The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1895. : CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DALY CALL—46 per year by mail; by carrier, 15e er week. UNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—#1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO ‘CALL (Dafly and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. ..APRIL 19, 1895 See the art exhibit. Spring has its pictures as well as the Howers. California art is the crown of California industry. A silurian is a cross between a snail and 1 cobblestone. The man who makes a bad break has @ chance to mend. The murder mystery calls for more clews and fewer theories. Cleveland's sound money plea was all sound and no mor The man who knows it all is the fellow the police are looking for. In comparison with Eastern conditions every part of California is festal. You negleet your own interests when you neglect to patronize home goods. The Southern Pacific has too many eyes ‘ever to haye them all shut at the same time. The Oriental dogs of war, having quit fighting, have now lain down to lick their sores. They may call the season ‘“Easter,” but the flowers and the glory are all in the West. The fiestas may fade from the southern cities, but the scent of the roses will linger there still. When the competing road is open the San Joaquin will have a business fiesta all the year round. Visitors to the fiestas see no thorns among the ros! but perhaps the home folks feel them. The Carson mint continues to attract a good deal of attention, considering there is no money in it. The friends of the cobblestones might at least take them where they wouldn’t be trampled under foot. Los Angeles has found something better than cobblestones, for she has been paving her streets The San Frar crimes may have ha pened anywhere, but the fiestas are di tinctively Californian. The Boston Herald floral decoration is a proper appreciation of the beautiful, and it is a pity it is so expensive. The Supreme Court has knocked just enough of the point off the income tax to tempt everybody to sit down on it. He who shows the least unwillingness to doallin his power to expose crime is in danger of being himself suspected. By sending the WeekLy CarL to your Eastern friends you will advertise the State and give your friends the benefit of a good thing. The killing of children by electric cars is as good evidence of parental neglect as of negligence on the part of the railway em- ployees. If the Chicago committee had put up an actual wild goose instead of a gold stan- dard banquet, Grover would have accepted the invitation. The rumor that a plot existsto assas- sinate President Faure of France is hardly worthy of credit, but the assassination would be the suicide of anarchy in Europe. Every day of delay on the part of the Ban Joaquin Valley residents to secure railroad competition all the more firmly binds the shackles of monopoly upon them. Shocking disasters and crimes generally induce severe safeguards against their repe- tition, but lack of diligence in detection and punishment is an encouragement to criminals. If every California heiress is not ex- tremely careful a sneering stranger might charge that she is determined to be a Lady, even though she have to marry to achieve her ambition. The fact that a Kansas City father was driven insane by the marriage of his daughter to a Chinese who was her Sunday- school pupil shows that insanity was run- ning in the family. Now that Californians themselves are beginning to show appreciation of the bounties with which nature has blessed them there will be less cause to wonder why strangers may be indifferent. Fresno probably needs the Valley road more than does any other county in the San Joaquin Valley, because her products are of a kind that offer a strong temptation to charge high freights in the absence of competition. A Pennsylvania physician insists that many diseases are of a mere terrestrial ori- gin, and are brought into the world by cos- mic dust, thus clouding the hope that in the other world we might be safe from grip and cholera. If it is true, as Frederick Harrison, a British subject, announces in London, that he and other British subjects were tor- tured to make them give up evidence re- garding the “revolution” in Hawaii, Eng- land probably would not hesitate to blow the islands out of the Pacific. Benator Jones’ suggestion that the silver candidates of the Republican and Demo- cratic national conventions withdraw and unite on a silver candidate for the Presi- dency, in case of the selection of gold- standard candidates, excludes the possi- bility that the Republicans may nominate a free-coinage man, and may tena to a re- laxation of effort to see that he is. One of the best assurancesthat the Los Angeles fiesta will improve with each suc- ceeding year is found in the fact that the Times subjected one of the initial per- formances this year to a severe criticism. ‘When the press of a community begins to treat any enterprise seriously and demand something more than an amateur excel- lence in it we may be sure the enterprise means business and js going to be con- ducted on a huge plan thereafter. /- J THE FRESNO SITUATION. The peo ple of Fresno are anxious to secure the Valley road, but before taking any aggressive step in the direction of se- curing it they desire to hear what the directorsrequire of them. Thisis business- like and to the point. At the same time it is said that the people of the county are ready, not only to give a right of way en- tirely through the