president of the New Haven Law and Order League, and leader of the vigorous crusade against the gamblers of that city. His paper is entitled “‘Suppression of the Lottery and Other Gambling,” and it is so pertinent to the condition of affairs in S8an Francisco, and unintentionally is so earnest an ap- peal to the moral forces working for the good of this City, that a review of it will prove timely and instructive. The latter part of the paper, which we shall consider first, is devoted to the ethics of gambling. The arguments are old, but always excellent. They may be sum- marized thus: The foundation of gambling is covetousness. The ethics of betting can- not be determined by aflirming the right of an individual to do what he pleases with his own, for money is a social prod- uct and its use reaches beyond the indi- vidual to the social compact. “Human experience has but one testimony to give concerning the social consequences of transactions in which men seek to gain something for nothing.” *The principles of economic law and ethical obligation are violated in the practice. The writer then makes a direct attack on the evil moral effect of those college sports which encourage betting. Dr. Smyth’s paper starts out with the declaration that *‘frequent agitation in the newspapers and the records of legislation for the past two years show that a vigorous awakening of public sentiment is taking place concerning modern forms of gam- bling.” No sooner had Congress prohi- bited the use of the mails for the transac- tion of the pernicious business of Jotteries than the express and telegraph companies supplied the lack. Thus some of the richest corporations in the country became the agencies for the promulgation of the lottery evil. This became so flagrant and offeusive that in the closing hours of the last Congress the moral sentiment there represented rose superior to the powerful monetary interests which hitherto had been invincible in its ability to corrupt, and a law was passed prohibiting the transmission of gambling matter from State to State by mail, express or other agencies. Turning now from Dr. Smyth’s article to the lottery evil as it exists in San Fran- cisco, we find that while most, if not all, of the churches have abandoned the conduct of lotteries and raffles at church fairs as in- jurious practices, there is no evidence that the churches have arrayed themselves against the great lotteries that are robbing and demoralizing the poorer members of the congregations and the community; that the various commercial and industrial agencies which seek to promote the pros- perity of the people are not opposing a warning and a guard against this enticing form of theft; that while there are the strictest State and municipal laws against lotteries, and against the sale, offer of sale, purchase and even possession of lottery tickets. the business is conducted openly in the City and under the very eyes of the | authorities; that while newspapers are prohibited from publishing advertisements of lotteries, some of them take advantage of a loosely drawn law to publish the ad- vertisement after the drawing has occurred, which is not expressly prohibited, though manifestly violative of the spirit of the law, and which, being the list of winning numbers, is the only advertisement that the lottery companies care to have pub- lished. Such is the condition of affairs in San Francisco, and such the neglect of the great moral and industrial forces for the welfare of the peovnle. We prefer to be- lieve that much of this is pure heedless- ness, especially on the part of the news- papers; and we trust that a manly and patriotic regard for the responsibilities resting upon them will soon direct their energies into worthier ways. THE BUREAU OF HIGHWAYS, The appointment by Governor Budd of Marsden Manson of this city, R. C. Irvine of Sacramento and J. L. Maude of River- side as members of the Bureauof High- ways, provided for by the last Legislature, may be regarded as the beginning of an experiment likely to prove of great benefit to the State; and the course to be adopted by the bureau therefore will be watched with more than ordinary interest. As a general rule commission$ and bu- reaus have not worked well in California, and there has been a good deal of dissatis- faction with the management of most of them. The present bureaun, however, was created in response to a widespread popu- lar demand after full consideration of the subject, and begins its career with more than ordinary public favor. It