The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrler, 150 The Eastern office of the N FRANCISCO CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Burean, Rhinelander building, Rose and _APRIL 16, 1895 The fiestas have the State. Los Angeles and Santa Barbara; we are with you. Queens of Beauty are more common than beautiful queens. The man weighs evidence, but the fool jumps at conclusions. Home patronage of home industry is the way to make home prosperdus. Fiestas and tragedies are after all a very common mixture in this world. Very few men can speak of flowers with- out indulging in flowers of speech. In order to be sound in every respect, money should have two legs to stand on. No man gets aboard for progress who doesn’t plank up something for enterprise. Now thatit issaid sealskins are aboat to become cheap nobody will want them. The gold men may get Grover to talk for them, but the people are working for silver. The man who knows it all on the street generally knows very little on the witness- stand. It seems to be concluded the next Presi- dential campaign will be mainly a mone- tary consideration. In a country so rich as the United States, bad conditio: ardly ever occur except as a result of bad theorie Bear in mind that the more you patron- ize your neighbor’s products the more he will be able to patronize yours. If China is required to pay the Japanese indemnity in gold she will have to make up her mind to long money bondage. Every man will agree with Grover’s plea for *‘sound money,” provided he is allowed to define what is meant by the phrase. Mrs. Grundy may have something more of areason than conventional propriety in warning girls to be careful of their escorts. The Civic Federation has lots of work before it and if it pursues right methods with any energy, it can achieve great re- sults. British free-traders who wish to stand in our shoes will have a chance now, for sev- eral large consignments have been sent over there. Cleveland’s ability to dodge an issue is cleverly exhibited by the fact that his let- ter on the money question doesn’t mention either gold or silver. Those who have neglected to note the temporary silence of Corbett and Fitz- simmons have overlooked one of the finest charms of the season. In every case of an exciting tragedy there are always many people who would rather suspend the first man they come to than to suspend their own judgment. If you wish to have any influence in directing the progress of California you must unite with progressive men. No man can steer 2 boat unless he is in the boat. The San Jose rose fair will be sufficient this year, but if she proposes to keep up with the procession she will have to get up a fiesta next year and invite the State to come in. That the spirit of confidence and im- provement is pervading all classes of Cali- fornians is evident from the fact that our artists are now sangunine of beating Boston at the spring exhibition. In saying that the people of this country have been “ingeniously pressed with spuri- ous suggestions” concerning the financial problem, Mr. Cleveland gave us a good phrase to describe his own letter. So long as San Francisco has to import eggs from the East, the interior is not doing justice to the metropolis. Any county that proposes to teach us how to suck eggs should furnish us with the material. The tragedy amid the lilies of Easter Bunday is a fearful confirmation of the saying of the Peri in “Lalla Rookh,” “Some flowers of Eden you still inherit, but the trail of the serpent is over them all.” Californians who cannot attend the fiestas to see the beauty of the flowers and the splendor of the pageants, can at least catch | something of the enthusiasm of the pros- perity of the Btate and find a pleasure in that. No theory of the Emmanuel Church trage- dies is worth anything unless it is in har- mony with all the known facts. A mere predominance of evidence counts for noth- ing so long as there is anything zertain in opposition to it. There is no conflict in the truth. In the destruction of the Hotel Ray- mond California loses one of its most noted edifices. The Raymond is known to every tourist, and its fame has been largely instrumental in bringing tourists here. It is to be hoped it will soon be rebuilt, and that the speed madein the rebuilding of the Del Monte will be eclipsed by the achievement. Oneofthe few generous acts of Jay Gould ‘was his instructions to the Mayor of Mem- phis during a yellow fever epidemic to draw on him for any amount of money that might be needed to defray the cost of caring for the sick. In grateful recogni- tionof this act, the Chickasaw Guards of Memphis have elected Miss Helen Gould as sponsor for the company at the coming spring drill, and the compliment to the family is considered to be fully equal to electing George Gould Colonel. The generous gift of $10,000 to the Uni- versity of the Pacific by Mr. Hamlin must not be overlooked among the more sensa- tional features of the news of yesterday. Buch gifts are of the highest value to the State and serve to make it even more pros- perous in the future than itis to-day. The TUniversity of the Pacific has a noble record of usefulness and in giving this endow- ment, Mr, Hamlin has shown a true ap- preciation of the field for greater useful- ness that lies before it. OLEVELAND'S LETTER. Cleveland’s letter to the Chicago com- mittee which had invited him to deliveran address on “‘Sound Currency” at a banquet in that