county on whatever route the directors may select, but to do all the necessary grading besides. Whether ornot this is to be the extent of the aid which the county will give to the enter- prise we have neither the authority northe information to anfiounce. The proposition to do the grading, if it should be made, will be novel and attrac- tive and may serve as a hint to other counties. After harvest the teams will be idle for a time, and hence their employ- ment in this work would not be a great hardship on their owners. Further than this, it is said that the farmers who do the grading will make a gift of their services outright to the company. This would save them the money required to be paid out if they should subscribe for shares, as some of this money would have to be used in doing the grading. As the county is over thirty miles wide the value of the donation will be great. At the same time it is learned that the Southern Pacific is overhauling the survey of its line from Merced to Sanger. This survey has been in existence for some time, but whether any of the right of way has been secured we are not informed. Such a line on the east side of the main line would serve the same purpose as the Porterville branch—a local line covering the rich and rapidly developing eastern side of the San Joaquin. If this Merced- Sanger line should be constructed in ad- vance of the people’s road it would pos- sibly hem in the latter line, just as a road to tap Visalia must be hemmed in. This would fasten the hold of the Southern Pacific on Merced, Madera, Fresno and Tulare counties so firmly that it would be difficult to organize a competition that could resist it. Such considerations make it all the more imperative that Fresno County should make its offer to the Valley road as generous as possible. Fresno County bas very important inter- ests aside from its farming and fruit-grow- ing. Among these is lumber. There are two immense flumes in Fresno County— the Pine Ridge flume to Clovis, six oreight miles from Fresno, and the Kings River flume to Sanger, twelve or fifteen miles from Fresno, the terminals of both flumes being at branch railroads owned by the Southern Pacific. There is another large flume at Madera. These bring down vast quantities of lumber from the mountains, which at the terminals is sawn and manu- factured into various articles, and thence shipped to all parts of the State. The freight revenues from this source are large, and if the Valley road, by the assistance of the people of Fresno, could secure this item of transportation, it alone would be a tempting consideration. In various ways the activities of Fresno are being developed. One strong company has been already formed to utilize the power of the San Joaquin River Falls, about twenty-six miles from Fresno, in the generation of electricity, with which to light Fresno and run machinery. Another such company is being talked of that will use the waste water-power of the Pine Ridge flume. The presence of the Valley road would be a great help to these enter- prises WOMAN'S WORK IN STOCKTON, The ladies of Stockton issued last Sunday an edition of the Mail of that ‘city, the en- tire proceeds of which were given by the proprietors to the new railroad fund. It goes without saying the edition was bright and gay enough to give to the stalwart Mail the appearance of an Easter morning female, richly garmented and bonneted out of sight. There was more in the num- ber, however, than beauty of form and brightness of style. There was sound sense, right reason and apt argument ad- dressed to the people of the SBan Joaquin on the greatness of the new enterprise and the supreme importance of giving vigorous and well-directed support to it. On a handsomely designed title-page, the keynote of the tone which pervaded every article in the paper was struck in these words: “Progress in her onward march has opened the gateway leading into the great valley of the San Joaquin, a territory of vast resources and wonderful future possi- bilities. We hail with joy the bright dawn of a new era of prosperity, coming with the buds and blossoms of lovely spring- time, and bringing to the Queen City of the Pacific Coast the products of an em- pire.” The flowers of speech in which that key- note is gracefully expressed should not l#ad any to overlook the solid strength of the statement contained in it. Itisnota mere matter of verbal elegance to talk of the new era of progress ‘‘bringing te the Queen City of the Pacific Coast the products of an empire.” The competing road, by breaking up the monopoly of transportation, will lead to a rapid and varied development of the rich resources of the San Joaquin, and the resulting products will be of a magnitude that may be justly called imperial. San Francisco, as the great seaport of California, will gather a large profit from the handling of these products, and in return will afford to the farmers of the San Joaquin a profitable market for their crops. It is clearly evident the women of Stock- ton have a true and comprehensive ‘grasp of the business interests involved in the construction of the nesv road. Their work in this edition proves the fact beyond a doubt, and the proprietors of the Mailare deserving of thanks for giving these progressive and enterprising women an opportunity to make their influence felt throughout the wide field that journal covers. THE SPRING EXHIBITION, The spring exhibition of the San Fran- cisco Art Association opens under con- ditions which are dubious, from the fact that while