will depend largely upon the newly appointed mem- bers whether the bureau retains this favor or loses it; and certainly if they make earnest efforts to retain it, they can do so, for the work of road improvement is a most urgent one at this time, and every helpful influence will be felt and valued. It is reported that in connection with the bureau, the Governor and the State Prison Directors intend to establish a rock-crush- ing plantat one or both of the State pris- ons for the purpose of providing road ma- terial to such counties as can be reached without too great a cost of transportation. This is in accordance with the plan ap- proved by the Good Roads Convention last The latter, however, in some respects, is | winter and promises good results. Infact, even more significant of the change than the former, for while the S8an Joaquin road has been in a large measure forced upon the people by the exactions of the South- ern Pacific, the boulevard asan unforced enterprise is an evidence of the progressive spirit pure and simple. The men who have responded most cor- dially to the demand for the great drive- way are exactly those who are best fitted the assistance of the State to some of the poorer counties might be carried even fur- ther than that of furnishing them with cheap rock. In many of the mountain counties the population is too scant and too poor to construct good roads over their rugged mountain sides; and yet if State aid were granted and the roads constructed, a larger and richer population would soon be gathered there to pay taxes and ad- to take action in regard to it and are most | vance the welfare of the State asa whole. likely to carry it out successfully, They are the big property-owners along the proposed route, and include such men as ‘Whatever the new bureau may under- take, however, it is not to be forgotten that its powers are limited and that for any Mayor Sutro, W. M. Fitzhugh, Behrend | marked success in road improvement each Joost, T. U. Sweeney, J. P. McCarthy and | county must rely upon itself. Santa Clara N affords in its well-kept highways a conclu- sive proof that no new road law nor bureau was necessary to good road work where the people were determined to have it, and elected Supervisors competent to carry it out. Seli-help in this, as in all things else, is the best help, and while a loyal support may be given to the undertaking of the bureau, it is the home work that is going tobe of most use in the future asin the past. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. San Francisco is feeling the effect of the com- peting railroad agitation. Several wealthy men who removed to New York several years 2go are back, and others are preparing to come. Agood thing too is that they bring their East- ern capital for investment. The route once lo- cated the San Joaquin Valley will attract some of this capital, and the cry of hard times will soon be a thing of the past. The building of the road will restore confidence, and then money now hidden away in banks will be brought out and put in circulation, to the ben- efit of everybody,—Hanford Democrat. The CALL says that whenever one seesa silu- rian he should shy a cobblestone at him. But you cannot hurt the feelings of the “critter” that way. Itwould be like attacking & duck with & bucket of water. The silurian loves the cobblestone, and surrounded by hoarded wealth and congenal squalor, would lie down to peaceful dreams in a shower ot them.-—Fres- no Republican. We see no reason why the Government should send dead Senators and Congressmen to their homes accompanied by a large delega- tion of former political associates at the ex- pense of the public treasury. There is a false sentiment in it, and there don’t seem to be any statesman brave enough to enter & protest.— Napa Journal. Now the Northern Californian who sneered at the valley railroad and whose Senators and Assemblymen tried to beat the water-front bill, will begin to look to that road as their emanci- pator. They should hasten to organize branch railroads to connect with it for the Eastern outlet it will soon afford them.—Stockton Inde- pendent. A beet sugar factory would enable the owners of the rich swamp lands east of Visalia to real- ize $70 per acre net on their land every year in the cultivation of sugar beets. Much money would be spent in wages for farm laborers and for employes of the factory, all of which would be a great thing for Visalia.