city, is one that may in all fairness be termed a letter of platitudes. Indeed it would be difficult to find another term that would characterize it with any ac- curacy. Itisa plea for sound money with- out any definition of what is meant by the phrase, and might be adopted verbatim by any class of people in this country from Coxeyites to goldbugs. It is generally understood that when Cleveland uses the phrase ‘“sound money’’ he means the gold standard. His political record justifies this understanding, but there is nothing in his letter which con- firms it. He writes at considerable length, but mentions neither the word gold nor the word silver. One searches in vain for a single clearly defined idea concerning the financial problems that confront us, and the only suggestion he offers which in the least signifies his stand in the matter, isa sentence in which he says: ‘Disguise it as we may, the line of battle is drawn be- tween the forces of safe currency and those of silver monometallism.” There is no strong party in this country that advocates silver monometallism. There is a strong and vigorous party in favorof bimetallism against monometallism of any kind whether of gold or silver, and this party rightly claims to be the cham- pion of sound money. It appears that Cleveland has not dared to confront this party in a fair field and has endeavored to prejudice the people against it by denounc- ing it as the advocate of silver monometal- lism. If this was his object he has written his letter in vain. The financial question has been too thoroughly discussed by the people for them to be ignorant of the real issue at stake. They are aware that the sole question to decide is simply whether our monetary system shall be based upon both silver and gold as provided by the constitution, or whether one of them shall be excluded and the other used as the sole legal tender for all the business of the | country. | Whether this letter is to be considered | an attempt to evade the issue before the | people, or whether it is only another evi- | of Eastern manufactured goods. The prices are equally low, and yet, notwithetanding this all around equality, many of our prominent merchants refuse to handle our home-made goods, and persist in running the Eastern ar- ticle to the detriment of home labor and trade. If this statement is accurate our mer- chants are making a big mistake. It may be they are not wholly to blame, for the merchant must, of course, supply the cus- tomer with what the customer demands. Still the merchant and the manufacturer combined can do much to create a demand for home goods by directing the attention of customers to California products. If the new spirit of California patriotism be rightly appealed to, it will be easy to make a home market for home industries. The people are ready to buy home goods as soon as they know where they are, and the Manufacturers’ Association should receive from the merchants a cordial assistance in making them known. THE HOTEL RAYMOND. The burning of the Hotel Raymond is not only a disaster to Pasadena but a loss to the State. By the vigorous advertising and skillful management of its proprietors it had been made one of the most noted attractions of California and wasone of the chief inducements to tourists to spend their winters on this coast. Great hotels have become one of the dis- tinctive features of modern life. They are among the most noted factors of the civ- ilization of our time. Their influence is felt in society, in business and in politics. They rank with the grandest scenery in the world in attracting people of wealth and fashion, and conduce as much to the upbuilding of a community as any other artificial factor which the genius of man has devised. The big hotel, if well kept, invariably draws big crowds and provides them with so much of enjoyment that not infrequently the visitors decide to settle in the neighborhood and spend their lives there. The history of California during the last | decade would have been very different if it had not heen for the influence of the Del Monte, the Coronado, the Raymond and other hotels of a like nature. These great hostelries made the State famous as a winter resort. Many people who might dence of Cleveland’s incapacity to state in simple language exactly what he means, is | doubtful. It iscertain, however, the letter | will have little or no influence upon public | opinion. We are all in favor of sound | money, though there are differences of | opinion as to what constitutes it. The sil- ver men have nothing to fear from such a | letter and the gold men have certainly | nothing in it to rejoice over. The situation and the argument remain exactly where they were, with the sole exception that | those who thought Cleveland had enough | courage to express himself clearly on the | question, will have to modify their opin- | jon. The great oracle of the Mugwumps | has spoken, but in his words there is| neither any enlightenment for the people | nor any comfort for his votaries. | WEIGH THE EVIDENCE. The tragedies of Emmanuel Baptist| Church and the excitement in the public mind growing out of them, afford to the more intelligent people of San Francisco an opportunity to exercise their intellects in the philosophical task of weighing evidence. | The task is not an easy one. The ability | to weigh evidence with fairness and accu- | racy is rarely found. The mind of man is | impatient of uncertainty and prone to leap | at