some of them are favoraole others are distinctly adverse to the best results. The favorable conditions are the large number of works shown, the high average of excellence which characterizes them, the general harmony of action which prevails in the association, and the bright outlook which the revival of business offers to art as well as to every other in- dustry. The unfavorable conditions' are found oddly enough in the very tning that constitutes the most munificent ‘at- tempt at art patronage on the coast. The Hopkins Art Gallery will long stand as an impressive monument of individual gen- erosity directed to art culture, but so long asit remains in its present form, it will literally cast shadows upon the work of artists and prevent their real merits from being seen in the exhibitions. The defects of the Hopkirs gallery as a salon for the exhibition of paintings are now too well understood to need comment. By and by we may iook for them to be remedied by such alterations in the build- ing as will give abundance of light in the spacious rooms. Many of the old palaces in Europe have been successfully trans- formed into excellent galleries for the dis- pley of pictures, and there is no reason why this great mansion may not be simi- larly transformed with equally good re- sults. It will be a mere matter of money and skill to make the alteration, and San Francisco has plenty of both of these re- quisites for the task, and can achieve the work as soon as her wealthy and cultured classes see fit to undertake it. The favorable conditions of the exhibi- tion are decidedly creditable to the State as well as encouraging to art. The number and the excellent quality of the works dis- played attest the growing development of artistic culture in California. The depres- ion, or falling off, in art work, noted in recent exhibitions in the Eastern cities, is not observable here. On the contrary, our exhibition shows a marked and praise- worthy advance over those of previous years. The absence of a good light in the gallery may prevent much of the finer work from being noted by the visitor, but none can question that the very presence of so large a number of pictures, represent- ing so many artists of repute and standing, is itself an evidence that art on this coast is flourishing as never before. While the artist must depend mainly upon the rich to purchase his pictures and afford him a livelihood, he is also affected to a large extent by the attitude of the people generally toward his work. There must be an art atmosphere in the com- munity as well asin the sky, for an artist to do all that is possible within him. Beauty ofland and sea may give the inspira- tion for art, but it is public approval, ap- preciation and sympathy that must fur- nish him the encouragement and the per- severance to carry the inspiration into artistic achievement. For this reason all who love art, and desire to promote its production in California, should make it a point to attend the exhibition. Let us show a popular appreciation for what our artists are doing to realize ideals of beauty and increase the glory of the State by achievements that will be honored by all who understand the true value of the ideal in elevating and ennobling the realities of life. THE ARMENIAN REVOLT. If the story that the Armenians are pre- paring for a revolution is true, we may see this year the beginning of the end of that great world drama known as the “Ottoman Empire.” Province after province in Europe and in Asia has been wrested from Turkey until now there is barely enough of the empire left to sustain the pretensions of an independent nation. A revolt in Armenia of any serious strength could hardly fail of still further stripping from Constantinople the territory necessary to maintain its dignity as an imperial capital. The Rus- sian people in their hatred of the Turks and their sympathy with the Armenians, would surely find some way to force the hand of the Government at St. Petersburg and compel even the most peaceably in- clined Czar to go to war. This of course would precipitate the conflict between Crescent and Cross which must end in driving the Turks out of Europe. Perhaps it might mean also the out- break of a general European war and re- sult in something like as complete a change of European affairs asthat wrought by the French revolution. Europe in short isa powder magazine that needs only a lighted match to be exploded, and Ar- menia is in exactly the right place to ap- ply that match with the most far-reaching effect. SETTLE THE QUESTION. From the Cabinet of the Cleveland ad- ministration itself has come to the Supreme Court of the United States a strong sug- gestion that it should rehear the case recently considered involving the validity of the Income Tax law and by deciding the whole issue therein either fully sustain or wholly overthrow the act. It seems-hardly possible either that the Supreme Court will refuse to regard this suggestion from the Attorney-General, or that the Cabinet itself will not see the pro- priety of prevailing upon the Chief Exec- utive to suspend the energies of thisact until such time as the problem of its validity may find solution. In the case of the Exclusion act the President assumed that as Chief Executive he had the power to delay the enforce- mentof alaw. If he had such powér and exercised such discretion with respect to an act clearly valid, it would seem to be not only consistent, but entirely proper and politic, to extend the time for the en- forcement of the Income Tax