—Visalia Times. The fates are kindly to Governor Budd. No chief magistrate of Califorma has such an op- portunity to hand down his name to posterity as he in signing the terminal bill of the valley railroad.—Alameda Telegram. Whel} a disappointed politician is in doubt as to his next step he organizes a new party.— Stockton Record. Out of so many international disputes we should be able to get a fight.—Phanix Gazette. PERSONAL. A. Lee Rogers of Liverpool, England, s at the Lick. Colonel A. E. Cochran of San Diego is a guest of the Grand. Sheriff U. S. Gregory of Amador County fs at the Grand. 8. Pinschower, a merchant of Cloverdale, is at the Grand. Edwin Taylor, who owns a mine at Railroad Flat, is staylng in town. T. D. Valentine, & mining man from Sutter Creek, is a guest at the Baldwin. # G. W. Hunt, a wealthy railroad contractor of Fort Bragg, is registered at the Palace. P. A. Buell, president of the Stockton Com- mercial Association, is at the Grand. George H. Fox, a prominent mining man of Anggls Camp, is registered at the Grand. Judge L. E. Payson, a claims attorney of Washington, D. C., is a guest at the Palace. J. H. Tibbets, a large mine-owner of Jackson, Amador County, is registered at the Baldwin. F. 8. Merchant is at the Russ House. He is the proprietor of a large cannery at Healds- burg. Frank D. Nicol, a prominent attorney of Stockton, came down this morning and is stay- ing at the Lick. A. D. Foote, a well-known mining engineer of the Northern States, is registered at the Grand from Idaho. Chauncey H. Dunn of Sacramento, the attor- ney who ran for Lieutenant-Goverror on the Prohibition ticket at the last election, is a guest at the Grand. William Haneock Clark, a capitalist from De- troit, Mich., and a brother to Mr. Clark, the well-known judge of Eastern racetracks, is stopping at the Baldwin Hotel. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Ex-President Harrison, it is said, is contem- plating the purchase of a bicycle, with a view of becoming & cyclist. His grandson, Baby Mec- Kee, is reported to be &n expert on the wheel. The Dowager Empress of China has sent Queen Victoria a unique present in the shape of a satin scroll, worked in gold and silver in Japanese characters, in acknowledgment of numerous gifts lately received from her Ma- jesty. The father of the venerable ex-president of Oberlin, Jemes H. Fairchild, used to say that hissons had disappointed him. “I educated them for ministers,” he declared, “and three of them sort of petered out and became college presidents.” Senator Lamy of Buffalo learned the wagon- maker’s trade and served three years in a fac- tory asa lad of 16, Then he decided to aim higher and his father placed him in a retail grocery-store. He now owns the largest gro- cery-store in Buffalo. J. Edward Addicks, the persistent candidate for Senator from Delaware, is 53 yearsold, above medium height and well proportioned. His voice is soft and well modulated. He never smoked nor drank and has not been sick since he cut his first tooth. Dr. Samuel F. Smith, author of “America,” is possessed of a beautiful courtesy. Once when present at a meeting of the Roberts College, in Constantinople, he offered prayer for the ‘“vet- erans” who had served the institution. Then, remembering the women teachers, he added a petition for “the seven female instructors, all of comparative youth."” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “The best thing you can do,” said the prison- er's attorney, “will be to plead guilty and throw yourself on the mercy of the court.” “ButIam not guilty,” answered the indig- nant prisoner. “I won't confess to athingI didn’t do.” “Then we’ll get a continuance of the case for six weeks and you'll have to let your beard grow. If we go to trial to-day your mug will turn State's evidence against you.”—Chicago Tribune, Phillistine—I don’t see what right an editor has to call himseli we. Seribe—If you tackle his duties once you would understand it all right.—Detroit Tribune. + Sinee an Atchison womsan returned from the grand opera at Chicago she refuses to eat din- ner with her husband unless he first puts on his dress suit.—Atchison Globe. AScotch elder was asked how the kirk was getting along. He answered: “Aweel, we had 400 members, then we had & diveesion and there were only 200 left; then a disruption, and only ten of us left; then we had a heresy trial, and now only me and Brother Duncan ate left, and I hae great doots o’ Duncan’s or- thodoxy.”—Boston Traveller. The New Woman’s Club of Denver, has passed a resolution that as the new ironclad is spoken of as “she’ it ought to be known as & woman-of-war, not a man-of-war.