conclusions. Few people like to sus- pend judgment until they know the trath, | and in cases of this kind, where the mind | is excited, the tendency to cut the Gorg knot of a complex problem is hard to resist. | Death is never more affecting to the human mind than when associated with a | young and beautiful woman, and when, as | in this instance, it occurs under circum- | stancesof peculiar mystery and atrocity, the emotions of the average man are inflamed | to & point that is beyond the reach of rea- | son. The popular demand for vengeance becomes extreme. The first man who is suspected is denounced as if his guilt were self-evident. Everything against him is magnified. All evidence favorable to him isignored. Revenge usurps the place of | justice, passion prevails over truth, and whenever an opportunity offers the cry of the mob goes up for Iynch law. Against this tendency of human emotion, human reason must protest. Evidence is a matter of certainties, and not of proba- bilities; moreover, it is composed of all the known facts, and not merely of those that happen to fit a particular theory, no matter how much those that accord with that theory may preponderate over those that oppose it. The rational mind, in fact, will take no note of preponderating evi- dence, but will seek that certainty which brings all the facts into harmony. Every truth agrees with every other truth. So long as there is conilict, there is an error somewhere, and it is the business ot the intellect to detect that error instead of ignoring it and proceeding to a conclusion as if it were not there. The awful tragedies that have aroused public excitement and evoked the deep de- mand for vengeance, render it imperative for men of calmer judgment to be specially careful in pronouncing condemnation upon any one accused of the crime. The very eagerness of the public to punish the crim- inal renders it the more easy to turn popu- lar sentiment fiercely against any one at whom suspicion points, and the greater is the danger therefore that the real criminal | may escape while attention is directed wholly to another. MAKE A HOME MARKET. ‘While Bouthern California is indulging a joyous spirit of frolic and revelry amid the million flowers of spring and finding in the festival a fit occasion to celebrate the newly awakened patriotism of Cali- fornians for their State, the Manufac- turers’ and Producers’ Association of this city is engaged in appealing to that same patriotism in a more direct and business- like way. An increased force of solicitors for membership among local manufac- turers has been set to work, and there is good reason for believing the results at the end of the week will be encouraging to future efforts. The task of building up our home indus- tries is indeed one of the most patriotic that can engage the energies of a citizen. It is one, however, in which co-operation is largely necessary to success. Manufac- turers and merchants should combine and work harmoniously together for the ac- complishment of this object, which, after all; means more than the interests of both. The greater the success of local factories, the greater will be the number of men employed; and all who are so em- ployed will be customers for local mer- chants. In this way the benefit will be mutual, and the producer, the middleman and the consumer will all reap a profit from it. A prominent member of the association was quoted yesterday as saying: The trouble with San Francisco and with California in general, perhaps, has been that our merchants and manufacturers have pulled against each other instead of pulling all to- gether. Iknow of manufacturers in this clty who make certain lines of goods fully equal, if not in some cases superior, to similar lines have come across the continent to see Yo- semite once come to visit these superb re- sorts every season. California cannot afford to lose any of these tourist homes. In- deed, we need more of them than we now have, and there will be a general feeling of gratification if the work of rebuilding the Raymond should be pushed forward even more rapidly than the swift process of erecting the Del Monte a few years ago. We have received a pamphlet entitled A message on the fundamental principles of free trade, protection and the constitu- tion of the United States.” The author declares himself an absolute free-trader, denounces protection as unjust and uncon- stitutional and signs himself “A. Sucker.” Nuff sed. THE VALLEY RAILROAD. A practical and very good way of aiding the new railroad enterprise has been devised by the San Francisco CALL, which proposes to circulate among the farmers of the San Joa- quin Valley an agreement to be signed by all who are willing to promise to ship freight by the new company so long as its rates are as low as those of other companies or lower. Few who desire & new railroad built will refuse to sign such a contract, and most of them will stand by it after doing it.—Oakland Enquirer. The San Francisco CALL has issued circulars asking the people who are in favor of the new railroad to pledge their businessto the road. This is a good opportunity for those who claim 1o be in favor of the road and who are unable to contribute funds toward building it to show that they are sincere in their wish to see the new road prosper. They have an opportunity to pledge their business to the road and the opportunity should not be lost.