act until by court or Congress it should be established or overthrown. That thelatter will be its most deserved destiny we enter- tain not the slightest doubt. The resistless reasoning of Justice Field supplies the law and the logic to court and Congress for the defeat and repeal of this obnoxious statute, against which the sense of the people of the whole country has risen up in arms. A BATISFAOTORY TEST. The large illustration in this issue of the CaLy, showing the passage of the proces- sion along State street in Santa Barbara yesterday, was telegraphed to this paper last evening by the Willoughby process, which has been already described in the Carr. Asa trinmph in solving one of the most difficult problems that newspaper publication has ever encountered, this is most notable, and it is particularly grati- fying to know that the inventor is a resi- dent of this city. PERSONAL. Dr. G. M. Freeman of Sutter Creekis at the Grand. E. 8. Lippet, an attorney of Petalums, is a guest at the Grand. E. W. Hale, a merchant of Bacraniento, is stopping at the Baldwin. Allan B. Lemmon, editor of the Santa Rosa Republican, is at the Russ. Dr. J. R. Currow of San Jose and Mrs. Currow are stopping at the Baldwin. C. Cadwalader, a prominent citizen of Red Bluff, is stopping at the Lick. J. N. Bessie, & merchant of Watsonville, isin town and stopping at the Grand. Insurance Commissioner Gesford of Napa registered at the Grand yesterday. Joseph Annear, & mining man of Montana, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. Stewart McKay, proprietor of the Truckee Hotel at Truckee, is staying at the Russ. Alexander Goodfellow, a mining man of Acton, Los Angeles County, is in town and stopping at the Russ. Alexander J. McCone, a State Senator of Nevada, came down from Virginia City yester- day and registered at the Occidental. Among the arrivals in the city yesterday was Francis P. Brady of Brooklyn, N. Y., & brother of the late Father Brady, who was in chaige of the Paulist community at old St. Mary’s. Mr. Brady had started West before his brother’s death in the hope of finding him alive. He will take the body back East. He is stopping at the California. D. B. Spagnoli of Amador County, who was lately appointed by the President to the posi- tion of United States Consul at Milan, Italy, arrived in the city yesterday and registered at the Grand. He is on his way to his post of duty accompanied by his family. Hisson Syl- vester N.D. Spagnoli, who is with him, will occupy a position under the Consul. SPIRIT OF THE FPRESS. The chances are that the railroad rates east of Los Angeles will be reduced. This is as it should be.—Petaluma Courier. C This is acknowledged to be a good fruit year. It is certainly a good grain year,a good min- ing year, a good railroad year, and a good year for California all around.—Alameda Argus. Ever since the CarL had the good judgment to agitate the question of building a railroad to Humboldt County some of the San Francisco papers have had more or less to say about it.— Blue Lake Advocate. The work of the Hali-million Club of Ban Francisco is attracting favorable mnotice throughout the State. The organization should have the hearty support and co-operation of all cities of the interior—San Jose News. ‘Wake up, citizens, and “stand in” for im- provements. Prosperity will come this way as £o0on a8 we reach out to welcome it. California is seeing lovely times in many cities. Why should Eureka not be in it with the rest of them?—Eureka Sentinel. Close obeervers recognize the fact that silver coinage is a question that will not down. Itis bound to play an important part in the coming national campaign and all subsequentcam- paigns until bimetallism is firmly established. —Albuquerque Citizen. The sooner the Railroad Commission is abol- ished and the people are impressed with the truth that only by competition can they regu- late freights and fares, the sooner will com- peting lines be constructed and the true solu- tim:‘lkof the problem found.—Placerville Demo- cra The bicycle has come tc stay, and those who ride them are beginning to assert rights. There are many pedestrians and drivers, how- ever, who still labor under the opinion that & wheelman’s rights are as few as acornson a plum tree. There is no reason why & bicyclist should not be given his share of the road.— Eureka Standard. The news was telegraphed broadeast over the land that President Cleveland a few days ago took the first walk in Washington that he has taken since his inauguration. The walk that Grover will take on March 4, 1897, is the one the people are looking forward to with the greatest interest.—Ventura Free Press. The dissolution of the insurance combina- tion is “a consummation devoutly to be wished,” whether it comes this week or the next. Everything in the nature of a trustor a combine is & menace to the prosperity of the community at large, and as the insurance combine is merely an insurance trust itisa thing to be avoided.—Los Angeles Record. In business it is the man with push and grit who usually gets the place at the head of the mercantile procession, while in politics it is the man with a pull and plenty of money who generally has the most prominent seat in the band wagon. The conditions, while they should not be, are evidently widely different, and are likely to remain so.—San Diego Union. If nations were as ready to fight now s they were a century ago a war between England and France might be confidently predicted. War is now a more serious business, however, than it was before, and the powers are more pacific. International complications are gen- erally settled amicably, and England and France will probably adjust in this manner the dispute about territory that belongs to neither of them.