—Minneapolis Journal, Salvation lass (to young man who has been paying great attention to the speakers)—Are you saved? Young man—No, Pm a reporter. Salvation lass—Oh, I beg your pardon!—New York Press. Goutran burst like a whirlwind in upon his friend Gaston:—*Will you be my witness?” “Going to fight?” ‘“No,to get married.” Gas- ton (after & pause)—* Los Angeles Herald. UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. To the Editor of the San Francsico Call: Seeing in your paper of April 2 a sketch of a new sulky, I send you a rough sketch such as I sent Mr. Bonner a year or so 8go. It mayamuse you or the Hartford man. I called mine a bi- saddle. In Fig. 1 the horse is supposed to have the broad cinch on, through tubes on ‘which (b) the saddle piece runs into the axle part (), which is lower than the horse. \/ PR In Fig. 2 the man sitson the axle, wheels about ten feet high. Tig 2 Fig In Fig. 3 the man sits under the axle, wheels any height you like, Faithfully, A. W. H. PEYTON, 1895 Los Angeles, C MRS. EMMA P. EWING. The Demonstrator of Scientific Cooking ‘Will Lecture To-Day in Golden Gate Hall, Apri Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, who is to be the demonstrator of cooking for the San Fran- cisco society for the introduction of scien- tific cooking in the kitchen, has arrived from New York, and will give a free bread and chafing dish demonstration in Golden Gate Hall at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The society named, of which Mrs. W. B. Harrington—president of the Children’s Hospital—is president and Mrs. Horace Wilson—president of the Channing Aux- iliary—is secretary, has been organized to give instruction in scientific cooking. It has three aims: First, to give young girls who do not desire to work in shops, but are willing to enter domestic service, a sci- entific training in simple and faney cook- ing; second, to provide for those others— wives and daughters, to whom cooking does not mean an occupation—a requisite knowledge to maintain thrift and comfort in their homes; third, to afford those already employed as cooks an oprormnity to improve and perfect their skill in the household art, fitting them for better posi- tions and better wages. The institution, which will be conducted on_the lines of like schools in the E: will be supported by voluntary contribu- tions. A sufficient sum to carry on the societg' is already guaranteed. A staff of skilled instructors will give demonstra- tions and lectures free of charge. 2 The following ladies interested in this philantrophic work will give it their ear- nest approval and support: Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, Mrs. John Middleton, Mrs. Charles Nelson, Dr. Charlotte Blake Brown, Mrs. F. A. Frank, Mrs. Rosalie Kauf- man, Mrs. E. C. Wright, 3iss Susan D. Hamlin, Mrs. G. R. Presson, Mrs. Henry Gibbons, Mrs. William J. Dutton, Mrs. Philip Weaver, Mrs. John M. Burnett, Mrs. John F. Swift, Mrs. John F. Merrill, Mrs. Isidore Haight, Mrs. Walter C. Campbell, Mrs. Frederick MacCrellish, Mrs. A. S. Hallidie, Miss Ella Partridge, Miss Anna Greer, Mrs. Austin Sperry, Mrs. William Hardy, Mrs, C. E. Green, Miss Jean Parker. THE RITE OF CONFIRMATION Forty Candidates Presented to the Right Rev. Bishop Nichols in Trinity Church. Yesterday being Palm Sunday, Trinity Church was handsomely decorated with choice and fragrant flowers. A service appropriate to the day was held in the presence of a very large congregation, and an eloquent sermon was preached by the Right Rev. Bishop Nichols. At the close of the sermon_the Rev, Eduwrd Walk, the rector of the church, presented forty candi- dates who were ready for the solemn and impressive rite of confirmation. During the week service appropriate to Holy Week will be held, and next Sunday there will be a grand Easter service. FOR PARCELS AND LETTERS. How Ladies Save Themselves the Trouble of Carrying Their Purchases Around. “There is quite a traffic in parcels in the stands inside the ferry landings,” said Ser- geant Tom Mahoney yesterday, ‘‘but these places as a depository for letters that peo- ple do not wish sent either to home or office, I do not think amount to much. They may receive a letter now and then to be called for, but it is not a common practice. In fact, there has not been much of that done on_the water front since that old fellow who kept a stationery and fruit store on Davis street, opposite the old ferry landing, and had a sort of lovers’ post- office there, committed