—Madera Mer- cury. Our exchanges from every section report business reviving from the long and universal depression all over the country. Prosperity is evidently returning and we may expect better times before the approaching summer is over. Just how & competing railroad through the San Joaquin Valley will affect us we are not able to say at present, but it will no doubt benefit the farmer and merchant.—Merced Ex- press. Hanford proposes to be on the route of the new railroad, if it is built, and its committees and citizens are getting a move on themselves that is pleasing to behold. It is just such en- terprise as is there manifested that makes cities out of villages, and doesn’t give one time to think of hard times. Kings County may well be proud of her thriving county seat.— Madera Tribune. Stockton has already received more valuable advertising by the valley raiiroad than it has ever received from anything that has occurred since the days of gold. One effect of that ad- vertising is to cause capital to seek investment here, and this is only the first result—the mere budding of the boom. When the harvest comes the yield will be bounteous.—Stockton Inde- pendent. The Southern Pacific charges $500 for haul- ing a carload of refrigerated fruit from San Jose to Chicago and $300 from Los Angeles to St. Louis. The distance s about the same, but competition makes $200 difference. This dif- ference will be wiped out when the valley road is built to a connection with the Santa Fe.— Santa Cruz Record. At & meeting for the valley road, held in Stockton Friday evening, the ladies subscribed for twenty shares, or $2000. The ladies in Stockton know that the new road means more business for their busbands, more money, and therefore more new bonnets. The new woman knows “where she i3 at.”—San Jose Mercury. Stockton has been chosen as the starting point of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad, and work is to begin within sixty days. The old mud-flats, formerly considered worthless, suddenly became of great value when they seemed useful to the mew enterprise.—Wil- liams Farme: PERSONAL. Dr. R. . Rooney of Auburn is stopping at the Grand. J. T. Colby, a mining man of Trinity, is at the California. Judge J. B. Campbell of Fresno is a guest of the Grand. Justus Greeley, & capitalist of Marysville, 18 at the Grand. Dr. H. 1. Hoppin of Ventura registered yester- day at the Grand. C. H. Dwinelle, a horticulturist of Fulton, is & guest of the Grand. J. Bodefeld, a merchantof Colusa, 1s in town and stopping at the Grand. 7 D. J. McDonald, & mining man of Sonora, ar- rived at the Lick yesterday. De Vrees Van Doesburgh, & wine man of St. Helena, is staying at the Lick. R.C. McCreary, amiller of Sacramento, is among the guests of the Grand. Frank A. Kimball, a large olive-grower of National City, registered at the Grand yester- day. J. B, Richardson, a fruit-grower of Buisun, ar- rived in town yesterday and registered at the Grand. Dr. G. W. Dwinell of Montague came down yesterday to attend the medical convention, and is stopping at the Grand. Major J. 8. McBride of North San Juan, one of the most prominent gravel minersin the Btate, is registered at the Lick. Dr. W. F. Wiard of Sacramento, president of the State Board of Health, is down to attend the medical convention, and is stopping at the Grand. Dr. C. W. Nutting of Siskiyou, one of the members of the State Board of Health, who has come down to attend the State Medical So- ciety’s meeting, is at the Baldwin. S AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Yesterday afternoon an energetic, nervous little woman hurried into the Occidental Hotel, tripped into the reading-room, looked at the faces and rapidly returned to the street. As she disappeared past the glass windows, & gen- tleman sitting near the door laughed a little to himself and said: “Well, well, well. What changes time makes in the human family! Do you know what that woman is engaged in now and do you know what she used to be? Let me tell you ber history in the mercantile world. About twenty-five years ago she was the head saleswoman in the White House store and was considered one of the best in San Francisco. At that period the stock market was booming and she began to dabble in Consolidated Vir- ginia. After she successfully played the mar- “l MRS, WETMORE, WHO USED TO BE A PLUNGER IN STOCKS. [Sketched from life for the *Call” by Nanktvell.] ket at low 1ates she found that it was not pro- ductive enough to warrant the labor, so she plunged in and went at it as near old Tom Keen's figures as she could get.” “Was she successiul?” “Successfull” exclaimed the gentleman throwing up his hands. “Why, I have known her to have $100,000 in a broker's office at one time, and besides that was interested in saveral other deals. There was hardly a big deal made during the last score of years that she did not take & hand in.” “Was she still in the employ of the White House?" “No. She left the dry-goods business about the first plunge she made, and ever since that time has been & well-known figure around the alley. She seemed to have a nature consti- tuted to the air of the Stock Exchange, and ‘whether she won or lost it made no material difference in her plans for the next day. She had, at the broker’s offices, unlimited credit and never let her spirits droop because of & tumble in quotations.” ‘How is she fixed now?” Umph. Iused to play a little stocks my- self, young man, and sometimes make a good haul, but if you were to ask me hdlv I am fixed now I would not feel