—Marysville Appeal. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “Hiram,” said Famer Corntossle to his eldest son, “you’ve hed right smart o’ seboolin’.” “Yes, sir.” “What’s the latest thing ye’ve larnt?” “To extract the square root.” “Well, that's very good for somethings. But ez yer goin’ to succeed to the ownership of this here farm one o’ these days I reckon we'd go a leetle fudder in the practical branch o’ the sub- ject. You remind me of it when vacation comes, and I'll give ye a few lessons in pullin’ stumps.”—Washington Evening Star. The five-year-old son of the wealthy Mrs. Bondclipper of Fiith avenue is left-handed, and his mother has made an earnest but here- tofore unsuccessful effort to cure him of this defect. A few daysago,in a fit of anger, he struck his French governess square in the face and meade her nose bleed. “Tommy, you little wretch!” screamed Mrs. Bondelipper, “don’t you ever do thatagain as long as you live. WillIneverbe able to make you use your right hand ?’—Tammany Times. First Householder—How is it McCabe beats your carpets so thoroughly? He never gets half the dust out of mine. Becond Householder—Why, T always tell him they're English carpets, and he pounds them til1 T take them away from him.—Puck. Chic hopes that there will never be a social splitin the Half-million Club. Itwould never do for 250,000 people to go off all by them- selves and have a picnic, while the other half were trying to conduct & cotillon in the Me- chanics’ Pavillion.—San Francisco Chic. Manager of Dime Museum—No, I don’t see it atall. You had no business to pay $5000 for a bank cashier just because he stole a billion. Advance Agent—But, heavens and earth, man! he had only one wife and was not gener- ally respected.—Judge. Perhaps some arrangements could be made with the gang of burglars now operating in this eity by which they would agree to accept a weekly stipend from the common council and forego the nightly raids.—Providence Journal. Bobsled accidents are going out, but a good crop of drowning will soon be seasonable, and the snake-bite institutes are laying in large quantities of the sovereign remedy.—New York Recorder. " He—I am awfully in love with her, but I wouldn’t have her know it for the world. She—So she told me.—Pall Mall Budget. Only eight saloons were closed. at Topeka after the adjournment of the Kansas Legisla- ture.—Kansas City Star. PECPLE TALKED ABOUT. The Holland Society of New York City want to erect & statue costing $40,000 or 50,000 to William the Silent, Prince of Orange. The so- clety has nearly 900 members and membership is restricted to men who can trace their pedi- gree in an unbroken male line back for at least 225 years to a progenjtor who was a Dutch cit- izen living in America when New York was New Amsterdam. It is announced thatthe young Queen Wil- helmina of Holland will make a visit in Eng- land after Easter. She will stay for awhile with the Duchess of Albany, and afterward with the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. She will be accompanied by her mother, the Queen Regent. T. ¥. Johnson, who is talked of as a probable leader of the Republican party in Georgia, is & son of H. V. Johnson, Governor of Georgia, a United States Senator before the war, and Vice- Presidential candidate on the ticket with Stephen A. Douglas in 1860. During the two months which Governor Morrell of Kansas has been in office he has not found the place an easy one. He has worked every day from 7 4. M. to 11 P. M., and has only received $500 salary. And during the time he has given away $700 in charity. August Strindberg, the famous Swedish nov- elist, is said to be hopelessly ill in Paris. Despite his former large income, he is also re- ported to be poverty-stricken and dependént upon his relatives in Copenhagen. Josei Kainz, the first of Germany’s trage- dians, whose Hamlet won for him golden criti- cisms when on a tour in this country three years ago, has been decorated with the order of “Albrecht des Baren.” Stoughton Altonso Fletcher, who died in In- djanapolis the other day, was for many years one of the best known citizens of that city, and 'was identified with its material interests from his early manhood. Rev. Francis M. Deems and Rev. Edward M. Deems, sons of the late Rev. Charles F. Deems of the Church of the Strangers, New York, are engaged in preparing a biography of their cele- brated father. Prince Bismarck recently sald to an Ameri- S P can who had the pleasure of an interview with him that one of his greatest regrets was that he had never had an opportunity of visiting this country. Rev. James A. McKay, a Presbyterian min- ister of La Platte, Mo., still rides the circuit, and during the last six months has saddled it for over 1500 miles. Professor Louis A. E. Ahlers of the Harvard Graduate School has been appointed to the chair of modern languages of Colorado Col- lege. The Emperor of Germany, it is said, has de- cided to honor Bismarck by having his head stamped on a future issue of German coins. Ex-Governor John 8. Pillsbury of Minnesota has been made an honorary life member of the board of regents of the State University. Dr. Wright, author of “Man and the Glacial Period,” says that man has not been on the earth more than 8000 years. TOBENEFIT YOUNG WOMER, A Society ThatIs Doing Much Good Work [n This