suicide. Y “The parcel business is a money-making one, in a small way, and is a great con- venience. A lady living in Sausalito, San Rafael, or any of the towns on the lines of the two north-bound railroads or in Oak- land, comes to this city and goes uptown to do some shopping. She does not care to carry her purchases all around town, so she “tells the storekeeper that she will re- turn home by a certain boat and requests him to send her packages to the parcel de- amement of the stand inside the particular ?e -landing from which she will start. The storekeeper does so, -coompan{:n the 1 with duplicate receipts, th of which are signed by the arcel receiver, One he retains to give to the owner of the parcel and the other he sends back to the storekee‘per. On_ her way to the ferry the lady calls for and receives her parcel, pay- ing from 5 to 10 cents for the accommoda- lon. ——————— . 1In 1294 the Cattegat was covered with ice 't you apologize?’— | seven feet thick. Batteries of artillery i | were moved to and fro on the strait. K000 WORDS FROM ALL What the Coast Papers Think and Say of the New sCall’’ ITS COURSE IS COMMENDED A Broad-Gauge Policy With Up-to- Date Ideas Set the Journal- istic Pace. GOOD FOR THE ¢ CALL.” San Francisco Monitor. The unsophisticated who believe all they read in certain papers about civic reform must be sadly staggered as they hear the newsboys in their wild race: ‘‘All about the lottery. Full account of the latest drawing.'” The law expressly forbids the ublication of lottery drawings, yet twelve gflys in the week the war song of the news- boys has for its burden, **All about the lot- tery. There is money in it—for the news- boy and for the newsmonger—and little money cares for the law. owever, there is a remedy for this outrage. These papers go through the mails and the lottery num- bers go with them. What is the Postmas- ter doing? It is against the law to send them through the postoffice. Whois re- Sponsible? We are: sad: to see: that the ALL has refused to publish these draw- ings. Good for the CaLL. When it begins to dawn on the other sheets that decency pays we may yet be delivered from that wild whoop "of the newsboy: *“All about the lottery.” —_———— ITS FEALTY TO THE STATE. Pacific Irish-American. Selfishness has been the besetting sin of San Franciscans—and a great curse it is, whether it exists in the family, munici- ality or State. It has tainted everything 1t touched, nor has the press been free from it by any means, but the influence of the competing road has exorcised the demon self and the press as a unit is now working for the public weal. A striking instance of this was given in the Carn of last Wednesday, on which date that journal published side by side with its own state- ment regarding the Yeuple'n railroad, on the front paze of the paper, an article from the Examiner relative to the same ultra-important subject. C. M. Short~ ridge of the CALy has by his action proved his fealty to the true interests of the State, although it savors of a_revolution in San Francisco journalism. He has the courage of his convictions and believed that it was his duty to indorse an action for the pub- lic good, even if it was the work of a com- peting newspaper, therefore he published the Examiner article. This is true jour- nalism and shows that Mr. Shortridge is really in earnest in his efforts to develop the interests of California. A WITH BROAD-GAUGE ETHICS. Alameda Argus, The CALL is showing its contemporaries some broad-gauge ethics in journalism. It is disregarding utterly some of the tra- ditions that have alway overned the management of newspapers in San Fran- cisco, and which has brought them to such a pass thatthey are incapacitated to render that assistance to their community that they should. One of these traditions is that one newspaper shall never commend another,‘or work with it in the line of se- curing a public_good. Another is that whenever one of them ‘‘has it in” for a man or a corporation, it must never let any opportunity slip to ridicule, misrepresent and defame them—it must see no possible good in nnythinlg they may do, and must object even to their presence on the earth. The CALL, we are glad to see, acknowledges the good its contemporaries do and disap- proves of men and measures only so far as particular acts seem to ustify. Itis try- ing to do the fair thing by everybody and to recognize a helpful hand whoever ex- tends it. In short, the CALLis not a jour- nalistic snapping-turtle. IT SETS THE PACE. Eureka Standard. The