that I was alone in my misery if I made some reference to the string- ency apparent on all hands. I suppose Mrs. Wetmore is feeling about the same way. We all used to have money, you know, but of late —well, things don’t always run assmooth as we might hope for.” Dr. C. H. Dwinell of Montague, who is down attending the sanitary convention and meeting of the State Medical Society, says that there has never been as much activity in mining in Siskiyou as there is this year since early days. A Salt Lake company has bought for $50,000 & porphyry dyke on the Klamath,at Henley, and has paid half the purchase price down. They will employ fifty men this summer. The Black Jack mine, near Henley, has been sold to some people from Denver for $25,000, and the big French company that is operating in gravel, in Trinity, has mede large purchases down in the Salmon River of hydraulic ground. At Hawkinsville, three miles from Yreka,a new mining company is lifting water 390 feet from the Shasta River, to work gravel which is very rich. General Superintendent J. A. Fillmore of the Southern Pacific Company returned yesterday from a tour of inspection on the line as far south as Los Angeles. He said he never saw California looking so full of promise for a rich harvest as now, and never more beautiful. “Everywhere I looked I saw evidences of plenty, whether in the grain fields, the orchards or hay and pasture lands. As for California I noticed that more than ever the people are all astir and hustling around with an air of prosperity and enterprise. Ina long trip through that city I saw only one vacant house, and yet they tell me over 2000 dwellings were erected there last year. The receipts of our passenger office at Los Angeles were greater this past year even than in the time of the boom in Southern California.” J. A. Belloli of San Jose has a good ides. He said: “Last week 1 got to thinking what an enormous money drain the bicycle business must be on this coast, they are selling so fast. In fact, the dealers tell me they cannot get machines fast enough to fill orders. And to think that we are breaking our heads to try to think what kind of factories we could start to keep our idle people busy! I believe that if a bicycle factory was proposed there would be plenty to take stock in it. We have lots of machine-shops idle in the city. It would not cost much to convert them into bieycle fac- teries. 1f some new patents are required there ought to be enough Pacific Coast inventors to get them out.” PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. M. Adolphe Carnot, who succeeds the late M. de Lesseps in the French Academy of Sciencea, is & brother of ex-President Carnot, M. Adolphe Carnot takes little interest in politics. He is any enthusiastic soientist, & professor in the Paris School of Mines and the author of & valuable work on chemistry as applied to mineralogy. The friendship between Mr. Ruskin and Pro- fessor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard dates from & chance acquaintance in the cabin of a little steamer on Lake Geneva. There is a char- acteristic account of the meeting in Ruskin's autobiographical “Praeterita.” Dr. Clancy, of the Cambridge, Mass., School Board, has succeeded in abolishing the use of slates, sponges and slate-pencils in the schools of the town. Before many years, probably, the paper pad will have entirely supplanted slates in the public schools. J. Jay Watson of Brooklyn is the owner of a violin whieh, it is claimed, was formerly used by Ole Bull. The violin is said to have been made by the Amatl brothers the same year Bhakespeare died. Ex-Senator Thurman has become a strict re- cluse since the death of his wife. He reads all night, and spends the day asleep in his library in his house in Columbus, Ohio. He is 82 years of age. Lord Rosebery has recovered from his attack of the grip, but is still greatly troubled with in. somnia. France seems determined to aggravate his sleeplessness. The Tennyson memorial to be erected near the poet’s old home on the Isle of Wight will bear the legend, “Erected by Friends in England try have been very numerous. The late Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first American con- tributor. Captain Nat Herreshoff’s health is fully re- stored, and he is working harder than ever to make up tor lost time. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. A dispatch from Washington says that “an aggressive fight on the part of the people of San Francisco will doubtless result” in secur- ing the National Republican convention for that city. It would be a great thing for the party, and yet a greater thing for the Stateand its metropolis, if the convention should be se- cured.—Fresno Republican. If it is true that the ring of employes at the Carson Mint have, in addition to defrauding the Government by the theft of bullion, tam- pered with the Government formula and caused mintage to be issued with an excess of alloy, they should receive the heaviest punish- ment possible for such an offense.—Dixon Tribune. If the founders of Stockton had foreseen that it would become as important a place as it now 18 they would have planned differently. If the present residents could realize how great a fu- ture it has before it they would work differ- ently.—Stockton Independent. Do not try to rise in business by pulling your neighbor down. He is asnecessary to the com- munity as you are.—Healdsburg Enterprise. When the boulevard is built half the popula- tion of SBan Francisco will be in the country every day.