City. The San Francisco Girls’ Unlon Glves a Tea and Musicale. - The tea and musicale for the benefit of the San Francisco Girls’ Union, given at their home, 929 Pine street, yesterday afternoon, was a social success. Much taste was displayed in the tloral decoration of the rooms, dainty sprays of smilax and wild poppies filled every nook and corner of the house. Thé musical programme was well received. It was as follows: Prelude dramatique. ...Rubinsteln T “My Dearest Heart"" ....Sullivan M. TFantasle, “Faust”. ....Sarasate Mr. Recitation . Mlss Hobart Paraphrase. Van Aberleen Miss Mi pianist). “As the Dawz”, <v....Cantor < @) “Fiorin di Siepe” .Palloni b) “Yearnings” ... ‘schaikowsiy Mme. Emilis Tojetti. Valse, A flat.. “Beauty’s Eye". “Rivelozioul”. “Venetian Boat Song' Mme. Tojetti and Miss McCloskey. Variations. . e Mr. and Mrs. Noah Brandt. The evening programme also contained some excellent num%ers, as here shown: Adagio from trio Op. 8..... e Chopin Meamzs. B Mollanhager, L. yon der Mehden A and R “Calm as the NI‘h;;’ Castagnette... Miss Sadie Wafer. “Let Me Dream” ... ++eeen.. Sullivan Miss Georgie Cope. “Witches’ Dance” Paganinl Mr. Bernard Mollenhauer. (a) “Let Me Love Thee'. V) “Au Printemps” . Mme. Sylvain : Mlle. Godchaux. Serenade trom “Don Pasquale” ... .. Miss Marie Ireland. ne My Greeting'.... Mrs. W. M, “Qh, Patria,” trom “Tancredi Miss Lotta Must “Pleurez, Mes Yeux,"” from *Cid”. Mme. Emilia Tojett Valse, “Humoresque’ ‘Miss S, Water Miss " Marie Ireland, the left-handed 1 pianist, was a surprise. Professor Luc- | chesi pronounces her a musical wonder. | “It is not the teacher who makes the pupil, but the pupil who makes the teacher,” said Professor Lucchesi. ‘‘It was Paderewsky who made Lechitzasky, and this young lady who Elnys the piano with the left hand only (the riiht one having beexll‘ in,jured in her youth)is my Pader- ewsky. “Tge tea and musicale were given as a houge-warming,” said the president, Mrs. W.“j. Sweasey. ‘“We have only beed in our present home a short time. "The soci- ety owns a lot on Bush street, and in the course of the coming year will build a house of about forty rooms on it. “We are constantly turning young women away, as we haven’t room to ac- commodate them. ““We wish to win the love and confidence of the workingwomen of San Francisco and to assist them in ennobling their work, for we believe all honest work ennobling to both men and women. In the furtherance of these 1deas we give the young ladies (for such we find them to be) comfortable livin, rooms_and good table board for the small sum of $3 50 and $5 a month. When young women come to us without money we give them a home until they procure work, and they invariably pay us the amount due when thcz have earned it.” umber of prominent society ladies have charge of this excellent institution: Mrs. W. J. Sweasey, president; Dr. Mras. Ballard, first vice-president; Mrs, I. S. Belcher, second wvice-president; Mme. Emilia Tojetti, secretary; Mrs. R. R. Has- kell, treasurer. Directors—Mrs. E. B. Young, Mrs. T. B. Valentine, Mrs. A. H. Boomer, Mrs. J. Wainwright, Mrs, M. F. Gray, Mrs. S. M. Gardner. A LETTER FROM THE MAYOR. ‘Will Not Approve Bills for Less Than 85 ® Mayor Sutro yesterday sent the follow- ing self-explanatory communication to the Board of Supervisors: April 18, 1895. Gentlemen: Two letters, dated respectively on April 9 and 15, have been addressed by me to the clerk of this board relative to the send- ing of all bills to me for examination, so that thereby familiarity might be gained by me as :}1 th}z ';haruter of the claims coming against e city. U%:)n their reception your honorable body has by resolution (No. 12,113) directed that ail bills be delivered to me, and that they by m signature be certified as having been passed, and thus made ready for audit and payment. The resolution for its authority refers to_sec- tion 68 of the consolidation act. That declares that *‘every ordinance or resolution of the Board of Supervisors providing for the expen- diture of public moneys, except for sums less than $500,” shall be presented to the Mayor for his -Hzrovfl. This clearly shows that his approval is only needed fof sums of $500 or more. Consequently the law does not impose on me the duty of allowing demands for smaller sums. A8 to the certification for audit and pay- ment, that seems hardly necessary, as the sig- nature of your clerk is enough for the Auditor in that respect. It is not m{ urpose to form- u‘lly approve or disprove al! &ese small bills. The request for them was made solely for ex- amination so as to master the various and or- dinary demands against the city. Under the resolution about 170 bills were sent to me, comprising those passed in a single week. To sign these in person would consume time which I must devote to more important matters. Therefore these bills, having been re- viewed, are returned to your clerk but not cer- tified by my signature, but I desire that here- after they ‘be continued to be sent to me for inspection. Very respectfully yours, ADOLPH SUTRO, Mayor. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay streat. * —— - 'VERMONT maple sugar, 15¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* ——————— GEORGE W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker building. - e BUY your dry goods, underwear, trimmings, etc.,at Pioneer Dry Goods Store, 105 Fifth st. * —————— m?!