Standard indorses all the good things said of the CALL by the Times, and will add that under its new management it is easily the brightest and cleanest of the great San Francisco dailies. Besides plac- ing its Pacific Coast news on the first page, which makes it the most valuable city ex- change for country papers, it has made war on the corrupt elements of San Fran- cisco, and will be a_potent factor in clean- ing up the city_politically and otherwise. The country visitor to San Francisco will have cause to thank the Cavw for its efforts to clear the streets and byways of San Francisco of the horde of mendicants who have infested the city and preyed upon the charitably inclined. " She CaLL is ‘‘setting the pace” for metropolitan journalism, and if true to its instincts and avowed pur- ses it has a grand future ‘before it. olitically it will ic a power for good in the councils of its part; DESERVES HONORABLE MENTION. Gitroy Gazette. 1t is really refreshing to see a San Fran- cisco daily award credit to an opposition sheet for good work. The CALL deserves honorable mention for its eulogy of the Examiner and for giving to that fiapfl proper credit_for its efforts to push the good work of helping the San Joaquin road. Not oniy does the CALL speak highly of the Examiner’s editorials, but Brother Shortridge, metaphorically speak- ing, warmly embraces Brother Hearst and, tafiing him by the hand, presents him to the public as one to be admired for the voluntary offer to add personally $1000 to each $10,000 subscription to the new road by means of the Examiner subscription bflmks, ‘We hope the era of good feelin has come to stay—the lion and the lami lying peacefully side by side. i e oty A POWER IN THE LAND. Healdsburg Enterprise. ‘We heartily second the movement made by the CALL to promote the building of a railroad to Fureka, and commend that aper for its sagacity and enterprise. The BALL has suddenly become a power in the land. It has emerged from a chrysalis state of a Jocal paper with obstructive, con- tracted ideas, and has become a metropoli- tan journal whose influence extends over the entire coast. There is an earnestness and enthusiasm, an enex;lgy and snap about it that is effective, and if it should take hold of this railroad matter seriously it is likely to bring it to a successfulissue. “We concur.” —_— STOCKTON PEOPLE PLEASED. Stockton. Independent. Stockton people were greatly pleased on reading the San Francisco CALL'S editorial article on the decision of the valley rail- road people to begin work here. Itshowed that the editor of that paper is a Califor- nian, who sees that the whole State is his field and that the interests of the railroad, the San Joaquin Valley and of California are superior to local pride or preference. Such articles are well calculated to dissi- Eate what appeared to be a growing con- ict between San Francisco and the in- terior. Such liberality begets liberality in return. i FOR A NEW SAN FRANCISCO. Hanford Democrat. For years the press of San Francisco has been arrayed one against the other, and if one dared to advocate or advance a meas- ure that would tend to build up the city, or the State, it was a dead certainty that all the other journals of the metropolis would light on ‘that enterprise like a hawk on a chicken., The San Francisco Cary, under its new management, is introducing f journalism there, and the g}::;i:glz:d ]Report are in iis wake. With the three big newspapers ulling to- gether, there is no doubt a new San Kran- cisco—a bustling, rustling, pushing city— is soon to be developed. ————— MARKED WITH JUSTICE. Seaport News. i onaut, with justice, recently com- pl’irn}x):n{efg the CALL on_its new departure in metropolitan journalism, in givin first attention to local and Pacific Coast affairs. On the principle that charity begins at home, the way to advertise the resources of California to the world is to give proper prominence to home industries. = Also people all the world over like td' know what their neighbors are doing, and prefer a six-line notice of anews item in their own town to a column of gossip from Lon- don or Paris. NO FAKING THERE, Eureka News. a1y, under its new management, hn’ls.‘:\eotcbeen satistied with merely improv- ing the appearance of the paper, and in- creasing the news service; it has re- nounced fake premiums, and lottery boom- ings, and refuses to publish the list of drawings that have been a disgraceful and law-evading feature of the San Francisco apers so long. It has thus put itself in Pine with the better impulses, the con- science of the State, and deserves the material as well as the moral support of our people. WON'T PLAY SECOND FIDDLE. Oakland Tribune. The CALL is to have a new, steel-frame fireproof building at the corner of Thir and Market streets. 