—Redwood Gazette. The fact that Grand Juries hold secret ses- sions enables a great many rascals to emigrate to Canada.—Ukiah Press. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. The wife—One-half the world doesn’t know how the other half lives. The husband—Well, it isn’t the fault of your sewing society, anyway.—Life. Mrs. Rash—How do you manage to get your cook up so early? Mrs. Dash—Well, I hunted up a young and good-looking milkman and hired him to come &t 5 o'clock.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Weary Walker—Say, mister, gimme a dime? Dignified Wayfarer—Give you a dime! I think you are more in need of manners than money. Weary Welker—Well, T struck yer fer what I thought yer had most oL—Hurper's‘Buznr. Mabel—I always refuse a man permission to kiss me. Ada—Why? Mabel—Because, then he s more anxious to.—Brooklyn Life. “Been getting up a new mud guard,” said the inventive boarder. “Might I ask,” inquired the cheerful idiot, “whether it is to be applied to bicycles or can- didates ?""—Indianapolis Journal. Artist—'m half distracted trying to think up a subject for my picture, “The Queen of May.” Practical Friend—Why not paintapictureof a servant girl taking up carpets’—Chicago Record. Carleton—What happened when the mouse ran across the floor—did she faint? Montauk—Great Scott, no! don’t you know she’s a widow ?—Brooklyn Eagle, She—So the Count’s relatives consider ita mesalliance? He—Decidedly. The girl has only a quarter of & million, and the Count owes three times as much as that.—Judge. The Interior, of Chicago, says: A Nevfi‘ Eng- land Episcopal bishop met a young minister at a social gathering and was introduced. “Ah, Mr, —, am pleased to meet you. Iam told you are a Congregationalist.” “Yes, Bishop, I am a Congregationalist.” “Ah, well, Mr. —, excuse me, but while I Tecognize you as a gentleman, I cannot recog- nize you as & Christian.” “That's all right, Bishop. While I can recog- nize you as & Christian I cannot recognize yo as a gentleman.” ~ The story is an old one, and the chances are that it is not true.—New York Tribune. Piztop—Do you know that De Melville, the lwmfr‘ started on & starring tour week before st Popzam—Yes, I was told so; but, by the way, what is he doing now ?—Roxbury Gazette. HAPPY CHINESE GIRLS. They Are Receliving Educations at the Presbyterian Orphanage and Rescue Home. Tre lady managers of the Presbyterian orphanage and rescue home for Chinese girls at 920 Sacramento street held their annual meeting yesterday. Everything pertaining to the general management and educational departments of the school was found to be in excellent condition. Mrs. P. D. Browne has long been president of the home, and every effort in her power has been put forth to rescue and befriend the innocent-looking girls who were so cruelly treated by their own people. The vice-presidents are: rs. J. Q. Adams, Mrs. George Barstow, Mrs. Ben- amin Douglass, Mrs. E. V. Robbins, Mrs. . G. Chown, Mrs. E. Y. Garrette. The directors and managers number about 200 of the kindest and most generous women in San Francisco and adjoining towns. Miss Margaret Culbertson ‘has for along time been the matron and guiding spirit of the home. Mrs. Minnie Browne is bestowing much ainstaking care u%on the sweet-faced, low-voiced girls to whom she is teaching the English language. There are many bright girls among them. “King Sun’ has learned to speak English, read, write and “do wonderful sums in arithmetic,” all in five weeks. There are several little tots of 4 years who sing and recite and are further advanced in their studies than some American children at that age. The girls are natural musicians and sing and play their own accompani- ments. Th¥y are also taught sewing and housework. These rescued Chinese girls ask permis- sion to say through the columns of the CaLw that all darning and repairing of clothes will be neatly and economically done if taken to them, as they wish to assist in their own support. THEY GAVE LIBERALLY. The Presbytery Is Satisfled With Last Year’'s Offerings. An adjourned meeting of the presby- tery, from last Wednesday, was held yes- terday morning at 920 Sacramento street. Rev. D. Hanson Irwin, chairman of the nar- rative committee, read the annual narra- tive report of the presbytery. The chief point noted in it was that during the past year the Presbyterian churches have shown more generosity in giving than ever before. This was oconsidered a healthy si Ev. J. C. Smith read a resolution rela- tive to the Presbyterian Industrial Or- phanage and Farm, in which the clergy ‘were desired to recormmend the orphanage to the support of their congregations. The r:'sora:éion stated that a fund had been E among young people called the “Little Albert Frund‘ to r’:iu subserip- tions toward the orgfumge. The resolu- tion was unanimously carried, At the Methodist E_rwchen‘ meeting, Dr. Case discussed “The Forward Move- ment,” drawing particular attentiou to the reat work that had been accomplished in est_London by Rev. Dr. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes. e Salvation Army, he said, was a forward movement of a certain kind, but it was fast becoming a denomin- ation. There was room for another for- ward movement. The Christian Endeavor and the Epworth League were fitted to fill this requirement in the grandest manner. In the discussion, Rev. Henry Varley's teachings were spoken of, and it was stated that thou&h Methodists can indorse his doctrines to a certain extent, his belief that the second coming of the Messiah is imme- diately at hand resembles the doctrines and America.” Subscriptions from this coun- | held by the Seventh-Day Adventists. REALTY FOR INVESTORS, Public Auction Sale of Prop- erty Adjoining the Presidio. MAGNIFICENT MARINE VIEW. The Probate Sale to Take Place Wednesday — Halght-Street Grounds. [ Shrewd investors will not be slow to recognize the desirability of the property catalogued for the sale of Easton, Eldridge & Co. to-day. Notable portions of it are the seven 50-varas, fronting Devisadero, Broderick, Lombard and Greenwich streets. No more flattering commentary can be made of this property than the mention of the fact that it lies in front of the property of the late Senator Fair, who invested mil- lions of dollarsin this district. Tpe Ful- ton Iron Works are near by. Devm_adern street is one of the widest streets in the city, while Lombard is the boulevard ex- tending from Van Ness avenue to the Presidio Government Park, which is but two blocks west, bestowing upon this sec- tion of the city the advantage of use of this handsome public park and a view of the Government fortifications, and _one of the finest marine views in the world. The fifty vara on the northwest corner of Devisadero and Greenwich streets will be subdivided into six residence lots, within one block of which the cable-cars of the Union-street line pass. Besides this there are other excellent investments. Among the residences on_the list are 26 Haight street, 729 McAllister street, 1315 Larkin, and flats at 2110 and 21i2 Sutter. A large residence lot, 50x110:8)¢, on the east line of Van Ness avenue, Mission resi- dence lots and a City Hall business lot are also offered. Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. will have an auction to-morrow of a number of proper- ties of unusual interest to the buying pub- lic. There are four pieces, belonging to the estate of Michael Bergin, which are to be sold by order of the court, viz.: 1524 Powell street, 1902 Powell, 633 Green, the rents of which are $45 net. In addition to the Bergin estate properties there are three ieces offered on account of one of the uilding and loan associations. The roperty has been foreclosed and is or sale- at very low prices. In addition to the ~foregoing there is a business corner in the Mission and very choice residence lots in the vicinity of the park and in the Western Addition. A property in the list of which there has been much inquiry is the residence and lot on California street, between Jones and Leay- enworth, formerly belonging to Colonel P. A. Finigan. The auction sale of the Haight-street baseball grounds, which is to be held day after to-morrow by Baldwin & Hammond | at their auction-room, 10 Montgomery street, is attracting widespread interest. A large number of prospective buyers have \'isile% the property, and judging from the eneral inquiry the auctioneers feel satis- ged that there will be a large attendance at the sale and in all probability spirited com- petition. The property is in fine shape and the street work has been completed. The streets are all sewered and macadamized, and separate openings constructed oppo- site the center of each lot, so that any building can be connected with the main sewer without breaking it. There will be sixty-four lots in all. The lots on Stanyan street are regarded as prospective business gmpeny, and having a park frontage and eing at the terminus of several railroads, they should bring good prices. The terms of the sale require a cash payment of only twenty per cent of the purchase price, and the remainder is payable in easy annual installments. The Crocker Estate Com- pany, which owns the property, has au- thorized the auctioneers to sell the lots without regard to price, so that the sale is likely to attract the attention of specula- tors as well as those seeking homes. IN NAVY BLUE AND BRASS. ‘Wharfingers and Collectors in Their New Uniforms—Mr. Isancs Makes a Protest. The wharfingers and collectors in the employ of the Harbor Commissioners ap- peared in uniform yesterday from Chief ‘Whartinger Boobar to Collector Isaacs. The latter does not approve of the uniform and does not hesitate to say so. He re- fused to go to the tailor named by the board, claiming that he could get a better ready-made suit for less money, and to make good his claim he got a ready-made suit. It is funny,” said Mr. Isaacs, ‘‘that the Chief Wharfinger insists upon the men going to one tailor. I can get better stuff elsewhere, and in fact I got it and paid less money. The men who are going out Au- ust 1 do not have to get uniforms, and as go out in August I offered to resign on the 1st, but my resignation would not be accepted and I had to get this suit. I don’t say that any one is making any money on these uniforms, but I have seen men hanged on less evidence.”’ The uniforms are navy blue in color with brass buttons, and a jaunty naval cap sets off the suit. Sergeant John Hayesand the policemen under him are also uniformed, and the change all around is a decided im- provement. ————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ————————— Pineapple and cherries, 50c Ib, Townsend’s.* by Morton * R e — FURNITURE moved at low rates Special Delivery. Phone, main, 46. ———————— GENUINE eyeglasses 15¢, 81}¢ Fourth, nr. bar- ber. Sundays 736 Market (Kast's shoestore). e o The condor is the largest bird in exist- ence. Some of those shot in the Andes had a spread of wing of eighteen or twenty feet. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best medicine to take in the spring. Every one needs to take a blood purifier now. Get Hood's, for Hood's Sarsaparilla is the only true blood purifier. ——————— No buffet should be without a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the South American appetizer and Invigorator. i “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” will quickly relieve Bronchitls, Asthma, Catarrh and Throat Diseases. Sold only in boxes. —————— MANY aches and pains yield promptly to PAm- KER'S GINGER TONIC. Try It PARKER'S HATE BALSAM will save your halr. —_———— Powdered ’Elus is now used to make sandpaper. The glass is pulverized by heattmg it red hot and throwing it into water. HALE’S HONEY —OF— Horehound and Tar Should always be ki »in COLDS, COUGHS, CROUP and ALY, ifections of thé Tm‘i AND LUNGS. It is composed of PURE Ingredients. Its effects are immediate and In relieving the P‘d’l“mm““d ent com- eving these dist ing and preval plaints, lns 1t 1s so it PLEASANT To the taste that young children will take It with- out difficnlty. TRY IT AND BE CURED. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure n One Minute, | redwoods. eallfn>d er- H wmfi‘&flgs HIGHLAND SPRINGS, ON THE BOEDER OF CLEAR LAKE, Ialze County, Cal. 0 YOU ENJOY A SUPERB CLIMATE, dancing, lawn tennis, croguet, billiards? Do you like fine bathing, boating, hunting and fishing?® Do you need recuperation and rest afforded by over thirty kinds of mineral springs? Shortest stage route into Lake County. All this and more can be had at Highland Springs. New hotel. Francisco. From San Francisco it costs only $8 for the round trip, and the hotel rates are $1 50 to $2 50 g;{xdl‘ ?‘r‘;(“:lm all;]p(-r week. Take the S. F, N. P. Rallway via elignirey acailway via Pleta, thence by a stiort, Finest dining-room mnorth of San J. CRAIG, Manager. 6 Montgomery st. SKAGES HOT SPRINGS, SONOMA COUNTY, CAL, JOHN F. MULGREW, PROPRIETOR. (LY 44 HOURS FROM SAN FRANCISCO and but 1 bour’s staging: temperature of water 125 deg. Fahrenheit, famous for jts medicin D erties; tub and plunge baths: £ood hunting and no better trout streams in the State: no fogs and an entire absence of Mosquitos and other annoying insects; first-class service. - Round trip from San Francisco, $5 50. Take Tiburon Ferry at 7:40 A. M. or connecting with stages at Geyservill Terms: $2aday; $12to $14 aw Write for circular- San Franeisco offi 30 .M., INOW OFPIDIN. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. HE GEM OF ALL RESORTS, CAZ Hoiel and cottages, in the heart of the Terminus N. P. C. R. R., vi: ‘Terms reasonable. C ferry. HOT SPRINGS. AKE 2:20 P. M. TRAIN and Townsei Teets, arrivi 30 P. . Fare $7 15 for round trip. 29~ Stage connects with 8:15 A. M. traln from ‘Third and Townsend streets. ROOP & SON, Proprietors, THE GEYSERS. New Management of the Switzer= land of America. INE NEW BATHHOUSE. FREE M baths to guests. Enjoyable and health! Only 6 hours from San Francisco. Rates $2 50 Per Day; $12 Per Week. A. H. HILL, Manager and Lessee. VICHY SPRINGS Mendocino County, HREE MILES FROM UKIAH. THE TER- minus of the 8. F.and N. kuown natural electric wal pagne” baths. FROM FOURTH at Springs at ERAL Warm_ “‘cham- Situation, location and scenery not surpassed. Terms, $12 10 $14 per week. Postoffice and telephone at spri WM. DOOLAN, Proprietor. CATIP TAYLOR S OPEN AND IN FIRST-CLASS CONDITION . Apply CH T 405 Front OPEN MAY 1st. Address box WHITE OAK FARM. For particulars inquire of ‘W.H. HEATT, CLOVERDALE, CAL. 6, Napa, Cal. % SARATOGA SPRINGS, LAKE COUNTY, CAL. HE HEALING POWERS OF THESHE waters are something wonderful: sulphur, soda, fron, magnesia; good fishing and hunting; accom~ modations first class; rates $8 per week and u ward; large hard-finish rooms en suite. Address C , Bachelor P. 0., Lake County, &al. JOHN DAY’S RESORT, @ THE BANKS OF EEL’ RIVER, THE finest trout stream in the State, 5 miles fro Potter Valley, Mendocino Co.; round trip $9 7: from S. F.; terms $6 to 7 per week; plenty milk, fresh butter and eggs; the hunting in this locallty is the best In the State. For further particulars address JOHN DAY, Potter Valley. “LAUREL DELL” HOTEL. J,AUREL DELL LAKE (FORMERLY LOWER Blue Lake): handsome new hotel nearly com- pleted to meet requirements of coming seasonj fine bathing, boating, fishing and hunting. Address H. WAMBOLD, Laurel Dell, Bertha P. 0., Lake Co, IVERSIDE-ON EEL RIVER. 515 MILES from Potter Valley, Mendocino Couniy: round trip $9 75 from San Francisco; fi unting and bathing unsurpassed; terms, $6 and $7 per week; special rates to families; excelient table. For further information address 7. SSPIE, Potter Vall endoncino Count SEND FOR SAMPLES. PACIFIC PRINTING CO., 543 Clay Street, S. F. A LADIES' GRILL ROOM Has been established in the Palace Hefsl N ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS ‘made on the management. It takes the piace of the city restaurant, with direct_entrance from Market st. Ladies shopping will find this a moss desirable place to lunch. Prompt service and mod- erate charges, such 23 have ziven the gentlemen’s Grillroom an Interaational reputation, will preval in this new department. IS THEVERY BESTONETO EXAMINE YOUR es and fit them to Specta asse: “Eflg: h‘:flfl A cles or Eyegl 4 sul ty has not been equaled. been due to the merits “e:"n work.u’ oo e Hours—12t0 4 p. . -