‘u' explariex:iced men employed in our fur- ure-movin, 't Delivery. Fhone, main,de. o Seeci! ——————— Bicycles may not be ridden in Danish cities faster than the cabs are driven. . o HooD's Sarsaparill, by purifying the blood creates An appetite, restores the wasted energies, overcomes exhaustion and that tired feeling, cures nervous- ness, dyspepsia and all diseases of the blood. - R S — “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Tecthing with perfe:t success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. SATURN'S MOVING. RINGS, Professor Keeler’s Discovery Discussed by a Local Astronomer. WHAT MISS O'HALLORAN SAYS. The RIngs Said to Be Composed of Numberless Small Bodies or Satellites. The recent alleged astronomical discov- eries of Professor James E. Keeler of Alle- gheny Observatory, relative to Saturn’s rings, have given rise to considerable dis- cussion among the local astronomers and dilettanti in the science. 5 Professor Keeler claims to have discov- ered that the rings of Saturn are madeA up of innumerable small bodies or satellites, and that there is a marked difference in the rate of speed in which they revolve about the Saturnian planet. A number of photographs have been taken by the pro- fessor, and he finds that the inner edge of the rings moves faster than the outer edge, which it must if the rings are made up of the smaller bodies, as claimed. The motions of the different parts of the ringd" in miles per second will be ascer- tained when the photographs have been accurately measured under a microscope. Concerning the discovery which Pro- fessor Keeler claims to have made Miss Rose O’Halloran of 2023 Pine street says: The only heavenly body in the universe known to possess & system of rings is the planet Saturn. The recent spectroscopic investiga- tions of Professor Keeler of the observatory of Allegheny, Pa., give very important corrobo- ration of 8 theory favorably received during the latter half of this century, namely, that the unique appendage is composed of & swarm of small bodies moving in one plane, but with rates of motion decreasing as the distance from the planet in accordance with the laws of gravitation. 4 The structure of these ringshas been an enigma to astronomers since they were discov- ered in 1610 by means of the telcscope. When the cause of their changing aspects had been unraveled by Huyghens in 1655, it was gen- eranym;xm:ed that the luminous appendage was & solid mass, Even Herschel inclined to this view, but La- place demonstrated that the force of gravita- tion would render it impossible for & solid ring to keep its place unchanged at a distance from the suriace of the central body. The sugges- tion of Cassini, in 1715, that the rings might be formed of myriads of small meteors moving independently around as a swarm of satellites would necessarily move, received little atten- tion until it was again revived by the Ameri- can astronomer Bond in 1850. An encircling luminosity of a fluid nature was also suggested, and Professor Pierce of Cambridge, Mass., inclined to this view at one time, but it was shown by Clerk Maxwell in 1856 that neither a solid nor fluid anendnge of that form could maintain equilibrium, end he upheld the ignored theory of Cassini, which has been mow regerded with favor for nearly forty years, though not considered as fuily pm\-e«i The great modern telescopes leit the matter still unsettled. Science isthen indebted to the combined resuits of the spectroscope and the photographic plate in the hands of the skilled observer who was for years in charge of the spectroscopic work at Mount Hamilton for corroboration of the received theory. The prism of the spectroscope causes a dis- ersion of the component colors of rays of Rgm, each component being reiracted at a slightly different angle, so that the angle in- creases gradually from the red end to the violet end of lge spectrum or band of colors. A study of light in motion has shown that those receding from the observer are displaced toward the red end, and those approaching him are displaced toward the violet end. The greater the velocity the greater is the displace- ment. When the light of the rings of Saturn was subjected to this test and & photograph taken of the luminous band, the displacements showed the inner edges moved faster than the outer edges, which s a- neeessary consequence of the independent motions of myriads of me- teors or small satellites, whereas, if the rings were solid the outer edge would move faster in order to keep pace with the inner edge in its smaller circuit, just as the earth’s equator rotates in a wider circle than the northerly or southerly latitudes. According to Dr. Barnard’s receni measures of this ring system, the outer diameter is 40 seconds of arc and more than 172,000 miles. THE PARK IMPROVEMENTS, They Will Not Be Begun Until the Appropriation Is Made. John Rosenfeld Has Been Seated as a Member of the Com- mission. The Park Commissioners organized last week and elected Joseph Austin chairman. John Rosenfeld sat with the board and was recognized by Messrs. Austin and Scott as the duly appointed third member. Another meeting will be beld at the end of this month, at which ways and means of improving the park will be discussed. A number of schemes to add to the beauty of the people’s breathing-ground are under consideration, but it will depend in a great measure upon the appropriation as to whether they will be carried out or not. Notaday passes but what one or more members visit the grounds and care- fully inspect the work being done. Superintendent John McLaren will not be at the park next Sunday, as he and his family are going to spend the day at San