1t will be a magnifi- cent modern structure and an ornament to that part of the city. Evidently Short- ridge does not mean’ that the CAvL shall play second fiddle to any newspaper in the State in any particular. He is ull of enterprise and grit and is making a great newspaper. —_—- TO BUILD AN UP-TO-DATE HOME. San Francisco Wasp. The progressive management of the CaLn is not satisfied with merely improving their journal so that its old subscribers hardly know it. It is on the cards to build an up-to-date, sky-scraping edifice corner of Market and Third streets, which, when finished. will be the luxurious home of the rejuvenated journal. Mr. Shortridge is to be congratulated on his progress thus far. et SHOWS THE RIGHT SPIRIT. Seima Enterprise. The CALL is showing the right spirit in looking up the interests of the interior and working for the upbuilding of the indus- tries of the State, fully realizing that the interests of all sections are identical, and that urban and suburban prosperity must be coexistent to be permanent. This is a lesson as yet unlearned by many metro- politan journa St SET A JOURNALISTIC EXAMPLE. Sacramento Bee. The CaLL is to be commended for one novelty which it has introduced into jour- nalism in San Francisco, which should have been there lcnfi ago, but the innova- tion was so striking that the general public of the metropolis stqod open-mouthed at the unexpected. The CaLL actually went out of its way to laud a rival. — - INFUSED NEW LIFE. San Franciseo Wood and Iron. Since Charles M. Shortridge purchased the San Francisco ‘CALL there has beena marked improvement in the general char- acter of this favorite San Francisco daily, Mr. Shortridge has infused new life and vigor into its columns end has already placed it in the lead of all the San Fran- cisco dailies. IS TAKING THE LEAD. Hollister Advocate. The San Francisco CarL, under the new management, is taking the lead of San Francisco dailies. It now contains a com- lete record of daily events on the coast. 'he CaLL is delivered all over town by bicyeclist carriers within five minutes of the arrival of the noon train, —_— STRIKES A POPULAR CHORD. Adin Argus. The plan of the San Francisco CaLv in giving mining and local news from each county of the State seems to strike the opular chord. In every issue of the c\'zr,m.v CarL we find items from the Ar- gus and numerous other interior weeklies, s . by COMMENDS THE STAND. ZLos Angeles Resources of California. The San Francisco CALL announces its determination to go out of the ‘‘fake’’ busi- ness, and will henceforth refuse to publish lottery ads. of every description. The stand taken by the CArL on this subject should meet with hearty commendation. £ st 2 SHOULD HAVE A HEALTHY EFFECT, 4 Marysville Appeal. The CaLy, in addition to running births, marriages and_deaths, publishes marriage licenses issued, divorces applied for and divorces granted. That is a new wrinkle in city news. This idea should have a healthy effect. WORTHY OF THE “CALL.” Grass Valley Union. The San Francisco CAvrL is about to build a magnificent new home worthy of that able, progressive newspaper. It will be a new, steel-frame, fireproof building, at the corner of Third and Market streets. S S A GREAT NEWSPAPER. Pasadena News. The CArr, in new hands, has at once taken a stand as a great metropolitan news- paper, and having a clean record behind it and the support of a lm:ge conservative fol- lowing is sure to make itself felt. S AR RANKS WITH IF NOT OUTRANKING, Modesto Herald. The San Francisco CaLr, under its new owner, easily ranks with, if it does not out~ rank, its leading competitors. Its circula- tron is rapidly increasing and on the trains the new CALL outsells its rivals. — - FORGING TO THE FRONT, San Diego News. Under the able management of Charles M. Shortridge the CALL is fast forging to the front as the leading Pacific Coast daily. —_—————— NO SUPERIOR IN THE STATE, Red Buug News. The CALL under its new management has norsuperior in the State as a newspaper, It is stated that the highest price ever paid for a postage-stamp was recently paid by an English dealer in purchasin the one and two pence of the first issue o Mauritius, the price being $3400 each. 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