Mateo. Commissioner John . Rosenfeld will be on the ground, however, and will | see to it that everything moves along com- fortably and in order.” “We want to make Golden Gate Park the finest in the world,” said Mr. Rosen- feld yesterday. “We will do it, too, if we only get h: a chance. Improvements cost money, however, and the larger our appropriation the quicker the work will be done. We are to have a meeting at the end of this month, but Ido not think we will decide upon anything until we know what the Supervisors are going to allow us in the shape of an appropriation. *‘I have always taken a great interest in our park and now that I am one of the Commissioners I want to see every im- provement possible made. The place is no:vt{]ookm its :ftst and it&s a treat to get out there of an afternoon afier the hurr: and bustlo of the day " 4 e fiscal year begins the first of next Ju_lr and before that date the Supervisors will have to make the necessary appropria- tion to carry on the various branches of the city government. The amount to be levied for the maintenance and improve- ment of the park will also be decided upon and it is the action of the board in this matter that the Uommissioners are wait- ing for. A BIG GUN ARRIVES. The Second Pneumatic Terror for Har- bor Fortifications Reaches the City. The second pneumatic gun which is to fro!n one of the harbor's great defenses arrived on a special car from Sandy Hook yesterday. The freight train bearing the big rifle reached the Fourth and Town- send street depot in the morning, and to- day B. McMahon & Sons will commence the work of unloading the car. The luatter will first be moved to the Arctic Oil Works wharf, and from there put on a barge as the first big shell-thrower was. The destination of the gun has not yet been decided on. There are three guns for the harbor; two of which are to be located at Fort Point and one at Lime Poiut. The first has been stationed at the former place and either the new arrival or the gun_to come will be placed at Lime Point. The third rifle wilf)leave Sandy Hook for the coast on May 9. BLAZE IN A JUNKSHOP. A Fire on Fourth Street Which Might Have Been Serious. ; The alarm from box 68, at four minutes past 5 o’clock last evening, was for a blaze in a junkshop at the corner of Fol_xrth and Freelon streets, caused by a defective stove used for heating water. The place was owned by Jones Boyson, who had frequently warned his men about the broken stove.. A meglect of this warn- ing resulted in the fire of yesterday, due, according to the owner and the foreman, to carelessness of employes. P At5:15 2 second alarm was turned in and the firemen soon succeeded in stop- ping the flames, which at one time threat- ened adjoining buildings. The loss was about $1000, which is covered by insur- ance. ARE BOUND WITH [RON, How the Collections in the Park Museum Will be Protected. A Catalogue That Presents Some ;Strange Contradic- tions. Superintendent McLaren’s half-jocular suggestion that the cases in the Park Mu- seum should be chained down is to be adopted—in a revised form, and within the next few days strong iron bands will inclose the several repositories of valua- bles in the institution. In the meantime if anything has been done to prevent a repetition of the recent looting it is not perceptible to the naked eye. Since the robbery an order has been jssued to close the department of the museum at 5 o’clock, but the order does not partake largely of the nature of a pre- cautionary measure, as the recent crime was_perpetrated in broad daylight and while the custodian was at work revising the catalogue. The catalogue needs revising, as even a cursory examination of this most remarka- ble compilation will show. An example of its misleading character may be cited as follows: Inthe case presided over by a bronze statue of the ““Little Corporal,” and from which robbers extracted valuable medals minted while yet the star of his glory shone undimmed, the catalogue calls for 800 medals, coins and other speci- mens all told. The custodian admits that twenty-five medals were stolen; how many more he does not know. An actual count of the medals and coins now in the collection ives the number 802. No specimens have een added to the collection since the rob- bery, nor has the case been opened for any other purpose. Of course the descriptions do not fit in many cases. “The only explanation,” said the patrol- man yesterday, ‘“‘that I can suggest is that the collection contained originally a large number of medals not recorded in the cir- cular. Of one thing I am sure,” he con- tinued, *‘not a single specimen has been put in this case since the robbery.” ———————— Excursion to Car Accountants. Secretary Davis of the Half-million Club states that the list of members is daily increas- ing, and the interest in the work of the organ- ization is rapidly widening. To-day, Henry E. Hignton will represent the club on the ex- cursion of the visiting railroad accountants around the bay. The car accountants will, during the remainder of their stay, be the guests of the club, and will be taken to the places of interest about the city, the Golden Park, House, Presidio, efc., to-mor- ——————————————— e, NEW TO-DAY. LADT WEERS ——OF OUR—— GREAT RETIRING SALE! | Chicago Clathing Company 34, 36, 38 and 40 Kearny Street, Positively Retiring From Business ! STORE to BE VACATED HAY 1, 1895. CLOTHING ——FOR—— Man, Boy or Child REGARDLESS OF COST. A Cyclone of Values : in Every Department, CHICAGO CLOTHING COMPANY, 34, 36, 38 and 40 Kearny Street. <.